Murali Govada

Eighteen (18) years of experience in application development, implementation, upgrading, testing, integration and full project life cycle deployment of enterprise-based applications. Fourteen (14) years of Maximo experience in Enterprise Asset Management. Experienced in installation, implementation, and configurations of Maximo 6.2, 7.1, 7.5, 7.6, MAS 8.11, MAS 9, MAS AI.

Experienced using the MIF to configure object structure, publish channel, enterprise service, external system, and web services. Expertise in planning and executing Maximo Installation of new releases, fix packs and hot fixes. Proficient in Maximo administration, application deployment and setting up clustered environments.

Expert in Maximo release management. Expert in WebSphere application server setting up the LDAP configuration and different configuration in the WebSphere. Expert in application support and resolving technical incidents.

Expert in Monitoring Maximo System performance, troubleshoot and resolve technical problems.

Experience in Maximo Transportation and Manufacturing domains. Experienced with Maximo table structures. Proficient in configuration of Maximo application using database configuration, application designer, and field validations.

Experienced using Maximo integration application (MIF) configuring object structure, publish channel, enterprise service, external system and webservices. Expertise in Asset, Item, Inventory, Purchase, Work Order, PM, Job Plans, and other functional Maximo Modules. Good functional expertise of Maximo application modules and business processes including Asset Management, Work Management, Preventive Maintenance, Materials Management, Service Management, Purchasing, and Contract Management.

Experience in migrating master data to include spare parts and inventory from an Access database to Maximo database 6.2. Expertise in migrating the mechanical and engineering asset data from traditional systems to Maximo 7.5. Ability to gather requirements for Storeroom Inventory Management to include gathering requirements for integrating tax calculations from Maximo to the vertex tax calculation system.

Expert in Business Object customization and customization of screens. Experienced in Maximo data Loading and migrating the data to Maximo.

Maximo Consultant - Maryland Department of Transportation Authority - MD

(2017-11)

