Project Manager System

BACKGROUND

With close to ** years in the information technology industry, has a wide range of experience providing Project Management, Analyzing, Designing, Coding, Documenting, Modifying, Testing and Implementing Business Technology solution.

Has a strong orientation towards process improvement and has been one of the Appraisal Team Members (ATM) for CMMi Level 5 Audit of CGI-India.

EXPERIENCE

PROJECT MSC, CGI NEWYORK, NY, USA - DATES (07/08 TO 06/09)

MSC Industrial Direct, provides facility for E-Procurement, a real time process, to the customers for placing order with multiple suppliers at the same time. The details of the order are maintained on the AS/400 system of MSC either in XML or EDI format.

MSC Industrial Direct has outsourced the maintenance and development activity to CGI using the onsite-offshore model.

Size of the project

• 14 team members (2 members at Onsite + 12 members at Offshore)

Role and Responsibilities

Playing the role of Project Manager responsibilities include:

• Manage the team for timely and defect free deliveries.

• Interact with the Business Specialist and Technical experts to retrieve business/technical knowledge of various modules.

• Ensure product deliverables meet CGI quality standards.

• Provide monthly resource and financial reports to CGI & MSC senior management.

• Help identify and transition of short-term resource.

Technical Environment:

Host Environment: OS/400, DB2/400, RPGLE, RPG/400, CL/400, CLLE.

PROJECT HORIZON, CGI DALLAS, TX, USA – DATES (11/04 to 07/08)

HORIZON, an enterprise solution, emerged out of the architectural changes done to their core product called “Artesia”, which provides complete “ERP” functionality for oil and gas exploration and production companies, oil and gas trust companies, university trusts, and any other company that manages assets. CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc., USA has outsourced part of its Horizon product’s development & maintenance work to CGI-India.

Assimilation activities were conducted at CGI office for various modules, viz. Production, Revenue, Accounts Payable, Account Receivables, IRS Reporting, etc. Currently offshore team is involved in maintenance and development activities of Horizon product.

Size of the project

• 6 team members

Role and Responsibilities

Playing the role of Project Manager responsibilities include:

• Manage the team for timely and defect free deliveries.

• Interact with the Business Specialist and Technical experts to retrieve business/technical knowledge of various modules.

• Provide analytical & technical guidance for the team members.

Technical Environment:

Host Environment: OS/400, DB2/400, RPGLE, RPG/400, CL/400, CLLE, Jwalk, Domino 6.5.

EATON AUTOMOTIVES INC, USA – DATES (03/04 to 10/04)

EATON Automotives is an automotive company based in Detroit. The company creates solutions and partner with OEMs to respond to the market demands for improved fuel economy, vehicle emission and safety systems, via our engine air management, powertrain controls, safety and security systems.

EATON Automotives has outsourced their entire JDEdwards application to L&T Infotech for a period of 2 years in the year 2004 onwards.

The modules that are outsourced to L&T Infotech were:

• Manufacturing

• Sales & Distribution

The project involves achieving steady-state maintenance for all the above modules at L&T Infotech in multiple phases, namely, Preparation, Planning, Assimilation/Transition and Steady-state maintenance. During Steady-state maintenance, L&T Infotech takes the complete maintenance responsibilities that includes, major enhancements to the applications, correction of faults, improve performance and preventive maintenance activities.

Size of the project

• 4 team members (1 members at Onsite + 3 members at Offshore)

Role and Responsibilities

Playing the role of Project Manager and my responsibilities include

• Plan the milestones and phases in co-ordination.

• Responsible for timely, defect-free deliverables within the estimated project cost.

• Review the project metrics and initiate causal analysis and necessary process improvements

Technical Environment:

Host Environment: AS/400, OS/400, CL/400, DB2/400, RPG/400, RPGLE, JD Edwards

COMPUTER AIDED COLLECTOR SYSTEM (CACS) V8.0, AMS (NOW CGI), USA (07/03 TO 01/04)

AMS is a global business and IT consulting firm whose customers include state, local, and provincial governments, a majority of federal agencies, and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. With deep industry experience and technical know-how in all levels of government and throughout the private sector, the company delivers results that measurably improve business performance and the relationship between an organization and its customers.

The project was to migrate CACS 8.0.1 software product from an IBM Mainframe CICS/VSAM environment to an IBM AS/400 (ILE COBOL/DB2) environment.

L&T Infotech executed the migration using an Onsite-Offshore execution model. The migration process consisted of the following phases:

• Analysis/Initiation

• Conversion

• System Test

• Packaging.

Size

• 12 team members

Role and Responsibilities

As a Technical Consultant, my responsibilities include

• Designing of System equivalent to its Mainframe version.

