Prakash Shirodkar, Project Lead

Prakash Shirodkar

Project Lead

New Era Technology

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, information technology
Experience
10 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 3 Months

Project Lead at New Era Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2012 to July 2012

Project Lead New Era Technology . Jun 2012 - Till Date
• Application Migration.

Project Lead at Pyramid IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Hyderabad
  • August 2010 to April 2012

Project Lead Pyramid IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd. Aug 2010 - April 2012
• Analyse system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications for team members.
• Develops project communication plans and provide status update to different levels of the organization
• Holds regular meetings with project team and effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors/team. Also, resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion.
• Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database, system design and deals with internet and client/server architectures.
• Provide overall direction and guidance to assigned project team members.
• Manages the development of team by ensuring, when possible, that project tasks are in line with each Innovator's career interests.
• Inspires co-workers to attain goals and pursue excellence.
• Consistently acknowledges and appreciates each team member's contributions and effectively utilizes each team member to his/her fullest potential.
• Motivates team to work together in the most efficient manner and plans and facilitates regular team activities outside of the office for team building.
• Manages day-to-day client interaction. Sets and manages client expectations.
• Communicates effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.
• Conducts effective performance evaluations and mentors those with less experience through formal channels to help team execute career development plans.
• Trains other innovators and clients through both formal and informal training programs.

Senior Delphi Developer at InfoPro India Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Delhi
  • May 2009 to January 2010

Senior Delphi Developer InfoPro India Pvt. Ltd May 2009 - Jan 2010
• Managed limited funding projects assigned by the on-site client.
• Gathered requirements and developed project schedule in MS Project
• Monitored project milestones and critical dates
• Performed user acceptance testing and handled all defects
• Defined and gathered all sign-off approvals from stakeholders
• Created reports and scheduled meetings with stakeholders and vendors on project status
• Created documentation compliance with regulatory guidelines.
• Developed POS Application using Delphi 2007 and MS Sql 2005

Team Lead at NIIT Technologies Ltd
  • India
  • December 2006 to March 2009

Team Lead NIIT Technologies Ltd. Dec 2006 - Mar 2009
• Monitor the daily activities of the team and ensure that deliverables are on schedule.
• Handle scope changes, deviations within agreed upon scope and time lines.
• Play a key role in the development of System Test and Implementation plans, and oversee the execution of those plans. Review and assist in implementation of service change request/enhancement request.
• Involved in writing HLD, LLD, Test cases, Coding, UT, and SIT for the development/enhancement work.
• Liaise with business owner, business users, project owner and different stakeholders for the successful transition of the new processes and finally taken over the system for complete ownership
• Provide business consulting, knowledge expertise to align current business needs with available technology.
• Establish communication procedures; define roles and responsibilities for application development and support.
• Manage and coordinate efforts for development, QA, UAT and production deployment cycles.
• Provide program management for various parallel development efforts.
• Resolve scheduling conflicts.
• Identify project dependencies, risks, assumptions and provided resolution and mitigation plans.
• Assess projects feasibility, participated in requirements elicitation, scope definition and developed projects estimates.
• Assign and monitor tasks for software projects using TFS and MS Project.
• Provide technical mentoring for junior developers, defined standards and guidelines.
• Act as sole point of contact for end users on multiple extranet and intranet applications.
• Prioritize issues, identify problems, and provide immediate resolution for emergency issues, feedback and training.
• Conduct periodic status and on demand meetings with internal team, offshore counterparts, business clients and senior level management. Estimation, Resource Planning, Project Tracking and Project Reporting as part of Project Management.

Planning and assigning task to the team. Reviewing of all the deliverables

Consultant at Patni Computer Systems Limited
  • India
  • December 2005 to October 2006

Consultant Patni Computer Systems Limited Dec 2005 - Oct 2006
• Gathering business requirements.
• Providing Interface solutions.
• Develops the design specifications by translating the functional specification and facilitates the project implementation.
• Responsible for Resource Management, Analysis, Time Estimation, creation / allocation of Task.
• Development, Code Review and Unit testing
• Tracking project development activities
• Direct interaction with the client for status, upcoming developments and resource planning.
• Assign, coordinate, and review work and activities of programming personnel.
• Developing end using Sybase.

Developer at NuNet Technologies Private Limited
  • India
  • January 2005 to November 2005

Developer NuNet Technologies Private Limited. Jan 2005 - Nov 2005
• Design and Development of information system infrastructure, using Delphi /.NET technology, to support and manage Healthcare incidents.
• Created presentation layer using Delphi.
• Coding in Delphi - Front End design and its coding, multithreaded programming and COM development, Delphi Components modifications.
• Interacting with customers and implementing customer's requirements
• Designing Customized reports
• Creating Unit Test Cases and Code Reviews.
• Preparing User Manual and Technical Documentation.

Supervisor at Automobile Corporation of Goa Limited
  • India
  • May 2002 to January 2005

Supervisor Automobile Corporation of Goa Limited. May 2002 - Jan 2005
• Interacting with the end user to understand the user interface /functional requirement design the system and prepare the functional and design specifications Design.
• Involved in the Case study, Analysis, Designing, Development and Testing.
• Design and Development of ERP information system, using Developer 2000 Technology, related to manufacturing activates done
• Sorted out the chaos and ambiguity of information/data from many sources and extracted a concise description of the business.
• Acted as a liaison between the technical and business domain.
• Analyzed the business to identify problems and/or opportunities and to define solution characteristics.
• Clarify the user queries and resolve them by providing solution / data correction.
• Application Tuning to improve the performance.
• Development for enhancement based on user requirement.

Developer at Data Nova India, Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • March 2001 to November 2001

Developer Data Nova India, Pvt Ltd. Mar 2001 - Nov 2001
• Software development using Delphi and Sybase
• Code Review and Unit testing
• Integration of the modules with the Product
• Developing of Fix program.

Education

Master's degree, information technology
  • at Sikkim Manipal University
  • January 2010

2007-2010: M.B.A [Master of Business Administration [IT]] Sikkim Manipal University, India

Diploma, Computer Science
  • at Datapro Information Technology
  • January 1997

1996-1997: Diploma in Computer Science Datapro Information Technologies, Goa, India

Bachelor's degree,
  • at Goa University
  • January 1996

1993-1996: B.A. [Bachelor of Arts] Goa University, India

Specialties & Skills

Budgeting
Software Development
Project Management
Quality Assurance
CLARIFY
CLIENTS
ESTIMATION
MICROSOFT PROJECT
MS PROJECT
TEST CASES
TESTING
TRAINING

Languages

English
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate
Spanish
Beginner
Dutch
Beginner
Portuguese
Beginner

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Valid Until:
October 2011