Accenture
Vice President
December 2013 — Present
Kalilur Rahman
Vice President - Technology , Communications, Media and Technology
Accenture
Chennai 600020, Tamil Nadu
Vice President - Technology , Communications, Media and Technology at Accenture
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Accenture
Vice President - Technology , Communications, Media and Technology
March 2013 — December 2013
Delivery Unit Lead for a large scale Test Factory for a global mobile communications giant.
Accenture
Director/Senior Manager - Communications , Media & Technology at Accenture
January 2011 — February 2013
- Global Mobile Telecom business, end-to-end test programme manager and Sr. Test management lead for a large-scale transformation project, including BAU test and offshore delivery and defining quality assurance strategy
- Program Test Manager for IT transformation project to build capability for Acceptance Testing Service Organisation, aimed at delivery a fresh retail capability build and roll-out across multi-sites.
- Led multiple test capability work streams from conception to delivery across automation, reporting and improvement initiatives for a large acceptance test service.
Career
Accenture
Senior Manager
August 2010 — January 2011
- Service delivery lead for support operations for a UK web portal for global electronics brand, established service operations centre for issue resolution for ecommerce site, with an SAP backbone, establishing framework across multi-channels using MS Commerce Service, ASP, .NET, MS SQL *Server, FAST
Career
Accenture
Senior Manager
September 2008 — August 2010
Large scale test delivery factory for a big multi-vendor agile delivery across multi-sites, spend £1m per week, led team from initiation phase to successful delivery programme for testing engagement (involving 5:95) offshore/onshore model
- Key business partner for a large E2E test outsourcing engagement, consolidating systems across different business lines and provide a strategic platform to handle client base
- Technology Stack for the E2E test programme
- Siebel / Amdocs/ Convergys Geneva/ Oracle / eDOCS / BEA Web Logic / IBM MQ/MB, Cyclone, .Net, Mainframe, J2EE, Unix, PL/SQL, SQL, Oracle Tools- HP QC, QTP, iTest, STORM Test, Load Runner, Putty
Led the team from initiation phase starting with KT from an incumbent to a successful delivery programme meeting all critical service levels to enable a smooth delivery for 2 years continuously.
Career
Accenture
Manager
September 2007 — August 2008
- Functional lead and offshore delivery manager for a large scale end-to-end outsourcing project, responsible for release and delivery management, personnel and leadership
- Developed Telecom knowledge assets at the India Development Centre as part of a Communications Domain Capability Development Initiative, created the competency framework and training programmes for a 5000+ business unit
Career
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Manager
December 2005 — September 2007
- Head of Business Development Support for Offshore Communications, Delivery Manager for multiple accounts, and Program Manager for Industry Forum Projects for a number of global events
- Led team in the development of the first TMF NGOSS contracts for a POC NGN OSS application involving multiple product vendors for a global telecommunications brand
- Oversaw the delivery of proof of concept executive dashboard solution, and proof of concept of a state of the art IP services project
- Managed offshore business development for communications practice, led a team of business analysts in successful bidding and tender for a number of projects
- As Technical Project Manager managed key projects for sales and marketing business, including crisis management, led a large team through a period of significant change
Career
Tata Consultancy Services
Associate Consultant
June 2005 — December 2005
- Undertook a number of significant roles including Portfolio Manager and Technical Manager for a large offshore delivery centre
- Portfolio Manager for Enterprise Sales Group portfolio, focused on enterprise marketing and sales automation for a US Telco business
- Mentored HR, Learning and Development support groups in the ODC, back up head for presales support and technical manager for seven different projects
- Provided best practice guidelines for implementation for a global team with a short time to market focus, managed resource mobilisation and movement
- Led the scheduling, planning and monitoring of deliverables utilising project management methodologies, managed the timely delivery of critical sales and marketing projects
Career
Tata Consultancy Services
Assistant Consultant
June 2002 — June 2005
- Senior consultant and solution architect provided consultancy to a global carrier on roaming products, performed Gap analysis using an eTom framework for merger related integration analysis
- Project management consultant for testing strategy development, key lead in DSL Repair Expert system integration, re-engineered existing components to develop a framework for a mainframe application
- Technical architect for a number of projects, led a team of experienced and competent designers to improve production stability, spearheading webMethods and EAI evangelism for company colleagues
- Successfully improved order flow through percentage by more than 50% due to continuous process efficiency and solution enhancement
Career
Tata Consultancy Services
IT Analyst
September 1999 — June 2003
Played various Roles ranging from developer to project lead, architect
o Provided solution consultancy for multitude of applications for an ILEC. They included
o Led an offshore project team focusing on service order processing and dispatcher system
o Long Distance PICS system maintenance and enhancement
o Solution design for Customer Training System, Point of Sale interface, Point of Sale tracker system, Overdue BGS account system
o Integration architect/Solution designer of a B2B gateway for Inter Exchange Carriers(IXCs)
o Maintenance, enhancement and solution refinement of Corporate Check Reconciliation System and Unclaimed Properties system for the Corporate financial systems and led Y2K Conversion
Career
Tata Consultancy Services
Asst. Systems Engineer (Trainee), Asst. Systems Engineer
September 1996 — September 1999
* Trainee - Initial Training Programme - Topper of the training batch.
* Tester - NNLife Insurance Y2K Conversion
* Tester - Sainsbury's UK - Year 2000 conversion
* Developer - Target UK - FMS Migration
* Developer/Module Lead - US WEST - Corporate Check Reconciliation System (CCRS), Unclaimed Properties (UP)
* Architect - ASTRANet - Proof-of-concept (Intranet site for internal employees).
Career
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Customized General Management program (Aug 2006)
2006
Project Management Institute
Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Professional
2005
Coimbatore Institute of Technology
B.E (Computer Science & Engineering), Computer Science & Engineering at Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore
1996
Suburban Higher Secondary School, Ram Nagar, Coimbatore
High School, HSC(Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology), SSLC
1992
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