Category: CONSULTANT

         CONSULTANT         Profile     A highly accomplished, skilled and talented Consulting manager with a thorough understanding of the Software development Life Cycle and a proven track record of successfully providing overall direction to project teams and managing client relationship.       Professional Experience      Consultant  ,   01/2001   to   11/2014    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      Led a data migration project for a client P & C insurance company from a legacy client server insurance system with a relational backend to a n-tiered insurance system which involved the entire gamut of activities from defining requirements, selecting the application tool suite to use for the data migration, performing data mapping and gap analysis, designing the technical approach, performing the necessary business analysis, engaging with the target system vendor technical leads to ensure structural compatibility, developing the transformation, testing the transformation all the way to the upload into the target system, supporting the UAT and creating a deployment plan Led and managed the design, development and implementation of a Billing module of a P & C system to support a change in the lockbox financial institution Served as a Technical Project Manager as well as a vendor relationship manager on a Commercial Lines Expansion Project, a key business initiative of the client company to enable the organization to underwrite business in additional states.  This CL Expansion effort is expected to capture 1.5% of the commercial lines market in each additional state (about $35,000,000) by the end of 2011 Led and managed a cross functional team to successfully migrate existing processes from an in-house personal lines system to a system in a hosted environment Led client efforts to support external IS audit conducted by Ernst & Young Led and managed the design, development and deployment of a print solution using Accelio suite of products (now part of the Adobe suite of products) to replace an existing print sub-system for a P & C Insurance system.  Conducted an internal practice-wide training to prepare other teams to undertake such print solution development efforts for other P & C clients Led and managed the design, development and integration of a custom built compliance software sub-system to help a P & C Insurance system comply with the requirements of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Assisted the IT Director at a client company in migrating their existing legacy system to the POINT IN system.  This was a full service engagement that included, analyzing and determining the hardware requirements for the selected system, negotiating the hardware purchase (saved the client over 40% on the original hardware purchase price), overseeing the hardware installation, developing the UAT plan, overseeing the UAT,  advising and assisting the clients' IT Director on the project.  Conducted an analysis of the popular CRM software packages and presented the findings to the clients' senior management team as part of an effort to facilitate their selection of a CRM package Technically led the design and development of an Imaging prototype system Provided technical leadership in re-designing the Guy Carpenter report to ensure accuracy and better data processing Provided technical leadership for migrating a Commercial lines system to a new payment vendor Provided production support on several client engagements Mentored junior level staff on several system development efforts Provided expertise and oversight in the development of marketing collateral Participated in a technical advisory role in determining the feasibility and the subsequent techno-business analysis of implementing an e-bill presentment module for a personal lines system which involved a lockbox vendor replacement.          Software Engineer  ,   01/2000   to   01/2001    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      Designed, developed and tested insurance applications.  Maintained existing insurance applications.          Sr. Applications Analyst Programmer  ,   11/1997   to   12/2000    Company Name   －   City  ,   State      Designed, developed and tested applications using Centura/SQL Windows as the frontend and Oracle as the backend.  Translated business requirements into technical specifications.  Formed a part of the core group on several teams for customizing and deploying the company's base P & C Insurance system Implemented Aviation, Tourism and Garage Liability lines of business for Sul America using Centura as the front end and Oracle as the back end.  Implemented Lead and Asbestos as well as Engineering lines of business for Zurich American using SQL Windows as front end and Oracle as the back end Formed a part of the core group of a successful team that implemented an  insurance/auto-warranty system for General Motors Corporation using Centura Developer for the front-end and Oracle as the back-end Participated in responding to RFP's as an SME Led the conversion of a 16-bit WPC (P&C Insurance) system as a technical advisor to its 32-bit version Mentored junior level staff on application development efforts.          Education      Master's degree  :  Computer Science  ,  2000    University of South Carolina   －   City  ,   State  ,   USA     Computer Science         Bachelor's degree  :  Physics  ,  1992    Gujarat University   －   City  ,   State  ,   India     Physics                   Accomplishments      Cross functional leadership and management:  Served as a Technical Project Manager as well as a vendor relationship manager on a Commercial Lines Expansion Project, a key business initiative of the client company that was aimed at capturing 1.5% of the commercial lines market in each state (about $35,000,000) by the end of 2011 Process migration leadership: Led and managed a cross functional team to successfully migrate existing processes from an in-house personal lines system to a system in a hosted environment Application audit support:  Led clients' effort at supporting an external IS application audit conducted by Ernst & Young Leadership in Application Design, Development and Deployment: Technically led and managed the design, development and deployment of a print solution using Accelio suite of products (now part of the Adobe suite of products) to replace an existing print sub-system for a P & C Insurance system.  Leadership in the design, development and deployment of compliance software: Technically led and managed the design, development and integration of a custom built compliance software sub-system to help a P & C Insurance system comply with the requirements of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Leadership in data migration from a client server to an n-tiered system: Led a data migration project from a legacy client server insurance system with a relational backend to a n-tiered insurance system.          Skills     Adobe suite, application development, approach, Assembler, Billing, business analysis, C, Carpenter, CL, client server, hardware, hardware installation, conversion, CRM, client, clients, data migration, data processing, Database, Delphi, designing, senior management, financial, functional, HTML, Imaging, Insurance, Languages, leadership, Director, market, marketing collateral, Access Basic, Office, MS-Office, MS-Project, Windows, Windows 2000, negotiating, Operating Systems, Oracle, Developer, Pascal, processes, Programming, RFP, SQL Server, SQL Windows, UNIX, Visio, Visual Basic