SUMMARY:

• 17 years of experience in Information Technology and Product Management.Product Experience (6 years)
• Expert in product backlog grooming, product pricing, go to market strategy and prioritization.
• Managed P & L and budget for revenue, gross margin and spending
• Involved in whole lifecycle of product from inception to delivery and post implementation support.
• As a product manager, worked in the intersection of sales, marketing services and engineering.
• Defined Roadmap, stories, UI/UX design and acceptance criteria for our products.
• Architected and developed enterprise scale complex multithreaded applications using Confidential technology stack.
• Proficient in Confidential .NET, ASP.Net core, Cloud system Azure, MVC, REST services, Angular.JS and SQL Server.
• Implemented processes around CI/CD (Continuous integration and deployment).
• Familiar with big data, Hadoop, Java and mobile technology stack.
• Mature leader with experience in managing large and diverse teams spread across multiple US and international locations.
• Experience in optimizing processes, tools and human capital to drive efficient project delivery.
• Experience in managing and collaborating with vendors/business partners to ensure their optimal involvement through all stages of the software development life cycle.
• Accomplished leader with experience in hiring, retention and conflict resolution.
• Well versed with budgeting, staffing and managing projects while balancing costs and risks.
• Ability to build and maintain excellent relations with IT teams, vendors and management across the organization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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Director of Product Research and Development

Responsibilities:

• Crafted product and feature roadmap for next generation of marketing cloud platform.
• Delivered SMS marketing platform 3.0 here at Confidential .
• Performed competitive and buy vs build analysis.
• Defined the migration path for existing SMS and email customers from old platform to new platform.
• Managed external vendors including any contracts with vendors.
• Defined the pricing model for new email marketing platform.
• Worked with cross functional teams (technical writers, UI/UX) across Indian and US to deliver this work
• Lead customer demos and feedback sessions
• Worked with implementation team for onboarding of new customers.
• Worked with documentation team to keep documentation updated and circulate release notes.
• Trained technical writers in their role in a SCRUM project such as writing user stories.
• Presented roadmap to C - Level and kept them updated about any risks/mitigation
• Managed development, QA and integrations groups in organization.
• Worked with business stakeholders acting as liaison between tech and business, marketing.
• Built offshore team by recruiting and training a team of developers and QA in Argentina.
• Ran and delivered projects successfully using SCRUM in offshore-onshore model.
• Streamlined integration with affiliates and customers.
• Contributed to the architecture of .NET based applications.

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Director of Development

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with external vendors (Motorola) to ensure their optimal involvement through all stages of the project. