TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT
EDF Energy
Total years of experience :6 years, 4 Months
EDF Energy
TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT 2012
• Designed, demonstrated and explored strategic areas of impact with regards to the Smart Meter program and devised means to improve EDF's bottom line by 0.5 billion GBP.
• Led a team of 4 consultants to analyse the current operational structure at EDF and recommend crucial
change management initiatives to synergize and integrate parallel business functions.
• Explored the future impact of Smart Meters through consultations with diverse stakeholders to address
improvements in internal operations (demand-supply balancing), highlight potential areas of impact based on future trends in smart metering.
Blackbelt Defense Co. Ltd
STRATEGY CONSULTANT 2012
• Pioneered a detailed market analysis to explore future geographical areas of interest for the introduction of a path breaking security application for the Android, Blackberry and iPhone market.
• Devised a detailed 5 year roadmap detailing the financial benefits, brand positioning, and necessity of resource planning and impact on the bottom line to capture a majority stake in the market.
• Identified key risks in their current strategy and made strategic recommendations including diversification to other potential market sectors along with an operating structure to best utilize their limited resources.
LEAD CONSULTANT/SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT Aug 2010 to Oct 2011
Agile workflow based project
• Handled agile workflow based project with significant benefits to the client in terms of reporting and monitoring performance of a bouquet of 56 applications.
• Awarded the 'Extra Mile' award for contributions far beyond expectations and the ability to take up additional responsibilities along with those of my team of 3 software analysts.
• Created opportunities to extend the project over 2 more phases based on my team's current performance
that was worth more than $200000.
• Interviewed 3 team members and mentored them over a period of 1 year regarding solutions engineering,
delivery and deployment.
SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT -AT&T Jan 2010 to Aug 2010
Managing cross functional teams and realizing value engineering solutions
• Analyzed critical areas of cost overruns; designed and implemented cost savings of 10% (~$100000) through IT process change management and automated execution (testing & deployment) that improved
operational efficiencies by 9 days.
• Led a team to coordinate with 7 teams and collated information to engineer solutions that were compatible and scalable through each project cycle.
• Designed and implemented a portal to monitor the progress of these implementations (7 test suites with over 25 modules each - monitoring 7 different areas of process in a customer billing cycle)
SENIOR CLIENT FACILITATOR -SwissRe Insurance Mar 2009 to Jan 2010
Identifying core areas of improvement
• Redefined existing systems and devised new solutions to engage critical areas of improvement in the currently deployed solutions.
• Actively engaged clients to better utilize CRM data while having adapted to a new technological domain with complex implementation procedures.
TECHNICAL TEAM LEAD -ING INSURANCE JULY 2008 TO MAR 2009
Supervising and designing procedures of operation to create synergy
• Coordinated and collaborated with 3 different vendors from Greece, Hungary and Sweden through redesign of a process flow.
• Expedited the deployment and supervision of all systems related to a customer information portal -
involved cross functional interaction with 4 diverse divisions of the company.
SOLUTIONS ENGINEER AND CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS ANALYST MAR 2007 TO JULY 2008
Handling multiple responsibilities
• Provided active consultations at the client location (UK) towards the design and development of over 27
websites in a content management system (CMS-Mediasurface) out of which a few have won awards for the best corporate/product websites.
• Engaged in client interactions with various product and corporate level heads and technical analysts to understand and capture expectations before designing solutions.
• Delegated and mentored 5 team members to ensure synchronized delivery of 2-3 websites every week that
qualify through stringent quality standards defined in the SLA.
REQUIREMENTS ANALYST/ MODULE LEAD JAN 2006 TO MAR 2007
Performance driven project model
• Designed and implemented an IT operating model to replace a legacy system that earned a €25, 000 bonus.
• Accomplished a system design that delivered 60% better performance than the SLA benchmarks.
• Led requirements mapping, status tracking and data migration initiatives to enable efficient progress
tracking.
• Designed and developed the complete integration of a regional subsidiary system with the global sports
marketing and contract system during interaction with the client at adidas HQ, Germany.
MBA (Full Time) - Lancaster University, UK Oct 2011 - Sep 2012 (Specialization - Strategy and Consulting)
Bachelors in Engineering (70%) Kerala University, India Jul 2001 - Jun 2005 (Specialization - Electrical & Electronics)