Nilopam Sikder
62/F Haran Banerjee Lane, PO Konnagar, Hooghly – 712235, India.

Phone: 91 33 26746481 / Mobile 91 98316 76606.
Email: nilopam@hotmail.com

 

Job Objective

Seeking a senior assignment in Information technology with a leading organization.

                                                     

Summary of Skills and Experience

·          Extensive experience as Sr. Project/Program Manager

·          Extensive knowledge of multiple platforms

·          Experienced in Preparation of project plans, Estimations, resource allocation,
Review of Functional Specification, Design and Test Plans etc.

·          Experienced in client interaction to establish project parameters, gap analysis, solution architecture, costing and commercial negotiations.

·          Have worked on projects on all three main technology areas like Client/Server, Web Based and Oracle Financial ERP Implementation and management.

·          Domain expertise in Manufacturing, Logistic/Supply Chain, NBFC, Consulting, Telco Billing.

·          Experienced in developing/maintaining new applications as well as migration projects.

·          Thorough experience of SDLC and project management tools.

·          Worked for global MNC clients like Roche, Compaq of Singapore/Australia, T&G Corp., Sheraton of Japan, ChaosMusic of Australia and Dell Computers of Hongkong.

·          Process Improvement – ISO/CMM.

·          Have worked in a cross-cultural environment at Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan.

 


Areas of Expertise

Technical

Hardware                     Pentium-III (Zeon), IBM RS/6000, Sequent, HP-K/N Class

OS                                Novel, VMS, UNIX (AT&T, SCO, Dynix/Ptx, HP-UX), Windows 95/ NT/2000, Linux, IBM-AIX.

Software                      Oracle, Visual Basic, ER-Win, UML

Database                     Oracle,  PostgreSQL

Tools                            D2K (Forms 4.5, Report 2.5), SQR Server (Brio), ER-Win, Visio, VSS, MS-Project.

Languages                   Visual Basic, COBOL, C, Java, SQL, PL/SQL

ERP Products               Oracle Financials (Module: AR, GL, AP, PO & INV), BSCS 6.0 (Telco billing),

Web Technologies       APACHE, HTML, ASP, J2EE

 

Project Management

·          Interacting with customers to understand user requirements and plan project resource allocation and costing accordingly.

·          Leading system analysis and design, and building functionalities and features, in close interaction with the client, integrating quality standards.

·          Integrating the project/product with existing applications ensuring seamless transition and user experience.

·          Managing a large team of software developers and imparting technical guidance and support.

·          Designing and executing innovative systems and processes for enhanced monitoring and control of resources and improved delivery of customer service.

·          Implementation & management of Manufacturing System   ŕ Seven years experience.

·          Implementation & management of NBFC System                ŕ More than one year experience.

·          Implementation & management of Oracle Financial ERP      ŕ Three years experience.

·          Implementation of Logistic & Supply Chain related product ŕ More than one year experience.

·          Implementation of Telecom Billing Software                      ŕ More than Two year experience.

 

Organizational Experience

 

Bharti Cellular Limited (Airtel), Kolkata, India.

Currently working as Sr. Manager and looking after Project implementation and management of the four circle (Kolkata, WB, Orissa, Bihar & Jharkhand).

 

Other Major milestone achieved are as follows :-

 

ŕ Oracle Financial System (Two Implementation)

ŕ Telecom Billing system (Two Implementation)

ŕ Oracle ECRM

ŕ Various other telecom related software like Ericsson IN, PACS, Subex

    Fraud Management etc.

ŕ Leading a team of software and support personnel to set-up entire

    telecom IT infrastructure in the eastern part of India (WB, Orissa, Bihar & Jharkhand).

ŕ Project management for the circle launch.

 

 

August-2002 to July-2003

NCS Technologies Pvt. Ltd.  Client : Mirror-I Corp., Miyazaki, Japan

Key Responsibility Areas

·          Head – Software factory.

·          Manage BPO work of a leading Indian Bank.

