PRABHU KRISHNAN Contact +91- 9867609663 e-mail:prabhu_lk@yahoo.

com Professional Summary Over 12+ years of IT experience entirely in Java/J2EE technologies and extensively in the field of banking and financial services (Retail, Corporate and Islamic Banking domain). Currently working as a Sr. Technical Architect at 3i Infotech Ltd. (formerly ICICI Infotech Ltd.), Mumbai, India. Highly motivated to find better ways of doing things with excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Extensive experience in the software design and development lifecycle. Well versed in onsite-offshore development model. Experience in handling several projects concurrently with multi-discipline, multi-cultural teams across the organization. Strong ability to adapt to new environments and grasp technologies at a quick pace. Product Development, Customization and Implementation Revamped the entire Kastle Suite of Products from model-1 architecture to model-2 Re-architected the Kastle collection system to cater to advanced and emerging markets Re-architected the configuration module for the Kastle Suite Designed and developed a rule-based configurable notification engine Led a team to design and develop: a. Standardized interfaces b. Corporate Lending solution c. Islamic Lending solution Plan & manage major Product Release and Upgrades Formulate product enhancement and technology roadmap Actively involved in various technology initiatives (SOA, BPM and Business Rule Engines) feasibility studies and POCs to give a technical edge to the product for wider acceptability and marketability Key Productivity/Technology Improvisation ( 3i Infotech- Product Engineering Group ) Designed & developed a Declarative Object Relational Mapping programming model to minimize the customization and development efforts. This model is getting used across all the KastleTM suite of products, which results in effort reduction of 4045% in every customization. Designed and led a team to develop a Multilingual utility to enable KastleTM Universal Lending product to support and work-with more than 50+ languages, thereby reducing product localization effort by 95%. Designed & developed a full-fledged metadata-driven Screen Generator which reduces the customization effort to a great extent. Designed and developed utilities to interface with CCRIS (Credit Bureau, Malaysia) and CTOS (Fraud Database, Malaysia) systems. Designed and led a team to develop a fully configurable Data Upload/Synchronizer to extract/upload data from various sources. It serves as a core component for data migration process in every implementation and reduces the effort substantially. Designed and developed a database patch generation utility to streamline patches. Spearheaded the initiative to migrate the entire WebSphere-based development platform of KastleTM Universal Lending to open source Eclipse platform. Led the team to port the KastleTM Universal Lending to an application server-agnostic system. Guided the development team to adopt various tools and best practices to improve system performance. Reduced the customization timeframe by implementing various tools and technologies in all phases of software development life cycle. Led the initiative to re-architect the KastleTM Universal Lending with SOA architecture, and successfully completed a POC to replace the legacy Workflow engine and Rule Engine with a standard based BPEL and Oracle Rule Engine

respectively. Led the team and successfully completed a POC with JBoss stack of products - Seam, Richfaces, JBPM, Drools, jPDL and BPMN to achieve technical edge to the product for wider acceptability and marketability.

Area of expertise Experienced in administration of WebSphere cluster environment. Experienced in development, deployment and administration of WebSphere Application Server, WebLogic, JBoss and Tomcat. Extensive knowledge in Java, J2EE/JEE and development with IDE tools such as Eclipse, WSAD 5, RAD 6, IBM MQ server Project & Team Management Successfully delivered multiple enterprise level projects on time, within budget, with highest quality, and high level of customer satisfaction Develop expertise in the team to take on future challenges & undertake mentoring responsibilities Managed a team of 15-20 members for various projects Used MS-Projects /OpenProject for project management and tracking. Mentoring, training & developing the team members to ensure the high operational efficiency and the product knowledge Presales & Sales Support Closely worked with the presales and delivery team to address various functional and technical issues. Provides technical inputs for RFPs of various prospects. Recruitment & Resourcing Managing recruitment life-cycle for sourcing the best talent from diverse sources. Screening/Interviewing applicants against job specifications. Undertaking training & development initiatives for improved productivity, building people capability and quality enhancement.

Technical Skills JAVA/J2EE Technologies Web frameworks Other Tec. Component framework Middleware Web/Application Servers Languages Modeling Tools & Languages IDEs RDBMS Tools Reporting Tools Educational Qualification Bachelor of Engineering ( Computer Science & Engineering ) Work Experience Organization 3i Infotech Ltd, Mumbai, India ICICI Infotech Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Essar Infotech Ltd , Mumbai, India Role Sr. Technical Architect Sr. Software Engineer Software Engineer Duration Sep 2007-Present Jul 2004-Aug 2007 Nov 2003-Jul 2004 AWT, Swing, Applets, Socket Programming, Threads, JDBC, JSP, Servlet, EJB, JTA Velocity, Html, CSS, JQuery, DOM, SAX, Struts, Seam, Spring Ext-GWT, Richfaces Hibernate/JPA, Web Services, JMS, IBM MQ, WebLogic MQ, WebSphere ESB, Oracle Rules, Oracle BPEL. Oracle SOA stack, JBPM, jPDL, Drools, Axis IIS, IBM Http server, Tomcat, JRun, JBoss ,Oracle Application Java, C, C++ and PL/SQL UML, Argo UML, Rational Software Architect Forte, NetBeans, Struts Studio, Eclipse, WebSphere Application Developer, IBM Rational Application Developer Oracle, MySql, Toad and PL/SQL Developer Crystal Report, Jasper, BIRT, Oracle BI, ETL

