Abhijit Vilas Tarkunde – PPM Clarity Expert

Professional Summary
 Over 12 Years of IT Experience with full project lifecycle and client
facing experience. Strong Project management, team leading and
development skills.
 Effectively managed team both onsite and offshore for better
collaboration and providing cost effective solutions to the customer
 Certified CA Clarity Consultant with over 12 years of industry
experience. In-depth knowledge of Clarity modules and functionalities.
 Proven expertise in Interface development using Web Services, REST API
 Proven expertise in Clarity Implementations, Upgrades, Data migrations,
Business Object Reporting, Jasper soft Reporting
 ITIL Foundation certificate
 Effective communication skills and willingness to learn new
technologies and master the same
 Strong knowledge of Project Management Processes, Methodologies and
Best practices.
 Good understanding of AGILE framework.

Skills Profile
Technical
PPM Tools CA Clarity – Version15.X,13.X, 12, 8.1, 7.5.3, HP PPM, Planview
Clarity XOG, Gel, NSQL, Portlets, Workflows
Technologies
Portfolio Management, Project Management, Demand Management
Clarity Modules
,Resource Management, Financial Management

Project MS Project, Open Workbench

Schedulers

Reporting Business Objects XI, Crystal Reports, Jaspersoft

Database Oracle 10g, 11.X, SQL Server 2012

Interface CA Clarity – SAP, CA Clarity – SharePoint, CA Clarity – Workday,
Development CA Clarity - Beeline
Functional
 Effectively managed Project Team for various Client
Projects
Management and  Strong understanding of AGILE Methodology
Leadership
Skills  Strong knowledge of Project Management Processes,
Methodologies
 Effective Team Management Skills
  Demonstrated strong skills in Mentoring, Training &
grooming team members.
Training &
 Attended PMP training as well as Capgemini University
Development
Engagement Management Certification training
 Play key roles in problem solving & troubleshooting.

Professional Experience
Organization: Capgemini America Inc.
Client: BB&T
Project name: Ca Clarity PPM (Project & Portfolio Management) Implementation
Duration: March 2016 to Till Now
Role: Application Consultant 2
Work Location: 3200 Beechleaf Court, 1st Floor, Raleigh, NC 27604.
Project Description: Implementation of Clarity (Project and Portfolio Management
tool) will enable IT services to enhance reporting capabilities for portfolios,
programs, projects and resource demand and capacity.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Clarity SME – Activities executed under this role are 1] Participate in
meeting with Business to understand needs and propose Clarity solution. 2]
Validate if Business requirements can be mapped to Clarity and propose
workaround if not possible 3] Ensure that Impact Analysis document is
prepared for each change request. 4] Code review and optimization
 Application Performance Improvement – Provide guidance to Web Infra Team and
Database Team to troubleshoot issues related to Application Performance.
 Assist in running the EPPM Help Desk – Troubleshoot level 2 and level 3
tickets.
 Coordinate with Offshore for the smooth execution and quality delivery of
services
 Design & Development of Interfaces between Ca Clarity and other applications
like Workday, SharePoint and Agile Central using Web Services.
 Design and development of reporting solutions using leading reporting tool
Jaspersoft.
 Build and Schedule data extracts using Data Extractor.
 Guide Infrastructure team during Application Upgrade, latest Patch
installation.
 Release Delivery using Scrum Methodology – Ensure that all the Enhancement
Requests are logged to Agile Central. Provide updates to Scrum Master
regarding progress of Enhancement Development via Scrum. Demo of enhancements
progress to Product Owner. UAT follow-up and Production deployment using
standard processes. Pursue sign-of release and ensure consistency and
completeness of configuration are followed using Microsoft TFS Server, Agile
Central and Service Now.

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Organization: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd.
Client: BNP Fortis
Project name: CA Clarity Support and Upgrade
Duration: Oct 2013 to Feb 2016
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Project Lead
Work Location: A1 Technology Park MIDC, Talawade, Pune, India - 412114
Project Description: Goal of this project was to develop enhancements related to
Clarity, Stabilize Clarity performance, setup Clarity Help-desk for business users.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Coordinate with Client (from Offshore) for the smooth execution and
integration of the project and services.
 To manage Clarity Upgrade Project along with managing an offshore team of
Clarity application Maintenance & Support for current version of Clarity.
 Ensure ITIL processes are followed for Support team and SLA are met
 Effort Estimation and Resource Capacity planning for Bi-monthly releases.
 Capture the engagement best practices on Source Forge the Central Repository
of Capgemini.
 Generate Monthly KPI report which will show accurate information about
current Engagement status and share with Capgemini Leadership.
 Work with Quality Lead to ensure that Project team is following Capgemini
Quality standards in delivery.
 Create monthly Service Level Report, provide client with time to time service
improvement and a roadmap on the usage of tool by working together with the
Onsite lead.

