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Ranjan Ghate BE, MBA (Mktg), MBA (Comp), PMP
SUMMARY
Managing multiple critical IT Projects/Programs for Fortune#1
Financial Data Services Industry Champion Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) like
Global Release Management/ DNB Core Programs
Part of strategic Global PMO of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Managed Software Application Development Business Unit from Pre-Sales
& Delivery perspective.
PMI certified Project Manager Professional (PMP), having 10 years of
total experience in Software Projects Development & Management in
Microsoft Technologies.
Worked on Microsoft .Net projects for 7 years.
Worked with clients like Microsoft Corporation, Merrill Lynch, McGraw
Hill Companies, Standard & Poor’s, Ernst & Young, US, CSFB, London and
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Japan.
Managed deliveries in On-Site, Off-Site, On-Site-Off-Shore Delivery
Models
Having sound knowledge of Business Applications Domain, Six Sigma &
PMI’s Project Management Processes.
SR. PROJECT/PROGRAM MANAGER
As a Sr. Project/Program Manager responsible for Scope & Time
Management, Risk Identification, Processes & Resource Management,
Project Plan & Task tracking, Requirement Engineering, High Level &
Detailed Design, Design Review, Code Review, Unit Test & System Test
Plans & Results review, Conducting project review meetings,
Identification of Instances for Decision Analysis and Resolution in
Project, Active involvement in all the Project Life Cycle Phases,
Interactions & presentations with various IT, Business Managers &
Directors, Reverse Engineering & preparation of As-Is scenario,
Proposing various To-be alternatives based on cost & technological
benefits, Actively involved in Pre-Sales activities by Responding to
RFP, preparing Business Cases, Project Portfolios, Presentations, etc.
Overseeing On-Site (USA / London / Japan / Switzerland)-Off-Shore
(India) co-ordination.
TECHNICAL, PROCESS, DOMAIN SKILLS
OS
: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/2003/XP
Languages : Visual Basic v6.0,
VB.Net, C#
Databases : MS-SQL Server 2000,
Oracle 8, 8i
GUI
: Visual Studio6.0, Visual Studio.Net,
Microsoft FrontPage 2000
Web Related : Microsoft .Net,
SOAP-Web Services,
ASP.Net, ASP, VB Script, Java-
Script, HTML, XML, XSLT, IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0 & IIS 6.0
Tools & Utilities : UML,
Microsoft Project, Rational Rose,
Microsoft Visio, VSS, Serena
Methodologies :
SDLC, Waterfall, RUP, XP, Agile, CMMI, PSP-
TSP, Requirement Engg
Domains
: Education, Human Resources, Tax, Health,
Pharmaceutical,
Auctioning, Home & Entertainment, Retailing, Financial, Banking, Anti-
Money Laundering, Automobile, Enterprise Project Management,
Investment Management, Construction, Credit Rating, Risk, Compliance,
Quality, Information Security, Compliance, Auditing, Portfolio-Program-
C-Level Management & Reporting, Infrastructure, Release Management,
PMO.
EDUCATION
MBA (COMPUTER MANAGEMENT) from Pune University
MBA (MARKETING MANAGEMENT) from Pune University
BE from RKNEC, Nagpur
TRAININGS, CERTIFICATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS
PMI (Project Management Institute) certified PMP (Project Management
Professional)
Managing multiple projects in Program/Delivery Unit for Ernst & Young
from Pre-Sales till Delivery
Getting involved in IT Strategy Consulting of various corporations
like Nissan North America Inc. & Merrill Lynch, USA.
Project was awarded Best Project Award from General Manager, Nissan
Motor Co., Ltd., Japan
PSP Trained Certified Software Engineer from Carnegie Mellon
University - Software Engineering Institute.
Presented White Paper on .Net Migration and PSP-TSP Implementation
Post-Mortem Report to Microsoft Corporation.
Delivered Corporate Technical Presentations “ASP.Net: Evolution to
Revolution” at MCCIA shared platform with Microsoft Corporation and
“Microsoft.Net: Why, What & How ???” at VisionNet’2002.
EXPERIENCE
Dun & Bradstreet-Computer Sciences Corporation, NJ, USA
Sr. Project/Program Manager
03/2008 –
Present
Managing multiple critical IT Projects/Programs for Fortune#1
Financial Data Services Industry Champion Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
Part of strategic Global PMO of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Project: Global Release Management / DNB Core Program
03/2008 – Present
The purpose of the Global Release Management and DNB Core Program is
to provide Shared Services Environment where multiple enterprise level
global applications can leverage Service Oriented Architecture. DNB
Core environment comprises of sun-environments from ISE, QA, Staging,
Production, Swing and Disaster Recovery. In the time span of weeks all
the global enterprise applications & services goes through release
management cycles to support global business units and customers.
