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experience intoInformation Technologywith7-years in executing CA Clarity PPM (formerly NIKU) Projectsand around 1 year of experience in QA.

  • During Jagadeesh work at Patni, Jagadeesh has held various positions like (Project Manager,Project Lead,Team Lead, Business Analyst,OSC,Clarity Techno Functional consultant and Clarity Technical Consultant)at both onsite and offshore (India).
  • Jagadeesh has versatile experience across various regions of the globe for approx. 5-years in software development as a Clarity Consultant / Lead / OSCat various customerlocations.
  • Implemented various IT Governance solutions for wide range of customers (Banking, Insurance, Automobile, Manufacturing, Retail etc...) using CA-Clarity PPM Suite across various regions in Globe.
  • Involvedall theSDLC Project life cycle phases such as Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, SIT, UAT, Production build and Warranty support.
  • Core areas of skill are development and coding using Clarity PPM Suite (7.1, 7.5.3, 8.0, 8.1.x and r12 sp06), Oracle, MSSql, Perl, XOG, NSQL, HP Quality Center and Load runner.
  • Strong in Clarity Data Migration (XOG), Installations, Upgrades, Fixpack, Portlets Development, 3rd party Integrations and Enhancements.
  • Experience in DB customization like developing custom database triggers and stored procedures.
  • CA Certified NIKU-Clarity Technical Consultant.

Professional Work Experience:

Working as a Tech Lead Confidential,

Skill Set

Portfolio Project Management: CA Clarity 7.5.3, 8.0, 8.1, r12 sp06

Language :Java, PL/Sql

Database :Oracle9i &10g, MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprise edition.

Application Servers :Orion, Apache Tomcat, Web sphere, Web logic

Testing Tools : HP Quality Centre 10.0, Load Runner,

Internet Technology : HTML, XML, PERL

Job Functions :Requirements, Design, Development, Testing, Prod Build


Current Assignment:
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Project :GIPSharePoint 2010 Migration
Confidential,
Duration :April’12 – till date
Technologies :SharePoint 2010, 2007, QC,Rally,.NET,Agile Methodology
Role : Test Lead
Current Location : Onsite, New Jersey, US
Team size :9

Project Description:The customer Company offers various kinds of Bottlers, Vendors and other Customers with a wide range of consumer goods. To better market these products through various channels Customer provides a variety of marketing Sites for their respective regions over the globe. Customer Channel North America, but they deal with all the vendors & bottlers across the globe.

  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Direct interaction with business to understand the exact requirements
  • Day to day production support issues.
  • Object related changes & object configurations
  • Developed custom portlets.
  • Data migration
  • Fixpack installations
  • Support business process work flows

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Test Scenario Identification, Efforts estimation
  • Creation of Functional Test Cases
  • Handling defect calls directly with Business Team
  • Defect Management – Involving constant co-ordination with Developers and Business

Significant assignments executed
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Project :BI Testing, Performance Testing &Clarity r12 Upgrade
Confidential,
Duration : Jan’11 – Mar’12
Technologies :BI, Crystal Reports, Clarity r12 sp06, MS SQL 2005, Load Runner
Role : Test Lead& Clarity Techno Functional consultant
Team size : 7

Project Description:The customer Company offers various kinds of Bottlers, Vendors and other Customers with a wide range of consumer goods. To better market these products through various channels Customer provides a variety of marketing Sites for their respective regions over the globe. Customer Channel North America, but they deal with all the vendors & bottlers across the globe.

  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Test Scenario Identification, Efforts estimation
  • Creation of Functional Test Cases
  • Handling defect calls directly with Business Team
  • Defect Management – Involving constant co-ordination with Developers and Business
  • Scenarios Creation
  • Test Execution on Load Runner
  • Analyze the results and distribute the reports to business with benchmark figures

Project :Clarity Reports Development
Confidential,
Duration : Oct’10 – Dec’10
Technologies : Clarity PPM Suite r12 sp06, Oracle10g, CrystalXI
Role : Clarity Techno functional consultant, Project Lead
Team Size : 4

  • Project Description: This project work mainly involves custom reports development on Clarity system.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Requirements gathering at customer location, Melbourne.
  • Requirements Signoff.
  • Custom Reports Development on CrystalXI.
  • Involves UAT.
  • Production Rollup
  • Production Signoff.

Project :Clarity r12 Upgrade & Charge Code Swapover
Confidential,
Duration : Sep’09 – August ‘10
Technologies : Clarity PPM Suite r12 sp05, Oracle 10g, XOG, OWB, UNIX
Role : Clarity Techno functional consultant
Team size :5

  • Customer Overview: The Customer is leading Education and Training department in NSW. Customer delivers high quality, internationally competitive public education and training from early childhood (pre-school) through to senior secondary education.The Department is the largest single organization, public or private, in Australia which includes 741,000 students over 50,000 full time teachers in more than 2,200 NSW Government schools.
  • Project Description: This project work mainly involves Clarity system upgrade to r12 and data Swapover between Charge Code & Investment Classes of Clarity Projects. Also includes developing some new Portlets and modifying the existing Portlets. It also includes day to day production support issues as well.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Clarity major Upgrade from 8.0 – r12sp05 on Development, Test, Training and Production environments.
  • Developed Charge Code Investment class Swapover impact analysis document.
  • Created Swapover Test Plan, Test results on HPQC.
  • Developed DB level scripts to swap the Charge Code and Investment Classes data.
  • Developed/Enhanced new/existing Portlets.
  • Conducted End Users Training on modules like Resource Management and Time sheet Management.
  • Enhanced functionality migration to production.
  • Day to day production support issues.

