Celestine Fernando

Celestine Fernando -http://www.celestinefernando.com Mobile : - An astute professional with 18+ years of experience in Project/ Delivery management & Client Relationship management with expertise in Banking/ Mutual Fund/ Shipping/ Asset Management practice Professional Profile Over 18 Years of IT Experience with 10 years as a Delivery and Project Manager in IT Banking (5.5 years), Mutual Fund, Financial, Shipping and IT Domains Extensive experience in IT Banking, Mutual Fund, Financial, Shipping and IT Domains that enable me to perform cross domain integration and process transformations Goal-oriented, organized, motivated, active team player, detail-directed problem solver with excellent communication skills and leadership capabilities Excellent skills in managing team and working with clients. Demonstrated ability to gain customers trust and provide exceptional follow-up, leading to increased business Management experience includes business needs assessment, software development and IT deployment in core technologies such as Java, J2EE, Oracle platforms etc. Hands on experience in service delivery, planning, scheduling and execution of projects. Optimizing existing processes, setting up of new processes, implementation, and documentation Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high pressure environment Implemented Banking / ERP applications, involving complex enterprise architecture, large user base Extensive Consulting Experience in creative solutions on IT Strategies and Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Good understanding and experience in SDLC methodologies. Rich experience with Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodology Strong at Object oriented analysis and design of high performance distributed systems. Effective communication and negotiation skills at all levels, technical and functional Commercial and business acumen when interacting with all stakeholders Ability to adopt methodologies such as Agile / Scrum to service delivery and team management Successful planning, managing and execution of multiple projects to delivery in a Matrix Environment. Excellent interpersonal communication skills and Team building capabilities Good strategy formulation, problem identification, analysis and resolution abilities Passionate to work with people and the ability to quickly build rapport and the ability to identify opportunities to delight and satisfy end clients Key Accomplishments Total Bank Automation for District Central Coop Banks / Urban Coop Banks, scalable to Core Banking Computerization solution for Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies Customization of Finacle (Core Banking – Infosys), Migration and Support for UCO, UBI and IDBI Banks Solution for NBFC – Mutual Benefit Fund Societies, specialized in Gold Loans Handled Key account manager position at Onward; responsible for end to end solutions delivery using appropriate technology Successfully maintained the P&L of the Open source development team Spearheaded the delivery team of Onward’s flagship banking application for cooperative Banks and Agriculture Societies across the state of TamilNadu. Managed multiple Vendors for implementation of the Banking Solution across the state by handling FMS (40 million INR/Yearly). Built successful development teams from the scratch in previous organizations - Onward, Infosys, Hexaware and BTL. Established version control and release management procedures to maintain the applications Implemented the ISO process in the application development, maintenance and support at Onward eServices. Ensured effective implementation of agile process and trained staff to maximize benefits at Onward eServices. Recognition as a key player and provided significant number of stock options at Onward eServices. Brought in more projects from Govt. Sector worth 25 million INR at Onward eServices. By in-house maintenance of UTI’s TUP application for 5 years, helped UTI to save around 75 to 80 million INR. Skill Set Programming Language: PL/SQL, Pro*C, C, Java, J2EE, ColdFusion 5 and UNIX scripts RDBMS: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, SQL Server, MS Access, PostgreSQL DB Tools: SQL*Plus, i*SQL Plus, SQL*Loader, TOAD, DBA Studio, Export & Import utility, OEM, SQL Navigator, Net8, EXPLAIN Plan SQL Trace, TK prof Application/Webserver: JBOSS 4.1/4.3, Apache Code Repositories: CVSNT, Clear Case IDE: Netbeans 6.0,7.0, Eclipse Operating System: Windows, Windows NT, Linux, UNIX GUI Tools: VB6, Developer 2000, SQL Reports Scripting Language: UNIX Shell Script, AWK, SED Packaging Tools: ANT Work Experience Onward eservices Limited, India Project Manager – Delivery [Aug 10 – Feb 16] Maintained the flagship Total Bank Automation software application for Banks and cooperative societies. Managed development, maintenance and support of