RAVI SHANKER K V
                                         ( VENKAT RAVI SHANKER KOTA )

 

 

[email protected],                    
[email protected],                      +919892539848           

 

Objective :

Execution is my forte!!, I am an professional with varied experience, having  worked
in various  functional roles in the field of Information technology, looking for a
challenging assignment, possessing good people management skills, backed by strong
technology know how.

 

Looking for challenging and financially rewarding role or position
(Freelancing or consulting or contract roles in IT and Non IT are also fine with me)

 

Ideology I subscribe to :

Merit is to be recognized not to be begged to be recognized!! Applies to when seeking attention from all
 of the following either friends or superiors at work place or colleagues  or Business associates.

Motto I subscribe to    :

Achieving perfection in a Craft or Art being  the process of life, as also the  survival of the fittest …
 the   Darwin’s  theory of evolution or  Natural Process of Selection  for Survival.

From a Management perspective  I subscribe to theology of Murphy’s Law’s

Similarly I hold the view Able men make an Able Manager (A fine Semblance between
delegation and accountability … a key attribute to any kind of  successes)

PERSONAL PROFILE

 

Name  :  Venkat Ravi Shankar  kota.

 

Father :  Venkata Sita Rama Anjaneyulu kota.

 

Mother:  Venkata Siva Bhadravathi kota.

 

Faith   :  Born Hindu

 

Marks of Identification at Birth :  A patch on the left thigh , a mole above the left

              

Passports :  A7282782, F2059067 (VALID TILL 26.02.2009)

 

Current Location :  MUMBAI.

 

Some of the virtue's with which I try to identify myself with

            Possess ability to assimilate or grasp Domain Knowledge,
      Possess good Communication Skills,
      Ability to forge good rapo with superiors, peers and sub-ordinates alike,
      Innovative thinking centered around  Result orientation.

      Given the realistic world one can expect a fair quantum of the following
      attributes in-grained in to my personality
          
      Tolerance to Ambiguity ,
      Emotional Maturity,
      Drive & Energy,
      Zeal for excellence,
      Customer Orientation

SUMMARY  OF  EXPERTISE
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Experience in all areas of software development, systems management & acquaintance QA .

 

Ability to work in tight schedules and time frames.

 

Exposure to CRM, ERP processes and methodologies.

 

Exposure to Content research and Content Editing in various fields.

 

Experience to writing specifications for software development and defining standards.

 

Experience to all areas of Software Development in MNC firms in a 24x7 environment.

 

Experience writing proof of concept for specifications , products or conceptual theories
or innovative solutions to market opportunities.

 

Quality Engineering: How, what, where, when, why and an introspection of,

                               Implementation the respective products and solutions.

Good understanding of , and exposure to some application of PMI, CMMi ,ITIL,ISO XXXX, COBIT, QA practices, Six Sigma approach , SWOT, HIPPA , Knowledge Management , Information Security Risk Analysis.

 

Possess Good Team and Project Management Skills 

Performance tuning of Application or App deployment  appraisals, under take in individual performance appraisals, review weekly status reports, give status application / app deployment  reviews to management , client / vendor co-ordination and maintaining relationships, manage

budgeting and costing for project , short term / long term goal/objective(leadership, direction) setting for individual , group /a functional unit /SBU , formulating and charting out strategy for defined goals/objectives, conduct appraisals to individual contributors in a team, mentoring, posses good presentation skills … organize seminars, workshops. Articulating policies, frame works, management charters etc. Adept at  maintaining a fine balance between delegation of work and accountability.  

Exposure to Event Management  having attended a part time course with Event Management Development Institute, Pune , India couple of years Back

 

Professional Qualifications Earned :
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          Expertise specific to Information Technology :

