Kannan  Thangaraju, IT Manager

Kannan Thangaraju

IT Manager

Galfar Engineering & Construction W.L.L Emirates

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information System
Experience
17 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months

IT Manager at Galfar Engineering & Construction W.L.L Emirates
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since January 2021
Manager IT at FCC Electromechanical LLC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2016 to March 2021

• Application Development and maintenance of In-House Software through Zoho Creator:-
• APP development (Creator Zoho Platform) -
• * Project Tracker (Uploading & Monitoring daily progress Wise / Line wise)
• * Time Tracker (monitoring daily activity of drawing done by Draftsmen)
• * Warehouse Management System - WMS
• * IT-ASSET Tracker (IT Asset Monitoring system)
• * Material Inspection request to Clients (IRF)
• * Cable / Drum Management System. (CDMS)
• IT Operation and Management
• Administrator - Oracle Unifier
• * Collaborate functional requirement with Business leaders for PCC.
• * Assist Document and develop a business process in Unifier
• * Develop a testing plan and procedures for PCC Unifier
• Vendor negotiation for procurement related to IT assets.
• Identify Problematic areas and implement strategic solutions in time.
• Act in align with user needs and system functionality to contribute to organizational policy.
• Implementing and managing security or integrity.
• Maintaining IT-Asset inventory of 400 Assets & Software licenses.
• Managing & Procurement of IT Infrastructure and Software for HO & Project site (21Station)
• Periodic backup check-up of Oracle Server & File Server
• Maintaining SLA for the Backup server.
• Managing Team of IT Support and Service Executives.
• Regular co-ordination with clients for installation and support of IT infrastructure.

MANAGER-IT at Larsen & Toubro
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • September 2011 to March 2016

• Engaged in implementation of:
o SAP Modules at GCC Projects of L&T
o SAP Mobility for Quality Team
• Coordinating with the Business Team for understanding the business requirement and identifying the process gaps by comparing with EIP
• Reviewing & ensuring proper utilization of the logical systems flow (detailing business information flow / process) for a proposed solution
• Conducting:
o User Acceptance Test and Unit Test of all SAP Modules (MM / QM / PS / EAM) before delivering to the Project Users
o End user training for ensuring efficient utilization of SAP at project sites
• Providing L3 support to all project users for creating SAP user ID
• Managing Database Technologies like SQL, Reporting Services & Analysis Services

Project Leader - IT at Larsen & Toubro Limited
  • India - Chennai
  • November 2006 to August 2011

• Created template for migrating the data
• Engaged in the migration of data from Standalone (FoxPro version) System to EIP Modules
• Worked in close coordination with the Developers & System Team for migrating data from Standalone Version to EIP
• Organized End User Training on ‘Upgraded EIP Modules’ at different locations in India
• Interacted with Team Leader for synchronizing data with other modules of EIP

• Managed coding of the system related to EIP Module (Asset Management Module) and reported the same to the business team for making the changes, if required
• Organized end user training on all modules of EIP for the team members
• Acted as the Central Point of Contact and offered L1 to L3 support for resolving all the issues related to all modules in EIP.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information System
  • at BITS Pilani, UAE
  • March 2016
High school or equivalent, Computer science & Engg
  • at Tamil Nadu Technical Education
  • January 1991

Specialties & Skills

MS Project
SQL Server 2000 2008
Web Development
SAP ERP
ASSET MANAGEMENT
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
DATA MIGRATION
DEBUGGING
MIGRATION
FUNCTIONAL - ERP Constructon
Software development (Zoho Creator)

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Tamil
Native Speaker
Kannada
Beginner
Telugu
Beginner