Lokanta Brahmachari

Professional Summary
Lokanta has around 11 years of experience in I.T of which about six months in US. He
has seven plus years of domain expertise in Manufacturing.
Worked extensively in C#, VB, HTML, ASP and LAMP environment and well versed
with RDBMS like MS-SQL, Oracle and MY SQL concept. He has also worked on
middleware technologies such as MQ Series, SAP Xi Interfaces, .NET Connector, Web
Services. He has strong understanding on Cloud’s Technologies and business analytical
tools such as SPSS and HADOOP.

He has worked on various Windows and non-Windows platforms. He is conversant with

MahindraSatyam's quality procedures, while executing his projects.

Education
Degree University Year of Passing
B Tech University, Hyderabad, India
Integrated Web Training Centre, Bangalore, India.
Engineering
Diploma

Certifications
Certification Year
Oracle Webinar – Siebel in Pharma 2012
Quiz Certificate
Code of Ethical Business Conduct Self- 2010
Assessment (CEBC) Certification
Function Point Champion 2007
Quality Management System 2007

Technical Skills
Operating Systems Windows 95, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Ubuntu and RedHat Linux
Languages C#, Visual Basic, VBScript, JavaScript, PHP
Databases SQL Server, Oracle Database and Microsoft Access, My SQL
GUI MS Visual Studio, MS Interdev, Adobe Photoshop, Dream Weaver,
Edit Plus
Case Tools Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Open Office
Web Related Internet Information Server, Apache, Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Sun
Single Sign On
Tools & Utilities SAP DCOM Connector, Remedy, TRIOLE, Excel, Microsoft Visual
Source Safe (VSS), VSTS
Domain Manufacturing - Simiconductor, Retail – FMCG, Sales and Forecast,
Knowledge Inventory & Stock control.
LLC104 – Linux Internals &
11 Bangalore Linux Learning Centre 1 Week
Programming Essentials

Projects Profile
1. Project Name BEiG AMS
Client FMCG - UK
Role Team Lead (RGL) – Offshore, including coding
Organisation Mahindra Satyam
Duration 30th Sep 2008 - Till Date
Team Size 7 (Now reduced to 2 resources) Module: Maintenance, enhancement
and bug fixing
Environment Windows XP, Windows Database: MS SQL 2005, MS
2000/2003, IIS 6, , VBA, SQL Access 2003/2005, Oracle
Server 2005, Visual Studio 2003,
FTP client/server, Batch
programming, TRIOLI, SAP
Interfaces etc.
Project Description

The leading Frozen Food Processing Business Concern in Europe region. There are 74
applications in Non SAP which include client-server applications, marketing tools,
Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) used throughout the factories,
management and repository application which holds bills of material, Time & Attendance
systems, application that place sales orders and sales advices through MQ server which
has interface with SAP XI and BI Interfaces. Some are 3rd Party and some are internally
developed. Application users are HR, Sales, Manufacturing, Finance, Help Desk, Quality
and Management Department.

Responsibilities

 Analyzing the recurring issue and fix as part of continuous improvement plan
 Development, Enhancement, Post production support, Maintenance.
 Troubleshooting, Bug Fixings, Resolve within Service Level Agreement (SLA).
 Adhere to ITIL process.
 Impact Analyst and Effort Estimations.

2. Project Name Project Funnel (Development)

Client FMCG - UK & German
Role Project Manager (onshore/offshore) Including Hands on coding
Organisation Satyam Computer Services Limited
Duration 9th Dec 2008 till 10th Apr 2009
Team Size 4 offshore / 1 onshore Module: Development
Environment Crystal Reports 9.1, Visual Studio Database: SQL 2005
2003, FTP, Windows 2003,
Windows XP

Project Description

The two-tier windows application was designed and developed to provide feasibility &
flexibility for products’ forecasting and annual planning for sales department.

Responsibilities

 Review design document.

 Monitor Project timeline, Quality Management, Risk Management.
 Code review (Manual and FxCop).
 Testing (Integration and Regression) and Project Delivery within specific cost.
 3. Project Name Listing Data Base (Listungadaten) Reverse Engineering
Client FMCG - UK & German
Role Project Lead – Offshore (including Project management)
Organisation Satyam Computer Services Limited
Duration 17th Aug 2008 till 29th Sep 2008
Team Size 5 Module: Development
Environment Reporting Database: Oracle, TOAD, SQL
Plus, MS Excel

Project Description

The requirement is for Sales, Marketing Department and Consumer Help Desk. The
purpose of this project is to provide product reports for various customers from row data
dump. The challenge is to simulate functionality by analyzing from row data dump and
creating functionality of the application.

Responsibilities

 Obtain business requirement.

 Customer Interactions for understanding user requirements and prepare
functionalities.
 Mitigate Risk factors.
 Delivery and Sign off.

