Ravi Achar

Experience

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  NTT DATA FA Insurance Systems (NDFS)

  Nov 2002 - Sept 2016

   Project Implementation (Turkey & Bangalore) – B2B Portal & SAP Financials• Preparation of project contract, SOW• Project planning, executing, tracking, monitoring & controlling, project governance• Project Governance – Weekly Report/Reviews (Internal/External), Monthly Reviews (Internal), Steering Committee Meeting (SCM)• Resource (Onsite & Offsite) Management• Manging Testing Team• Quality Audits Pre sales (P & C Insurer in Norway) - Response to RFI/RFP, demonstration requirement mapping, solutioning, development & demonstrations Business Analyst Training – Product & domain training Show less  Successfully Phase 2 project for customer which included• User meet for requirement gathering, documentation, estimation • Project costing, drafting of SOW and finalization of project contract• Project planning, executing, tracking, monitoring & controlling, project governance• Project Governance – Weekly Report/Reviews (Internal/External), Monthly Reviews (Internal), Steering Committee Meeting (SCM)• Resource (Onsite & Offsite) Management• Manging Testing Team, Quality Management• Delivered ahead of project schedule (Customer awarded project bonus)• Ensured 100% completion of UAT & GO LIVE on schedule Manage Helpdesk Team to provide customer support for customers in Chennai and Mumbai and China (as per SLA terms) Pre Sales - Response to RFI/RFP, requirement mapping, POC development & demonstration for prospects in Mumbai Show less  Successfully commissioned core insurance platform upgrade project in Chennai with following scope• FirstGen Product platform upgrade from PRO4/PowerBuilder to Java• Functionality retrofit from previous versions• Performance, scalability and stability – benchmarking & actual result testing• Data migration with zero data loss• Train the trainer program for users from across India Manage Helpdesk Team to provide customer support for customers in Chennai and Mumbai and China (as per SLA terms) Show less Lead a team of 4 development team to ensure functionality retrofit (from V3/V4 to FirstGen Neo 5j) for Royal Sundaram General insurance which was a scope of Core Insurance Platform Upgrade projectManaged testing by independent testing to cover User Acceptance Test cases and regression testing suite to ensure quality deliveryHelpdesk - Lead a team of 4 developers and Business Analysts as part of Helpdesk team to support Royal Sundaram General Insurance, HDFC ERGO General Insurance and AIOI Insurance (China)Contributed to entire maintenance / helpdesk life cycle ranging from handling issue management system, issue responses / diagnosis /analysis, delivery plan, testing, delivery, SLA management and periodic reporting and reviews Show less SingaporeAs part of the implementation team, played vital role in X-GEN V4 greenfield implementation for Hyundai Marine & Fire China (Beijing)As part of Singapore Customer Division, provided 1st level support to Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (Korea, Indonesia) and AIOI Insurance China and also release management to these customers by coordinating with offshore development team in NDFS India. Provided General Ledger consultancy (onsite) to Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance IndonesiaWas instrumental in rolling out the X-BOSS (Broker Online Services System) to Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Indonesia by managing and involved in the entire project from requirement gathering to the production implementationManaged effectively a four member testing team to roll out FirstGen Claims module to Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Korea Show less Has taken complete ownership in GEN400 V4 product release (AS/400 based insurance product) by contributing in design, development and implementation activitiesApart from functionality enhancements, iGEN400 has been developed using IBM Web Facing tool and successfully implemented in Royal Sun Alliance Thailand and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance MalaysiaMaintenance Support for following GEN400 customersMSIG Insurance (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Ltd., ThailandPT Asuransi Tokio Marine IndonesiaTokio Marine Sri Muang Insurance IndonesiaIAG Insurance (Thailand) Ltd Show less

  • Senior Project Manager

    Dec 2014 - Sept 2016

  • Senior Project Manager

    Aug 2013 - Nov 2014

  • Project Manager

    Feb 2013 - Jul 2013

  • Project Manager

    Oct 2009 - Jan 2013

  • Project Manager

    Apr 2009 - Sept 2009

  • Project Manager

    Apr 2008 - Mar 2009

  • Associate Consultant

    Mar 2006 - Mar 2008

  • Associate Technical Lead

    Feb 2004 - Feb 2006

  • Systems Analyst

    Aug 2003 - Jan 2004

  • Member Technical

    Nov 2002 - Jul 2003
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  AWPL - Automated Workflow Private Limited

  Oct 2016 - Feb 2017

  Senior Project Manager

  Enterprise Content Management (ECM) implementation for Mumbai based Life Insurance & Wealth Management companyResponsible for Document Management System (DMS) track of the large digital transformation programDetailed project planning / reportingSolution designOnsite dedicated team management

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  Infosys

  Mar 2017 - Oct 2022

  Senior Project Manager

  Drive Enterprise Regulatory Intelligent system program consisting of application development, artificial intelligence, machine learning, knowledge graph for an US based global safety certification company (Technology Landscape: Azure, .Net Core, Angular, Cosmos DB)Driven Enterprise Data Analytics offshore portfolio comprising of 5 different streams across 4 offshore locations covering Production Support, Non Product Support, Software Development for a US based largest life insurance company (Technology Landscape: Java, Mainframe, ETL, ELK/Dynatrace)Infrastructure and Cloud Services Tech Mandate Project comprising of Sybase & Batch migration (HPUX to Linux), WAS9 migration, CI/CD Migration, AWS MigrationContribute towards the large value deal proposalsProject governance, budgeting, invoicing, recruitment, people management Show less

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  Niveus Solutions

  Oct 2022 - now

  Senior Manager - Data Modernization