Sreekandakumar Pillai (Sree Pillai) is a technical project manager, geek, technology blogger and budding entrepreneur.

Work Experience

• 14 years of IT experience, with 10 years at Infosys Technologies Limited
• Experienced as Project Manager, Technical Project Manager, People Manager handling a wide variety of business applications and technologies
• Managed big projects up to 50 resources – both onsite (US) and offshore
• 6 years of experience in the US, working with the client, managing and coordinating the projects between onsite and offshore location
• Experienced to handle senior roles in people / project management in service industry firms or product development firms or prefer to work as a consultant to projects
• Always interested in web development and maintenance projects, can work in Internet startups as a partner or innovator

Specialties

• Software development life cycle process experience
• Account management, project management, people management and client interfacing
• Technical capabilities in web development in J2EE, Microsoft .NET and Open Source platforms
• Experience in managing web projects in Microsoft and Java platforms
• Up-to-date with latest web trends like Web2.0, Blog, Wiki, AJAX, Social Networking, Search Engine Optimization, Online Marketing, web usability, web hosting, etc.
• Writes technical and management blog and runs a social website during leisure time

Work Experience Details

Founder & Owner, Zetta Technologies

Duration: April 2007 – Present

• Founded Zetta Technologies, based in Kazhakkuttam (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India) developing websites, portals and ecommerce sites based on PHP and MySQL
• Developed EZCMS – Easy Content Management System to enable customers to manage their website, create new pages and upload images and files
• Expert of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, AJAX technologies
• Very hands on with WordPress and similiar Content Management systems
• Manages projects on web development, hosting, maintenance, e-marketing, affiliate programmes, partnership, advertising, etc.
• Manage e-commerce projects
• Writes at our technology blog TECK.IN on mobile, web technology, IT and management
• Manages Ananthapuri.com for Malaylees across the world which provides wide range of services
• Also writes about technology in Malayalam language at Sankethikam.com
• Runs a website on Spirituality and Advaita Vendanta in Malayalam at Sreyas.in

Project Manager at Infosys Technologies (infosys.com)

Duration: January 1998 – March 2007

• All project management process from project initiation through closure
• Coordination with onsite /offshore lead and client interfacing
• Project planning, tracking and status reporting to client and senior management
• Mentor, motivate and lead the team to achieve project and individual goal
• Manage risks and challenges in the project
• High level architecture review, estimation review and proposal preparation
• Prepare, plan, execute, track and report strategies for quality improvement
• Performance appraisal process
• Conduct recruitment interviews
• Other organization initiatives like technical/domain center of excellence, social service and other committees
• Won Best Managed Project award in Infosys Technologies, Thiruvananthapuram
• Won Collaborative Partnership Award from IVS unit of Infosys for Technology Innovation

Roles Performed at Infosys Technologies Limited

Have worked on various technologies like Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 databases, COBOL, Power Builder and Java programming languages, and web development in JSP, Servlet, .NET, C#, ASP, HTML, XML, JavaScript, DHTML and CSS. Worked mostly in retail business domain.

• [Jul '06 - Mar '07] Managed multiple technology projects (J2EE, .Net, Oracle) for a leading  telecom company (British Telecom) and provided technology guidance to th team for deriving at optimal solutions. Won technology innovative award for contribution to the project.
• [May '06 - Jun '06] Managed a J2EE web development project for a leading pharmacy company (Walgreens) based in Chicago, IL, USA.
• [Jan '06 - Apr '06] Managed application maintenance & support projects for a leading consumer packaged foods (CPG) company (Kraft Foods) based in Chicago, IL, USA. Work includes application in various business area and multiple technologies.
• [Jun '05 - Dec '05] Managed web development projects for a leading e-commerce website (Amazon.com) based in Seattle, WA, USA. Work includes multiple technologies and client management.
• [Sep '04 - May '05] Managed web development project for a leading movie rental company (Blockbuster.com) based in Dallas, TX, USA. Technology involved are J2EE (JSP, Servlet, STRUTS, Weblogic, Vignette, Search Engine, Web Services), .NET (ASP.NET, C#, XML, MSMQ, Remoting, Web Services), CSS/HTML/DHTML/JavaScript, Crystal Reports 10, Oracle 9i and SQL Server 2000. Won Best Managed Project award for this project, in CMM level 5.
• [Aug '00 - Aug '04] Managed web development projects for a leading apparel retailer (Polo Ralph Lauren) based in Lyndhurst, NJ. My work included managing, coordinating and supporting web development and maintenance of 20+ Intranet applications. Technology involved are .NET (ASP.NET, C#, XML), Java (JSP, Servlet, Applet), CORBA, CSS/HTML/DHTML/JavaScript, ASP and Oracle.
• [Apr '00 - Jul '00] This mainframe project was executed for a grocery chain store (Hannaford) in East Coast based in Portland, ME. They have more than 100 stores all over the USA. The project was to develop and maintain applications for their Distribution and Warehousing Systems. The platform is Mainframe – COBOL, VSAM, CICS, IDMS and DB2.
• [Oct '99 - Mar '00] This was a web development project for a medical e-learning startup (Medschool.com) based in Santa Monica, CA. The website was launched on 1-Jan-2000. The website was developed using Solaris 2.6, NES 3.6, NAS 2.1, Internet Publishing System and Oracle 8i.
• [Sep '98 - Sep '99] This project was executed for a beef company (Monfort) based in Greeley, CO. The available to promise system was to schedule production in the plant based on the open orders and cattle availability. The platform was Mainframe COBOL, DB2 and Power Builder.
• [Jan '98 - Aug '98] My first project in Infosys was for a power and gas company (Southern California Edison) serving Southern California, USA. We were developing a Customer Service System based on Mainframe COBOL and DB2 as back-end, Power Builder 6.5 as the front-end and Sybase Net Gateway as the middle tier.

Education

• Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India [1993-1997]

Personal

Sree lives in Thiruvananthapuram, India.

I am very simple and fun loving. Enjoys talking to friends and values friendship. Love trekking in the forest and a dip in the river. Love driving and site seeing. Hope to travel round the globe, see different places, people and culture. Like to see everybody always happy and smiling!

My interests are hiking, travel & site seeing, teaching, new technology, web development, social service activities and blogging. In general, interested in anything that requires research and analysis, and useful to others.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men: Gandhiji