Gunjan Narulkar

C/O Ashish Mungi, A 1403, Brigade Gateway, Malleshwaram, Bangalore, 560055 Email id: narulkargunjan@mgmt.iisc.ernet.in; gunjan_narulkar@yahoo.com Mobile: +91-99007-40404

Objective
To be an expert in applying mathematical statistical and techniques in the field of finance in particular and resource optimization in general.

Profile

Total industry experience over 5 years consistently ranking amongst the best employees. BASE SAS 9 and DB2 certified professional. Interested in learning application of different inference techniques such as regression, time series and forecasting, and that of machine learning and data mining in designing expert systems. Experienced in projects for Retails and Supply Chain Management, Telecom sector, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry. Strong experience in developing innovative solutions for process automation and optimization for IT projects. Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner and a good team player.

Skill Set
Statistical Tools and Software Languages: Strong basics in Excel, R, SAS, SQL, VBA, Tibco Object Service Broker (ObjectStar), JCL, COBOL, REXX and other mainframes based languages. Software Development Tools and processes: Most of the mainframe based tools such as COOL: GEN 6.0, FILE-AID, HyperStation, RTLS, QMF, Rational Developer for Z/OS, Rational Asset Analyzer for Z/OS; Databases such as DB2V8.1 Universal Database, Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM); Middleware such as WebSphere MQ, IBM DATAPOWER SOA appliance; stadard Configuration tools like GUARDIEN and CE Access; Process Management tools as Clear Quest, BMC Remedy Tool etc. and software architectures and methodologies such as Service Oriented Architecture model (SOA), MVC model, Waterfall and Agile models. Software Certifications: SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 IBM Certified Application Programmer for DB2 V8.1 IBM Certified Programmer in DB2 V8.1 Family Fundamentals IBM Certified SOA Associate

Education:
First Year, Master of Management Concentration in Business Analytics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering - 2006, Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, (SGSITS), Indore

Membership and Associations:

Chairman of IISc Marathi Mandal Member of Rangamanch, the IISc dramatics club Member of the IISc Social Responsibility Committee Member and past VP - Public Relations of Bangalore Blue Toastmaster's club Member of Youth Hostel's Association of India Volunteer: Rotary blood bank Volunteered for IBM's OnDemand Community for various activities such as Flood relief drives, Joy-Of-Giving Collection drives and Teaching drives.

Professional Experience:
Apr 10 December 10, Application Developer, IBM Global Services, Blore Project Name: MEDCO Eligibility System Details: MEDCO is US major pharmacy company having biggest share in mail order pharmacies.
IBM helps them to modernize their IT systems and provides end-to-end IT solutions. Eligibility is the Medcos client facing system which is used to gather and disperse client related information to rest of the downstream applications.

Responsible for normal development activities like requirement analysis, unit test case preparation, coding and testing

Contributions:

As a part of modernization initiative, conducted Proof of Concept (PoCs) on variety of technologies Presented paper on CICS Testing Automation framework in an all India level technical conference Participated in the Innovation Contest and recognized for contributing with most number of ideas

Nov 09 Mar 10 , System Analyst, IBM Global Services, Blore, Project Name: California Medicaid Management Information System (CA-MMIS) Details: California Medicaid Management Information System (CAMMIS) is a state government
healthcare management project for which IBM is acting as a Fiscal Intermediary (FI).

November 09 Till now, System Analyst, CA-MMIS Development team

Responsible for creating inventory list and application specific detailing documents for all the SAS related programmes Responsible for analyzing the system requirements for the SAS as well as IBM and non IBM tools and utilities that are used in the project and to identify the points where there might be configuration problems once the development starts Expected to train the fellow team members on SAS and other tools and to learn and create expertise for the tools for which, the team is not familiar with

Contributions:

Created a SAS Installation Checklist that will help us to ascertain if the SAS is installed perfectly on mainframes to serve all the purposes of the development team Analyzed the impact of removal of vendor proprietary WAAP utility used in the project and devised a complete replacement strategy for the project. This includes the user level analysis of individual utilities and technical approach for developing a replacement for the same

Dec 06 Oct 09, Developer/Problem Assessor, IBM Global Services, Blore, Project Name: Mobile Integrated Customer Application (MICA) Details: In TELSTRA, amongst other applications, MICA ( Mobile Integrated Customer Accounts) is
one of the most important application as it is related to the core functions like Service Order and Activations, Call pricing, Billing, Payments ( Postpaid and Prepayment) , Credit Management, Product Management, GSM, CDMA and Mobile data Services Support. In short, we take care of all the processes directly related to revenue for TELSTRA.

April 06 October 09, Assessor/Developer, MICA Maintenance team

Handled key issues acutely impacting the client financially and having high impact on client's business and delivered solutions with zero defect/rollback leading to maximum client satisfaction using a combination of SQL, SAS and REXX Data analyst and specialist in Ad-Hoc reporting. Generated reports for urgent business critical requests as per the requirement analysis with client Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and verification testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results Created various opportunities for client to lower total cost of ownership by automating many processes and creating reusable assets open for use in other projects as well The automation of processes has caused over 300% of reduction in development efforts for each service requests in which they are utilized Responsible for identifying any shortcomings in the technical specification documents based on the requirement documents received from the client and deliver quality solutions in time. Ensure Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals

December 06 April 06, Developer, MICA Development team

Contributions and Achievements:

Winner of the Bravo Awards (quarterly award) in I quarter 08 IBM GBS internal SAS trainer Train resources on Call Pricing and Billing business modules To optimize and strengthen the peer review process and improve the quality of the deliverables, designed Code Review Process Automation Tool - a Prototype. This is a reusable asset to automate the code review process Designed and Developed MQ Loader - Utility to Load MQs with Messages. This is a reusable asset to load single or multiple messages in Websphere MQs in a mainframe environment Devised a simplified approach for the Name Recognition problem via Soundex based name recognition tool in REXX. This is a simple REXX based utility which recognizes the above problem and tries to provide a solution by using an algorithm known as Soundex matching algorithm Designed an utility that simplifies the tedious process of recovering data from tapes in the form of JCL Generation and Submission Utility . This utility is currently under use in the project and has resulted in decrease of more than 300% of development effort required if done manually apart from minimizing the defect density Developed an asset that eases the task of creating deliverables that are repetitive in nature in the form of File Replication Utility . This tool creates clones of an existing parent deliverable and then makes what ever changes the user wants in the child deliverables thereby minimizing the defects as there is no manual intervention and minimize the effort that is required to do the same thing otherwise Presented the topic Understanding Call Pricing in Telecom Domain Present and Future Trends in the companys knowledge sharing meet

Contact Details:
Gunjan Narulkar, C/O Ashish Mungi, A 1403, Brigade Gateway, Malleshwaram, Bangalore, 560055 Email id: narulkargunjan@mgmt.iisc.ernet.in; gunjan_narulkar@yahoo.com Mobile: +91-99007-40404