JEGADEESAN RAMASAMY (Singapore PR)Blk 231 Serangoon Avenue 3, #03-42, Singapore, 550231 | HP: 83225632 | jag5_98@yahoo.com

SummaryPMP certified MBA graduate majoring in Finance, having more than 15+ years of experience with strong technical and analytical skills in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC), Application Development, Maintenance & Support (ADMS) in the functional areas of Enterprise Data Warehousing, Financial, Billing, Collection and Accounting system, On Demand Delivery and Web Services Management System, Internet based Payroll System and Educational Institution Enhancement Services.

Highlights Having extensive experience in all phases of

SDLC including design, development, testing and documentation with the track record of tackling and solving tough business and technical problems within stipulated SLAs.

Passionate about ever learning project management skills, self-motivated personal attitudes, firm commitment and tendency to collaborate with team members to get most optimal output.

Actively contributed in end-to-end pre-sales activities; tender briefing, tender proposal/solution preparation, tender presentation, tender submission process and defense proposal presentation, for various government RFPs.

Owns accountability to ensure customer satisfaction in all project deliverables, raising customer's confidence, delivering project artifacts on time and resolution of issues with the aim of doing first time right for all deliverables to customer.

Highly self-motivated, adaptive to changes and possess can do attitude with the ability to work under pressure in fast faced and challenging environments.

Career Accomplishments 11+ years of experience in working with various Singapore Government engagements. 5+ years of experience in project management, planning, resource and efforts estimations, Manage

customer expectations & scope, mitigate project risks. Involved in bulk tender RFP submission process for IDA (IDA(T) 1321 - IDA’S APPLICATION SYSTEMS, E-

SERVICES AND WEBSITES) which consist of 17 firm and 10 optional applications. Performed estimated resource loading, pricing and efforts estimations based support years, no. of average PRs, SRs and Business queries on each application. Performed infrastructure (software/hardware) sizing for PROD/UAT/DEV environment based on the requirements.

Involved in end to end tender submission process for ITE (ITE000/15051/HQ) on COTS Assessment solution.

Experience

PROJECT MANAGER Apr 2010 to PresentTECH MAHINDRA － SINGAPORE

Project: Data Mart for Examination and Survey Reporting AnalysisClient: Ngee Ann Polytechnic – SingaporeThe primary objective of this project is to integrate student performance related data from multiple source systems and develop business driven data mart to enable informed decisions through Data Accuracy & Standardization.

Role: As a Project Manager responsible for

Project management, planning, resource and efforts estimations, manage customer expectations & scope, and mitigate project risks.

Involve techno functional consultants in gathering detailed business requirements and scope of this engagement from the key NP stakeholders.

Obtain formal user sign off on Business functional requirement document (BRD) and Technical design documents sign offs based on detailed requirements (business, technical and functional) and finalized scope.

Liaising with competency and resource management teams to ensure availability of resources with necessary skills (staffing requirement)

Conducting various workshop sessions on Dimensional Data Modeling, BRD review, technical design review with NP users.

Performing Functional testing and Extensive System Integration testing (SIT) using various test scenarios/test cases with respect to the integration with various source systems for the correctness and accuracy of data.

Enable the business users to do user acceptance testing (UAT) on the application built for the functionality and correctness of output and ease of use.

Review all project deliverables including SIT/UAT plans, SIT/UAT results and end user training materials to ensure quality, completeness and relevance.

Conduct hands on trainings for Technical, Admin, Functional NP users on the use of the data mart application with necessary user manuals.

Conduct weekly review, monthly PPM, Ad-hoc meeting with technical, business users to identify & monitor potential risks, challenges, keep all stakeholders informed of those issues and address them with solutions/alternatives.

Oversee Production preparation, promote to production activities to ensure project go-live as planned.

Project: REFRESH3 - Application VirtualizationClient: Department Of Statistics – Singapore

The objective of this project is to Design, supply, deliver, install, test and commission of an Application Virtualization, Security and High Performance Statistical Computing Platform to improve the IT security posture of the Government’s IT infrastructure.

