Chethan Padmashali
Mobile: +91-9740202652 ~ E-Mail: padmashalichethan@gmail.com
Address : F-204, Purva Fountain Sq, Marathahalli, Bangalore 37
Professional Profile
IT professional with 11 years 8 months rich experience in Project Management, Mainframe Technology,
Software Development, System Analysis, IT Consulting, Technical Support with well known organizations.
The domain expertise in handling the Life Insurance projects, Analysis, Design, Development and Support. The
wealth of expertise covers Project Management tools (Daptiv, MPP), Mainframe Technology (Cobol, DB2,
VSAM, CICS, MFE etc). Domain expertise in Life Insurance Sector. Worked extensively in Life Insurance
Products like Vantage One, wmA, OTA Product. Worked with prestigious clients like MassMutual, MetLife,
American Insurance Group, AEGON, American Family, Target etc. This also includes overseas exposure for
more than 3 years.
Proficiency Forte
Functional Skill Set:
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Program/Project Management
Mainframe Technology
SDLC
Process Management
Customer Relationship Management
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Life Insurance Knowledge
Application/ Product Development
Solution Designing
Technical Support
Offshore / Onsite Model
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Delivery Management
Business & System Analysis
Quality Implementation
People Management
Employment History
Company Name
Computer Sciences Corporations (CSC)
SYNTEL India Pvt. Ltd
Designation
Project Manager
Software Engineer
Start date
Mar 2002
Aug 2000
End Date
Till Date
Mar 2002
Engagement Overview
Project Title: AEGON – Transamerica Account
Team Size: 30
Client: AEGON
Duration: Since Mar’11
Role: Project Manager
Project Location: CSC, Noida - India, Cedar Rapids – US.
Environment: Daptiv, ClearQuest.
Highlights
The Transamerica is a part of AEGON group. AEGON is an international life insurance, pensions and asset
management company headquartered in The Hague, The Netherlands. AEGON has businesses in over 20 markets
in the Americas, Europe and Asia and its ambition is to be a leader in all its chosen markets by 2015. CSC is
supporting various development, maintenance and production support projects for various CSC products at AEGON.
Responsibilities :
 To analyse project(s) requirements and to define the project scope.
 To develop budget estimates and build project teams.
 To provide technical and business direction and support to project team.
 To create and maintain a project schedule that communicates tasks, milestones, status and resource
allocation.
 To manage planning, tracking and reporting of the project.
 To ensure process compliance.
 To coordinate delivery of development and production releases that meet quality standards.
 To implement and manage project changes as per the change management process.
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To constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders.
Project Title: Mass Mutual and MetLife – Account
Team Size: 30
Client: MassMutual and MetLife
Duration: Mar’07 – Mar’11
Role: Project Manager/Lead
Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Abend-Aid, Expeditor, Endeavor. MFE.
Project Location: CSC, Noida - India, East Hartford - Springfield – US.
Highlights
MassMutual is a leader in the insurance industry and a leader in sales of traditional life products. MassMutual has a
critical need to re-price its traditional products to use 2001 CSO Mortality Tables and to refresh its traditional
portfolio with new features. MassMutual has determined that a significant investment is required in its "Ordinary"
system to meet business needs and is seeking an alternative solution for its new traditional life product portfolio.
Responsibilities :
 Offshore Delivery Management of the projects like Production Support, Staff Augmentation, development
and maintenance.
 Application design, Implement business requirement to the application.
 Onsite coordinator.
 Worked extensively in Mainframe technology - COBOL, DB2 and JCL.
 Request for proposal (RFP), Team Management, Appraisal, Compensation review.
 People Management, Quality Management
Project Title: Wealth Management Accelerator
Team Size: 20
Duration: Oct’05 – Mar’07
Role: Project Leader
Environment: Mainframe, MFE, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Abend-Aid, Expeditor, PVCS. VSAM, Dump Master, DB2
Spufi, Beyond Compare.
Project Location: CSC, Noida - India, East Hartford - US.
