Ajay Magon

Email: amagon@yahoo.com


Senior Technical Manager

 

History of managing numerous medium to large scale R &D and commercial projects in various technical and business domains.

 

Have vast experience of 20+ years in mapping best-suited Technologies to Business requirements for various clients. Involved in helping several start-up organizations to establish themselves by designing new business processes involving new technologies and defining CMM and ISO quality processes. Have worked as a consultant for various Government and Private organizations on effective use of emerging technologies. Have got good exposure to business analysis, systems analysis, application development, quality assurance and project management.


 

Professional Background

 

NIIT Technologies, Delhi.

NIIT Technologies, London.

www.niit-tech.com

Senior Technical Manager

 

Apr 2005 – Present

Gaming/Gambling Domain, Travel Domain

Blue Square, British Airways, Toyota Motors

 

Responsibilities:

 

*         Defining processes and evaluating the cost effectiveness for new migration technologies

*         Leading a team to understand the technology and to create frame works

*         Involving discussions with clients in identifying emerging technologies

 

Achievements:

 

*         Managing RFID COC and projects involving new technologies

*         Involved in Business analysis, feasibility studies, estimations and project execution

*         Analyzing RFP and Business Scoping documents

*         Preparing Proposals and project plans

*         Defined a business and Technical solution for Migrating VB applications to new generation .NET platform

*         Defined quality standards required for Migrating VB applications to new generation .NET platform

*         Defining and managing processes for migrating paper based Flight operation manuals in to Web based electronic form


Meute Technologies Pvt Ltd, Delhi.

www.meute.com

Chief Technology Officer

 

March 2002 – March 2005

Retail Domain

Dabur, Tata Honeywell, NIIT, OutworX, Mobile Mantra

 

Responsibilities:

*         Understanding business requirements involving Tracking and providing cost effective solution

*         Understanding business requirement and managing and guiding team to implement it

*         Guiding and advising the client to establish Infrastructure for development centre

*         Setting up development team for clients

 

Achievements:

*         Educated various clients on possibilities of implementing RFID based solution for tracking

*         Implemented software development projects

*         Helped clients successfully setup infrastructure for Offshore Development Centers

*         Helped clients setup quality processes suitable to their business needs

*         Participated in spreading know-how and possibilities of using RFID in various business domains

*         Helped OutWorx setup complete infrastructure for offshore development centre in Noida. Ramped up their development team from 4 to 40 members within 6 month time frame

*         Created complete architecture of Mobile Mantra’s web based Mobile Messaging platform and helped their team implement it on Linux using java web services

 

RM Software India Pvt Ltd, Delhi.

www.rmsi.com

Vice President (Technology)

 

September 2000 - March 2002

GIS Domain

GEOInformation Group, Daily Mail Group, RMS

 

Responsibilities:

*         Instigate and evaluate new research directions

*         Identify competency areas

*         Build Competencies in identified areas

*         Identify and Prepare demonstratable proof-of-concepts.

*         Understanding customer requirements and working with project teams to define technical architecture.

 

 

Achievements:

*         Helped technical teams build competencies in identified areas

*         Participated in pre-sales and proposal preparation for both non-GIS and GIS s/w projects

*         Managed software development projects

*         Managed teams building demonstratable identified proof-of-concepts

*         Enabled business teams pick up projects in new technologies which were being turned down because of lack of experience

 

Resorsys India Pvt Ltd, Delhi.

www.resorsys.co.uk

Design Manager

 

April 1999 - August 2000

Embedded Systems

 

Responsibilities:

*         Head of Indian design center.

*         Manage various aspects of setting up India Design Centre

*         Manage all aspects of running technical center ranging from setting up processes to implementation of them in full software development life cycle.

*         Managed resourcing, accounting, pre-sales, delivery and implementation of projects & processes

 

Achievements:

*         Helped technical teams build competencies in diverse platforms

*         Managed software development projects

*         Managed Embedded development projects

*         Managed teams building projects in diverse platforms

*         Enabled teams pick up understanding in new technologies

 

NIIT Ltd, Delhi.

HCL Asia Pacific Pvt Ltd, Singapore

www.niit.com

Group Consultant

 

December 1990 - April 1999

 

Responsibilities:

*         Head of Systems Lab, R&D Centre

*         Instigate and evaluate new research directions

*         Identification of competency areas

*         Build Competencies in identified areas

*         Identify and Prepare demonstratable identified proof-of-concepts.

*         Understanding customer requirements and working with project teams to define technical architecture.

*         Development and management of various software projects.

*         Exploration of various broadband applications and VoIP possibilities during one-year stay in Singapore.

 

Achievements:

*         Helped technical teams build competencies in diverse platforms

*         Managed software development projects

*         Managed Embedded development projects

*         Managed teams building projects in diverse platforms

*         Enabled teams pick up understanding in new technologies

 

 

 

 

United Database (India) Pvt Ltd, Delhi

Senior Programmer

 

April 1990 - November 1990

 

Responsibilities:

*         Senior Programmer Technology Division

*         Understanding requirements and working with project teams to implement projects

*         Development of various software projects.

 

Achievements:

*         Implemented projects in various programming languages

 

United Periodicals (India) Pvt Ltd, Delhi

Senior Programmer

 

December 1987 - March 1990

 

Responsibilities:

*         Senior Programmer Technology Division

*         Understanding requirements and working with project teams to implement projects

*         Development of various software projects.

