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Raguraman Bashyam Principal Architect, Tech Mahindra
 
Raguraman Bashyam's Profile
Raguraman Bashyam
Principal Architect, Tech Mahindra
Mahindra Satyam
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Chennai, India
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Professional summary

Techno Manager with 17 yrs of experience

Raguraman Bashyam's Experience
Current :

Tech Architect, Mahindra Satyam

IT Services

Working from 2009

Brief summary :

Am a part time entrepreneur and IT evangelist

Current :

Tech Architect, Mahindra Satyam

IT Services

Working from 2009

Brief summary :

Am a part time entrepreneur and IT evangelist

Previous :

My Manager, Infosys Technologies Limited

Worked from 2003 to 2011

Brief summary :

Organisation From To Nature of Work Infosys Technologies Limited Aug 97 Date Software Development Services Management Larsen and Toubro Limited Jul 92 Aug 97 Engineering Design, Construction and Management GOALS Management : Manage a variety of multiple projects. Assist in developing a Delivery Unit; contribute for Org wide initiatives as part of PCM/TCM. Would like to devote my energy in training aiming to share my learning with others. My main challenge would be to meet (if possible exceed) the expectations of 3 main stakeholders viz. My Manager, My Team members and Client. INDIVIDUAL PROJECT DETAILS From the latest going back 01 Nov 2003 To TILL Release and Test Management - Multi Platform CRM application landscape Project Release and Test Management for Customer Relationship Management Platform Client Royal Bank of Scotland Role Project Manager Project Details Managed Release and Test Process for the development and deployment of Core Sales Platform, a CRM tool developed by Chordiant. The Project involved an understanding of business process and co-ordinating efforts of different contributors in a multi-platform application landscape. My Contribution Project Management activities involved: Drawing up a schedule and Track Release activities Identification of Testing Requirements for the applications Discussion with business and evolve Non-Functional Requirements Evolving a Functional Testing plan Liaison with third parties in organising end to end testing Forming Strategy for Performance testing Liaison with infrastructure on resources Sensitise team members on legal issues Impact analysis of Change requirements Project Details Design, Code, Test and Deliver enhancements to existing banking core application for Royal Bank of Scotland My Contribution Project Management activities involved: Planning and Scheduling - Track Project execution Resource allocation and quality management Work on alternate solution Review and Test of critical modules developed by the team Identifying areas of work for the client - Build application roadmap. Project Details Familiarise and build awareness by providing Thought Leadership in the area of web services by building Prototype, Getting involved in proposing web service based solutions, Present papers and follow evolution of standards in the space of web services. My Contribution Familiarise with concepts in Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture in general. Project Details Design, code, test and deliver enhancements to existing Mobile Portal application for Proximus Belgacom Mobile. My Contribution Project Management activities involved : Planning and Scheduling, Track Project execution Resource allocation and manage quality Requirement elicitation from customer Issue Resolution and impact analysis Review of design documents Review and Test critical modules developed by the team Heterogeneous team with members of different nationalities Liaison with offshore development centre to ensure quality and schedule adherence Bottom end responsibility for Infosys deliverables Project Details Design, code, test and deliver enhancements to existing Rating and Customer care application for Proximus Belgacom Mobile. My Contribution Project Management of Application Maintenance activities High level Impact analysis of Change Requests Estimate effort and schedule Mobilise Resources within OSDC for the Change Request Review of design solution proposed Put in place Defect Prevention activities Periodic performance Metric analysis Liaison with other client departments like infrastructure, other applications, marketing etc Project Details This project is a prelude to Data warehousing and Enterprise Application Integration. The project aims at evolving an Operational Data Store (ODS) for all the data used by various legacy applications. As a pilot all data used by various legacy applications are remodelled to store Customer related data in a common logical area My Contribution In addition to the usual Project Management activities: Study of data requirements for various applications by discussing with application owners Worked closely with strategists to enable future expansion Re-design of existing data models to bring about uniformity in data representation Design, code and test I/O modules to be used by various application for data retrieval Evolved a Conceptual, Logical and Physical data model for various applications Designed Failover mechanisms and put in place auditing jobs to ensure fault tolerance Re-engineer schema to meet performance requirements (Denormalisation etc) Project Details Document Functionality of existing Customer care application and Regression testing of all enhancements done in an applications release cycle. My Contribution In addition to usual project management works: Liaise with Application owners to clarify functionality Brought about automation in regression testing enhancing productivity Baselines taken for a pure testing project for development done by teams other than infosys - first of its kind. Evolved org-wide standards based on performance metrics Developed Extranet based issue tracker to centralise issue recording between infosys (offshore) and client (onsite) Team developed MS Access based application to capture database updates. This helped in speeding up validation process Project Details Independent Testing of Customer Care application for all enhancements done as part of OSDC for mobile service provider named Proximus Belgacom mobile, Brussels, Belgium My Contribution Plan testing Coordinate fixes Track Defects Project management works like Resource allocation Testing resource management Coordination with client and development teams for planning release Project Details It is the reengineering and up gradation of existing VSAM database to RDBMS in DB2. Work involved data modelling, database setup, application mediation design and development and performance tuning. My Contribution Model Order database Create mapping between existing and new database Code and test I/O modules to help mediation Write detailed design for application reengineering Allocate work to developers and provide technical assistance to them when required.

