Summary Of Qualifications

• Currently working as the Onsite technical lead for Tata Consulting Services (TCS) , for USWEST Accounts Payable Application, in Denver, Colorado.
• Worked as a team member in the Year2000 conversion project of Prudential Services Company, NJ, via TCS off site  facility in Madras, India.
• Worked as a Project Engineer  for Sanghi Spinners Limited, in Hyderabad, India. Was involved in the planning and execution of the Project Schedule, for the Rs 2.5 billion Spinning Mill.
• Possess a very good knowledge of  IBM main frame based software. Conversant with Oracle 7.0 and client server architecture.
• Graduated from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India as Electrical Engineer in 1993 with a GPA of 4.0 on a scale of 4.0. Was one of the top five students in the University.

Details of Professional Experience
Name of the Project             :   Accounts Payable Application of the USWEST Communications, Denver.

Company/Consulting firm    :   Tata Consulting Services.

Role                                       :   On site Project Lead.

Duration                                 :   June 1997 onwards - to date

Brief project description        :
The Accounts payable Application involves the payment of Invoices and Employee reimbursements. It has four subsystems,
a Corporate Check Reconciliation system (CCRS), for check printing and reconciliation, an Image Processing application for Document scanning and a system to track Unclaimed properties, in addition to the basic Accounts payable application.
 
Software and Hardware Platforms    :
The Accounts Payable application of USWEST is built on a third party software from Walker systems. This is a mainframe based application with DB2/IMS-DC and COBOL as the medium for application development. The CCRS is a home
grown mainframe based system with DB2/IMS-DC. The Image Processing system is a PC based document scanning system using the Filenet supplied software, with WorkFlow language.

Role and Responsibilities     :
TCS has taken up the long term maintenance and enhancement of the USWEST Accounts payable application. As the Onsite technical lead I had to -

•  Plan and monitor Onsite activities.
•  Coordinate the onsite activities.
•  Do the analysis and formulate problem resolution.
•  Report the status of onsite as well as off shore activities.
•  Hold the status and review meetings with USWEST focusing on project progress
•  Coordinate change management activities.
•  Coordinate and communicate with the offshore team
•  Provide necessary test support.
•  Resource management on site
•  Finalize project related standards
•  Ensure over all project Quality.

Company/Consulting firm     :          Tata Consulting Services.

Rol e                                       :           Team member.

Duration                                 :           June 1996  - June 1997
 
Brief project description        :
Prudential Services had chosen TCS as its partner in the year 2000 conversion process of all its applications, main frame or other wise. Prudential property and casualty, PRUPAC for short, was one such application. We had converted about 200
programs in COBOL and Assembler , to be Y2K compliant.

Software and Hardware Platforms    :
PRUPAC is a main frame based application with code in COBOL and High level assembler, with segmented master files, Sequential and VSAM, and a variety of transaction files.

Role and Responsibilities                 :
As a team member I was entrusted with conversion of some COBOL and assembler code, beginning from code analysis, conversion to testing and production support. Midway through the project when the project leader had to quit, took up the role
of client interaction and scheduling. Worked extensively on Assembler, JCL and COBOL.
 

Role                                       :   Project Engineer.

Duration                                :   Aug 1993 - Oct 1995

Brief project description     :
Sanghi spinners is an ultra modern spinning mill, one of the largest in India. The unit was built with modern machinery from Germany, Swiss and Japan. The installation of these machines involved in programming PLCs and establishing a factory wide
data collecting network.
 
Software and Hardware Platforms    :
Though the project was not  software oriented, I had the opportunity to work on Primavera for project scheduling and Oracle 7.0.
 
Role and Responsibilities     :
As a project engineer I had performed a variety of  tasks, which included -

•  Handling time and resource bound jobs.
•  Participation in technical and price related discussions, negotiations and order finalizing for various equipment.
•  Leading a team of five engineers.
•  Project scheduling and maintenance on primavera P5.0

•  Developed a tool in the assembler language for the data-aging and date field expansion for Year2000 testing.
•  Assisted in developing another tool written in cobol for the same purpose as above but using  a more generic approach for wider applicability.
•  Lead the team for a successful transition of the project from uswest.
•  At Sanghi Spinners - Helped finalize some major equipment deals for the company, after going through a process of vendor and product evaluation.

•  Graduated in Electrical Engineering from Osmania University, India as one of the top five in the university.
•  Underwent training on the online data acquisition systems at Premier Polytronics Ltd., India.
•  Certified with a diploma in RDBMS from Software Solutions Integrated Limited., India after going through a training on   the concepts of RDBMS and Oracle 7.x.
•  Underwent the initial training program on the development, maintenance and enhancement of software systems at TCS, India.