4. Project Name CeSpares – Customer Engineer Spares

Client Applied Materials, USA
Role Application Maintenance, enhancement and Support
Organisation Satyam Computer Services Limited
Duration October 2005 till date
Team Size 1 Module: Maintenance, enhancement
and bug fixing
Environment ASP, VB (DLLs), VB Script, Java Database: SQL 2000, Oracle
Script, IIS 6, Windows 2000 (through SAP), People Soft, i2
server, SSO 2.1 (through SAP)

Project Description

Applied Materials is one of the Fortune 500 companies which manufacture the machine
for producing Semiconductors. It is world’s largest supplier of products and services to
the global semiconductor industry. CeSpares, Customer Engineer Spares, is used to check
the availability of spare parts and places the order for the parts. It is a web application that
is used by Field Engineers to check spares parts availability, order parts and check order
status. It also checks for CD availability and order CD for eVSPI, Manual and in print for
the external and internal customers of Applied.

Responsibilities

 Analysis on support issues

 Estimation on enhancement
 Resolved the support issue as per Service Level Agreement (SLA)
 Requirement gathering from client for functional requirements for implementation
 Analysis of the specifications provided by the client - Business requirement study
and analysing and identifying gaps for customisations
 Documentation delivered includes Project Execution Plan, Technical
Specifications, Test Case, MOMs and Release Notes.

5. Project Name WRT – Warranty Recovery Tools

Client Applied Materials, USA
Role Application Maintenance, enhancement and Support
Organisation Satyam Computer Services Limited
Duration December 2005 till date
Team Size 1 Module: Maintenance, enhancement
and bug fixing
Environment VB (DLLs), ASP, VB Script, Java Database: ORACLE
Script, JSP, Servlet, Sun One 6.1,
Win2000, IIS 6, SSO 2.1, Load
Balance Server

Project Description

Applied Materials is one of the Fortune 500 companies which manufacture the machine
for producing Semiconductors. It is world’s largest supplier of products and services to
the global semiconductor industry. WRT, Warranty Recovery Tools, is a web based
application which enables Customer Engineer, regional materials teams, and other related
personnel to have access to complete and up-to-date information on repair suppliers. The
primary goal of WRT is to improve and consolidate access to information related to
repair and service suppliers for end users.

Responsibilities

 Analysis on support issues

 Estimation on enhancement
 Resolved the support issue as per Service Level Agreement (SLA)
 Requirement gathering from client for functional requirements for implementation
  Analysis of the specifications provided by the client - Business requirement study
and analysing and identifying gaps for the customizations
 Documentation delivered includes Project Execution Plan, Technical
Specifications, Test Case, MOMs, and Release Notes.

6. Project Name DFS – Design for Serviceability

Client Applied Materials, USA
Role Onsite coordinator
Organisation Satyam Computer Services Limited
Duration 20th August 2006 to 30th September 2006
Team Size 3 Module: Application migration
Environment PHP, Win2000, IIS 6, SSO 2.1, Database: ORACLE
Load Balance Server

Project Description

Design for Serviceability (DFS) is an integral part of the Product Life Cycle (PLC)
process intended to improve the serviceability of Applied Materials products. This is the
migration project from Israel server to Austin Server, from Linux Apachi to Windows
2000 IIS server running PHP as server side script.

Responsibilities

 Analysis on migration plan

 Estimation of project plan
 PHP manual installation on IIS 5/6 server.
 Requirement gathering from client for technical requirements for implementation
 Configuring SSO
 Coordination on load balance server
 Documentation delivered includes Project Execution Plan, Technical
Specifications, Test Case, Migration document, Release Notes.

7. Project Name Capability Plus Certification

Client Applied Materials, USA
Role Development & Enhancement
Organisation Satyam Computer Services Limited
Duration 17th May 2004 to January 2005
Team Size 3 Module: Enhancement and bug
fixing
Environment VB (DLLs), ASP, VB Script, Java Database: MS SQL 2000
Script, Win2000, IIS 5, SSO 2.1
Project Description

CapabilityPlus Certification program is to establish a standardized development strategy

and development plan for all Applied Materials Field Engineers. It provide a standardized
process to identify, develop, verify, and replicate the capabilities required to successfully
install and maintain Applied Materials’ Equipment in the field

Responsibilities

 Development and Enhancements

 Estimation on enhancement plan
 Requirement gathering from client for functional requirements for implementation
 Analysis of the specifications provided by the client - Business requirement study
and analysing and identifying gaps for the customisations
 Documentation delivered include Project Execution Plan, Technical
Specifications, Test Case, MOMs, Release Notes.