Previous :

Delivery Manager, Virtusa (India)

IT Services

Worked from 2006 to 2008

Brief summary :

Involved in Management of accounts like Thomson, BT, Aspen

Previous :

Delivery Manager, Virtusa (India)

IT Services

Worked from 2006 to 2008

Brief summary :

Involved in Management of accounts like Thomson, BT, Aspen

Previous :

Project Manager, Xansa (India)

IT Services

Worked from 2004 to 2006

Brief summary :

Projects include Pre-Sales and Lawson account

Previous :

Project Manager, Xansa (India)

IT Services

Worked from 2004 to 2006

Brief summary :

Projects include Pre-Sales and Lawson account

Previous :

Project Manager, Infosys Technologies

IT Services

Worked from 1997 to 2004

Brief summary :

Graduated from Mainframe developer, to J2EE Architect and culminated in Engagement Management

Previous :

Project Manager, Infosys Technologies

IT Services

Worked from 1997 to 2004

Brief summary :

Graduated from Mainframe developer, to J2EE Architect and culminated in Engagement Management

Previous :

My Manager, Infosys Technologies Limited

Worked from 2003 to 2003

Brief summary :

Organisation From To Nature of Work Infosys Technologies Limited Aug 97 Date Software Development Services Management Larsen and Toubro Limited Jul 92 Aug 97 Engineering Design, Construction and Management GOALS Management : Manage a variety of multiple projects. Assist in developing a Delivery Unit; contribute for Org wide initiatives as part of PCM/TCM. Would like to devote my energy in training aiming to share my learning with others. My main challenge would be to meet (if possible exceed) the expectations of 3 main stakeholders viz. My Manager, My Team members and Client. INDIVIDUAL PROJECT DETAILS From the latest going back 01 Nov 2003 To TILL Release and Test Management - Multi Platform CRM application landscape Project Release and Test Management for Customer Relationship Management Platform Client Royal Bank of Scotland Role Project Manager Project Details Managed Release and Test Process for the development and deployment of Core Sales Platform, a CRM tool developed by Chordiant. The Project involved an understanding of business process and co-ordinating efforts of different contributors in a multi-platform application landscape. My Contribution Project Management activities involved: Drawing up a schedule and Track Release activities Identification of Testing Requirements for the applications Discussion with business and evolve Non-Functional Requirements Evolving a Functional Testing plan Liaison with third parties in organising end to end testing Forming Strategy for Performance testing Liaison with infrastructure on resources Sensitise team members on legal issues Impact analysis of Change requirements Project Details Design, Code, Test and Deliver enhancements to existing banking core application for Royal Bank of Scotland My Contribution Project Management activities involved: Planning and Scheduling - Track Project execution Resource allocation and quality management Work on alternate solution Review and Test of critical modules developed by the team Identifying areas of work for the client - Build application roadmap. Project Details Familiarise and build awareness by providing Thought Leadership in the area of web services by building Prototype, Getting involved in proposing web service based solutions, Present papers and follow evolution of standards in the space of web services. My Contribution Familiarise with concepts in Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture in general. Project Details Design, code, test and deliver enhancements to existing Mobile Portal application for Proximus Belgacom Mobile. My Contribution Project Management activities involved : Planning and Scheduling, Track Project execution Resource allocation and manage quality Requirement elicitation from customer Issue Resolution and impact analysis Review of design documents Review and Test critical modules developed by the team Heterogeneous team with members of different nationalities Liaison with offshore development centre to ensure quality and schedule adherence Bottom end responsibility for Infosys deliverables Project Details Design, code, test and deliver enhancements to existing Rating and Customer care application for Proximus Belgacom Mobile. My Contribution Project Management of Application Maintenance activities High level Impact analysis of Change Requests Estimate effort and schedule Mobilise Resources within OSDC for the Change Request Review of design solution proposed Put in place Defect Prevention activities