Rajesh Sharma

Experience

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  Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

  Nov 1996 - May 2000

  Systems Engineer

  Key responsibilities================================================================Designing, developing and maintaining internal software applications for materials management function and BHEL’s 55 bed hospital.Achievements and Accolades================================================================ Employed ICT to improve measures of performance of many business processes (e.g. reducing average inventory days, reducing cycle time and manpower requirements of Material turn-around document by 1/10th, loading advice preparation efforts by over 99% etc.). Played a key role in reducing the production cycle time of a 500-MW boiler by 3 months. Won Productivity improvement awards. Show less

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  Cognizant Technology Solutions

  Jun 2000 - Jan 2001

  Project Lead/ Onsite Coordnator

  Key responsibilities================================================================Leading the onsite team;responsible for Data warehousing and report generation for a US based Telecommunication Company.Achievements and Accolades================================================================ Designed and implemented data warehousing solutions for the client. Worked as a Report Analyst: gathered requirements,analysed and designed reports; developed client-specific reports on Oracle Application Server. Designed new Datamarts and enhanced the existing ones; Managed ETL for the Data warehouse & OSS. Show less

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  Infosys

  Feb 2001 - Apr 2004

  Project Manager / Senior Systems Analyst

  Role================================================================ Business Analyst / Team Lead/ Project ManagerKey responsibilities================================================================Managing projects at onsite and offshore locations, deploying multiple technologies (Mainframe, J2EE, Dot net, MQ series, C++,SmallTalk, Cold Fusion, PL/SQL, COBOL etc. ) in multiple domains like Energy & Utilities; Insurance; and Telecommunications spanning across more than 25 applications.Achievements and Accolades================================================================ Improved productivity and reduced the efforts taken on daily jobs from 14 hours/ person to 2 hours / person. Created knowledge awareness in the Finance and Telecom domains, along with contributing several knowledge artefacts to the Knowledge shop (self and team). Project team won the first prize in the Oracle Knowledge competition; received recognition as an expert on Oracle Received several appreciations from the customers. Show less

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  Kalinga Software Pvt Ltd

  Apr 2004 - Aug 2021

  Director -Products & Delivery

  Key responsibilities================================================================ Leading Product Strategy, Product Planning, Product Design, Product Development, Product Implementation and Support Delivery ManagementAccomplishments================================================================ Started as a garage company, built the team of over 200 people from scratch Envisioned, Conceptualized and Built 3 Software Products: Greycells- a comprehensive Education ERP, Learn Stock Market - Near Live simulation of BSE based on 20 minutes delayed data to enable learning hands-on, e-HMS - an Hospital Management System.  Designed frameworks, processes, guidelines, softwares and artifacts along with automation to ensure Market oriented Agile Scrum Product Development and Delivery using DevOps Developed in-house softwares for automation of Product Development Lifecycle: Code generators for repetitive type screens, Impact Inventory Generators, Static Code Analysis, Automatic and synchronous Code and DB changes movement (with built-in checks for non-compliance) from development to testing to release environments, Automatic release and installation on client’s servers after necessary checks and back-ups for UAT, Automatic code and DB changes movement from Client’s UAT environment to production environment, Automatic roll-back to previous version in case of any issue etc. ROI < 1 year for the customer. Products Implemented for more than 100 customers.~ 1 Mn users. 100% success rate. Reduced cycle time of B2B product implementation from 24 to 6 months & implementation & support cost and manpower requirements by ~70%. Managed delivery of large IT projects in Manufacturing, Health and e-Governance space  Margin per customer increase by 100% through better management practices, automation, strategic and operational changes.RECOGNITION========== Featured in reputed magazines. Won e-Odisha award from Govt. of Odisha. Show less

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  Cozentus

  Sept 2021 - now

  Executive Vice President