Project Manager Engineer

Sudhir Venugopal Email: *****************@*****.***

Date Of Birth: 27th October 1969 Mobile: +918*********

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Patent Analyst and Project Manager

Profile:

Education :

1. BE (passed out in 1992) from University Visvesvaraya College Of Engineering, Bangalore University and MBA (passed out in 1994) from Central College, Bangalore University respectively. Both are merit seats. Stood 1st in University for MBA entrance and 3rd in the same college for passing out. Got merit seat (stood rank 1732) in BE.

2. Certified Programmer with expertise in Project and Program Management from Aptech Limited. Stood first in the batch for passing out.

3. Certified Programmer with expertise in Project and Program Management from NIIT. Stood first in the batch in passing out.

4. Programming cource in C and Unix from Aptech. Stood first with 96%.

5. Studied entirely in Kendriya Vidyalaya from 1st to 12th standard (Father being a retired Indian Air Force Officer). Stood 1st most of the times in class. 2nd in X class and 3rd in XII class.

6. Stood first in passing out for training provided by Tata Infotech’s in-house training while employment with them in a batch of 35 employees.

7. Stood 1st in the class of X std in Kendriya Vidyalaya for a certificate course in microprocessor programming conducted in the class. (certificate included).

8. Passed with distinction in a software programming course conducted by PCS Computers in Kendriya Vidyalaya. (certificate included).

9. I am skilled in C, C++, Java, Sybase with DB-Library, ASP, HTML, DHTML, Unix, PL-SQL, Oracle 8i, Oracle Forms, Corba (Specifically Orbix for C++, Orbix Web and other Orbix utilities), Jsql, Sqlj, DOS, VC++, Poet, Rational Rose and other Rational utilities, IDE’s like Visual Café, Visual Age, SSAD, OOAD, UML, RDBMS principles, General SQL. (certain certificates attached.).

Work Experience :

17 years and 7 months of work experience in Fortune 500 multinationals.

4 months of technical, business and consulting experience in Textile sector.

3 Months of technical, business and consulting experience in Mechanical sector.

1 Year technical, business and consulting experience in Finance sector.

6 Months technical, business and consulting experience in Transport sector.

6 Months technical, business and consulting experience in Medical sector.

3 Months technical, business and consulting experience in Petroleum sector.

Team Leadership responsibility (up to 20 people) and Project responsibility (upto INR 20 Lakhs) for Pentasoft.

Team Leadership responsibility (up to 10 people) and Project responsibility (upto INR 50 Lakhs) for Tata Infotech.

Team Leadership responsibility (up to 10 people) and Project responsibility (upto INR 5 Lakhs) for Tata Infotech.

Team Leadership responsibility (up to 20 people) and Project responsibility (upto 1 Million USD) for Tata Infotech.

Team Leadership responsibility (up to 10 people) and Project responsibility (upto INR 70 Lakhs) for Intervowen Limited.

Used to doing project on ones own.

Work Exposure :

Strong track record of successful client-facing engagements.

4 months of overseas multi-cultural experience (Minneapolis – Minnesota, USA).

3 months of outér state client and language exposure (Jamnagar, Gujarat).

Educated in English and Hindi, Exposure to Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada culture.

Competency Summary:

Building up and operating a Business Practice:

Have experience in setting up an office in the sales area, software development area and customer support area. Could provide in-depth insight into the various important issues for financing and develop running projects in software development. This I did for Tulip Software and the Bangalore branch of Pentasoft.

IT and Business Consulting:

Turn-around incipient projects into successful ones and provide consultancy for ongoing running projects. Vehemently employ relevant domain knowledge and apply learning to real-world problems. Experience in MRP, Consultancy based projects. This I did for Inventa Software and Pentasoft.

Organizational Development:

Structured intervention in organizational projects situations, with emphasis on introducing Project Management practices and developing new circumstances. Have conducted workshops and undertaken mentoring in earlier assignments. This I did for most of the companies (Prakash Roadlines, Inventa Software, Pentasoft, Tata Infotech). I did Quality practices and JRD-QV practices for Tata Infotech and for Interwoven I did SEI-CMM practices.

