Ramamurthy Vasu

E-mail: vasu.ramamurthi@gmail.com
H/P : 91 – 098409 34234 (Chennai)

Summary
Over 26 years experience in software possessing expertise in diverse full-life cycle projects,
data migration and porting. In-depth involvement in ERP Roll Out and Data base administration,
System Analysis, Performance Monitoring, management of testing environments. Development
of test plans, test strategies, test scripts and execution of tests. Verification and documentation
of results on the basis of SQL queries. Maintenance/enhancement of bug reporting system.
Over 14 years experience as Systems Analyst. Strong analytical and quantitative evaluation,
man management, resources management skills.

Professional Experience
Apps Infotec Private Limited, Chennai, India Feb 2007 till date
Project Manager

Handling Multiple projects concurrently at various locations managing resources which

include – Human resourses, Man Management, Project Management, Project Initiation
and execution. Currently involved in project management for JV Gokal Group of
companies for the roll out of ERP scheduled for multi locations and multi countries.

Responsible for Project initiation, vendor evaluation, negotiation, selection of vendor,

selection of Hardware, software, network equipments, liaison with the vendors for an
appropriate solution for the entire group, infrastructure building and providing value
added services.

Currently involved in Project Management of the project which consist Financials,

Distribution and Manufacturing modules and consulting for Financials. The scope
involved.

• Business process review

• Requirement Study
• Business Process Mapping
• Gap Analysis
• Setting up of project milestones
• Review of project milestones
• Configuration of the Application based on Requirement Study
• Common Application Setups
• Setup of Approval hierarchies for use in Purchasing and Dossiers
• Integration Testing within Modules
• Conference Room Piloting
• User Acceptance Testing
• Freezing of custom reports
• Go Live activity
• Documentation

Besides the above was responsible for :

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 - the installation of OS,
- Staging and installation of Oracle Applications
- Patch application
- Monitoring the database, users
- Maintenance of table space
- Interaction with Oracle web support site for issues and fixes
- Regular backup and restore to ensure availability of resources without any
latency.

This roll out comprises of 7 domestic locations and 5 international. All the locations are
connected in a WAN network with a mix of different facilities viz., leased line,
MPLS/VPN, RF, Satellite link.

The environment : The data centre houses 2 Sun Sparc Hi-End Servers with 8 core
CPU running on Solaris 10

– One for production and the other for test and development purpose housing the
Operating system and Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2.
– An external storage facility with 2.4tb of disk space for housing the Database
– A tape drive LT02 for backup and restore purpose.

Achievements : Successfully installed and maintained the servers till date and the end
users were assured close to 98% uptime of servers and resources.

Enabled redundancy in server, storage with raid 0-1 facility to ensure high availability of
data.

Pure Chemicals Group, Chennai, India

Project Manager – ERP operations July 2004 till Jan 2007

The Environment : Sun FIRE V65x server with Oracle E Business Suite ported on Linux
Enterprise Server with 18 locations connected via Leased Lines through MPLS/VPN cloud for
both Voice and Data.

All the 18 locations are remotely located and data transfer is through routers via Virtual Private
Network (MPLS/VPN).

Responsible for the Roll out of ERP – Oracle Applications (Oracle E-Business suite) for 18
locations and 64 inventory organizations covering the following modules : Accounts
Receivables, Accounts Payables, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Procurement, Order
Management and Inventory management

Administering the Data Base and the Application Server. Actively involved in Creating setup for
Oracle E-Business suite with a production and test instance. Carried out the Data Migration and
the Reconciliation.

Citadel Associates
Project Consultant Nov 2002 - July 2004

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During this period had designed and consulted Malaysian National Insurance Bhd. Malaysia for
their application on Insurance. The project covered study, analysis and design for Health care,
Life insurance.

Analyzed and Designed Health care management system for PCS Rakyat M. Sdn. Bhd a
vendor of MEDEM (subsidiary of Matsushita Corporation) leaders in electronic devices with their
branded product NATIONAL PANASONIC. This system takes care of on-line process for the
health care for the employees of Matsushita in various clinics located across Kuala Lumpur and
integrated to HRD.

