Technical Consultant with 11 years of experience in Microsoft Technologies

1. Ashok Kumar Sahu softwareashok@rediffmail.com , softwareashok@gmail.com
(Bangalore - India) +91 – 9342135267, +91 - 9483973024
I’m a senior technology consultant with strategic vision and experience in delivering high quality
software on tight schedule and budget. Have 11 years of extensive experience in quality design, architecture
design (2 years), development and lead management (using Microsoft Technologies – 5 yrs in VB6 and rest on
Dot Net) with proven track records of managing global delivery in a very aggressive schedule and agile
practice.
Functional Areas of Expertise
1 Experience in Product development environment and Service/project based development
environment.
2 Client Consulting (Doing requirement gathering/analysis, providing Pre-sales demo, user
training…etc.).
3 Responsible for Global Delivery (Multi client, Multi region based for two products).
4 People Management (Having managed a team of 20 people – Development, QA/Testing and
Support resources)
5 Production SLA Management / Providing Technical Support (Product Development team
contact to make sure SLAs are maintained across clients)
6 Good in Project management (planning & execution) – (WBS, task allocation, tracking and
monitoring by agile practice) and preparation of status reports - metric generation.
7 Effort estimation – familiar with Function Point estimation methodology.
8 Managing coordination with on-site product stakeholders / cross-functional teams in relation to
Product development phases / SDLC phases.
9 Handling multiple Client calls (in relation with conference calls, triage calls, scope finalization
of global releases) for planning and review on a regular basis.
10 Very much Technical Hands-on (60-70% management and 30-40% technical)
Strong technical background on design and coding in VB.NET, C#, SQL server, VSTO and Can
do coding whenever get time.
11 Assisting On-site Product Stakeholders in Pre-Sales process
12 Managing/coordinating with HR team for internal recruitments.
13 Having good amount of experience in Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Micro-Finance
Banking, ERP, Health Care business domains.
Technical Areas of Expertise
• Windows - X • Crystal Reports • COM, GDI+
• VB-6, VB.NET, C#, • MS Project, UML with MS • Windows Forms/Desktop
ASP.NET Visio Application and Office based
Smart Client Applications
• Web services, WCF • SQL Server (Have also • Infragistics and few other 3rd
worked with Sybase and party custom controls
Oracle)
• VSTO • Design Patterns • Nant, Nunit
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2. • XML, XSLT, XPath • WPF,WWF
Professional Experience
Thomson Reuters Tech Lead Feb/2005 – Present (5.8+ Yrs.)
Craft Silicon Pvt. Ltd. Project Leader Nov/2003 – Feb/2005 (1.1 Yrs.)
(A CGAP Listed MNC – African
based Concern)
Neosoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Sr. Software Eng. (Team Aug/2003 – Oct/2003 (0.2 Yrs.)
(CMM Level – 3 Concern) Leader)
Macro Softech Ltd. Programmer May/1999 – Aug/2003 (4.2 Yrs.)
Education
1. Diploma in Computer Science & Engineering (from Karnataka Technical Board, AICTE). (After PUC/
10+2)
2. Pursuing Charted Engineer From A.M.I.E India (Equivalent to B.E.)
3. Advanced Diploma in French From Bangalore University. (2 Years Course)
Abroad Experience
1. Been to Nairobi-Kenya for Deployment of Application and Client consulting
2. Passport stamped for USA – B1 VISA for 10 years (Validity Expires on 17/12/2017)
Project Summary
I’ve involved extensively on Windows Application and on few projects in Smart document technology,
GDI+. In business domain wise I’ve got exposure to Health Care, ERP and Banking domain. Environment wise
have consulted in Product based and Service based companies. I have played in a blend of many roles during
the SDLC cycle of these projects. Out of all my project experience a brief summary of last 5 projects mentioned
below:
1. COMPOSE (Investment Banking Product – Web Application - In Thomson Reuters)
Technical Windows X, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Vb6, SQL Server 2008, MS Word/Excel, XML,
Environment XSLT, XPath. [MVC, HTML, Prince PDF generator, LINQ, Structure Map…etc.]
Added values to project
• Involved in the design phase and in providing solution/feedback for the performance optimization of
many areas in the product development.
• Own the Product - Client consulting (Pre-Sales demo, requirement gathering, triage/all conference calls,
scope finalization…etc.) process and monitor the team for many large clients.
• Completely own (product roadmap, design, development, enhancements and bug fixes) the office based
solution which is an important module of the main Product from idea to production.
• Assist the product stakeholders in Pre-sales process.
• Significantly contributed in the RPD process for the global launch of the product.
• Acting as technical manager contact for production support of complete product for many global clients
and assure the production SLAs are maintained across.
• Acting and driving the team as global delivery manager of all client releases for the complete product.
