Ramesh Anne

• Recruited, hired and trained employees on operations and performance expectations.
• Cultivated and maintained relationships to promote positive work culture.
• Managed staff, financials and key performance indicators to facilitate business operations.
• Guided and motivated staff to drive maximum performance.
• Developed and presented new ideas and conceptualized new approaches and solutions.
• Analyzed problematic situations and occurrences to provide solutions and facilitate company survival and growth.
• Partnered with staff to create professional development plans to support personal and business growth.
• Built strong referral network to generate new business opportunities.
• Planned and implemented strategies to grow revenue.
• Coordinated activities with other departments to expedite work and improve interdepartmental performance.
• Supported work-life balance to improve staff morale.
• Generated reports to review data and issue corrective actions for improvements.
• Worked with department managers to formulate annual budgets.
• Successfully improved employment turnover through creating incentive and training programs.
• Leveraged market knowledge and studied competitive landscape to drive revenue.
• Recommended corrective actions to conform to quality specifications.

• Implemented market products as well as experience in architect/building custom product development depending on the project requirement for faster deliveries while keeping in mind the technical architecture, flexibility and scalability is inline with organizational growing needs.

Following are few accomplishments in this position where I worked with business side and guided technical team/s:

- Forecast and Market Analysis

• .NET web based solution and QlikView for data discovery.
• The project is to plan sales (yearly and monthly) and keep track of achievement rate by territory, Sales team, factories etc.
• Data helps key people plan market penetration strategies.
• Forecast data collection from worldwide sales team
• Data collection of actual loading from 18+ factories around world
• Data of actual billings from finance teams
• Competitor market share vs. available market share
• Additional technologies used are SSIS, SSRS, MS SQL
  

- Shop Floor Management (MES) System:

• .NET web based and rich client solution
• System helps factory (Semiconductor) manage various business segments like Equipment (ATE) rental, Electrical Test Services, Reliability Services and Turnkey Services.
• The modules in the solution includes Equipment Reservation, Order Entry and Tracking, Customer Service, Pricing Database, Equipment and Certifications, Operations Data Collection, Purchase Orders, Shipping and Receiving, Invoicing and Integrated Label Printing Systems.
• The project also involves integrations including Customer B2B. Some of them are import SalesForce Quotes data to pricing module and export the invoicing data to Microsoft Dynamics (Finance system)

- OEE Data Collection and Analysis

• Solution is to collect/mine data generated from ATE equipment and be able to use it for Reports or Analysis purposes.
• Few required outputs: Generate equipment related reports/Alerts, .NET web based solution for cases like Wafer Map generation or QlikView for big data analysis for cases like monitoring yields for customer devices and Test results OR Equipment KPI's and see a trend over months and years.
• Complexity involved streamlining the processes in the company so that data coming can be properly recognized and used
• Also equipments run on Linux/Unix platforms and generates binary files which needs to be converted to ASCII per the spec (depending on equipment) before storing the information in the database.
• Gathered requirements of technical and business stakeholders to help balance competing needs.
• Translated business requirements into functional design specifications and managed associated changes.
• Developed data security and disaster recovery procedures.
• Assigned and reviewed work of IT project managers, systems analysts and developers.
• Globally managed several satellite IT locations, maintaining secure and operational corporate infrastructure.
• Fielded requests for application support, troubleshot system problems and offered guidance to help team resolve various technical issues.
• Met with stakeholders to collaborate and resolve problems.
• Reviewed program plans to develop and coordinate activities.
• Reviewed and approved project plans prior to implementation.
• Communicated relevance of organizational goals, policies and procedures to IT department staff.
• Controlled operational IT budget and expenditures within department parameters.

• Worked as part of a team to understand new requirements / changes. Manage existing applications including roll out of new features as well as Software Coding for both front and back end.
• Oversaw each project's technical requirements and completed every milestone on time.
• Reviewed project documentation and made important changes to match updates to project scope.
• Tackled development tasks based on system requirements and documented approaches.
• Implemented and tested enhancement feature requests to improve product functionality and extend performance.
• Leveraged multiple programming languages to develop applications for various platforms.
  

Few accomplishments in this role:

FP&A Solution, WaferMap Tool, Test Floor Tracking System

• Worked on Software Development as well as on site visit to Customers for Implementation.
• Conducted full lifecycle software development from planning to deployment and maintenance.
• Reviewed and modified unit and integration tests to improve software quality and reliability.
• Analyzed solutions and coding fixes for software problems.
• Developed web applications using variety of engineering languages.
• Coordinated with project managers to meet development timelines and plan testing.
• Worked on Custom Solution for tracking activities in Manufacturing Facility
• Visited Clients in China to support, implement new features as well as collect requirements
• Worked on a Custom solution to generate Test Patterns, Vectors and WGL files to be loaded on equipments.
• Additional Technologies used are 4th Dimension, VC++