Niraj Prasad

Current

Director at Ideal Solutions, LLC

Past

Non Resident Director at Adarsh Software India Pvt Limited
Sr. Consultant at Romac International (now KForce.com)
Sr. Consultant at TranSys, Inc.

Project Leader at CSC
Chief Systems at Tata Robin Fraser
Executive Engineer at Coal India Limited
Executive at Maruti Udyog Limited

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
University of Phoenix

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Niraj Prasad’s Summary

I have a knack for delivering complex and challenging IT projects on time and on budget. My primary focus currently is in the enterprise storage market helping clients ease out growing pains from explosive data volume growths.We help our clients implement scalable and reliable storage strategy which can take care of their data storage needs for years to come. I have also been in product development market, and I helped bring a storage product on Windows 2000/2003/2008 and NetAPP servers to the market. The product required kernel level integration with NTFS Windows and has all kind of industry certification including from IBM , EMC , Hitachi Data Systems, CA (Computer Associates) and Microsoft. The product is quite popular with enterprise customers, it helps them in lowering the TCO by increasing utilization of their current investments in storage hardware/software and reducing load on the system administrators freeing them for other IT activities . Additionally in my long career I have handled IT projects in many industries ranging from financial services, manufacturing, mining, banking, health-care, insurance, PLM and retail. Apart from Enterprise software solutions, I have worked in the areas on web and web 2.0 Technologies and have expertise in gathering mountain of unstructured data via web crawling and peer-to-peer network (like Bittorrent) scanning, afterward transforming into structured data stored in indexable , searchable and highly scalable databases and file servers. I have worked in the area of risk management- information security risk, market risk, and other operational risk. I have a PMP designation from Project Management Institute (www.pmi.org) . I am also deeply interested in the US financial markets and have been a member of Market Technicians Association (www.mta.org) for a long time. I am a candidate for CMT (Chartered Market Technician) level III (final) and look forward to obtaining the charter in coming years.

Niraj Prasad’s Specialties:

Project Management, Storage System Design and Implementation, Software Design and Development, File System Development, Windows Kernel, Device Drivers, Filter Drivers, Turnkey Development, Database Modeling, PLM ( Product Lifecycle Management) Statistical Tools, Risk Management ( Operational risk and Market risk).

Niraj Prasad’s Experience

Director

Ideal Solutions, LLC

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1998 — Present (11 years 2 months)

I primarily execute IT projects on behalf of the company which are currently in the data storage area. The secondary tasks are project negotiation, project scoping, managing resources, managing finance and doing my best to meet the expectations of clients. Since 1998, I have executed projects in financial services, health care, insurance, web, retail, system software, PLM and storage for our clients. Actually I would say, delivering on clients expectations is my top priority!!
Non Resident Director

Adarsh Software India Pvt Limited

(Computer Software industry)

June 1999 — December 2008 (9 years 7 months)

I am in advisory role in this privately held company based in India. I advise the company in matters of investment and project execution. Adarsh Software is a business partner to our company, Ideal Solutions, LLC. The company is all set to launch an exciting product in the storage market. The details of the product are still under wraps!
Sr. Consultant

Romac International (now KForce.com)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; KFRC; Computer Software industry)

June 1998 — October 1998 (5 months)

I was the Data Conversion Technical Lead and then the Data Conversion Manager at new billing system project at Humana , Inc headquarters in Louisville, KY. This project was a high adrenaline multi million dollar project, my first brush with health-care industry! Before this my only exposure to health care was in terms of working for PMSC (now part of Computer Sciences Corporation -www.csc.com) on a health and life insurance underwriting project.
Sr. Consultant

TranSys, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

October 1997 — June 1998 (9 months)

The company sent me as Project Manager on a multi million dollar turnkey software project at GAI (Great American Insurance- www.greatamericaninsurance.com), Cincinnati. The project had a sizable team in its India offshore location. Prior to GAI, I worked on their Provident Bank, Cincinnati project from offshore Chennai location where I also helped in recruiting software programmers for US assignments.
Project Leader

CSC

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1997 — October 1997 (4 months)

CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) is one of the biggest IT consulting services firm out there and like many other billion dollar companies, they too have resorted to acquisition as a route towards (inorganic) growth. I used to work as Project Leader at Indian subsidiary of PMSC (Policy Management Systems Corp) which CSC later acquired. This was a short stint for me, where I picked up some valuable leadership skills and application knowledge in insurance vertical.
Chief Systems

Tata Robin Fraser

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

September 1996 — July 1997 (11 months)

This is a pretty senior position in this renowned Tata group company of India. I was the Chief Systems directly reporting to the General Manager (IT) and had over 20 IT staffs reporting to me. These included programmers, system analysts, IT operations- backup group, administration group and so on.
Executive Engineer

Coal India Limited

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Mining & Metals industry)

November 1991 — September 1996 (4 years 11 months)

My last assignment here was as Technical Secretary to General Manager( Equipment), Dudhichua Project, Singrauli, M.P, India. This is a prestigious world bank aided project prodcuing around 10 million tonnes of coal annually. I reported directly to GM( Equipment) and worked with him in his day to day administrative functions like budgeting, planning, longterm forecasting, OEM purchase, Local purchase, HEMM ( Heavy Earth Moving Machinery) maintenance, performance review, vendor development, contract management including inviting bids, defining scope of work, evaluating bids, awarding work orders, rate contracts and compliance.
IT was just taking off those days and I brought the needed computer skills to the projects top tier management utilizing it wherever possible in the above mentioned functions.
Executive

Maruti Udyog Limited

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MUL; Automotive industry)

July 1989 — October 1991 (2 years 4 months)

My first job! Selected from IIT Kanpur campus. Assigned as production engineer on Maruti Suzuki 800 assembly line. Talk about experience on the trenches! My first management role, learnt to live in harmony with assembly line workers after few initial skirmishes!

Niraj Prasad’s Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

B. S. , Mechanical Engineering , 1985 — 1989

World class institute, no question about that, I will easily rate it the best of best in India and amongst the best in world. I owe my problem solving skills to this institute and most of my adult life friends are from this institute.

Activities and Societies:

Participated in NSS (National Serving Scheme),
IIT Kanpur Association of Mechanical Engineers (AME),
IIT Kanpur-Cultural Festival -88-Transport cell volunteer.
University of Phoenix

MBA , Technology Management

Good content, resource rich library, experienced faculty and suitable for working professionals. I mastered some new concepts, mostly in Technology Management , Finance, Marketing and Organizational Management. All relevant in my professional life and helped me enhance my writing skills in APA ( American Psychological Association- www.apa.org).