Ramakrishnan Mahalingam

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Ramakrishnan Mahalingam

S/O Mr. V. Mahalingam,
Agraharam, Puliyur & Post,
Sikkal (via), Nagapattinam dist,
Tamil Nadu,
India
Pin code : 611108

Objective:

To acquire a challenging position in Software Engineering in a leading software organisation that supports continual learning of new technologies and growth in the organisation.

Experience

Implementation consultant, Iflex Solutions, Bangalore.
Iflex Solutions ( formerly Citicorp Information Technology Industries Ltd ), is a leading Software Organisation in the field of Banking and financial Sector. Iflex is also SEI CMM Level 5 company. I have been working with the flagship product Iflex called Flexcube.

Implementation Consultant, Union Bank of Switzerland(UBS Warburg), Zurich, Switzerland

SEP 2003 - Till Date

UBS Warburg is a leading financial and investment bank in the globe operating in all parts of the world. UBS Warburg has bought Flexcube for its Cash and current Accounting and Payments Processing.Working as a Implementation Consultant and Technical Solutions Architect of replacing existing Systems of UBS Warburg with iflex's Flagship product FLEXCUBE. Responsibilities include business study, business mapping with Flexcube Product, interface development, development of Enhancements in the product, Testing, Benchmarking exercise with the expected volumes and Performance.

Implementation Consultant, Lord Krishna Bank, Mumbai
Lord Krishna Bank is one of the leading Banks in India with its head office in Mumbai. Lord Krishna Bank has bought FLEXCUBE for both its corporate and Retail Solutions through the Application Service Provider, FLEXCEL International Ltd, Mumbai. Responsibilities include Database Setup, User Training, User Acceptance testing, Lord Krishna Bank Initial Implementation in FLEXCUBE Corporate consisted of most complicated Modules viz Loans and Deposits, Trade Finance, Limits and Core. All this has been implemented in a Record Time of 1 Month with just 2 team players. This is a record in FLEXCUBE Corporate History.

Implementation Consultant, Union Bank of Switzerland(UBS) Warburg, London
SEP 2001 - May 2003
UBS Warburg has bought Flexcube for its Cash and current Accounting and Payments Processing. My responsibilities includes, Train the user on Flexcube, Clarifying User Queries, Development of enhancements on site, Bug fixes On site. Flexcube is designed in Oracle 8i Server and Developer 2000 Server. I have also developed the Payments Straight Through Processing ( STP ) of FLEXCUBE and implemented it in UBS Warburg, London.


Team Leader, Interface Development for UBS Warburg, London.
There are a number of systems available in UBS Warburg, and online interface with each of those with Flexcube is developed. Responsibilities include, preparing Requirements, Development of Functional and Design Specifications and managing a team of six members.

Software Engineer, Logica India Ltd, Bangalore
Sep. 2000 to JUL 2001
Logica is a leading organisation in Software having their head office in London spanning in different domains like Mobile Networking, Banking, Health Management etc.
Worked in Logica Mobile Networks, Dublin for their support project of the Telepath SMSC which is running in HP-Unix, uses SS7, SMPP, SNMP for communications. Telepath SMSC is software product of Logica Mobile Networks provides the functionality to send short messages from one short message entity to another. Responsibilities include handling customer calls, debugging the code for bugs and writing small routines, installation and implementation of software in customer locations and Database Administration activities. The Software is written in C language and running in HP-UX. Telepath SMSC 2700 uses Oracle Database and Telepath SMSC 2600 uses Ingres Database and I have worked in both versions of Telepath.

Software Engineer/Associate Consultant, iflexsolutions Ltd( Formerly Citicorp information Technology industries Ltd) Bangalore, India.
Aug. 1998 to Sep 2000
Team Leader for Enhancement in Flexcube Corporate for Saraswat Cooperative Bank(SACO), Mumbai, India.
June 2000 - Sep 2000
Involved in preparation of Design specifications, development of various new enhancements in platforms Oracle 8 and D2k form 6.0, preparation of Testplan, Testplan Execution, SEI CMM audit and managing the team.

Team Leader for Post Implementation support in Bank of Kuwait and Middle East(BKME), Kuwait.
March 2000 - June 2000
BKME is a leading bank in Middleeast and bought Flexcube Corporate and Moneymaker( Treasury front office system) of iflex. Flexcube was designed in Oracle 7.3 and D2K. Moneymaker was designed in Oracle 7.3 and Visualbasic 5.0. Managed the team of two support members and taken up additional responsibility of handling other middleeast sites.During a period of one month support was handled independently.

Team Member in Implementation of Flexcube Corporate in BKME, Kuwait
July 1999 - Feb 2000
Flexcube corporate is corporate banking product includes the following modules Loans and Deposits, commitments, Bills, Letters of Credits, Guarantees, Funds Transfer, foreign Exchange, Swift Interface, General Ledger, Limits. Being an active member of the team, involved in the development of various enhancements, testing the software, demonstrating the software to clients, bug fixes at site, support for implemented modules and in development of multilingual utilities. Enhancements includes development of forms, reports, packages for interfaces, development of business object reports. Developed swift interface with flexcube system in language C.

Team Member in Development of Trade finance System Corporate
Apr 1999 - June 1999
Trade finance includes import and export activities like Bills, LCs and Guarantees. Being an active member involved in development of the application, test plan preparation and support to testing. This is developed with Oracle 7.3 and D2K.

Team Member of Volume Performance Tuning (VOLPERT)
Feb 1999 - Apr 1999
VOLPERT is the tuning process in order to improve the performance of the systems. Flexcube corporate had been tuned to improve its performance. Being an active member involved in changing the codes to improve the performance, creation of optimal indexes.

Team Member System Testing flexcube Corporate
Nov 1998 - Jan 1999
Involved in preparation of test plans, execution of test plans, fixing the bugs during execution and preparation of root cause analysis reports.

Team Member Retro fitting
Aug 1998 - Oct 1999
Retro fitting is an activity which involves changing the base line software with changes happened at the site and analysing the problem and identifying the various options to sort out the problem. Being an active team member, involved in retro fitting the software. Various optimized solutions has brought for difficult problems.

Projects Developed as part of the course of Engineering Development of software for simulation of Electrical system with circuit breakers.

Development of a Graphical tool in DOS operating system

Design of framework for Relational Database Management System in Linux.

Honors and Awards

College First in diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engg.
Got an Award from Mohan Memorial Fund for Outstanding Performance in DEEE.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in the field of Computer Science & Engg from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli one of the premier institutions in India with 71% overall.

Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Valivalam Desikar Polytechnic, Nagapattinam with 84.5% overall, 92% in 5 and 6 semester aggregate and stood college first.

SSLC from National Higher Secondary School, Nagapattinam with 84%.