Karan Khurana | BusinessBecause

Karan Khurana

Six years of technical, consulting, and team leadership experience in the IT sector; multilingual; extensive international work experience in the financial and CRM software domains; a proven team player; easily adaptable to diverse cultures; strong communication skills.

Technology: Computer literacy: mainframes, SQL, DB2, and IMS databases, Visual Basic, MS Office

Currently doing a Full Time MBA at European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)
Location in Berlin, Germany

Education

2009 - 2010

European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)
MBA

Master of Business Administration

1999 - 2003

University of Pune
Bachelors

Bachelor of Engineering; specialized in Electronics

Work

2008 - 2009

Infosys Technologies, India
Technical Lead

IT and IT-enabled services provider, 4 billion USD turnover, 100,000 employees

Managed a team of five people
Recommended a new revenue-generation opportunity for one of our largest clients: American Express, Europe; analyzed and designed the project’s framework; scheduled and allocated tasks to software engineers during the project
Provided technical and consulting expertise in various initiatives to save technical maintenance costs by 2% annually
Mentored and trained a team of three software engineers, two of whom won organization-level awards

2006 - 2008

Infosys Technologies, India
Analyst Programmer

IT and IT-enabled services provider, 4 billion USD turnover, 100,000 employees

Spent six months in Sydney, Australia, on a credit card merchants acquisition project for American Express, Japan and Asia-Pacific
Coordinated the software lifecycle for an internal CRM reporting project for American Express, Australia and Asia
Gathered business requirements and prepared related Method 1 project documentation
Provided technical expertise in data migration projects

2003 - 2006

Infosys Technologies, India
Software Engineer

IT and IT-enabled services provider, 4 billion USD turnover, 100,000 employees

Spent a year in Sydney, Australia, in a client manager role and coordinated multiple projects
Worked as a software developer on diverse projects in the banking domain for American Express, North America
Completed multiple technical and domain-related trainings in the financial sector

Additional Information

Achievements

Technical Paper Presentation Awards: IEEE and ISA in Pune (India) Electronics in Automobiles (2002), Financial domain: NCFM Certification on Securities Trading in Bangalore (India) 2005

Interests