Senior Technical Manager
Resume:
Karthikeyan Adalazhagan – Senior Technical Manager Ex-Ramco, Ex-Infoscion, Ex-Caterpillar
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SUMMARY
OBJECTIVE
Excellent Project
Delivery
Seeking an opportunity to play as a Senior/Group Technical Project/Program Manager or relevant Senior techno- managerial role. To work in a challenging and stimulating environment with opportunity to use my current experience and to enrich my knowledge and enhance my experience and to contribute towards the achievement of organizational objective by applying my professional and managerial skills.
An accomplished, dynamic and visionary technology manager with 20 years of experience in driving digital transformation, leading large teams, and delivering impactful solutions. Proficient in enterprise architecture, strategic planning, and technology implementation, achieving operational efficiency, and managing risk in global organizations.
Specialized in various phases of software development life cycle including requirement engineering, design, analysis, implementation, process improvement and maintenance of standalone, multi-tier, web-based, OO enterprise applications and e- commerce.
Working as a Senior Technical Manager in Standard Chartered Bank GBS, Chennai, driving multiple projects, owning E2E delivery and stake holder management, team handling, high level tech design approach for initiatives, executing project through AGILE using JIRA and ADO.
Have significant banking experience in payments processing workflows and S2B channels integration through API gateway, defining BoW, prioritizing requirements to delivery team and tracking releases.
Actively involved in tech design for implementing 2D barcode reading capability in the web -based payments processing workflow application using AI/ML techniques.
Worked as a full-fledged SCRUM Master cum Engineering Project Manager in IDP India and Caterpillar, Chennai, driving a team of 25, executing the projects through AGILE methodology.
Worked as BI Solution Architect, Chain-Sys Middle East, Dubai, UAE, for the powerful government entity – Ministry of Finance, UAE, handling the projects on Business Analytics tools of Oracle, both technically and functionally, with team size of 8
Excellent Product Development experience in building the applications, which handles Project Management, Requirement Management, Work-flow Management, Build & Release Management, Quality Management and Configuration Management.
Have 5 years of Onshore experience working at various customer locations in US, UAE, South Africa and have worked & collaborated with the teams in India and China for customers Walmart, GSK, UAE Finance Ministry, Ethekwini, ITC, CitiBank
Developed various n-tier web applications in Java/J2EE environment using JDK1.4/1.5/1.6, JSP2.0, JSF1.2, Struts1.1, Servlet2.5, JMS1.1, EJB2.x, and Hibernate3.0 with Oracle/MYSQL/DB2/MSSQL Databases.
Pioneering interesting assignments across Cloud and Big Data space using Oracle Big Data and Hadoop Technologies, in AWS EMR.
Expert in streamlining operations, introducing techniques like BIQ, Group/Team development models, Extreme Programming to ensure maximum customer satisfaction and quality delivery.
Key Strengths include Strong Planning and interpersonal skills help in coordinating various diverse elements of the engagement from inception to Customer Delight.
Expert in stakeholder management and facilitation of project activities & responsibilities across all the participating teams in the projects/initiatives. Karthikeyan Adalazhagan
Senior Technical Manager
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Karthikeyan Adalazhagan – Senior Technical Manager Ex-Ramco, Ex-Infoscion, Ex-Caterpillar Pg-2
EDUCATION
CAREER PROGRESSION & EMPLOYERS
PM Techniques : Kanban, SCRUM, WBS, PERT, BIQ, JIRA, Azure DevOps, SNOW J2EE Technologies : JSP2.0, Servlet2.5, Struts 1.1, JSF 1.2, JMS 1.1, EJB 2.1 Languages : Core Java, Python, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripts RDBMS : Oracle 9i/10g, MSSQL Server 2008, IBM DB2
Development Tools : SQL Developer, Toad, PL/SQL Developer, Eclipse BI Tools : OBIEE 11G/12C, OBIA 11G
Servers : Oracle App 9i/10g, Weblogic7/8, WebSphere 5.1/6, JBoss 4.2.2 Web Related : HTML, XML, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, jQuery ORM Tools : Hibernate 3.0
STANDARD CHARTERED GBS
SENIOR TECHNICAL MANAGER
JUNE-2022 TO TILL DATE
IDP EDUCATION INDIA PVT LIMITED
SENIOR TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER
DEC-2020 TO JUN-2022
CATERPILLAR INDIA PVT LIMITED
ENGINEERING MANAGER
SEP-2017 TO DEC-2020
CHAINSYS INDIA PVT LIMITED
PROJECT LEAD
MAY-2013 TO JUL-2017
INFOSYS LIMITED
TECHNOLOGY LEAD
OCT-2008 TO APR-2013
RAMCO SYSTEMS
SYSTEMS ANALYST
OCT-2004 TO SEP-2008
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Karthikeyan Adalazhagan – Senior Technical Manager Ex-Ramco, Ex-Infoscion, Ex-Caterpillar Pg-3
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Name RapidCashPlus – Workflow system for Cash Payments Straight2Bank online Channel
Employer Standard Chartered Bank GBS
Client(s) Standard Chartered Bank GBS
Duration June 2022 – Till Date
Team Size 53
Role Senior Technical Manager
Description:
RapidCashplus is a workflow system for processing internal and cross-border payments across the world. It has document screening capabilities enabling the Ops users to verify the customer documents against the filenet repository and automated 2D barcode reading using AI/ML techniques and pre-populating the form values in the web page enabling the maker/checker to verify and approve transactions easily, avoiding manual errors. Has Anti Money laundering controls like customer deep screening, identity validations, calls to Risk Peofiling etc.
