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Seeking deserving managerial/ consultancy positions in Project Management, Software Development with a reputed organisation in the IT industry. Executive Synopsis

Bimal P. Naik

Nearly 7 years experience in Project Management, Business Analysis and System Design & Development in India and overseas. Currently associated with Kabetech (Pty) Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa as Software Consultant. Dexterity in project management activities entailing planning, scheduling, SLA agreements, product design & architecture, application maintenance & enhancement, project progress monitoring, regular reporting to various stakeholders and delivery as per quality, time and budgetary norms. Resourceful and deft in all phases of the SDLC encompassing requirement analysis, change management, architectural design, technical design, implementation, impact analysis, re-factoring, and deployment. Skilled analyst with proven efficiency in quickly understanding business requirements of the clients, mapping process gaps and suggesting customised solutions to address the needs. Possesses a customer-centric and systems-driven approach to designing business solutions. Strong technical abilities in Microsoft.Net (ASP.Net, C# and ADO.Net), Java, SQL Server, Oracle and Microsoft Share Point Portal. Delivered projects for prestigious clients like Standard Bank, Nedbank, South Africa Revenue Services and PONL. Completed training in SAP ABAP and PMP. An effective leader with proven abilities in leading teams during the project phase, training and guiding team members and enabling knowledge sharing among the team.

Experience Chronology Since Jan10 with Kabetech (Pty) Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa as Software Consultant Jul08 to Dec09 with Krossover Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa as Software Consultant Aug04 to Jul08 with Nihilent Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd., Pune

Joined as System Analyst and rose to the position of Software Consultant in Aug06.

For project details, please refer annexure Functional Strengths Business Analysis

Functioning as Single Point of Contact for defining & managing business requirements by travelling onsite to the client locations. Conducting a critical study and evaluation of business processes, systems & operations for defining business problem and determining the context. Mapping business objectives to existing system, determining gaps/ bottlenecks and visualising solution framework. Addressing clients issues and mapping business transactions to the proposed solution. Providing a detailed outline of specifications/ alternative workflows and preparing use-case models for mapping conceptualised solution to business use cases.

Project Management

Spearheading overall management of project activities, including close collaboration with various business segments and the IT teams. Managed projects as per RUP as well as AGILE methodologies. Identifying risks/ potential contingencies that may impact project delivery. Resolving all escalations and issues in a prompt and satisfactory manner for the clients. Maintaining updated project reports and ensuring seamless communication with various project stakeholders, internal customers and senior business leadership teams. Achieving smooth & timely delivery of various software applications through close coordination with business/ cross-functional teams. Serving as Point of Contact for resolving all escalations.

System Development

Handling the design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the software. Making extensive use of Iterative SDLC and UML.

Ensuring smooth implementation and testing at client location. Providing post-implementation, application maintenance and enhancement support to the client with regard to the product/ software application. Interfacing with vendor/s for technical support. Setting up and maintaining process, documentation and quality standards for all phases of the SDLC.

Technical Skill Set Operating Systems : Databases : Office Automation : Web Technologies : Programming Languages : Tools/ Packages : Academic Credentials DOS, Windows X, UNIX MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 MS Office Suite 95/ 97/ 2000 HTML, JavaScript, VB Script, ASP.Net C#, VB.Net, SAP ABAP, MS COBOL, C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, PL/SQL Remedy (Incident Management Tool), ASIM and Remedy (Change Management), TWS (Workload Scheduler)

CDAC (Post Graduation Degree in IT) from IACSD (Institute for Advanced Computing and Software Development), Pune in 2004. Bachelors Degree in Information Technology (B.I.T) from Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal in 2003.

Trainings Attended

Training for PMP (Project Management) in 2010 Certified from IBM, South Africa for the successful completion of TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler), SAP ABAP trained from Sky Info Technologies, Delhi in 2008.