·          Manage one of the India’s largest GPS, GSM enabled tracking software project since inception.

·          Manage end-to-end ERP Implementation in a leading urban transportation service company.

·          Leading and managing the development centre facility and executing multiple projects.

·          Assisting the marketing team to develop customized technical and commercial proposals to conduct contract negotiations.

·          Regularly updating the client on project progress and maintaining regular documentation.

·          Collaborating with project leaders for need based allocation and consequent optimization of organization’s resources.

·          Process Improvement - CMM.

 

Significant Projects

·          A CRM product for the Japanese local government on VB and PostgreSQL database platform.

·          A web-enabled event tracking software for T &G Corp on Python and PostgreSQL.

·          Migration of MS Access based Event management application for T&G Corp. of Japan, from MS Access database to PostgreSQL database.

·          Localizing of hospitality ERP package on Report Builder and Oracle platform, for Sheraton Hotel, involving Oracle database and report builder, Visual basic.

 

Apr ’01 to Jul ’02                   Schlumberger Sema India (P) Ltd                 Project Manager

The Indian subsidiary of the US multinational.

 

Role:     Project Manager

Major Projects

·          Managed two telecom billing and customer care projects for the client of SchlumbergerSema  Ltd.

 

Environment for both projects

·          HP UNIX, Windows-98/NT, Oracle 8.1.6, PL/SQL, Centura (Gupta SQL), Visio, MS Project 2000.

 

Responsibilities

·          Studying and analyzing the existing application for migrating and leading the entire team for development of the new applications.

·          Responsible and accountable for smooth project implementation, management and costing.

·          User requirement gathering and documentation.

·          Conduct weekly project review.

·          Engage user actively throughout the entire project life cycle.

·          Responsible and accountable for high customer satisfaction.

·          Responsible and accountable for quality project delivery.

·          Plan, execute and monitor project testing.

·          Conduct periodic project health check and Recruitment of project consultants.

·          Project documentation.

·          Process Improvement – ISO

·          Responsible and accountable for user training.

·          Provide customer feedback to solution development.

 

Oct ’00 to Mar ’01                  YCH Technology Pte Ltd, Singapore              Program Manager

An ISO 9002 certified MNC providing global end to end logistic and supply chain solutions and 3-rd party logistic.

 

Role:                 Program/Project Manager

Major Projects

1.      Intrabutor System for Roche Diagnostic Asia Pacific, Singapore from Oct ’00 to Mar ’01.

·          A B2B site partly funded by the Singapore Economic Development Board, to interact with Roche’s customers, to provide them marketing and price information and process and supply their orders.

·          The technical environment was Windows NT 4.0, Jrun 2.3.3, Java JDK 1.1.8, JSP 1.0, JSWDK 1.0.1, Oracle 8.0.5 / Oracle D2K, Rational Rose Modeler 2000 and MS Project.

 

2.      Intribution System for a consortium of 3 clients: Compaq APAC division, Roche Vitamin, Singapore and Chaos Music of Australia from Oct ’00 to Mar ’01.

·          This was a warehouse and inventory management system with a web based interface.

·          The technical environment was Sco-Unix, Jrun 2.3.3, Java JDK 1.1.8, JSP 1.0, JSWDK 1.0.1, Informix RDBMS, Crystal Reports and Microsoft Project.

 

3.      Retrogistic Project for Dell Computers, Hong Kong from Dec ‘00 to Mar ’01.

·          A reverse logistic system to track repair, return and screen parts process for Dell service /spare parts and the delivery of spare parts to the customer within pre-defined time.

·          Developed using Sco-Unix, Informix RDBMS, Crystal Reports and MS Project.

 

Key Responsibilities

·          Pre-sales consulting and solution design, managed the entire development lifecycle of all the logistic and supply chain related projects and ensured post-implementation support, user training to make them immediately productive on the systems and Process Improvement – ISO standard.