Straight2Bank is an online channel that offers CCIB clients full suite of digital self-service capabilities such as transaction initiation and reporting. The key features are Domesticand CrossBorder FundTransfers, Online Merchant Payments, Collections Mngmnt, Payee Maintenance etc. Technologies used: JBOSS, Java, Oracle DB, Shell Scripts, AI/ML Python, Azure Devops, Kong Gateway Solace, IBM MQ
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Working with Biz and PO in defining BoW for the team every year and capacity planning, funds accumulating and timesheets for the whole team
• Contributed as Technical Project cum program Manager Role owning the complete project execution.
• Actively involved in the integration of S2B channel with RapidCashPlus and Core Banking applications in the bank.
• Owned external interfacing team engagements and executing the program
• Project backlogs prioritization, stakeholder management, Daily project tracking
• Inter and Intra team co-ordination bringing all stake holders under one roof and keep updated Project Name IDP.com and hotcoursesabroad.com websites Employer IDP Education India
Client(s) IDP Education India
Duration Dec 2020 – Till Date
Team Size 30
Role Senior Technical Project Manager
Description:
The purpose of this project is to continuously do enhancements and sustain WEB traffic on IDP owned, home grown websites, idp.com and hotcoursesabroad.com, applying cutting edge technologies, towards SEO, analytics, core web vitals and content management, thereby improving website performance and lead generation for IDP counsellors to attract and invite students/parents all over the globe to use IDP.com as digital platform for abroad studies, courses/universities search and IELTS registrations. Technologies used: WebLogic, Java, Angular, Oracle DB, Shell Scripts, AWS, Lambda Roles & Responsibilities:
• Contributed as Technical Project Manager Role owning the complete project execution.
• Project backlogs prioritization, stakeholder management, Daily project tracking
• Conduct Retro and defect prevention, BIQ embracement in the team
• Inter and Intra team co-ordination bringing all stake holders under one roof and keep updated
• Department level initiatives and research activities. Project Name OLGA – Opportunities Lead Generation Analyzer Employer Caterpillar India Private Limited
Client(s) Finning, Canada
Duration Sep 2019 – Dec 2020
Team Size 20
Role Engineering Team Leader
Karthikeyan Adalazhagan – Senior Technical Manager Ex-Ramco, Ex-Infoscion, Ex-Caterpillar Pg-4
Description:
OLGA is a web application that calculates future opportunities, past opportunities, percent of parts and labor sold based on equipment lifecycle and provides the ability to actively drive parts and labor sales, improve demand forecasting and capability planning, and delivers actionable leads to CAT and Dealer’s CRM processes. It provides broadest view of product support market and opportunity in a dealer’s territory. Technologies used: Microsoft DotNet, Hadoop, Angular, MYSQL, Java, Shell Scripts, Scala, AWS EMR Roles & Responsibilities:
• Contributed as Technical Project Manager Role owning the complete project execution.
