ARGHYA KUNDU

Phone Number 91-9831334770 (Mobile), (080)42229571 (Residence)

E-mail id akundu2000@gmail.com, akundu2000@yahoo.com
Address Apt 201, Block A, Vishnu Residency, Con Sy No. 72/1 Varthur Main Road, Hobli, Bangalore 560066

CAREER SUMMARY:
 18.5+ years of Application software/product development/Maintenance/Support (complete SDLC)
experience, well conversant with industry best practices, CMM, PCMM, Quality, Six-Sigma, Processes
 11.5+ years of experience in Delivery/Account/Project/People/Product/Program management,
Client/Business Partners/Stakeholders engagement, SSAD/OOAD/RUP/XP/SCRUM/Agile
 6+ years of BFSI (Insurance/Banking/Investment/Payment Industry Solutions), 4 years of Networking
/ Telecom / Security, 2 years of Systems Management (Storage/Deployment) domain experience
 Extensive working experience in Web/Java/J2EE/EAI technologies, Enterprise Architecture & Design,
Unix/AIX/Linux/Windows/Mainframe/z/OS, Java/C++/Smalltalk/OOAD, XML/XSL, Python, LotusNotes,
COBOL/Pro*COBOL/JCL/CICS, C/Pro*C, SQL*Plus/SQL*Forms/PL/SQL, Oracle/UDB/DB2/VSAM
Databases, ETL(AbInitio)/Data warehouse(DWH) technologies, ASP, VBScript, ASP.NET, VB.NET
 Self motivated, Achievement oriented, Fast Learner. Hard working, Go-getter & dynamic in nature

SKILLS:
Domain BFSI (Insurance/Payment Industry/Card Business/Banking/Investment),
Networking/Telecom/Security and Systems Management (Storage / Deployment)
Management / Delivery / Account / Project / Product / Program Mgmt, UML, OOAD, RUP, RAD, SSAD, Agile,
Methodologies XP, Scrum, ISO 9001, CMM
Technologies / Java/J2EE (Core Java, JSP, Servlet, EJB, AWT, Swing, JMS, JNDI, Web Services, SOA, SOAP),
Languages ETL (AbInitio) and Data Ware House (DWH) technologies, B2C, B2B, C++, Smalltalk, C, Lotus
Notes, Python, Pro*C, COBOL, Pro*COBOL, JCL, CICS, TCL/TK, XML/XSL, XML-RPC, JavaScript,
ASP, VBScript, ASP.NET, VB.NET, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, CIM, SMI-S standards, iSCSI
Application / IBM Websphere App Server (WAS 4.0/5.0), Netscape App Server (NAS 4.0), Tomcat, JBOSS,
Web Servers Java Web Server, ServletExec 3.0
Databases / Oracle 7.x/8i/9i, DB/2, UDB, VSAM, MS Access, TOAD, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Erwin,
Tools Sun Identity Manager, Sun One LDAP Server, MS Project, CVS, Documentum, XMLSpy,
Eclipse, Net Beans, IPMI, RAID, SCSI, IDE, SATA, SAS ,FC, SAN, NAS
Hardware Pentium, SunSPARC, IBM RISC/6000, VAX 6510, HP 9000, Dell, IBM Mainframe
Operating Windows (different flavors), SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, AIX, z/OS, OS/2, VMS 5.4, HP-UX-A-
System A.09.05, Linux (Redhat, SUSE), VMWare

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Name of the Company Role Duration
RS Software, Kolkata Delivery Manager Dec 08 – till date
Dell India R&D Center, Bangalore Development Manager Oct 06 – Oct 08
WIPRO Technologies, Kolkata Senior Project Manager June 05 – Oct 06
SkyTECH Solutions Pvt Ltd, Kolkata Project Manager May 04 – May 05
Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata Project Manager 12.75 Yrs (Aug 91 – Apr 04)

EDUCATION:
Title of the Degree Branch Studied College/University Year of Passing
Bachelor of Engineering Electronics & B.E.College (Shibpur) 1991
Telecommunication Engg [Calcutta University]

LEADERSHIP TRAINING: Successfully completed 9-months long Leadership Development Program at DELL

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EXPERIENCE:
1) BFSI Domain (Insurance, Banking & Investment, Payment Industry & Card Business)

Service Delivery Manager of Information System Development (ISD) group of VISA Inc, USA – RS
Software, Kolkata, India (Dec 08 – Till date) – Loyalty / Non-Loyalty / CDI / Mainframe Application
Development for VISA ISD group - Managing ETL (Abinitio) based Loyalty and Non-Loyalty application
development Projects, Java/J2EE based CDI Applications development project and Mainframe based Card
Business Application development project.

Business Analyst / Design Lead - Development of Insurance system for Takaful, Malayasia - Tata
Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India (Feb 04 – May 04) - TCS developed customized Life and General
Insurance package for Takaful, Malayasia for several large modules - New Business, Claims, Certificate
Servicing, Reinsurance, Marketing & Despatch, ePayment (B2B/B2C) and Workflow Management etc. I led
analysis & design activities of ReTakaful module using UML methodology & Mastercraft 6.5 tool.