Analyzed and Designed Asset Management System for Sintel (M) Sdn. Bhd and Tanaka
Electronics (M) Sdn. Bhd. which covers valuation, depreciation and WDV and net value for the
assets of the organization.
Radiant Software Limited
Project Manager – University Management System Aug- 1999 to Nov 2002

Responsibilities included testing University Management System, which integrates the finance
with Academics.

Developed functional specifications and econometric models based on the business workflow
under alternative scenarios. Performed system analysis, database integration, analytical
computation analysis and report writing. Projects sponsored and monitored by University
Grants Commission.

The budgets for the university and the disbursements to colleges under the university were
tracked and development of test cases / business scenarios, execution of scripts and validation
through SQL. Test completion and Bug Tracking. System installation and setup coordination
and testing with the infrastructure group. Management reporting and testing of the QA
infrastructure environment, setup / upgrades / migration including Unix / Linux servers,
database, network. Production environment performance evaluation.

JVR Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

Project Manager Feb 1998 - Aug 1999
Client – Restile Ceramics Ltd.,

Key responsibilities include system study, analysis, database integration, report writing,
preparation of test cases. Development of test plans, test strategies, test scripts and execution
of tests. Automation of regression scripts and participation in the implementation of scripts.
Verification and documentation of results on the basis of SQL queries, backend and UNIX
validation. Maintenance/enhancement of bug reporting system covering Production, Purchase,
Sales, Inventory, Finance and Payroll modules. The modules pertaining to each functionality
were integrated.

Client - Micrkflo Fliters Pvt. Ltd.

system study, analysis, database integration, report writing, preparation of test cases.
Development of test plans, test strategies, test scripts and execution of tests. Automation of
regression scripts and participation in the implementation of purchase, sales, financial
accounting, inventory modules of the organization.

Software Solution Integrated Ltd.,

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Project Manager Jan 1995 to Feb 1998

Client – Bank of Madura

Software used : Oracle 7.0, Forms 3.0, Informix
Team Size : 5 members

Significant achievement : Was a Management Representative instrumental for ISO 9002

with KPMG as lead assessors. Attained the certification in the maiden attempt and
subsequently CMM level 5.
Responsible for system study, analysis, database integration, report writing, preparation of test
cases. Development of test plans, test strategies, test scripts and execution of tests. Automation
of regression scripts and participation in the implementation of Personnel Management system
which integrates recruitment, performance appraisal, training, transfer, bills, loans & advances,
Disciplinary Action, Rewards and settlement modules.

Client – Cutfast Abrasives Ltd

Client : Cutfast Abrasives Limited
Software used : Oracle 7.0, forms 3.0 on Unix
Team Size : 18 members

Key responsibilities include system study, analysis, database integration, report writing,
preparation of test cases for factory automation. Development of test plans, test strategies, test
scripts and execution of tests. Automation of regression scripts and participation in the
implementation of scripts. Verification and documentation of results on the basis of SQL
queries, backend and UNIX validation. Maintenance/enhancement of bug reporting system
covering Production, Purchase, Sales, Inventory, Finance and Payroll modules. The modules
pertaining to each functionality were integrated

Client – Sanmac Motor Finance

Software used : Oracle 7.0, forms 3.0 on Unix
Team size : 12 members

Responsible for Systems Study, analysis and design of Hire Purchase and Lease management
system. Development of test cases, test strategies, scripts and execution. Replication and
rollout at 56 locations through the country. Verification and documentation of results and end-
user training on the application. . Analyzed and validated changes in business requirements and
functional specification enhancement for some of these interfaces.

Government of Goa / National Informatics Centre Sept 1988 – Dec 1994

Systems Analyst
Water Meter billing for the Public Works Department covering the consumer tracking, new
connection allotment, Defaulters list, tracking of meter not working, cumulative statistics,
statement of demand collection and balance

Electricity billing for the Electricity with the scope of customer listing, new connection during a
period, energy charges calculation, bill printing, meter not working statement, cumulative
statistics

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Inventory control for Public works department, electricity department, Irrigation department,
status of various projects taken up with the opening and closing stock of the stores, valuation,
time lag, cost over run statement, vendor listing.