• Project backlogs estimation, Capacity planning, Design review, Daily project tracking
• Conduct Retro and defect prevention, BIQ embracement in the team
• Inter and Intra team co-ordination bringing all stake holders under one roof and keep updated
• Department level initiatives and research activities. Project Name CAT Preventative Maintenance application Employer Caterpillar India Private Limited
Client(s) Finning, Canada
Duration Sep 2017 – Sep-2019
Team Size 20
Role Engineering Team Leader
Description:
Preventative Maintenance is a system to maintain assets for advanced proactive equipment management from preventing possible break downs, downtimes and repairs of equipment. The activities include equipment checks partially or completed at specific periods, i.e., oil changes, engine repairs and lubrication etc. This application is used by multiple dealers in construction industry, Energy & Transportation industry across the globe for their asset maintenance activities
Technologies used: Microsoft DotNet, Web API, Azure Cloud, Angular, MSSQL Server Roles & Responsibilities:
• Contributed as Technical Project Manager Role owning the complete project execution.
• Project backlogs estimation, Capacity planning, Design review, Daily project tracking
• Conduct Retro and defect prevention, BIQ embracement in the team
• Inter and Intra team co-ordination bringing all stake holders under one roof and keep updated
• Department level initiatives and research activities. Project Name MoF - e-Dirham – BI Dashboards – Development and Maintenance Employer Chain-Sys Middle East, Chain-Sys India Private Ltd. Client(s) Ministry of Finance, Dubai, UAE
Duration June 2014 – July-2017
Team Size 10
Role OBIEE – Senior BI Technical Manager
Description:
E-Dirham is a payment tool devised by the United Arab Emirates government in order to facilitate collection of revenues and providing the government and public with a secure and convenient payment tool. The e-Dirham was initially intended for the revenue collection of the UAE federal government but is now also being used by UAE local governments, semi-governmental organizations and some private enterprises. The e-Dirham was launched on 3 February 2001, making UAE the first country within the Arab Region to introduce such a system countrywide. The management needs BI dashboards for analyzing the financial performance of their application. Technologies used: Oracle Business Intelligence EE 11G, Shell scripts, Web Technologies Roles & Responsibilities:
• Contributed as Project Lead owning the complete project execution.
• Contributed and owned the design and development phase of the
• Development of ETL design development implementation for the warehouse.
• Responsible for the OBIEE Repository creation, business models and analysis design. Karthikeyan Adalazhagan – Senior Technical Manager Ex-Ramco, Ex-Infoscion, Ex-Caterpillar Pg-5
• Web logic administration configuration, enterprise manager configuration.
• Dashboards performance tuning and troubleshooting showstopper issues.
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Project Name OBIEE Dashboards - Performance Tuning Employer Chain-Sys India Private Ltd.
Client(s) Hexaware Technologies Limited
Duration May 2013 – Dec 2014
Team Size 6
Role OBIEE – Techno-functional Architect
Description:
The Vice president of Hexaware-ISG and the HR team of the organization are using OBIA customized and OBIEE dashboards for analyzing the performance of their HRMS activities, right from Revenue, gross Margin etc. They are using OBIA financial Analytics and HR Analytics dashboards with few levels of customization and some other new dashboards created from scratch according to the requirements of the stakeholders. Frequently, they are facing environment inconsistent issues such as Login failures, slowness in dashboard rendering, improper DataMart design. They needed an OBIEE senior architect who could indulge into the environment and diagnose all the issues that were unnoticed and causing huge issues in the application. Technologies used: Oracle Business Intelligence EE 11G, Shell scripts. Roles & Responsibilities:
• Contributed and owned the support and troubleshooting activities.
• Enhancements and development of ETL design changes based on the Data Architect study.
• Responsible for the suggesting OBIEE Repository design, business models and analysis design.
• Web logic administration configuration, enterprise manager configuration.
• Dashboards performance tuning and troubleshooting showstopper issues.
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Project Name Website development and Launch - Avamys, Sweden Vaccine Portal, Arzerra, Oncology Employer Infosys Limited.
Client(s) GlaxoSmithKline
Duration Jan 2012 – Apr 2013
Team Size 10
Role Tech lead
Description:
The purpose of this project is to build new website on Adobe CQ5 platform to spread and promote GSK products like Avamys, Arzerra, Sweden Vaccine, GSK Oncology Practice. Business wants to leverage the sales of their projects in US, UK and other countries all over the world. The purpose of the project is also to organize and manage L3 Support team in GSK for the entire GSK account handling all bug fixes and maintenance activities of the sites after GO-Live. We are supporting more than 60 sites, coordinating with all the respective clients, taking care of new features and enhancements and bug fixes on the existing sites.
Technologies used: Adobe CQ5, Apache Web Server, J2EE, HTML, CSS, JavaScript on Windows. Roles & Responsibilities:
• Played the role of Tech Lead managing a team size of 10.