Project Manager - Development of Reinsurance Front End (REFE) system for Domestic Brokerage Group
(DBG) of American International Group (AIG), NY - Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India (Aug 03 –
Jan 04) – Geographically dispersed profit Centers of Domestic Brokerage Group (DBG) used to process
many underwriting systems’ data manually for policy premium and related reinsurance transactions;
reinsurance function was not getting booked timely & consistently. Incomplete and incorrect recording of
reinsurance used to create problems of loss recovery, facultative placement errors, coding (underwriting)
error, and adversely affect AIG's risk exposure, cash flow and overall underwriting profitability. To solve
these problems, REFE system was developed using J2EE-based CAFÉ (proprietary MVC) framework.

Architectural & Design Consultant  - Review/Enhancement of Architecture and Design of Peerless

Integrated Information System (PIIS) developed for Peerless General Finance and Investment Company
Limited -Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India (Feb 03 – Jul 03) – Peerless General Finance and
Investment Company Limited, with a vast infrastructure and a country wide network of over 160 Business
Centers and seven regional offices, runs MF COBOL based application developed on SCO UNIX at its
branches and corporate. One integrated J2EE based application was architected & designed to replace
existing manual-driven processes & system. The scope of current review was to verify correctness of
design and architecture adopted for the proposed J2EE application, and to enhance scalability of system.

Project Manager / Designer - Migration of Mainframe based Insurance Package Service Monitoring
System (SMS) to Web based Work Tracking System (WTS) for American International Group (AIG),
NY - Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India (Apr 02 – Jan 03) – TCS reengineered Mainframe based
Insurance package Service Monitoring System (SMS) - redeveloped its functionality within Web based
Work Tracking System (WTS) Application. SMS was an Insurance application which was used to update
policy issuance/release data in real time. Separate task was taken to migrate WTS, Claims systems from
NAS (ver 4) to WAS (Ver 4.0). 

Designer / Developer – Development/Customization of Insurance products NaviSys Front Office™,

NaviSys Home Office™ for SunAmerica Inc. - Tata Consultancy Services, Edison, NJ, USA (Nov 01 – Mar
02) – Participated in design and development of Navisys Products. NaviSys Front Office™ was a
comprehensive solution set for distributing, selling and servicing life and annuity products. NaviSys Home
Office™ was an integrated back-office solution for configuring and administering life and annuity (fixed
and variable) products. I used Windows NT, Java/JSP/Servlet/EJB, C++, CORBA (Orbix), Oracle 8i.

Project Manager - CQAS Applications for Citibank N.A., Tokyo - Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India
(Aug 00 – Oct 01) – The Country Control unit of Citibank N.A., Tokyo, under Japan Operations and
Technology (O&T), wanted to reengineer its E-Business Quality and Process applications - Centralized
Quality Assurance System (CQAS) - to develop Web based (Java) intranet Banking application. The
applications were developed to monitor and track automated Control functions of the bank existing due
to its various policies.
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2) Networking / Telecom /Security Domain

Senior Project Manager – Saint-Gobain account - Wipro Technologies, Kolkata, India (Jun 05 – Oct 06) –
Initiated and managed Saint-Gobain account for Wipro Technologies. I handled multiple Identity
Management and security application development projects & implementation for the account e.g., User
and Resource Provisioning, Group & Physical Provisioning, NHE (Non Human Entity) Provisioning etc. User
and Resource creation were managed by provisioning tool “Meibo”, whereas relevant User Role access,
workflow management and business rule implementation were handled by Sun Identity Manager’s inbuilt
xml-based workflow management features. Other tools / technical components used were Sun One LDAP
Server (Group Directory), Oracle 8i database, Tomcat Application Server, SPML Adapter (SIM-to-SIM
communication), Web Services etc.

Project Manager / Designer - MATIP protocol development for Air India - Skytech Solutions Pvt Ltd,
Kolkata, India (May 04 – May 05) – Managed Air India account for Skytech; Air India planned to migrate
from legacy communication architecture (comprising of SITA 1024 transport protocol for transmitting
IATA HOST-to-HOST messages between Air India and different Customer Reservation Systems e.g.,
Amadeus, Sabre etc) to TCP transport protocol of the TCP/IP protocol suite. This was to obviate need for
special services from network service provider SITA and proprietary data communication equipment from
UNISYS. Migration included developing MATIP Protocol and Host-to-Host Validation Layers with TELNET.

Designer / Developer - Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) development for Lucent Technologies, IL, US
– Tata Consultancy Services, Naperville, IL, USA, (Apr 96 – Dec 97) – I participated in design and
development of Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) product called Advanced Network Services (ANS) i.e.,
development of components Service Creation Environment (SCE), Service Control Point (SCP), Service
Node (SN) etc. These products provide capability for flexible service creation and deployment to
telephone service providers within shorter time frame across entire LATA (Local Access and Transport
Area).

At offshore I worked as designer and developer of application Flexible Network Routing (FNR-II) which was
one in the series of applications used for call processing, interacting with 5ESS switch and Service Control
Point (SCP). It supported features DAL (Direct Access Line), NCD (Network Call Denial), RA (Remote
Access), OCS (Outgoing Call Screening), SDNS (Subscriber Dialed Number Screening), BC (Block Call) etc.

