Project Development

PRASHANT KUMAR

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Experienced software consultant & developer with outstanding industrial experience, sense of responsibility, and proven track record in managing high-stake projects.

Summary of Qualifications

• Over 8 years of strong experience in Teamcenter, Aras Innovator & Agile PLM based software development, configuration & administration.

• Rich functional experience having worked with several clients in automobile, hi-tech & retail industry.

• Well versed in project implementation life cycle having worked on several projects.

• Good hands on experience of enterprise business processes with fortune 500 customers such as Ford, Honda, Intel, Siemens etc.

• Extensive experience in implementation, data migration and ERP integration for PLM systems.

• Good understanding of technology, enterprise application architecture and network topology in IT infrastructure of different sizes.

• Worked closely with the clients and business analysts on several projects.

• Strong organizing, technical trouble shooting, creative problem solving skills.

• Excellent team-worker with good communication skills.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages: C#, ASP.Net, Java, C++, Perl, XML, JavaScript, Excel VBA along with HTML, CSS, jQuery, Ajax, JSON etc.

PLM Software: Aras Innovator, Agile PLM, Teamcenter, I-deas, NX, ProE/Intralink etc.

Tools & APIs: Java/J2EE, .NET(C#), Xerces, XSLT, Eclipse IDE, Teamcenter ITK, Teamcenter services, web services, MS Office & Visio etc.

Web/Application server: JBoss, Apache, IIS & Websphere.

SCM Tools: Clearcase, Perforce, Subversion.

Software development methodologies: Traditional Waterfall, Agile/Scrum etc.

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008 Server, UNIX.

Database Systems: Oracle 10g, MS SQL Server 2005/2008 with strong working experience of SQL.

Hardware: Intel, IBM RS/6000, Sun, AIX, HP.

Quality processes: ISO 9001.

Education

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India (www.iiit.ac.in)

Master of Technology, June 2004.

National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India (www.nitkkr.ac.in)

Bachelor of Technology, July 2001

Projects

Aras Innovator proof of concept project.

Client: Honda of America, Marysville, OH. (Sept, 2011 – Dec 2011.) Employer: Iknowvate Technologies, MI.

Project involved evaluation of Aras Innovator PLM tool to determine the feasibility of product to manage Honda’s data and processes. I worked with the core team on a very aggressive schedule to quickly configure the system to make a very educated assessment of tool for suitability to manage their business processes and data. My roles on the project involved:

• Coordinating with clients to model a sample solution mirroring current business processes at the company.

• Performing quick configuration and data migration for evaluation.

• Analyzing and summarizing the tool for full blown implementation.

Skills utilized: Aras Innovator, ASP.Net, SQL Server, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, Excel etc.

Custom web services development using Teamcenter services (TC SOA).

Client: Intel Corp, Hillsboro, OR. (May, 2011 – Sept 2011.) Employer: Iknowvate Technologies, MI, contracted to Wipro Tech., India.

The project involved development of custom Teamcenter services using Teamcenter Services API and WCF/.Net libraries. My responsibilities on the project included:

• Design & development of Teamcenter services to be used by custom thin client.

• Working with the client team to collect requirements and to make deliveries.

• Coordinating the project activities with team in offshore.

Skills utilized: Teamcenter Unified 8.3, Teamcenter Requirement Manager, Teamcenter Services APIs, .Net, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

Target (ERP system) to Teamcenter integration support & development.

Client: Honda of America, Marysville, OH. (Jan, 2011 – April 2011) Employer: Iknowvate Technologies, MI.

The project involved providing technical support activities for the Target (legacy BOM management system) to Teamcenter integration solution for Honda. My responsibilities on the project included:

• Working in role of primary technical support for the integration solution.

• Troubleshooting and coordination for resolution of issues with integration tool.

• Development of JT parallel processing solution for faster processing of JT images.

Skills utilized: Teamcenter Unified, OpenPDM, Siemens Catia to JT bidirectional translator, Perl, Tivoli workflow scheduler etc.

ERP integration and data migration for Aras Innovator PLM system.

Client: Amscan Inc, Elmsford, NY. (Jan, 2010 – Jan 2011) Employer: Iknowvate Technologies, MI, contracted to Meta-fore LLC., CA

Amscan implemented enterprise wide PLM system and ERP integration and data migration were critical pieces of the project. My responsibilities on the project included:

• Developing software & tools for ERP Integration and Data Migration.

• Unit testing the integration test cases and assisting customers for System & UAT.

• Performing iterations of data migration.

• Application administration as required to support the users.

Skills utilized: Innovator API/programming in C# & JScript, .NET programming with C#, XML, Web services.

Data migration to Agile PLM system.

Client: American Medical Systems (AMS), Minneapolis, MN (July 2009-Dec 2009) Employer: Meta-fore LLC., CA

My role on the project included supporting data migration work for the ongoing Agile PLM implementation at AMS. The work involved:

• Requirement gathering and preparation of data migration strategy.

• Assisting client data administrators in data extraction from different sources.

• Development of Perl and VBA based tools to Extract, Transform & Load data as required.

• Execution of data migration routines.

