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Harinath Rajagopal

Chennai

Summary

Harinath has over 17 years of experience in IT Service Consulting, Solution Architecture, Mainframe Modernization, and Agile Delivery. He has successfully supported clients across various industries and locations, leading complex projects and ensuring high-quality solutions. His expertise in mainframe modernization and Agile methodologies has enhanced operational efficiency and client satisfaction. Proven expertise in Agile and Waterfall methodologies, stakeholder communication, risk mitigation, and resource optimization. Seeking leverage leadership and strategic planning skills to contribute to high-impact projects in a dynamic organization.

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Work History

Solution Architect

US Bank
  • Used APIs to integrate C2A transfer capabilities with their existing systems. This allows for seamless communication between card networks and bank accounts
  • Responsible for application maintenance and development for new Credit card systems
  • Integration with digital wallets enhances the user experience by providing a convenient way to manage and transfer funds
  • By leveraging GitHub and Jenkins, we achieved greater agility, efficiency, and collaboration, and collected Usage, Performance and Health metrics.
  • Used GitHub Copilot in creating CI/CD pipelines, refactoring COBOL code, and generating documentation on complex COBOL routines.
  • Reduced deployment times by 50% and improving productivity by 20%
  • Developed and maintained detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets using MS Project and JIRA.
  • Implemented Agile and Scrum methodologies, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Senior Technical Consultant

Alight Solutions
  • Analyzed requirements, coded, unit tested and documented for various human capital solutions
  • Created Date flow diagrams, low-level design documents, and performed code changes in SAS and JCL.
  • Lead software projects, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery
  • Developed innovative solutions to complex problems, improving system functionality and user satisfaction
  • Worked on migrating from CA Endevor to a modern SCM system enhanced the Scalability, Flexibility, Better Traceability, agility and more efficient use of resources, leading to cost savings.
  • Improved job completion times by 20%via code refactoring and tuning
  • Reduced security incidents by 30%through proactive monitoring and alerts
  • Led cross-functional teams of 10–15 members to deliver IT infrastructure and software development projects
  • Managed stakeholder expectations through regular reporting, dashboards, and executive presentations.
  • Identified and mitigated project risks, reducing delivery delays by 25%.

Lead Software Engineer

Payless Shoesource
  • Providing overall leadership to the entire project team including managing deliveries of other functional team leaders in an effective manner
  • Creating and managing the estimates, project plan, project schedule, resource allocation and expense to ensure that targets were reached.
  • Following the project life cycle methodology like Agile and Waterfall, defined under the process framework, ensured that customer deadlines were met within project budgets.
  • Optimized DB2 by using EXPLAIN Statement and IBM OMEGAMON tool for query tuning and performance optimization which added value to $1MIillon USD.
  • Ensured compliance with ISO and client-specific quality standards, achieving 98% client satisfaction scores.

Associate Software Engineer

Walmart
  • Mentoring and coaching the project team in different areas; planned and integrated the work of multiple teams on a project; provided input on team performance and reward.
  • Tracked the usage of system resources such as CPU, memory, and I/O rates by tool Resource Measurement Facility (RMF). Improved resource utilization by 10% increase in efficiency.
  • Worked on various business proposals for the team which includes technical advancements, cost effectiveness, better business process and participated in plan watch activity – which is an implementation control initiative for smooth install across the organization
  • Participated in application testing and debugging, achieving a 98% defect-free rate in production environments

Senior Programmer Analyst

Metlife
  • Learnt the system very fast and was able to work on many change requests and has always worked to deliver the request before the deadline and with the best quality.
  • Fixes any bugs reported during the production batch runs and make the batch trail more effective and economical.
  • Worked closely with clients to establish specifications and system designs.
  • Optimized existing code, reducing processing time by 25%in critical batch jobs

Education

B.Tech - Information Technology

PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, India
04-2006

Skills

  • COBOL, SAS, JAVA, PYTHON
  • DATACOM, IMS, DB2, PL/SQL
  • CICS, VSAM, JCL
  • Power BI, Tableau, MS Office Suite
  • File Aid, XPEDITOR, SCM, ChangeMan, Librarian, CA7, UC4, IDz
  • Gen AI, Blue Age, IBM Watsonx
  • Project Planning, Budgeting, Risk Management
  • Stakeholder and Change management
  • JIRA, ServiceNow, Bit Bucket, GitHub, Jenkins, Confluence
  • AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud fundamentals
  • Quality Management, Resource Allocation
  • Agile & Scrum Methodologies

Certification

  • Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader
  • IBM Cloud Technical Advocate
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • IBM Watsonx Essentials Badge
  • Level 2 of AWS Blu Age
  • CAST training
  • ITIL 4 Foundation, Six Sigma GB
  • IBM Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS
  • Certified Associate in Project Management

Languages

English
Tamil

Timeline

Solution Architect

US Bank

Senior Technical Consultant

Alight Solutions

Lead Software Engineer

Payless Shoesource

Associate Software Engineer

Walmart

Senior Programmer Analyst

Metlife

B.Tech - Information Technology

PSG College of Technology

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