Vijay A Ramachandra
+91 99000 95707
LinkedIn Profile URL:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vijay-
ramachandra/14/675/a31
- Siebel 7 Certified Consultant
- 13+ years of total Industry
Experience
- 12+ years of experience in IT
Consulting.
- 9 + years of experience in
Siebel CRM Applications
- 3 years of experience as
Release Manager handling
various major releases,
parallel releases, involving
several integrated
applications.
- Energetic and decisive
Manager
- Excellent organizational,
- Leadership, team building,
project management and
customer servicing skills
- Good communication,
analytical and interpersonal
skills
Technical Expertise:
- Siebel 7.5/7.7/7.8
- Verticals: Finance, Insurance,
Manufacturing, Telecom
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Role: Release Manager / Project Manager
Organization: Wipro Technologies
Summary of Experience:
12 years of IT Experience.
1 year of Industrial Experience.
• A Siebel Certified Consultant executed Siebel projects including
Project Management, Release Management, Business Analysis,
System Study, Requirement Gathering, GAP Analysis,
Configuration, Mapping, testing and deployment.
• Experience in working as Release Manager & successfully managed
multiple integrated releases across platforms
• Siebel Implementation experience on Agile process Model
 Providing an ability for the business to refine requirements
 Quick Application Demos to business
 Conduct Daily Scrum meetings involving business users,
SME’s & Technical team
• Multi Siebel Release strategy planning and execution.
• Proficient in managing / coordinating with customer, Interacting
with end users, vendors, business analysts and IT team
• Effort, Schedule Estimation and Impact analysis and preparation of
SOW.
• Timely highlighting of Risks and Issues to Senior Management as
well as to the Customer
• Manage Customer Interaction throughout project lifecycle
• Planning and scheduling activities to ensure completion of the
project within time and budgetary parameters
• Release Management and change control process Management
• Effective participation in introduction of tools in project lifecycle
to enhance operational efficiencies
• Experience in Data Loads using Siebel EIM.
• Proficient in Experience in Onsite/Offshore Software Development
Life Cycle.
• Good Communication, Project Management and Team Management
Skills.
• Expertise in handling teams and client interfacing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills both in leadership and teamwork
• Expertise in proposals, estimations and presentations
• Project Management Institute (PMI) registered member
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 Selected Few Project Details:

1. Siebel Releases {Projects / Enhancements / Change Requests / Production Fixes}

Client: Pitney Bowes (PB), USA

Duration: November 2008 to till date
Role: CRM Release Manager
Execution Location: Onsite
Team size: 24

Description:

Pitney Bowes (PB) provides the world's most comprehensive suite of mail stream solutions to help companies
manage their flow of mail, documents and packages.

As a CRM Release Manager was responsible for

 Requirements scope management & Sign off from all business stakeholders for every planned Siebel
Release
 Planning & Scheduling Siebel Releases (major, minor & patch) for current calendar year based on business
groups needs
 Identification, preparation & maintenance of all Development & Testing environments
 Responsible for periodic & adhoc environment refresh requests from PROD / other environments
 Co ordinate all cross tower QA environments refresh for major releases, in order to be in sync
 Chair & conduct Repository meetings twice a week in order to evaluate all the changes that need to be
moved into Siebel Master Repository
 Entire Planning and scheduling of release activities from initiation to closure of the release to ensure
successful release
 Responsible for monitoring & control of all deliverables after each major phase in release
 Co ordinate Code / Design review of all the projects identified for a release with Siebel Expert Services
 Prepare & maintain release project plan capturing all activities
 Schedule System Integration Test (SIT), Regression Testing (RT) & User Acceptance Testing (UAT) defect
review meetings with the team & business groups
 Responsible for planning & execution of Performance Testing cycles for every release with performance
testing team
 Evaluate & compare performance test results with baseline with the team and plan appropriate
corrective actions in order to improve the system performance
 Schedule SRF builds during SIT / RT / UAT phases
 Prepare build specific Release notes during UAT phase and communicate to all business groups
 Plan & Schedule Mock Run deployment in QA environment with all migration activities in similar lines as
will be carried out in actual deployment
 Conduct deployment walk through of migration items from all involved project teams with DBA & Siebel
Admin before deployment
 Preparation of monthly / quarterly CRM release activities calendar
 Preparation of Deployment Support plan during deployment week end
 Preparation of Rollback plan for all the release items that needs to be deployed as part of the release
 Conduct Technical smoke testing meetings with technical teams after deployment
 Conduct Functional smoke testing meetings with business teams after deployment
 Conduct Go – No Go meeting with business teams after deployment to announce successful Go-Live or
determine Rollback
 Monitor & control of all release deliverables in IBM Rational Clear Case after completion of each phase of
release
 Creation of Parent Appdev record, Queries in IBM Rational Clear Quest for each Siebel Release
 Monitor & control timely updation of all the records in IBM Rational Clear Quest for each Siebel Release by
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  Evaluate,Analyze & approve / reject all Change Requests
 Prepare metrics after each release and compare to previous release metrics, and determine the
performance of the release
 Document & share lessons learned for each release