Statistical information system for the Bureau of Statistics, Govt. of Goa pertaining to the
National Sample survey, Registration of Birth, Deaths, Marriages statistics, Plan monitoring
system for the Govt. of Goa, Project monitoring system (Physical and Financial), General
provident fund processing for the Government Employees, Computerization of the Directorate of
accounts

Tracking system for the Regional Transport Office – issue of licenses (Geared and non geared),
Commercial licenses, Statistics of Road Tax collected, Penalty and fines listing and tracking,
Accident statistics and status of the cases.

File monitoring system for the Government of Goa giving the details of the origin and the
movement of the file and tracking the same at various periods and the status of the files.

Royalty Tracking System for Directorate of Industries and mines comprising of Computation of
the royalty payable by the mine owners to the Government, Dead Rent and Active mines,
Export statistics.

Best & Crompton Engg. Ltd.,

Systems Analyst Apr 1984 to Sep 1988

Environment
Client : In-house Departments and Factories
Designation : System Analyst
Software used : Cobol on IBM 1401 and PDP 11/24, VAX 11/44
Team size : 43 members (8 Data Entry Operator 2 Data Entry Supervisors,
2 tape librarians, 4 console operators, 12 programmers,
2 System Analysts, 2 Project Managers, 10 I-O Assistant,
1 EDP Manager.

The on-going applications which were developed in-house were : Payroll, Financial accounting,
Bill of Material, Invoicing, Production Planning & Weekly Information Report (MIS) giving a
snapshot of the billing, purchases, production, finance figures were generated. I was
responsible for the system analysis and design, development and implementation of all the
applications.

The Significant achievement in Best & Crompton was conversion of the applications from IBM
1401 to PDP 11/24 hardware. This was done in a period of 1 year and the organization
witnessed a smooth transition
Organisation : Srivatsa Managtech Consultants
Period : April 1983 to March 1984
Designation Liaison programmer
Team Size : 3 members
Software : Hi-basic on DCM spectrum and Galaxy Series

Srivatsa Managtech Consultants is a small consulting firm and has around 25 clients in and
around Industrial Estate, Ambattur, chennai and catered to the needs of these clients in the
areas of Payroll, Invoicing, Financial accounting.

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Client : Indian Oxygen Limited, Electrode factory, Ambattur, Chennai

Indian oxygen limited is involved in manufacturing electrode at their factory located in

Ambattur, Chennai. The turnover of this organization is around 90 crores. Having an employee
base of around 500, they have computerized their payroll, bonus and PF accounting. The
system was developed in BASIC language and was completed in a period of 3 months.

Client : N.S. Krishna Rao Body works, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai
Team Size : 3 members
Software : Hi-Basic

Responsible for writing codes for given specifications, creation of test data, . Analyzed and
validated changes in business requirements and functional specification enhancement for some
of codes written.

Organisation : Bureau of Data Processing Systems

Period : July 1981 to March 1983
Designation Programmer
Team Size : 3 members
Software : Cobol, Basic on DCM Tandy, HCL 8C2

Writing programs for given specifications on customary applications of

customers for Payroll, financial accounting, invoicing. Debugging and
writing report programs.

Computer Skills
Languages : Visual Basic 5, PL/SQL, SQL, Cobol
Operating System : Windows NT, Novell, RSX11M, RSTS, Linux Enterprise Server
Databases: Oracle 9i, Oracle Applications DBA.
Analytical Tools: Excel, TOAD
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Passport Details : No. F 2892923

Place of Issue : Chennai
Validity : Valid till 2015

Education
• Masters in Commerce, University of Madras, Chennai, India.
• Post Diploma in Computer Management, Indian Institute of Computer Management, Ahmedabad,
India
• Completed PMP course from PMI

References available upon request.

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