Other Areas of Exposure:

Cost Optimization, Business Analysis, Pre-sales, Business Development, Account Management, Training, Software Development, Software Testing & QA, Cross-Culture Effectiveness, Reporting & Communication. Cost-optimization was done for Prakash Roadlines, Inventa Software and Tulip Software. Business Analysis was done for Tata Infotech, Interwoven and Pentasoft. Business Development was done for Prakash Roadlines, Inventa Software, Tulip Software, Tata Infotech, Pentasoft and Interwoven. Account Management was done for Prakash Roadlines, Inventa Software, Pentasoft and Tata Infotech. Training was done for Pentasoft and Tata Infotech. Software Development was done for Inventa Software, Tulip Software, Pentasoft, Tata Infotech, Speech2Txt Solutions, Techno Infoware and Interwoven. Software testing and QA was done for Tata Infotech and Interwoven. Cross-culture effectiveness was required in Tata Infotech. Reporting and Communication was done in all companies.

Key Clients:

Elmaq Systems, Software Solutions Integrated, Krishna Flour Mills, Ace Designers, BPL, Modi Business Machines, Voltas, CMC, HP, BASF, ABB, Arvind Mills, Subhadra Textiles, ICICI, Wipro, TVS-Suzuki, World Health Organization.

Some of these companies are in the Peenya area and I have effectively worked in this region of Bangalore.

Work Experience

Management Trainee at Prakash Roadlines Private Limited :

Responsibilities: Recording daily data and co-ordinating daily with the various branches of the company for information based on daily transportation activities.

Achievements:

• Was selected as an employee and was initially looking after the recording data for the MIS department of the company.

• Worked on Lotus 123 for recording data for the company.

• Sometimes worked as delivery boy for packages.

• Co-ordinated with the Branch Manager for sales pitch for setting prices per grams for packages.

• Documented and reported weekly to the Branch Manager.

Software Engineer at Inventa Software:

Responsibilities: Setting up and operating the Software Division for Testing and Practicing Bangalore location, for sales turnover of Gupta – SQL. Reported directly to the MD.

Achievements:

• Built up the Sales Team and software Development Team and also Testing Services Delivery team from scratch, taking the resource count up to 10 Gupta-SQL in just 1 month.

• Established a Governance Framework and introduced metrics-based reporting, relating to the versions of the software.

• Set up and developed an 3-member Sales Team to direct the operations of the Business Unit

• In the first four months, had the distinction of receiving not a single customer complaint regarding employee performance.

• Did software development with the basic knowledge of Gupta-SQL for the Human Resource Management System. The parent company considered this as a Product.

Sr. Customer Support Engineer at Tulip Software:

Responsibilities: This was a role involving several activities to give a process direction to the company.

Achievements:

• In the initial phase, was solely responsible for setting up the HR functions.

• Set up the Sales and Customer Support Operations for hardware and established project management practices for software for the company.

• Created a software project in MS-Access named client information system for the company Volvo Limited.

Assistant Manager at Pentasoft:

Responsibilities: Engaged with TVS-Suzuki client in a consulting capacity to turn around troubled outsourcing projects. Achieved to develop a software project in Java and Oracle considered to be an application for MIS for TVS Suzuki Limited.

Achievements:

• Achieved a turn-around in the performance of introducing both hardware and software deliverables to the company including supporting for Annual Maintenance Contract and software and hardware Account Management. Did customer support for some time for both hardware and software.

• Ensured Timeliness and Quality of Deliverables, Coordination between the onsite and offshore teams, Effectiveness of staffing process, Documentation quality, SDLC, Performance Improvement, Team morale and Culture fit.

• Taught COBOL to 2 employees of the company for academic excellence to be achieved after these two members by conducting training in this language as a part of business conducted by Pentasoft in the education area.