Role: As a Project Manager responsible for

Project Planning, Vendor Management & Co-ordination. Conducting technical sessions for Information Gathering & Due Diligence. Monitor and facilitate Treasury & GDC2 Site readiness & System readiness. Liaising with Vendors for implementing all 5 tracks solution roll-out. Tracking of Hardware & Software delivery as per PO raised on the different vendors. Conducting Pre Implementation Check and environment readiness & dependencies. Review of Implementation plan, SIT & UAT Test Plans. Periodic review of Project progress and provide fortnightly/weekly status update to all stake

holders. Track project issues, risks and ensure to perform risk mitigation activities. Ensuring Acceptance test is completed as per agreed UAT plan for stabilization &

handholding all 5 solution tracks. Ensuring necessary documentation by all vendors on User Training, Sign off & Handover,

Project Handover & Closure sign off from all stake holders.

Project: iBENS (Integrated Billing, Edusave and Collections System) Client: MOE – Singapore

The Integrated Billing, Edusave and Collections System (iBENS) is a suite of web-based applications that facilitate Ministry of Education (MOE) HQ and schools in processing the billing, collection and accounting of all relevant fees and charges payable by students; also facilitates the administration of Edusave accounts for students in mainstream schools and prescribed schools.

Role: As a Project Manager

Manage overall iBENS day to day business operations that involve ensuring iBENS going concern, to ensure application logs are verified and reported to users, to ensure quarterly job preparation, monthly preventive maintenance activities to be performed, and jobs are scheduled, recovered & report the recovery status to users.

Estimate resource planning, time and cost involved in developing new SRs. Responsible to co-ordinate maintenance & support team and steering committee to resolve

any disputes, escalations, issues and concerns reported by users on overall iBENS business operations.

Develop gaps in existing business processes and turn it into SRs, review impact analysis, and ensure implementing SRs from development to UAT to production deployment as per planned schedule.

To keep track record of all the deliverables, performing root cause analysis and resolutions to production issues during the project life cycle.

To have overall view of the entire system and good business understanding on existing modules in order to guide and lead the team, especially on change impact across modules to ensure integrity and not to compromise functionality of the whole system.

Prepare bi-weekly/monthly project progress functional & technical meetings reports & documents and publish them periodically.

Addressing various escalations from FDD/ITB/End Users in terms of operational issues, business queries and helpdesk cases to its resolutions.

Providing training and mentoring team members in understanding application architecture and business processes, enable them in resolving production issues and recovery process of critical batch jobs.

Review all project deliverables including PPM documents, user documentation, investigation reports on production issue and help desk cases, SIT/UAT plans, SIT/UAT results and end user training materials to ensure quality, completeness and relevance.

To initiate Job automation process ‘Process Automation Tools of Techm’, reusable automation tool (unique pattern scheduling language) to schedule IBENS batch jobs for any given frequencies, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or any ad-hoc day

TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT II Jan 2005 to Mar 2015HP － SINGAPORE

Project: iBENS (Integrated Billing, Edusave and Collections System)Client: MOE – Singapore

The Integrated Billing, Edusave and Collections System (iBENS) is a suite of web-based applications that facilitate Ministry of Education (MOE) HQ and schools in processing the billing, collection and accounting of all relevant fees and charges payable by students; also facilitates the administration of Edusave accounts for students in mainstream schools and prescribed schools.

Role: As a Lead responsible for

Data Conversion activities of Phase 1 Pilot and Full, which includes activities to handle transition of data from the current legacy systems to iBENS system and interim measures to support Edusave deductions in Phase 1 until Edusave is implemented in Phase 2.

Developing new DTS packages as and when required, tuning and fixing bugs in existing DTS packages.

Managing collection module which provides online functions for collections of iBENS bills (MOE bills, School bills and Subsidy Statements) and non-iBENS bills (foreign student donations, donations to Education Fund, Examination Fees and other charges).

Maintaining A&R module, which manage iBENS, NFS@Gov and HQ IFAAS Chart of Accounts, generate iBENS, NFS and IFAAS journal entries and interface files, process closing of accounts at the end of the financial year.

TECH LEAD Oct 2003 to Dec 2004AZTEC SOFTWARE & TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LTD －BANGALORE, INDIA

Project: JamCrackerClient: JamCracker – US

Jamcracker product offers Service Providers, the solution for managing the deployment lifecycle of web applications and web services. Built on an extensible, standards-based architecture, the Jamcracker solution provides organizations with tools that enable deployment and operations teams to automate the key processes of defining and activating new and updated web applications and web services. ROLE: As a Tech Lead Responsible for

Responsible for design, development and release of the following enhancement projects, Service Plan, Service Bundle, Update subscription of Services, Bulk distribution of Services.