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd.

Client: Target
Project name: CA Clarity Upgrade and Implementation of Financial Mgmt Module
Duration: Apr 2013 to Sept 2013
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Consultant
Work Location: A1 Technology Park MIDC, Talawade, Pune, India - 412114
Project Description: Project scope was to upgrade Clarity version from 12.1 to
Clarity v13.1 and implement Financial module.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Worked as Lead for upgrade project from Clarity v12 to Clarity v13.1
 Implementation of Segregation of Duties as well as Password Vault control as
a part of SOX (Sarbanes–Oxley) compliance.
 Lead the technical activities for Financial Management module implementation
 Bi-monthly release planning – requirement analysis, design, code review and
implementation.
 Gap analysis between as is financial processes and clarity financial process.
 Coordination with offshore resources for development activities.
 Troubleshoot day to day issues raised by project manager related to financial
rollout.
 Troubleshoot issues related to performance of clarity jobs

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  Database sizing planning
 Setting the processes for Incident management
 Mentor client regarding best practices for Clarity usage.

Organization: Capgemini America Inc.

Client: Target
Project name: CA Clarity Upgrade and Implementation of Financial Mgmt Module
Duration: Sept 2011 to Apr 2013
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Consultant
Work Location: 33 South Sixth Street, CC-18 694| Minneapolis, MN 55402
Project Description: Project scope was to upgrade Clarity version from 12.1 to
Clarity v13.1 and implement Financial module.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Worked as Lead for upgrade project from Clarity v12 to Clarity v13.1
 Implementation of Segregation of Duties as well as Password Vault control as
a part of SOX (Sarbanes–Oxley) compliance.
 Lead the technical activities for Financial Management module implementation
 Bi-monthly release planning – requirement analysis, design, code review and
implementation.
 Gap analysis between as is financial processes and clarity financial process.
 Coordination with offshore resources for development activities.
 Troubleshoot day to day issues raised by project manager related to financial
rollout.
 Troubleshoot issues related to performance of clarity jobs
 Database sizing planning
 Setting the processes for Incident management
 Mentor client regarding best practices for Clarity usage.

Organization: Capgemini America Inc.

Client: Fannie Mae
Project name: HP PPM Implementation
Duration: March 2011 to Sept 2011
Role: HP PPM Technical Consultant
Work Location: 13150 Worldgate Dr, Herndon, VA 20170
Project Description: Purpose of this project was to replace multiple existing
legacy tools used for Project Management with single Project Management solution.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Definition of the Scope of the Work for Integration with legacy tools.
 Develop PL/SQL procedures for integration with legacy tools.
 Developed workflows in HP PPM to meet client requirements related to Business
case and Benefit realization.
 Hierarchical and Grid portlet development for project, resource and financial
management module.
 Designed and developed grid portlets to display financial roll up at Program
level.

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  Defined processes for movement of configuration from one environment to
another environment.
 Conduct Knowledge Transfer sessions for Integration, configuration and
development overview for client’s technical team.
Organization: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd.
Client: SCB (Standard Chartered Bank)
Project name: CA Clarity – Upgrade & Enhancement
Duration: Oct 2010 to Mar 2011
Role: Clarity Techno-Functional Consultant
Work Location: A1 Technology Park MIDC, Talawade, Pune, India - 412114
Project Description: Scope of this project was to adapt the Business Objects
Universe as per the need of Data Model changes in the new version of Clarity as
well as automate the demand management process.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Handled Impact Analysis, Configuration Changes due to Upgrade and
troubleshooting of performance issue post upgrade.
 Definition of the Scope of the Work for the Universe Design & Demand
Management & Sign off.
 Requirement Gathering for Demand Management Module & Universe Design.
 Worked extensively on Demand Management, Project Management Configuration.
 Simulated Client’s business process for Idea to Project conversion in clarity
using Clarity’s Process module and GEL scripts.
 Using GEL script in Clarity process automated Cost Plan as well as Budget
Plan creation using planned financial value from Idea module.
 Analysis of existing reports to define the acceptance criteria for Universe
Universe Design which will include attributes from existing reports as well
as other attributes from Resource Management, Project Management, Financial
Management and Demand Management.
Environment: Clarity V12, Business Objects XI R2, Crystal Reports XI R2

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd.

