Saravana Kumar

Saravana Kumar

Bilingual Software Project Consultant

Japan

Past
Education
  • PSG College of Technology, India, Coimbatore
  • PSG Polytechnic College, India, Coimbatore
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya, India, Coimbatore
  • International Community School, India, Nilgiris
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Saravana Kumar’s Summary

Experiences:

Bilingual IT Consultant.

Consulted with Aris Global Japan, TIBCO Software Japan, Satyam Computer Services Japan, Tata Consultancy Services Japan, SRM Technologies Japan and Ashok Leyland spreading over a period of 12 years.

Served Pfizer Japan, Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Japan, Nippon Denwa Shisetsu Japan, Mizuho Securities Japan, Aozora Bank Japan, Nissan Japan, Haruyama Japan, Takeda Pharmaceutical, BMW Finance Japan, Toshiba Corporation Japan, GE Yokogawa Medicals (Healthcare), Sony Corporation Japan, NEC Corporation Japan, IBM Corporation Japan, Daiei Corporation Japan etc.

Primarily in the Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Finance, Automotive and Telecom Industry

Leading and Serving in Safety Systems of Operational Data in Pharmaceutical Industry, Document Management Systems, Account Management Business, Order Fullfillment Systems etc in the capacity of Consultant, Architect, Analyst and Developer roles.

Prior to IT Services and Software companies he had a long stint of 4 years with System, Process and Product auditing function while at Ashok Leyland Limited as Senior Engineer, Corporate Quality Engineering in lines with ISO 9000 and QS 9000 Series of Quality Framework and Guideline, and managed Vendor Rating, Quality Training, Product and Process Failures Investigation and Analysis.

Knowledgeable on the Japanese Culture and Language and Exposure Japanese Corporation at Various Levels and all audiences alike both Technical and Business.

Goals:

Simplifying Business Processes
Developing and Realizing Near Realtime Business Systems
Identifying Bottlenecks and Streamlining Business Processes
Creating and Improving Systems used in Business


Adding and Providing Tangible Value to the Users of IT Systems through Consulting, Analysing, Architecting, Designing, Developing, Testing, Deploying, Maintaining and Managing IT Assets, Projects, Process and Artifacts

Saravana Kumar’s Specialties:

Aris Global Total Safey Suite
TIBCO Product Suite
Frameworks, Architectures, Methodology
Java(Swing,Applet),J2EE(EJB,Servlets,JSP,JMS,JNDI,JDBC,RMI,JCA,JTA),DotNet (C#,VB,ASP), Web(XML,XSLT,SOAP,CSS,HTML,XHTML),Script(PHP,Pearl,Bash,SCL),Utilities (awk,sed,vi), C,C++
Tomcat,ATG Dynamo,WebLogic,Borland Enterprise Server,IBM Websphere, Sun Java, IIS
DB2 (UDB), Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Sybase, Access and SQL/PLSQL
Unix (DECα,IrisIndy,SG,AIX,HP,Solaris), Linux(RH,Fedora),Win NT,2K,2003, VMWare


Saravana Kumar’s Experience

  • Senior Implementation Consultant

    Aris Global KK, Japan, Shibuya

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2007May 2008 (9 months)

    Solution Sales at Global Pharmaceutical Company
    Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co.,Ltd. /日本ベーリンガーインゲルハイム
    -Product Showcasing, Pre Sales, Product Configuration, Demo and Support

    Solution Implementation and Deployment
    at Clinical Study and Pharmaco Vigilance Divisions
    for Drug Safety and Adverse Event Reporting
    at Pfizer Japan Inc./ファイザー株式会社

    Successfully Completed Migration Validations

    Expertise:
    Pre Sales
    Project Management
    Expectation Management

  • Senior Consultant, Professional Services Group

    TIBCO Software, Japan, Shinjuku

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

    November 2005August 2007 (1 year 10 months)

    -SPOC for Business Process Management (BPM) Stack, the TIBCO iProcess Software Suite / Staffware.
    あおぞら銀行、みずほ証券、日本電話施設
    -Consult in Integration Projects Architectures Design and Develop Proof Of Concept(POC)
    -Colloborate with Engineering and Global Localization team
    1. Onsite Consulting at Aozora Bank Limited for Corporate and Retail Application
    -Architecting, Design, Development, Debugging, Testing, Deployment and Transition to Production Operations Department
    -Mac Clients, TIBCO EMS, BusinessWorks, iProcess, Oracle, Solaris and Linux
    2. Onsite Consulting at Mizuho Securites Limited for Enterprise Integration Planning pilot project for SOX Compliance in reports submitted to the Government Departments.
    3. Onsite Consulting at Nippon Denwa Shisetsu Limited for Enterprise Integration Planning pilot project for Expense Accounting workflow with reading and writing to Microsoft Excel file using POJO thirdparty library.

  • Senior Architect - Part Time

    Quantum Enterprises, Japan, Nishi Kasai

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2005October 2005 (3 months)

    Senior Architect and Lead Developer of Dot Net based application for Beverages Industry.

