SREEKANTH KUMAR

Mobile: +91-9866020289 ~ E-Mail: kskkr2000@yahoo.com Seeking managerial assignments in Resource / Program / Delivery / Project Management / Software Development with a reputed IT industry PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT

A dynamic professional with 14 years of rich and valuable experience in IT Management / Project Coordination / Software Development. Currently associated with NTRANGA IT Services Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad as a Senior IT Manager. Expertise in modern concepts of end-to-end project/program planning and implementation from scope management with international onsite exposure. Skilled at IT Application Development, Project Management, Product Support and Financial Functions. Substantive expertise in PeopleSoft Financials technology, design and delivery. Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills with proven abilities in team management, customer relationship management and planning.

PROFICIENCY MATRIX People Management

Building and maintaining healthy business relations with corporate clients and ensure customer satisfaction by achieving delivery and service quality norms. Building and managing strong and highly talented teams and leading the teams to success. Guiding and mentoring teams; determining training needs of the team members to enhance their operational efficiency. Preparing and managing yearly departmental budget. Responsible of remeditating the audit findings well before the target completion date.

Project Management

Managing activities right from the conceptualization stage to the execution; involving finalization of
technical specifications, material & inventory control, scheduling, progress monitoring, quality, etc.

Handling activities involving working out various requirements & monitoring overall project
operations for ensuring timely completion.

Efficiently managed the following projects:

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PeopleSoft Financials EPM Implementation PeopleSoft Financials Upgrade from V 8.4 to V 8.9 PeopleSoft Financials UPK Implementation PeopleSoft Financials Treasury Implementation. PeopleSoft Financials NGTE Implementation PeopleSoft Financials Bundles Implementation Extensity Global Rollout

Support Management

Directing software development activities for business process mapping of the client and identifying core / critical system / processes and priorities. Providing onsite as well as offshore support through central help desk support models with clarifications on specific applications of the system. Developing, implementing and providing support for business application software for clients. Consistently meeting the deadlines and turn around time without compromising quality norms adhering to SLA.

Software Development

Timely delivering the software change requests from client and providing end to end resolution. Preparing unit test cases, performing unit testing for any software changes/enhancements.

IT FORTE

ERP Development Tools Data Management Tools Reporting Tools

RDBMS Operating Systems

: PeopleSoft Financials (Application Releases from Version 7.5 to 8.9). : Application Designer, Application Engine. PeopleCode. : Data Mover, Import Manager. : SQR, Crystal Reports, nVision, PS Query, Tree Manager.
: Oracle, MS SQL Server. : Windows 98/2000/NT, Unix.

PeopleSoft Functional Areas: GL, AP, AR and BI.

CAREER CONTOUR

May11 Present: NTRANGA IT Services Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad. Senior IT Manager KEY DELIVERABLES

Managed PeopleSoft Financials Upgrade from V 8.8 to V 9.1 for the client HMSHost, USA. Also, managed rolling out the upgraded version to Canada location. Managing customer service oriented PeopleSoft Financials Development and Production Support teams. Managing the PeopleSoft Project Costing Implementation Moving from the legacy foxpro system (timberline) to PeopleSoft Project Costing 9.1 Version.

Apr07 Apr: Franklin Templeton Investments, Hyderabad. Senior Manager - Software Systems KEY DELIVERABLES

Managing customer service oriented Development and Production Support teams for Peoplesoft Financials, EPM, Treasury, Legal and Compliance Systems. Managing day to day global production support including problem management, proactive monitoring, root-cause analysis and month end/year end support activities. Responsible for delivering new capabilities to corporate business teams.

NOTABLE ATTAINMENTS Actively implemented systems like PeopleSoft's Treasury Platform, Oracle's Financial Accounting Hub, a custom enterprise-wide Time Entry system, SunGard's Protegent system for Code of Ethics monitoring, PeopleSoft's EPM for Transfer Pricing and Profitability Reporting, 170 System's AP Imaging & Workflow system, a Transport Management System and a custom Budgeting Tool for the IT organization. Maintained excellent rapport with the customers, management and the vendors. End to end accountability for delivering new capabilities to corporate business teams. Managed all aspects of Corporate Financials India team including support services like administration and recruiting. Effectively negotiated and managed SLAs, actively involved in the change management process and performed code reviews, maintained all the test environments.

