GIRISH RAMACHANDRAN NAIR
926, West Victoria Avenue, Apt #131  *  Montebello CA 90640
Cell Phone: (415) 609-5886 *  E-mail: 

Comprehensive Knowledge, Business Vision, and Success In:
 *  CLIENT INTERACTION
 *  ONSITE CO-ORDINATION
 *  QUALITY ASSURANCE 
 *  CLIENT SERVER TECHNOLOGY INVOLVING POWERBUILDER, SYBASE, ORACLE & EASERVER
 *  FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN INVESTMENT BANKING, BANKING CRM, MATERIAL
MANAGEMENT, INVENTORY CONTROL, SERVICE INDUSTRY & PRODUCTION PLANNING

Experience Summary:
 *  Over 10 years of IT industry experience that includes client interaction,
onsite co-ordination, Requirement Gathering, development and maintenance of
business applications in the Client/Server space, Analysis & Design of
maintenance and enhancement requests.
 *  Technical Specialist - Working with iGATE Global Solutions Limited, USA, a
SEI CMM Level 5 company.
 *  Highly conversant with various versions of PowerBuilder and client server
application development using different databases like Sybase 11, Sybase ASA,
Oracle 10g and EAServer middle tier application server.

Project Management:
Organized and goal-oriented, with over four years of experience in project
management in client server based business applications with focus on value
addition to the customer  's business.

   Change Management    Management of Measurable Business-Performance
Improvement Outcomes    Total Quality Management    Cross-Functional Project Team
Leadership    Organizational/Team Design and Development    Productivity and
Efficiency Improvement    Negotiation, Persuasion, and Communication    Problem
Solving    Decision Making    MS Project

Functional Experience:
   Requirements gathering    GAP Analysis    Interfacing with users   
Application Design    Understanding Custom Legacy Systems    Configuration
Management    Test script generation    Training end users

Key Skill Areas:
   PowerBuilder Ver 6.5/7/9/10/11.1    Sybase ASE v11, Sybase ASA, Oracle
8.x/10.x    EAServer    Configuration Management tools like MS Visual Source
Safe, MKS.    Power Designer, Toad, Visio, MS Project

Additional Skill Areas:
C, C++, WinRunner

Training Undergone:
 *  Rational Unified Process (RUP)
 *  Quality Management System for Technical Leads
 *  Supervisory Skills

Achievements:
Recipient of the R & R Award from iGate Global Solutions for Best Innovative
Solutions in the year 2005.

CAREER HISTORY and ASSIGNMENTS

iGate (Nasdaq: IGTE), Pittsburgh, PA(India & USA) 2004  *  Till Date
iGate provides more than 300 clients across five continents with consulting,
technology and business process outsourcing and provisioning services, generating
approximately $276M in annual revenues.
TECHNICAL SPECIALIST (2004  *  till date)

Major Assignments

1. Union Bank (formerly Union Bank of California), Monterey Park/LA/San Diego,
CA 
 *  Period: September 2008  *  Aug 2009
 *  Project Name(s): Enterprise Solution For Bankers
 *  Project Type: Maintenance & Enhancement
 *  Environment: PowerBuilder, Oracle 9i, MQ Series, Mainframe Applications
 *  Role: Onsite Lead.

Responsible for: 
 *  Requirement Gathering at onsite by interacting with business users.
 *  Prepare Technical Design Specifications based on the requirement.
 *  Build and Deployment of offshore deliverables after testing for the
requirement.
 *  Provide support to User Acceptance Testing.
 *  Production Support.
 *  Planning and tracking the deliverables. 

Brief project description:
Enterprise Solution for Bankers (ESB) is an in-built CRM application used by the
banks Sales and Marketing team to manage their relationship with prospective and
existing customers, tracking the leads of opportunity to convert a prospect into
a client, managing the appointments/meetings with customers. ESB has a
comprehensive KYC (Know Your Customer) module that acts as a repository of
information about a client. ESB receives customer data from Duns and Bradstreet
firm on a monthly basis besides sending downstream data to other in-house
developed applications in Mainframe as well. 

