BALAJI. J
Coimbatore
Summary
Having 22 years of experience in various IT fields, I am seeking a challenging position in Project Management with an emphasis on Software analysis and design which is my forte.
Summary:
Over 34 years of experience in various IT fields
Over 23 years of experience as Project Manager in various organizations.
Innovative hardworking individual with strong eye for detail.
Creative, logical oriented, Passionate with challenges.
Extremely curious and avid to learn new things
Study, design, analysis, quality assurance and documenting all phases of software development life cycle.
Quick and aggressive in adopting new / latest technologies
In-depth domain knowledge
Involved in the complete life cycle of the project starting from Initiation, User requirement gathering, Analysis and designing, Project management (scheduling, follow-up and client meetings), Release management, Implementation and Project closure (preparing user manuals etc.).
Products:
Working with Studiosoft Solutions for the past 9 years and am working with the capacity of Sr. Technical Manager and am in the process of implementing various project management methodologies. Worked in TradingBell for 3 years as Technical Manager.. Designed and implemented project management methodology at Shlok since its inception, Over 13 Products for Shloklabs, Involved in the complete life cycle of 7 products at Applied software systems, worked in Texmo Industries as EDP in-charge and was engaged in development and maintenance of the complete ERP.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Manager
Tamil Nadu government
11.2011 - Current
- Months
- EGovernance (Ration Card Details, An egovernance application was developed in coordination with Ravichandra systems
- The scope of the egovernance application was to upload the information of the public for printing Ration card
- An entry screen to input the ration card details, search and edit / print ration card details
- Take a list of ration card details
- The application was developed in Foxpro / Clipper., M, Abbott, etc, In the past 3 months I am in the process of learning Product broadcasting Domain
- Implemented Project management processes / Software Engineering processes
- Introduced agile methodology of Project Management
- Involved throughout the project cycle for most of the projects and taking technical decisions
- Implemented the new Support process
- Devised Weekly status reports for Support and Projects
- Reviewed process improvement document
Sr. Technical Manager
Studiosoft Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
07.2014 - Current
Technical Manager
Trading Bell India Pvt. Ltd
11.2011 - 07.2014
Senior Project Manager
Maxval-IP Services Pvt. Ltd
05.2010 - 10.2011
Project Manager
Shloklabs India Private Ltd
03.2003 - 05.2010
Project Manager
Applied Software Systems
01.2000 - 03.2003
Senior Developer
Applied Software Systems
05.1998 - 01.2000
Software consultant
Sree Gopal & Co. Auditors
09.1994 - 05.1998
- Developed financial accounting, Payables and receivables packages to suit the business needs of some cotton and yarn merchants
- Developed using Clipper / Foxpro 2.6
- Developed Financial accounting and Finished Goods Inventory for an engineering industry (motor and pump manufacturing – Mahendra Engineering Works)
- Developed using Clipper / Foxpro 2.6
- Developed and maintained Financial accounting, payroll, payables & receivables, Fixed deposits & Stores Inventory for a textile mill (Vijayeswari textiles)
- Developed using Clipper / Foxpro 2.6
- EDP
charge
Texmo Industries
02.1992 - 09.1994
Programmer Trainee
Techno Software
08.1989 - 01.1991
Senior Project Manager
Abbott
05.2010 - 10.2011
- During the one and a half year tenure at MaxVAL, I had the opportunity to learn the IP Domain
- Implemented Project management processes
- Implemented Software Engineering processes
- Introduced agile methodology of Project Management
- Implemented Complexity based estimation as well as FP estimation
- Involved throughout the project cycle for most of the projects
- Implemented the Request for Support process
- Reviewed process improvement document
- Many times worked late nights for project deliveries and client meetings
Tester
Max PPM
- This is a web application which helps in providing a secure single point collaborative environment for attorneys and executives that brings together commercial and intellectual property information for analysis
- It reduces or eliminates the need to send multiple communications of confidential data through unsecured channels
- This helps them in gauging the value of a set of assets by grouping them which would be useful when they are planning to sell them or procure them
- Product features include:
- User groups/contacts
- User access privileges/roles
- Advanced full text search
- List view
- Claim comments
- Products and product comments
- Import/auto populate
- Export option
- Platform: Web application, Team size: 7 developers, 2 Testers and a Designer (5 months)
- Agile methodology of project management followed
- IP Litigation
- Description:
- This is a web application to maintain the patent related litigation cases in US since 1980
- The cases are updated on a daily basis from different cases using PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic records)
- The privilege / access to database is provided based on the various subscription plans and the user could browse through the case details accordingly
- Automated Litigation alerts (daily email on new cases uploaded on the day) are sent to customers
- Product features include:
- User contacts
- User access privileges/roles
- Advanced search options
- List view
- Patent related cases - District cases, CAFC (Court of Appeal for Federal circuit) cases & ITC (Trade mark cases)
- Import through excel
- Export option
- Daily alert emails
- Platform, Team size: 2 Developers, (4 months)
- Waterfall methodology of project management followed, this was an enhancement project.