2. Order Entry Data Conversion Phase 2 {Asset Data}

Client: Level (3) Communications, USA

Duration: August 2007 to October 2008
Role: Release Manager
Execution Location: Onsite
Team size: 18

Description:

Level 3 Communications is an international communications company and operates one of the largest
communications and Internet backbones in the world and is one of only six Tier 1 Internet providers in the world.
During Phase 2, Assets (Service Images) of various products of the Level3 acquired companies were migrated
from various legacy sources into one common Siebel 7.8 platform.

As a Siebel Release Manager was responsible for

A. Run Management: Client’s single point of contact for run planning and execution, which includes:
 Planning of Siebel Environment & database refreshes for data conversion runs
 Siebel refresh and all-clear (readiness for run) to offshore
 Regular Run status Updates during weekly unity conversion run
 Handoff between Onsite and Offshore
 Connection Settings changes for Informatica
 Updation of Run checklist, Run tracker sheet and preparation of Postmortem reports for the run
and closure of issues detected
 Fallouts’ projection for the next run

B. Data Fallout Management:

 Dashboard generation for every Run
 Source, Load & UDT Reports
 Fallout Review Meeting
i. Internal – Development Team
ii. Business – With Level 3 Biz & Project stake holders
 Run - Defect creation & allocation
 Defect Tracking & Management
 Supporting Data for Defect Fixes
 Weekly Dashboard & Analysis to Level 3 Top Management
 Defect fixes for next run.
 Level3 Weekly Status dashboard

C. Release Management:
 Detailed Release Plan
 Present the plan to Level 3 Release Management
 Co ordination of activities across team for Integrated Release
 Production Resource Planning
 GCR Creation
 TCOE Releases Test Plan Doc
 Approval from Biz for Test Plan Doc
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 Requirements approval from BIZ

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  Fill Up SOX checklist & GCR approval meetings
 All production access related 3 help tickets
 Conduct safe user session & get necessary approval for production Go Live
 Prepare production audit documents

3. Order Entry Data Conversion Phase 1 {Non Asset Data}

Client: Level (3) Communications, USA

Duration: February 2007 to July 2007
Role: Business Analyst
Execution Location: Onsite
Team size: 7

Description:

During Phase 1, billing accounts contacts of the Level3 acquired companies were migrated from various legacy
sources into one common Siebel 7.8 platform.

As a Business Analyst was responsible for

• Involved in requirements sessions to capture the business needs and come up with the Requirements
specification document.
• Preparation of high level design & mapping Document and getting sign off.
• Single point of contact between customer & offshore team for all project related ongoing activities.
• Responsible for all the deliverables & Quality from the offshore development center.
• Responsible for resolving all defects / fallouts during the conversion process.
• Responsible for successful conversion of the billing accounts & contacts into Siebel 7.8.Tracking &
monitoring all project deliverables, calculating burn rate, Schedule/Cost & Effort Variance.