Designer / Developer – Service Order Language Data Services (S.O.L.D.S.) for USWEST TECHNOLOGIES,
CO, US - Tata Consultancy Services, Denver, CO, USA (Sep'94 - Jan'95) – Scope was to translate Customer
Service Orders from a Service Order semantic to Customer Service Database (CSDB) semantic and vice
versa. SOLDS process receives a Service Order object from the ODS translator, then each logical line of
service order is processed by Driver and Parser to feed data in CIO Object (Customer Information Object
of domain object model). From CIO Object, data goes to CSDBMO Object, which is comprised of many
objects and represents the physical layout of parts of the collection of Oracle relational databases that
comprise the CSDB. CSDB is populated from CSDBMO object.

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3) Systems Management domain

Product Development / Program Manager - Systems Build and Update Utility 1.0/1.1 - Dell India,
Bangalore, India (Oct ’06 – Oct ‘ 08) – Managed architecture, design, development, release and
maintenance of first V1.0 software product release from Dell Bangalore - Dell Systems Build and Update
Utility (SBUU) 1.0. SBUU 1.0 is a standalone bootable server deployment product, operates in both preOS
and postOS environments, supports features e.g., upgrading firmware versions of servers to Dell
recommended levels, upgrading Hardware configuration (RAID/RAC/BMC/BIOS) of servers, facilitate OS
installation (different flavors of Linux, Windows & VMWare) on the servers by supplying Dell
recommended specific drivers etc. Later I also managed SBUU 1.1 product design, development & testing
as well as enhancement of Dell Deployment Toolkit (DTK) and Server Update Utility (SUU).

4) Miscellaneous Other Projects (e.g., Migration & Conversion, OOAD, web development etc)

Project Manager / Designer - Corporate GroupWare / System Software Group (SSG) - Tata Consultancy
Services, Kolkata, India (Jan 98 – July 00) - Being a Large IT organization with its several branches at
various locations within and outside India, TCS needed its own Intranet for its internal operational use.
The target intranet environment was to be an integrated environment which could support various
features like Integrated mailing, running uniform homogenous applications across all the branches etc.
Among the workflow applications several were Leave Application, LTA Application, HIS, HRA, Travel
Booking, TQ Booking, Stores Management, Internal Accounts expenditure and reimbursement
applications, Problem Escalation & Resolution etc. Hardware & Software environment included ASP,
VBScript, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Lotus Notes 4.5/4.6, Domino 4.5a, Applet, JDK 1.1, Javascript, Oracle 7.0/8.0

Designer / Developer - Protema Data Migration (PDMS) for aircraft parts Inventory Management
System for LTU International Airways, Dusseldorf, Germany - Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India
(Jan 95 – Mar 96) - The project was taken up to migrate huge, complex data from RMS data files to Oracle
database as part of Reengineering of Inventory Management System 

Designer / Developer - Development of Core Customer System for Duke Power, Charlotte, North
Carolina, US - Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India (Jan 94 – Aug 94) - The project involved
developing the Core Customer System for a major utility company, Duke Power Inc., at Charlotte, NC. The
project adopted Object Oriented Analysis using Rumbaugh’s Object Modeling techniques - Scenario
searching, Scenario sequencing, Object Behavior Analysis (OBA) and Object Interaction scripting. In Design
phase, analysis output was used to prepare Booch Diagram, Object Synchronization Diagram, and Class
Hierarchy Diagram. Development environment comprised of Smalltalk/V, Visual Works 1.0 / 2.0, ORACLE
7.0, OBA Tool, Envy 4.1 on IBM RISC/6000

Designer / Developer - Migration of Maturation and Blending System for United Distillers in UK - Tata
Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India (Feb 93 – Dec 93) - Migration of Maturation and Blending System of
United Distillers (UK) developed under BULL DPS 7000 on O/S GCOS7, screen painter
PREFORMS/FORMS/GCOS7-FORMS, language JSP COBOL / JCL to VAX 6510 with O/S VMS 5.4, screen
painter DECFORMS, language VAX COBOL / DCL. Target environment was VAX 6510, VMS 5.4, JSP COBOL,
DECFORMS 

Designer / Developer - IBM - DEC Conversion for European Broadcasting Union (Geneva) - Tata
Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India (May 92 – Jan 93) - Assignment involved conversion of 24
applications of Eurovision and General Management areas in Mainframe environment (IBM 4361) to
functionally equivalent ones under VAX environment (VAX 6530). Source environment comprised of
DOS/VSE/SP 2.1.4, VSAM, CICS/VS 1.6, COBOL, FORTRAN, JCL, ASSEMBLY and DBASE III. Target
environment was VAX/VMS 5.4, ORACLE 6.0 with TPO, SQL*FORMS 3.0, SQL*MENU 5.0,
COBOL/PRO*COBOL, FORTRAN and DCL Used VAX 6510, VMS 5.4, COBOL, PRO*COBOL, SQL, ORACLE 6.0
with TPO, SQL*PLUS, SQL*FORMS, SQL*MENU