ARAVIND BALASUBRAMANIAN
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Seeking Senior level assignments in Project Management / Software Development / Delivery Management with a reputed IT Industry
CAREER CONTOUR
Offering nearly 10 years of valuable experience in IT Management / Project Coordination / Software Development. Expertise in modern concepts of end-to-end project/program planning and implementation from scope management with international onsite exposure. Articulate communicator blending technical expertise with interpersonal & problem solving skills while interacting with cross-functional teams and customers. Skilled at managing SDLC stages - Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, etc. Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills with proven abilities in team management, customer relationship management.
CAREER CONTOUR
Project / Program Management
Managing activities right from the conceptualization stage to the execution; involving finalization of technical specifications, material & inventory control, scheduling, progress monitoring, quality, etc.
Handling activities involving working out various requirements & monitoring overall project operations for ensuring timely completion.
Actively communicating with clients / managing project review meetings / interacting face to face with clients and over calls.
Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines; extending post-implementation and maintenance support to the technical support team and client.
Software Development
Interfacing with clients for business information gathering, conducting system analysis and finalising technical / functional specifications and high level design documents for the project.
Contributing to the design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the software.
Ensuring smooth implementation and testing at client location; preparing User Manual; providing demo and online support.
Providing post-implementation, application maintenance and enhancement support to the client with regard to the product / software application
Support Management
Directing software development activities for business process mapping of the client and identifying core / critical system / processes and priorities.
Providing onsite as well as offshore support through central help desk support models with clarifications on specific applications of the system. Developing, implementing and providing support for business application software for clients.
CAREER CONTOUR
Aug’02 – Present: Infosys Technologies Ltd., Chennai.
Project Manager, Banking & Capital Markets Delivery
GROWTH PATH
Aug’02 – Nov’02 : Software Trainee
Dec’02 – Jan’04 : Application Developer
Jan’04 – Jan’06 : Business Analyst (Onsite)
Feb’06 – Feb’08 : Technology Team lead (Onsite)
Feb’08 – Present : Project Manager - Banking & Capital Markets Delivery
ASSIGNMENTS
Application maintenance for Dot Net, Oracle, C++ based applications for leading HR Service provider in US.
Deliverables
o Planning and execution of transition from customer for a number of applications in a very short period of time.
o Identifying risks and mitigation plan and tracking of the same to closure for the transition phase as well as steady state support.
o Managing financials of the project.
o Mentoring team members in personal and professional growth.
Application maintenance for J2EE based B2C web application for leading credit rating agency in US.
Deliverables
o Preparing and maintaining release schedules for planned system enhancements.
o Managing feasibility analysis for inclusion of enhancements into releases.
o Detailed planning and execution based on release schedule.
o Performing design reviews and code reviews.
o Identifying risks and mitigation plan and tracking of the same to closure.
o Analyzing existing SDLC model and suggesting improvements on the same to the customer thereby improving time to market.
Application maintenance for J2EE based B2B web application for leading credit rating agency in US.
Deliverables
o Preparing and maintaining release schedules for planned system enhancements.
o Performing code reviews and design reviews.
o Identifying risks and mitigation plan and tracking of the same to closure.
o Managing financials of the project.
o Mentoring team members in personal and professional growth.
Application Support for IT enabling applications for leading financial institution based out of Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Deliverables
o Designing, developing and designing reviews and code reviews for planned enhancements.
o Maintaining vendor provided software and supporting the same for multiple applications.
o Managing Level2 and Level3 support for mix pool of applications.
o Responsible for coordinating with the offshore team to handle all the issues & provide solution on time to end users/customers.
Data Analysis for Defined Benefits and Health and Welfare Data for a leading HR service provider, based out of New Jersey, USA.
Deliverables
o Preparing data mapping requirements to port data from legacy systems to customer’s databases.
o Interacting with the development team during development phase.
o Developing data mapping logic for smaller sizes of data.
o Preparing requirements for inbound and outbound interfaces and facilitating reviews with development team.
Variable Pay Computation System – Application development in ASP .net with C#, Oracle 9i as the database for a leading mortgage customer based out of California, USA.
Deliverables
o Preparing Detailed Design documents and Unit Test Plans based on requirements documents and high level designs.
o Coding and unit/integration testing for 2 modules – one in ASP .net and the other in Oracle PL/SQL.
o Supervising functional testing for the application.
EDUCATIONAL SCAN
B.Tech. in Applied Electronics & Instrumentation from College Of Engineering Trivandrum, University of Kerala in 2002.
TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS
Internal technical, domain and quality related certifications on an annual basis at Infosys Technologies Ltd.
4 month initial training in Open Systems after joining Infosys Technologies Ltd.
IT FORTE
Web technologies: J2EE (Struts, EJB, JSP, Servlets, HTML, JavaScript) and .Net (ASP .net with C#).
RDBMS: Oracle 9i/10g/11g.
Oracle Tools: TOAD, PL/SQL Developer, SQL*PLUS and SQL*Loader.
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA, HTML and C / C++.
Operating Systems: Windows NT, 2K, XP, UNIX and Linux.
Office tools: MS Project and MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Date of Birth: 8th Nov’ 1980.
Residential Address: 3/1, Sriram Gardens, Manappakkam Main Road, Indira Nagar, Manappakkam, Chennai