Programmer
Max PAIR
08.1989
- This is a project containing a combination of client tool, web tool and WCF service
- Any new invention has to pass through the various stages of filing in USPTO starting from application filing until patent publication
- The USPTO has a site to maintain the status of each application filed called PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval) in Image File Wrapper
- Max PAIR helps clients (Attorneys / organizations) to receive PAIR alert emails on the applications assigned to their digital certificates
- The application can also be interfaced to various docketing systems using the WCF service
- There is also a web interface to allow users to automatically subscribe through net
- Product features include:
- User contacts
- User access privileges / roles
- Admin panel to upload new versions of client tool
- Admin panel to activate / deactivate users
- Sign-up / trial access for 15 days
- Purchase subscription online through Paypal
- Daily update emails
- Integration to various docketing system
- Easy Wizard installation process for client tool
- Automatic new version download / installation of client tool
- View bibliographic details
- Add applications to Public as well as Private PAIR
- Configure applications of interest to receive updates
- Platform: Web application / Client tool / WCF service, C#.NET, SQL Server 2008, WCF
- Team size: 3 Developers, 1 Tester and a Designer (7 months)
- Waterfall methodology of project management followed, worked there until January 91 and developed some programs in Foxpro and Clipper Summer ’87 version for data processing Inventory and Financial accounting applications.
TEXMO Motors
02.1992 - 09.1994
Programmer
Texmo
02.2003 - 01.2009
- Industries, a leading motor / pump manufacturing industry as the sole, th September 94 and was involved in development and maintenance of the following projects:
- Financial accounting module
- Invoicing module
- Receivables and Payables system
- Payroll system
- Inventory accounting module
- All the above projects were developed using Clipper’87.
Education
B.Sc (AS) - Applied Science
Bachelor Degree - undefined
Coimbatore Institute of Technology affiliated to Bharathiar University
1987
PGDCA - Post Graduate Diploma - Systems development
NIIT
1988
Certification in Programming with .NET technologies - undefined
NIIT
Accomplishments
- This is a web application which helps an invention disclosure though its various statuses before it can be filed in USPTO
- This being an online application helps inventors in the process of capturing their invention disclosures
- As per the process the system administrator allocates the inventions to various users (In-house system counsel) for review
- Product features include:
- User contacts
- Allows four roles (Process Administrator, Inventor, Reviewer and System Administrator)
- Inventors can complete an online invention disclosure template or submit a pre-filled document
- Integrated environment to keep track of work flow in the disclosure and review process for inventions
- Minimizes unsecured communication by direct upload/download of disclosures/attachments
- Automated management of work flow, communication using custom report generation and email alerts (on status change)
- Advanced search options
- Secure data access to authorized personnel
- User-friendly interface with status distinguished by colors
- Platform: Client tool / Web Tool, C#.NET / WCF
- Team Size: 2 developers, 1 Tester (3 months)
- Agile methodology in combination with RUP model of project management followed
- Max IDS v2
- Description:
- This is a web application which is easy to use, integrated environment to manage patents and its references
- This saves cost by automating the process of generating IDS (Information Disclosure Statement) which can be directly filed in USPTO
