Balaji Jayasurya

Dedicated Technical Consultant adept at cultivating long-term partnerships with lucrative clients. Knowledgeable in server hardware and components configurations. Successful career history comprising more than 23 years.

Enthusiastic Project Manager polished in optimizing systems to address dynamic needs, improve collaboration and strengthen security. Weighs crucial business and IT needs against procedural limitations to assess roadmaps for optimal functions.

Having 23 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.

• 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 Testerhttp://maxpair.allthingspatent.com/Login.aspxhttp://pm.maxval-ip.com/userlogin.aspxhttps://www.maxval.com/maxppm/yahoohttps://www.allthingspatent.com/maxid/newdemo/http://litigation.maxval-ip.com/http://projects.maxval-ip.com/illustrationdb/home.aspxhttp://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.