V. NAGARAJESWARA RAO, PMP
Flat No :A, Block No : C, Ground Flr,
4/360, Sri Jayendra Colony, Phone : 91 - 44 - 24480270 (Res.)
Old Mahabalipuram Rd, 98400-34787(M)
Kottivakkam, Email :
Chennai - 600 096
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
· Having around 9 yrs of experience in the IT industry Including over 1yr. GLOBAL Experience
· Involved in effective project Management and complete software development life cycle viz. Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Debugging and Implementation.
· Worked for fortune clients mainly into Financial domain for GECF, FDMS, GUARDIAN, DTC, NDC, FDMS and BELL ATLANTIC
· Possessing Good Project Management, Communication, Leadership skills and high level of motivation.
· Successfully executed the projects in offshore-onsite model with high level of commitment, mentoring and team building activities.
· Received ‘Annual Best team Award’ for two consecutive years 2004 and 2005 at corporate level.
ASPIRATION
· Aspiring to explore opportunities and prove myself in Techno-Managerial areas at Global locations by successfully managing and leading teams thereby catering to the organization’s interest as well as deriving job satisfaction.
CERTIFICATIONS
· Completed Project Management Professional certification from Project Management Institute, USA
· Completed Patni-GE internal Green Belt Certification by adopting Six Sigma Methodology
· Completed Patni Internal Quality Auditor Certification and participated in CMMi assessment
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
· Currently working as Software Specialist with PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS, Chennai in Project Managerial role Since March 2001, a CMMi-LEVEL 5 Certified Company dealing with many fortune companies globally.
· Worked as "Programmer Analyst" with "SILVERLINE TECHNOLOGIES LTD", Chennai from May 1997 to March 2001, a CMM-LEVEL 4 Certified company.
EDUCATION
· Possessing Master of Science Degree in Geology with 75% from SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY passed in June 1996.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
HARDWARE : IBM ES/9000, S/390.
OPERATING SYSTEMS : MVS, MS-DOS, WINDOWS 98/2000/XP
LANGUAGES : VS COBOL II, COBOL/370, JCL, SQL
ACCESS METHODS : VSAM
DBMS : DB2, IDMS
OLTPS : CICS, TSO
UTILITIES/TOOLS : QMF, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, SYNCSORT, XPEDITER, NDM, SPUFI,
INFOMAN, CA-SCHEDULER, CHANGEMAN, LIBRARIAN,
PAN-VALET, DATA PROPAGATOR, APC
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Overseas:
· For Guardian Life Insurance at NY, USA, as an OSC was responsible for maintenance of
“Enterprise Group Data warehouse” system and also responsible for coordination b/n client and offshore team
· For GE-Corporate at Fort Myers, USA, as an Analyst was responsible for feasibility study of
Integrating GE Corporate and Honeywell systems
· For NDC at New Jersey, USA as OSC responsible for system study and maintenance of Custom
Enhancement Project also responsible for coordination b/n client and offshore team
Domestic:
· For GE Consumer Finance at Patni, Chennai as a Project Manager responsible for leading team size of around 35 for Core Settlements and Exxon Settlements projects.
· For GE Appliances at Patni, Chennai as a Project Leader was responsible for leading a team size
of 6 and successful enhancement of a project GE-ETERNA
· For NDC,USA at Silverline, Chenai as a Module Leader was responsible for successful
development of a project PRARAOH
· For FDMS, USA at Silveline, Chennai as an Analyst was responsible for feasibility study of
FDMS Systems
· For NDC, USA at Silverline Chennai, as Technical Team lead responsible for Maintenance of a
project NDC-Custom Enhancement.
· For FDMS, USA at Silverline, Chennai as a Team member involved in successfully making
FDMS System Year 2000 compliant
· For Depository Trust Company, USA at Silverline, Chennai as team member involved in
Successful Development and implementation of Institutional Delivery Reporting System
· For BELLATLANTIC, USA at Silverline, Chenai as a team member involved in maintenance of
Customized User Billing Interface System
PROJECT DETAILS :
Project : EXXON & CORE SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS
Client: GE Consumer Finance, USA.
Duration: July 2002 - Till date
Platform: OS/390, COBOL, IDMS, JCL, VSAM
Tools & Utilities: FILE-AID, XPEDITOR, APC
GE Consumer finance is in the business of providing Credit Card and other financial services to leading retailers across the US and Canada. These services span the entire range of Own-label credit card processing services ranging from receiving and processing credit card applications to generating invoices and processing accounts receivable and settlements.
