Arulbalan Ganesan, PMP

Objective:

To take up a challenging and exciting career in the project management, in a reputed concern like yours, where I can be a key player, making an important contribution to the financial health and strategy of the company.

Summary:

Over 12+ years (6+ years overseas) working for IT Industry on multiple domains as Programmer, Consultant, Project Leader, and Project Manager. Successfully held managerial roles in both small and medium projects. Projectsare focused on web-enabled databaseapplications, Client-server applications, Application migration and Product development.

Project Management: More than three years of hands-on experience in handling project management cycle right from planning, creating, implementing and closing out projects in professional manner. Have workedwithdifferent nationalities in ensuring that business improvement initiatives are professionally managed from initiation to delivery and integrated into operational support.

Communication: Experienced in presenting to large audiences, executive staff, and board of directors on problem analysis and strategic plans; developed material and presented to board of executives.

Knowledge Sharing: Actively involved in giving technical presentations and developing team members in the areas of management and technology.

Professional Membership / Certification:

-Project Management Institute Member

-PMI Certified in February 2006

Organizations worked for

GFT TECHNOLOGIES (INDIA) PVT., LTD., TRICHY Oct.2004 - till date

Project Manager

BRUNEI SHELL PETROLEUM SDN BHD., BRUNEI Jan.2003 –Sep.2004

System Analyst

BRAINWAAVE SOLUTIONS INC., USA Nov.2000 – Aug.2002

Software Consultant

SYNERGY LOG-IN SYSTEMS SDN BHD., MALAYSIA Jul.1997 – Oct.2000

Project Leader

PENTAFOUR PRODUCTS LTD., INDIA Jul.1995 – Jun.1997

EDP Executive

RCC, ANNAUNIVERSITY, CHENNAI, INDIA Jun.1993 – Jun.1995

System Trainee

Career progress:(Reverse chronological order)
1. Company: GFT Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd.,Trichy, India.
Tenure: October 2004 to till date.
Position: Project Manager
  • Responsible for Project and product delivery.
  • Involved in Project planning, Project Execution, Monitoring and controlling, Closing project and team building activities.
  • Managed various applications (web-based database and non-database applications, Content management, and Client-server applications) from planning to delivery phase.
  • Currently managing the product development (GFT Inspire Product – BPM- Workflow management) has more than 20+ team members.
  • Reporting to Operational Director

2. Company: Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. SDN BHD.,Brunei Darussalam.
Tenure: January 2003 to September 2004.
Position: System Analyst
  • Involved in the new web based development projects (design, development, testing, Implementation).
  • Responsible for supporting and maintaining Surface Engineering Portfolio applications(TQS, DOLAR, EC,PAS,ART,CPD )
  • Responsible for preparing implementation procedures, resource allocation, project planning, design specification for the new projects.
  • Actively involved in technical evaluation and deployment preparation for the third party application tools.
  • Experienced working with Project Planning tool(Primavera P3e), PI Client Application Interface.
  • Experienced in Group Infrastructure Desktop Environment.(GI-D)
  • Technical Environment : MS .NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Project Planning Tool ( P3E ), JavaScript, Business Objects, PowerBuilder , MSSQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i, Unix Shell Scripting.

3. Company: Brainwaave Solutions Inc., LA, CA, USA.
Tenure: December 2000 to August 2002.
a. Client : Aquila Inc., Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Tenure: December 2001 to May 2002.
Role : Sr. Analyst Programmer - Oracle Migration Team
  • Responsible for migrating front-end and back-end objects.
  • Responsible for creating stored procedures, packages, triggers and cursors in the Oracle database.
  • Responsible for migrating T-SQL Scripts to PL/SQL Scripts.
  • Responsible for testing the migrated objects.
  • Involved in resolving Technical Issues during migration.
  • Technical Environment: PowerBuilder 7.0, MSSql Server 2000, Oracle 8i, Sun OS / 2000 Clients, MS Visual Source Safe.

b. Client : Medimpact health care systems, San Diego, California, USA.
Tenure:December 2000 to October 2001.
Role : Sr. Analyst Programmer –Application Development Team
  • Part of the development team responsible for Med manager and MMupdate application maintenance releases.
  • Part of the development team responsible for migrating the applications from PowerBuilder 6.0 to PowerBuilder 7.0
  • Part of the development team responsible for creating stored procedures, packages, triggers , cursors and Pro *C programs in the oracle database.
  • Part of the development team responsible for resolving technical issues, new enhancements, developing new modules, technical-support, trouble shooting user problems, specifications and requirement negotiation and design.
  • Technical Environment: PowerBuilder 7.0, Oracle 8i, Pro *C, C++, UNIX Shell Programming, Sun OS/ NT Clients, Star Team and Visio.