Project : JLR Clarity Timesheet Interface
Confidential,
Duration : Aug’08
Technologies : CA Clarity (Portfolio Project Management) 8.1 with fp03,
Oracle 9i, Windows XP Professional, Pl/SQL, GEL Scripting
Role : Team Lead & Clarity Techno Functional Consultant

Project Description: This interface has proposed between the internal time recording system at customer and Clarity application (8.1.1).The system currently used by customer is called DORF (This does not stand for anything) which an internally developed system and it has been recognized that it is no longer fit for purpose.

DORF currently contains timesheet entries for customer IT division resources and feeds other management systems. It is proposed to extract this timesheet information to populate Clarity timesheets. DORF will be the controlling system and the interface will update Clarity only. No data will be extracted from Clarity and update DORF. DORF also contains other resource related data which will be loaded into Clarity during other the phases of the Clarity implementation.

The customer IT division Resources enter time into the customer DORF time data system. This new interface will extract this data on a monthly basis, validated the data against the Clarity application. When whole set of data is acceptable the interface will export the data into Clarity. The time data then will be visible to the customer Project Manager via the Clarity application. The customer Business Office team will be able to review the time data in DORF and in Clarity.

  • Responsibilities:
  • Analyzing the client business requirements and developing and/or guiding them through their requirements in order attain the requirements.
  • Writing a stored procedure, this will perform the validations prior to xog in DORF time data into clarity.
  • Created a custom object with necessary custom attributes.
  • Create a portlet in order to display accepted time data.
  • Created a workflow according to client requirements.

Project : Clarity Implementation/Enhancements
Confidential,
Duration :Nov ’07 – Jul’08
Technologies : CA Clarity (Portfolio Project Management) 7.5.3 with fp06,
Oracle 9i, Actuate 7i server, Windows XP Professional, MSP
Role : Clarity Techno Functional Consultant, OSC

Project Description: Customer organization is a well-known Auto mobile company located in East America region,with a complex and diversified multi-level organizational structure. Customer has been implemented Clarity couple of years back for their secured and well manageable enterprise project portfolio management system, which can accommodate their organizational needs like Organizational Break up Structure (OBS), Access rights, and also few new custom requirements like Portlets/reports.

Clarity PPM is using mainly for the needs of standardized and decentralized processes of Customer organization, Resource Time Tracking, Project Management, Resource Management, Reporting and creation of custom objects for specific customer related requirements.

  • Responsibilities:
  • Analyzing the client business requirements and developing and/or guiding them through the new implementations/enhancements without any effect of already existing functionality.
  • Installed & upgraded new patches successfully for all the 3- different Clarity environments named as Dev, UAT, and Production.
  • Developed different Migration Scripts for SSG group in order to perform migration of Resources, Departments, Charge codes; User defined Lookups, Users, and Projects to Production.
  • Created and Developed Groups for CVS & SSG according to their access rights needs.
  • Configured and fixed the Custom Object Reminder System issue.
  • Developed timesheet module portlets (Resource Hours by Role by reporting obs, Hours by Project type by reporting obs, Contractor hours by sourcing channel, and Project Management Dashboard).
  • Fix the customer specific clarity issues of Customer developed TimesheetPortlet, Knowledge base problem, Email notification of Reminder system, Project Schedule Cost Dashboard, and export to excel issue etc.
  • Written customized database trigger on timesheets table in order to create late timesheet report.

Project : CrystalProject& Portfolio Management
Confidential,
Duration : Sep ’06 – July’ 07
Technologies : Clarity 7.5.3 with fp02,MS-Sql Server Enterprise Edition 2005, Windows 2003 server, Quality Center, Load Runner
Role : Team Lead Tech Stream, Clarity Technical Consultant and OSC

Project Description : Customeris a leading Malaysian Bank, with a complex and diversified multi-organizational structure, the client requires an enterprise project portfolio management system, which can accommodate its strict security requirements while supporting standardized and decentralized processes for Time Tracking, Project Management, Resource Management, Financial Management and Reporting.

  • Responsibilities:
  • Analyzing the client business requirements and developing and/or guiding them through the implementation.
  • Installed & successfully deployed 3- different Clarity environments for MBB named as Dev, UAT, and Production (DB Server, App Server, Reports Server)
  • Developing Attributes, Dynamic Lookups with NSQL and subpages in order to develop MBB custom specific workflow management.
  • Creating/Configuringthe custom/out of box attributes for Clarity default & custom objects.
  • Developing the various portlets for Time Sheet module as per customer requirements.
  • Migratingthe Data like Project Object, Process flows,Groups,OBS, Project Object, Resource Object, Custom Test Director Object, Roles,Skills,User’s,Resources from the Development to Test & Test to Production Clarity System through XMlopen gate way(XOG) during phase 1 and phase2.
  • Integrated Clarity with Test Director, CUAT Booking System and Caliber RMMT.
  • Solely involved during warranty support period.

Project :Clarity Implementation for Innovation
Confidential,

  • Duration :Sep’05 – May’06
  • Technologies :CA Clarity (Portfolio Project Management), Lotus Notes.

Role : Clarity Technical Consultant

Project Description : Client is a well-known multinational Customer, who is using the Clarity System to develop their innovation and Stage Gate Life cycle workflows. The first stage of development involved getting the data from the Lotus Notes system into the Clarity System. The next stage of development involves complete New Product Life Cycle workflow development. The first stage was rolled out in different countries for use within and outside TCCC. This project received the best Project Team award for the dedication and quality work shown.

    • Responsibilities:
    • Analyzing the client business requirements
    • Developed the stage gate workflow.
    • Data Migration from Lotus Notes to Clarity.

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