Resume of Arumugham M.S.


Brief Profile & Objective

Experienced Engineer - Motivated to learn and take on any challenging assignment. 
Graduate from P.S.G. College of Technology, Coimbatore. Handled very important
projects on various platforms.Desires expanded experience in Software Project
Management

Education
                            Bachelors of Engineering 
                            Electronics and Commuincations Engineering
                            P.S.G. College of Technology, Coimbatore, India


Experience Summary

Experience in Years      :  Eleven Years (8 Years in IT)

Hardware		 :  IBM ES-9000 & IBM 4361, IBM 4381, IBM Micro Computers, 
                            Sun Solaris, HP-9000			

Operating Systems	 :  MVS/ESA, VM/VS, OS/VSE, UNIX, OS/2, WINDOWS

Programming Languages    :  COBOL, C, C++, FORTRAN, TSO, CICS, JCL, SAS, 
& related software          NATURAL, VSAM, MQ, HTML


Databases		 :  DB2, IDMS, ADABAS

Project Management Tools :  MS-Project, PVCS

Quality Systems          :  SEI-CMM Model, ISO-9000

Functional Areas of Projects
                            Health Care & HIPAA
                            Insurance
                            Telecom Billing
                            Petroleum Marketing 
  			    Automobile Manufacturing
                            Electronics 
                            Education 
			    Trust Seller 
                            Banks 
                            Revenue Authority
                            
Training Attended
                            IBM Mainframe Software
                            Industrial Engineering
	                    World Class Manufacturing
			    Quality System Standards ISO 9000 - IS 14001
			    SEI - CMM 
			    Export Import Management
			    Strategies for Technology Exports

Personal Information
                            Indian Citizen
                     	    Ready to relocate and travel
			    Fluent in English
 
Important I.T. Projects

HIPAA Compliance Projects

Duration 		:   March 2001 to Till Date

Domain                  :   HIPAA and Healthcare Industry

Activity Description    :   Develop business and development strategies for Insurance 
                            and HIPAA initiatives. Build domain expertise in Insurance & 
                            Healthcare industry. Conceptualization and development 
                            of tools for HIPAA compliance.

Role & Responsibility   :   Expectation Management, Strategy definition, Tools development, 
                            proposal preparation, project planning & management etc. 

NMSUS Project

Duration                :   November 2000 To January 2001

Customer                :   HALIFAX Building Society, UK 

Team Size               :   38 Persons

Platform                :   MVS, CICS, DB2, COBOL on IBM Mainframe

Project Location        :   Halifax, UK

Project Description     :   This is a maintenance & enhancement work on IBM Mainframe 
                            for their Mortgage application

Role & Responsibility   :   Project Management & Quality Assurance Defect Containment 
                            & Productivity Amelioration Requirements Analysis, Client 
                            Co-ordination & Expectation Management

Convergys Project

Duration                :   June 2000 To November 2000

Customer                :   Convergys Corporation, Cincinnati- OH, USA

Team Size               :   40 Persons

Platform                :   Sun Solaris, C++, UNIX, CORBA, TUXEDO, ORACLE

Project Location        :   Cincinnati –OH & Orlando- FL, USA and
                            Chennai, India

Project Description     :   This is a maintenance & enhancement work 
                            for their customers in Telecom billing area. 
                            
Role & Responsibility   :   Requirement Analysis & Proposal preparation.
                            Project Management, Client Co-ordination & Expectation 
                            Management


Gunim-GBA LO3 Project

Duration                :   January 2000 To April 2000

Customer                :   Roccade – Civility, The Netherlands 

Team Size               :   20 Persons

Platform                :   HP-9000, COBOL, C-ISAM, UNIX, 
                            Visual COBOL Debugger

Project Location        :   Chennai, India

Project Description     :   Roccade Civility has a product (GBA) Gemeente Basis Administratie 
                            for the Administration of Municipalities. About 90 Municipalities 
                            in The Netherlands use this system. This system provides 
                            information of Immigration, Emigration, Birth, Death registration 
                            and also statistics like Population, Voters etc. The Municipalities 
                            are Interconnected through a Message System. There are some 
                            standard routines written in C language used for communication. 
                            Because of new laws being introduced by the Dutch Government, 
                            the system has to be enhanced.
                            
Role & Responsibility   :   Requirement Analysis & Proposal preparationProject Management, 
                            Client Co-ordination

ACS Project

Duration                :   July 1999 To December 1999

Customer                :   The Franklin Life Insurance Company Ltd

Team Size               :   6 Persons

Platform                :   IBM Mainframe, CICS, DB2, COBOL, MVS, PANVALET

Project Location        :   Springfield – IL, USA and Chennai, India

Project Description     :   This is a re-engineering project for an insurance company 
                            based in Springfield-IL, USA. It is aimed at re-engineering 
                            the existing Associate Compensation System (ACS) application 
                            to phase out the dependency on the existing contract file 
                            and Employee Account Code (EAC). Contract file is too big to 
                            maintain and very old. The existing contract file is to replaced 
                            with a smaller version of the same, which will be maintainable 
                            without much effort. Usage of multiple EAC for identification 
                            of the same individual is to be handled with the introduction of 
                            Sequence Number on a move forward basis.  