2. Bank of New York Mellon (formerly Mellon Capital Management), San Francisco,
CA 
 *  Period: Jan 2005  *  August 2008 (on onsite assignment from Dec 2006  *  Aug
2008)
 *  Project Name(s): Mellon Capital Management  *  AMO
 *  Project Type: Maintenance/Enhancement/Production Support/DBA Services 
 *  Environment: PowerBuilder 9.0/Sybase ASE 11/EA Server 
 *  Role: Technical Lead/Onsite Lead  * Global Asset Allocation application MCM
Analyzer

Responsible for: 
 *  Requirements gathering
 *  Prepare Technical Design Specifications based on the requirement.
 *  Build and Deployment of offshore deliverables after testing for the
requirement.
 *  Assuring proper functional testing and quality control is performed.
 *  Provide support to User Acceptance Testing.
 *  Production Support.
 *  Planning and tracking the deliverables

Brief project description:
Bank of New York Mellon Asset Management (BNYM AM) is one of the leading names
in the investment banking domain space in the United States and offers a wide
range of strategies, from traditional to alternative asset classes. BNYM
primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans and state or
municipal government entities. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolios
against the S&P 500 Index and the Russell Index. iGATE plays a major role in the
maintenance and enhancements of a wide suit of applications that facilitates BNYM
 's business spanning different technologies.

The MCM Analyzer is one of the applications supported by iGATE for maintaining
and enhancements. This application is primarily used by the portfolio managers to
decide on the strategies to be adopted while trading in US domestic markets and
international markets in Europe and Asia. MCM Analyzer is one of the business
critical applications for BNYM in terms of the revenue it generated and the no.
of users it had. This application was developed in PowerBuilder 11.0 as frontend
and Sybase 11 as backend with the business logic residing on the application
server EAServer.

3. Investor  's Bank & Trust, Boston, MA 
 *  Period: July 2004  *  Dec 2004 
 *  Project Name(s): PowerBuilder Application Migration and Test Script Creation

 *  Project Type: Migration & Test Automation
 *  Environment: PowerBuilder 6.5/9, Oracle 9i, Win Runner 
 *  Role: Technical Lead

Responsible for: 
 *  Identify Migration strategy for each application on a case to case basis.
 *  Prepare Migration cook book outlining the migration strategy being
employed.
 *  Provide Technical guidance to the team at offshore
 *  Status reporting to the client manager at onsite.
 *  Validate and upload deliverables for the client manager at onsite
 *  Test Script creation using Win Runner.
 *  Complete documentation, Review and Approval.
 *  Assuring proper functional testing and quality control is performed.

Brief project description:
Investor  's Bank & Trust is a security processing company based out of Boston,
Massachusetts with additional offices in other parts of the world. 

This project was primarily executed for the Bank  's IT Department who were
faced with the task of migrating the multitude of PowerBuilder applications being
used in the Bank in various versions of PowerBuilder to PowerBuilder version 9.0
and create automated test scripts for testing these applications. The challenge
was to create an inventory of all PowerBuilder applications some of them with
even just a single user so that strategies for migration could be deviced for
each of them. Automated test scripts were created using the Winrunner tool and
each migrated application were subjected to testing using these scripts.

SONY INDIA SOFTWARE CENTRE, Bangalore, India Feb 2004  *  June 2004
Sony India Software Centre located in Bangalore provides software maintenance
and round the clock production support to all Sony Entertainment, Sony factories
across Asian region, US, South Africa etc.

4. Sony Entertainment  *  Tokyo, Japan, Sony factories in Asia Pac Region 
 *  Period: Feb 2004  *  June 2004
 *  Project Name(s): Dolphin - Dynamic Order and Logistics Process Handling
Information Network 
 *  Project Type: Maintenance & Production Support 
 *  Environment: PowerBuilder 7.0, Oracle 9i 
 *  Role: Software Consultant

Responsible for: 
 *  Production Support
 *  Requirement gathering and development
 *  Test Bed and test script preparation
 *  Design spec. documentation
 *  UTP Preparation.
 *  Reviews like Codes, Documents, Documents preparation etc.
 *  Assuring the deliverable conforms to client quality standards. 
 *  Assuring that all production tickets are closed as early as possible.

Brief project description:
DOLPHIN system is Sony  's Sales and Distribution application which is being
used by its Asian factories. This is a custom built client server based system
with more than 600 registered users from as far east as Tokyo and westward across
11 Sony factories in Asia. This system has been developed using Oracle and Power
Builder. It has got Masters, order management, pricing, invoice, inventory,
shipping, and export support and web interface modules. This system is
extensively integrated with customer, factory, carrier and corporate systems
through various interfaces. Model, orders, inventory, production plan, vessel
schedule, vessel booking, delivery schedule, bill of lading, INVOIC/DESADV are
some of the interfaces from/to external systems. It supports various re-invoice
operation and inter-company sales. It generates shipping documents like Invoice,
Packing List, Delivery Order, Shipping Instruction, Loading instructions, custom
forms, and various management reports.

CCS Technologies (P) Ltd, Kottayam, India June 1999  *  Nov 2003
CCS Technologies is a Software Development and Services Company established in
the year 1980. Headquartere