 

Sep ‘96 to Sep ’00                 PT Kewalram Indonesia, Bandung              IS Project Manager

An ISO 9002 certified MNC  manufacturing company, part of the Singapore based Chanrai group Company.

 

Key Responsibilities

·          Project Management, executing software implementation and application development projects in collaboration with Singapore based consultants and functional managers and maintenance of quality as per ISO 9002 standard.

·          System architecture and content development and leading the team for development and implementation of end to end Oracle Financial ERP.

 

Major Projects

4.      Web Based B2C Ordering System to sell finished products of the embroidery division on-line. The organization is the largest exporter of embroidered products in Indonesia.

·          The application interacted with the existing Sales Order, Oracle financial & Inventory system for order processing and delivery management.

 

5.      Implementation of Oracle Financial System Rel 11.0.3 (Accounts Payable, Account Receivable and General Ledger modules) and creating interface with legacy sales order, Production and payroll system.

·          The environment for this project was Developer/2000 (Forms 4.5, Report 2.5), Oracle Database Ver. 8.0.5, PL/SQL, Lotus Notes and MS-Project.

 

6.      Oracle Financial Rel 11.0.3 Purchasing and Materials System Implementation to replace the existing legacy materials management system based on Forms 3.0, SQR (Brio) Report writer with Oracle Materials module.

 

7.      A System Re-engineering Project to convert all existing legacy systems modules like finance, inventory and stock from non Y2K complaint Oracle database ver. 5.0 to Oracle database ver. 7.2 and Forms 2.3 to Forms 3.0 and subsequently to Forms 4.5 and conversion of Miti SQR Report writer ver. 1.1 to SQR-3 workbench.

 

8.      The other projects worked on this organization include a web based B2B customer support system, Spinning Costing System, Payroll & HRD System Implementation, Production Planning & Quality System, a Sales Order System and a comprehensive Embroidery Costing Module using Oracle Database and Developer 2000.

 

The Oracle ERP project was termed as one of the fastest oracle implementation project in South East Asia during 2000 and success story of this implementation project was published in all the leading newspaper of Indonesia.

 

March ‘95 to Sep ’96              Summit Usha Martin Finance Corp                Systems Manager

A JV between Sumitomo Group of Japan and Usha Martin Group of India

 

Major Project

·          Implementation and management of Non Banking Finance to automate all the operational areas of the organization viz. Fixed Deposit, Hire Purchase, Stock Broking, Leasing, Forex trading and Financial Accounting and Payroll.

·          It was based on Oracle ver. 7.0, SQL, PL/SQL, Forms 3.0 and Reports.

 

Jul ’94 to May ’95                  Wood Craft Products Ltd, Calcutta                EDP Manager

A part of the BK Birla group, it is one of the largest plywood manufacturers in the country.

 

Major Project

·          Designed, developed and implemented a Branch Automation System, it was developed in Basic and FoxPro.

 

1988 to 1994 worked with various organizations (Shalimar Paints Ltd., Biax Ltd, Raymond Cements etc.) as Sr. Systems Executive, System Analyst and Programmer.

Professional Affiliations

·          Member of the Computer Society of India and Calcutta Management Association.

·          Member of MIS Asia VIP Club, Singapore.

 

Training Attended

·          Project Management course conducted by Dr. Bennet Lientz from PDA, Professional Development Associates, Jakarta, Indonesia.

·          Negotiation Skill course conducted by KARRAS Corporation, U.K.

·          BSCS 6.0 System Course from Schlumberger Sema, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Educational Qualification

·          Bachelor of Science from Calcutta in the year 1985.

·          PG Diploma in Computer Science from Calcutta in the year 1986.

·          Integrated Course on Information Technology from Calcutta in the year 1990.

·          Certificate course of UNIX & C from Calcutta in the year 1990.

·          Oracle Developer 2000 from Calcutta, in 1996.

 

Languages Known                  English, Bengali, Hindi, Malay, Indonesian, Japanese (Basic).