Suchitra Somarajan

SUCHITRA SOMARAJAN E-Mail:- Experienced Project/Team leader with flare for adopting cutting edge technology in the enterprise space responsible for customer engagement, requirements management, project quality and people management. PROFILE SUMMARY A technocrat with over 12+ years of extensive experience as a Project/Team Leader. Experienced in Requirement Analysis and Team Management. A hands-on Project Lead and a core contributor for teams success. Hands on experience on Visual Studio, MS- SQL Server, Visual Basic, COBOL & VB.NET. Proven skills in managing teams to work in sync with the corporate set parameters & motivating them for achieving business and individual goals. Trainer and Mentor - Identifying and Igniting young talents - Recruitment drives, Mentoring and upskilling cross functional teams. Comfortable with direct client interactions and requirements collection for software projects and subsequent preparation of project requirements documents. Ability to deliver high quality IT products and services on schedule and under budget. Solid skills in writing functional requirement specifications. Excellent interpersonal skills in communications and client relations. Forward-focused Project Leader with expertise in concepts of end-to-end project/program planning and implementation from scope management, to activity sequencing, effort estimation, risk analysis to quality management in line with organizational guidelines and norms. Exceptional communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner. A resourceful and self motivated professional with excellent networking skills and ability to work independently and as a team player. Please Refer Annexure for core project details. TECHNICAL DETAILS Languages:VB.NET, C#.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic, COBOL Operating System:Windows, Linux Framework:.NET Framework, MVC Technologies:COM/DCOM, XML, VB.NET, ADO.NET, Windows Forms, Web Services Development Tools:Visual Studio.NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Configuration Tools:Visual SourceSafe, GIT, Jenkins, SVN Scripting Languages:JavaScript Databases:SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access Reporting Tools:SSRS, Crystal Reports Methodologies:Agile, Waterfall, Rapid Prototyping Collaboration ToolsJIRA, MS Teams Markup Languages:XML, XSD, XSLT, HTML Protocols:SOAP, REST CAREER DETAILS Apr’08 – Current: Thoughtline Technologies, Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala, India as Technical Lead Key Result Areas: Managed the entire product lifecycle; requirement analysis, feasibility study, design, development, integration and testing. Coordinated with clients/users for project planning, requirement gathering, finalization of technical architecture/design and discussions for effort/cost/time estimation. Researched, developed, tested and implemented helpful programmes to automate redundant tasks along with seeking better ways to reduce time of development. Analysed and produced the functional requirements and specifications & recommended design modifications based on client requirements. Maintained and managed required project documents. Handled all changes in accordance to the Change Management Process to prevent the implementation of unauthorized changes and cost exposures. Identified team’s training & development needs and arranging appropriate training programmes. Identifying and implementing strategies for building team effectiveness by promoting a spirit of cooperation between team members; involved in conducting performance appraisals for providing feedback on areas of improvement to associates. Monitoring the overall functioning of processes, identifying improvement areas and implementing adequate measures to maximize customer satisfaction level. Significant Highlights: Hands-on experience in Software Development. Has successfully managed project team sizes ranging from 2 to 20 members. Successfully improved project work flow and tracking by managing projects using tools like MS Teams and JIRA. Instrumental in coaching team members about project domain and communications. Prepared various MIS reports & other statements with a view to apprise management of the process operations and assist in critical decision-making process. Set out quality standards for various operational areas & conducting regular quality audits, ensuring a high-quality customer experience, while adhering to the SLAs and work processes. Successfully contributed to various organisational procedures. ACADEMICS Master of Computer Applications from Saurashtra University, Gujarat in 2007 Bachelor of Computer Applications from Saurashtra University, Gujarat in 2004 PERSONAL DETAILS Date of Birth:27th September, 1984 Address:Near Vazhappana Jn, Arasumoodu .P.O , Trivandrum, Kerala-695583 Languages Known:English, Hindi and Malayalam ~ ANNEXURE ~ Project Title:EDI - Wheels Fleet Management System (USA) Organization:Thoughtline Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala, India Details:Responsible for requirements collection, documentation, task tracking, monitoring and project management. Tis project is about managing a bunch of ongoing Billing console applications done for Wheels Inc USA. We needed to develop new Billing applications or modify existing applications on demand. It may also contain issue fixing in existing applications and rewriting existing applications in VB.6 and COBOL into C#. These applications are executed by batch jobs which are scheduled to run monthly, weekly or daily as per requirement. The technology has extended to use IBM tool Sterling for file generation and file transmission. Project Title:Project Tracking® (USA) Organization:Thoughtline Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala, India Details:The Project Tracking System is a database application designed to track system requests, problem requests, and long-term projects that the Information Technology department has been assigned to. It identifies the requesting department and assigned IT staff, the timeline for the work, details about the work, and the status of their effort, which helps the IT management to manage accurately current project needs and forecast future needs. IT employees use the Project Tracking System. It is a database application that identifies the requesting department and assigned IT staff, the timeline for the work, details about the work, and the status of each effort. Project Title:Project Admin® (USA) Organization:Thoughtline Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala, India Details:The Project Admin System is a database application designed for IT administrators, to manage users if they belong to employees or consultants and can set hierarchy for them. It helps them to verify and approve the logged hours for employees. Project Title:Tsubaki (USA) Organization:Thoughtline Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala, India Details:A windows-based application. The purpose of this procedure was to establish the process for recording, tracking, and responding to customer complaints. When a customer requests written corrective action with a customer complaint, the information is entered into the Customer Complaint Database. The complaint information is automatically transferred to the Corrective Action System Database