Karan Khurana

Bio

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

Studies at:
European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)
Location in:
Berlin, Germany

Karan has worked/studied in

  • Germany
  • India

Karan speaks

  • Hindi
  • English
  • German

Karan has experience in

  • IT

Work

2008 – 2009
(Jan – Jan)

Technical Lead

Infosys Technologies , India
  • 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

Analyst Programmer

Infosys Technologies , India
  • 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

Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies , India
  • 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

Education

2009 – 2010

European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
1999 – 2003

University of Pune

Bachelor of Engineering; specialized in Electronics (Bachelors)

Clubs

Not a member of any clubs

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

Additional Info

Nationality:
  • Indian