I am an I.I.T graduate with over four years of development experience touching various technologies, and consulting experience specifically in the area of Supply Chain Management. My biggest strength is my ability to come up fastest on any learning curve, and develop a deep and thorough understanding of the problem at hand. I believe my strong technical skills and consulting experience make me an ideal candidate for any company that is looking for dynamic and intelligent problem solvers.
Excellent track record as a Development Lead at i2 technologies. Led two releases of i2's flagship Demand Planner product.
Excellent domain knowledge in Supply Planning and Demand Planning.
Good experience in customer facing roles.
Recipient of Best Team Award, Sept 1999 (i2 Technologies)
Recipient of Significant Contribution Award, Aug 2000 (i2 Technologies)
Recipient of SC Board of Honor, July 2003 (i2 Technologies)
String expertise in writing highly portable multi platform, multi threaded optimized C++, server end code.
Strong Unix based debugging and scripting skills
Strong experience in designing and implementing enterprise strength web based applications using J2EE technologies.
Sound fundamentals in OS concepts, Data structures, Algorithms and Networking.
OS: Windows NT/2000, AIX, Solaris, HPUX.
Languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, Basic, x86 Assembly.
Scripting: Perl, Sed, Awk, shell programming, JavaScript
Technologies: Winsock, BSD Sockets, CORBA, HTML, CGI,
Servlets, JSP, XML, XSL, struts framework, Weblogic
Database: Oracle 8i, 9i. SQL, PL/SQL
Debugging / Opt. tools: DBX, GDB, VC++, Microsoft Windows
Debugger, Dr. Watson, Rational Purify, Rational Quantify, ZeroFault.
Source Control Visual Source Safe, Clearcase
Salinas, CA - USA Sept 2003 - present
Project: Dole Fresh Vegetables. DP implementation.
Designation: Senior Consultant.
Description: I am currently involved in the implementation of i2 Demand Management Solution at Dole. I am responsible for assessing and modeling a forecasting process for Dole and implement a forecasting workflow to enable them to accurately predict and track their forecasts. My job involves, modeling their product hierarchies and sales organization, analyzing trends in the sales history, modeling the affect of promotions and integrating i2's Demand Planner with their operational systems.
Technologies: i2 DP modeling language, Perl, Unix shell scripting, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, LDAP, Weblogic.
Findlay, OH - USA Sept 2003 - Sept 2003
Project: Cooper Tires ISCMx.
Designation: Senior Consultant.
Description: This project was a 3-week Data Assessment, which involved studying Cooper Tires' data requirements and integration framework for interfacing their legacy operational systems with i2's planning solutions.
I was responsible for interviewing the business and IT representatives to understand their business workflows, defining sources for different data elements and defining overall integration architecture.
Dallas, TX April 2003 - Sept 2003
Project: Inventory Optimization.
Designation: Development Lead
Description: This project involved creating a Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization solution. This solution allows customers to model their supply and delivery networks, and reduce the overall inventory cost, while maintaining high customer service levels.
My role is that of a Development Lead, responsible for participating in client visits to gather requirements; providing inputs to and signing off on the detailed requirement documents; and participating in the overall solution design. I am also solely responsible for the overall technical design, development mobilization, training and the timely delivery of this product. For this project, we used (and extending) a Business Modeling framework developed based on the Struts Framework.
Technologies: Java, XML, XSL, SQL, PL/SQL, Weblogic
Seoul, KOREA March 2003 - April 2003
Designation: Senior Consultant.
Description: This project was a 2-week assessment activity, which involved studying POSCO's existing integration system, understanding their business workflows, identifying pain points, and coming up with an effort estimate for replacing their system with i2's DMS (Data Management Solution).
Bangalore, India Oct 2002 - March 2003
Project: Siemens Mobile, Staging Database Implementation.
Designation: Development Lead
Overview: We developed a staging database at Siemens that acts as a data consolidation and cleansing interface between i2's planning products and external ERP systems.
Description: Siemens requires a data staging, cleansing and consolidating platform, which will act as an intermediary between the i2 Planning sub-systems and the external operational (ERP) systems. The scope of work also involves creating different UI workflows to facilitate data management in the staging area. The staging database was implemented using an Oracle database, while the web based UI, was implemented using JSP, HTML & JAVASCRIPT with WebLogic as the app-server.