Client: BNP Paribas
Project name: BO Reporting Solution and Clarity Development for BNP Paribas
Duration: Dec 2009 to June 2010
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Project Lead
Work Location: A1 Technology Park MIDC, Talawade, Pune, India - 412114
Project Description: Scope of this project was to build custom crystal reports for
Clarity as well as build custom portlets using NSQL.

Roles & Responsibilities

 To analyze the requirement of Fortis users & accordingly configure Clarity.
 BO Universe amendment according to Business requirements.
 BO universe & crystal report movement from one environment to another
environment.
 Crystal report development as per Business requirements.
 Ad-Hoc WEBI Report Development as per Business requirements.
 Configuration involves OBS creation, Security Group creation for users.

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  Project, Resource & Financial data loading via XML Open Gateway(XOG).
 Development of Grid Portlet,Drill-Down Portlets,Pie Type Portlets for Project
Management, Resource Management, Timesheet Management module.
 Job scheduling, Custom stored procedure job development.
 Provide technical & functional clarity support to business users in order to
solve their day to day issues related to Clarity.

Environment: Clarity 8.1.1, UNIX , Oracle 10g, Web-Sphere

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd.

Client: HSBC
Project name: Clarity – Training and Change Management
Duration: June 2009 to Dec 2009
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Project Lead
Work Location: A1 Technology Park MIDC, Talawade, Pune, India - 412114
Project Description: Scope of this project was to build strategy for the conversion
of MSP Project Plans to OWB project plans.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Co-ordinate with Onsite Lead and prepare project manager, resource manager on
boarding plan.
 Gather and analyze ‘As-Is’ Clarity attributes (OBS, access rights etc).
 Determine ‘To-Be State’ and configure Clarity.
 Data loading template design
 Data gathering (Important Project attributes, Project Schedules)
 Analysis, Validatation, Script development and Import data to Training
environment
 Obtain sign off and migrate to Production
 Provide technical & functional clarity support to project managers in order
to solve their day to day issues related to Clarity.

Environment: Clarity 8.1.1,UNIX ,Oracle 10g,Web-Sphere

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd

Client: Alcatel - Lucent
Project name: Clarity Implementation and Development for Alcatel-Lucent
Duration: Mar 2009 to June 2009
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Consultant
Work Location: A1 Technology Park MIDC, Talawade, Pune, India - 412114
Project Description: Purpose of this project was to automate status report creation
via Clarity as well as implement SiteMinder solution for Clarity.

Roles & Responsibilities

 To coordinate with Project Managers and generate Status report and share to
management
 To track the risks identified in various projects and highlighting the
organizational risks

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  To prepare dashboards for the senior leadership
 To provide the functional requirements for reports to the technical team
 To assist the Project Managers in scheduling and resource loading
 To conduct training programs to the users on the change in the tools and
processes
 CA Clarity integration with CA Siteminder to meet the security need

Environment: Clarity 8.1.1,Windows,Oracle 10g,Apache Tomcat

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd.

Client: BNP Paribas
Project name: Clarity Rollout for BNP Paribas
Duration: Feb 2008 to Feb 2009
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Consultant
Work Location: Liverpool Street, London, UK
Project Description: The Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) of BNP Paribas was
seeking to install an industry leading Project and Portfolio Management tool (CA
Clarity) that will allow it to improve its IT governance, to standardize on
Governance tools across CIB, and to help achieve its CMMi objectives. This will be
a single toolset for CIB's IT development and production activities globally.
Key to the successful implementation of Clarity is to successfully migrate data
from the existing diverse legacy systems used across the different metiers within
CIB to Clarity. To provide a robust and user-friendly reporting solution was an
essential success criterion for the project.

Project Description:
The Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) of BNP Paribas was seeking to install
an industry leading Project and Portfolio Management tool (CA Clarity) that
will allow it to improve its IT governance, to standardise on Governance
tools across CIB, and to help achieve its CMMi objectives. This will be a
single toolset for CIB's IT development and production activities globally.
Key to the successful implementation of Clarity is to successfully migrate
data from the existing diverse legacy systems used across the different
metiers within CIB to Clarity. To provide a robust and user friendly
reporting solution was an essential success criterion for the project.