Highlights
CSC’s Wealth Management Accelerator® is the industry’s first comprehensive administration software that lets you
shift freely between accumulation and disbursement at any time — eliminating the need to manage two separate
contracts after maturity.
Wealth Management Accelerator is a function-rich system for life insurance and annuities that simplifies back-office
processes, reduces IT maintenance and gives producers and policy owners immediate access to online
transactions. It’s the only system designed to give your customers the freedom to take control of their assets.
Responsibilities :
 Developed new comprehensive life administration software.
 Application design, Implement business requirement to the application.
 Onsite coordinator.
 Worked extensively in Mainframe technology - COBOL, DB2 and JCL.
 Leading a team of 20 resources both at onsite and offshore.
Project Title: AIG-American General
Team Size: 15
Client: American General
Duration: Jun’05 – Jun’06
Role: Project Leader
Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, CICS, Abend-Aid, Expeditor, SCB. MFE
Project Location: East Hartford, US and Noida, India
Highlights
AIG-American General has a number of Vantage initiatives. They have requested the company to implement
following projects:
Responsibilities :
 Support for Equity Indexed Universal Life products.
 Complete AIG-AG’s backlogged service requests
 Retrofit and test five Annuity enhancements from service packs 7-16.
 Upgrade Vantage-One from 15.6 to 15.16 VSAM.
Project Title: Vantage One Product Development
Team Size: 20
Duration: Mar’02 – Oct’05
Role: Module Lead
Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Abend-Aid, Expeditor, PVCS. VSAM, Dump Master, DB2 Spufi,
Beyond Compare.
Project Location: CSC, East Hartford, US and Noida, India
Highlights
Vantage-One is a insurance product that supports all the key business processes of an Insurance company. It’s
basically a Life Insurance product, owned by the company and supports 4 different business lines such as Interest
sensitive whole life, Traditional whole life, Universal whole life and Annuities.
Responsibilities :
 Upgrading the existing base Vantage-One product.
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Designing, Coding, Testing of new functional enhancement on the system.
Performance tuning of the production for various Vantage-One clients like MassMutual, AIG, and AEGON
etc.
Client Support on implementing various Vantage-One releases.
Developed new tool VP/MS utilized by business experts in a life insurance company to create calculation
models for new business and policy administration features.
Project Title: 3D Interface Project
Team Size: 8
Client: Target Corporation
Duration: Sep’01 – Mar’02
Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IMS –DB/DC, TELON, EASYTRIEVE, VSAM, DB2, Abend-Aid, Expeditor,
Endeavor.
Project Location: Syntel India Pvt Ltd. Mumbai, India
Responsibilities :
 Requirement gathering and implementing solution in the system.
 Setting up new programs and jobs.
Project Title: Employee Number Expansion
Team Size: 15
Client: Target Corporation
Duration: Aug’00 – Sep’01
Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, IMS –DB/DC, TELON, EASYTRIEVE, VSAM, DB2, File-Aid, Abend-Aid,
Expeditor, Endeavor.
Project Location: Syntel India Pvt Ltd., Mumbai, India
Responsibilities :
 Requirement gathering and implementing solution in the system.
 Setting up new programs and jobs.
Domain Expertise: (State NA, if Not Applicable)
Domain
Life Insurance
Retail Chain
Specific Area in Domain
Vantage One, wmA, OTA
Experience (Months)
122
18
Technical Expertise
Project Management Tools
Daptiv PPM, MS Project
Technology / Classification
Mainframe
Primary Skills
COBOL
DB2
JCL
CICS
Experience
(Months)
113
113
113
60
Secondary Skills
REXX
IMS
VSAM
MFE
Experience
(Months)
12
12
60
60
Product
Primary Skills
Vantage One
Wealth Management Accelerator (wmA)
Experience
(Months)
60
60
Secondary Skills
OTA
Experience
(Months)
24
Education
Degree
Bachelors
Qualification
Bachelor of Engineering
College / University / Institution
NIT, Karnataka, Surthkal
Year of Passing
2000
Professional Activities, Certifications & Training attended
Course / Certification Name
FLMI – Level 1
Institution
LOMA (Life Insurance)
Year
2002