• Worked on MAS AI Assistant in MAS9.1.
• Worked on Problem Code Recommendation AI Model in MAS9.1
• Worked on Duplicate Workorder Identifying AI Model in MAS9.1
• Making Configuration Changes for MAS AI Install and setup filters and rules for the AI Modles
• Upgrading from 8.11.7 to MAS 9.1
• Rebuilding the custom archive for MAS9.1 upgrade
• Ensuring the users are Synched from Manage to MAS in the upgrade of MAS9.1.
• Ensuring the integration are working fine post upgrade. Ensuring the automation script correction which was failing in the post upgrade issues for integrations
• Doing the MAS upgrade from Maximo 7.6
• During the MAS upgrade troubleshooting any performance issues during the load test and ensure smooth upgrade
• Setting up the OpenShift Clusters and upgrading the OpenShift cluster.
• Setting up MAS and Manage instance on the clusters.
• Ensuring the AD and SAML setup and ensuring the user synch to MAS.
• Update the MAS and Upgrade the MAS instances.
• Create security groups part of OpenShift and apply the roles and ensure the AD user synch to OpenShift
• Ensure integration seutp with the queue and jms pods and ensure configuration management.
• Ensure setup of SSL for MAS and manage.
• Setup DR clusters during the upgrade and setup the infrastructure for the mas upgrade
• Creating the integrations for the exchange of data between Maximo and Finance System through interface tables
• Creating the Object Structures, Publish Channel and Enterprise Services for the integration scenarios of Sync and Async calls.
• Creating the api call through rest between the integration system
• Creating the custom rules on the enterprise services in receiving the inbound messages.
• Creating the integration automation scripts for customization of the request and response
• Created the integration points and created custom objects based on the requirements.
• Creating all the security groups in Maximo 7.6 which are from 4.1 version
• Customize Maximo 7.6 according the requirements based on JIRA for the MDTA process.
• Writing the automation script and ensuring the customization of Maximo based on business needs
• Worked on doclinks setup and infrastructure setup like JMS queues within the WebSphere.
• Created escalation and make screen modifications and domains creations in supporting the enhancements for Maximo
• Setup the start centers for Maximo and ensure the proper security groups are assigned
• Customization of the workflow of purchasing to incorporate changes required after go-live
• Worked on the dataload off Maximo assets and assetspec and ensured they are in prod.
• Correct the meterreading data of the assets after post migration to 7.6
• Fix the bugs during the go-live of Maximo7.6
• Ensured the maximo environment is setup for dev, qa, prod and training for 7.6
• Work with the integration issues of maximo with SL and ensured the error messages are being processed correctly and the invoices are created in maximo from SL.
• Participated in the Disaster recovery before the Maximo 7.6 go live
• Post go-live fixed any issues which came up in production and fixed the service request which can lead to data correction or enhancements within maximo.
• Created the scripts for data load migrations.
• During auditing of maximo provided the data required for the auditors and provided the required details requested
• Fixing the production issues by troubleshooting them through logs and ensuring resolution being provided
• Creating cases with IBM to ensure the bugs being found within the maximo 7.6 version ensuring the resolution of those cases by coordinating with IBM
• Participate in the weekly meeting calls with IBM and ensure the resolution of the cases created with IBM
• Applying the maximo patches to the development environment and participate in testing those patches as well.
• Make the configuration changes to Maximo and move them to prod as well.
• Ensure after system team apply patches the maximo is up and running fine without any issue
• Analyze the production issues and provide the solutions and write scripts for the data corrections
• Resolve the production integration issues by monitoring the JVMS and ensuring the system is up all-time.
• Created the documentation such as sync test from prod and other related documents which can help the day to day maximo administration support documents.
• Create change request for Maximo releases and ensure the releases following the change control structures
• Add new relationships within database configuration and support the custom requirements.
• Setup the OpenShift Cluster and Upgrade the Openshift Cluster.
• Setup the MAS and Manage instances and Upgrade Maximo from 7.6 to MAS.
• Setup SAML through user sync to MAS.
• Troubleshoot performance issues through the upgrade and managing the openshfit cluster.
• Ensure MAS and Manage Updates.
• Managing the infrastructure for MAS
• Adding new JVMS within WebSphere and creating the queues and ensuring all the clusters are setup properly

Maximo Consultant - New York City Housing Authority

(2015-10 - 2017-11)

• Customizing the Work Order application based on the business needs of the Housing Authority.
• Upgrading the Maximo environment for 7.5 to 7.6
• Maintaining the Maximo Training, QA, Staging and Prod environments.
• Pushing the code changes to different environments
• Creating the Maximo user records, labor and person record and associate the security groups to them.
• Creating the different domains and setting up the classification for the failure class and problem code.
• Setting up the Asset classification and Location classifications.
• Promote the Maximo changes to different environments and resolve any environment issues during QA, Training or UAT and during the PROD releases.
• Creating the security groups and associating to the user groups.
• Provide user access to Maximo System by adding to the correct Active Directory group.
• Write custom queries and custom scripts which help to automate the process and provide custom data to the users.
• Deploy the BIRT reports to prod and assist in any performance and troubleshooting the issues.
• Setting up the cron task and managing the Maximo infrastructure
• Day to day administration of Application server by monitoring the jvms and utilization of CPU by Maximo.
• Provide training based on the needs of the business.
• Writing field validation classes and creating CRON tasks in support of the business processes.
• Writing bean classes in support of UI enhancement changes.
• Writing custom Maximo Business Object (MBO) classes to support the work management and asset management.
• Customizing the MBOs and writing queries as needed during development.
• Scheduling inspections and unscheduling them based on custom rules.
• Perform configuration changes associated to the requirements.
• Loading Assets and Locations data into Maximo along with failure class data.
• Involved in the User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Developing test scripts required for testing during task development.
• Work in multi-site environment with boroughs segregate

Master's Degree - Computer Application - Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) (2006-04)