Rahul Kekre

Experience

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  Pentafour

  Oct 1998 - Oct 2002

  Assistant Consultant

  Worked on developing an ERP product.• Worked as a developer for Manufacturing and Material management• Involved in developing technical specifications like high level design, low level design, traceability matrix and estimations• Attending multiple meetings with the Business Users/ stakeholders to understand the requirements• Actively involved in Development, unit testing and reports creations

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  Pentafour international Mauritius

  Nov 2002 - Mar 2006

  Consultant

  Worked in Mauritius for multiple Insurance and textiles customers• Led a team of 4 developers• Involved in developing technical specifications like high level design, low level design, traceability matrix and estimations• Attending multiple meetings with the Business Users to understand the requirements• Was hands on for Development, unit testing and reports creations• Was responsible for end to end delivery

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  Netlink software group

  Jun 2006 - Jun 2010

  Business Analyst

  • Worked as Technical Business Analyst on multiple projects• Led Team of 4 Developers• Involved in preparing and reviewing ETL specifications, Business Requirement Document Etc. • Developing informatica mappings to load the data from source to stage and from there to interface and final fact or dimension.• worked closely with Architect to design the Data Marts• Organizing various sessions for Report development teams to explain them the data mart structure.• Creation/maintenance of the data dictionary. Show less

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jul 2010 - Apr 2017

  • Worked as a Horizontal for all the BI/DWH Projects for CITI bank• Lead & mentor a team of business analysts, information architects, and data governance leads and help to stand up and then mature the business solutions organization• Help team establishing data governance principles, policies and standards aligned to a data strategy• Consult with IT stakeholders on planning of upcoming programs/initiatives for BI• Assist in architecting business solutions, working closely with business and IT partners• Study the existing system and define a roadmap for improvements• Technical Review of BI/BIG data Projects• Handling the team of approximately 28 associates spread across different geographies.• Ensuring project deliveries with 100% quality and on time Show less • Head of projects and presales for France business of GENERALI• Technical Review of BI/BIG data Projects• Handled the team of approximately 75 associates spread across different geographies.• Ensuring project deliveries with 100% quality and on time• Providing support in RFP responses.• Resource management and planning.• Support in business planning and business development.• Ensuring all the projects follow the complete quality processes before delivery.• Well verse with all the delivery models for IT projects and capable of handling multiple projects with Different delivery models (Waterfall, Agile Etc.)• Creating and reviewing SOW for the projects• Reviewing the processes followed by other Account’s projects conducting project management Review creating report • Handling multiple projects in different technologies (BI/BIG Data, JAVA, COBOL, SAP etc.)• Business/Revenue planning + Invoice tracking with PMO team. Show less • Led a team of 25 developers• Involved in reviewing business requirement document • Attending multiple meetings with the OLTP application teams to understand the existing database design• reviewing logical and physical data models for data marts• Conducting technical/Business discussions with GE IM manager to get the Models Approved• Responsible for testing the process for deployment and addressing issues• Organizing various sessions for Report development teams to explain them the data mart structure.• Undertaking several initiatives to execute projects on time and within budget• Reviewing data dictionary periodically. Show less

  • Data Modeling and BI Head

    Oct 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Delivery Manager

    Sept 2015 - Sept 2016

  • Data Architect

    Jul 2010 - Aug 2015
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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jun 2017 - Feb 2019

  Data Modeling & Project management

  Apr’17 –Feb’19 - worked as a IT Project Manager & BI Data Modeler with a big UK Insurance Customer. Key Result Areas:• Led multiple projects for a strategic program in HR domain• Involved in reviewing business requirement documents• Undertook several initiatives to execute projects on time and within budget• Consult with IT stakeholders on planning of upcoming programs/initiatives for BI• Assist in architecting business solutions, working closely with business and IT partners• Study the existing system and define a roadmap for improvements• Technical Review of all the ETL components• Handled the team of 7 associates spread across different geographies.• Ensuring project deliveries with 100% quality and on time• Conducted technical/Business discussions with AXA stakeholders to finalize the requirements• Design and built the database from scratch (SQL server 2016)• Help team establishing data governance principles, policies and standards aligned to a data strategy• Written the Key design documents like KDD(Key design decision), Design Expression, Technical System Design • Reviewed all the FSDs written by the team members Show less

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Aug 2019 - now

  Jul’22-till date – Working as a IT Program Manager (cloud projects based on AWS and AWS Data Analytics) with a big Insurance UK Customer.Key Result Areas:• Understanding business objectives of the company and creating cloud-based solutions to facilitate those objectives.• Architecting, building, and maintaining resilient, high performing, secure, cost optimized cloud applications / environments.• Moving legacy / existing systems into the cloud for more efficiency within the organization under digital transformation.• Keeping cloud environments secure and preventing downtime or security breaches.• Determining the risk associated with third-party platforms or frameworks.• Looking for ways to improve operations within company to digitize common tasks.• Designing, building, maintaining internal cloud applications for the organization.• Transferring data and internal processes to cloud architecture.• Keeping data leakage and downtime to an absolute minimum.• Keeping up to date on best practices in cloud computing and making improvements to the cloud infrastructure.• Activity and resource planning – preparation & maintenance of Sprint plans / Kanban Dashboards in JIRA for respective Projects and tracking it very efficiently against the identified tasks / dependencies closure on time.• Organizing and motivating project team, controlling time management, cost estimation and developing the budget.• Ensuring customer satisfaction• Analyzing and managing project risks / Issues – updating the Program RAID Log regularly for identified risks / Issues and tracking it for closure.• Monitoring progress – by regular meetings with stakeholders, leading daily standups to discuss progress / blockers etc.• Managing / Preparing / Issuing different management and progress reports (including weekly status report) and necessary documentation. Show less Worked as a IT Project manager with a Edinburgh based Insurance Customer in a Strategic Program, Below are the main responsibilities for the IT Projects under me.• Understood business objectives of the company and created cloud-based solutions to facilitate those objectives.• Architected, built, and maintained resilient, high performing, secure, cost optimized cloud applications / environments.• Moved legacy / existing systems into the cloud for more efficiency within the organization under digital transformation.• Kept cloud environments secure and preventing downtime or security breaches.• Designed, built, maintained internal cloud applications for the organization.• Transferred data and internal processes to cloud architecture.• Kept data leakage and downtime to an absolute minimum.• Activity and resource planning – prepared & maintained Sprint plans / Kanban Dashboards in JIRA for respective Projects and tracked it very efficiently against tasks / dependencies closure on time.• Organized and motivated project team, time management, Cost estimation and developed the budget.• Ensuring customer satisfaction• Analyzed and managed project risks / Issues – updated the Program RAID Log regularly for identified risks / Issues and tracking it for closure.• Monitored progress – by regular meetings with stakeholders, leading daily standups to discuss progress / blockers etc.• Managed / Prepared / Issued different management and progress reports (including weekly status report) and necessary documentation. Show less

  • Senior Project Manager

    Jul 2022 - now

  • IT Project Manager

    Aug 2019 - Jul 2022