• Involved right from Requirements Analysis, Design and Build till the Go-Live implementation of the project
• Effectively involved in planning, tracking, Configuration Management and Defect prevention of the project activities.
• Actively involved in estimating Work orders, resolving L3 tickets, technically leading the team
• Also responsible for organizing KT from Dev team after Go-Live and deployments.
• Handled inter and intra-team communications with L2, Hosting team, Release team and Dev team.
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Project Name Oracle to Greenplum Migration – ETL Jobs Employer Infosys Limited
Client(s) Walmart.com, Brisbane, CA, US. CRM Marketing team Duration May 2010 – Dec-2011
Team Size 6
Karthikeyan Adalazhagan – Senior Technical Manager Ex-Ramco, Ex-Infoscion, Ex-Caterpillar Pg-6
Role Tech Lead
Description: This project is to provide the Wal-Mart Marketing team, a distributed database environment where they can perform their analysis and come up with marketing strategies in calculating the Return-On-Investment. The task was to transfer all the customer data, sales and order data, Stock and inventory data which was primarily available in Oracle DB to Netezza and Greenplum databases which support distributed computing. This provided the business an isolated environment which is free from online transactions. Technologies used: Core Java, Unix Shell Script, PL/SQL, Greenplum DB, Oracle DB, Netezza DB. Roles & Responsibilities:
• Contributed and owned the design phase of the project
• Developed the CRMETLAPP Java application single handed, which was used a utility for all kinds of data extraction and loading.
• Developed ETL Jobs in Shell Scripts and wrote CRON Jobs to schedule them on the basis of business requirements.
• Coordinated with India offshore team in getting the work done and making the delivery.
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Project Name Compensation Oversight Reporting
Employer Infosys Limited
Client(s) Walmart.com, Bentonville, AR, US.
Duration Nov 2008 – April – 2010
Team Size 6
Role Tech Lead
Description:
Compensation Oversight Reporting project involves in design and development of Reporting system which gathers information from various software system applications of Wal-Mart. This central reporting system would enable the Employment practices group of Human resources department of Wal-Mart to fetch report on the Data discrepancy between various application databases and audit related reports. Technologies used: Core Java 1.5, Java Server Faces, Servlet with Oracle and DB2 databases, Unix. Roles & Responsibilities:
• Played the role of Tech Lead managing a team size of six, preparing Detailed Level Designs.
• Effectively involved in planning, tracking, Configuration Management and Defect prevention.
• Played Module Lead role in preparing High level and Detailed Level Designs, Design reviews.
• Coding, Code reviews, Unit Testing and Integration testing of the application.
• Mentoring freshers in scaling up the team for future projects.
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Project Name Ramco VirtualWorks
Employer Ramco Systems Limited
Client(s) eThekwini Municipality, SouthAfrica, ITC InfoTech, Bangalore, AAI, Delhi, Citibank Datacenter, Chennai.
Duration Oct-2004 - Sep 2008
Team Size 8
Role Senior Developer
Description:
Ramco Virtual Works is a component-based enterprise application development framework using an adaptation of the MVC paradigm, for rapidly developing, deploying, and maintaining medium to large-scale multi- tier applications, notably the Ramco e-applications Series enterprise solution. Technologies used:
• Java 2.0, EJB 2.0, JSP, Servlets, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Hibernate 3.1
• MS SQL 2000, DB2 UDB 8.2, Oracle 9i/10g, MySQL 5
• Application servers: WebLogic 8.1, WebSphere 6.0/6.1 Base & ND, Sun Java System application server 8.2, Oracle 10g Release 2 & 3, JBoss 4.2.2GA
• Windows NT/2000, LINUX, IBM-AIX, Sun Solaris were used as the operating systems. Roles & Responsibilities:
As a Senior Developer,
• Successfully did POCs for Installer, RVW with Cluster configuration in WebLogic 8.1 and WebSphere 6.1, R & D Work in Spring and Hibernate.
Karthikeyan Adalazhagan – Senior Technical Manager Ex-Ramco, Ex-Infoscion, Ex-Caterpillar Pg-7
• Involved in configuring of Clusters in Application servers (WebLogic 8.1, WebSphere 6.1, OracleApps) on which RVW application is deployed, thereby providing Failover and Load Balancing Capability.
• Involved in HADR setup for DB2 high availability.
• Fixes in Session controller component: The component acts as a controller on the web layer and provides context and brokerage services, data transfer services and standard actions.
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