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----About company--
Its a major or worlds largest public utility company in Europe, largest investor owned energy utility provider
power generation via Coal, oil , natural gas, wind , solar, water
gas exploration and production.
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I will divide our conversation into 3 parts -
1. Education , 2.Summarize my overall work exeprience as IT PM and about how I evolved into PM. 3. Bit about myself and my motivation.
Since you have my resume and if you want to know about my work in any particular compnay, I can elaborate on that.
-------------------- Education -----------------------------------
Computer Sc.Engineering Degree (4yrs)
Got a scholarship to study masters from RMIT and then Siemens Hired me from Germany i finished my last year of Masters Degree in Informatiks from Germany
MESA certified : I help organizations follow the best practies for MES standards and ISA-95 standards for manufacturing.
Languages : I can speak English, German, Hindi , and bit of Korean
I have a very technical back ground, I have worked as Software Engineer in early stages of Career and from there moved up to business analyst, consultancy and now as IT project mgmt.
- Certification - MESA certified for MES/MOM methodologies


------------------- My important tasks as Product/Project Manager and Sr.IT Consultant ----------

➢ Having worked in this sector especially oil/energy and solar specifically, I am quite interested and enthusiastic to puruse my career in Energy and Renewable sector
➢ I have over 10 years of work experience. With around 5 years in Project/Product Management . I have spent a good amount of time in the System Integration of Manufacturing Industry and Industrial automation in Oil and Energy Business which includes solar, SI for IT services , Production Sites . currently working as Sr.project Manager for the MES, handling 15 team members .
➢ I act as the interface or SPOC between project stakeholders, partners and Project engineering teams.
➢ Once the project has been signed off, I am responsible to for end-to-end lifecycle of the project from the, conceptualization to Requirement elicitation phase, prioritizing the requirements ; Designing the product ; developing the solution ; under strict QA guidelines and then going through different Testing stages with a particular focus on acceptance testing ; creating Product licensing strategies; Finally staging the product and releasing/rollout and deploying this product to different customer locations worldwide. [ Focus is on Cost, Schedule, Customer Satisfaction and Quality]
➢ Consult the higher management and at CTO level in defining the IT strategies and product roadmap , particular divisions IT roadmap for next 5-7 years. which adds value to both the company and customers.
➢ I have been also responsible for Project planning , project control and execution and project reporting - Defining project guidelines (defining communication channel, team leaders , Organizing and bringing up the team (which includes hiring people, marshaling resource, setting up MBO's for them, managing work between them and making sure a releasable product is produced ), within the project budget, scoping and timely execution the project.,
➢ Key account management for products and its services for Middle east and Europe region.
➢ Mentoring and Coaching the IT / QA teams about the best practices like (Scrum, Bug tracking system, SVN, testing methodologies etc..)
➢ SDLC /Agile Methodologies - Typically we use MS Project where i create work packages and milestones for every phase within a project. I also use Scrum (agile methodologies) for time-boxed projects. Also at times Kanban especially in the Operations side.
➢ Continuously improving and Evolving the existing system and legacy systems to meet customers goals Business process consulting, optimization and standardization ,- Standardization of process across different production plants to have a maintainable and consistent product.
➢ Collaborating with different Subject Matter Experts of different departments like "Engineering", "Sales" in how the product can enter the market, how it competes with different products in the market, "Infrastructure teams", negotiating SLA's , finding the right hardware resources. Communicating with them continuously if there is any change request, change in project plans etc.
➢ risk management along with Project management (risk assment and risk planning in project planning phase, then risk resolution and risk monitoring in Project implementation phase.. and finally risk reporting in project reporting )
➢ Verification of Technical Documentation - releasing and verifying technical (SRS, TRS , Design docs.., RFP, RFI's) documents to Development teams, training manuals, coaching the Maintenance managers in the production line.
➢ Providing reports and feedback to management about the project progress., the weekly or bi-weekly releases and milestones reached.
➢ Create a clear communication channel between stakeholders, clients, partners and Engineering Teams.
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----------------------Myself and my motivation------------
- I have already worked in Korea for over 4.5 years , i have gained very good insights about the customers in korea and asisan region. At this point of time i want to leverage that experience and bring it back to Germany.
- Having worked in Germany and Asia for around over 8 years now and Australia as well, I have attained very valuable customer insights , how to interact with customers, how to find new business opportunities in different business cultures, and I would like to use this experience back in Germany, and help companies grow not just in EUrope region but outside Europe too.
- I am an open source evangilist, i promote use of open source technologies in the organization horizontally. I am a contrbituer to open source communities like redhat, ubuntu and couple other.
- Me and wife plan to stay in Germany for probably the rest of our lives, we have been married for over 3 years now and we plan to raise a family ..and we plan to do that in Europe - We both can speak German we she is also quite familiar with German working style and culture.