- Comparison statement is another significant feature to compare the various applications / publications and its references
- Product features include:
- User groups/contacts
- User access privileges/roles
- Advanced full text search
- List view
- Record / Claim comments
- Information Disclosure Statement generation in USPTO format
- Comparison Statement
- Import/auto populate
- Export option
- Platform: Client tool / Web Tool, C#.NET / WCF
- Team Size: 2 developers, 1 Tester
- This project is under the purview of App Support and Max IDS v3 is under inception
- Max Extract
- Description:
- This is an internal client windows tool to help the Database team to fetch the bibliographic details of patent / publication from the corresponding country’s patent office website
- It crawls through the country PTOs for the patent publications and applications (which are given as input via excel file), extracts the bibliographic information into an excel sheet
- Product features include:
- Download excel template for input
- Extract Bibliographic details of patents / publication for various countries
- New country websites can be configured with minimal development effort
- Platform: Client tool, C#.NET / WCF
- Team Size: 2 developers, 1 Tester
- This project is under the purview of App Support and Max IDS v3 is under inception
- Illustration DB
- Description:
- This is a web application which helps in maintaining the database of Illustrations / drawings prepared at MaxVal for various applications / patents
- The patent drawings / illustrations prepared using various tools are uploaded in the tool with versions being maintained
- There are various search options available to locate for certain Illustration / drawing files
- Product features include:
- User contacts
- User access privileges / roles
- Capture details about the patent drawing / illustration
- Upload the patent drawing / illustration documents
- Various search options to locate patent drawings / illustrations
- Platform: Web Tool, C#.NET, My SQL 5.0
- Team Size: 1 developer, 1 Tester (3 months)
- Agile methodology in combination with RUP model of project management followed
- Application support (In addition to the above products MaxVal has a wide range of applications / tools used by its customers and all its support activities are managed by me)
- Platform: Client tools, Web applications, Web tools, WCF services
- Team size: 5 Developers, 1 Tester http://maxpair.allthingspatent.com/Login.aspx http://pm.maxval-ip.com/userlogin.aspx https://www.maxval.com/maxppm/yahoo https://www.allthingspatent.com/maxid/newdemo/ http://litigation.maxval-ip.com/ http://projects.maxval-ip.com/illustrationdb/home.aspx http://www.maxval-ip.com/free-patent-tools.html
- Project Manager, Shloklabs India (P) Ltd., India (Mar 2003 – May 2010)
- I joined Shlok as a part-timer when it started with 5 employees and continued so for around 4 months
- On March 2003 I joined full time with Shlok labs and implemented the complete project management processes
- Considering the fact that I had been working with Shlok for more than 5 years the complete list of applications I have worked with will run around pages and I am only mentioning a few most important ones
- Projects:
- Enterprise Resource Planning System
- Platform: Windows, VB.NET
- Team size: 5
- Period: 1.5 years
- Airway Billing System
- Platform: Windows, C#
- Team size: 3
- Period: 6 months
- Document Management System
- Platform: Web application, ASP.NET
- Team size: 3
- Period: 3 months
- Telemarketing and sales system
- Platform: Web application, Java (Flex)
- Team size: 4
- Period: 1 year
- Inventory, Sales and Purchase system
- Platform: Web application, ASP.NET
- Team size: 5
- Period: 2 years
- On-line Health Insurance calculator
- Platform: Web application, ASP.NET
- Team size: 2
- Period: 3 months
