Amit Agrawal

AMIT AGRAWAL Mobile: - ~ E-Mail:-Profile Snapshot • • • • • • • • • • • 18+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Software Design & Development and managing multiple teams in the product development based companies Focuses to strike an optimum balance among People, Product and Processes to produce better than desired outcomes in business and software development. Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI Microsoft Certified Professional in Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Exhibited excellence in designing, piloting and implementing new business requirements through end-to-end software development, technical requirements analysis, development, customizations and implementation Hands on experience of programming in .Net Framework using C#, ASP.Net MVC Well versed with designing and implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. Possess sound ability in identifying risks/issues which affect the project and placing effective solutions for accelerating the business growth & revenue A thorough professional with a proactive attitude, energetic, self motivated, capable of thinking & generating new design solutions & ideas Excel in effectively communicating with stakeholders (Product Management, Agile Team, Support Team, Customers) for understanding the requirement of product features to design, implementing and delivering the solution. Conceptual and practical exposure to complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Product development using Agile Methodology Framework and Traditional Waterfall Model approach. Skill Set Business Setup Delivery Management SLA Management Training & Development Process Expert Technical Design Business strategic decisions Risk and Issue Management QA/ Compliance Enterprise Software Product Development Stakeholder Management Hands on in development Partnerships and strategic alliances Project Set up and Stabilization Requirement Definition/Management Support Incident Management Change Management Employment Details Dec’15 – Present: CoFounder and Director Vnurt Technology Solutions Private Limited, Bangalore Nov’04 – Nov’15: Manager, R&D Aptean Software India Pvt. Ltd. (Formerly CDC Software.), Bangalore Sep’01 – Nov’04: Software Engineer Imaje Software Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore (Offshore Development Center) Key Result Areas • Setting up of new business, strategic directions, partnership and strategic alliances. • Led multiple products team of 25+ people. • Managing overall project operations for executing various projects involving scoping, design/architecture, development and deployments of the same • Monitoring / tracking projects with respect to scope, time over-runs to ensure timely execution of projects with best practices • Interacting with the Program / Project Management Teams for requirements gathering & scoping • Mentoring and training project members to enable them to perform their activities effectively • Handling architecture and designing the solution for the product and performing project estimation & project scheduling for its timely completion. • Design and development. • Comprehensive knowledge about Agile Methodologies and its application in business enterprises work frame • Good understanding of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from requirement gathering till deployment of software components and maintenance of the same Highlights • Won multiple innovation awards. • Automated the Pivotal system creation which improved the productivity of Engineering, Support and Customer Service departments by removing the mundane tasks. • • • Built tool for API testing and continuous integration to execute projects on time and within budget. Conceptualized and Implemented Virtualization to improve productivity. Streamlined the code review process across R&D. This reduced the defect rate by 40 to 50% within the Agile team. IT Skills Operating Systems: Servers: Database Languages: Framework: Technologies: Process Tool: Packaging Tool MS Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7) MS Window Server (2003 & 2008) SQL Server, MySQL C, C++ & C#, JS Visual Studio 2015,2012, 2010, .Net framework, Xamarin, JQuery, Visual C++ 6.0 (MFC), Windows SDK & VC1.52 COM, DCOM, HTML, HTML5, DOM, CSS, Win Form & WPF Cruise Control, Surround Seapine, Team Foundation Server Install Shield Certifications • • Project Management Professional (PMP) Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Academic Qualifications • • • • • PGDBA (Finance) from Symbiosis centre for Distance Learning, Pune in 2006 with 80% Diploma in Advanced Computing from C-DAC ACTS Bangalore in 2001 with 74% B.E. (Mechanical) from IGGEC Sagar, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar in 2000 with 81% 12th from Guru Govind Singh Khalsa HSS, Jabalpur, MP Board in 1996 with 80% 10th from Guru Govind Singh Khalsa HS School, Jabalpur, MP Board in 1994 with 71% Personal Details Date of Birth: Residential Address: Languages Known: 8th November 1977 Flat no. D-1102 