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------ Some of my work -----------
- Provide innovative new solutions for our customers using latest technologies to solve their existing problems. (Eg: BigData, virutalization , In memory data grids etc.. )
- Cloud based Saas and IaaS for MES
- Enterprise service bus , SOA , Real Time data anlytics using Open source technologies.
- Real time monitoring of Data centers and Client PC on the shop-floor or in a production plant. Collecting the metrics data or self defined KPI's and storing them , running specific queries on them to finally visualize them on dashboards for production people, higher management , etc. You can get alerts and notification is something goes wrong on the shop floor system and appropirate action can be taken, it supports high availability , security , for rich clients and thin clients, advanced plugin management system (APMS)
- OPC - open platform communications
OPC gets data from Process control devices like PLC, DCS .
Modbus, profibus (protocol )
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---------------- Questions ------------
what is the global presence outside of Europe ?
any training programs within Eon to undestand product portfolio
Is E.on into manufacturing too like , equipment , solar/photovoltic modules etc..
Where is this particular position based out of ?
In providing vast portfolio where is eon placed ? as a service intergrator , service provider , manufacturing etc.. ?
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-------------- Salary Validation -------------- High 70's
Have over 10 year of experience , majority in MES and Industrial Automation and Process Consulting, in different IT sectors like Automotives, Oil and Energy as Lead MES consultant, Team Leader- Handled teams and projects with over 15 people geographically located.
Master Degree
I can speak 4 languages (English, German, Hindi and Punjabi and Bit of korean )
Bring a lot to the table with MES consluting, New initiatives , Worked with new bleeding edge technologies like Big data, Virtualization , Real Time analytics

--------Integration mechanism --------
- Interface centeric - using EAI tools
use SOA and ESB together or Manufacturing service bus with MDM
- Data centric approach - using ETL model
- Model centric - Using Business Process Management using Business Rules Modelling
SPC - statistical Process control - infrastructure tool for Production control quality in
Semiconductor industry.
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-------------------------------- JD -------------------------------------------
Process IT Software Product Manager (m/f)
Responsibilities
Responsible for the design, development, testing, and deployment of all software applications needed to meet requirements of the ECT business units
Duties include all aspects of SW Engineering Lifecycle using Agile Methodologies:
Requirements Analysis
Software Architecture and Design
Framework and Application Development
Testing and quality control
Deployment and Operations
Responsible for:
Team creation and training of agile software developers (internal and external)
Implementation/execution of an agile methodology for the analysis and development of software applications
Sourcing of internal and external developer resources
Project oversight to meet development (time and budget) milestones
Management of resources for the continued operations of systems
Development of staff and vendors to meet continuous improvement goals.
Systems to include:
Software Development tools/languages to include: Java, JavaScript, SQL, other languages will be adventagous
Application, communication, and database servers
Web portals, interactive UX systems, and mobile devices
Remote DAS and communications
Security of remote systems and communications
Operations of a managed Hosting Service
Operation control centers and regional field offices
Communications between Operations and Business environments
Data Center and hosting facilities
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- Creating one harmonized multi-site, multi-country MES template that spells out a consistent approach to MES that can be used
across plants by using Business Process Management and Business Rules Engine.
- Process consulting while integrating MES into the production environment.
- Supporting infrastructure related issues within the production environment also supporting local and remote teams . (eg: Server Issues, Database issues , network issues, Firewall issues , etc.. ) , most of my experience has been on Linux and Windows Servers and dealing with different databases like oracle, ms sql, mysql, postgresql etc..
- Analysis of existing process and improving the stability and efficiency of those processes.. increasing OEE...etc..
- Creating a generic MES template to Integrate the MES across different sites by defining certain best practices for the process and taking them from one project to another. Mainly focusing on re-usability of modules (Trying to move MES to cloud based MES, using concepts of big-data for MES, real time analytic etc.. )
-Analysis of requests and demands according P&I process . Business requirements specification and translation business requirements into application specifications
- Vertical integration of MES with ERP, SCM, CRM and PLM
- Single point of contact or Escalation Manager for Shop floor personnel and Line Managers - All escalated issues are funneled through me.
- I have worked with several MES vendors like - Rockwell, Siemens , GE,CamLine... etc..Created Generic/modular MES covering Quality Management, Labor management , Process Management , Product Tracking and Tracing , Data acquisition , Resource Management (recipes) ,Quality Management Performance analysis, Work In progress (WIP) , Material management Handing Production management , Production planning
- User principles of SOA, standardized B2MML, Business process mgmt and ESB for integration , Master Data managent (MDM)
- The idea was to increase productivity, lower the production cost , decrease the inventory , increase OEE ,
- Training the IT team , releasing documents to Development teams, training manuals, coaching the Maintenance managers in the production line.