• Gave software proposals after business analysis.

Sr. Systems Engineer at Tata Infotech:

Responsibilities:

• Research

• Requirement Analysis

• Development

• Unit Testing

• Integration Testing

• System testing

• Reporting JRD-QV practices.

Achievements:

• Over a two year period, identified SDLC cost savings of approximately for a good amount for the clients.

• Participated in the Object Technology Groupd department for expanding the scope of the business, by looking for clients doing effective analysis and other parts of SDLC.

• Note : Projects are too large to mention here.

• Skills used were C, C++, Java, Sqlj, Jsql, Corba(Orbix), Solaris, Rational Rose, Visual Café 1.1.

Technical Lead at Insight Technologies (now Intervowen Technologies):

Responsibilities: Developed a software for doctors to use. Did software development, software testing, preparing test cases and instructing them, filing test cases, documenting software thesis and delivery of the software.

Achievements:

• Provided inputs towards planning, scheduling, business analysis and preparation of test plans.

• Coached the team members in tools and processes (mainly about test cases and Java).

• Introduced the company for SEI-CMM process levels (for this I mainly reported to the CIO of the company).

• Was project manager of a large project.

Freelancer at Techno Infoware Private Limited :

Responsibilities: Co-ordinating with the company owner for preparing and analyzing software projects for both clients and some in-house projects. Most of the project were web based projects.

Achievments:

• Provided inputs from the client to the owner of the company.

• Undertook analysis of the project.

• Developed the software.

• Did about 20 software web pages.

Software Engineer at Speech2Txt Inc.:

Responsibilities: Took up Software development for in-house use of the company.

Achievements:

• Developed a software like a web page for retrieving a file wherever it is available on the net. Used java and Visual Café 1.1 for it for it.

Freelancer at DiLogic Systems :

Responsibilities: Formatted data for mailing labels for companies which were clients to the company.

Achievements:

• Fromatted data in a Word document for creating mailing labels for the clients in other countries.

• Clients were mainly based in Tiwan, China and Singapore.

• Co-ordinated with the concerned EDP Manager of the company.

Software Engineer at Concept Hydraulic Pvt. Ltd:

Responsibilities: Business Analysis and development for the in-house software, with a hope for an installation for a majors like SAP or BAAN ie; a pre-cursor for a major software. Did analysis, its documentation. Reported directly to MD.

Achievements:

• Produced the software within a time frame of 3 months using MS-Access.

• Instigated the scrutinizing and sanctioning the software for in-house use.

Patent Analyst at Sun Smart IP Services:

• Responsibilities: Checking preparation and reporting of web based documents in various search engines for checking the genuineness of the document and analyzing them. Developed a software for attendance system for the Client/Server based office.

Achievements:

• Patent search using various databases such as Thomson innovation, QPAT,Total Patent, USPTO , freepatentsonline, WIPO, as well as other patent authority sites in the world etc.

• Performing patentability search, state-of-the-art search, validity search.

• Non-Patent literature Searching.

• Collect, test and compare the documents and reported it finally every day to the senior colleague.

• Doing research in Cloud Computing, Optimization Of Network and Virtualization Of Hardware.

Employment Schedule:

Organization Location Role Period

Prakash Roadlines Bangalore Management Trainee 1st Jul 1994 – 31st Dec 94

Inventa Software Bangalore Software Engineer 23rd Jan95 – 15th Dec 95

Tulip Software Bangalore Sr. Cust Supp Engineer 18th Dec 95 – 10th May 97

Pentafour Software Bangalore Assistant Manager 7th May 97 – 18th Dec 97

Tata Infotech Bangalore, USA & Jamnagar(Gujarat) Sr. Systems Engineer 18th Sep 98 – 18th Dec 00

Insight Technologies Bangalore Technical Lead 3rd Oct 00 – 4th Dec 00

TechnoInfoware Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore Freelancer 1st Jan 2001 – 30th Dec 2004

