Rakesh Asthana

Versatile professional (Certified Scrum Master) and MCA qualified with Above 16 years of experience in IT industry including above 6 years of experience in, Project Planning and Execution, Resource Planning, Cost management, Project Schedule Management, Client Relationship Management, Team Management, Evangelist of agile/scrum principles, Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks.

Senior Solutions Architect: Delivering enterprise level global solutions across the organization in Project management, service management and technology.

• Develop customized applications, systems and infrastructure to support internal and client-initiated software development projects
• Manage proof-of-concept procedures from initial planning through final execution
• Communicate technical concepts and solutions clearly to managers, executives and clients
• Maintain current knowledge of innovations and advancements in relevant industries and technologies to provide well-researched and effective solutions to clients
• Have extensive experience in solving complex technical problem, Team Building and Client Interfacing. Creative, result driven technology leader with above 15 years of experience of global experience in managing the technology operations with a successful trach record of delivering on/before time and within budget.
• Skilled in grasping a big picture, conceptualizing, developing, implementing solutions and partnering closely with business leaders, various stake holders and senior level executives.
•  Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to relate to people at any level of business, possess cultural awareness and sensitivity with a mature thinking, strategic business approach 
• Have been involved in wide spectrum of responsibilities like managing deliveries ,overall development of a strategic project as well as maintenance projects, project initiation, project team structuring, project planning, team management, coordination with clients, onsite-offshore coordination, metrics collection, status reporting, quality and security audits, configuration management, delivery process improvements, recruitments, resource billing, certification drives, planning knowledge transition, requirement specifications review, estimation, test strategizing, test planning, testing templates preparation and etc…
• Process knowledge in all aspects of SDLC involving requirement gathering, estimation, business process mapping, planning and execution. Knowledge & experience on FP estimation for enhancement projects.
• Have good working experience in multi-Functional domains like Banking, Insurance, Supply Chain Management and Debt collection
• Have Experience in Database Design, Implementation, Data Mapping, Extraction and Data Migration 
• Good Team Leading and Project leading experience. Have experience in Operational and Support Projects.

AS/400 (IBM i Series)

• IBM Certified Specialist -- eServer i5 iSeries RPG ILE Programmer from IBM certification 
• Programming Language: RPG400, RPGILE, CL, CLLE, Free Format RPG, Stored Procedure and SQL
• Experience on SDA, RLU, DFU, PDM, Query/400, SQL/400, , RTC, X-Analyses, MQ series, Connect Direct
• RDBMS/DBMS: DB2/400, DB2 for i
• Certified by Retail Banking Awareness and Terminology
• IBM-HATS (Host Access Transformation Services), JACADA(JIS)
• Hawkeye, Implementer, Turnover, Aldon, Service Now

Education

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.)

 Certification

• Certified by Retail Banking Awareness and Terminology (etc.). 
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM).