Nirmal Merchant

Professional Profile:

(TCS) Tata Consultancy Services Limited. Jul 2003 to present

As an IT-Analyst I performed the roles of Business Analyst and Project Manager for a reputed Business consultancy firm (NY, US) and a leading music player manufacturer (CA, US) in the areas of Knowledge Management, Payroll and Benefits, Vendor Management, Contract & Customer Management.

Tata Infotech Limited Jun 2000 to Jun 2003

As a Sr. Systems Analyst I performed the roles of Business Analyst and Product Manager for a Foreign Exchange Treasury Management system implemented in 9 sites of reputed Nationalized banks such as - Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, State Bank of Indore and presenting the product to prospective customers. I also performed the role of Technical Lead for a Hospital Management system and Telecom Data Warehouse for Indian Naval Hospital Services and Department of Telecommunications.

Other Experience:

Website Design and development, view my online portfolio.

Training and coaching:Training business users on a software systems, training clients for maintaining their websites using Macromedia, Adobe or Microsoft tools.

Strengths:

• Excellent Communication and inter-personal skills.
• Ability to conduct research and causal or gap and investigating opportunity for improvements.
• Highly result and performance oriented with high regard for processes.
• Capable of working independently without supervision for extended periods.
• Can lead and belong to a team and achieve satisfactory results from the team.

Education:

Graduate in Mechanical Engineering (Class of 2000) CGPA (65 /100)

Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (V.J.T.I) Mumbai, India

Technical Expertise:

Requirements Analysis: RUP 4+1 MethodologyUML, Microsoft Visio.
Online Collaboration:Groove, Lotus Notes VTR, Sametime, Wiki, Webex, Net Meeting, Subversion.

Data Warehousing: Pro*C, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Script, SQL LoaderInformatica, Business Objects, Cognos Metrics Manager, Cron jobs, Autosys job-scheduler

Data Quality Analysis: SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, SQL Navigator, SQL Grinder, MS Access, MS Excel.

Web Content Management: Macromedia Contribute, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Freehand, ASP, ADO, PHP, XML, CSS, Interwoven.

Databases: Oracle 9i/8i, MS Access, MySQL

Office Tools: Microsoft Office Suite XP (Excel, Word, Power point, MS Access )

Operating systems: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Unixware 7.1, Solaris 2.0, AIX, MAC OS X