SANDEEP HEBBAR

Male, 28 years, Single

EDUCATIO N

PGDM IIM Ahmedabad 2002 - 04 Pursuing

Master of Technology, Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay 1997 - 00 7.8/10
Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering IIT Bombay 1993 - 97 7.2/10
Class XII Delhi Public School, Delhi 1992 - 93 86.8%
Class X Delhi Kannada School, Delhi 1990 - 91 80.0%

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tarang Software Technologies Private Limited, Bangalore February 2002 – July 2002
Software Analyst
Tarang is a 150 employee strong Bangalore based software product company in the banking/financial domain. It
had revenue of $13 million in the second year of its operation (2002).
Responsibilities • Study of market scenario, evaluation of business requirements and analysis, design and
implementation of software modules for Financial Account Aggregation applications.
The products generated revenue of around $10 million.
Consulting • Part of the team that gave technical advise to NTT (Japan), Monex (Japan) and HDFC
Experience Bank (India) on their Account Aggregation business need.
• Part of the three member team that presented the need analysis, proof of concept,
hardware and software requirement and cost analysis of Financial Account
Aggregation service for HDFC Bank. Won the contract and delivered the product.
Achievements • Key member of the team that designed, implemented and delivered the FIRST
Financial Account Aggregation Solution in India for HDFC Bank
• Consistently achieved “Exceeds Expectations” grade in performance appraisal - given to
only the top 5% of all employees.

CyberCash India Private Limited June 2000 – February 2002

Software Engineer
CyberCash India was the development center for CyberCash Inc., USA, a credit card payment gateway company. It
had the biggest customer base in the world until it was bought over by VeriSign under Chapter 11 proceedings.
Responsibilities • Analysis, design and implementation of software modules for Online Credit Card
Transaction Gateways
Design • Worked closely with the design team of CyberCash Inc., USA to completely redesign the
Experience existing Payment gateway. The processing capacity increased from 600,000 to more than
1.0 million transactions per day
Achievements • Pioneered the use of Advanced Queuing Mechanism of Oracle 8i in India. Initiated
and implemented the redesign of queuing mechanism of CyberCash’s Payment Gateway
using this feature. The change led to a 37% increase in the number of transactions
processed per day.

SUMMER INTERNSHIP
Tata Consultancy Services April 2003 – June 2003
Summer Analyst
I did my internship at the TCS-GE Capital division of TCS. TCS handles the complete IT systems and processes of
GE Capital.
• Analyzed GE Capital’s business processes and the existing IT implementation of the same.
• Identified areas of improvement in the Loans and Leasing business software modules.
• Drafted business requirements and high level design of the suggested changes with the GE Capital’s team
and worked closely with TCS development team on implementation of the same.
• The prototype developed led to 15% faster processing rate and better data integrity over the old module.
SANDEEP HEBBAR
Male, 28 years, Single
• Prepared an induction and training document for the TCS-GE Capital division.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS
IIM Ahmedabad
• eGovernance and ERPS ERP Systems: Technology, Planning and Implementation Course
Exploring the possible use of an ERP System for the Passport Department, GOI.
• Performance Appraisal Software Project
Developed a Performance Appraisal software in Visual Basic and Microsoft Access for Professor Sanjay
Verma, IIMA.
• Awareness to Trial (Live project for HLL) First Year Member, Team Size: 11, Insight 2002
Developed model to increase trials of HLL’s herbal brand, Ayush.
Study involved literature review, game design & analysis, questionnaire design (400 respondent) and
statistical analysis of questionnaire data. Results have been used by HLL.
• Equity Research Report on Wipro Investment and Portfolio Management Course
Carried out Firm analysis of Wipro Ltd. Buy recommendations were given for trading Wipro stock based
on company & industry analysis and economic scenario.
• Repositioning of Malai Chaska (Live Project for Britannia Ind.) Retail Management Course
Conducted retailer (25 retailers) and customer (150 customers) level surveys for Britannia Industries to
identify the reasons behind the market failure of its product Malai Chaska.
Recommended repositioning of Malai Chaska as a health product. The print advertisements now
highlight this fact.
IIT Bombay
• Developed the FIRST non-software commercial product to be sold by IIT, Bombay as part of my M. Tech.
project (2000). The product – “Pranay”, a medical oxygen concentrator – is being sold to hospitals and nursing
homes

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
• Ranked 823 out of 1,20,000 students appearing in IIT-JEE 1993
• One of the 750 (out of 1,50,000) students to get the National Talent Search Examination Scholarship in 1991.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

• Positions Held
Nominated core team member, GeneSys, the Systems Club at IIM Ahmedabad. Organized a talk by Prof.
Ashok Korwar, Strategic Advisor to Polaris Software Ltd.
In-Charge, Stage Design and Publicity, for IIMACTS, the theatrical society of IIMA
Literary Secretary (1995 - 1996), Hostel Six, IIT Bombay. Organized literary competitions at the hostel and
institute level.
• Social Activities
Volunteered for MAYA, a Bangalore based NGO involved in Child Education and Vocational Training
for under-privileged children (2001 and 2002).
Arranged Child Education camps as part of National Social Services activities at IIT Bombay (1993-95).
• Sports
Captained company’s cricket team in inter-company tournament in Bangalore (2002)
Participated in Intra-IIT cricket tournament (1998, 1999 and 2000)
• Other Interests
I have done extensive camping along the Cauvery river at Galibore, Dhoddamaakeli and Bheemeshwari in
Karnataka. I also love listening to late 1960s – early 1980s music, especially the folk albums of Dylan and
music of the Grateful Dead. I play a bit of the harmonica too.

Phone (091) 079- 6326202 • E-mail 2shebbar@iimahd.ernet.in

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