HARDWARE	Intel Pentiums , Sun Sparc 400E , Digital Alpha servers
OPERATING SYSTEMS	Win2k Adv, Windows 2003, WINNT , Windows 9.x, Solaris, Linux
LANGUAGES	PERL, VB,VB.NET C, C++, Java, SQL ,UML , Python, Cobol ,C# ,Shell Scripting
SCRIPTING	ASP,ASP.net, PHP, Cold Fusion, JavaScript, VB Script , WAP /WML
TOOLS	MS Visual Studio, Dream Weaver, PC Anywhere FTP utilities .
VERITAS	Veritas volume manager, Veritas cluster, NetBackup
WEB SERVERS	IIS , Apache Web Server, Iplanet 4.1.
ECommerce	MS site and commerce servers, IBM WebSphere commerce enterprise
Proxies	MS proxy2.0 ,MS ISA server ,Squid
Directory Servers (LDAP)	MS ADS, Netscape … Iplanet,
SSON	Oblix , CAS
SAN	Sanpoint Control, McData, Brocade, Qlogic Switches Crossroads SCSI to FC routers, Qlogic, Emulex Hba etc
NMS	OpenNMS , HP OpenView
DATABASES	Oracle X.X , MS SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, MS-Access
ERP Administration	Sap , Oracle Apps, People soft
NETWORKS	TCP/IP, MS-Windows NT
OS MANAGEMENT Tools	SMIT(AIX) , SAM(HP), MMC for ADS (WINNT/2K)
Data versioning tools	MS MVS, CVS ,PVCS
Services	DNS, NFS, NIS, DHCP implementations on Unix, PKI , SSL , LDAP , samba, bind, Qmail, pop3d, Sendmail, procmail (mail filters)
Text Manipulation Tools	AWK, PERL, SED
HACKING Security	Experience to basic hacking, configuring firewalls, writing applications from the aspect of hack proof.
Debugging	adb, gdb , dbx, truss utilities
SNMP	Perl interfaced programming approach to snmp, MRTG
Servers Hardware	IBM p-series, sun star work stations, E10k
Tape Libraries	Hp sure store tape libraries, ADIC
CLI for san management and configuration utilities	EMC navisphere, Compaq storage array, Hitachi storage , IBM shark storage arrays.
XML	BIZTALK
Project Management	MS Project  , Visio ,  Rational Rose (uml)
CRM	Siebel X
Business Reporting	Business Objects ,SQLServer Olap
Java	websphere application server and Ecommerce solutions , Visual Age , weblogic application server , portlets (jakarta)
Work flow	Outlook(forms) with exchange server, lotus domino server
Compilation tools	make,  ant ,maven
Electronic Cratography	GPS, GPRS …PLOTING using perl …java …tk …etc
Routers and Fire walls	CISCO 2500 series routers , Pix 2.0 , checkpoint
Packaging	Patch and application packaging on linux,solaris,aix,hp
OOAD methodologies	Rational rose (uml), extreme programming
Programming Interfaces to Databases	DBI/DBD, ODBC , JDBC , ADO
Content ,Knowledge and Document Management Systems	Share point portal server, Intraspect , Joomla ,Drupal
Test  Tools	Mercury QTP
Remote Administration Utilities	MS Terminal Services , Humming Bird, ,ssh , sadm
Certificate Services	OpenCA
Virtualization	Vmware
Banking	Exposure to CORE Banking Systems
Others	Lenel suite of product offerings …identity and security systems

 

SUN CERTIFIED SOLARIS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR (SCSA I  and SCSA II)

 

Attended company sponsored training on  Aix5.1 , MS Site and Commerce
Server 2000, SQLServer7.0, Kintana 4.5 workflows.

 

Current Professional Engagement

 

Currently deputed as a Project Manager (representing  TeraSoftware)
to the Mahavikas project a e-governance initiative of Maharastra sales tax department,
located at the Sales Tax Department, Mazgoan, Maharashtra, Mumbai

 

    Role: Infrastructure management of the Primary Data Centre located at mazgaon,
            cater to the MIS needs of the department …translate computerization and

            Automation initiative needs of the department  into SRS …coordinate with 

            development team for application development, rolling out the applications
            in to production , Manage external (vendor co-ordination) and internal SLA’s

    Duties: manage network, os, database administrators and underlying SLA's
               (service level agreements)

a) Network maintainance management consisting of cisco 2811/3825/1841

b) Datacentre consisting of SAN switches IBM(SAN 16b co-branded …brocade),

    IBM p series servers, WebSphere application servers , DB2(one instance),
    Oracle (38 instances) Aix, linux hosts with clustering or high availability
    using HACMP for db2, load balancing for websphere  , HP (NNM and OVIS) for

    Some SLA monitoring and  Help / service desk implementations.

 c) provide technical and maintenance support 3500 seats(proprietary software installed
     on linux and windows clients Active Directory Based services) spread across Maharashtra
     ...connected over WAN using vpn.

 d) co-ordinate with Disaster recovery centre in Hyderabad

 e) Liaison with Maharashtra sales tax department, Data Digitization related works centre

     at Nagpur, sla management with the department and 3^rd party vendors
 f) Service Desk Management (HP Service Desk) viz. Track ,resolve and manage the logged
    cases in the incident and case tracking system (kind of CRM for the application)
 g)Translate the MIS and Automation needs of the Department in to SRS …co-ordinate with
     the development team in translating the above into applications

 i) Exposure to Core Banking Products from various flagship companies …having
     interacted with various banks …essential requirement being integration of
     electronic Scroll from banks …in to the Office Automation suite of Sales Tax

     Department.
  k) Budgeting, costing , Purchases ,Operations Management ,Implementing Audit controls
      …and keeping track of the project as a whole.

 

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