Pradeepkumar Periyasamy

Motivated IT Manager and Surveillance Expert with over 15+ years of extensive experience in application and product development, maintenance, and support across the IT industry and surveillance sectors. A multi-skilled professional with strong supervisory capabilities and technical proficiency, adept at handling multiple responsibilities while delivering effective problem-solving and conflict resolution. Quick to learn and master new technologies and concepts, with a passion for extracting insights from complex data sets to identify meaningful trends and patterns.

Demonstrated ability to lead teams, foster collaboration, and align technical initiatives with business goals—driving cost reduction, increased productivity, and enhanced organizational performance. Possesses excellent interpersonal skills to build strong working relationships with clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. Committed to continuous improvement and the development of innovative strategies to optimize business outcomes.

IT & Surveillance Specialist at Kagem Mining Limited (2019-07 – Present)

General Contractor role involving Security Intelligence, Mining Operations, Data Management, and Drone Operations

• Review diagnostics and assess the functionality and efficiency of systems.
• Reviewed system diagnostics and assessed the functionality, performance, reliability, and efficiency of technical systems.
• Managed the collection, processing, storage, and safeguarding of client data in accordance with established security and confidentiality procedures.
• Coordinated with local security personnel and Investigation team to provide relevant intelligence regarding suspects, including their behaviour, appearance, movements, and whereabouts.
• Conducted discreet surveillance and monitored individuals in various locations to identify suspicious, unusual, or potentially criminal behaviour.
• Tracked and monitored suspicious individuals as they moved through streets, and other operational environments while maintaining situational awareness.
• Operated and continuously monitored CCTV systems and surveillance cameras from the Control Centre in accordance with standard operating procedures, legal requirements, and industry best practices.
• Identified security vulnerabilities and potential risks within the mine site and promptly reported findings to the Security Systems Superintendent.
• Provided comprehensive surveillance and security-monitoring support across the mine site.
• Managed and supported technology services to ensure they met operational requirements within designated areas of the mine.
• Performed system troubleshooting, monitoring, maintenance, and technical support to ensure continuity and reliability of critical systems.
• Maintained accurate operational, surveillance, technical, and incident records and prepared reports when required.

Drone Pilot at Kagem Mining Limited (2020-11 – 2021-11)

Licensed Drone Pilot, LICENCE NO. 3922

• Served as a licensed Drone Pilot, performing professional drone-piloting duties from November 2020 to November 2021.
• Planned and conducted drone operations for aerial surveillance, monitoring, mapping, inspection, photography, and data collection.
• Processed and organised aerial data and provided relevant information to security and operational teams to support decision-making.

IT Manager at Brook Besor University Lusaka (2018-06 – 2019-06)

• Engaged in developing, planning, and implementing advanced communication systems for use both within the university and by the students.
• To effectively manage the staff responsible for the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the whole university's ICT systems
• engaged in the efficient and effective development of university communication systems.
• Extensive working knowledge of: Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, Microsoft 2000, 2003, and 2007, wired and wireless networking skills, desktop and server hardware, antivirus, and Oracle SQL
• preparation of design proposals and development of the software whenever the university needs it.

Senior Software Engineer at Accenture Solutions Private Limited (2014-05 – 2018-01)

• Ensure the production problems are resolved within the SLA time.
• written various shell scripts to fetch data from different sources and load them into HDFS for processing.
• Run the Spark job to ingest the video sources and process those metadata into the analytic layer by writing the business rules.
• Good work experience in Big Data Technologies
• Involved in importing data from stage to a raw table using Sqoop.
• Good work experience in Oozie to build complex data transformations out of multiple component tasks.
• Involved in displaying product details as per requirements and importing product/sku assets into BCC.
• Involved in ATG integration and converting Rest to Soap.
• I made sure I was always a key contributor to the team, lowering costs, raising turnover, raising output, and raising the effectiveness of the business.

ATG and Java Developer at Majoris Corp (2010-11 – 2014-05)

• worked on the shopping cart to display the product details page as needed.
• Involved in displaying the cart page as per requirements customized profile form handler to do some form validations
• Involved in Third party Integration checkout integration like PayPal worked on the creation of nucleus components and form handlers.
• Taking the requirements from the client for any kind of change request that comes from the client and implementing them within the time line.
• Involved in implementing necessary ATG Nucleus components, Form Handlers, Servlet Beans.
• Developing applications using Java and J2EE technologies
• Interact with the database from the Java environment to get data.

Bachelor of Engineering in ECE – Anna University (2009)