Responsibilities
As a Sr. Project/Program Manager for Global Release Management/ DNB
Core Program, facilitating initial discovery sessions of each new
applications/service with Release Management, DNB Core, Capacity
Planning, Enterprise Architecture, Developments, QA, Deployments, and
Load/Performance Testing teams. Responsible for planning, scope, time,
efforts, schedule, risks, mitigation, interaction with various lines
of services leads and teams including Global PMO. Used various
enterprise level tools like SPMO/EPMO, NSR, PI Tracker, Ream Room,
Catalyst, SAP, Lotus Notes, etc.
Ernst & Young, NJ, USA
Technical Project Manager/Project Manager
08/2006 - 02/2008
Project: Global RADAR
08/2007
-
02/2008
The purpose of the RADAR is to provide all Ernst & Young higher
management & CIO with a sophisticated and intuitive interface to view
the status of published Global IT projects and initiatives. The
administrative site provides a means to collect, store, consolidate,
track, and report on various Global IT initiatives. The intranet web-
based application allows users to enter and a flash/flex application
displays all published Global IT project information.
Responsibilities
As a Technical Project Manager for Global RADAR, responsible for
proposing technical approach, planning delivery iterations,
estimations, costing, resources, scope, time management, business
requirements analysis, deployment planning, keeping all stakeholders
informed about the status of project.
Environment: Languages: Microsoft .Net 2.0, C#, ASP.Net; Database: SQL
Server 2000; MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS Visio; O/s: Windows
2003, XP
Project: Council of Fashion Designers of America Voting
Site
04/2007 - 05/2007
The Council of Fashion Designers of America Voting Site is an upgrade
for the voting for 2007 CFDA Awards.
Responsibilities
As a Technical Project Manager for The Council of Fashion Designers of
America Voting Site, responsible for planning requirement gathering
sessions, estimations, costing, resources, scope, time management,
deployment planning, keeping all stakeholders informed about the
status of project.
Environment: Languages: Microsoft .Net 2.0, C#, ASP.Net; Database: SQL
Server 2000; MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS Visio; O/s: Windows
2003, XP
Project: My Compliance Dashboard
03/2007 -
08/2007
My Compliance Dashboard is an extension to the existing GWDFY to show
the history of completed Compliance Task & also having the facility to
show future Compliance Tasks for EY users based on Grade, Service
line, Location, Industry 1 and Industry 2.
Responsibilities
As a Project Manager for My Compliance Dashboard, responsible for
planning delivery iterations, estimations, costing, resources, scope,
time management, business requirements analysis, deployment planning,
keeping all stakeholders informed about the status of project.
Environment: Languages: Microsoft .Net 2.0, C#, ASP.Net; Database: SQL
Server 2000; MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS Visio; O/s: Windows
2003, XP
Project: Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) Business Analysis
03/2007 - 04/2007
The Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) program is a year round event
sponsored by Ernst & Young to recognize the leaders of growing
companies.
Responsibilities
As a Project Manager for Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY), responsible
for planning requirement gathering sessions, As-Is, To-Be analysis,
estimations, costing, resources, scope, time management, deployment
planning, keeping all stakeholders informed about the status of
project.
Environment: Languages: Microsoft .Net 2.0, C#, ASP.Net; Database: SQL
Server 2000; MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS Visio; O/s: Windows
2003, XP
Project: Global What’s Due From You
09/2006
- 12/2006
Global What’s Due From You (GWDFY) application was created to provide
an alternate notification to remind employees to complete compliance
tasks.
Responsibilities
As a Technical Project Manager for Global What’s Due From You,
responsible for planning delivery iterations, estimations, costing,
resources, scope, time management, business requirements analysis,
deployment planning, keeping all stakeholders informed about the
status of project.
Environment: Languages: Microsoft .Net 2.0, C#, ASP.Net; Database: SQL
Server 2000; MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS Visio; O/s: Windows
2003, XP
Project: Global Information Security system
08/2006 - 02/2008
Global Information Security system shall enable tracking and
monitoring of all E&Y IT applications throughout the lifecycle of the
certification process for ensuring the EY Code of Connection (CoC) –
Global IT Security Policy, the Secure Application Development
Standards (SADS) compliance.
Responsibilities
As a Project Manager for Global Information Security system,
responsible for planning delivery iterations, estimations, costing,
resources, scope, time management, deployment planning, keeping all
stakeholders informed about the status of project.