Skills utilized: Perl, Excel & Access Macros, and Agile PLM etc.

Migration of legacy bill of materials (BOM) to Teamcenter.

Client: Vericor Power Systems, Atlanta, GA (March 2009-July 2009) Employer: Meta-fore LLC., CA

Salient activities performed at the client included:

• Development of data transformation scripts for the input BOM data.

• Customization of Teamcenter’s ps_upload utility to meet specific objectives of the project.

• Execution of data migration routines to create BOMs, associated Items and datasets on test and production environments.

Skills utilized: Customization of ps_upload utility, data cleansing and transformation, Teamcenter ITK programming, excel macro etc.

Development of Java based custom forms in Teamcenter.

Client: Curtiss Wright, Cheswick PA (March 2009-April 2009) Employer: Meta-fore LLC., CA

Work on the project involved the following:

• Design and development of Java based custom forms for change management process.

• Sandbox environment setup and validation.

Skills utilized: Teamcenter Engineering 2005 SR1 configuration & administration, Teamcenter rich client customization, Eclipse, Java.

Migration of Teamcenter Engineering V9 data to Solidworks.

Client: Legrand NA, Hartfort, CT (Jan 2009-April 2009) Employer: Meta-fore LLC., CA

Salient activities performed at Legrand NA included:

• Development of custom ITK scripts for data extraction from Teamcenter database.

• Script for batch translation of NX & Solidedge CAD files to STEP neutral format.

• Execution of migration routines at test and production environment and validation.

Skills utilized: Teamcenter Engineering V9, NX manager, SolidEdge Manager, ITK/C++ programming, SolidWorks/VB customization, Perl, MSDOS scripting.

User support for Teamcenter integration for Ideas, Catia and Mentor CHS.

Client: Ford Motor Company/Siemens PLM Software, Dearborn, MI (August, 2008 – Dec, 2009) Employer: e-Infotech Inc., CA

Salient activities performed at Siemens PLM Software included:

• Managing I-Deas and CHS related configurations in Test and UAT environment.

• Performing sanity testing after every builds.

• Supporting Ford users and resolving issues in my assigned area.

• Coordinating with Siemens development team for resolution of TCII & CHS related issues.

Skills utilized: Teamcenter 2007 Unified Architecture (UA), I-Deas, Teamcenter Integration with I-Deas, Mentor CHS Integration, CATIA Integration.

Teamcenter UA 2007 implementation at Topcon Positioning Systems, Livermore CA.

Client: Topcon Positioning Systems, Livermore, CA (Feb, 2008 – July, 2008) Employer:Clerysys Inc & contracted to Meta-fore LLC., CA

Worked on the Teamcenter Implementation project on Topcon:

• Design & Development of custom data migration scripts.

• Completed migration of legacy of data to Teamcenter using developed tools.

Skills utilized: Teamcenter 2007 Unified Installation & configuration, MAS500 ERP Integration, ITK/C++ programming, Excel VBA, Perl & MSDOS scripting, Visual Studio.

Teamcenter based development and services.

Organization: Siemens, Pune-Bangalore, India. (March, 2005 – February, 2008)

The project involved development of an application called Teamcenter for Simulation product at Siemens. As a member of team, I was involved in various activities as below.

• Requirement study and functional specification development for new projects.

• Software design and software development activities on Teamcenter server and client side.

• Handling of other customer projects as a member of Siemens services team at Bangalore.

Skills utilized: Teamcenter Engineering(2005), Teamcenter 2007 Unified Installation & configuration, server side ITK/C++ programming, Java Rich Client Application(RAC) development, XML, XSLT, Perl scripting, SCM tools(Clearcase, Perforce) administration, software development life cycle(SDLC) processes, Visual Studio.

SAP200 export feature for GSA and development of UI based Siren tool.

Organization: Nhance Engineering Solutions Ltd. (IT div of Arup UK), Hyderabad, India. (July 2004 – Feb 2005)

Nhance was a division of Arup UK and was responsible for supporting their software division Oasys Software. I worked on the following projects while at Nhance:

• Implementation and testing of limited export feature of native model in Oasys’ Structure Analysis software (GSA) into SAP2000 text format.

• Development of a GUI based tool for investigating site response to a seismic event (Siren) from a DOS based legacy application prior written in Fortran90.

Skills utilized: Visual C++ programming, GSA tool Kit, SAP2000, Visual Studio.

Interpreter module for AutoCad DXF to proprietary format.

Organization: IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India (Oct 2001- Jan 2002)

IIT Delhi was developing water network design software for MCD Delhi and the software required supporting AutoCAD drawings as one of the input formats. On this project my responsibilities included:

• Design and implementation of the interpreter module from the AutoCAD’s native text format DXF to the native text format.

• Development of a visual basic application with graphical output to demonstrate the capability of the module.

Skills utilized: C++ programming, AutoCAD, VB, Visual Studio.

Honors and Activities

• Awarded teaching assistantship for Classical Physics course during M.Tech.

• Student secretary of hostel & mess committee, member of library council, placement committee at IIIT, Hyderabad.

• Hobbies include tracking enterprise & web technology trends, web programming, photography, reading, swimming and meditation etc.

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