Resumé

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

Marketing Manager (Sep 2009 to present)

• Managing Marketing arm of BPM-EAI practice

Pre-sales Team Leader (Sep 2008 to May 2009)

• Co-ordinating and streamlining pre-sales activities for BPM-EAI practice
• Created practice-wide Pre-sales portal – a knowledge repository of all presales activites, practice credentials, case studies etc

Leading telecommunications company headquartered in North America, USA Project Manager (May 2008 to Aug 2008)

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

Leading international speciality retailer headquartered in North America., 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 a Strategic Inventory Initiative.
• Key enabler for developing talent within the team

Leading global energy company, London EAI Consultant (Jun 2006 to Mar 2007)

Provided EAI consultancy and was the onsite lead for the London based firm for its plant implementation in Western Europe 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.

Leading international specialty retailer headquartered in North America, USA Module lead (Dec 2005 to Jun 2006)

Managed specific modules within POS Requirement and Design project. 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

Global financial services firm, London Functional Consultant (Nov 2004 to Dec 2005)

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

Global financial services firm, London Functional Consultant (May 2004 to Nov 2004)

Provided Functional Consultancy during complete end-to-end implementation of the Message Broker project. Microsoft BizTalk based solution was used for handling all incoming and outgoing SWIFT traffic to/from 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

Interests

Sketching, Blogging, Singing and Table tennis

References available upon request.

Last modified: Feb 15, 2010