ICT Project Leader at ValueSource Tech/KBC Group NV
Madras Area, India
- Current
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- ICT Project Leader at KBC Group NV
- Past
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- Associate/System Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions
- Software Engineer at Satyam Computer Services Ltd
- Education
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- Anna University
- Kendriya Vidyalaya
- University of Madras
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Vikram Rajagopalan’s Summary
ICT Professional with eight years of experience delivering technological solutions in multiple industries. Broad exposure to various PM processes and methodologies. Extensive experience in managing people, processes and technology, with clear focus on business results.
Vikram Rajagopalan’s Specialties:
Specializing in IT Project Management.Business development; Process analysis and improvement and offshore team set up.
Vikram Rajagopalan’s Experience
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ICT Project Leader
KBC Group NV
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KBC; Banking industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
• Project Leader by designation while performing the role of a manager thus far.
• Deliver projects/solution within constraints (schedule, features / functionality, and budget)
• Creating and driving the schedule for the team that includes full-time staff, and other consultants working in Belgium/Poland
• Driving open issues, risks and internal process to enable the team to ship great software on time and set project quality and performance standards
• Maintain project communications, PM schedules for maintaining and project tracking
• Directly lead teams & manage careers of 15-25 individuals and mentor, coach project team members.
• Responsible for ongoing client satisfaction. Manage peer-level client relationships (expectations, communications, negotiations, escalation, feedback etc.)
• Pursuing “Certificate in Program Management” from University of California, Berkeley.
• Pursuing “Six Sigma – Black Belt Certification” from New Jersey State University. -
Associate/System Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CTSH; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2003 — August 2007 (4 years )
* Technical leader involved in understanding the requirements of the current system, re-designing it for every product released for a leading insurance client in North America.
* Was involved in Co-ordination, Development, Maintenance and system support.
* Performed the role of a requirements engineer by participating in Rapid Application Development sessions.
* In charge of Integrated System Testing & Quality Assurance: Improved the quality of the product by detecting, fixing the defects, documenting and re-testing the product.
* Was involved in Co-ordination, Development, Maintenance and system support.
* Single point contact for SOX regulation and application compliance.
* Performed the role of identifying the application release and compliance.
* Technical leader involved in providing solutions to the architecture on how to communicate between Java and Mainframe without any interfaces for a new concept called "Data Masking" for bank information in NA. -
Software Engineer
Satyam Computer Services Ltd
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAY; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2001 — June 2003 (2 years 2 months)
• Was responsible for maintaining/enhancing the communication infrastructure in the legacy systems (Mainframes).
• My responsibilities included enhancements to UI, Code Fixes and bug fixing. Was also involved in changes to the front-end. Also documented the system’s architecture.
• Developed few modules of the system and in the process groomed my MANTIS, SELCOPY, CICS, VSAM and JCL skills. SELCOPY Programming language was extensively used for data fixing.
• Provided documentation help for the associates in MQ series workflow and analyzed production CICS transactions, COBOL programs and documented the paths to and processes in Non-Sufficient-Fund processing using waterfall design methodology.
Vikram Rajagopalan’s Education
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Anna University
1999 — 2001
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Kendriya Vidyalaya
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University of Madras
Additional Information
Vikram Rajagopalan’s Websites:
Vikram Rajagopalan’s Interests:
new technology,gardening,foreign language(s), movies, playing guitar, any form of sports, swimming, driving.
Vikram Rajagopalan’s Groups:
PMP
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Global Project Management -
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
IIM C - Long Duration Executive Education -
The Association for Project Management -
Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org -
The Enterprise Architecture Network -
Six Sigma Professionals -
Project Manager Networking Group -
IT Governance -
Kendriya Vidyalaya (Central School) Alumni -
CMMI Adopters -
Mahindra Satyam (Associates & Alumni) -
Offshoring & Outsourcing Forum -
The Project Management Podcast -
Project Managers Group -
Six Sigma Certified Practitioners -
Six Sigma Black Belt, MBB & Champion (ONLY). -
India Leadership Network -
College of Engineering Guindy Alumni (CEG, Anna University) -
Agile Project Management Group -
AGF -
BD Networking -
IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) -
MusicBiz -
Socially Networked Professionals of India -
BI-Community Benelux -
BeLux Freelance Project & Program Management Consultants -
Project Management Today -
The IT Jobs !! -
Sustainability Evangelists!
Vikram Rajagopalan’s Honors:
• SATT Award for MetLife – Awarded by Cognizant US Corporation in (May’07) • Cheers from Peers Award - Awarded by MetLife US Corporation in (January-February ’07)
• Cheers from Peers Award - Awarded by MetLife US Corporation in (October-November ’05)
• Annual Excellence Award - Awarded jointly by Cognizant Technology Solutions - MetLife US Corporation (December-January ’04)
• Pat-On-The-Back - Awarded by Cognizant Technology Solutions (July ’04)
• Pat-On-The-Back - Awarded by Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (Aug ’02 and July ‘03).
Vikram Rajagopalan’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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