Ganesh Prasad

Jan 2005 - March 2012 Lead Solution Architect
Aon Projects
Role Description: Providing solutions to multiple projects with Technologies ranging from Microsoft to Oracle and IBM products. Enhancing the applications to enable the exchanging of business messages between Aon and external trading partners in ACORD terms..
My responsibilities as a Solution Architect are
• Architecture governance
• To provide technical leadership, authority and support for allocated applications / projects to ensure their ongoing technical "health" maintaining its compatibility with IT strategy intact
• To work with other Architects to ensure that solutions that Logica provide to Aon are appropriate, of high quality, consistent across applications and fit within the defined IT Strategy, Principles and Standards
• To guide business analysts to produce assessments containing high level technical solution and estimates for those solutions
• To work with Testing team to produce meaningful test strategy and test cases
• To work with infrastructure team to educate the team about ongoing projects and help them assessing impact of infrastructure initiatives
• To work with project managers to provide technical representations for the internal management as well as external stake holders
• To work with Configuration mgt to keep track of the code bases and measure its evolution
• Providing Technical guidance throughout SDLC of a project
• Providing System architecture
• Providing inputs for the utilization of environments for testing
• Configuration management
• Providing solutions when there is a conflict between projects
• Overall technical management.

Some key projects Aon UK
ECM
Project Description: Aon UK has a document repository in a old filenet version. There about 28 million documents that are used bu Aon for its day to day business. This document repository had several performance issues. To cope up with that Aon decided to migrate these documents to File.net P4 version. Logica is implementing this migration along with HP. I am providing architecture guidance to this initiative by coordinating with HP and Aon architects

Technology -
WAS 6.1
WAS 6.1 Feature packs for EJB3 and Web Services
Filenet application version 4.5.0
ETL (informatica)

Aon UK
EACCOUNTS
Project Description: eAccounts is an initiative where the London Market Reform Group in association with XIS, is implementing electronic processing using agreed ACORD messaging guidelines within the London Market. Aon UK currently processes premium transactions manually with XIS. For eAccounts Logica has enhanced Aon UK core business systems to meet the essential requirements of eAccounts. A new application has also been built to manage and control the electronic release of transactions to XIS along with documents. Logica also led Aon to get ACORD certified for eAccounts- first in London Market.

Technology - implementation was done on various technologies like J2EE, Mainframes, dotNET and hosted on IBM WebSphere Application severs and Microsoft IIS servers. Messages are handled and processed using IBM Websphere message brokers. The electronic messages or transactions are designed to conform to ACORD RLC (Reinsurance Large Commercials) standard for business messages and ACORD DRI (Document Repository Interoperability) standard for document transmissions

Aon UK
Elpan2

Barry-Wehmiller Inc
Oct 2004 - Dec 2004 Team Leader
MAPIC -R7 Installation & Configuration Manufacturing
Project Description: I worked as a MAPICS consultant. It involved setting up the new iSeries with MAPICS R7 and its client products like Power-Link. I restored MAPICS R4 environments from their old machine to new iSeries and did a CISC -RISC conversion. Later these environments were migrated to MAPICS R7 environments.

Technology
MAPICS R7, MAPICS R4, AS/400 i5 series, J2EE

Barry-Wehmiller Inc
Sept 2004 - Dec 2004 Team Leader
Mastercraft Shipment Schedule Mastercraft
Project Description: This project is generating XML based application to interact with MAPICS ERP located on the iSeries server and integrate the MAPICS modules with the web application.
I worked in the capacity of a project manager monitoring a team working on this and ensuring that the project conforms to ISO process and also customer interaction right from proposal generation stage to project sign off
Technology
MAPICS R7, J2EE 1.3, XML, Struts, WebSphere Application Server v5.0, IBM DB2 V8.1

Barry-Wehmiller Inc
July 2003 - May 2004 Team Leader Accraply
Production Scheduling
Project Description: This application was designed to automate the generation of Production schedule reports. Earlier these reports were done using Excel sheets. The new application takes the input from a Excel document and stores it to the application database. On regular intervals the application fetches manufacturing data from MAPICS for the item numbers fed by excel sheet and populates the application database. The application also provide GUI to manipulate various data related to Manufacturing and allows to generate reports on Crystal 9
I worked in the capacity of a project leader involving all t stages. The application runs on WebSphere application server V5.0 on Linux redhat residing in a logical partition of iSeries. The development has been done using WebSphere studio application developer -Integration Edition v5.0. The backend is DB2 V8.1
Technology
Design Patterns, J2EE 1.3, Struts, WebSphere Application Server v5.0, IBM DB2 V8.1

Barry -Wehmiller Inc
July 2003 - May 2004 Technical Leader
Mapics R7 Pilot
Project Description: MAPICS is an ERP product for manufacturing companies which runs on AS/400.Till R6 version MAPICS was based on small talk architecture and was accessible over green screen only. MAPICS R7 is based on java architecture and makes full use of benefits of java language. Now mapics can be accessed and operated over variety of clients like green screen, browser or mobile components
My role was involved in preparation of a white paper for implementation approaches to Mapics R7.I was responsible in implementation and testing of Mapics R7 with its three interfaces -Power Link which is a thick client interface, Net Link which is a web browser interface and System link which is the XML interface for the various applications to integrate Mapics with them.
Technology

Mapics R7 on AS/400-820 I-Series, J2EE

Softwatch SDN Bhd
Aug 2002 - Jun 2003 Technical Lead Aviation
KLM Equipment Services

Project Description: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines manages its ground service at airports through its sister concern KLM Equipment Services. The project is aimed at providing a complete web enabled application with a robust database at the backend.
The application is developed using J2EE technologies with MVC architecture. It also make use of Jakarta Struts. Application runs on a WebSphere application server. Application makes use of JSP and applets at the front end.
My role involved in contributing to the analysis and Design models in terms of analysing the usecases, finalizing state and interaction diagrams, Framework Architecture. At the coding perspective I am involved in developing in all the layers i.e. JSP-Action-PF-Session Bean-Entity Bean (CMP) .I am also responsible for generating reports needed by the application by integrating the third party reporting tool with the application
Technology
EJB2.0, Servlets, JSP, on WebSphere Application Server 4.0 With DB2 UDB 7.0 as backend