Speech2Txt Inc. Bangalore Software Engineer 2nd May 05 – 31st Oct 05

DiLogic Systems Bangalore Freelancer 1st Jan 2006– 30st Dec 2006

Concept Hydraulic Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore Software Engineer 1st Jan 07 – 1st Jul 07

Sun Smart IP Services Bangalore Sr. Patent Analyst 8th March 08 – Till Date

Co-curricular activities :

1. Stood first or was with the winners in many sports and got many certificates.

2. Proficient in Cricket, Football, Volleyball, Billiards and Hockey.

3. Played baseball in USA with employees of Tata Consultancy Services while visiting USA as a part of the project requirement for and E-commerce project for Target & Daytons.

4. Watching TV, playing music.

5. Going for walks in the morning and evening.

6. Internet browsing.

Continuing Education :

Planning to do course in .NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET, DOA and ADO, J2EE, J2ME, JSP, STRUTS, BLUETOOTH, WAP, Android from

NIIT.

References : (from Sun Smart IP Services)

1. Mr. Honorary Flying Officer. R.N. Mallick (Mobile-998*******) – boss.

2. Mr. Wg.Cdr.P.Narayanan (Mobile-948*******) – boss.

3. Mr. Chinna Durai (Mobile-962*******) – colleague/subordinate.

4. Mr. B. Mannan (Mobile-990*******) – boss and CEO.

5. Mr. Babu George (Mobile-944-***-****) – colleague and Branch Manager.

Special Attributes/Proficiencies.

• Strong technical skills.

• Analytical/Critical thinking skills (GRE score 1960 out of 2400).

• Ability to meet deadlines.

• Project management/Multiple priorities.

• Communication skills(TOEFL score of 720 out of 800).

• Good Interpersonal skills.

• Leadership skills.

Phone :- 091-080-23641084(Bangalore).

Mobile :- 888-***-****(Bangalore).

E-Mail Address :- *********@*****.***, *****************@*****.***, ******************@*****.***, ****************@**********.***, *****************@*******.***, ******.*********@*****.**.

Address:- Sudhir Venugopal.

S/O Wg.Cdr.M.Venugopal.

24, Industrial Employees Housing Co-operative Society.

8th Main Road.

Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore – 560097.

Class University Dates Subject Mark Percentage

MBA Bangalore University Sept 1992 – June 1994 Marketing 3rd 67%

Engineering (University Visweswaraya College Of Engineering)

Bangalore University 1987 – 1992 Electronics 54th 67%

NIIT Private College in Bangalore 2000-2001 As per syllabus 1st 87%

Aptech Private College in Bangalore 1996-1997 As per syllabus 1st 96%

Class XII Central Board Of Secondary Education, Bangalore 1986-1987 As per syllabus 3rd in class 83% average

Class XI Central Board Of Secondary Education, Bangalore 1985-1986 As per Syllabus 1st in class 86%

Class X Central Board Of Secondary Education, Bangalore 1984-1985 As per syllabus 2nd in class 72% average

Project Profiles :

Project Title –

checking patentability.

Duration :- 8th March 2008 – till date.

Company :- Sun Smart System IP Services Pvt. Ltd. This is a software document analysis for the perusal of fact and data for recording patent worth of inventions of various companies.

Presently work handled is :

• Searching analysis

• In house co-ordination

Environment :

• Windows 2007.

• Acrobat Reader 8.

• Internet Explorer 6.0

• Client/Server Arrangement.

Web Pages :

• Freepatentsonline.com

• QPat.com

• Thomsoninnovation.com

• USPTO.com

• JPO.com

• WIPO.com

Title – MIS as pilot to SAP/BAAN

Duration – during the entire presence in the company

Company :- Concept Hydraulic Ltd.

Issue :- IBS Standards Presently work handled is:

• Analysis of in-house records

Environment:

• Windows 2007

• MS-Access 2003

Project Title :- MIS as pilot to SAP/BAAN

Duration :-

1st February 2007 – 1st July 2007.

