Nilesh Chavan

Nilesh Chavan

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Assistant Vice President Product Management
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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  • Sutherland
    Assistant Vice President Product Management
    Sutherland
    Aug 2023 - Current (3 years 3 months)
    Developed and Implementing Single platform Sutherland altraPRA (Spring Framework, Microservice Architecture) for One Order, Ticket and PNR for Riyadh air. Zero transition for an airline to migrate from Legacy Passenger Revenue Accounting platform to NDC and finally to Order Accounting. Platform handle OSIADN and SSCN XML/JSON messages and provide acknowledgement in real time. As of now Platform handle 100 XML messages per second.
    Platform is integrated with Sutherland altraAR for Account Receivables from BSP and ARC using REST API
    Platform is integrated with FAAS for Sale and Refund Fare Audit using REST API
    Platform is integrated with Airline DWH which is a real time interface using KAFKA TOPIC.
    Integrated ROBOT to avo
  • Sutherland
    Sr. Director Product Management
    Sutherland
    Apr 2022 - Jul 2023 (1 year 4 months)
    Designed altra suite of products like altraMIS and altraDOC (Micro-service based, Java Spring Boot, Spring framework, Power BI, SQL Server), which are used for analytics and direct operating cost within an airline industry respectively. Analytics platform is an independent and real time OLAP solution feed on Apache Kakfa messages and supported with SARIMA model, which is seasonality based Autoregessive integrated moving averages for predictive analytics.

    AltraDOC is a complete Billing Management solution from Invoice capture till settlement for airlines as well as non-airlines vendors. Its supported with robust rule engine (scripted in Python) and invoice matching abilities at various configurable components. Application suppo
  • Sutherland
    Director of Product Development
    Sutherland
    Apr 2018 - Apr 2022 (4 years 1 month)
    Designed and developed web-based, REST API based, Airline Passenger Revenue Accounting product, led with Microservice Architecture. Got certified with ARM index from IATA. Product is designed to handle One Order, PNR as well as traditional 10-digit e-tickets and paper tickets. Its a single platform available in Travel Industry to handle all 3 forms of data in Passenger Revenue Accounting.

    Sutherland altraPRA is a multi-tenant and database agnostic product based on Java Sprint boot, Angular front end and supported with Jasper, SQL Server and power BI for analytics.
    Designed and developed following Key features.
    All Industry Input ( BSP, ARC, Amadeus, Sabre, Galileo, RES, HP-Share, ATPCO TCN, IS-IDEC)
    All Industry
  • Win
    Head Of Business Development and Project Integration
    Win
    Sep 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 6 months)
    Working as Head Of Business Development and Project Integration at WIN, part of WCA World, INC, USA. WCA is the world’s largest and most powerful network of independent freight forwarders, with over 7200 member offices in 192 countries around the world. World Information Network is IT Company of WCA, headquartered in Bangkok with office at Miami, London and Mumbai.
    Manage worldwide sale and support for E-AWB ,Airway bill and Container Tracking , Branded Mobile Application, Job Order (Java) ,which are used by more than 100 customers across 5 continents.

