Balakrishna Das Das, Sr. Solution Architect and Project Manager

Balakrishna Das Das

Sr. Solution Architect and Project Manager

Auberon Technology LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
23 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 9 Months

Sr. Solution Architect and Project Manager at Auberon Technology LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • June 2012 to July 2017

Role & Achievements:
• Engaged in end-to-end Program Planning and implementation along with the project director and prepared resource & training plan for the new resources, implementation plan and tentative schedule; also involved in recruitment of new resources and preparation of budgeting & cash flow for the program
• Solution Architect and Technical Delivery Lead for the design and delivery of IT Infrastructure, based on business requirements; worked in collaboration with the Infrastructure team for client approval & deployment
• Identified project issues & risks in a timely manner, and developed an appropriate mitigation & contingency plan, which was finalized by the project director and client for implementation
• Actively participated in technical reviews on project status with senior management & client project manager; presented weekly project progress reviews to executive leadership; reports included status on budget and schedule variance as well as compliance to requirements
• Led the preparation of a development team model to support the Off shore-On site Implementation Team and suggested the management to go with a mix of off shore-on site team that led to reduce operational cost while improving time to market and quality of delivery
• Facilitated External IT Audit of the system for Access matrix (SoD), Software release process, Support process, Infrastructure maintenance process by Deloitte for process improvement
• Defined Roadmaps for continuous improvement of the systems including Standardization, Integration & Upgrade
• Presentation to prospective customers for sales team, RFP preparation and submission

Sr. Project Leader at DUBAL (EGA)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2004 to February 2012

Role & Achievements:
• Ensured successful implementation of Microsoft Share point portal for intranet and migration of legacy Intranet documents to share point portal.
• Led the development of a Customer Portal for tracking sales orders running on IBM Web sphere using Java/J2EE
• Successfully migrated IBM AS400 based HR applications such as Gate Pass System, Passport Control System, and Letter Request System to Web application using Java/J2EE
• Directed and coordinated activities related to SAP HR System Integration for Web applications with the Deloitte SAP implementation team
• Implementation of SAP DMS for maintaining project documents
• Development of corporate website with a vendor partner

• Administered all activities related to the segregation of duty (SoD) for custom developed applications and ensure compliance to the audit requirement of ISO-20000 and ISMS certification

Web Consultant at DUBAL (EGA)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2002 to June 2004

• Worked on migration of suggestion scheme application, a legacy application developed using oracle forms 6.0 and oracle database 8.0, to a web application running on IBM web sphere using Java/J2EE
• Implemented IBM directory server and integration with Web Sphere application server to achieve security configuration at application server level and remove security programming requirement in the application
• Spearheaded the design & development of applications to ensure process improvements; developed an application for Asset Disposal Management and an application for Warehouse to facilitate Material Master amendment
• Engaged in the upgrade of Web Sphere Application Server from 5.1 to 6.1 and configure cluster environment to ensure high availability
• Conducted technical training to the team on Java/J2EE and IBM Web Sphere Development

Sr. Software Engineer at SERANOVA, India
  • India - Hyderabad
  • April 2000 to May 2002

Role & Achievements:
• Proposed E-business solution options for USA based clients from finance and travel & hospitality industry. Involved in the development of E-business solutions
• Solution Architect for development of a product for content management using service oriented technology (SoA)
• Created and demonstrated Proof of Concepts (PoC) using mobile technology for the sales team
• Worked with sales team to prepare technical solution and proposal for RFPs

Scientific Officer at National Informatics Center, Govt. Of India, Ministry of IT
  • India - Bhopal
  • December 1991 to July 1998

Role & Achievements:
• Worked as a Head of a divisional office, and ensured smooth functioning of district offices under the division.
• Coordinated the implementation of various systems of Govt. of India and State Government at district level to monitor various projects and schemes. There were around 50 government departments and agencies who were using NIC systems
• Vendor management for maintenance of systems to ensure system availability and up time of more than 95% from below 70%
• Conducted training to different state and central departments on effective use of systems

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at IBS Hyderabad
  • March 2000

Key subjects include, Project Management, Total Quality Management, Finance Management, Operations management, Organizational Behaviour, International management, etc.

Master's degree, Computers and Information Science
  • at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra Ranchi
  • August 1990

Some of the key subjects include, Software Project Management, Artificial Intelligence, Microprocessor Applications, Database Management System, System Analysis and design, etc.

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Specialties & Skills

Websphere
Conducting User Training (Related to project)
Project Planning
Presentation (to Stack holders at management level, prospective customers)
Development (using web technologies)
Business Requirement Analysis and Translating to Technical solutions)
Web Services
Ehereum
Solidity
Blockchain
Hyperledger
NodeJS, NPM, Bootstrap, Angular JS
Java/J2EE
Spring Framework
Development Using Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL
OPC Integration Technology

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Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Ethereum and Solidity: The Complete Developer's Guide. (Training)
Training Institute:
Udemy.com
Date Attended:
September 2018
Duration:
24 hours
IBM Blockchain Foundation for Developers (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2018
Share Point Development – Advanced Techniques (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft Training Partner
Duration:
48 hours
Oracle 9i – New Features for Developers (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle, UAE
Duration:
24 hours
Object Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML & Fundamentals of Rational Rose (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM, India
Duration:
48 hours
Project Management- PMBOK 4th Edition (Training)
Training Institute:
IIPM, India
Duration:
35 hours
• MOC 2279 (Customized) Planning, Implementation & Maintaining A Microsoft Windows Server 2003 AD (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2004
• SUN Certified Programmer (Java 2 Platform 1.4) from SUN Microsystems (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2005
• IT Service Management - ISO/IEC 20000 from EXIN (Examination Institute For Information Science) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
Certified SCRUM Master (SCM) from SCRUM Alliance (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2012

Hobbies

  • Reading on New Technology Trends