• Co-ordination with the client for timely resolution of technical issues rose during the execution of the project.

• Training of resources for conversion of JCLs to CLs.

• Testing & Implementation of system onsite.

Technical Environment:

Host Environment: AS/400, OS/400, CL/400, DB2/400, ILE COBOL.

GENISYS SYSTEM, WHEATON USA (02/03 to 06/03)

WHEATON is in the Hospitality business and provides transportation, warehousing and distribution solutions to the hospitality industry.

The System keeps track of distribution and storage of the customer logistics. It provides support for Warehousing, Transportation, Liquidation, etc. It has an interface with the existing accounting legacy system, which is developed in RPG/400, on AS/400 so as to incorporate various charges involved in the new system.

Size

• 5 team members

Role and Responsibilities

As a Project Manager/Leader, my responsibilities include

• Review and approve the architecture and design of the product

• Track the progress of the project

• Development of DB2 Stored Procedure development on AS/400.

Technical Environment:

Host Environment : AS/400, OS/400, DB2/400, RPG/400.

Client-Server Environment : Windows NT server, Windows 2000 client, Websphere 5.0, Java

SUPPLY & DEMAND SYSTEM, BUNGEE, USA – (05/02 to 11/02)

BUNGEE is an integrated global agribusiness and food company operating in the farm-to-consumer food chain. It is the largest soybean processor in USA and one of the world's largest exporters of Soya products.

This project has been conceived to facilitate reporting of the Supply and Demand figures for different commodities on a monthly basis. Since data entry will occur across the trading offices spread across the globe, a secure internet-based reporting mechanism (using PKI) is being implemented.

Size of the project

• 10 team members (1 members at Onsite + 9 members at Offshore)

Role and Responsibilities

Playing the role of Project Leader and my responsibilities include:

• Requirement gathering and analysis.

• Coordinating with the On-site Coordinator for timely resolution of issues rose during the execution of the project.

• Project Planning, Tracking & Monitoring of the project.

• Responsible for timely, defect-free deliverables within the estimated project cost.

• Review the project metrics and initiate causal analysis and necessary process improvements

Technical Environment:

Windows, Java, Oracle 8i database, ATG Dynamo, Crystal Reports, XML, JHTML, Rational Rose

CHECK ISSUANCE SYSTEM – CITIBANK, USA (11/01 to 04/02)

Citibank is one of the leading banks in USA. Citibank delivers a wide array of banking, lending and investment services to individual consumers, as well as to small businesses. The Check Issuance System is a disbursement system, which can be used for pension as well as any other periodic or non-periodic disbursement coupled with the associated services of record keeping, tax withholding, tax remittance and Electronic Funds Transfer facility. The system generates number of payment, forecast and audit reports. The system interfaces to other systems, viz. Accounting System, Cash Management System, Tax Withholding System, Tax Remittance System, Check Clearance System and Electronic Funds Transfer.

The scope of this project was to provide maintenance & production support to the Check Issuance System

Size of the project

• 5 team members (1 members at Onsite + 4 members at Offshore)

Role and Responsibilities

Played the role of Project Leader and my responsibilities include:

• Prepare the detailed project plan for the project

• Responsible for timely, defect-free deliverables within the estimated project cost.

• Report the progress of the project weekly basis in terms of deadlines, cost and quality

Technical Environment: IBM S390, VSAM, VS COBOL II, CICS, JCL

MODEL-T SYSTEMS, FORD JAPAN LIMITED, JAPAN – (04/01 to 10/01)

Ford Japan Limited is the sister concern of a Ford USA which is having presence across the globe in more than 120 countries.

The system is an E-Commerce application accessed by various Dealers and Car Company System Officials. The system deals with locating the different stages of production in which a vehicle can be, tracking the order of the vehicle. The system officials are able to access the status & report online on the web. Also the system has an entirely new feature for Used Car Locator, which allows the user to maintain Inventory of Used Car along the features and to search for these vehicles from the inventory for resale based on the features. It also gives the dealers the facility to estimate / discount the price of the vehicle as per the taxation rules applicable. It also allows users to generate different sales reports, which are necessary for the day-to-day operation of the dealer and the organization.

The new E-Commerce system pulls the inventory and purchase related data from the legacy system on AS/400 at some specified interval and also updates the necessary data on the legacy system.

Size of the project

• 15 team members (1 members at Onsite + 14 members at Offshore)

Role and Responsibilities

Played the role of Onsite Coordinator and my responsibilities include:

• Involved in the System Requirement Study and Design.

