Saikat Samanta is an IT professional with over 5 years of experience in application support, maintenance, and testing using technologies like IBM InfoSphere MDM, Java, DB2, and UNIX. He has worked on projects for clients like Cognizant Technology Solutions, Staples, and Visa Inc. involving implementation of master data management solutions and providing support for applications that access data from a common data warehouse. His responsibilities have included requirement analysis, coding, testing, troubleshooting production issues, and communicating with clients. He holds a B.Tech degree from W.B.U.T with marks of 78.10%.

1. SAIKAT SAMANTA
5/1 A Garan Hata Lane,
Kolkata Mobile: 91-7259024049/91-9830515448
PIN: 700006 Email-saikatsamanta2008@gmail.com
NSR Registration Number (ITPIN): 801103489411 Passport No: KO473435
Experience Summary
A result-driven IT professional with 5.4+ years of total experience in analysis, maintenance, enhancement and
testing of Software. Having a track record of successfully delivering profit driven, value added and peak
performing technology solutions for cross-functional business objectives. My expertise includes application
support, enhancement, troubleshooting, testing and reporting to management.
Technical expertise includes IBM Info Sphere MDM PIM v9, v10, Core Java, WPC Scripting, DB2, and UNIX.
Technical Skills
Languages: Core JAVA, J2EE(Servlet, JSP), SQL, Unix command operation
MDM Technologies: Info Sphere MDM Server for PIM 9.x/10.x
Scripting Languages: HTML, Java Script, WPC script, WQL.
RDBMS: DB2 10.x, MS SQL Server
Operating System: Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX, Linux.
Framework: Struts 1.2
Experience Summary
Employer Duration Location
Visa Inc March 2016 - Present Bangalore
Cognizant Technology Solution July 2014- March 2016 Kolkata
RS Software
December 2010 - June
2014 Kolkata
Relevant Project Experience
Organization: Cognizant Technology Solution
Title Staples PIM Support
Client Staples, US
Technology IBM MDM Collaboration Server for PIM v10.0, Java 1.6, DB2, MS SQL Server
OS Linux
Team Size 3
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2. Role MDM PIM Support Developer
Duration: July 2014 – March 2016
Project Objective
Implementation of PIM to US based largest Office supply chain store to collect supplier and legacy product data
for mastering and publication to over 2,000 stores worldwide in 26 countries & E- commerce
channel like Staples Advantage for exclusive enterprise level business. This involves automatic
import and export of product data with workflows set up for different user communities per line
of business.
Project Description
The goal of this project is to implement optimized workflows that are designed to meet the needs of an existing
item setup and update process and the business goal of scaling up SKU count, item throughput
and to enable the vendor and partner integration via the PIM system. User setup for PIM
application, design of various Imports, Export & Report jobs and master data handling and
Rectification as per requirement are the other functionalities of this project. Presently 12 million
SKUs information are successfully handled by this application. Another part of this project is to
24*7 supports via on-call and desk-support.
Role and Responsibilities
• Creating Report, Import and Export jobs based on
client requirement
• Functionality enhancement and performance tuning
• Provided value added services like Bulk Approval, Bulk Active/De-active group of users etc.
• Developing utility scripts using WPC scripts and WQL
• Unit Testing
• Provide support and defect fix during System Testing
• Provide Technical Support and issue fixing including P1 and P2 tickets
• Client communication and status reporting.
Organization: RS Software
Application Common Data Infrastructure Member Interface
Client Visa Inc. US
Technology Java 1.5, J2EE, Struts, Servlet, JSP, Web Sphere V6.1/V7.1,
DB2 V10.1.
Tools Prognosis, Keynote
OS AIX
Team Size 4
Role Application Support, Maintenance and Enhancement
Duration: Dec 2010 – June 2014
Project Objective
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• Coding of system Catalog, Data model,
Workflow
• Data Model Design and Technical Design

3. CDI-MI is a Java based web application, which acts as a gateway to other applications that require data from the
CDI Data Warehouse. This application is a virtual platform that sets-up and validates access to MSTR projects
used by Visa Members.
Project Description
CDI is the platform through which Visa Inc. provides business intelligent data to its Internal as well as External
customer as a different format of Reports. CDI has various projects which cater to the different business needs
of the users. The user community consists of internal staff as well as external Members of Visa such as Various
Banks in the different regions of the world. These projects have several inbuilt reports ready to be used by
users.
Role and Responsibilities
• Addressing SEV-1, SEV-2(on call) and other low priority issues including bug fixing
• Drive high severity/emergency production issues, providing hot fix
• Direct client communication and status reporting
• Performance monitoring
• Troubleshooting
• Functional testing and Unit testing
Organization: RS Software
Application Common Data Infrastructure Service Interface
Client Visa Inc. US
Technology Java 1.5, J2EE, Struts, Java Script, Web Service, Web Sphere V6.1/V7.1,
DB2 V10.1.
Tools SOAP UI
OS AIX
Team Size 4
Role Application Support and Maintenance
Duration April 2011 – June 2014
Project Objective
CDI-SI is secured and auditable access of Common Data Infrastructure (CDI) data to applications via Web
Services. The purpose of different CDI-SI web services are to provide Payment Details, Fraud Details, Exception
Details, Account history depending upon the various business criteria like date, transaction history, card
number, transaction id etc.CDI-SI build an infrastructure that serves data, synchronously or asynchronously,
from disparate sources like Ab Initio graph, OLAP databases, CDI warehouse database to any requesting
applications.
Role and Responsibilities
• Addressing Production issues, bug fixing
• Application failover to BRP system in case of outage
• Performance monitoring and troubleshooting
• Application testing
• Client reporting
Academic Profile:
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4. DATED: -
PLACE: - Saikat Samanta
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Examination University/Board
Year of
Passing
Marks
B.Tech W.B.U.T 2010 78.10%
Higher Secondary W.B.C.H.S.E 2006 73.33%
Secondary W.B.B.S.E 2004 75.25%