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Career Summary

A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and a dynamic achievement-focused leader with an established performance record and expertise in software industry with more than 8 years experience in the field of Project Management, Needs Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation, CMM Level 5 processes.

Career Objective

Make use of both my technology and project management expertise to lead, inspire and challenge a talented team to produce results and grow beyond their current potential; a position that demands challenge and offer opportunities for personal contribution, team development and professional growth.

Career Profile

• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute.

• Extensive Software Engineering background in Object-Oriented analysis, design and implementation, User Interface design, and Database design, web and multi tier applications.

• Project management and development experience in various domains – Insurance, Finance, Central Excise, Inventory, Distribution management.

• Highly organized, with efficient time, task, and resource management.

• Experience in a wide range of development technologies as enumerated in software skill sets below.

• Good working experience with clients from USA, UK., India and other countries.

• Quick to learn, adjust, and adapt to new environments, processes and techniques

Awards/Certificates/Appreciation

• Project Management Professional Certification from PMI

• Team award for Excellence for Standalone Endorsement Bill Project.

• Team award for Excellence for e-TranZax Project.

• Appreciation from Client for team’s co-operation with client and team’s dynamics in achieving the objective for Cash Disbursement System project

• Appreciation from Client for onsite system testing in e- TranZax project

• Appreciation for Best SQL Coding in Escape 2000 Project

Software Skill sets:

• Asp.Net, VB.Net, COM, ADO 2.0, ASP, HTML, DHTML, VBScript

• Windows 2000/NT/95, Visual Basic 6.0/5.0/4.0, Visual InterDev 6.0, MTS 2.0, IIS 4.0

• Oracle 7.x/8, PL/SQL 8.0, SQL*Plus 8.0, SQL Server 2000/7.0/6.5, MS Access 95

• Rational Rose 2000, Sheridan Controls, True DB Grids, PL SQL Developer, Forms, Reports, Visual Source Safe 5.0/6.0, Crystal Reports.

Work Experience

I. Sonata Software Limited Sep 1999 – Feb 2007

Sonata Software, headquartered in Bangalore, India, is a leading IT consulting and Services company. Sonata customers span across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The company portfolio of services include IT Consulting, Application Development, Application Management, Managed Testing, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure Management and Outsourced Product Development. Sonata is a public limited company listed in Indian Stock Exchanges and is SEI CMM Level 5 certified.

Consultant

Responsibilities

• Consultant with an expansive scope of responsibilities including project management, needs analysis, effort estimation, co-ordinate with legal team for contract document, resource estimation, planning and scheduling, change management, update lessons learned knowledge base.

• Guide and mentor team members in design and development

• Functional area representative in CMM Level 5 assessment

Various Projects Handled

Role ; Project Leader / Module Leader

Team Size : 6 -8

1)Title RTM (Route To Market)

Client PepsiCo, UK

Duration September 2006 – Feb 2007

Enhancement to the existing RTM system that serves the Snack Services business area. Designed to handle all the Sales and Pre-Sales activities of PepsiCo and allied company products.

2)Title Core Enhancements

Client Insurance Data Processing, USA

Duration June 2005 – August 2006

Functionality enhancement to the following existing modules - Billing, claims, interface and CDS.

3)Title Account Current Statement

Client Insurance Data Processing, USA

Duration Feb 2005 – May 2005

All activities related to the policy shall be printed on a statement indicating amounts due per Premium item until such time that these activities are zero balanced. These components are the New/Renewal Writing, Endorsements, Cancellations, Reinstatements, Write Offs, all payment activities, Disbursements, etc.

4)Title Standalone Endorsement Bill

Client Insurance Data Processing, USA

Duration Dec 2004 – Feb 2005

Endorsement when billed separate from regular schedule is termed as “Standalone Endorsement Bill’. Standalone endorsement bill would occur when policy term or sub term has no open installments but received an endorsement that needs to be billed Or when certain lines of business such as commercial have larger endorsement premiums. The standalone endorsements could be one pay or could be billed in multiple installments.

