RAHUL SAXENA

Contact Details:

Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +919850904019

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OBJECTIVE A role that involves hands-on experience in supervising, planning, managing one or more
multifaceted IT projects and which also gives ability to learn new technologies and practices and
build resources..

SUMMARY Worked as Program/Project manager, with more than 20 years of progressive and real world IT
experience. Key responsibilities include project planning, execution, monitoring and resource
management. Ability to manage multiple projects in a matrix organizational structure for various
clients in countries including India, USA, UK, Middle-East and South-East Asia.
Expertise in architecting, designing, developing and maintaining enterprise level Java/J2EE
applications, integrating Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Oracle CRM on Demand, Sales
Force with legacy applications using middle-wares like Oracle SOA, IBM Cast Iron, Jitterbit,
customizing E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Oracle CRM on Demand, Sales Force.

PROFESSIONA Communication and Goal Setting

L Interacting with the client to understand their requirements, perform AS-IS analysis and provide
HIGHLIGHTS TO-BE solutions
Maximize productivity by setting clear expectations and proactively communicating project
status, issues and risks to client, internal stakeholders and top management.
Draft and distribute project objectives and tasks to the solutions team.
Negotiate successfully with clients, staff and outside vendors.
Provide a clear vision by linking projects to the company’s objectives and results.
Project Delivery
Direct and oversee multiple team leads on complex projects.
Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk
and resources.
Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.
Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and
forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.
Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups
and/or projects.
Conduct planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an effective transition into
production.
Collaborate with finance team to determine impact and implications of various options and
recommend the best course for project delivery
Leadership
Work with project team and key stakeholders to devise best practices and continuous
improvement of project delivery across the enterprise
Train, mentor and motivate team members.
Escalate issues and concerns appropriately.
Perform appraisals and offer input and feedback on growth and development opportunities to
team members

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SKILLS

Operating
Windows, Linux, Unix
Systems
Languages COBOL, Java, J2EE, XML, HTML, Visual Basic, ASP

PeopleSoft PeopleTools 7.5/8/9 (Technical), Oracle CRM on Demand,

ERP/CRM/Cloud
Salesforce, Force.com
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Web Services, Oracle SOA Suite, Peoplesoft Integration Broker, Oracle

Middleware Service Bus(Aqualogic), Oracle Data Integrator, Business Activity
Monitoring, Oracle AQ, JMS

Web / Application Oracle WebLogic, Oracle 9iAS/10gAS, IBM WebSphere, IIS, JBoss,
Servers Tomcat

XML Technologies XML, XSD, XSL, XPath, XQuery, Oracle XDB, XML DB, Tamino
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Databases Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, DB2

Reporting Tools Crystal Reports, XML Publisher

Project
MS Project, IMS
Management

Frameworks Oracle ADF, JSF, Struts

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY  Lexicon Networks: 2012 onwards

 Infogain Systems: 2007 – 2012
 Software AG India (joint venture between iGate and
Software AG): 2004 – 2007
 Spider Systems (iGate Corp): 2001 – 2004
 Jobcurry Systems (iGate Corp): 2000 - 2001
 Mascot Systems (now iGate): 1997 – 2000
 First Computers: 1993 – 1997
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Period: Nov 2012 – Till date

Company: Lexicon India
Role: Principal Consultant – Professional Services

Project Summary:

As professional services head lead and manage a team of technical resources. Guide the team in developing PoCs, projects.
Interact with clients, understand requirements, and resolve issues.

Responsibilities:
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 Build a team of technical resources

 Build skills for Java, J2EE, IBM Cast Iron and Sales Force.
 Provide technical support to the Sales Team as part of pre-sales

Environment: Java, J2EE, IBM Cast Iron, Web Services, XML, XSD, Sales Force

Employer : Infogain Systems Role : Project Manager

Period: Feb 2011– Oct 2012

Client: IBM/Vodafone, Pune

Project Summary:
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Build skills and develop resources for Oracle AQ, PL/SQL. Lead a team of 15 developers in migrating integrations
between Oracle EBS and legacy payment system to Amdocs for a leading telecom company.

Responsibilities:
 Build a team of resources and develop their skills
 Takeover knowledge from existing vendor of existing infra-structure and implementation
 Interact with Client representatives to understand their requirements
 Prepare project related documents like project plan, resource plan, costing sheet
 Monitor the project progress and escalate any issues and resolve them in timely manner
 Manage and lead the team and help resolve any issues

Environment: Oracle EBS, PL/SQL, Oracle AQ, J2EE

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ADD REGUS

Period: Nov 2010 – Jan 2011

Client: Arriva, UK

Project Summary
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The project involved helping a UK client in re-architecting their existing CRM on Demand and integrating with their
existing mobile services and legacy systems

Responsibilities:
 Interact with the client to understand their requirements, resolve issues
 Lead a team of 5 resources
 Design, Customize and Develop web services
 Develop clients for the web services
 Facilitate integration with other applications like mobile services.

