Vijay Sachdeva Email & Phone Number

Oakville, ON, CA

Toronto, Canada Area

Provide hands-on services to clients in the Retail and Banking industries. The following are examples of some of the larger projects:■ Switch Replacement, Pin pad Replacement, Migration to Chip & PIN, Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) & Tokenization: Program Management for a US based retailer in its initiative to replace its transaction processing switch.

Framingham, MA 01701

Senior Consultant, Subject Matter Expert and Program Manager.

Toronto, Canada Area

■ Manage Solution Delivery & Support Business Unit: Manage all aspects of several large projects in Canada, USA and India for a software development firm. The firm develops Chip & PIN (EMV) enabled PA-DSS compliant software solutions for the retail market encompassing credit & debit authorization payment applications, settlement & reconciliation.

■ Base24 EMV 6.0 Chip & PIN Upgrade: Worked with a major Canadian financial institution. Main responsibilities included:o Analyzed current and future capabilities of transaction processing switch; Created gap analysis and plans to mitigate documented gaps; Created and led the QA program: Created Test Strategy; System Test Plan; Performance Test Plan.

Toronto, Canada Area

■ Grew the software development & service delivery team from 10 to 200 professionals over a period of 18 months;■ Responsible for software development & service delivery professionals in Toronto, Calgary, New Jersey, Chicago and Denver offices;■ Developed and took responsibility for all business plans and budgets for the Professional Services business.

Toronto, Canada Area

■ Responsible for business development in the payment solutions area;■ Liaised with main solution providers in the payment transaction processing and switching market place. The goal was to forge business partner relationships between IBM & these organizations whereby these companies would make their flagship software products available on IBM flagship.

Toronto, Canada Area

■ Second employee hired by the Association;■ An integral part of system architecture, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, pilot and roll-out of Interac Direct Payment Service throughout Canada; This mandate pertained to Tandem/Base-24, IBM/Connex, and Oasis IST/RS6000 based members’ systems. Integral part of the team that oversaw the.

Toronto, Canada Area

■ Managed a team of 20 system analysts and development professionals;■ Responsible for software development and technical support for Tandem/Base-24 based products that included Visa Canadian Authorization Network (VCAN), point-of-sale (credit authorization & sales draft capture), and host-to-host links with major retailers and oil companies;■ Responsible.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

■ Started as a Systems Analyst and progressed to be a District Manager for software development of retail systems in the food, general merchandising, specialty stores, co-ops, and hospitality industries. The list of clients reads like a who’s who in the Canadian Retail Industry –A&P, The Bay, Canadian Tire, Kinney Shoes, Kmart, Sears, Woolco/Woolworths.

M.Sc., Computer Science

M.Sc., Physics

M.Sc. Solid State Physics