Firstname : Jagadesh Pavan Kumar Kota

32 years old (13/06/1979)

Position: Program Manager

Availability:1st April, 2012

Formal Education
year: 2002 Education: Master of Computer applications Location: Chennai, India

Trainings:
PRINCE 2 training Project & Program management training

Technical Knowledge
programming languages : COBOL, JCL, Java/J2EE, XML Tools: Xpeditor, Endevor, File-Aid Database : DB2 operating systems: IBM ZOS390, MVS, IBM Websphere

Business Knowledge
Banking Accounting, retail, account & savings, Private and business banking, core banking, Risk management etc. Payments Credit/ Debit Card, Sepa, Credit transfer, Direct debit,

Functional Knowledge
Business/Functional Analysis Gathering/Definition of business requirements, gap analysis, functional analysis etc Testing Test Analysis, Test scenarios, test execution, functional testing, UAT, Master test plan creation, detail test plan preparation etc.

People Management Coordination, workshop leading, coaching,mentoring.

Spoken Languages
English: Fluent Dutch: Very basic

Professional Experience COMPANY: from July 2006 year to till date

Position : Senior project manager & program manager

Project Customer Period Location Description

Core Business Systems BCDB & DSA domains ABN Amro, Amsterdam, Netherlands Aug 2006 to Till date. Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 2007 to till date) Mumbai, India ( Aug 2006 May 2007) ABN AMRO is an international bank with European roots and a clear focus on consumer and commercial banking, strongly supported by an international wholesale business. ABN AMRO ranks 11th in Europe and 18th worldwide based on assets, with over 3,000 branches in more than 60 countries, a staff of more than 97,000. Senior project & program manager 50 FTE Project manager COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM, IMS DB/DC, ISPW,XPEDITOR, FILE AID Java/J2EE, EJB, web Services, struts,JSP,XML,HTML, XSL,BIB etc Project and program management. Client engagement. Assigning resources for projects & programmes. Constant monitoring and status tracking for critical projects and timely reporting to Client organization.

Current role Team Size Previous role Solution Environment

Activities

Constant check on project plan, budget, resources and quality to ensure the smooth and successful execution of projects. Preparing dashboard for current projects, future opportunities. Period check on the SWOT analysis. i.e. Strength, weakness, opportunities and threats Mentor and motivate the resources for quality and timely delivery Risk assessment and mitigation plans for projects. Applying quality controls on the deliverables to client. Constant exploration of new opportunities & business expansion. Understanding and evaluating the business requirements. Understanding the business requirements and creating functional designs Feasibility study for the requirements Implementation Production support Coordinate work between onsite and offshore.

COMPANY: from August 2004 to July 2006

Position : Team leader

Project Customer Period Location Description

Risk Systems MasterCard International, USA August 2004 July 2006 Chennai, India Risk Systems builds and supports technology solutions which assist in the reduction and prevention of MasterCard credit and debit fraud. This project provides different products used to combat fraud like Risk Finder, MOST, SAFE, ICS, MATCH, CPP, AVM, MVM and First Alert. Team Leader. Languages: IBM OS-390, MVS, VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, SPUFI, Endevor, Xpeditor Production Support for all the Mainframe Applications in Risk Products. Involved in Impact Analysis. Preparation of Program level Specifications based on the High Level Business Designs Coding COBOL-DB2 Batch programs Involved in developing test and prod JCLs / Procs.

Role Solution Environment Activities

Preparation unit test Plans/cases and executing the test cases as per the plan Participated in the Walk Thru, Reviews and Test results.

COMPANY: from March 2004 to July 2004 Role: Programmer

Project Customer Period Location Description Citi Bank Mutual Funds Citi Bank, Singapore Mar 2004- July 2004 Chennai, India Citibank is one of the leading multinational banks having a wide distribution network across the world. The services they extend in addition to normal banking are Credit Cards, Retail Finance, Corporate Finance, Bill discounting and Lending against shares, Forex, Investor service for Mutual Funds and long term fixed income bearing bonds. The Mutual fund system caters to the needs of both front office customer service and Back end processing for the entire mutual fund life cycle. This system does not include fund management. The system deals with buy, Sell, Transfer, Switch, Pledge of mutual fund units by the customer. The system has been implemented in 15 countries and furthermore rollouts are planned. The system is built on a flexible design to support customization on various requirements specific to different countries. Role Solution Environment Activities Team Member. COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, MVS, FILE-AID, Xpeditor, Changeman Enhancement of Existing Systems according to clients requirement. Analysis, Design, Development and Testing of the Programs. Involved in reviewing the requirement sent by the Client/ Onsite Coordinators. Changing the Programs/jobs, Unit Testing and Logging the results. Reviewing of Programs, Test Results Adhering to Quality Processes and Standards

COMPANY: from October 2003 to Feb 2004 Role: Programmer

Project Customer Period Location Description

Application Maintenance and Enhancement GAP Inc, USA Oct 03 - Feb 04 Chennai, India The Inventory System in GAP plays a crucial role in keeping track of the Inventory of DC's Stores, Settings up of Model Stocks and Allocations of goods to stores, etc. It processes all the data on sales transactions, model stock set-up, and allocations, shipments and receipt events of GAP across the world. The data is analysed and the information is available in various forms. Inventory System functions as an interface to other applications like Revenue Accounting, Point of Sales and Logistics. The Enhancement Change Requests involves requests from the Client for development of new programs or systems or modification of the existing programs or any other subsystem that essential for supporting ongoing business of the Client.

Role Solution Environment Activities

Team Member COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, MVS, ENDEVOR, FILE-AID, XPEDITER Requirement Analysis for Maintenance / Enhancements. Impact analysis of Maintenance. Bug fixing/code changes. Unit Testing of Programs, Review of Test results

COMPANY: from Nov 2001 to May 2002 Role: Programmer Trainee

Project Customer Period Location Role Description

Introduction of Multilingual Capability Indian Bank Nov 2001 - May 2002 Chennai, India Programmer trainee The main aim of the project is to develop the applications in the regional languages of India. Before developing application, feasibility study was executed for the project. Feasibility study

was mainly focussing on how the data would be stored in the database and how to enable the keyboard drivers to support the regional languages of India. Pro*C was used for reports, because it not only support character based reports but also it supports Unicode which is a standard for multilingual projects. Main goal of the project was to enable Indian bank customer to use their applications in multiple languages.

Activities

Requirement Analysis Impact analysis Feasibility study Development and unit testing System testing Implementation

Career Profile: Dates 31-July-2006 to till date 01-Feb-2006 to 21-July-2006 05-Aug-2004 to 31-Jan-2006 06-Oct-2003 to 15-July-2004 November 2001 to May 2002 Organization TATA Consultancy Services Wipro Technologies mPower Software Services Covansys India Pvt Ltd TATA Consultancy Services Role Project & program manager. Team leader. Programmer. Programmer Trainee Programmer.