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Bhaskar Durairaju

Bhaskar Durairaju

Chennai

Summary

Delivery Lead - Finance & SCM Techno Functional - Cloud Solutions - PeopleSoft Financials - Axiom Cloud Apps - Moody's Risk Management - Ramco e.Apps

Total IT experience of 20 years which includes Cloud Solutions, PeopleSoft (FSCM/HRMS) and Ramco e.Apps(SCM), Axiom Cloud Applications. Great Lakes certified Cloud Solution Lead in AWS and Azure, Oracle certified “PeopleSoft People Tools Enterprise Developer”,. Well versed with People Management, Stakeholder Management, CMM L5 processes – requirements and change management, configuration management, software lifecycle and product quality, review process, process defect management, process improvement and implementing best practices. Very strong in mapping business scenarios with modules in ERP application Sound experience in Oracle PL SQL. Have experience in support, development and upgrade projects

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Delivery Lead

Standard Chartered Bank, GBS
04.2018 - Current
  • Developed and implemented new strategies and policies in collaboration with executive partners to establish and achieve long-term business objectives, providing company with strong and sustainable organizational leadership.
  • Worked on technology design, testing and execution by providing research-based product and process knowledge.
  • Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions in AWS. Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions.
  • Enabled revenue generation by pursuing partnerships, sourcing funding, and capitalizing on market opportunities.
  • Reduced operational risks while organizing data to forecast performance trends.
  • Assisted in recruiting, hiring and training of team members.
  • Reported issues to higher management with great detail.
  • Oversaw technology services delivery, consulting with relevant personnel to assist with migration and troubleshooting.
  • Provided technical and functional recommendations based on project requirements.
  • Identified system issues and recommended changes to close system holes.
  • Worked on performance improvements in daily Liquidity batches to meet downstream SLA
  • Handling deliveries for Liquidity and Group Reporting applications - Moody's Fermat ALM and Adenza's Axiom
  • Managing data pulling for Group and Regulatory (Axiom) reporting from BigData using Node JS and PySpark
  • Delivered PeopleTools upgrade project - PT 8.48 to PT8.58, Oracle 10g to 19c and H/W upgrade for PeopleSoft Finance applications
  • Involved developments and deliveries of PeopleSoft Finance and SCM applications
  • Aligned organizational objectives with company mission to increase business growth and integrate work strategies.
  • Interacted well with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.
  • Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
  • Maintained process improvements to further enhance productivity of deliveries.
  • Scheduled employees for shifts, taking into account customer traffic and employee strengths.
  • Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress, and technical problems.
  • Sourced, vetted and managed vendors needed to accomplish project goals.


Project Manager

HCL Technologies
07.2015 - 03.2018
  • Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.
  • Updated operational methods and oversaw accounting procedures for improved efficiency.
  • Worked on PeopleSoft application enhancements, bug fixes and performance improvements
  • Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
  • Met with manager weekly to provide detailed project report and milestone updates.
  • Organizing weekly presentation to client management to report application status, incident response/resolution time, SLA adherence, resource utilization and achievements
  • Introduced and brought into practice of using KEDB and FAQ
  • Accountable for PCI, ASM internal and external audits
  • Responsible for daily status report for all scheduled process and data load from source applications
  • Ownership to provide value addition, which will automate manual processes
  • In charge of Go-Green activities in brining project from Red to Green
  • Working with Oracle Corporation for addressing product related bugs
  • Counterpart with onsite program manager to get necessary inputs for deliverable
  • Gathering Root cause analysis report for all SEV1and SEV2 issues
  • Identify risk for each deliverable and provide mitigation plan to handle abnormal scenarios
  • Administer PeopleSoft security, implementation change, DR drill, problem tickets, and timesheets
  • Working closely with development and functional teams in providing solution.

