SAGAR KARNIK
Thane
Summary
Seasoned Application Development Manager with 20+ years of experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing a diverse range of software projects. Strong knowledge in implementing strategic plans, improving operational efficiency, and introducing process improvements. Noteworthy ability to drive project completion through effective leadership and team collaboration. Demonstrated history of delivering high quality application solutions that meet business needs. Specialized in agile project management, software development lifecycle, and cross-functional team leadership. Excel in communication, problem-solving, and strategic planning to deliver high-quality solutions on time. Committed to fostering collaboration and innovation within teams to achieve organizational goals.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Application Development Manager
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
01.2018 - Current
- Designed and maintained an Informatica MDM enterprise solution for life sciences clients.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify requirements, and implement solutions.
- Experienced in managing teams of varied technologies, such as ServiceNow, Data Transfer Services, SAP Basis, database administration, and SharePoint.
- Lead the discussion with the client for new opportunities, determine the scope of work, work through deal pricing, and drive the resource fulfillment process.
- Designed, implemented, and maintained MDM solutions using Informatica MDM.
- Designed and implemented inbound and outbound integrations to and from MDM using messaging queues.
- Built and maintained MDM objects, mappings, transformations, data enrichment, hierarchies, match and merge rules, and user interface using E360.
- Managed Informatica MDM upgrades, collaborated with the MDM Centre of Excellence to implement new features, and best practices.
- Experience in providing effort estimates and pricing for change orders.
- Worked with Solution Architects in the solutioning of new deals
- Managed resource forecasting, project delivery metrics, tracked and reported continuous improvement status to clients, highlighting process automations, or effort savings, etc.
- Prepared and presented the project delivery status in management board meetings involving client leadership.
- Involved in supporting CMMI audit for ITSM processes followed in the program.
Application Associate Development Manager, Team Lead
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
06.2010 - 01.2018
- Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of a data warehouse (DW) utilizing the Microsoft SQL Business Intelligence Suite for healthcare and retail industry clients.
- Managed the enterprise data warehouse, including ETL, data modeling, and data integrations for tracking and reporting customer sales, inventory information, and shipments.
- Established and enforced technical standards for deliverables, prepared technical design specification documents, and mapped document reviews with a data architect.
- Managed a team of 20+ developers, providing technical guidance and support, resulting in the on-time delivery of projects, with no SLA breaches.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders to understand their data needs, resulting in improved decision-making and business outcomes.
- Supported financial year-end activities by data archiving and initializing data for the next financial year.
- Possessed a strong commitment and excellent analytical and efficient problem-solving skills.
- Responsible for handling and fixing issues during the stabilization period.
- Played the Transition Lead role, ensuring proper knowledge transition was completed between the incumbent vendor and the incoming vendor. Coordinated with stakeholders to prepare a transition plan, tracked it to closure, and signed off.
- Managed a team of 25+ resources with a spectrum of skills, such as Web Application Server administration, MS Project Server, and MS SharePoint Search, and was involved in resource planning and project management activities.
Specialist Developer
Mastek Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
05.2007 - 06.2010
- Company Overview: Mastek provided software solution services to the OSD division of Microsoft Corporation, USA.
- Led discussions with business users to understand and gather business requirements.
- Mapped business requirements into specific PPS Models by designing data warehouse for the same
- Designed and implemented ETL flow using Microsoft SQL Integration Services and Microsoft SQL Analysis Services applications based on the business requirements.
- Project work was delivered using Agile methodology, and a training plan was prepared for team members, grooming them on PPS.
Consultant
Capgemini Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
05.2005 - 05.2007
- Company Overview: Capgemini was an IT service provider for application development, support, and testing services to the retail and marketing divisions of Marks and Spencer, UK.
- Built and maintained a data warehouse and data analytics platform using Microsoft Analysis Services for analyzing historic and current sales volumes.
- Designed, built, and maintained the data import process to bulk load data, monitored database objects, and optimized it.
- Designed, built, and deployed SQL Analysis Services cubes, optimized cubes so that user queries ran considerably faster.
- Designed a solution to archive and restore SQL Analysis Services cubes to point-in-time, troubleshot and triaged production database issues, and resolved data discrepancy user queries.
- Primary point of contact for change and release management activities.
Programmer Analyst
Webify Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
11.2004 - 05.2005
- Company Overview: Webify Services was in sub-contracting terms with Atos Origin India Limited, India.
- Responsible for developing an in-house software project metrics monitoring tool for the leadership team of Atos Origin India Limited.
- The tool was providing insights into different project metrics, like planned vs. actual efforts, planned vs. actual start and end dates of releases, etc.
- Prepared technical design documents and designed database objects with necessary constraints.
- Designed and developed Microsoft ASP front-end web pages with user-friendly layouts, and generated graphical reports using OWC components.
- Provided demos to the leadership, troubleshot, and resolved queries raised by the leadership.
Programmer
Ember Technologies
Mumbai
09.2003 - 10.2004
- Build the integration of all processes of the Human Resources Department of a banking client, such as recruitment, onboarding, and maintenance of temporary and permanent employees of an Indian financial institution.
- This also included the building up of the leave accounting and payroll modules.
- Involved in the creation of database objects using Microsoft SQL Server, and a rich web-based user interface using classic ASP.
- Designed and built reports using Crystal Reports 8.5, and exposed them through a web-based user interface.
- Engaged in code deployments to production, and Microsoft SQL database backup and archiving.
Education
Masters In Computer Management - Information And Computer Systems
University of Pune
07-2003
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of Mumbai
07-1999
Skills
- Informatica MDM
- Oracle PL/SQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Integration Services
- Microsoft Analysis Services
- Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Client engagement
- Resource planning
- Agile development
- Azure Data Services
Certification
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate
- Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate
- Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
- SAFe 4 Agilist
- Informatica Data Governance Champions
Timeline
Application Development Manager
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd.
01.2018 - Current
Application Associate Development Manager, Team Lead
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd.
06.2010 - 01.2018
Specialist Developer
Mastek Pvt. Ltd.
05.2007 - 06.2010
Consultant
Capgemini Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2005 - 05.2007
Programmer Analyst
Webify Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.
11.2004 - 05.2005
Programmer
Ember Technologies
09.2003 - 10.2004
Masters In Computer Management - Information And Computer Systems
University of Pune
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of Mumbai
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