Rohit Ghanara

Experience

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  Steel Authority of India Limited

  Aug 1995 - Dec 1996

  Management Trainee
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  STERIA (INDIA) LIMITED (Formerly IIS Infotech Ltd)

  Jan 1997 - Apr 2000

  Software Engineer

  •Software development using Visual Basic 3, SQL, Delphi, Pascal, Fortran, dBase.•Technology consulting for various clients in Singapore, Ireland and England.

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  HCL Technologies

  Apr 2000 - Dec 2000

  Sr. Software Engineer

  •Software development using Visual Basic 3, SQL, COM, DCOM, MTS.

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  Mediware Information Systems

  Jan 2001 - Feb 2006

  Senior Consultant

  •As a solutions architect and technical team leader, I helped the client with requirement gathering, analysis, Proof of concept, Data Migration, reverse engineering, by leading people and mentoring cross-functional, geographically diverse teams.•Took two products from inception to delivery, installation, and after sales support.•Worked under the leadership of Director Software Development and subject matter experts to design solution, deliver, and help with enhancement and support of multiple systems for Mediware’s various clients and products. My day to day responsibilities included understanding requirements, solutions architecting, proof of concept, database and system architecture, Development, unit/system testing, installation, data migration, and end user training, after sales support.•Lead the change control board where we’d assign the resources to open issues and keep track of the progress. Helped with FDA submissions.•Technologies used for development were Visual Basic 6.0, C#, .NET, SQL, C++, HL7. Followed iterative developments with weekly released builds to the QA. Show less

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  UBS Investment Bank

  Feb 2006 - May 2011

  Associate Director

  • As a creative and results driven leader, delivered quantifiable value by driving IT and Business Strategy and Roadmap, leading people and performance management, building relationships and mentoring cross-functional, geographically diverse teams.• Lead the Microsoft Technology Innovation & Architecture group at UBS and managed three products as a product manager.• Worked with a team of software engineers, project managers and analysts that were responsible for solution design plus delivery, enhancement and support of multiple systems for UBS’s windows technology group. My day to day responsibilities included people development, managing complete delivery of multiple initiatives, identifying new business opportunities in tandem with stakeholders and clients, developing IT strategy roadmap to support future business strategy, budget planning and resourcing. I was also responsible for orchestration of multiple POCs (Proof of Concept) to pilot strategic business concepts in specific markets.• Started as an active directory engineer concentrating on application developed using C#, Visual Basic, SQL server and Sybase. Show less

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  GE Transportation

  May 2011 - Aug 2014

  Program Manager

  • Managing a cross functional, geographically and culturally diverse team, responsible for technology and program management, enterprise architecture, infrastructure planning, budget planning and resourcing, business & technical analysis, design, development, testing, rollout and production support of the installed application. • Lead the overall IT Strategy roadmap and Implementation, IT Optimization, Solution Architecture, Program Management and Methodology, change/demand/resource management, risk mitigation, technology team/vendor management, and governance and relationship management for multiple locomotive/freight trains clients across the world.• Managed multiple technology delivery and project management teams on various products and clients.• Mentored IT, architecture, analysis and project management teams on big picture analysis, business and solution architecture, methodology (RUP, Agile), technology evaluation and POCs.• Reviewed database design, system designs, and class diagrams. • As a scrum master, define sprints with the help of technical leads and QA. Allocate resources and track the progress by leading the daily scrum standup meetings. Show less

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  Mia Bella Restaurants

  Apr 2017 - now

  Co-Owner