8. Project Name TSS – Total Service Solution for Data Collection

Client Applied Materials, USA
Role Application support
Organisation Satyam Computer Services Limited
Duration January 2005 – November 2005
Team Size 2 Module: Maintenance, enhancement
and bug fixing
Environment ASP, VB Script, VBA (Macro), Database: MS SQL 2000 and
Java Script, Win2000, IIS 5, Palm Access 2000.
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Project Description

This application allows site personnel to track kit inventory and location as well as wafer
pass information for these kits and for chambers.

Responsibilities

 Interacting to customers
 Analysis on issues and finding out root cause
 Troubleshoot and bug fix

9 Site development and administration Sep ’02 – May’04

Organization VA Group
Client Venkataramanan Associates, (http://www.vagroup.com/)
 Technology ASP, VB, COM (DLLS), WSH, XML, XSL, IIS 5.0 FOR INTRANET.
PHP, MY SQL, APACHE 2.0 FOR EXTRANET (HTTP://FILEX.VAGROUP.COM/)
Hardware Win2000 Advance Server / LINUX and Client PC like Win 2000 Professional,
XP, Win 95, Win 98.
Role Database design, coding, implementation & enhancement, support,
documenting and web Administration.

One man Team

Project Description:

Venkataramanan Associates (VA), one of the largest and most progressive IT enable
Architectural & Engineering Firms in India, Bangalore. My responsibilities include software
development, coding, documenting, server setup and server administration. Timesheet, Project
status report, leave application, search engine for library, telephone, trade files, auto reminder are
some of the projects that have been done and implemented.

Responsibilities:

 Independently Design, develop, testing and deploy the web application.

10 VA IT Asset Management ( VA – ITAM Desktop application) July ’03 – Aug’ 03

Organization VA Group
Client Venkataramanan Associates, (http://www.vagroup.com/)

Technology VB, COM AND ACCESS 2000

Hardware Win2000 Advance Server/Professional, XP, Win 95, Win 98, Win NT.
Role Database design, coding, implementation & enhancement, support,
documenting.

Project Description
VA – IT Asset Management is a stand-alone application s/w runs on windows OS to keep
track of all IT assets such as computers, printers, scanners etc use in the office. Reports
are generated in excel using office web component.

Responsibilities:

 Design, Analysis, Development and implementation.

 Coding: VB 6.0
 Database: MS Access 2000.

11 Site development and administration Jun. '01 – Aug ’02

Organization Visualtrance Communication Technologies Pvt. Ltd
 Client Wipro Technologies - www.wipro.com

Technology PHP 3, MYSQL, JAVASCRIPT, HTML, CSS

Role Design the layouts and maintain the web site

Project Description:

Wipro Technologies is a global technology services division of Wipro Limited. My works

include maintaining the web site, creating micro-websites such as WLAN, USB Ethernet,
1394, Flow-briX, Wipro Websecure. Generating site reports using Webtran. My
responsibilities included searching keywords for all pages to include the site in the search
engines and directories. Create Wipro website in German and France version and also
worked extensively for developing a website of their security software equipment: Wipro
Websecure: www.wipro.com/weprowebsecure/

Responsibilities:

 Total Site administration.

 Site report in excel using Webtran

12 Corporate Portal – Site development May'01 – Jul’01

Organization Visualtrance Communication Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Client Crescent Polymers Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore -
http://www.cpolymers.com/crescentpolymers/
Technology ASP/SQL Server 7.0, Windows 2000 Server
Hardware IBM Compatible PC’s
Role Analysis, Development and Implementation

Project Description:
Crescent Polymers Pvt. Ltd, in collaboration with Advanced Adhesives Inc., USA, is a
technology solutions company engaged in the manufacturing of silicones, non-silicone
polymers, coatings, adhesives, dispersions and creams used in industrial, food, textiles,
pharmaceuticals and cosmetic applications.

Responsibilities:
 Analysis, Development and implementation.
 Coding in ASP/Database design.

13 Corporate Portal – website Maintenance Jan’00 – Nov’00

Organization http://www.bpltelecom.com/
 Client BPL Telecom Pvt. Ltd

Role Coding in HTML, Testing, Implementation

Description
BPL Telecom an integral part of the billion-dollar - BPL Group of Companies. It has high
quality products and services in the broader areas of Communications, Networking &
Information Technology and also has Specific offerings in the areas of Application
Software, Embedded Software & Services, Engineering Services, Networking Solutions,
and Communication Products and Services, with a strong focus on the Telecom and
Consumer domains.

Responsibilities:
 Maintained the web site.

Personal Details

Name LOK

ID No. (India & US)

Email Id Lokanta_Brahmachari@m.com
(i.e., Satyam’s email id)
Passport No. Valid Upto: 14/09/2005
(mm/dd/yyyy)
Type of Visa holding (if any) Valid Upto : 13/09/2015
(mm/dd/yyyy)
Location Development Center (MSDC), Bangalore

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