Venkat Subramanian
Architecture graduate from IIT Kharagpur, with Master's in Computer Science from State University of New York. 12 years professional expertise in managing IT engagements for various leading Fortune 500 firms. Currently working at Matchbox Solutions.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Architecture, C/C++, Design, HTML / CSS, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Perl, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows |
| Groups: | Genesis 2008 - IIT Madras, Genesis 2011, HeadStart Ventures |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, State University of New York System - Albany |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Matchbox Solutions |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | March 2007 - Present |
| Description: | EasyInsuranceIndia.com Portal Project Director and Lead Architect
o Handled end-to-end responsibilities from concept through implementation of India’s first fully online retail insurance brokerage portal for ICM India o Derived standardized common taxonomy and XML grammar for representing products across different business lines and providers in India o Developed quote engines, comparison matrices, product recommendation tools, premium visualization charts and live interfaces with provider backends , a state-of-art system which is first of its kind for Indian insurance industry o Mentored a team of young developers in open source development and Agile delivery model and successfully implemented entire portal in record time of 6 months o Designed hosting environment, third party gateway interfaces and payment/invoicing modules eFarm.in Founder , CTO (In progress) o Developed the concepts of end-to-end supply chain platform for agriculture produce o Developed wireframe models for key screens and backend operations for user registration, order modules, catalogs, product searches, purchases, invoicing, tracking & MIS o Developed and maintained supporting content site for periodic updates to the project progress |
| Employer: | WIPRO Technologies |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | July 2005 - March 2007 |
| Description: | Hartford Insurance (P&C) Program Manager, Commercial Lines
o Served as an additional Technical Program manager to help stabilize a large maintenance application suite (Value 6M USD/annum). o Walked a thin-line between Customer and Vendor teams to improve mutual relationships under a very strained environment. o Assessed and recommended remediation measures (short term and long term) and monitored the progress for effective implementation St.Paul Travelers Insurance Program Manager, Commercial Lines and Claims o Single Point of Contact for Wipro’s engagements at Travelers . The largest application being a VB/ASP to .Net conversion worth 1.25M USD. o Managed and coordinated 3 project teams in the Commercial Lines and Claims division of Customer’s unit. Key responsibilities included team coordination, customer status reporting, staffing, contract negotiations, and invoice tracking. o Facilitated and presented the Account Governance sessions to CxOs Templates generated have been well appreciated and now utilized by other accounts within Wipro. o Generated proactive sales leads and coordinated pre-sales presentations & proposals in liaison with internal Practice groups of Wipro. Significant target areas were in: Agile development, Testing optimization, Data and Information security, Infrastructure Services Outsourcing etc., Marsh Mc Lennan Program Manager o Single Point of Contact for Wipro’s engagements at Marsh , one of the world’s largest insurance brokerage firm. o Mandated to grow an account which had become ‘stagnant’ after some 4 years o Doubled the account strength within 6 months of joining, from 30 FTEs to 75 FTEs . o Converted long running maintenance projects and small engagements into consolidated managed services model to gain better overall traction on the application delivery o Worked out a tiered staffing model using combinations of internal , external hires and project based contracting staffing to facilitate quick and efficient resourcing. This enabled us to beat out the competition and gain grounds in key strategic projects. |
| Employer: | The Hartford Life, CT, USA |
| Position: | Engagement Manager, Remote Sourcing group |
| Time period: | December 2004 - July 2005 |
| Description: | o Single Point of Contact for outsourced IT engagements at Hartford Life (Project Value: $ 7.5M, 100 member team).
o Coordinated the end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of over 15 applications across multiple client locations in US and Asia-Pac region. o Promoted transparency to senior management through metrics based dashboard for multi-level status tracking of all engagements. Periodic reporting to Executive Leadership Team (CxO, SVP, Director level) on client and vendor side for proactive issue resolution o Recovered critical engagements from ‘red’ status by aggressively tracking issues to closure, preemptive problem resolution and effective communication across all teams o Coordinated the relocation of the entire offshore delivery centre from an existing facility to an ultra-modern Hi-Tech city location with ZERO IMPACT to client applications |
| Employer: | CIGNA Healthcare, CT, USA |
| Position: | Project Manager, Provider Healthcare Portal |
| Time period: | March 2004 - November 2004 |
| Description: | o Project Manager for Maintenance and production Support track for Cigna’s Provider Portal Application. (cignaforhcp.cigna.com). The portal is Cigna’s primary external facing website for over 50,000 healthcare providers. It provides functionality validate member enrollment, track claims and referrals, query fee schedules etc.,
o Handled Overall Release Management for entire portal application – particularly Kaiser Settlement directives ,monthly releases and production hot-fixes o Reverse engineered system interfaces and legacy code components which did not have prior documentation for impact analysis and resolution by tracing the application flow across multiple systems o Created metrics based productivity measures to track effectiveness of support team’s work efforts |
| Employer: | CIGNA Heathcare , CT, USA |
| Position: | Program Manager, CIGNA Offshore program |
| Time period: | May 2003 - November 2004 |
| Description: | o Managed a 60 member onsite/offshore team for Cigna’s Application Development Practice and Retirement Investment Services LOBs (Project value : $4.5 M , 60 member team) .