Personal Dossier Date of Birth Nationality Permanent Address Contact Number Passport Details Languages Known Location Preference : : : : : : : 07/01/1982 Indian L/109, Baramunda Housing Board Colony, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India (0027)-79-486-5550 (Currently in Johannesburg, South Africa) E6817613 (Issued at Bhubaneswar. Valid up to 29/10/2013) English, Hindi, Oriya None

ANNEXURE OF PROJECTS HANDLED

Kabetech Pvt. Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa
MHERGA for Kabetech Pvt. Ltd.

Scope: This product is developed for the small, medium and large corporate sector aiming to provide the ease of solution in terms of Merger, Acquisition, Outsourcing, Internal Restructuring, and HR Business Domain: Merger and Acquisition Period: Since Aug10 Type: Development Technologies: ASP.Net, C#, MS SQL Role: Project Manager Team Size: 2

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MediaWiz for Media Wiz, South Africa Scope: The project involved the development of a product for all the business as an advertisement tool which comes with the following features.

Background Music: Plays multiple outputs for Hotels to play different music in the Bar/Pub or Restaurant or Lounge areas. Telephone on-hold marketing (music & voice). In-Store Radio for retailers to simulate "live" radio. Play visuals ie. video files and multimedia files. E.g. .avi files or .ppt through Liquid Crystal Displays and TV Screens or Video Walls. Business Domain: Media and Telephone on-hold marketing Period: Since Dec11 Project Type: Development Technologies: ASP.Net, C#, MS SQL Role: Project Manager

Team Size: 9

BEE Score Card Access for MHERGA, South Africa Scope: This product is developed for the small, medium and large corporate sector aiming to provide the ease of solution for their BEE scorecard needs. This will also calculate the organizations BEE rating and will advise the customer what measures need to be implemented to achieve the target rating. Business Domain: Enterprise Management and Corporate Law Period: Since Feb11 Type: Development Technologies: ASP.Net, C#, MS SQL Role: Project Manager Team Size: 5

Krossover Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Johannesburg, South Africa

Search Space-AML (Anti Money Laundering System) for Standard Bank Of South Africa

Scope: Combating of money laundering and terrorist financing has become one of the major focus areas for financial institutions world-wide with Regulators making it amongst their top priorities. This has seen the introduction of new legislation across the globe. One of the common requirements of the legislation is that financial institutions introduce measures to monitor transactions on customer accounts.

Due to the recognised limitations of manual monitoring processes, Regulators are increasingly expecting banks to implement sophisticated, automated detection systems to identify and track possible money laundering and financing of terrorist activities. To meet the challenge, an increasing number of South African financial institutions are implementing automated detection systems the Fortent (previously known as Searchspace) suite of detection sentinels (in particular, Fortent AML).

Business Domain: Banking Period: 21 August 2006-27 October 2009 Type: Maintenance, Customer Support and Management Technologies: UNIX, DB2 Role: Business Analyst

Team Size: 6

COSEC for Standard Bank Group Ltd.

Scope: The Company Secretary system has been an aid to the bank as it allows a computerized tracking of the shares, bonds and dividends sold or purchased. It also allows the users to extract various reports. Role: Production Support

Responsibility: Involvement in System Support works which includes Application support, Monitoring and fixing user issues, installing new versions of the supported application Period: 29 August 2006 to 08th January 2010 Software: Java, MS SQL Highlights: This is a vendor system from GREATSOFT, South Africa Type: Banking

GIJIMA for Standard Bank Group Ltd. Scope: This application is a tool used for the infrastructure management solution designed by infraWise. iWise is comprised of individual applications that integrate seamlessly to manage nearly every contingency of your day-today enterprise operations, including: Asset Management CMDB Incident Management Human Resources Administration Problem Management Policy Management Change Management Customer Relationship Management Request Management Enterprise Release Management Role: Business Analyst-Development, Team Lead-Production Support Responsibility: Involvement in System Support works which includes Application support, Monitoring and fixing user issues, installing new versions of the supported application Period: Since 26 August 2006 Technologies: Java, Oracle Highlights: This is a vendor system from Infra Wise, USA Business Domain: Infrastructure Management

Nihilent Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India

BBPAY for Standard Bank Group Ltd.