Company :- Concept Hydraulic Private Limited. This was a software development for planning, data entering, communicating and executing information easiness in the manufacturing floor to keep records within reach and tidy.

Presently work handled is:

• Development.

• Unit Testing.

• Integration Testing.

• System Testing.

• Reporting SEI-CMM Level training and development towards attaining it.

Environment:

• Windows 2007

• MS-Access 2003

Project Title :-

File Server

Duration:-

2nd May 2005 – 31st Nov 2005

Company :- Speech2Txt Solutions Pvt.Ltd.

Client : -

US hospitals

Role :- In house Project Manager This is a software for easy management of hospital records for which method has been transcribed by medical transciptionist. The software helps download files, transcribe it and upload it.

Method involves

• Direct interaction with client to ensure smooth implementation of the system.

• Requirement analysis and design of the application

• Development

• Integration testing.

Achievement : Was called upon by the client to co-ordinate, on their behalf with the outside vendors to evaluate and approve a package similar to the request that would help track the project with US hospital.

Environment :

• Windows 2000

• Internet Explorer

• Netscape Navigator

• Visual Café

• MS-Access

Title : - CORBA Teaching

Duration : - one day

Company :- Interwoven Pvt. Ltd.

Role :- Teacher Taught CORBA(Orbix based products an overview and all parts of Orbix Web(configuration and coding), required for CORBA cell for research.

Products :-

• Orbix Web

• Orbix SSL (full list not available)

Title : - Enhancing company value

Duration :- All the days in the company.

Company :- Interwoven Pvt.Ltd.

Role:- Mentor and tutor Before work handled is:

• Programming

Environment:

• Windows 2007

• MS-Access 2003

Presently work handled is:

• Research.

• Requirement Analysis.

• Development.

• Unit Testing.

• Integration Testing.

• System Testing.

• Reporting SEI-CMM Level training and development towards attaining it.

Title :- Intellidoc

Duration :- 15th October 2000 – 1st November 2000

Client :-US hospitals like World Health Organization.

Role :- In house Project Manager. This project was done for easy activities of a physician in a hospital.

Method involves:-

• Design

• Documentation

• Integration testing

• Coding

Achievement:-

Was able to produce the package for a net worth of Rs 70 lakh for a physician.

Environment :-

• Windows 2000

• MS-Access

• JDBC(in-built)

• Visual Age 6.0

Title – Mozart

Duration :-April 2000 – August 2000

Client – Daytons and Target Corporation, Minnepolis, Minessota, USA

Role – On-Site Project Manager The project involves the conversion of the Mozart database to Oracle 8i database using Unix shell scripts and C++. The conversion of the records is carried out with the help of variable length records.

Method:-

• Requirement Analysis.

• Direct interaction with client to ensure smooth implementation of project requirements.

• Development and implementation.

• Integration and testing.

Achievement :- Took up the challenge for acquiring the project according to project deadlines and stretching the requirements.

Environment :-

• SCO Unix

• Oracle 8i

• Windows NT

• VC++

Titel – Hotel reservation system

Duration :- April 1999 – April 2000

Client – In house development

Role :- Project Manager The project involves the development of Web based client application for Hotel Management. The functions are allocation, check-in, check-out, maintenance of customer information and facilities information and on-line billing.

Method:-

• Requirement analysis

• Direct interaction with client to ensure smooth implementation of project requirements.

• Development and implementation

• Integration and Unit testing.

• Coding.

Environment :-

• Windows 98

• Visual Café 1.1

• MS-Access

• JDBC(in-built)

Title:- Reliance Petroleum Information Management System

Duration : - January 1999 – July 1999.

Client :-Reliance Induatries, Jamnagar, Gujarat.

Role – On-line Module leader

Role :- Team leader for client and server sides.

The project involved verifying, quality and availability of data coming out of a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) and data from excel sheets. CORBA was used as middleware for providing the system with object management capabilities which helped in better memory management and scheduling.