Responsibilities
 Business Objects Universe design and development which will support
customization done by BNP Paribas as well as Clarity core database
attributes.
 Lead data migration stream
 Develop Crystal Reports for Clarity module Resource Management,Project
Management ,Timesheet Management, Demand Managment
 Technical & Funcational co-ordination with offshore technical people
 Design of Clarity SSO- LDAP Interface and implementation

Environment: Clarity 8.1.1,UNIX,Oracle 10g,Websphere 6.1

Organization: ROLTA India Pvt Ltd.

Client: UBS
Project name: SAP - Clarity Interface Development for UBS

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Duration: July 2007 to Dec 2007
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Consultant
Work Location: London, UK
Project Description: Interface was developed which will provide consistent view of
project data across SAP as well as Clarity system. The interface comprises two
components
SAP was used as the source of project actual costs. Process was developed in
clarity with below gel scripts as steps of the process. Process was scheduled in
Clarity to run every night.

Responsibilities:
Below mentioned gel scripts as well as validation stored procedure were
developed.
 To read data from tab separated file & update the temporary table with data:
This step will read data from tab separated file extract & populate the temp
table. This script will archive the import file as well as create the log file
entries.
 To add new Resources to projects: Project team members that do not exist as
resources in Clarity will be created in Clarity with the limited information
available in the interface. Project team members will be allocated to
projects when they are created in Clarity.
 To develop import actuals adapter using gel :
This will run once in a month on specified date and import financial actuals
of previous month from sap-extract into clarity. This will also check for
actuals which are older than six months & if any found those will be deleted.
 Creation Of Cost Plan:
The current actuals and plan of record for each project will be converted to
the project cost plan. This will also run once in a month.
Environment: Clarity 8.0, Windows,Oracle 10g,Apache-Tomcat,GEL(Generic Extraction
Langauage)

Organization: ROLTA India Pvt Ltd.

Client: HSBC
Project name: Upgrade from niku 6.1.5 to Clarity 8.0
Duration: May 2007 to July 2007
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Consultant
Work Location: Leeds, UK
Project Description: Client was using NIKU 6.1.5 for Resource Management as well as
Project Management. Clarity 8.0 was the latest release of NIKU 6.1.5 at that time.
Clarity 8.0 has many features which are not present in NIKU 6.1.5 & client wanted
to use those additional features.

Responsibilities:
While working as a technical consultant following responsibilities were
successfully executed.
 Functional assessment of the as-is system
 Technical assessment of the as-is system

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  Impact analysis of the migration from niku 6.1.5 to Clarity 8.0
 Design of Upgrade path
 Troubleshooting of issues which occurred during upgrade
Environment: niku 6.1.5, Windows, Oracle 9i,Orion

Organization: ROLTA India Pvt Ltd.

Client: Rolta Group Of Companies
Project name: Clarity Implementation for Rolta Group of Companies
Duration: Feb 2006 to Apr 2007
Role: Clarity (PPM) Technical Consultant
Work Location: Rolta Technology Park, Andheri East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400093,
India
Project Description: All the strategic business units present in Rolta were using
different applications for Project Management. They were spending huge amount every
year for mentainence as well as support for those applications. Also they were
looking for central repository for all the projects present in the organization.
Hence Rolta decided to go for Clarity as it was the best tool available for PPM
(Project & Portfolio Management).Besides project management; resource management
was also implemented as a part of this project.

Responsibilities:
 Installation & configuration of Clarity 7.5.3 on Windows server with Orion
as application server.
 Advanced customization of NSQL and portlets for Production Monitoring &
Assessment Reports
 Development of Project Management and operations related reports.
 Writing of scripts using PERL,GEL and SQL for migration of data.
 Developed jobs for automation of updates to certain resource attributes.
 Customization of Clarity GUI using clarity studio.
 Developed portlets for Capacity planning.
 To design backup plan & job scheduling plan.

Provided Incident Management (level 1 and level 2) and Problem Management (level 1
and level 2) during Go-live.
Environment: Clarity 7.5.3,Windows,SQL Server 2000,Orion

Certifications
 CA Clarity 7.5.3 Technical Boot Camp
 CA Clarity r8 Studio 200 Exam
 CA Clarity r8 Technical Boot Camp 200 Exam
 ITIL Foundation

Education
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science & Engg.) from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India in June 2005.

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Professional Organizations
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd., Talawade, Pune
Rolta India Ltd., Mumbai

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