Scope: This is a mainframe application and been used by the bank for all the batch payments, which includes Online Payments, Home Loans, Personal Loans, Pensions and Salary. Role: Production Support Responsibility: Involvement in System Support works which includes Monitoring and fixing batch abends. Period: 25th August 2006 to 24th November 2006 Software: COBOL, JCL Highlights: This is a in-house system of Standard Bank Group Ltd. South Africa Business Domain: Banking

Marketing Tracking System for Standard Bank Group Ltd.

Scope: This application is used by the Marketing and finance group of the bank. MTS system is used for electronically organising all the active campaigns, surveys, announcements to share news, status, and other short bits of information. Role: Production Support Responsibility: Involvement in system support works which include application support, monitoring and fixing user issues, installing new versions of the supported application Period: 3rd July 2007 to 23rd November 2007 Software: Microsoft Share Point Portal Highlights: This is a vendor system from Mint Net(Pty) Ltd, South Africa Business Domain: Marketing

E-Learning for Standard Bank Group Ltd. Scope: This application is used by all the bank staffs to do new courses which is required for them with respect to their work involvement in their respective area. Role: Production Support Responsibility: Involvement in System Support works which includes Application support, Monitoring and fixing user issues Period: 23rd August 2007 to 5th February 2010 Software: Java, DB2 Highlights: This is a vendor system from IBM, South Africa Business Domain: Learning Portal

IQ-Citi-Street (Citi Financial Group) for IQ and Citi Financial Group Period: 8th July, 2005 to 3rd July, 2006 Description: The software product provides a tailored complete system according to clients requirements. Provides tailored links to clients systems such as payroll. Business Domain: Insurance Project Type: Software Development Technologies: COBOL, UNIX Role: Documentation, Requirement analysis, Coding, Testing Team Size: 12

Channel Convergence for Nedcore (NEDBANK) Period: 19th June 2005 to 7th July 2005 Scope: The software product aims to give a supportive system which can have a relational approach to every channel of transaction carried out by a particular person in the sector of financial and banking domain. Business Domain: Banking Project Type: Software Development Technologies: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 Role: Documentation Team Size: 12

RMG- Employee Monitoring and Resource Management System Period: 10th April 2005 to 18th June 2005 Scope: The software product designed to fulfill the requirement of the Resource Management Group to help them work in a better and efficient way. Business Domain: Specify Project Type: Software Development

Technologies: ASP.Net, C#, HTML, MS Access Role: Designing, Coding, Unit Testing, System Testing, Team Size: 6

Dangerous Cargo Computer System for PONL, GDC- Mumbai Period: 5th January 2005 to 7th April 2005 Scope: The proposed application replaces the existing MS-DOS driven DCS into a GUI based application, which is easy to use and produce effective electronic reports, which can also be printed as required. The purpose of the system is to achieve a tool, which provides information at incidents, and means for reporting. Business Domain: Shipping Project Type Software Development Technologies: VB, MS-Access Role: Designing, Coding, Unit Testing, System Testing, Team Size: 6

South African Revenue Services (SARS) Quick Wins for SARS Period: 17th August 2004 to 26th December 2004 Scope: The software product was designed to provide a better facility for the employee as well as employer of South Africa to fill their tax claims over the web with the aid of SARS. Business Domain: Finance Project Type: Software Development Technologies: Microsoft.Net, ASP.Net, HTML, C#, MS-Sql Role: Designing, Coding, Unit Testing, System Testing, Load and Stress Testing Team Size: 9

Academic Projects
IACSD (Institute for Advanced Computing and Software Development): Online Exam System (As part of CDAC Course Curriculum)

Period: 6th June 2004 to 28th July 2004 Scope: The software product enables the examination system more efficient and evaluates the papers correctly. Business Domain: Examination Automation Project Type: Software Development Technologies: Microsoft.Net & ASP Role: Analyzing and Coding Team Size: 3

B.I.T: Inventory System Period: 4th February 2002 to 7th March 2002 Scope: The project involved the development of an application for maintaining the updation of the employee records with a computerized instead of manually. Business Domain: Employee Record Automation Project Type: Software product Technologies: Visual Basic & Oracle Role: Designing and Coding Team Size: 5