Settlement processing system acts as front-end collection, processing and routing mechanism of transactions. Settlement systems receives data from online entry, paper tickets as well as point of sale (in store) for the purpose of customer settlements. The objective of offshore support is to assist Client in maintenance / enhancements to the system like total settlement amount calculation by processing sales and return amounts, adding up of new client, deleting of new client, validating of settlements with promotions etc.
Role
Project Manager
Responsibilities
· Work Scheduling, Planning and Estimation
· Capacity analysis and Resource Management
· Requirements gathering, Design and work authorization
· Change control Management
· Metrics creation and analysis of project progress
· Monitoring and Controlling the project to be 100% compliant with committed SLs to Client
· Leading and Mentoring the teams towards to successful completion of deliverables
· Interacting with Business Team for status reporting and planning
· Participating Internal Audits as Auditor/Auditee
Project : ENTERPRISE INFORMATION GROUP DATA WAREHOUSE
Client: Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America, USA.
Duration: Jan 2002 – June 2002
Platform: OS/390, COBOL, DB2, JCL,
Tools & Utilities: QMF, FILE-AID DB2, SPUFI, DATA PROPAGETOR, DATA
REFRESHER, BMC COPY, DSNTEP2, DSNTIAUL, CHANGEMAN
Guardian is the fourth largest mutual life insurance company in the United States With over 2,600 financial representatives in 107 agencies, provides almost three million people with life and disability income insurance, retirement services and investment products such as mutual funds, securities, variable life insurance and variable annuities. Guardian supplies employee benefits programs to five million participants, including life, health and dental insurance, as well as qualified pension plans.
The scope of the project is to maintain Enterprise information Management Group Data Warehouse that is developed in DB2. The data regarding to Plans and plan holders, Premiums, Commissions, members and it's dependents information and claims information will be taken from different systems and loaded into db2 tables on a daily basis in order to keep this data warehouse as central pool for all the system that needs feed. Apart from this some of the extract files will be created to outside vendors upon their request for particular plan numbers.
Role
Onsite Coordinator
Responsibilities
· Maintenance of Group Data warehouse
· Creating of extract files depending on vendor’s request.
· Unload and load of data into Warehouse tables whenever Propagator fails to load the data into tables.
· Enhancement to Member Dependent subject area in order to finalize the insurance coverage for dependents based on dependent’s age.
· Impact analysis for changes in the Business / System Requirements for member/Dependent area
· Coding, Unit, System, and Integration testing
· Status reporting to the customer.
· Coordination b/n offshore and the client
Project : GE APPLIANCES - ETERNA
Client: GE , USA.
Duration: Sep 2001 - Dec 2001
Platform: Bull Mainframe, COBOL, JCL,DM8
GE Appliances is in the business of manufacturing home appliances like refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, cooking ranges, microwave ovens etc. For all of these products GE Appliances deals with the Customer Net and Parts applications to process and maintain its sales, inventory etc.
The Scope of the enhancements are aimed at seamless integration of Eterna Order Management where the orders are being placed on phone currently, with the Customer Net Application. These enhancements will provide Eterna customers a web based application with increased availability for placing orders. For GE Appliances this system will bring in the benefits such as digitization of ordering process for Eterna customers, reduced telephone support and improving overall efficiency of the ordering process
Role
Project Leader
Responsibilities
· Analysis of the requirements and distribution of work to the team members
· Technical guidance to the team members.
· Analysis, coding and testing of the programs
· Coordinating with OSC and Client to resolve issues as and when required
· Peer review and ensure high Quality deliverable
· Participating in periodic meetings with PM so as to plan and update project status.
· Project monitoring and control
Project : GE CORPORATE -HONEYWELL INTEGRATION
Client: GE , USA.
Duration: Apr 2001 -June 2001
Platform: OS/390, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, LIBRARIAN
General Electric Corporate system deals with the Accounts that are payable to all the GE clients . GE Corporate was supposed to acquire the Honeywell system. Hence GE Corporate wanted to introduce all the Honeywell entities into the current corporate system. The scope of the project included feasibility study of bringing Honeywell Accounts system into GE Corporate system.
Role
Analyst at Client site
Responsibilities
· System Study of both Honeywell and GE system
· Documenting the system flow .
Project : NDC - PHARAOH Development
Client: National Data Corporation, USA.