Periodic performance Metric analysis Liaison with other client departments like infrastructure, other applications, marketing etc Project Details This project is a prelude to Data warehousing and Enterprise Application Integration. The project aims at evolving an Operational Data Store (ODS) for all the data used by various legacy applications. As a pilot all data used by various legacy applications are remodelled to store Customer related data in a common logical area My Contribution In addition to the usual Project Management activities: Study of data requirements for various applications by discussing with application owners Worked closely with strategists to enable future expansion Re-design of existing data models to bring about uniformity in data representation Design, code and test I/O modules to be used by various application for data retrieval Evolved a Conceptual, Logical and Physical data model for various applications Designed Failover mechanisms and put in place auditing jobs to ensure fault tolerance Re-engineer schema to meet performance requirements (Denormalisation etc) Project Details Document Functionality of existing Customer care application and Regression testing of all enhancements done in an applications release cycle. My Contribution In addition to usual project management works: Liaise with Application owners to clarify functionality Brought about automation in regression testing enhancing productivity Baselines taken for a pure testing project for development done by teams other than infosys - first of its kind. Evolved org-wide standards based on performance metrics Developed Extranet based issue tracker to centralise issue recording between infosys (offshore) and client (onsite) Team developed MS Access based application to capture database updates. This helped in speeding up validation process Project Details Independent Testing of Customer Care application for all enhancements done as part of OSDC for mobile service provider named Proximus Belgacom mobile, Brussels, Belgium My Contribution Plan testing Coordinate fixes Track Defects Project management works like Resource allocation Testing resource management Coordination with client and development teams for planning release Project Details It is the reengineering and up gradation of existing VSAM database to RDBMS in DB2. Work involved data modelling, database setup, application mediation design and development and performance tuning. My Contribution Model Order database Create mapping between existing and new database Code and test I/O modules to help mediation Write detailed design for application reengineering Allocate work to developers and provide technical assistance to them when required.

Previous :

Engineer (Mech), Larsen & Toubro

Industrial Products/Heavy Machinery

Worked from 1992 to 1997

Brief summary :

Resident Engineer for Power Projects

Previous :

Engineer (Mech), Larsen & Toubro

Industrial Products/Heavy Machinery

Worked from 1992 to 1997

Brief summary :

Resident Engineer for Power Projects

Raguraman Bashyam's Education

Birla Institute Of Technology Science (BITS), Pilani

B.Tech/B.E.
India
From 1988 to 1992

Birla Institute Of Technology Science (BITS), Pilani

B.Tech/B.E.
India
From 1988 to 1992
 
 
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Raguraman's contributions
Green Technology is a bitter pill.  Whether industry likes it or not, only when embracing them will sustain business.  As regards expecting immediate returns for your investment, more studies are pending to make Green Tech to be more affordable.
These types of comparative ads based on "unsubstantiated claims" are nothing but a constipation of ideas and a diarrhoea of ads.  Just when I thought standards of Ads have hit rock bottom, someone lends me a shovel.
Not there yet.  While the obvious pro is convenience, the cons that are equally obvious are: 1.  Cost of mobile internet 2.  Recruitment remain less of a Txn Oriented process, more is personal touch, the responses (if you are seriously recruiting...
I am not an expert but based on 17+ years of experience, my little observation as both manager and entrepreneur suggest me this. Firstly the business driver of the product should be understood and solution philosphy is to be well studied upon to...
Personal freedom is stretched a bit.  Now, why stop go over to incest, free sex and Rajneeshisms.  Well, I also feel like not wearing dress.  What happens if I go in the street Naked.  Why should anybody object and Police book me in "Indecent...
 
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