Environment: Oracle CRM on Demand, J2EE, Web Services, XML, XSLT, XSD

Period: Oct 2010 – Dec 2011

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Client: Paypoint.Net, UK

Project Summary
Implementation of XML interface to Accpac Billing data to enable reporting via CRMOD.
Development of an integration broker that will transform and import prospect, merchant, and ticketing data into
CRM On Demand or export data out of CRM On Demand. Identify the appropriate CRM On Demand Web
Services that will map to these data integration points during the requirements workshops. These CRM On
Demand web services were setup as a part of the configuration.

Responsibilities:
 Involved in the discussion phase to understand the requirements, provide solutions with pros and cons,
document project artifacts, resolve issues
 Lead a team of 5 resources
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 Design, Customize and Develop web services and middle ware integration broker

Environment: Oracle CRM on Demand, J2EE, Web Services, XML, XSLT, XSD

Period: May 2010 – Oct 2010

Client: NetSuite, US

Project Summary :
Build skills and develop resources for Oracle Siebel and Oracle CRM on Demand capabilities for implementation,
customization, data migration and integration with retail and iPhone solutions.

Responsibilities:
Install and maintain Oracle Siebel Loyalty
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Design, Customize and Develop web services, stateless and stateful, in Siebel and CRM on Demand
Develop clients for the web services
Facilitate integration with other applications like iPhone, Retail etc.

Environment: Oracle Siebel, Oracle CRM on Demand, Oracle Siebel tools, Windows 2003, OEL, JDeveloper,
Apache Axis

Period: Sept 2009 – May 2010

Client: ZITG, India

Project Summary :
Architect, design and provide solution for developing web-based rich client information and document
management system.
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Responsibilities:
Design architecture for implementing Oracle ADF based DMS
Design and Develop web services for Server Agent and Client Agents

Environment: Oracle ADF 11g, Oracle Weblogic Server, Oracle Database 10g, Windows 2003
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Period: Nov 2009 – Mar 2010

Client: Portico, India

Project Summary :
Analysis and Design for iStore customizations and integration with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i GL.
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Responsibilities:
Analyze the customer requirements for custom JSP pages as per iStore framework for Order Booking, Order
Amendment and Order Status
Design integration processes between iStore and GL

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10, JSP, Linux, Oracle Database 9i

ADD VMWare, US

Period: Mar 2009 – May 2009

Client: NetApps, USA
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Project Summary :
Develop and demonstrate as proof-of-concept integration of Siebel 8 with E-Business Suite 12i using Oracle AIA
framework – Foundation Pack 2.2.1.

Responsibilities:
Setting up the infra-structure required
Creating required EBOs, EBMs, ABCS
Incorporate AIA framework’s error handling and logging

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite 12i, Siebel, Oracle AIA, Oracle SOA Suite (BPEL, ESB), Oracle 10g DB

Period: Apr 2009 – Nov 2009

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Client: ZipZoomFly, USA

Project Summary :
Design, develop and customize iStore 12i for migration of existing ZZF online site from custom J2EE
application to Oracle E-Business Suite 12i

Responsibilities:
Customize existing iStore pages as per Clients UI standards and functional requirements
Integrate iStore with external payment gateways like PayPal etc.
Integrate iStore with external services like Amazon

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite 12i, JSP, Java Beans, Oracle Database 10g, Linux
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Period: Jul 2008 – Jan 2009

Client: Home Care, India

Project Summary :

Responsibilities:
Responsible for designing and implementing 2-way integration between Oracle Retail 12 and Oracle Financials 12i,
with/without using Oracle SOA Suite 10g .
Designing the architecture for integration points between Oracle Retail and Oracle Financials
Data conversion from current system to Oracle Financials (General Ledger Chart of Account, supplier, currency rates,
freight and payment terms)
Integrations included:
 GL foundation data – Suppliers, Currencies, Freight terms etc. to RMS
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 RMS Stock Ledger data with GL

 ReSA totals to AR
 ReIM posting to GL and AP

Implementing BPEL fault policies, custom exception handling and setting up BPEL failover cluster are also in the
scope of the project.

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite 12i, Oracle Retail, Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.3, Oracle Applications Server
10.1.3, Oracle Database 10g, Windows 2003, Sun Solaris 10

Period: June 2008 – Sept 2008

Client: Consumer Goods Company, USA
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Project Summary :

Responsibilities:
This project involved designing and developing BPEL Processes to extract data from Oracle E-Business Suite Order
Management module and provide the data to custom customer support portal.
Custom PL/SQL APIs exposed from Oracle E-Business Suite were executed from BPEL and their output was
rendered to custom J2EE support portal.

