Project Manager Contract
Boots
Total years of experience :15 years, 9 Months
New Data and Insights (Hadoop) (Agile)
• Creation of a centralised big data repository to bring together geographically separated data sources.
• Multi-integrated system development. Managing in a hybrid model with multiple releases
• Moved data from multiple sources, including cloud based RDBMS to HDFS and vice-versa using SQOOP
• Developed ETLs, created reports and dashboards using structured and unstructured data
Big Data Infrastructure Implementation Project (Agile) (TCO circa £1M)
• Requirement to build a Big Data Analytics platform based on the Horton Works Hadoop platform
• Dozen-node Hadoop infrastructure build, Tibco reporting platform implementation and transition to management team
• Specific responsibility for management of infrastructure delivery, procurement and vendors
Analytics Platform Upgrade
• Revamp of the aging Analytics Platform
• SPSS PCI Implementation
• Boots have a strategic objective to undertake customer analytics
• Business transformation change project to implement a customer analytics platform, including new infrastructure using IBM, SPSS, PCI. Implemented by IBM and other third party vendors
Rino Sasidharan Indira
• SPSS Upgrade Project
• Requirement for robust Analytics Platform around IBM’s SPSS Analytics Suite
• Upgrade of existing AIX environment to latest version and fix of current projects and upgraded the SPSS server
• ArcGIS Upgrade
• Requirement to build a new Geospatial Analytics Environment using ESRI technologies ArcGIS products
• Migrated data from SQL to New Oracle geo spatial DB to allow the client to open up their map portal to 100’s of users. Also managed and third parties.
• Dot Com to Abacus Project (Agile)
• Aim to get online sales data and customer behaviour data from cloud to the centralised data warehouse for global analysis work
• Managed full project in Agile and supported handover to BAU. Complex project involving multiple vendors, teams and data movement across Oracle and DB2. Data handling volume circa 10TB in a span of 3 to 5 years
• CRM Implementation
• Objective to provide the customer with a 6-tier architecture environment landscape for SAP CRM
• Built and commissioned two new CRM environments and performed a transition of code move routes incorporating the new environments. Moved data from/to cloud. Overall responsibility for project delivery.
• Centralised View of Stock
• Requirement to provide the customer and staff with a real-time view and availability details of articles
• Infrastructure and Environment Manager with responsibility for managing the environment and achieving delivery
• Finance Consolidation 1, 2, 3
• Unification of accounting practices across the organisation and demise of the legacy systems from the Finance landscape
• ROI of £2.5Bn in next three years. Managing environment delivery phase of a complex, three-phase project
SAFEWAY US - Program Manager 2012 - 2013
TSG Build Managed Capacity Program
• Managed a team of +30 geographically distributed staff and multiple line managers, delivering operational support to tasks related to large projects including Big data (Hadoop) and Managed Oracle Data Platform services, private cloud
• Managed and delivered on client expectations and ensured timely achievement of deliverables, with the projects benefitted the client $1.6M
UST GLOBAL - Senior Project Manager 2010 - 2012
GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) Implementation
Enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is an integrated approach to managing the lifecycle of corporate policies, assessing and responding to risks, and measuring and reporting compliance with controls and regulatory requirement. The Project is to implement enterprise implementation of RSA’s Archer application for this. Manage activities of the implementation. The implementation was done by Archer Consultants from RSA. Ensured client’s team is trained on the Archer to an extent that they can manage & even implement software in future.
Exchange 2010, SCOM 2007 and SCCM Implementation
Role: Project/Engagement Manager
This project is to implement and replace current exchange2003 platform with Exchange2010 and then migrate the mailboxes from exchange 2003 to 2010. SCOM 2007 will replace the current MOM 2005 environment and System Centre configuration manger2007 will bring the SCCM environment in the infrastructure. This project is outsourced to Dell to implement. Over saw the Dell’s project management and monitored the progress. Managed the entire procurement for the project. Liaised with different vendors and got the approvals necessary for the project to implement it in the environment like Change request, Design Approval, etc. For Dell acted as the stake holder and managed the relationship between Dell, Microsoft and the in-house consultants or associates related to this project.
