Ramakrishnan Thandavarayan

Experience

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  Navis

  Mar 2007 - Apr 2019

  • Responsible for analysis , design , develop and deploy custom solutions for customers.• Collaborate with Project Managers and PS from collecting requirements to deployment of the solution.• Estimate Analysis, development, QA tasks.• Travel to onsite( customer site) during go-lives • Conduct Groovy Workshop, Product Training, O&A and do Custom Solution DesignCUSTOMERS : > MICTSL - Madagascar> VIT - USA> PHA - USA> GCT - USA > Maher – ELZ - USA> MGT - Canada> TRP - Argentina> TECPLATA - Argentina> MTL - Hong Kong> Libra - Brazil> Tropical Shipping - USA> TCP- Brazil> Ports America (PNCT, NOLA, and PAC) - USA> SPRB - Colombia> Port of Tianjin - China> Port of Tangshan - China> PAT - Thailand Show less > Project lead for Navis N4Billing application (from Sep’ 2011).> Write functional specification and technical design for road map items. > Review the technical design document with Product management for development tasks.> Review the test use cases written by QA.> Create the JIRA issues for the technical design document and schedule it for appropriate release date for QA planning> Part of my duties is involved of assigning the JIRA issues to team members, reviewing the code design implementation, code review, test results and release notes.> The completed product feature will be presented to the Product management and QA for their approval to resolve the road map request.> I also provide clarifications and answer various questions raised by Product-Dev, Product- QA, Sustaining Engineering, Customer, PS, Support, FDE, and Tech Doc teams > I work closely with Technical writers to review their documentation for the new product feature.> Monitor TeamCity for Build/Test Case failures and address them to improve quality as well as to help the build team to complete the build successfully. > Though I have been responsible for future product release, due to resource constraints I have to take care of the bugs reported for GA release version also. It involves extensive back merge coding and testing.> Though travelling is very minimal, as a Module Lead, PS now and then requests my service at On-Site for support and development.> Conduct weekly meetings with QA, Sustaining Engineers to clarify Navis N4Billing related issues then and there.> Conduct weekly meetings with PMG and Dev Engineering for product feature related clarification. Show less

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Apr 2013 - Apr 2019

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Jul 2011 - Apr 2013

  • Software Engineer

    Mar 2007 - Jun 2011
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  Cuboidz LLC - Think Ahead

  Apr 2019 - now

  Founder

  Founder at "Cuboidz LLC - Think Ahead" and a Leading Software Consultant currently focused in TOS/ Marine Terminals/ Ports Industry.Expert in Navis N4Sparcs & N4Billing Development & Customization with 12+ years in Navis & 14+ years in Java. Co-Author and Lead of Navis N4Billing software. Worked with Global Customers to train, implement and customize Navis N4Sparcs & N4Billing products. Travel and Customer facing with Project/Product Handling are my interests.Navis N4Sparcs & N4Billing Customization, Extension using groovy code. Show less