Consultant
Consulting
Total years of experience :34 years, 1 Months
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
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
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)
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
• 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
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.
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
• 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
• 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
Work involved selling e-mail subscriptions
Work involved selling computer hardware
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