Environment: Languages: Microsoft .Net 1.1, C#, ASP.Net; Database: SQL
Server 2000; MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS Visio; O/s: Windows
2003, XP
Project: Global Acceptance & Continuance system
08/2006 - 03/2007
Global Acceptance & Continuance system was developed on Portal concept
to be used by EY engagement teams to guide them through a consistent
global process for making the decisions to provide certain services to
either existing or new clients.
Responsibilities
As a Project Manager for Global Acceptance & Continuance system,
responsible for scope, time management, deployment planning, keeping
all stakeholders informed about the status of project.
Environment: Languages: Microsoft .Net 1.1, C#, ASP.Net; Database: SQL
Server 2000; MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS Visio; O/s: Windows
2003, XP
Standard & Poor’s/ MCGraw Hill Companies (Construction & Education),
NJ-NY, USA
Project Manager
01/2006
- 08/2006
Responsibilities
As a Project Manager, responsible for Scope & Time Management Setting
up Road Ahead for all the phases of product development Interacting
with various Business Development, Product Development Managers
Conducting project review meetings & keeping stakeholders updated with
status. Writing Business Vision Document whose target audiences were
Business Development, Product Development & Technical Managers.
McGraw Hill is visioning Construction.com to become default desktop
for Architecture-Engineers-Contractors communities with their all
Networks, Product, Project, Design, etc. to seamlessly leveraging
features & capabilities of each of them.
Overseeing On-Site (USA)-Off-Shore (India) co-ordination
Environment: Languages: C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net; Database: SQL Server
2000, Oracle 10, Plumb-tree; MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS
Visio; O/s: Windows 2000, XP
Merrill Lynch Investment Manager, NJ, USA
Technical Project Manager
11/2005 -12/2005
MLIMIT has many applications catering their business needs. All these
applications were developed independently. To make IT division wide
strategy MLIM wanted to have a roadmap ahead for these applications.
In proposal for IT-division-wide architecture for all these
applications, advocating C#, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, XML, SOAP, SOA (Web
Services) using Microsoft .Net. Also recommended to extensively reuse
various Application Blocks given by Microsoft.
Responsibilities
As a Project Manager & Technical Architect responsible for developing
migration strategy & plan for Merrill Lynch Investment Manager’s IT
division to Microsoft .Net.
Environment: Languages: C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net; Database: SQL Server
2000, Oracle 10; MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS Visio; O/s:
Windows 2000, XP
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan-India
Project Manager
12/2004 -10/2005
Responsibilities
As Project Manager with Advanced Project Management System, Nissan
Motor Co. Ltd. attempts to reduce time spent by Sr. Management on
managing R&D projects & monitoring them throughout the life cycle of
projects. Nissan’s R&D divisions’ all projects are getting monitored
throughout the life cycle of projects. C#, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, SQL
Server based APMS also became the central repository for knowledge &
innovation source-iBox. Overseeing On-Site (Japan)-Off-Shore (India)
co-ordination
Environment: Languages: C#; Database: SQL Server 2000; Tools: MS
Visual Studio.Net;
O/s: Windows 2000, 2003, XP
Credit Suisse First Boston, London, UK
Project Co-ordinator
05/2004 - 11/2004
Responsibilities
As a Project Co-ordinator at CSFB, London was responsible for
developing & managing an anti-money laundering application, Customer
Master Service developed using Microsoft .Net-SOAP-Web Service. Also
was responsible for architecting Siena .Net Web Service which became
enterprise-wide service for various data source access. Siena .Net was
responsible for facilitating data requirement for various applications
throughout the IT division. Overseeing On-Site (London)-Off-Shore
(India) co-ordination
Environment: Languages: VB.Net; Database: Oracle 9i; Tools: MS Visual
Studio.Net, SCM Toolkit; O/s: Windows 2000, 2003
Microsoft Corporation, USA-India
Project Leader
05/2003 - 05/2004
Responsibilities
As a Project Leader at Microsoft Corporation was responsible for re-
architecting & developing Xbox’s return tool, XReturns which was
migrated from classic ASP-VB-COM to Microsoft .Net. XReturn is used as
global tool for return of defective consoles of Xbox’s by all the
distributors throughout the world considering warrantee of each &
every part & their returns.
Scope & Time Management, Risk Identification, Team Processes &
Resource Management, Project Plan & Task tracking, High Level &
Detailed Design, Design Review, Code Review ,Unit Test & System Test
Plans & Results review, Conducting project review meetings,
Identification of Instances for Decision Analysis and Resolution in
Project, Active involvement in all the Project Life Cycle Phases.
Interactions & presentations with various IT, Business Managers &
Directors. Coordinating On-Site (USA)-Off-Shore (India)
communications.