5)Title Cash Disbursement System

Client Insurance Data Processing, USA

Duration Jan 2004 – Nov 2004

Distribution of Return Premium, Agency Commission and claim Checks, disbursement of payment and clearance when paid.

6) Title BilliT – Billing

Client Insurance Data Processing, USA

Duration Sep 2002 – April 2003

Windows application that deals with distribution of payments, creation of check request, check request authorization, check request hold and rescind, dishonor check and void check functionalities.

7) Title WebDesk

Client Sonata Software Limited, India

Duration December 2001 – April 2002

A web application with multi-tier architecture to provide IT related support on the Internet. A highly configurable product consisting of various service channels like Knowledge Base, Message Board, Chat and Ask Expert that gives multiple service providers greater flexibility to provide quick and faster solutions and support for their clients online.

8) Title Leave Tracking System

Client Sonata Software Limited, India

Duration April 2001 – August 2001

Automate the leave card processing.

9)Title e-TranZax

Client Jade, USA

Duration April 2000 – March 2001

An application-solution framework to automate Knowledge-Dependent Transactions through Data Collection Automation, Cash Management Automation, Decision Automation and Action Automation. e-TranZax consists of eight subsystems – DAS, DCS, RPS, PCS, DIS, EAS, DES and EMS.

Role : Developer

1) Title ePOS (Electronic Point of Sale for a Company offering Cell Phone Services)

Client Essar, India

Duration May 2002 – August 2002

Develop database of customer information, track the status of customer services, distribution of customer information to other agencies for physical check and tracking the status of service history of customer.

2) Title CMDRS (Content Management, Distribution and Retail System)

Client Mode Media, UK

Duration September 2001 – November 2001

A web based solution to manage and distribute digital content to consumers across world in a safe and secure manner. Project made up of CMS, CDS and CRS sub systems.

3) Title Cost Revenue and Customs Reports

Client Catering services Company, Switzerland

Duration February 2000 – March 2000

Development of reports that provides information about the costs incurred and revenue earned by client.

4) Title Hercules

Duration October 1999 – January 2000

Financial accounting package providing book keeping, invoicing, payments and banking facilities.

II. Skanda Software Pvt. Ltd. Oct 1997 - Sep 1999

A software technology company that offers services including database solutions, e-Commerce solutions, application development, Project management, Software Design / Development, web design/development.

Software Engineer

Responsibilities

Software engineer with a scope of responsibilities including development of user interface, business service and reports, Integration testing in multi tier applications and onsite system implementation and maintenance.

Projects handled

Role: Developer / Implementation Engineer

1) Title Escape 2000

Client Spicer India Limited

Duration January 1999 - September 1999

A multi-user system developed to maintain Central Excise, Purchase Order and Inventory Management System. The Purchase Order Functionality starts from releasing of Purchase Order then Amendments of Purchase Order (if required) with or without Delivery Schedule. Inventory functions according to Spicer India Specifications and Excise functions as per Central Excise department procedures.

2) Title Central Excise Management System (EXCENT)

Client Spicer India Limited

Duration Mar 1998 – December 1998

Maintain stock and keep track of issue, jobwork and despatch including development of following modules – Personal Ledger Account Module, Purchase module, Production module, Despatch module, Jobwork module, Register, Reports and Invoice.

3) Title Distribution Management System (NERVES)

Client Nestle, India

Duration October 1997 – February 1998

Management of Distribution System including development of following modules – Loading, Invoice, Credit notes, Receipts, Damages/shortages.

Personal Biography

Qualifications

•Graduation Master of Computer Applications (MCA), 1997 from PES College of Engineering, University of Mysore, India

Bachelor of Science (Computers), 1994 from Sarada Vilas College, Mysore, India

• School Pre University Course (Computers) - from Maharani Lakshmi Ammani College, Bangalore, India

Training

• Accent Training from Academia English

• Leadership Training

• Technical – various software packages

• Project Management training from PMI.

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