Disaster Recovery Data Centre Implementation
Role: Technology Project Manager
The Client has a single data centre in US for a long time. In the scenario of a natural calamity, accident or any other disaster which affects the primary data centre, client will face Huge revenue loss due to the downtime caused by the incident. The Disaster Recovery Data centre will help us to achieve redundancy and more uptime which has also become a requirement from the Client side to ensure business continuity. Managed the end to end solution implementation and tested the DR facility & features and transition new DC to support teams.
Project Methodology: Waterfall
Project Management tools: MS Project Server, Resources managed using SuccessFactor, Budget managed using IBM Cognose tools., Program managed via Optimus a cloud based tool for global project/ program management. Reports generated using crystal reports. Changes managed via BMC Remedy.
Operations Intelligence Centre for GE
Role: Operations Lead/ PM
OIC is the owners for incident management and the first level support people for the corporate applications for the GE and monitor the DWH tasks and routine tasks. We liaise with the Application owners and the rest of technical teams in order to do the incident management. Run this as a managed services model for incident management service, Monitoring services, DWH management services, schedule management services & request based services. Also, operated on off shore centric model with onsite presence. Managed the 35-member team which run on 24/7 mode. It has both offshore and onsite members. Performed primarily the incident management and problem management for the client
Data Centre Virtualisation Project
• Build of VMWare-based ESX platform and convert legacy Physical servers to Virtual
Core Switch Upgrade Project
• Migration of Data Centre core switch from Cisco to Brocade foundry switches
Microsoft OCS (Unified Communication Platform) Implementation
OSPF Routing Implementation
PUNJAB AND SIND BANK - Solution Architect 2007 - 2008
CBS (Core Banking Solution) Implementation
• Enterprise systems management Architect and delivery of infrastructure ESM and LDAP for the New Core Banking solutions. Service Level Advisor components for solutions. Team of 8 engineers worked on the project
TELECOM ORGANIZATION Of THAILAND- Solution Architect /PM for ESM and LDAP security delivery. 2006- 2007
Provide Security solutions in Identity and Access management.
M S SwamiNathan Research Foundation- A Research centre for Phd and an NGO
Village Resource Centre (VRC) Programme for MSSRF-ISRO
Information Village Research Project: The Information Village Research Project (IVRP), implemented by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), is to extend the benefits of information technology to the rural poor. Information village shops equipped with computers, telephones, and dial-up connectivity is established in 10 villages of Pondicherry, Southern India. Information is downloaded from the Internet and transformed into locally specific information that directly benefits the villagers. Such information consists of the daily local news, latest prices of agricultural crops and inputs, weather reports, and government programs, to name a few. One of the distinctive features of the project is local content creation by volunteers from various sources. More than 100 databases have been created that provide updated information on issues ranging from crop prices to government programs.
AS part of the technical team who manages the IT infrastructure for this project managed the Hub centre at Pondicherry, provided support and trouble shoot technical issues on time for the un interrupted project work. Besides this in this setup LAN and WAN to connect 11 villages to the HUB centre. Besides set up a Network radio using the helix universal server for streaming. And also, setup internet Cable TV synchronization and established a cable radio service for the villagers.
Open Knowledge Network (OKN): The OKN was launched in collaboration with OneWorld International, UK. OKN is a human network which collects, shares and disseminates local knowledge about health, local culture and practices, education, agriculture, government schemes, jobs and markets. Two other hubs are located in East and West Africa. Through this network, access points from India and Africa share their local news through World Space Satellite and Internet. The local news is produced in Tamil and Swahili and the Meta tags are in English. I was the lead technical team member from India to set up the intercontinental network and implementing the infrastructure for this project. This includes setting up and commissioning the WorldSpace satellite radio and interfacing it with the computer networks and PCs available in the village resource centres.
AMBA Recognized , two year, executive Post graduate diploma in Management (ePGDM).
Attained 7.96 CGPA. Major subjects are Management Information system Artificial Intelligence Information management Knowledge management Systems analysis and Design
Bachelors degree in Physics
