Mr. Praitida Chowdhury
Enterprise Architect and Technology Consultant
35+ years IT industry veteran with wide ranging experiences encompassing development, research, support, training, project management, Business consulting and Enterprise Architecture, for diverse industries and customers in India and other geographies across the world.
Primarily engaged in consulting, and thought leadership exercises involving information technology, business and e-governance solution areas.
Key Industrial Experience –
Enterprise Architecture Consulting – Stakeholder analysis, Business & IT landscape As Is analysis and To Be state definition, Application Rationalization, Solution optioning, Business process & IT strategy and Roadmap definition.
- Consulting study for development of an e-Governance platform for a State Government for delivery of citizen services and involved definition of To Be Processes and Functional Requirement Specification.
- Solution Architecture for Hospital Managements system, B2B eCommerce system, PoS payment gateway, IoT based monitoring, for diverse public and private sector and clientele.
- Proof of concept for AI based scenario detection (YOLO) with Adruino microcontroller based hardware integration to PLC, for a manufacturer
- Documenting Business process flows for a Japanese Global Trade and Manufacturing leader
- For an India based Steel & Mining leader - Elaborating Digital IT vision, Development of Technology Architecture for HR Shared service implementation, Municipal Services Business process reengineering for a subsidiary agency
- Conceptual Information Model and Data Strategy for an US based world leading Agri-Biotech brand
- Non Functional requirement / Architectural quality compilation for a Canada based Insurer
- Enterprise Information Management for a Government department in Mexico
- IT Strategy development for a Retail Chain in Mexico
- Application Portfolio Rationalization for a diverse clientele in US and UK
- Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence set up for a Global leader in Media and Advertisement
- Software package option and capability evaluations for a number of Global customers
- Cloud Cost modeling
- Enterprise Architecture Pre-sales, Drafting of Solution Approach & methodology, Proposals, RFP, Bid response.
Consulting for System Integration projects
- Drafting of RFP based on Solution requirement
- Solution Architecture definition
- Consulting on Network and IT management – SLA and QoS parameter
Network and System Management
- Design, implementation and project management of System & Network management solution, integrating with existing IT solutions
- Data Modelling
- Data Migration
- System Health check
- Neural Network based solution
- Quality certification
Support and Customer Management
- Field level support and service optimization
- Solution roll out and Training
Software Development
- Medical expert system
- Graphics & visualization
- Scientific computing, Digital Filters, Simulation systems for defence application
Certifications
- TOGAF 9 (The Open Group Architecture Framework) Certification
- SAFe Agilist (Scaled Agile Framework) Certification
- Domain Certifications (TCS internal) – Healthcare, Manufacturing, Credit derivatives
Qualifications
- B. Tech (Computer Science & Engineering) – IIT Kharagpur (1985)