 

Achievements:

*         Implemented projects in various programming languages

*         Worked on Editorial System, which helped automate most of story capturing/editing/approval process. Because of this automation last minute changes to newspaper became quite easy

 

Publications

 

*         `Virus ' . Published in Sunday Magazine of Patriot Jan.14,1990

*         `Networked Images: A new Educational tool'. Presented and Published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Education Technology-The future, All India Association for Education Technology, Nov. 1990.

*         `IMAGINET: An Associative, Non-Sequential, Multimedia Storage and Retrieval System' in International Conference on Multimedia Computer and Communication : Technology, Application and Enterprise, Nov. 1992 (INFOCOM '92)

*         `Virtual reality in India' published in the Computer Society of India's Annual Convention, Nov. 1995.

*         `Multimedia in India - Past, Present and Future' Presented and published in the IETE's International conference on Multimedia information system, Feb. 1996.

*         'Data Warehouse: Different Alternatives' in ACRS 2001 : Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2001.

*         'LBS, The Ingredients and The Alternatives' in The Asian GPS Conference 2001

*         'Enhanced Security through GIS and GPS' in Map India 2002

*         'Understanding RFID and its Impact On Industry' in AIDC Expo 2003

*         'Organisational Tracking : A Case Study' in AIDC Expo 2003

*         ‘RFID- Bringing New Possibilities or Challenges?’ in International Workshop on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensors 2005 at IIT Kanpur

Technical Experience

 

Communication/Internet/Mobile Computing/Middleware

*         Completed Business Study to understand cost involved in British Airway’s 200 VB applications to VB.NET

*         Implemented British Airways Cargo Tracking system on Symbol 9090 RDT’s

*         Explored working of Middlewares like Tibco, MQSeries etc

*         Explored WebServices.

*         Implemented Payment Gateway options for selling off-the-shelf GIS data.

*         Managed various Interactive Intranet/Internet Websites for Resource Automation, Time Sheet & Client Extranet.

*         Worked on Secure Data Transfer over web.

*         Worked on SMS based applications.

*         Explored BinaryXML as an alternative to compressed XML.

*         Worked on WAP based applications.

*         Developed Browser Helper Objects

*         Developed Cybermall in Java having applications for Consumer, Shop and Transporter.

*         Worked on Security Proxy Server using SSLeay, Visual C

*         Implemented various video capture and web casting solutions

*         Created various Interactive Web Sites.

*         Developed MIS system to be used over Internet as an Extranet Application using Visual Interdev on IIS, MS SQL Server and Windows NT

*         Created a Internet Site in Atlanta, USA to host NIITNETVARSITY, web site, ftp site, chat site and mail server. This site is being used by NIIT to deliver Education on Demand over the Internet.

*         Enabled various clients to set up Communication link for MCI-mail and EDI Services through PDN and directly.

*         Written programs to capture and analyze data for Doordarshan Election Cell from NICNET.

 

GIS/LBS/Web Mapping/RFID/Tracking

*         Implemented Smart Shelves and Payment system using RFID

*         Implemented File Tracking Application using RFID.

*         Implemented Asset Tracking Application using RFID.

*         Implemented LBS prototype for tracking fleet using GPS device over cellular network.

*         Worked on Viewer for highly compressed imagery with Vector overlay in VC++.

*         Worked on Location Based Services using Mobile Positioning Server (MPS) and Global Positioning System (GPS).

*         Implemented Web Catalogue for off-the-shelf GIS data with Web Mapping.

*         Implemented remote GIS data editing over Internet using Java.

*         Implemented Vehicle Tracking and Fleet Management System using GPS-GSM devices.

 

Multimedia/Graphics/Sound

*         Worked on Generic User Interface for controller devices in VC++.

*         Developed "Elevator" a tool developed using Visual Basic to assist in the learning of Windows 95. Elevator is a very powerful tool that can be used both for self paced learning as well as instructor led training.

*         Implemented various video capture and web casting solutions

*         Developed S/W Package IMAGINET using Borland C to create non-sequential linkages for creating Multimedia Applications. Users of IMAGINET include NASA, the US Geological Survey amongst others. Used by several organizations for creating multimedia presentations.

*         Developed India's first multimedia Exhibition Information System using IMAGINET.

*         Developed India's first multimedia Operation Theater Information System using IMAGINET.

*         Developed Animation Builder for Mathematical Tutorial System for Publishing Innovations, USA using C++.

*         Developed MasterBlaster H/W and S/W Package to digitize and playback sound on PC.

 

Publishing

*         Developed automated publishing packages for newspaper, columns and books using C++.

*         System integration to develop an Editorial Development System.

*         Written programs using GICL to control typesetter's PIP for output.

*         Developed a program to capture, categorize and combine news stories from teleprinter

 

Databases

*         Worked on HRIS in VB.

*         Developed Attendance Maintenance System COBOL.

*         Worked on Payroll, Accounting and Store Inventory Systems COBOL.

*         Developed Office Automation System.

*         Developed Personal System FoxPro for Windows.

*         Developed Help System.

 

Analog Device Interfaces

*         Developed Perception Recording System (PRS) H/W and S/W Package to record voluntary perception of audience. Used by NIS, India for evaluating Students Responses to road-plays

*         Developed Switch H/W and S/W Package to switch on/off devices through computer.

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