4. Company: Synergy Log-in Systems Sdn Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tenure: July 1997 to November 2000.
a. Client : Time Telekom sdn bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tenure: June1999 to November 2000
Role : Technical Team Lead and DB Admin(Dev)
  • Responsible for resolving technical issues, new enhancements, developing new modules, technical-support, trouble shooting user problems, specifications and requirement negotiation, design and implementation.
  • Responsible for creating and tracking of project timelines using MS Project, develop project tasks for direct reports.
  • Development activities included hardware and network specification, installation and configuration, and participation in database design, architecture and SQL scripting.
  • Maintenance activities include 24 x 7 database administration, database optimization/tuning, database updates.
  • Creation and maintenance of a comprehensive set of production support and troubleshooting documentation for operations personnel.
  • Responsible for maintaining the ARBOR/BP Billing System.
  • Technical Environment: PowerBuilder 6.5, Sybase Server XI, Visual C++, Unix & C, Shell Scripting, PVCS,HP Unix , Dynix Server and NT Server and Client.

b. Client : Securities Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tenure:January1999 to June 1999.
Role : Technical Team Lead and Database Administrator
  • Responsible for resolving technical issues, developing new modules, technical-support, trouble shooting user problems, specifications and requirement negotiation, design and implementation.
  • Responsible for creating and tracking of project timelines using MS Project, develop project tasks for direct reports.
  • Responsible for migrating the application from PowerBuilder 5.0 to PowerBuilder 6.5.
  • Daily support, troubleshooting, monitoring, optimization and tuning of server and SQL server environments across the entire system.
  • Development of automated daily, weekly, monthly system maintenance tasks such as database backup, replication verification, database integrity verification and indexing updates.
  • Technical Environment : PowerBuilder 6.5(Distributed Computing), Sybase XI, Rational Rose ( use case), UML, PVCS, Sun OS and NT Clients

C. Client : Amana Saham MICTPG, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tenure: August 1998 to December 1998.
Role : Team Lead and Database Developer
  • As a Team lead responsible for resolving technical issues, new enhancements, developing new modules, technical-support, trouble shooting user problems, specifications and requirement negotiation, design and implementation.
  • As a DB developer responsible for database optimization / tuning database updates..
  • Technical Environment: PowerBuilder 5.0, Oracle 7.3, C++, NT Server and Clients.

d. Client : Time Telekom sdn bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tenure: July1997 to July 1998
Role : Technical Team Lead and DB Admin(Dev)
  • Responsible for resolving technical issues, new enhancements, developing new modules, technical-support, trouble shooting user problems, specifications and requirement negotiation, design and implementation.
  • Responsible for migrating the application from PowerBuilder 5.0 to PowerBuilder 6.5.
  • Responsible for creating and tracking of project timelines using MS Project develop project tasks for direct reports.
  • Development activities included participation in database design, architecture and SQL Scripting.
  • Maintenance activities include 24 X 7 database administration, database optimization / tuning database updates.
  • Responsible for maintaining the ARBOR/BP Billing System.
  • Technical Environment : PowerBuilder 6.5,5.0, Sybase XI, Visual C++, Unix & C, Shell Scripting, PVCS,HP Unix , Dynix Server and NT Clients.

5. Company: Pentafour Products Limited, Tamil Nadu, India..
Tenure: June 1995 to June 1997.
Position: EDP Executive
  • Part of the development team responsible for resolving technical issues, new enhancements, developing new modules, technical-support, trouble-shooting user problems, specifications and requirement negotiation and design.
  • As a system executive responsible for maintaining the Payroll Information system, Bill of material, Stores management system.
  • As a system executive responsible for developing, testing and implementing the Financial accounting system (Establishment).
  • Part of the development team responsible for creating stored procedures, triggers and T-SQL scripts in the Sybase.
  • Part of the development team involved in resolving Technical Issues during development and testing.
  • Technical Environment: PowerBuilder 4.0, Sybase 4, FoxPro 2.5, Novell Netware.

6. Company: RamanujanComputingCenter, Anna university, Chennai, India.
Tenure: June 1993 to May 1995.
Position: System Trainee, Applications
  • Part of the development team responsible for resolving technical issues, new enhancements, developing new modules, technical-support, specifications and requirement negotiation and design.
  • Part of the application development team responsible for developing Application evaluation system, resource management system
  • Part of the application development team responsible for testing the applications.
  • Part of the application development team involved in resolving Technical Issues during development and testing.
  • Technical Environment : Unix & C, Shell and Awk Scripting, Ingres, Sybase, HP Unix server / node

Academics

Masters in Computer Science ( MSc)

BharathidasanUniversity, Trichirapalli, India.

Class: First

Jun’1991 – May’1993

Technical skills:
Languages : ASP.NET, VB.NET, Unix(Shell Programming) & C, Visual C++
Operating System : Windows 9x/ NT/XP/2000, UNIX/DYNIX, Sun Solaris.
Integration Technology : XML
Web / Application Server : Tomcat 5.0.28.
Development Tools :PowerBuilder 4.0,5.0,6.5,7.0,8.0/PFC
Reporting Tools : Business Objects
Tools /IDE : VS .Net
Database : Oracle 8i,7.3,MS SQL Server 2000, Sybase XI, 4.0, MySQL 4.1
Configuration Management : PVCS, Win CVS.
UML Tool : Visio (Sequence diagrams)
Project management Tools : MS Project, Primavera P3E
Personal Information
Name: Arulbalan Ganesan
Contact Information:
Current Address:
G. Arulbalan
GFT Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd,
95, Bharathidasan Salai,
Cantonment, Trichy
India - 620001
Phone:
Mobile: (91)-94432 34206
(91)-93451 13202
Primary Email:

Secondary Email:

Passport No:
Z1686643 Valid until 2014

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