PRABHU LAKSHMANAN, Consultant

PRABHU LAKSHMANAN

Consultant

Consulting

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Engg
Experience
34 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :34 years, 1 Months

Consultant at Consulting
  • India - Chennai
  • My current job since November 2019

Providing consulting services to organizations to streamline/enhance their IT functions
Engaged with the largest merchandising company (PPMS Field Marketing) in the country which uses cutting-edge field reporting tools to support its operations
• Transitioned maintenance of client’s technology applications from vendor to captive.
• Created an independent technology company to spearhead client’s technology applications and offerings in .Net and mobile technologies
• Built development team from scratch
• Setup development process framework

Founder Director at Spanda Academy
  • India - Chennai
  • October 2018 to October 2019

Created and ran a training academy providing English Language enhancement courses for school children, from 6 to 16 years old. The curriculum focused on Communication, Creativity and Critical Thinking

AVP & Head Software Services Unit and ODC at FSS
  • India - Chennai
  • July 2008 to August 2018

The Software Services Unit provides software development, maintenance and testing services to banks, financial institutions and payments products companies and service providers, in the US, Europe, APAC and Middle East
• Successfully lead large relationships for different clients involving Payment Switch (BASE24, EPOC) and Card Management (Issuance) systems
• Managed large accounts P&L involving INR 65 Crore (US$ 10M)
• Increased revenue through mining and customer acquisitions and developed competency and execution on new switches and technologies
• Enable large deals by providing sales teams with customer intelligence and pre-sales reports and created Value Propositions by leveraging Payment Domain Knowledge
• Define technology/service offerings to support/develop new opportunities by developing competencies in .Net Technologies offering secondary services
• New product development in the areas of Card Control and Payments Security (Tokenization)

Project Manager at HSBC Software Development India Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • February 2008 to June 2008

HBME IT Operations Disaster Recovery Plan
• Involved in DR proving exercise carried on servers hosting the UAE operations
• Prepared and executed detailed role swap plan coordinating tasks across,
geographically spread out, 30 different teams

Program Manager - iSeries projects at Barry Wehmiller International Resources
  • India - Chennai
  • November 2005 to January 2008

• Led and program-managed project teams
• Established and oversaw the overall development plan and delivery schedule including scope, risk and change management to meet schedule, budget and quality criteria
• Carried out competitive analysis, responded to RFI and RFP Estimation, analysis, design and planning of similar future projects/releases

Project Lead at Syntel Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • April 2003 to October 2005

Worked in a reengineering project, which involved transitioning of the existing system, which operated in a hybrid environment of Mainframe and Midrange servers, to a Server-based architecture.

• Involved in analyzing the architecture and business functionality of the mainframe components of the existing system and prepare/review Program Analysis Report and Business Rules extraction report for those components.

Consultant at Birlasoft
  • India - Noida
  • December 2002 to March 2003

Countrywide Home Loans, USA planned to increase their existing field lengths for various applications. Application enhancement had to be done for the impacted systems.
• Involved in design, development, testing and quality maintenance

Senior Systems Analyst at WIT
  • Singapore - Singapore
  • September 1997 to October 2002

• Involved in various projects viz.: Customer Information Systems, Margin Financing Systems, Stock Accounting Systems, Integrated Financial Systems using AS400 technologies
• Responsibilities included design, development and testing

Programmer Analyst at Skyline Systems
  • India - Chennai
  • January 1995 to August 1997

• Developed various applications using VB, Oracle for different clients. Projects developed include Personnel Management and Payroll System, Hotel Management System, Foundry Production and Rejection Analysis

Senior Sales Executive at ICNET
  • India - Chennai
  • January 1994 to December 1994

Work involved selling e-mail subscriptions

Sales Executive at HCL-HP
  • India - Chennai
  • February 1990 to December 1993

Work involved selling computer hardware

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Engg
  • at Madurai Kamaraj University
  • April 1989

B E Computer Engg

Specialties & Skills

Product Development
Competency Management
Software Project Management
Global Delivery
Program Management
Program Management
Payment Systems
Project Management
Client Engagement & Relationship
Delivery & Operations Management
Competency & Practice Development
New Product Development

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2008
Valid Until:
October 2020
Post Graduate Diploma in General Management (PGDGM) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2018