• Co-Ordination with the Client & Project Leader regarding status and issues rose during the development phase offshore.

• Involved in study of the existing application and devise strategy for improvement of system performance.

• Restructuring Job Scheduling of AS/400 so as to incorporate data transfer between AS/400 and Windows NT.

• Modification and enhancement of legacy AS/400 system to provide interface with the new E-Commerce application.

• Involved in the study of database to chalk out plan to boost system performance.

Technical Environment: Windows NT 4 Server, OS/400, Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic, RPG/400, CL/400, MS SQL Server 7.0, DB2/400, Java Script, VBScript, HTML

E-BIZ SYSTEMS, LARSEN & TOUBRO LIMITED, INDIA – (10/00 to 03/01)

Larsen & Toubro is a Heavy Engineering giant that handles large turnkey projects in their areas of expertise.

The system focuses on the procurement of direct material required for Heavy Engineering projects and covers a complete Web based e-procurement cycle. E-Biz is tightly coupled with present BAAN system. The RFQs (Request for Quotation), POs (Purchase orders) are posted on the web and vendors can access them over the web and send quotations.

Size of the project

• 14 team members

Role and Responsibilities

Played the role of Project Leader and my responsibilities include:

• Involved in the System Requirement Study and Design.

• Co-Ordination with the Client regarding status & issues rose during the development phase.

• Project Planning, Tracking & Monitoring of the project.

Technical Environment: Microsoft Windows NT 4 Server, Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic, MS SQL Server 7.0, Java Script, VBScript, XML, HTML

PORTING OF ACE TO AS/400, FIRSTLOGIC INC, USA – (06/99 to 09/99)

Firstlogic Inc is Postal Service Company providing software related to Postal Department of the Unites States, Canada and United Kingdom. The ACE product is an address correction and encoding product for the US and Canadian market. The product helps the customer of the client dealing with mass mailings and data warehousing to ensure that the addresses that are received are corrected and validated before storing in their database.

Size of the project

• 6 team members (1 members at Onsite + 14 members at Offshore)

Role and Responsibilities

Played the role of Project Leader and my responsibilities include:

• Lead the team for undergoing CASS Test of the US Postal Department in which system undergoes rigorous testing for about 100K test cases.

• Project Planning, Tracking & Monitoring of the project.

• Timely Resolution of issues rose during the Testing & Implementation phase of the project.

Technical Environment: OS/400, C/400, CL/400, DB2/400

VEHICLE DELIVERY SYSTEM (VDS) – Y2K, VOLVO, JAPAN – dates (01/99 to 05/99)

Volvo is one of the world's largest producers of trucks, buses and construction equipment and holds a leading position in the fields of marine and industrial power systems and aircraft engine components.

The project aim was to make the VDS system Year 2000 compliant. The effort required involved development of a tool to generate a Seed List, scan for the date patterns and synonym processing, Impact Analysis of the programs and subsequently modifying the programs for the VDS system.

Size of the project

• 45 members ( 2 members at Onsite + 43 members at Offshore)

Role and Responsibilities

Played the role of Project Leader and my responsibilities include:

• Involved in the preparation of the Seed List Generation Tool on AS/400 system.

• Involved in Impact Analysis and leading the team to successful execution of the project.

• Project Planning, Tracking & Monitoring of the project.

• Preparation of reports necessary as per Quality Assurance.

• Coordinating with the On-site Coordinator for timely resolution of issues raised during the execution of the project.

Achievements

• Met all the intermediate and final project deadlines for all the 8 CIPs

• Formed CAT (Core Assembler team) to provide technical support to the project team on Assembler

• No acceptance defects reported

Technical Environment: MVS, JCL, DB2, IMS, Assembler, Telon, Vsam, ADF

EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO 1999

Import/Export System - Development, HSBC, India – (07/97 to 12/98)

Role: Module Leader/DBA

Technical Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, CL/400, RPG/400, DB2/400.

Custodial Services System – Development, LOK Group, India – (04/96 to 07/97)

Role: Module Leader

Technical Environment: Microsoft Windows, Oracle 7.1, Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5 /Reports 2.5)

Integrated Purchase and Inventory Control System (IPICS) – Development project,

LOK Group, India – (10/94 to 03/96)

Role: Programmer Analyst

Technical Environment: Microsoft Windows, Oracle 7.1, Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5 /Reports 2.5), FoxPro 2.5

Shares / Debentures Registration and Transfer System – Development Project,

Indus Financial Services, India – (04/93 to 10/94)

Role: Programmer

Technical Environment: Novell LAN 3.1, FoxPro 2.5

EDUCATION

B.E. (Electronics), University of Mumbai.

Contact Details

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