- Thorough audit of buildings and report submission
- Platform: Web application, ASP.NET
- Team size: 5
- Period: 8 months
- Creation of play lists for TV Channels
- Platform: Web application, ASP.NET
- Team size: 3
- Period: 1 year
- Marketing application for pharmaceutical companies
- Platform: Web application, ASP.NET
- Team size: 5
- Period: 1.5 years
- Application for digital signage boards
- Platform: Web application, Java (Grails, Nimble plugin)
- Team size: 4
- Period: 1 year
- Introducing the concept of reserving customers requirement and its follow up in a shopping application
- Platform: Web application, ASP.NET
- Team size: 2
- Period: 3 months
- Complete cycle of processing job cards in an Automobile industry
- Platform: Web application, ASP.NET
- Team size: 3
- Period: 6 months
- Complete Project management cycle
- Platform: Web application, ASP.NET
- Team size: 6
- Period: 6 months
- Tools: ASP.NET MVC 2.0, VS.NET 2003, SQL Server 2000
- Project Manager / Senior Developer, Applied Software Systems May 1998 – Mar 2003
- From 4th May 1998 until 2nd March 2003, worked for Applied Software Systems, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
- Joined Applied as a senior programmer and after working in various positions was promoted as Manager – Projects on January 2000
- Projects:
- Financial Accounting System (Pro-Act 2001)
- Clients: CRI Pumps, Prompt Submersible, Cosmik Industries
- Platform: Visual Basic 6 (Windows application)
- Team size: 4
- Period: 4 months
- Sales and purchase system (Pro-Sales 2001)
- Clients: Prompt Submersible, Cosmik Industries, LPK Pumps
- Platform: Visual Basic 6 (Windows application)
- Team size: 3
- Period: 2 months Material Requirement Planning system (Pro-plan 2000)
- Clients: CRI Pumps, Mahendra Pumps, Prompt Submersible, Cosmik Industries
- Platform: Visual Basic 6 (Windows application)
- Team size: 5
- Period: 5 months Yarn Invoicing System
- Clients: Southern Textiles, Lakshmi Narasimha Textiles, Kongurar Mills
- Platform: Visual Basic 6 (Windows application)
- Team size: 3
- Period: 3 months
- Job Order Customer Stock
- Client: CRI Foundry
- Platform: Foxpro 2.6 for Windows
- Team size: 2
- Period: 2 months Purchase Order System
- Clients: CRI Pumps, CRI Foundry, Mahendra pumps, Cosmik Industry, Southern Textiles, Lakshmi Narasimha Textiles, Kongurar Mills
- Platform: Visual Basic 6 (Windows application)
- Team size: 3, Conducting daily status meetings (Agile Methodology) in TradingBell
- Conducted a Seminar on Agile project management to the complete team at MaxVal
- Conducted motivation classes to developers / testers working on my projects
- Management Representative for ISO in Shloklabs India (P) Ltd
- Internal ISO Auditor for ISO in MaxVal-IP Ventures India (P) Ltd.
Timeline
Sr. Technical Manager
Studiosoft Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
07.2014 - Current
Technical Manager
Tamil Nadu government
11.2011 - Current
Technical Manager
Trading Bell India Pvt. Ltd
11.2011 - 07.2014
Senior Project Manager
Maxval-IP Services Pvt. Ltd
05.2010 - 10.2011
Senior Project Manager
Abbott
05.2010 - 10.2011
Project Manager
Shloklabs India Private Ltd
03.2003 - 05.2010
Programmer
Texmo
02.2003 - 01.2009
Project Manager
Applied Software Systems
01.2000 - 03.2003
Senior Developer
Applied Software Systems
05.1998 - 01.2000
Software consultant
Sree Gopal & Co. Auditors
09.1994 - 05.1998
charge
Texmo Industries
02.1992 - 09.1994
TEXMO Motors
02.1992 - 09.1994
Programmer Trainee
Techno Software
08.1989 - 01.1991
Programmer
Max PAIR
08.1989
Tester
Max PPM
B.Sc (AS) - Applied Science
Bachelor Degree - undefined
Coimbatore Institute of Technology affiliated to Bharathiar University
PGDCA - Post Graduate Diploma - Systems development
NIIT
Certification in Programming with .NET technologies - undefined
NIIT
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