Oct03 Apr07: Franklin Templeton Investments at Innova Solutions, Hyderabad ERP Consultant KEY DELIVERABLES

Settled up the corporate financials India team for Franklin Templeton Technologies on a build-operatetransfer model. Attentively managed all aspects of corporate Financials India team including support services like administration and recruitment.

NOTABLE ATTAINMENTS

Worked as a segment manager for the exercises like Business Continuity Plan (BCP), Disaster Recovery (DR) and Day Light Savings (DST) changes. Effectively managed projects like PeopleSoft Financials Bundles Implementation and Server refreshes for three years. Jan03 Sep03: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Mumbai. Team Lead

KEY DELIVERABLES

Actively coordinated for a post implementation support project for the client limited brands. Identified problems and provided immediate resolution.

PROJECTS HANDLED Title: Duration: Description: Implementation Support for Limited Brands. Apr03 Sep03. The project aimed at implementing support project for the client limited brands, USA. This phase of the project involved creation of data migration programs, identify problems and provide immediate resolution, service requests and change requests for the client. PeopleSoft Financials Upgrade from V6 to V8.4 MOF (Ministry of Finance, Singapore). Win NT 4.0, PeopleSoft 8.4. The project aimed at customizing GL, AP and PO modules. Worked on Application Designer, Peoplecode, Application Engine Development/ Modification, SQR and Crystal for reports. Preparation of Technical Specifications which in involves Psuedocode.

Title: Client: Environment: Description:

Nov01 Jan03: Vmoksha Technologies, Bangalore. Senior Software Engineer KEY DELIVERABLES

Prepared TDD (Technical Design Document) based on the FRD (Functional Requirement Document). Localized Excise, TDS (Tax Deducted at Source), Custom Duty and Sales Tax which are specific to the Indian market.

PROJECTS HANDLED

Title: Client: Environment: Description:

Localization of Peoplesoft Financials. PeopleSoft Inc, Pleasanton, USA. People soft Financials 8.16 on Windows NT 4.0. Project involves India Localization for the PeopleSoft 8.x Finance Modules which will be released as a service pack and included in the next global release of PeopleSoft. Localization mainly involves Excise, TDS (Tax Deducted at Source), Custom Duty and Sales Tax which are specific to the Indian market.

May01 Nov01: Optimum Solutions PTE Ltd., Singapore. ERP Consultant Client: MND (Ministry of National Development, Singapore) & AVA (Agri and Vatainary Authority of Singapore). Environment: Win NT 4.0, PeopleSoft 7.0/7.5. KEY DELIVERABLES

Provided production support, batch operations, performance tuning of the database, service requests, and change requests for the clients. Worked on various SRs and CRs according to the clients requirement. Customized the SQRs and Crystal Reports according to the clients requirement. Done vigorous testing before migration. Provided immediate response/resolution as soon as the user logs a case.

PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS Jul00 Apr01: Apcosoft Infoway, Bangalore. Software Engineer PROJECTS HANDLED

People Soft Financials Implementation.

Mar99 Jul00: Atlantic Duncans International (P) Ltd., New Delhi. ERP Consultant PROJECTS HANDLED

People Soft Financials Customization and Implementation. Internet Based Data Capture and Analysis System. Sep97 Feb99: Nimbus Global Solutions, Hyderabad. Programmer Analyst

PROJECTS HANDLED

Online Enquiry and Registration System. Development of Order-Booking System. Development of Data Exchange Server.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

PGDBM in Information Systems & Finance from Kranthi Institute of Management Studies, (Approved by AICTE, New Delhi), Hyderabad in 1997. Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications from Institute of Computer Sciences (ICS), Hyderabad, in 1997. Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from Osmania University in 1994.

PERSONAL DOSSIER Date of Birth: 9th Oct 1972. Residential Address: S-60, Srila Park Pride, Hydernagar, Kukatpally, Hyderabad 49, Andhra Pradesh. Linguistic Skills: English, Hindi and Telugu.