Role & Responsibility   :   Project Management, Re-engineering and Re-design, 
                            Requirements Analysis


Billing Evolution Project

Duration                :   September 1998 to June 1999

Customer                :   CLEAR Communications Ltd.

Team Size               :   20 Persons

Platform                :   IBM Mainframe, SGI & OS/2 Machines, CICS, DB2, COBOL, MQ, 
                            MVS, IRIX, and OS/2

Project Location        :   Auckland, New Zealand and Chennai,India

Project Description     :   This is a re-engineering & development project for a 
                            Tele-communications company. It is aimed at re-engineering 
                            the existing Rater Pipeline on MEGA system and incorporating 
                            the same on the proposed ATLANTA system.  This involves 
                            Re-engineering the Code existing on OS/2 and IBM Mainframe and 
                            developing on the IBM Mainframe, OS/2 and IRIX platforms. 
                            Inter-program/ system communication is done using MQ series 
                            of products.

Role & Responsibility   :   Project Manager – Onsite, Understand customer requirements, 
                            Client co-ordination, Expectation Management, Co-ordinate & guide 
                            the offshore team (in India) - Technically & on Project Scheduling 
                            and Monitoring, Interaction with other vendors to the client.

HIS Y2K Project

Duration 		:  October 1997 to September 1998

Customer                :   HIS, The Netherlands

Team Size               :   35 Persons

Platform                :   IBM Mainframe, IMS, COBOL, REVOLVE, MVS 

Project Location        :   Chennai, India

Project Description     :   This project involves impact analysis and conversion 
                            for Y2K impact. Conversion was done using expansion techniques. 
                            Data Conversion also done.


Role & Responsibility   :   Project Leader & Configuration Controller, Onsite/ Client 
                            co-ordination, Expectation Management, Project Scheduling, 
                            Project Monitoring


Electronic Filing System (EFS)

Duration 		:   August 1997 to October 1997

Customer                :   Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS)

Team Size               :   7 Persons

Platform                :   IBM Mainframe, CICS, DB2, COBOL, HTML, MVS  & WINDOWS

Project Location        :   Singapore

Project Description     :   This project involves the re-design of the system for Filing 
                            of Income Tax Returns through Internet. Existing application 
                            and Database were re-designed to allow people file returns 
                            through Internet. All the Input/ Outputs from the Mainframe 
                            were to be modified.


Role & Responsibility   :   Project Leader; Responsible for the Mainframe part of the project, 
                            Client Interaction, Interaction with other vendors to the client.


Maintenance of IBM Mainfranme Applications

Duration 		:   August 1996 to August 1997

Customer                :   Ministry of Education & National Parks Board

Platform                :   IBM Mainframe, MVS, SAS, NATURAL, ADABAS, IDMS, and COBOL

Project Location        :   Singapore

Project Description     :   Maintenance of the following applications: 
                             1) Teacher Databank (TDB), 
                             2) Student Databank (SDB), 
                             3) School Information System (SIS), 
                             4) Computerized Horticultural System (CHIS), 
                             5) Plant Production System (PPS)

Role & Responsibility   :   Project Leader & Information System Officer (ISO) in-Charge, 
                            Analysis & Estimation of Change Request, Understanding 
                            the Customer Requirements, Implementation of Change Requests.


Project Lotus

Duration 		:   July 1995 to July 1996

Customer                :   Trust Seller

Team Size               :   33 Persons

Platform                :   IBM Mainframe, CICS, SAS/C, FORTRAN, PL/1, and ADABAS

Project Location        :   New Delhi, India

Project Description     :   This project involves redesign and conversion of the existing 
                            software applications from COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1 to SAS/C. 
                            The project has the following modules: Reverse Engineering 
                            of the existing code, Protocol Design, View Design, Protocol Design, 
                            High Level Design, Low Level Design, Coding & Unit Testing, Integration Testing
                            
Role & Responsibility   :   Senior System Executive, Responsible for Handling issues 
                            relating to IBM Mainframe, Reverse engineering & coding.


Total Facility Management

Duration 	        :   March 1994 to June 1995

Customer                :   Automobile Manufacturer

Team Size               :   11 Persons

Platform                :   IBM Mainframe, CICS, DB2, COBOL 

Project Location        :   New Delhi, India

Project Description     :   Design & Development project to address the entire management 
                            functions of the client Viz. MIS, Sales Analysis, Shop floor 
                            management, productivity amelioration etc.

Role & Responsibility   :   Team Member – Design & Development of new system



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