RUKMAJ CHANDAVAR

Contact: +91 98456 11668

http://www.linkedin.com/in/rukmajchandavar
E-Mail: rukmaj.chandavar@gmail.com

Strengths

A dynamic professional with wide range of experience in SDLC, Project Management &
Product Management and Geospatial industry (GIS)

Expertise in project management techniques (such as Agile SCRUM, water fall etc.,) & activities
(such as estimating, planning, risk and issue management, monitoring, closing etc.,) to deliver the

best outcomes in defined timelines and resources.

Proven skills in building and managing teams (local, virtual and cross-cultural) to work in sync
with the corporate set parameters & motivating them for achieving business and individual
goals.

Sound knowledge of various technologies and languages (OOP, SQL, RDBMS, Web, UNIX, Perl,
Shell, Windows)

Experience in building amalgamated databases with necessary business heuristics for the
domain (worked on property risk management databases, world geography databases)

Expertise in geospatial domain and products (ArcGIS, QGIS, MapInfo, AutoCAD Map)

A meticulous executive successful in achieving project goals under tight deadlines, creating
and implementing vision, identifying and developing business opportunities.

An effective communicator with exceptional relationship management skills with the ability
to relate to people at any level of business and management.

Experience

Working on solution definition for insurance exposure product for a multibillion dollar
insurance company in US

Built and managed the world wide multilingual (300+ languages) location database with
hierarchy for serving all personalization and ad targeting needs in respect to geography

Built tools and techniques using latest technologies to maintain coverage, quality,
consistency and currency of location database

Have managed various 3rd party datasets for multiple databases (US building database,
worldwide location database) from identifying to sourcing and also developing plans to

gradually reducing vendor dependency in later stages

Handled high resolution geocoding data implementation and quality control for RMS's
flagship product RiskLink

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/rukmajchandavar
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Served as technology and process adviser to gain operational efficiencies, established

remote development center for developers & analysts and built system for feedback on
product from internal customers

Established developer technical support team from ground up with varying talents
including .Net, Java and PowerBuilder and achieved customer delight by delivering quality
support for MapInfo developer SDK

Successfully handled crisis raised by business critical GIS application (built using Autodesk
MapGuide and Oracle) going down, causing more than 95% of users unable to access the

application

Have supported and trained users all across the world on Autodesk's Geospatial line of
products

Contributed significantly into creating and expanding knowledgebase by publishing

technical solution articles on Autodesk's Geospatial line of products

Have developed and managed parcel and utility data sets creation projects from ground-up,
with production teams as large as 50 people.

Employment
Sep14 Till date with Mindtree as Project Manager
Working on defining a solution for a multibillion dollar insurance client, with integration on many
technologies including business process management, master data management, risk accumulation,
map publication, geolocation intelligence etc.,
Nov11 Jan14 with Yahoo! as Data Manager/Principal Content Developer
Developed, enhanced and maintained GeoInformatics data for all of Yahoo!s properties, used
specifically in content personalization for more than 700 million users and serving the
geographically relevant ads to garner the revenue.
Drawing up requirements, working with various teams to build and ensure a qualitative, effective
and technologically abreast tool is available to maintain and enhance this database. Also managing
necessary vendor relationships to keep the data abreast and panoptic.

RUKMAJ CHANDAVAR
Contact: +91 98456 11668

http://www.linkedin.com/in/rukmajchandavar
E-Mail: rukmaj.chandavar@gmail.com

Aug09 Nov11 with Risk Management Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., as Project Manager
Lead Product Management team consisting of researchers for ExposureSource database targeted
towards Property & Casualty Insurance sector. Understanding the market needs and drawing
roadmap for future releases, and establishing required resources have been major responsibilities.
Sep08 Aug09 Freelancing
Implementation of solutions consisting MapInfo geospatial products using .Net and conducting
Land surveys. Other small macro and template development projects for process improvements
Jul07 Sep08 with Pitney Bowes MapInfo India Pvt. Ltd., as Sr. Software Engineer/Lead Consultant
Guided entire location wide services team that comprised of Technical Consultants/Statistical
Modelers/Developer Technical Support/Financial Operations groups for all functional aspects;
Served as GIS domain expert & assisted the team members in their projects to design and build GIS
applications. Successfully handled multiple projects involving teams across the globe and multiple
MapInfo products; established entire developer technical support team from ground up.
Mar06 Jul07 with IBM Global Services (Contracted by SDIL) as Team Lead
Handled application migration from Melbourne, Australia to remote development center at
Bangalore Later the business and mission critical applications were completely supported and
enhanced from remote development center. Handling and preventing crisis to keep the production
going was critical.
Feb04 Feb06 with Autodesk India Pvt. Ltd., as ISD Support Engineer
Served as Technical Support engineer catering to worldwide English speaking customers,
troubleshooting customer issues and suggested custom solutions or relevant products to enhance
their production methodologies. Developed and reviewed technical solution publications to
enhance the knowledgebase and reduce support calls.
Jul00 Jan04 with Nobel Software Systems Pvt. Ltd., as GIS Technician
Started as a member in data development team and later managed many projects from data
capturing to quality control and final delivery through digital or printed atlas maps.

RUKMAJ CHANDAVAR
Contact: +91 98456 11668

http://www.linkedin.com/in/rukmajchandavar
E-Mail: rukmaj.chandavar@gmail.com

Education
Executive General Management Program from IIM Lucknow in 2009
B.E in Civil Engineering from Visheswaraya Technical University in 2005
Diploma in Civil Engineering from Board of Technical Education in 1999 (9th Rank in Karnataka
State)