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Arun Ravindran

+91 948 005 5920
arun.v.r@gmail.com

Vadakkepattah House
Kolazhy
Thrissur, Kerala
India - 680 010

OBJECTIVE

Seeking management consulting or organizational position in a progressive IT company

EXPERIENCE

Consultant (May 2004 - Present)

Infosys Technologies Ltd, Bangalore, IT Services

Avaya Inc., USA
Project Manager (May 2008 to Present)

Offshore Project Manager for a team of 5 developers
Instrumental in the architecture and design of the SOA based solution

GAP Inc, USA
Functional Consultant (Mar 2007 to Present)

Providing domain-specific (Retail) training to the team
Offshore Project Manager for a team of 15 developers
Designing and testing interfaces in IBM Datastage as a part of GAP Strategic Inventory Initiative (SII).
Key enabler for developing talent within the team

BP Pvt. Ltd, London
EAI Consultant (Jun 2006 to Mar 2007)

Provided EAI consultancy and was the onsite lead for BP Pvt. Ltd in London for the Nerefco plant implementation as a part of the strategic Process Fitness program. This involved designing a set of template interfaces in SAP XI. His responsibilities included requirements gathering, estimation, offshore co-ordination and testing.

GAP Inc, USA
Module lead (Dec 2005 to Jun 2006)

Managed specific modules within POS Requirement and Design project for GAP Inc (a specialty retailer). As a part of strategic reimplementation of their POS platform, EAI interfaces were needed for inventory transactions in IBM Websphere Message Broker. He was the Module Lead for a set of interfaces and his responsibilities included Analysis, Design and Testing of the interfaces

UBS AG Ltd, London
Functional Consultant (Nov 2004 to Dec 2005)

Was the lead consultant in the Change The Bank (CTB) team for enhancements to the Global Message Broker (GMB) in London for a period of one year. This involved extensive interaction with the UBS (business side), Microsoft (product side) and Infosys (solution side), often acting as a bridge in arriving at solutions.

UBS AG Ltd, London
Functional Consultant (May 2004 to Nov 2004)

Provided Functional Consultancy during complete end-to-end implementation of London Message Broker project (LMB) for UBS AG Ltd. (a global financial services firm). Microsoft BizTalk based solution was used for handling all incoming and outgoing SWIFT traffic to/from UBS London. His responsibilities included:

Requirements Gathering and Analysis
Estimation and co-ordination of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Creation of functional test cases and design of an automated system testing pack.

SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES & PROJECTS

EAI Technologies: SAP XI, IBM Datastage, Microsoft BizTalk, BEA Aqualogic Service Bus (ALSB)
Programming: C, C++, ASP, VB.NET, FORTRAN, LISP/Scheme, SQL, UNIX shell script (sh, ksh, csh), Perl, Python and 80X86 Assembler. Familiar with all major Unix development tools like make, RCS, CVS, gdb, gprof, lex, yacc.
Applications: VC++, Oracle 9i, Photoshop, Flash MX, GIMP, Emacs
Development of Risk Assessment Framework at TVS Finance & Services Ltd., Chennai - This project involved developing a Risk Assessment Framework for the expansion of TVS Finance into new territories within and outside Tamil Nadu. I used Discriminant Analysis to design a Geographical Risk Model and Launch Strategy Scorelist.
Developed a POS (Point of Sale) retail management system for billing and inventory management of a geographically dispersed Supermarket Chain programmed in C++ and Python, 2003, TAPMI
Designed a Managerial decision-making multiplayer game called “Quicksand” programmed in PHP and DHTML which was used in “Atharva” – A National-level Inter B-school event, 2004, TAPMI

EDUCATION & INTERESTS

T.A.Pai Management Institute Manipal, Karnataka
Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), 2002 – 2004

Dual specialization in Systems and Finance.
Summer Project – Development of Risk Assessment Framework at TVS Finance & Services
Topper in Management Information Systems (MIS) and Center for Civil Corporation (CCC).

Government Engineering College (GEC) Thrissur, Kerala
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering, 1998 – 2002

My aggregate percentage over the four years is 75%
Final year project – Image Compression Library Using Wavelets achieved image compression 3 times better than JPEG standard without any jagged artifacts

Chinmaya Vidyalaya Thrissur, Kerala
1990-1998

Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science were my core subjects.
Secured 85% in the 12th Board Examinations and 98.66% in the Science combination (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics)
Secured 87% in the 10th Board Examinations

Accomplishments of note

Prima Award for Excellence in Project Execution – (runner-up Q2, 2007-08) as project manager in GAP project
SPOT Award in Mar 2008 – for designing AccoladES, a Rewards and Recognition Portal
ESTeem Award for Best Managed Project - (H2, 2006-07) as project manager in GAP project
Executive Member – Computer Society of India, Kochi Chapter (1998 – 2000), GEC, Thrissur
I have participated in various literary and cultural competitions and have won prizes at institutional and state levels