System Analyst

Hexaware Technologies
07.2010 - 07.2015
  • Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation and user support for platform transitions.
  • Conducted system analysis and implementation to maintain and improve computer systems.
  • Assessed business requirements to create focused solutions.
  • Handled 12-member team to support enhancements in PeopleSoft application
  • Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.
  • Customized AWE functionality to adopt business requirement such as Push Back with multiple steps
  • Lead team to develop new process which will interface data from SODA application in to Billing module
  • Designed new archival process to archive data and documents as per given period
  • Introduced new process to handle bulk as well consolidated bulk request creation / approval / denial
  • New generic process implemented to convert files from Database to File server
  • Involved in Design, Development, Testing, and Enhancement of FSCM and custom modules
  • Responsible for configuring IB to receive HR data from Legacy to PeopleSoft FSCM system
  • Configured Integration Broker for SWM, to transfer data from PT 8.49 to 8.49 and 8.47
  • As value addition to application, introduced new process “Auto Update” which will update delivered tables based on requests from custom page
  • Created generic templates to configure workflow which will approve request and trigger same to next level
  • Developed custom tool to replace Excel to CI
  • Using these users can setup fields which will be accessible for appropriate level of approvers
  • Addressed SYT, SIT and UAT phase issues and enhancements related to FSCM modules (Purchasing, Billing and AP)
  • Created macro tool to identify Delivered, Customized and Custom objects from lower version
  • Performed impact analysis, and migrate code from lower version to higher version
  • Made necessary changes in customized PeopleSoft objects based on compare reports
  • Retrofitted delivered functions as per higher version i.e., Function parameter change (parameter count, parameter type)
  • Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response.

Analyst programmer

Ramco Systems
02.2004 - 06.2010
  • Delivered scalable system architecture to support high-availability Internal site with various internal applications.
  • Developed and maintained PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, and triggers to support various business applications.
  • Designed and implemented database schemas and data models based on business requirements
  • Optimized SQL queries and PL/SQL code to improve database performance and efficiency, resulting in 25% increase in application responsiveness.
  • Technical and Functional product support and enhancement, Development and Maintenance of SCM modules of product
  • On-Site support, providing clarifications to customers on issues (functional and technical)
  • Providing feedbacks, simulation activities, Proactive testing, Bug Fixing, Data correction and migration
  • Writing SQL Stored procedures, Triggers, Indexes, Debugging and Testing
  • Providing patches, Performance optimization, Developing Tools and Release specific activities
  • Did root Cause Analysis and solved numerous mismatches arising in applications
  • Reviewing Implementation of Product release activities
  • List of some of privileged customers for whom offshore support was provided includes Swatch AG – Switzerland, Becker Underwood Inc - New Jersey, USA, Rochester Genesee – New Jersey, USA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency- Jordan, Columbia Helicopters Inc – Oregon, USA, Moser Baer Ltd, India

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Urumu Dhanalakshmi College
Trichy
06.2000 - 06.2003

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science And Programming

Bharathidasan University
Trichy
07.2003 - 06.2007

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing (AWS,AZ) - Cloud Computing

Great Lakes Institute of Management
Bangalore, India
05.2023 - 01.2024

Skills

AWS Cloud Solutions

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Software

Python

PySpark

Node JS

Axiom Development Kit

BigData

AWS Cloud

Oracle 19c

PeopleTools 858

Snowflake

Timeline

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing (AWS,AZ) - Cloud Computing

Great Lakes Institute of Management
05.2023 - 01.2024

Delivery Lead

Standard Chartered Bank, GBS
04.2018 - Current

Project Manager

HCL Technologies
07.2015 - 03.2018

System Analyst

Hexaware Technologies
07.2010 - 07.2015

Analyst programmer

Ramco Systems
02.2004 - 06.2010

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science And Programming

Bharathidasan University
07.2003 - 06.2007

Bachelor of Computer Applications - Computer Science

Urumu Dhanalakshmi College
06.2000 - 06.2003
Bhaskar Durairaju