    Application was later enhanced based on customer requests, packaged and distributed to several Customers in the Industry.

  • Senior Systems Analyst

    Satyam Computers Limited, Japan, Kamiyacho

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

    July 2004August 2005 (1 year 2 months)

    1. Pre Sales Engineer and Architect for Enterprise Solutions based on Microsoft Share Point Portal Server, Microsoft Content Management Server, Active Directory and Dot Net for BMW Japan.
    2. Project Manager onsite at NISSAN Global Information Center, Japan for development of new, replacement and migration projects involving a wide variety of technology from IBM.
    3. Project Manager offsite for Legacy Migration Solutions for Retail and Pharmaceutical Industries based on IBM MVS and derivatives.

  • Consultant, Global Delivery Center

    Tata Consultancy Services, Japan, Yokohama

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

    April 2003March 2004 (1 year )

    1. Project Lead at GE Medical Systems(now GE Health Care), Japan
    -Single Point Of Contact and 1st Level Support for Internet and Intranet Systems.
    -Architected, Designed, Developed, Tested, Deployed, Maintained and Managed the following portals and server side applications behind them.
    -Customer Web Center http://www.gehealthcare.co.jp/ consisting of Quotation and Order Management Systems based on ATG Dynamo
    -Intranet Portal with Search, Directory
    -Used Amdocs Clarify to Manage Issues
    2. Project Manager at TOSHIBA Keihin Works,
    -Consulted in Development of Knowlege Based Engineering Project for Manufacture of Thermal Power Condenser using Unigraphics NX3 and Knowledge Fusion

  • Systems Analyst, Japan Division

    SRM Technologies Private Limited.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2000March 2003 (2 years 7 months)

    1.Senior Developer at SONY NACS developed test tools using OpenMG SDK for Windows and Linux platform using C++ aimed at Sony Proprietary DRM Solution
    2.Developer at NEC ebusiness Project BEAT
    EAI Team Java lead in order management systems and the connecting B2B Exchange. Several B2B Components were created for the B2B exchanges. TIBCO message broker were used in the B2B Exchange. Several patterns of Transform were created like RV to DB, DB to DB, RV to Web Sever and AE DB agent for Windows NT 2000
    Developing template modules at NEC E-business with TIBCO Message Broker 4.0.0. , Custom Plug-in
    Designing and programming B2B EAI interface modules in Java for varieties of Pub Sub & Request Reply Models
    Re-designed the Asynchronous communication model between B2B Hub and new system into parallel from serial
    3.Developer at IBM project for HIS Travel company
    Development of C++ CGI with embedded SQL for Land, Air, Tour, Parts Modules of Core System. Including Maintenance Modules for CRUD

  • Senior Developer

    COMPS ITI

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2002February 2003 (6 months)

    Architecting and Developing J2EE based web application for Poultry Production and Management

  • Senior Engineer, Corporate Quality Engineering

    Ashok Leyland Limited, India, Chennai

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

    July 1997September 2000 (3 years 3 months)

    -Performed Periodic & Surprise Quality Audits on Products, Process and Systems aimed at Zero Defect (Rework & Rejections) Manufacturing Systems.
    -Peformed Investigation and Analysis on Warranty Complaints and reducing by 50% in 1998-1999
    -Developed and Evaluated Vendors for Engine and Gear Box components manufacture.
    -Value Engineered Gear Box components through material substitution and design change reducing production cost.

    Expertise:
    Supplier Quality Assurance, Vendor Rating, Quality Improvement and Relations Management
    Metrology, Heat Treatment, Machining
    Product Development Support, Project Planning and Development Support

    Catalyst and Driver In New Project and Company wide Initiatives


Saravana Kumar’s Education

  • PSG College of Technology, India, Coimbatore

    Bachelor of Engineering , Production Engineering , 19941997

    Project: Thesis on Fool Proofing Manufacturing Systems (Poka Yoke)

    Activities and Societies:
    NSS, NCC
  • PSG Polytechnic College, India, Coimbatore

    Diploma , Mechanical Engineering, Specialization in Design and Drafting , 19911994

    Project: Design and Manufacturing of Milling Attachement for Center Lathe

    Activities and Societies:
    NSS, NCC
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya, India, Coimbatore

    Senior Secondary School Leaving Certificate , CBSE , 19851991

  • International Community School, India, Nilgiris

    Primary School , ICSE , 19811985


Additional Information

Saravana Kumar’s Websites:

Saravana Kumar’s Interests:

Human Interaction, Man Machine Interaction, Process and System Design and Improvements, TV Shows

Saravana Kumar’s Groups:

Sports Club

  •    TCS Alumni Network
  •    EAI Consulting Opportunities
  •    Project Managers Group
  •    CMM - Integrated (CMMI)
  •    Tradingfloor IT specialists
  •    Bilingual Workforce in Japan
  •    TIBCO Global
  •    TIBCO architects
  •    Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS)

Saravana Kumar’s Honors:

Brainbench Certified
Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 2007-07-02
Project Management (2005) 2007-08-27


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