Managing team members, interact with client for Requirement Study, develop high level functional documents, detailed Design documents (DDDs), and develop UT and IT test case documents, Configuration management plans

Provide technical assessment and solutions, work/issue assignment to team and tracking to its closure.

SENIOR DEVELOPER Nov 2000 to Jun 2003QATALYS SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES －CHENNAI, INDIA

Project Involved: - Random Generator & Tracking (RGT)- RADCAP Sales Accounting System (SFL)- Special Educational Needs (SEN)- Integrated Pay (I-Pay)- Contact Management System (CMS)

Key Achievements:

Developed Oracle SQL reports with user interface to specify filter conditions Involved in development of pioneer 3-tier program using Remote concept that meet SFL-RADCAP design architecture issue.

Involved in design, prepared expanded use case for high level use case, drawing Sequence Diagram based on expanded use cases and Class Diagram from sequence diagram.

Preparing Requirement Spec documents (SRS), Detailed Design Documents (DDD) using high level use cases, ST, IT and Unit Test case plan and scenarios Documents. 

Involved in development phases for various projects that involves J2EE, .NET technologies. Maintenance of database like taking backup and restoring database, writing PL/SQL

procedures and functions.EducationExecutive MBA, Finance & Marketing 2009SP Jain Center of Management － SingaporeBachelor’s Degree (BA), English Literature 1998Madurai Kamaraj University － Madurai, India

Professional Diploma, Software Technology and SystemsManagement 1997National Institute of Information Technology － Chennai, India

Certifications PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP #1811364) Big Data Architect course completion certificate from BigDataTraining.IN

Skills Programming Languages: C, C++, Java RDBMS/DBMS: SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000/2014, Oracle 7.x/8i/10g, MySQL Internet Technologies: J2EE, Struts, JSP, Hibernate, Servlet, JMS, RMI, HTML, Java Script, XML,

VB.NET, ADO.NET, Ant, SSIS Big Data, Data Science Technologies: MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Pig, HQL, Statistical

Modeling, R, SPSS Application Server: Apache Tomcat, EA Server 4.2, WebLogic 6.0/7.0/8.x, JBoss 4.0, Sun Application

Server Platform Edition 8, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 IDE Tools: Visual Café, Visual Interdev, JBuilder, JCreator, Eclipse Reporting Tools: Actuate Reports eDesigner, JReport, iText, Crystal Reports Version Control: Visual Source Safe 6.0, Perforce, CVS, SVN Development Environments: Full SDLC, Product development, ADMS (Application Development,

Maintenance & Support), Infra Management

Trainings Undergone Big Data architect training in BigDataTraining.IN Undergone ITIL foundation training in Tech Mahindra Undergone Data Science training in Tech Mahindra that covers;

- Data Understanding, Data Preparation and Data Cleansing- Supervised, unsupervised learning using models, performing exploratory analysis- various statistical modeling on predictive, classification and clustering models- Evaluating a model for best fit and validating across models- R programming

Interests In emerging technologies like Big Data, Data Science Playing Badminton, Watching sports events Sports volunteerism (Volunteered as Event Marshal [EVM] Leader during SEA Games - 2015,

Singapore National Games - 2016 events)

Additional InformationFINANCE DOMAIN EXPOSURE

As part of MBA, carried out the project work “A Study of Basel II Pillar 3 disclosure in Singapore”. This case study attempts to analyze How Basel II – Pillar 3 disclosure impacts provisioning for NPA in Singapore banks and its impacts on their earning quality based the hypothesis; “More provisions for bad debts is to reduce level of NPA, but having increased provisions will also have impacts on banks earning quality”.

It also discus about evolving bank supervisory and regulatory framework Basel II and its three arms Pillar 1, Pillar 2, and Pillar 3. The study has used multiple regression research methodology to evaluate the relationship between dependent loan loss provision variable and multiple independent variables total capital ratio, retained earnings, bank earning quality variables, loans to total asset ratio and NPA ratio.