COMMIT, Mumbai, India Pixel Software Consultant, Mumbai, India

Software Engineer Java Developer

Jan 2001-Oct 2003 Jun 1999-Dec 2000

1) 3i Infotech Ltd - Technical Manger / Architect

July 2004 Present

KastleTM Universal Lending- Customization & Implementation KastleTM is a suite of financial application developed to meet the requirements of banking and non-banking financial institutions to cater the lending process end-to-end. The implementation of KastleTM is to build an integrated operating environment and platform that is easy to manage and scalable that covers from the point of origination to collection and all processes thereafter, to meet the clients current and future business growth. Platform - J2EE, Struts, JMS, ESB, Web Services, WebSphere v6.1/7.0,WebLogic,Oracle 11g Key Clients: Standard Chartered Bank - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia HSBC -Dubai Wesleyan Bank - Birmingham, UK Deutsche Bank - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia SAMBA Bank- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi Investment Bank- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Bank Muamalat- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ECO Bank- Accra, Ghana Bank Turan Alem- Almaty, Kazakhstan KazInvest Bank- Almaty, Kazakhstan Responsibility: Handling customization for client deliveries and also responsible for technical architecture of the product Involved in sales handover, finalizing the scope and objective with delivery team Provide technical direction for development, design and systems integration Act as a single point of contact for all technical queries Coordinate with client for interface specification and methodology finalization Coordinate with the functional experts and recommend the best possible way to map the client requirements into the base product without altering the core Project coordination with Offshore and Onsite team Ensures team is motivated and succession plan for critical roles Constantly evaluates various clients requirements across projects and recommends key items for product development roadmap Code review and end-to-end delivery responsibility

KastleTM Universal Lending- Product Development The Kastle Universal Lending System is the flagship product of the KastleTM product suite. To cater the growing demands of the emerging market and business practices, the below mentioned modules were enhanced/revamped/developed. Application Server / Browser independent application Interface Standardization with Axis and IBM MQ GUI and Navigation enhancements with Inbox approach Risk based pricing, Behavioral scoring with Champion and Challenger strategy Repayment schedule enhancements (Balloon, bullet, etc.)
TM

Responsibilities: Analysis and Design Code review and end-to-end delivery responsibility Provides technical direction for development, design and systems integration Coordination with Product Delivery Group

2) Essar Infotech Limited Project Lead

Nov 2003 Jul 2004

Sales & Stock Information System (SSIS) Web-based system developed to cater to their day to day requirements and to streamline the Supply & Distribution and Sales & Marketing business activities. It comprises Sales Transportation, Stock Management, Accounting, Rights Management, Data Synchronization, eProcurement and Report Generation modules. The system provides online registration and full-fledged system for the franchise to maintain online all of its correspondence and communication with main branch. Platform - Java, JSP, Tomcat, Oracle Client - Essar Oil Ltd , Mumbai, India Responsibilities: Requirement gathering and client interaction Involved in rights and data synchronization modules Code review and integration testing 3) COMMIT Project Lead Jan 2001 Oct 2003

Diamondstar Networking System - The system takes care of Online HelpDesk requirement of Diamondstar Group. It links all the units which are geographically separated and synchronizes the units in terms of communication Information exchange, DiamondstarB2B, Cash management and administration. It also provides additional facilities such as Knowledge Management (KM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Interoffice communication and Email Queries & Responder System. Platform - Java, JSP, Servlet, Tomcat, Oracle Client - Diamondstar Exports Limited, Mumbai, India Responsibilities: Requirement gathering and analysis & design Involved in Email Queries & Response Management customization, Report Builder, and Asset Tracking modules Code review and integration testing 4) Pixel Software Consultant Java Developer

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June 1999 Dec 2000

Bulk e-Mailer - Developed a system to provide complete e-mail solution with the minimal usage of internet connectivity. The system has a facility to send personalized group mails that could be used as a powerful marketing tool to reach out to the customers and business partners by sending personalized mails. Platform - Java, Swing, Thread, Java Mail, Socket Programming, JSP, Servlet, Java Web, Server, Oracle, SMTP , POP3 and IMAP protocols Responsibilities: Involved in development of auto dialer module GUI design & Development of SMTP,POP3 servers and Notification module Unit testing and code review