various web applications and ERP. Releasing the new builds – Release management. Handling the Development team by assigning the validated issues and testing those. Reviewing Daily/Weekly/Monthly performance of software / team Established an application workflow for resolution of l1/L2/L3 tickets. Client liaison – for all the project Interacting with client and analyse their needs which results as new leads for sales team Working closely with FMS team, implementation team to clear the issues reported, Joint Review meeting with client Weekly SRM with VP and GM Built and managed a team of 50+ Engineers. Handled the P&L and Government accounts from pre-sales to Collection of AR. Ensured the development process in compliance with ISO- Banking Projects handled: Common Application software for Banks – DCCB (Since Aug ‘10) CAS is banking application software developed using JAVA, J2EE, EJB, AJAX and Web2.0. The software has two major modules called Brach operation and Head office operation, and those modules are further divided into no of sub modules for various banking operations. Banking Software for PACS (Primary Agricultural Credit Society) (Since Aug ‘10) It has been developed for District Central Co-operative Society banks and implemented in 1000+ bank branches. Also by making necessary modification in the software, it has been piloted in Primary Agriculture cooperative society with TRADING module added. Now the implementation is competed and all the branches are LIVE. This application is developed as per the specification mentioned by NABARD to take care of the activities involved in agricultural societies. This application is evaluated by NABARD and considered to roll out all over India. Also in other states of India, the pilot implementation is in progress. Technology: Java, J2EE, Struts 1.2, EJB, JBoss AS, Web 2.0, DWR, JSON, HTML, Javascript and Oracle. Infosys, India Project Manager – IMS operations [Jan 10 – Aug 10] Handled L1 and L2 support activities for Microsoft with a team size of 60. Participated in pre-planning activities and identified the risks and mitigation for transition. Trained and built the teams for transition by getting KT form the incumbent vendor. Created Gantt charts in MS Project and detailed chart of milestones for all parties. Coordinated between staff, Incumbent vendors and Microsoft throughout the pre-LIVE and Post-LIVE. Hexaware Technologies Ltd, India Technical Architect – Application development and maintenance [Apr 07 – Oct 09] Establish the Project Plan in MS-Project with major activities, milestones/ deliverables, dates. Staff the Project with appropriate resources and defined roles and responsibilities. Identify and monitor risks and provide contingency plans during planning stages. Plan and conduct internal project reviews & Onsite / Offshore reviews. Monitor progress of development and prepare and review monthly analysis. Plan and conduct joint / senior management review meetings. Conduct reviews on all deliverables to ensure all agreed standards are adhered. Bengal Tiger Line Pvt Ltd, India IT Manager – India Region [Jul 05 – Feb 07] Single handedly performed roles of Business Analyst, Programmer, Oracle DBA, Network Admin and Hardware. Mastered ColdFusion and completed the Coding and maintenance of various Maxlink modules. Stabilized the application and optimized the performance both in frontend and backend. Successfully hosted Maxlink application in datacenter and DR setup in Singapore as contingency measure. Recruited, trained and deployed a team of fresher’s for application maintenance and enhancement. P&O Nedlloyd, India System Analyst [Dec 03 – Jul 05] Problem analysis and fixing by L2 tickets thru Action-REMEDY software. Assigning work to team members / reports to ASM. Preparing / publishing Release windows to the P&O worldwide. Automated the deployment of release patches - shell scripts - reduced the deployment effort to 90%. Conducting Weekly release activities during the scheduled outages. Unit Trust of India, India Assistant Manager – IT [Nov 98 – Oct 03] Developed and maintained TUP software’s Oracle Forms, Reports, PL/SQL procedures and scripts. Coordinated with the 54 branches in installation of TUP s/w, creation of Database and data loading in many branches. HCL Info systems Ltd, India Programmer [Dec 97 – Nov 98] Prepared Detailed Design, Test cases and developed Forms, Reports and PL/SQL procedures. Tuned the PL/SQL scripts and conducted Unit testing & Integrated testing. Education Bachelor of Science – Physics, Madras University in 1994. Master of Computer Application – Anna University in 1998. Master of Business Administration – Loyola Institute of Business Administration in 2009. CMMI Level 3 & ISO Internal Auditor Training – KPMG in 2012. Additional Information Nationality:Indian Date of Birth:29th Nov, 1973 Visa Validity:5Th June 2016