I. Qualifications
- M Tech. in Computer Technology
from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
-B. Tech. in Computer Science and
Engg. from Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) ,
II. Experience
With over 20+
years of experience in the area of IT covering all spheres of activities
from software development, implementation, operations and maintenance, project
management to independently running a regional office in end-user’s
premises.
III. FOREIGN
VISITS/TRAINING
Visited M/S HP Education Services,
Attended a 3-day Gartner IT Security Summit ,2007 at London, UK (Sept. 2007)
Attended the 5-day The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) World Conference at Chicago, USA (MAy 2008).
IV. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – Detailed
a. Current Role/ Assignment (since April 2008 till date)
Additional General Manager and Technical head, PRS Group at the Centre for Railway Information System, Chanakyapuri New Delhi
Leading a large team of software engineers engaged in the following areas:-
PRS Data Warehousing
IR Commercial Web Portal
PRS Disaster Management
PRS Web-site Management for www.indianrail.gov.in and www.trainenquiry.com
PRS Documentation, Training and Quality Assurance
b.Past assignments
(June 2000 - Aug. 2005)
Regional Manager of CRIS's site office and was responsible for:-
- Coordination and providing assistance to CCM/IT and his other officers on a day-to-day basis for:-
o CONCERT Software maintenance
o Computerised Coaching Refunds system software maintenance
o RTR maintenance for PRS through M/S HP
o Maintenance of System hardware through M/S CMC Ltd.
o Maintenance of peripheral hardware through M/S CMC Ltd.
Operations and Maintenance of Un-reserved Ticketing System
(UTS)
o UTS software maintenance
o Sybase maintenance for UTS through M/s Sybase
o UTS hardware maintenance through M/S Accel-ICIM
o Implementation of Thin Clients on NR
Operations and Maintenance of IRCTC’s web-site’s System interfacing with PRS
backbone network
Operations and Maintenance of Data Warehouse System
Operations and Maintenance of Punctuality module (COIS)
Operations and Maintenance of NTES software and hardware
(Yamuna)
Overall
administration/ management of the CRIS’s site
Technical
Writing/Documenting Systems/Preparing Write-ups and presentation for various
forums, seminars/conferences, award entries etc.
Front-ending with business
partners
- Coordination with third party vendors like M/S CMC, M/S SUN, M/S HP, M/S Sybase, M/S Accel ICIM for
IT solutions in maintenance of the systems installed at IRCA.
b. Earlier assignments/ responsibilities in
CRIS (March 1994 thru June 2000)
i . Dy.
Chief Systems Manager/ Technical (since April 1996 thru’ June
2000)
- CONCERT software testing and
coordination of CONCERT software bug fixes/
enhancements
- Coordinated training of
CONCERT users for all modules at all PRS sites prior to
implementation
- Presentations/ Documents/
papers for CONCERT project preparation which were used on various forums,
seminars and conferences
-Quality Manager
/CONCERT
- Coordinating bug fixes/
enhancements, change management and new version
releases
- Coordinating the software
engineering practices for software development and
maintenance.
- ISO 9001
coordinator/PRS
- Coordination work for
implementing ISO 9001 in PRS/CRIS
-Head, Training and
Documentation
- Coordinating the fulfillment
of training and documentation requirements of PRS
group
ii.
Sr.
Systems Engineer [since March 1994 thru’ Mar’
1996]
- Development of various
modules/ procedures in clients – namely reservation, enquiry and special
function clients in ‘C’ language
-Development of accounting
reports of CONCERT mostly related to special functions in ‘FORTRAN’
language.
- Maintenance/ Operations at
various PRS sites after CONCERT Implementation.
- Maintenance of external
Interfaces of CONCERT namely, MHS, IVRS and display
systems
iii. Real-time
embedded software development in ‘C’ language for R&D/Radars department at
the Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL)
Worked as Software (R&D) engineer from Mar. 1988 thru’ Dec. 1992 and
subsequently as Senior (R&D) engineer from Jan 1993
thru. Mar. 1994 and contributed to the following
projects:-
-
Development of ‘tracking software’ for ‘Low flying Detection
Radar’
-Development of software for automating maintenance procedures of radar
in ‘C’ language on PC/AT.
-
Development of embedded software for target designation unit which captures data
over a modem and displays the same on a hand-held terminal and controls a tracking radar.
- Development of embedded software for system-wide health
monitoring and network diagnostics control panel for command and control system
aboard a naval warship.
V. COMPUTER RELATED
SKILLS
Hardware platforms handled
: DEC
Alpha DS10/20s, ES 40/45 from HP, Sun V280R, 880R
Operating System : OpenVMS 7.3, Tru64 UNIX, Solaris, Microsoft XP
TP Monitor
: Relable Transaction Router from M/S HP
Programming
Languages : C, FORTRAN 77,
Pascal
Project Management
tools : MS-Project
CASE Tool
: Turbo Analyst
RDBMS
: MS Access, Sybase
Data Warehouse Tools : ASIQ (Sybase), Business Objects
Packages acquainted with : Microsoft Office suite,