Environment: Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.3, Oracle Database 10g, Windows 2003,
Linux
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Period: Jan 2008 – May 2008

Client: Middle-East University

Project Summary :
Design and develop interfaces for integration between Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Financials and Peoplesoft
Campus Solution using Oracle SOA 10.1.3.1

Responsibilities:
Design and develop BPEL processes for updating Oracle Apps Financials with student fees/advances paid by
students, salaries of employees and other financial transactions in Peoplesoft CS
Design and develop ESBs mostly to implement Façade pattern
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Environment: Oracle Apps 11i, Peoplesoft, Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.1, Oracle Database 10g, Windows 2003,
Sun Solaris

ADD BAX, Singapore / PTP Malaysia

ADD Web based Linux management console

Period: Jul 2007 – Dec 2008

Client: Global manufacturer and marketer, USA
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Project Summary :

Responsibilities:
This project involved routing data exported from Manugistics to Oracle database. BPEL processes were developed to
read files generated by Manugistics, transform them and load them into Oracle database.
The tasks also included performing data validations and fault management before it is stored in the database

Environment: Oracle BPEL Process Manager 10.1.2, Oracle Database, Perl, Linux

Period: Sept 2007 – Feb 2008

Client: An Asia-Pacific University
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Project Summary :

Responsibilities:
As a PeopleSoft consultant, responsible for providing consultancy and solutions for the following:
Implementation architecture and sizing
LDAP Authentication (Active Directory) with PeopleSoft People Tools
Integration between Peoplesoft and custom Java application using Integration Broker 8.48
Data conversion
Conducting workshops on using the various reporting tools and integration tools

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 9, People Tools 8.48, Application Designer, Oracle 10g, Windows 2003
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Period:
Client: Middle East Govt. Organization

Project Summary :

Responsibilities:
As Program/Project Manager was responsible for developing new reports in Oracle Apps using XML Publisher and
migrating Oracle reports to XML Publisher.

Environment: Oracle Apps 11i, XML Publisher, MS-Word, Linux

Employer : Software AG India Role: Project Manager / Manager–Professional Services

Period :
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Client: Middle East

Project Summary :

Responsibilities:
As Program/Project Manager was responsible for developing Proof-of-Concept for integrating legacy applications with
Oracle Apps 11i using SoftwareAG product ApplinX

Environment: Oracle Apps 11i, ApplinX, Web Services, Oracle

Period :
Client: SoftwareAG, USA
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Project Summary :

Responsibilities:
As Program/Project Manager was responsible for leading a team of around 10 developers and 1 team leader for
architecting, designing, developing and implementing web-based assessment system for Software AG’s Corporate
University.

Environment: Linux, MySQL, J2EE, JSF, MyFaces, Eclipse

Period ;
Client: Morgan Stanley, USA
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Project Summary :

Responsibilities:
As Program/Project Manager was responsible for leading a team of around 20 developers and 2 team leaders for
modernizing Morgan Stanley’s legacy applications and developing web services for integration between legacy
applications and .NET applications

Environment: IBM Mainframe, ApplinX, MS SQL Server, Apache AXIS, JSP, Eclipse

Period :
Client: FARETS, USA
Role: Program/Project Manager
Responsibilities:
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As Program/Project Manager was responsible for leading a team of around 10 developers and 2 team leaders for
modernizing and web enabling FARETS legacy applications.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, ApplinX, Oracle, Apache AXIS, JSP, Eclipse

OTHER MAJOR PROJECTS:

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Project Name Client Description Environment

Customizations and
PeopleSoft HRMS iGate, USA PeopleSoft 8, Unix, SQR, AE
Reports generations
Oracle Applications 11i Create OA Framework Oracle Applications 11i, OA
Blue Star
Extension extension Framework, Unix, JSP

LIMS Software AG, USA Porting project Apache FOP, Unix, Java
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Product Information Application

Home Depot, USA J2EE, Hibernate, CAI
Manager development
J2EE Struts, Web Services,
Application
XML Gateway Software AG ,US SOAP, UDDI, Tamino &
development
Mediator

Annual Member Application EntireX Mediator, Tamino,

CalPERS, US
Statements System Development XPath, XSLT & FOP

Application
e-Services GETS, USA J2EE, Oracle, WebLogic
Development
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Application
eDrawing GETS, USA J2EE, Oracle, WebLogic
Development

FAM GETS, USA Maintenance J2EE, Oracle, WebLogic

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