    Airline tracking API ,which covers 70 international airlines and 30 Sea carriers including Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, American President Lines, Atlantic Container Line, etc with
  • Mercator Solutions
    Product Manager
    Mercator Solutions
    Dec 2015 - Aug 2016 (9 months)
    Managing product Management for RAPID (D2K, Oracle) which is implemented for 50+ international airlines.
    • Product Backlog identification, prioritization and establish product backlog refinement process.
    • User story review, Definition of done with acceptance criteria.
    • Product innovation for value proposition and customer delight. Participate in customer forum and
    IATA conference.
    • Product launch and expansion initiatives, POC with customers on new initiatives.
    • Accountable for the Quarter-On-Quarter P&L for the product unit and aggressive growth.
    • Identification of competitive products, opportunities for innovation and assessment of market
    obstacles and technical hurdles to
  • NIIT Technologies
    Head of Product
    NIIT Technologies
    Apr 2012 - Dec 2015 (3 years 9 months)
    Solution Delivery Manager for product enhancements and implementations at various clients such as Malaysian Airlines, Emirates Airlines, Qatar Airways, SriLankan Airlines, Jet Airways, Jet Blue,etc.
    • Acted as Product Owner for multiple modules/Streams. Collaborated with scrum teams for daily standups, product backlog planning, Sprint retrospective and Sprint review. Assisted in effort estimation with T-shirt sizing, velocity baseline, trained team with user story and release burn-down charts. Ensured change management through product backlog grooming sessions.
    • Prepared feasibility reports highlighting the proposed system’s viability in terms of cost, timelines, scope, technology, goals and deliverables to proceed with the prop
  • Accelya
    Group Manager Product Implementation, Development & Support
    Accelya
    Aug 2006 - Jan 2012 (5 years 6 months)
    REVERA is passenger and cargo revenue accounting product, which is developed on Oracle –Java platform. Managed internal stakeholders for change request, development schedule, risk management, status updates, reference data workshop and application data migration from RAPID to REVERA. Major product customisation and implementation done for Vietnam Airlines , Etihad Airways , Air Berlin and Rawanda Air.
    • Create Project brief and project charter. Conduct hand-over meeting from sales/account manager and identify high level risks and related mitigation.
    • Prepare high level project schedule in line with defined scope and deliverable's in project charter. Plan reference data workshop.
    • Define Project activity and task as per appr
  • SkyTech
    Project Development Manager
    SkyTech
    Mar 2004 - Jul 2006 (2 years 5 months)
    Major projects implemented for United Airlines such as Interline re-engineering and load planning. Managed phase wise delivery following modified waterfall methodologies. Team size:-22 (Database: Oracle Front end: JDK1.3, Application server: Weblogic, Rational Rose) (Cost 1.2 Million USD$
    POC on Frequent flier product for NOK Air, POC on Haj Travel for Air India, POC on Joint product of Reservation, departure control and revenue accounting for point- point low cost carrier such African Star Airways.
    Responsibilities
    • Conduct feasibility study, analyse business requirement in order to estimate, value benefits and identify high level risks.
    • Generating and managing project plan (milestones), resource plan, budget and ri
  • Mercator Solutions an Accelya Group Company
    Sr. Software Analyst
    Mercator Solutions an Accelya Group Company
    Jan 1999 - Jan 2004 (5 years 1 month)
    Airline Revenue accounting Product Solution Design and development,
    Led team of developers for end-end development of Flown interface, Code share billing management, Revenue estimation/provision, Alliance management, Tax management for Passenger Revenue Accounting, RAPID.
    Successfully implemented Flown Interface for Olympic Airways, 1999 and Royal Morocco in 2000
    Successfully implemented Code share Billing for Emirates Airlines by 2002 and Interline billing for Kenya Airways in 2004.
  • Tata Infotech
    Senior Software Engineer
    Tata Infotech
    Jul 1998 - Jul 1999 (1 year 1 month)
    Database administration of Easydeal product for retail banking.
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    Sr. EDP Manager
    Mananagar Coop Bank Ltd
    Mar 1997 - Jul 1998 (1 year 5 months)
    7 Branch automation with retail banking software, EDP development and maintenance of payroll, Material management, Loan processing.
  • Reliance Industries Limited
    Software Engineer
    Reliance Industries Limited
    Oct 1995 - Feb 1997 (1 year 5 months)
    Software development for payroll, warehouse management, Maintenance control
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  • Collège de Paris
    Master of Science - MS, Data Science
    Collège de Paris
    May 2021 - May 2023 (2 years 1 month)
  • Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
    Executive MBA, Business Administration
    Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
    Jan 2007 - Jan 2008 (1 year 1 month)
    Studied for executive program for business administration
  • Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani
    MS, Software System
    Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2006 (2 years 1 month)
    Studied for Master of science (software systems)
  • University of Mumbai
    BE, Computer Science
    University of Mumbai
    Jan 1991 - Jan 1995 (4 years 1 month)
    Studied for computer science engineering
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    Passenger Revenue prediction using Time series algorithm of Machine learning
    Achieved 90% accuracy for predicting passenger revenue using train n test methodology of Machine learning
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    One Order Accounting
    Designed and developed single platform for processing Order, Ticket and PNR as Passenger Revenue Accounting using technical stack such as spring boot Java framework , no SQL(Mongo DB), Spark, SQL Server, Python, PowerBI.
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    Najm Award for Oneworld development
    Mercator Emirates Airlines
    Apart from project management responsibilities, Nilesh acted as BA in absence of BA and SBA. Thus project was well managed and saved from delay in requirement gathering process and completed before schedule time.
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    Najm Award for Darwin Project
    Mercator Emirates Airlines
    Ensured timely delivery in-spite of changing requirement and managed multiple departmental interface effectively.
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    Project Excellence award in year 2011 at Accelya kale consultants LTD.
    Accelya Kale Solutions Ltd
    Project Management
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    Software service award in year 2002 at Mercator, Emirates airlines.
    Mercator Emirates Airlines
    • Software service award.
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    Galaxy Star award winner
    Accelya Kale Solutions Ltd
    Galaxy Star award winner in year 2008 at Accelya kale for SLA improvement from 60% to 95%
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    Project management framework
    Apr
    Many organizations apply their own technics for arriving project ranking (project dashboard ranking like Green, Amber and RED) is currently a popular topic of discussion. However, there is no universal framework available to calculate it uniquely.

    Further, the challenges of managing software projects arise because the project task is divided and distributed across. The task division and distribution can make it difficult for project participants to understand the task, its purpose.
    By studying IT projects within defined scope, research study scope is limited to come up with project ranking dashboard. This shall help project stakeholders to govern project effectively along with standard practice applied using PMI knowledge
This is a community-created genome.