Method:-

• Requirement analysis and design

• Dcoumentation

• Testing

• Coding

Environment:-

• Windows NT.

• Orbix range of products.

• MS-Excel.

• C++.

• Rational Rose

Titel :- teaching COBAL

Duration – one month

Client:- in house employees. Summary :- Teaching COBOL to same company employees to maker them teach in a regular class in the company to earn revenue.

Environment:-

• COBOL for DOS 2.0

• DOS 2.0

Title :- Giving proposal

Duration: one month required for documentation.

Client:- Subadra Textiles Pvt. Ltd.

Role :- System Analyst Role :- System analyst and Project helper for providing technical help and expertise for possible development of Enterprise Resource Planning.

Modules:-

• Attendance recording

• Mile recording

• Timing (in/out) records

• Employee records

• Stock records

• Wages records

• Financial Accounting

• Case history

• Customer records

• Record of proposals

• Receipts, bills and memos

Title :- Giving proposal

Duration: one month required for documentation.

Client:- TVS Pvt. Ltd.

Role :- System Analyst Role :- System analyst and Project helper for providing technical help and expertise for possible development of Enterprise Resource Planning.

Modules:-

• Attendance recording

• Mile recording

• Timing (in/out) records

• Employee records

• Stock records

• Wages records

• Financial Accounting

• Case history

• Customer records

• Record of proposals

• Receipts, bills and memos

Title :- Giving proposal

Duration: one month required for documentation.

Client:- Krishna Flour Mills Pvt. Ltd.

Role :- System Analyst Role :- System analyst and Project helper for providing technical help and expertise for possible development of Enterprise Resource Planning.

Modules:-

• Tonnage measurement

• Attendance recording

• Mile recording

• Timing diagram and records

• Employee records

• Stock records

• Wages records

• Financial Accounting

• Case history

• Customer records

• Record of proposals

• Receipts, bills and memos

Title :- Customer View

Duration :- August 1998 – December 1998

Client – World Bank

Role :- On site module leader Summary :- Component based development of Banking solutions. The various modules included were Financial accounting, Risk Management and Market research.

Method:-

• Requirement analysis.

• Direct interaction with client to ensure smooth implementation of project requirements.

• Development and implementation.

• Integration and Unit testing.

Environment :-

• Windows 98

• Visual Café 1.1

• Orbix Web

• SQLJ for ORACLE

• Oracle 8.0(backend)

Title :- Customer Information and travel desk system

Duration :- June 1997 – Nov 1997

Client – Volvo India

Role – On site module leader. Summary :- Maintenance of customer base for client. The software helped in storage, retrieval and updation of data.

Method:-

• Requirement and system analysis.

• Design and implementation of business objects.

• Development and testing.

Achievement :- Overcame a difficult client and local competition to bag the purchase order.

Environment :-

• Windows 95.

• MS-Access.

Title :- Human Resource Management System

Duration:- 1st January 1994 – 4th April 1994.

Client- practice and in-house development.

Role-Sole developer Summary :- Maintenance of customer base for client. The software helped in storage, retrieval and updation of data using forms.

Method:-

• Requirement and system analysis.

• Design and implementation of business objects.

• Development and testing.

Environment :-

• Windows 3.11.

• Gupta SQL

1. Gupta SQL Base (RDBMS)

2. Gupta SQL Windows (Front End)

Title – Thesaurus (BE Project)

8 months

PSI Datasystems

Bangalore

Sole developer Summary :- This is a software for fast retrieval of files from a hypertext management system.

Method:-

• Requirement analysis.

• Direct interaction with client to gather functional knowledge.

• Development and implementation.

• Integration and Unit testing.

• Documentation.

Achievement:- The project was handled solely and required the need to acquire skills on the dictionary functionality (like the spelling and grammar fo the MS-Word) for the organization with just 8 months to implement the project as per schedule.

Environment:-

• C/Windows SDK For Windows 3.11.

• Windows 3.11.

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