o Facilitated rapid adoption of outsourcing and lowered client’s TCO by phased offshoring of operations . Onsite/Offshore ratios were brought down from 100% to 40% over span of 1.5 years. o Championed off shoring initiatives in high technology areas and cross-selling of various service offerings to CIGNA’s Senior leadership Team o Evolved a Smart Knowledge Transfer process which reduced client-to-vendor team knowledge transition duration by 60% o Jointly Developed the Offshore Test Lab facility and Regression Testing Practice Vertical which lead to $ 4M cost saving for client. o Created a mentoring program and boot camp process for client specific technology platforms to reduce learning curve for new recruits at the Offshore Facility o Oversaw all technical RFPs, Client presentations and Strategic Initiatives for LOB’s outsourcing initiatives |
| Employer: | CIGNA Healthcare, CT, USA |
| Position: | Project Manager, Defined Contribution Reporting Project |
| Time period: | May 2003 - March 2004 |
| Description: | o Technical Project Manager for the reporting track of Cigna’s core Defined Contribution Record Keeping Application
o The Project scope was to consolidate the operational and reporting requirements using a custom built data mart and move all reporting from the existing help desk based service model to a web based self service environment. This would enable plan sponsors and internal customers to directly run reports off CIGNAAccess.com portal reducing load on the mainframe backend and improve turnaround to under 4 hours. o Developed technical specifications, prototypes and query optimization for producing all of reports using minimal base templates. o Project was the first onsite/offshore initiative for client’s Retirement Services LOB. |
| Employer: | Information Technology Services, Univ. at Albany, NY |
| Position: | IT Consultant / Graduate Assistant |
| Time period: | July 2001 - April 2003 |
| Description: | o Designed and implemented website applications for International Students Office and integrated the Students database with People soft modules for SEVIS/INS project
o Taught courses in C++ , Object Oriented design, Unix administration to over 100+ graduate students |
| Employer: | Ashton Technology Group, PA, USA |
| Position: | System Architect & Team leader, Semi-continuous Market Trading System |
| Time period: | December 2000 - June 2001 |
| Description: | o Ashton Technology Group develops and implements cutting edge security trading systems for various traditional and internet trading exchanges
o The semi-continuous market trading exchange expanded on an existing Volume weighted Average Pricing model which provided advanced pricing and trading functionality high value brokers o The project scope involved developing a browser based trading framework for asynchronous 2-way communication for stock trading , online secure negotiations using scriptable applets, a bid matching engine and a secure deployment environment using X.509 Digital signatures & Biometric validation o Developed the application using RAD techniques and Extreme programming on an iterative mode. o Technology challenge areas prototyped were: XML/XSL/DHTML framework for asynchronous thin client applications ,Message queuing (MSMQ), Time synchronization , fast database queries using set theory etc., stock quote broadcasting /multicasting for live quotes, charts, market movements etc., |
| Employer: | Moneymaximiser, CA, USA |
| Position: | Project Lead, Moneymaximiser.com web portal |
| Time period: | May 2000 - November 2000 |
| Description: | o MoneyMaximizer.com website offers online trading tools, portfolio management and risk management utilities to broker clients. The tools provide definite indicators for buy/sell points to its customers based on variety of key trading indicators and user driven risk factors for maximizing gains.
o The project scope involved portal development, trading tools, and stock quote feeds for data generation. |
| Employer: | Navia Markets , Chennai, India |
| Position: | Technical Lead , Naviamarkets.com web portal |
| Time period: | May 1999 - May 2000 |
| Description: | o Naviamarkets is a leading brokerage firm dealing in small to medium sized retail customers based out of Southern India.The scope of the project was to build a one-stop online stock trading portal for their national and international clients by extending their existing in-house trading screens to the web .
o Designed the common portal framework , interfaces with IBMs backend trading engines and Settlement systems and data mapping to over 23 different data feeds o Coordinated with a multi-vendor team (IBM, HCL, Data feed providers, Research Analysts firms , National Stock Exchange) to seamlessly integrate the stock quote broadcasting servers, IVRS systems, Backend Settlement systems and NSE’s trading platform into the portal. o Custom built a content management application to enable client’s site administrators to maintain, refresh and upload new content to the website in a timely manner |
| Employer: | Citibank, NY, USA |
| Position: | Analysis Team Member, Private Banking group |
| Time period: | April 1998 - May 1999 |
| Description: | o Citicorp Global had implemented a company wide IT policy for migrating and redeploying all desktop applications to a common minimum base specification.
o Scope of project was to audit all the for compliance with the standard, migration of application to new platform and retest in the new environment |
| Employer: | Ingersoll Rand, US & Global locations |
| Position: | Year2000 consultant and auditor |
| Time period: | May 1997 - April 1998 |
| Description: | o IngersollRand had appointed DSQ software as an independent external auditor to check the Y2K compliance for their entire range of application systems across global locations
o The scope of the engagement involved preparing a comprehensive compliance review process, Audit application systems for Y2K compliance using key artifacts and sampling, Move non compliant code to the test laboratories for detailed analysis and re-fixing. o Prepared ITAA Vendor certification questionnaires & audit reports to senior management. Coordinated work transition from client locations to DSQ’s offshore facility. |
| Employer: | Tata InfoTech Ltd., New Delhi, INDIA |
| Position: | Network administrator & System Support Engineer |
| Time period: | April 1995 - April 1997 |
| Description: | o Supported the network infrastructure of Tata InfoTech’s global network of servers & systems which consisted of Mainframes, Midranges, UNIX boxes and Windows NT based Mail server and web server services.
o Maintained the Unisys 2200 Mainframe, Sperry/Univac series machines, and TMUX link connectivity |
EDUCATION
| University: | State University of New York System - Albany |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2003 |
| Degree: | Masters in Computer Science |
| University: | Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur |
| Time period: | 1989 - 1995 |
| Degree: | Bachelor in Architecture |
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eFarm
eFarm is an India based agri supply chain startup which aims to create an efficient, reliable end-to-end network of suppliers, intermediaries and buyers, bridging the online and offline world through an innovative business strategy .
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Srivalli Krishnan
BCom degree from Bangalore University, with MBA in Finance and Marketing from ICFAI Business School Chennai. Currently working as Business Analyst- Financial Services and as Asst Manager- Service Quality at Accenture India.