My role in this project was that of a Development Lead, responsible for understanding the requirements, providing the overall design, mobilizing and mentoring the development resources and overseeing the development of the product.
NJ, USA Feb 2001 - Jan 2002
Bangalore, India Jan 2002 - Sept 2002
Project: Front End Product Support. (FEPSG)
Designation: Systems Consultant
Overview: The Front End Product Support team was responsible for providing immediate development support to critical customer problems with i2's Demand Management Suite of Products.
Description: Our team, comprising of experienced developers with thorough product knowledge, and debugging skills were responsible to identify, isolate and fix any critical problems with i2's products.
This work involved exposure to various different platforms, compilers and debugging tools mentioned in the skill set on one hand and interaction with the customer to understand their problems on the other. The work also involved working with third parties, usually the OS vendors to work out specific problems with their compilers or libraries.
Technologies: C++, Windows and Unix based debugging tools (gdb, dbx, Rational Purify, Microsoft debugger, Dr. Watson), Rational Quantify, IBM ZeroFault, Extensive scripting with Perl.
Mumbai, India Apr 2000 - Feb 2001
Project: Demand Management (release team)
Designation: Technology Lead
Overview: The Demand Management release team was responsible for maintaining and providing enhancements to i2's Demand Management Suite of products.
Description: My main role as a technology lead in this team was to provide technical guidance and product knowledge to the team. I was responsible for verifying Requirements, generating high-level designs, validating the low level design, reviewing the code and drawing up the test plans for every enhancement made to the product. I was also responsible for providing technical guidance to the entire team for the duration of development. Thus I was directly responsible for the overall quality of the product released.
Technologies: C++, Windows and Unix based debugging tools (gdb, dbx, Rational Purify, Microsoft debugger, Dr. Watson), Rational Quantify, IBM ZeroFault, Extensive scripting with Perl.
Mumbai, India Sept 1999 - Mar 2000
Project: In Memory OLAP engine (Custom List)
Designation: Associate Systems Consultant.
Overview: Our team was responsible for creating an In-Memory multi dimensional OLAP database engine.
Description: i2's Demand Planner is an OLAP engine and a forecasting tool. Our project was to add the facility to carve out a section of the OLAP database and provide real time access/update features by maintaining the data in memory. For this we had to create a small, optimized OLAP engine from scratch. This involved writing portable C++ code to be run on at least 4 different platforms and providing a platform independent API interface using CORBA.
Mumbai, India June 1999 - Aug 1999
Designation: Associate Systems Consultant.
Overview: Our team was responsible for creating the new generation JAVA client, which was to replace the existing SDK/MFC based C++ client for i2's Demand Planner.
Description: We were responsible for creating the initial framework for the current Web Based client for Demand Planner. The technologies used were Java, CORBA and Javascript.
Kanpur, India June 1999 - Aug 1999
Project: System Administration
Designation: Associate of the Computer Center..
Overview: As a student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, I worked part time as an associate with IIT's Computer Center. My work involved providing assistance in System and Network administration, System upgrades and System security.
Description: Our work mainly involved writing scripts for automating most system administrative tasks and ensuring the security of the Systems on IIT's campus wide network against internal and external intrusion. I was also responsible for monitoring network traffic on various segments of the network and identifying bottlenecks.
Technology Kanpur B.Tech (Chemical Engg) 1994-1999
Army Public School XIIth 1993-1994
Army Public School Xth 1991-1992
Relevant Courses (IIT kanpur):
Fundamentals of Computing, Introduction to electronics, Operating Systems, Computer Graphics, Computer Networks, Artificial Intelligence, 3D modeling and Rapid Prototyping.
Face Recognition using Eigenvectors. This was a project for Artificial Intelligence where we created a learning system which could recognize a face based on sample images (learning set).
Wrote a paper on the various Process Scheduling algorithms employed in the Linux OS.
Designed a detailed 3D model of one of IIT's buildings and created a fully rendered, virtual reality fly through of the structure.
Designed and implemented an Online Stock exchange for TechKriti (a technology exhibition).
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