Salarpuria Melody APTS, Panthrapalya, Nayanadahalli, Bangalore –560061 English & Hindi *Refer to Annexure for Project Details Annexure: Key Projects Handled Project: Company: Environment: Period: Scope: Vnurt Platform Vnurt Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Microsoft Technologies for Website and APP Development. Dec’15 – Present Vnurt integrates technology in education sector in a way that we are able to bridge the gap between the needs and means available to students. This will also help to prepare better and more employable workforce for industry. VNurt is a Microsoft promoted company and is identified to delivery values in education domain. As the cofounder and director of the company I am responsible for strategic decisions, execution of decisions made, technology roadmap, building partnerships and strategic alliances. Project: Environment: Team Size: Period: Scope: Respond Microsoft Technologies 25 Nov’13 – Nov’15 Respond is the Complaint and feedback management product from Aptean. I was responsible for the entire product delivery from India center. Was also responsible for people management and process management. Project: Environment: Team Size: Period: Scope: Pivotal 6.0 - Sedna Smart Client C# using Visual Studio 2010 12 May’06 – Oct’13 Sedna is the new generation smart client based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product of CDC Software. It features rich user experience and flexible deployment model. This new client represents a replacement of earlier Pivotal Windows and Rich Clients. Till date we have delivered 12 releases of this product. I was involved in requirement gathering, architecting, designing, implementing and managing various aspects of this project. These 12 releases can be considered as 12 different projects. Project: Environment: Team Size Period: Scope: Rich Client/Windows Client 5.9 (Raven) C++/VC++, COM, ATL, HTML DOM 8 Nov’04 – May’06 Raven is an enhancement to the existing 3 tier architecture of Rich Client. Rich Client is a browser-based application to access a customer relationship management system. It is the presentation layer in a 3-tier architecture with Pivotal Business server in middle tier and Pivotal databases in data tier. The project is related to enhancing the experience of Rich Client in multiple ways. Project: Environment: Team Size: Period: Scope: Imaje Center 3.2 ATL COM, MFC using VC++ 6.0 10 Jan’04 – Nov’04 The software is responsible for driving series of all Imaje printers with the common user interface despite of the heterogeneous nature of printers in order to ease user interactions and future developments. It deals with the development of the Message Editor and Controller modules. Imaje Message Editor The Message Editor module will be used by the users to create, modify, save, and retrieve messages. Imaje Control Center Imaje Control Center will monitor (permanently connection) all Imaje labeling and coding range from a central PC and will interface with Imaje Message Center for the messages. This module contains the functionality to drive the printers. Users can create, modify, save, and retrieve Printer Group information, Task information, when interfacing with the printers through the printer driver. Project: Environment: Team Size: Period: Scope: Design and Development of the Printer Library MFC exe, ActiveX, DLLs using VC++ 6.0 4 Mar’03 – Dec’03 The TH8 Library offers an interface to develop Windows based Applications to drive the TH8 printers without having to bother about low level commands and response sequences. It offers an interface in two ways. Application Programming Interface: A simple API DLL, which is made easy for the integrators as well as for the developers to develop applications faster and with reduced complexity. The data transfer between the TH8 printer and the PC based Application takes place using the RS232 serial link and the RS485 (FASTCOMM drivers) link. ActiveX Library: This section includes a set of ActiveX controls with contemporary User Interface to facilitate the users of the same to design the UI faster and according to their needs. Project: Environment: Team Size: Period: Scope: Laser Printer Message Editor MFC using VC++ 6.0 4 Mar’04 – Nov’04 The software is responsible for creating and downloading the messages to the laser printer. Currently the software is in prototype stage and the basic user interface is in progress. The software supports touch panel. Other Projects Handled Project: Environment: Team Size: Period: Design and Development of Application Development Library (Toolkit Library) C++, VC++ 1.52 4 Oct’01 – Dec’03 Project: Environments: Team Size: Period: Development of RSS and XMM Library C++, VC++ 1.52 1 Oct’03 – Dec’03 Project: Environment: Team Size: Period: Design & Development of Customized Application using Toolkit Library C++, VC++ 1.52 2 Oct’01 – Nov’04 Project: Role: Environment: Team Size: Period: Maintenance & Customization of Existing Plus Applications Analysis of the customer Requirement & Development C & VC++ 1.52 2 Oct’01 – Nov’04