• Worked as integration developer for other Thomson Reuters Product (DataStream Charts, T1
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3. Application…etc.) to integrate some main features of COMPOSE product.
• Took the complete responsibility for AGI – Germany client and executed successfully delivery of the
product which does the complete automation of their investment research services. This solution reduces
their effort/time to prepare reports by 60-70% in comparison to earlier manual process.
• Developed few Client specific POC models of the product (by customizing).
• Also extend my timings for the development, enhancements and bug fixing of the core web product.
• Involved in the recruitment and training of the new team members for the Product.
• Adhered to TDD and best practices and assured that the development team continues the practice in this
product development.
2. TRAS (Investment Banking Product – Smart Windows Client Application - In Thomson Reuters)
Technical Windows XP, VB.NET, Smart Documents Technology Library, MS Word/Excel 2003,
Environment Office 12, VSTO, XML, XSLT, XPath, Infragistics.
Added values to project
• Joined the team in Product development and enhancement phase and have implemented many features
and enhancements and also have fixed bugs along with gaining the domain knowledge.
• Completely owned many of the Product global releases (multi region wise) for clients like Morgan
Stanley.
• Drove the triage conference calls and scope finalization of Client consulting process and the team for
execution of the global implementations.
• Acting as technical manager contact for production support of complete product for many global clients
and assure the production SLAs are maintained across.
• Took the complete responsibility for setting up the new team for taking further
development/enhancements of the product.
• Developed few Client specific POC models of the product (by customizing).
• Took responsibility of many client implementations (like Citi Group, Brean Murray, FTN Midwest,
Smith Barney…etc.) for the product and executed it successfully.
• Investigated and implemented many changes to the product for running the same product in Office 2003
and Office 12 version.
• Investigated on few of the MS Word crashing issues and interacted with Microsoft for getting patch
fixes.
3. Bankers Realm (Retail Banking Product – Windows Application - In Craft Silicon)
Technical Windows XP, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000, Infragistics, Install Shield & Crystal Reports
Environment
Added values to project
• Learnt the domain knowledge (in Kenya) and implemented many of the modules like Client
Maintenance, Account Maintenance, Deposits (Saving deposits, Fixed Deposits, Call Deposits, and
Other Time Deposits), Overdraft, Loans Management, Bill Discounting, Letter Of Credit, Treasury bill,
Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Transaction, Accounts.
• Developed many of the SQL server stored procedures to have the business rule in an optimized way.
• Set up a 15 member of team starting from recruitment, training and people management in Bangalore.
• Managed and prepared the team for further client implementations and enhancements, bug fixing and
supporting of the product.
• Carried out successfully few of the African client implementations.
4. Bankers Realm MFO (Micro Finance Banking Product – Windows Application - In Craft Silicon)
Technical Windows XP, VB.NET, SQL Server, Infragistics, Install Shield & Crystal Reports
Environment
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4. Added values to project
• Learnt the domain knowledge (in Kenya) and implemented many of the modules like Customer
Maintenance, Accounts, Groups, Loans management (For both Groups & Individual), Fixed Assets,
Transactions, Donor management.
• Developed many of the reports using Crystal reports and implemented the third party controls like
Infragistics.
• Set up a 5 member of team starting from recruitment, training and people management in Bangalore.
• Managed and prepared the team for further client implementations and enhancements, bug fixing and
supporting of the product.
• Carried out successfully few of the African client implementations.
5. TOPSERP (ERP Product – Windows Application - In Neosoft Technologies)
Technical Windows XP, C#, Sybase.
Environment
Added values to project
• Joined the team extensively to develop the GDI+ module as Planning Board of the Product (which is like
MS Project planning tool) to be used in the Garments manufacturing sector.
• Interacted with few clients to analyze and gather the requirement for the Planning Board module.
• Investigated and doing some R&D executed the module successfully within 1 month of time (as working
in GDI+ was my first experience and there were not much technical information/resource help available)
• Later customized the Planning Board module up to one level so that it can be operated independently and
pluggable with other dot net applications.
• Monitored 3 members of team for execution of other modules.
• Planning Board: This is an actually a Planner utility application like MS Project. This was developed for
particularly Garment industry but can be customized to suit any kind of industry, which includes
Planning of their processes as a main job. This actually plans the day-to-day activities of raw material
collecting, production, manufacturing, delivering, and shipping of the final product to client. In this we
could plan daily, weekly & monthly wise & at the end it gives a graphical representation of the resources
used for the assignment & manpower used. Also it can identify where we are exceeding our plan, where
the manpower used more ….etc.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth 07/07/1976
Nationality Indian
Passport Details E3817678
Dt. of issue : 21/02/2003
Dt. of expiry : 20/02/2013
Place: Bangalore
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