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.
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 technologies
Involving discussions with clients in identifying emerging technologies for their business requirements
Identifying right technology for given business requirement
Leading a team to understand the technology and to create proof of concepts
Ensuring quality implementation of technology solutions as per clients requirement.
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
Implementation of solution for generating game tickets
Implementation of multithreaded multiplayer gaming platform
Meute Technologies Pvt Ltd, Delhi.
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.
Vice President (Technology)
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.
Design Manager
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
Group Consultant
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
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
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.