4. SMS MVS Integration Phase 1

Client: Pitney Bowes (PB), USA

Duration: October 2006 to January 2007
Role: Project Manager
Execution Location: Onsite
Team size: 9

Description:

Pitney Bowes (PB) provides the world's most comprehensive suite of mail stream solutions to help companies
manage their flow of mail, documents and packages. The purpose of the SMS MVS Integration Phase-1 project was
to provide an automated means by which service transaction data can be passed back and forth between Pitney
Bowes SMS system and MVS Customer CRM system. Providing this capability will enable Pitney Bowes to offer
their MVS customers a technologically current mechanism for sharing service transaction data, and providing PB
with the potential to grow their MVS revenue as required.

As a Siebel Project Manager was responsible for

• Involved in internal requirements sessions to capture the business needs and come up with the
Requirements specification document.
• Involved in conducting requirements workshop with Pitney Bowes MVS customer.
• Responsible for preparation of Cost Estimate, Project Plan, Test Plan, SOW & resource loading plan for the
project.
• Preparation of Functional Specification Document and getting sign off.
• Single point of contact between PB, MVS customer & offshore team for all project related ongoing
activities.
• Responsible for all the deliverables & Quality from the offshore development center.
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 • Conducting regular project meetings with the team & the MVS customer, and updating the project status
weekly to the client.
• Tracking & monitoring all project deliverables, calculating burn rate, Schedule/Cost & Effort Variance.
• Responsible for preparation of documentation and evidences with the help of tools like Rational Reqpro,
Clear case, Clear Quest for project CMMi audit.
• Deliver projects (including staffing, ramping up, resolving technical conflicts, planning) as per as per
committed timelines and budget.

5. MRM Data Conversion

Client: Anheuser-Busch (AB), USA

Duration: April 2006 to August 2006
Role: Data Analyst
Execution Location: Onsite
Peak Team Size: 10

Description:

Anheuser-Busch (AB) is a world leading Brewing company. MRM is an integrated application which manages AB’s
Accounts, Cost Centers & Budget Requests. The Project involved Data Mapping, Technical Design, Design
Document preparation, Client Presentation, EIM Data Loads, Testing

Contribution:

As a Siebel Data Analyst was responsible for

• Primarily involved in working with SME’s and Business users to understand the Legacy system (MBA) and
map data to existing Siebel MRM Module.
• Preparation of Data Matrix sheet & Technical Design Document.
• Presentation of Design to Client’s Internal & External Review Team.
• Responsible for preparing various Data transformation criteria’s while bringing data from Legacy system
(MBA).
• Loading of Accounts (Cost Center, Cost Element & Internal Orders) & Budget Request Data into
Development, Testing & Production environments.
• Scheduling of daily delta loads of Budget Request Adjustments
• Legacy Data Validation

6. UK FS & CC Implementation

Client: Pitney Bowes (PB), UK

Duration: June 2005 to March 2006
Role: Siebel Analyst
Execution Location: Offshore
Peak Team size: 17

Description: The project deals with building a CRM solution using Siebel Employee Applications to cater UK and
Europe operations of the client. This includes Business process analysis, configuring the Siebel application to
enhance the CRM functionality for Call center and Field Service Agents, providing Siebel application maintenance
support and comprehensive extensions & customizations. This will enable the client to handle their customer
touch points in a better fashion. The Field Service rollout is aimed at improving Field Technicians productivity by
delivering them the assigned tasks and getting updates from them over the handheld. The subsequent
implementation of Call Center is to capture, classify and resolve Customer queries, intimating the customers
regarding their outstanding payments and launching campaigns so as to retain the Customers. The main benefits
for the Client are:
 Significant reduction in the time taken to resolve a Service Request.
 Annual Maintenance visits automatically taken care off.
 Inventory ordered over the handheld by the Technician.
 Integration of Siebel with other systems such as SAP, Tandem etc through batch and real time interfaces.
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Enhancing Customer Experience by in time resolution of their queries and due escalation in case of deviations.
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 Contribution:
As a Siebel Analyst was responsible for

• Involved in creation of LLD and updation of Technical Design Documents.