- Provide EMI and BI solutions for Production manager and Stakeholders respectively
- Work a lot with databases like MySQL, Ms-SQL, oracle , postgresql in different production environment.
- testing and final rollout of the MES on the shop-floor, providing innovative solutions for improving performance and stability of existing systems. (eg: Virtualization of testing , virtualization of Shop-floor.. )

------------- Standardization benefits of MES ----------
lowers cost of maintaining the IT systems, Improving quality control , Improving better visibility to shop floor activities(Real-time) , faster product development and delivery to market , improving OEE , Better collaboration , standarization of reporting, reduces Total cost of owernship (TCO) by connecting users, content and enterprise applications
eg:reduce cycle time and recipet of good in SCM

--------------- Risk Management -----------
1. Risk identification
2. risk analysis
3. risk mitigation plan
4. risk mitigaation plan implemneation
5. risk trakcing





SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PHILOSOPHY

http://techblog.41concepts.com/2012/07/02/my-take-on-a-software-development-success-philosophy/

http://www.ianswer4u.com/2011/10/characteristics-of-good-software.html#axzz2aJyxI69a

1. The product should be User Friendly (ie. Simple to use) ,
2. Reusable,
3. Maintainable,
4. Flexible – Changes in software should be easy to make
5. Modular
6. Testability – software should be easily testable (eg:Automated..)
7. , Scalable if that’s one of the Non-functional requirements., Realibilty ( MTBF)

Transition characteristics of SW
1. Interoperability
2. Reusability
3. Portability

Review Virtualization slides for QA

Types of Testing –
1. unit Testing
2. Functional tests
3. Integration tests
4. System Tests
5. Acceptance tests

Nature of tests
1. Functional Tests
2. Platform compatibility tests
3. Robustness tests
4. Performace tests
5. Scalability test

Important for me to lead team
1. Communication – Open clear communication channel
2. I try to Lead by example
3. I let team members be accountable and responsible for their tasks – which means I give them freedom to implement things,BUT its important before they implement their ideas are put on the table and a healthy discussion takes places about those ideas
4. It’s a very multi-cultural team – So everyone respects and I try to educate people about different cultures , so that no one un-intentionally hurts anyone’s feelings etc..
5. I try to inculcate creativity in what ever work we do. – I have learnt there very important words for software development ‘KEEP IT SIMPLE”.
6. I always try and tell my team , if you are the customers will you buy you own product ? And most of them know if the quality of work they have put is good enough or not.

MTBF, MTTR,