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            Name:                                                 Adhivarahan K

             Communication Address:        New No 29, Old No 11 ,

                                                               Gothi’s Utham Apartments

                                                               Flat No G2  Gopal Street,

                                                                T. Nagar   Chennai 600 017.

                                                                Phone: 044-2434 8391

                                                                Email Id: adhivarahan@eth.net           

                                                                 adhivarahan@vsnl.net

             Date of Birth:                          29.07.1952 ; 51 years as on 29.07.2003  

 

            Qualification:                          B.Sc.,

                                                           Qualified internal auditor

                                                           Various quality and software certificate courses

                                                             Certificate in Gemba Kaizen

             Marital Status:                                     Married and having two sons

                                                                        Wife is housewife

                                                             

            Experience:                             26 years (as of October  2003) in IT industry in various                                                                 capacity across the industry.

 

            Professional Membership:      

 

§         Senior life member in Computer Society of India

§         Professional individual life member in All India Management Association

§         Life member in Chennai HRD network

§         Member in International Function Point users group

             Professional Training: 

 §         Various software quality courses conducted by QAI, India

§         Software Estimation using Function Point Analysis

§         Building world class Software organizations- Ed Yourdon

§         Achieving SEI level 5-A Personal Odessey - George Smith

§         Personal Software Processing – Watts Humphery

§         Effective Software Project Management – Dr. Claude W Burril

§         A Process for defining & validating requirements

§         Attempted Quality analyst exam

  Activities in Computer Society of India at Chennai: 

Involved in Computer Society of India - Chennai  Chapter as Committee member for 3 years,    Treasurer as one year ,  Secretary as one year & Vice-Chairman for two years.

 Involved in the annual convention of Computer Society of India at Chennai CSI 88, CSI 92 & CSI 2000 in Registration Committee. 

Strength 

• Can give business oriented total integrated communication linked value added IT solution
• Can develop a good  team
• Can learn new concepts quickly and adjust to the circumstances / environment
• Can give presentation to all users and Management highlighting the business benefit of technology and can develop project plan with estimation.
• Having commitment to job with a high consulting and communication skill
• A self starter with self motivated person
• Can handle BPO
• Will take customer along with the process to obtain customer delight and handle any type of crisis
• Can meet tight delivery schedule
• Ability to interact with diverse functions
• Can do risk analysis and suggesting remedial measure
• Can do counseling for professionals / people Can do counseling for professionals / people
• Can do IT auditing with respect to process, procedures and control 

 

 Technical:

 

STRENGTH	Grade Out of 10	Experience in years	No. Of  Companies	Platforms	Team Size (around)	Role
SDLC of Integrated Business application including modules like payroll, accounting, Deposits, Material accounting, Marketing etc.,	10	17	15	IBM, WIPRO, ECIL Autocoder, Cobol, Fortan	10	Programmer, analyst, team leader
Converting Business requirements into Technology specifications, development, implementation and maintenance	10	17	9	Wang, Wipro, ECIL Cobol. Foxpro	60	Team Leader
Handling computer operations related to Securities like Shares, Debenture  applications SDLC  & interacting with Statutory authorities	8	8	15	WANG, Novel Cobol, Foxpro	50	Team Leader
Designing and implementation of Business packages using RDBMS	9	11	6	Wang,  Micosoft OS, Ingres, Informix, Oracle, Inex	20	Team Leader
Design, development, implementation and maintenance of Communication based network value added system – Software, Hardware, Network, VPN	9	5	3	Micosoft Platforms	120	Team leader
IT auditing – Software, hardware,   network and security	6	2	2	Wipro, Micorosoft	2	One man team
Head of IT – User company	9	7	3	LAN, WAN Microsoft, Indigenous	120	Head
IT consulting / Business Process Reengineering	8	12	4	Latest Technologies	60	Team member, Head

 

        Professional Experience

Period	Position	Organisation Type	Responsibilities
January 03 till date	Independent Consultant in IT at Chennai

Apr‘ 98 to Dec 02,  Chennai		Assistant Vice President - IT IT Head reporting to Managing Director		Value added network service provider and Messaging company (Deltagram)		Development & implementation  of Business required software with DGM-IT.(VB, SQL7 with the required communication software) Maintain VSAT network ( WAN and LAN ) across the country with Senior Manager-IT. Responsible for Software Asset Management , IT purchases, Recruitment and retaining IT professionals.
Oct ’95 to Mar ’98, Chennai		Project Leader reporting to the Head of the company		Software Development – DLS Consultants P Ltd Subsidiary company of Brakes India - TVS		Leading the team for the development and implementation of customized integrated application packages at various locations in LAN environment.(Foxpro,  Ingres)
Oct ’93 to Sep ’95, Bangalore		Director – Software reporting to Managing Director		Development of software Products (Software Research Group)		Leading the team for customized application software packages on indigenous RDBMS.(INEX). Re-engineered the organization to streamline the operations, effecting quality, productivity & operational cost reduction.  Instrumented and inculcated quality concepts across the organisation. Responsible for advertisement, Product Development, Promotion and customer Support.
Sep ’92 to Oct ‘93 , New Delhi		General Manager reporting to Director		General office Management, Software development and implementation,  Share issue and registrars (LSL Services)		Lead the team for development of share package.  (foxpro) Taken care of organization general administration.
Apr ’92  to Sep ’92, Chennai		Consultant (own)		Consultancy		Issue Management, Registrar Job, Software development, consultancy  and training
Period	Position		Organisation Type		Responsibilities
Sep ’88 to Mar ’92, Chennai	DP / Software Manager reporting to Director		Software Development / Issue house (CAMS)		As a software Manager lead the team for various integrated application development and implementation of  various customers like Reliance, Shaw Wallace, English Electric, Binny in Ingres, Informix, Oracle, Clipper in DOS, LAN, Unix and Wang platforms. Increased customer interaction to aid requirement analysis and help implementation for  customer delight. As a DP Manager deviced procedures    (Manual and system) for issue management  & share / debenture folio maintenance. Developed the above required software with a team of young professionals. Handled app. 20 issues , liasoned with Stock Exchanges, Merchant Bankers and bankers (at various locations in the country). Maintained Public Relations to have customer delight, abetted reduction in operational cost  and handled crisis management.
Sep ’83  to Aug ’88, Chennai	Computer center in charge reporting to Accounts Manager		Battery Manufacturing (Union Carbide)		Development (Autocoder,COBOL – DG, Wipro), implementation and customer training in application packages at various locations. Reduced the processing time in pay roll package. Participated in EDP Auditing.  Oversaw software maintenance and customer support operations. Maintained the computer center – hardware (Wipro) & software.
Sep ’82 to sep ’83, Chennai	Programmer reporting to EDP Manager		Piston manufacturing (India Piston)		Co-ordination between users and  external agencies in various applications. Participated in the study for the selection of suitable system
Oct ’77 to sep’82, Chennai	Programmer reporting to EDP Manager		Automobile trading (TVS)		Systems study, requirement analysis, development, implementation and user training of various applications. (Autocoder, COBOL, Fortran – IBM1401, ECIL systems)  Handled Business applications (Payroll, Inventory, Sales, Account, FD, Share, Costing and Utilities) for multiple companies in multiple applications.

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