Environment: Languages: C#, Visual Basic v6.0; Database: SQL Server
2000; Tools: MS
Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, MS Visio, Loc Studio, VSS; O/s: Windows
2000, 2003, XP
Xpanxion International Ltd., USA-India
Project Leader
12/2002- 04/2003
Responsibilities
As a Project Leader at AuctionWorks Inc. was responsible for planning
& developing classic ASP-VB-COM to Microsoft .Net migration.
AuctionWorks was developed as a service which consumed various
auctioning services like eBay, uBid, Yahoo, etc.
Understanding & Analyzing Requirements, Design, Reverse Engineering,
Project Task Review & Control, Design Document with Time Estimates,
Customer Interaction, Management Interaction, Team Interactions, Team
Interaction for Unit Testing Plan, Release & Version Management,
Delivery Management, Coding & Development Standards, Actions on non-
conformities to maintain QMS. Coordinating On-Site (USA)-Off-Shore
(India) communications.
Environment: Languages: ASP.Net, VB.Net, Visual Basic v6.0; Database:
Oracle 8i; Tools
: MS Visual Studio.Net, MS Project, Rational Rose, Source Off Site; O/
s: Windows NT, 2000
Metalayer Software Pvt. Ltd., Switzerland-India
Project Leader
05/2002- 11/2002
Responsibilities
As a Product Leader at Metalayer AG-Eli Lily was responsible for
developing & managing a Microsoft .Net-XSL-XSLT based community hub.
In these community hubs, XML used as data stores & XML-XSLT
transformation done on C# business layer.
Product & Features Development, Product Maintenance, Planning &
Implementation of Testing Plan, Version & Release Management,
Integration, Functional Design, Client Interaction. Coordinating On-
Site (Switzerland)-Off-Shore (India) communications.
Environment : Languages: ASP.Net, C#, JavaScript; Database: SQL
Server, XML
DataSource; Tools: MS Visual Studio.Net, VSS; O/s: Windows NT, 2000
SEED Infotech Pvt. Ltd., India
Technical Project Manager/Leader/Software Engineer
01/1999 - 04/2002
Project: Microsoft .Net Prototypes
12/2001 - 04/2002
This site was a dynamic Web site in ASP 3.0.We developed an
interactive web site using all capabilities of .Net, on which
professionals will be able to find the details of any course which is
there in the Training division of SEED Infotech. Also they will be
able to Enquire and register for the courses. Courses, Contents,
schedules, etc. will be dynamically handled with the help of the
upcoming concept of XML-SOAP based Web Services.
Responsibilities
As a Technical Project Manager for SEED Infotech Web Services in
Microsoft .Net (Prototype) was responsible for Team Building, R & D,
Training, and Prototypes Developments.
Environment : IIS 5.0, Microsoft .Net, ASP.Net, VB.Net, XML-SOAP based
Web Services. OS: Windows 2000
Project: Online Enquiry System
03/2001 - 11/2001
This site was a static site. We developed an interactive web site on
which professionals will be able to find the details of any course
which is there in the Training division of SEED Infotech. Also they
will be able to Enquire and register for the courses. Courses,
Contents, schedules, etc. will be dynamically handled with the help of
ASP programming.
Responsibilities
As a Technical Project Manager for Online Enquiry System was
responsible for Team Building, Understanding Specs & Co-ordinating &
Development.
Environment : IIS 4.0, JavaScript, ASP, VBScript and Oracle 8. OS:
Windows NT
Project: Pay Safe India
10/2000 - 02/2001
PaySafeIndia.com is a web site which will be applicable for knowing
the taxes and paying them online. Also it gives the formats of all the
official form for the same.
Responsibilities
As a Technical Project Leader/Manager for Pay Safe India was
responsible for Understanding Specs & Co-ordinating & Development.
Environment: IIS 4.0, JavaScript, ASP, VBScript and Oracle 8. OS:
Windows NT
Project: StaffTrack Site
01/2000 - 09/2000
StaffTrack System was an Intranet application. It was already
developed on Windows platforms. We ported the same system for
Intranet.
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer for StaffTrack Site was responsible for
Understanding Specs, Development & Testing.
Environment: IIS 4.0, XML, Java-Script, ASP, VB-Script and Oracle 8.
OS: Windows 95/98/NT
Project: Enquiry System
01/1999 - 12/1999
This System manages the details about students, their enquiries, their
choices for various S/W courses & their fees structure, etc. With Data
Reports System can generate Master Reports. With OLE Automation
complex reports can be generated in Words and Excel. It generates the
Batch wise economic status to modify the marketing strategies.
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer for Enquiry System was responsible for Design,
Development, Testing, Documentation and installation. Enquiry System
is Part of Seed Automation. System is based on 3-tier architecture.
Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle 8. OS: Windows 95/98/NT
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