• Responsible for developmental work that involved creation of IFB and SQL Loader scripts for batch as well
as initial loads.

• Responsible for designing EIM solutions for Accounts, Contacts, Employees, Products, Assets, Agreements,
Entitlements
• Responsible for creation of unit test cases and executing the same
• Ensured that peer review and testing is done for all the modules developed & on- time delivery of
modules
• Responsible for delivering modules as per the quality standards
• Worked on Workflows, Policies in order to automate requirements
• Worked on configuring Assignment Manager

7. CRN (Customer Restoration Network)

Client: Farmers Insurance Group- CA - USA

Duration : September 2002 to January 2005
Role: Project Manager
Peak Team Size : 9
Execution Location: Offshore
CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) Score: 4.8

Description:
Siebel is part of Customer restoration Network. Siebel Application has been extensively customized to map the
client’s requirement. Siebel is implemented in multi server architecture within an Enterprise with twenty five
Siebel servers installed, with each server installed in dedicated machine. Server Components like Workflow and
assignment manager are enabled only in particular servers to increase the availability and processing. CRN
supports nearly fourteen thousand clients out of which four thousand are mobile clients and the rest are
dedicated clients. Siebel has been integrated with legacy systems and external applications/systems, all the
transaction with the Legacy systems are synchronize transaction, which was achieved through the middle ware MQ
Series. CRN has been implemented with functionality like Loss Reporting, agent initiated loss reporting, claims
entered through farmers website, claims initiated through Fax/Mail, Claims Investigation, Coverage Verification,
Reserves, Payments, salvage, Diary Management, Claim Closure & Reopen, Subrogation and Management
Reporting.

Contribution:

As a Project Manager was responsible for

• Responsible for daily CRN Siebel Production Activities.

• Responsible for Remote Database Extracts.
• Study the ‘As-Is’ Processes & understand the Business & User Requirements.
• Daily Monitoring of Subrosource Activities.
• One point of contact for all the Siebel Offshore Deliverables.
• Daily Work Allocation to team members.
• Responsible for Quality of work delivered by offshore.
• Weekly update of performance & Issues to onsite Client Managers on Status call.
• Maintaining minimum Backlog of Siebel Production Tickets.
• Resolve the daily production problems in Configuration, Remote Client Synch, and Application Admin &
Workflow Administration.
• Done root cause analysis for the problems and notify the development team to fix or give work around to
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 • IPAT task creation / Monthly PDMR Generation for the team.

8. Interim Branch Platform

Client: Bank of Hawaii, Hawaii, USA.

Duration: September 2001 to December 2001
Role: Siebel Consultant
Execution Location: Onsite
Team Size: 5

Description: This project facilitates in opening various Customer & Corporate Accounts. This was implemented
using Siebel Financial Services Module, which automates the account creation process, opportunity creation for
the respective CSR and Account details were generated in a predefined format using Actuate Reports.

As a Project Lead was responsible for

• Identification of Customization requirements.
• Preparation of Customization specification document & Implementation Document.
• Configuration & Environment setup of Siebel Financial Service application using Siebel Tools.
• Creation of Object definitions such as BO’s, BC, Applets, Find Object, Views, Screens in the application.
• Creating New Table, Extend the Existing Siebel Schema as per the Requirement.
• Preparing test plans for Unit testing
• Process mapping.
• Prepare Technical & User Manuals.
• Provide User Training
• Bug Fixing

Industry Experience
Wipro Technologies, India

Role: Project Manager

Duration: October 2000 till date

Advanced Technologies Labs, Chennai - India

Role: Component Developer

Duration: October 1998 - September 2000

Excella Software Technologies, Bangalore - India

Role: Programmer
Duration: August 1997 - September 1998

Leela Scottish Lace, Bangalore - India

Role: Production Executive

Duration: August 1996 - August 1997
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 Academic

 Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore University.

(1996)
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