Duration: March 2000 -February 2001
Platform: OS/390, COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SYNCSORT,
XPEDITOR, FILE-AID, INFOMAN, LIBRARIAN
NDC Health Information Services is a fully owned subsidiary of National Data Corporation. It gathers Data from data agents, pharmacies, drug store chains and health care providers from individual practitioners to hospitals and large HMOs - to give its customers, primarily the health care manufacturers, information on which to base their business decisions. NDC-Pharaoh is a Product that allows clients to view the most complete and timely source of pharmaceutical sales information across all therapeutics areas, geographies, classes of trade and manufacturers. Pharaoh Provides online access to the source retail and non-retail databases for purposes of analyzing drug sales trends across geographies, manufacturers and classes of trade and determining the influence of managed care in each segment. Pharaoh is used for determining new market licensing, acquisition and R&D opportunities, evaluating co-promoting effectiveness, forecasting and tracking new product launches. NDC offers this product to its customers, which allows for consistent data across the customer's users and acts as a "one stop shop" for data needs.
Role
Module leader
Responsibilities
· In depth Analysis of the request and sizing of the task
· Preparing Program Specifications for new code
· Coding, Unit testing and system testing
· Preparation of Unit test data, Unloading DB2 table for test data, UTC and test plans.
· Reviewing and providing Technical support to the team members.
· Co-ordination between On-site and Off shore team,
· Involved in peer reviews as an IQA member
Project : FDMS - Feasibility study
Client: First Data Merchant Services, USA
Duration: Dec'1999 to Feb'2000
Platform: MVS/ESA , COBOL, JCL, VISIO PROFESSIONAL,FILE-AID
The study aimed at identifying the technical feasibility of having one IT software platform to meet the business needs of FDMS. The team had the responsibility to study both South and North (USA) IT software components and to recommend a design plan to evaluate the following options based on:
a) The cost of conversion effort for migrating from South to North or vice versa.
b) The best-fit solution among the two.
This was done by 2 methods Business modeling and Process modeling. The offshore team helped the onsite team with the process modeling. This included identifying the differences between South and North, in terms of -
· Execution of programs
· Any special processing steps (e.g. sorting order) any merchant or alliance specific requests in data feeds and MIS outputs.
Role
Analyst
Responsibilities
· In depth Analysis of system functionality, job flow and program
· Design and preparation of process flow
· Participating in review meetings
Project : NDC- Custom Enhancement Project, Maintenance
Client: National Data Corporation, U.S.A
Duration: Mar'1999 to Nov '1999
Platform OS/390, DB2, COBOL/370, VSAM, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID,
INFOMAN, LIBRARIAN, SYNCSORT, PIPESORT
NDC Health Information Services is a fully owned subsidiary of National Data Corporation. It gathers data from data agents, pharmacies, drug store chains and health care providers from individual practitioners to hospitals and large HMOs - to give its customers, primarily the health care manufacturers information on which to base their business decisions like new product launching, determining new market licensing and changing current market license, Sales improvement future investment plans for a particular product & region etc.
Role
Technical Team leader
Onsite Coordinator
Responsibilities
· In depth Analysis of change request and sizing of PCR
· Coding of new programs, JCL’s, Procs, Copybook
· Unit and regression testing, Debugging
· Coordinating with Offshore team when at On-site
· Task allocation, status reporting and Quality Control
Project : FDMS - Y2K
Client: First Data Merchant Services, USA
Duration: Aug’1998 TO Feb’1999
Platform: MVS/ESA, VS COBOL-II,JCL, XPEDITOR, PAN-VALET,
FILE-AID,NDM, MDI VANTAGE Yr 2000, DATAAGER, SAS
FDMS is the world’s largest provider of merchant processing services for VISA and Master Card and other major credit cards in the retail, hospitality, and supermarket, direct marketing and health care industries. Silverline was chosen to do the Year 2000 Compliance project for FDMS application in the South platform totaling 4.1 million lines of code. This involved Impact Analysis, Development of Design Specification for Conversion, Y2KConversion, Regression Testing for Functionality validation and Future Date Testing to validate Year 2000 conversion. Two tools Data Ager and a SAS utility were used for future date testing of this project. These were provided by FDMS. In special cases COBOL programs were written to age the data files
Role
Team Member
Responsibilities
· Impact analysis of code for Y2K conversion
· Coding , unit, Regression and future date testing
· Preparation of unit test data unloading from DB2 tables
· Preparation of UTC and Peer reviews
Project : INSTITUTIONAL DELIVERY REPORTING SYSTEM
Client: DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, USA
Duration: Jan’1998 TO July’1998
Platform: MVS/ESA, DB2, COBOL, JCL, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID
Depository trust company (DTC) deals with municipal and non-Municipal bonds and shares trading, having 45000 brokers, 30000 agents, and 4500institutions.It processes 8-10 million transactions per month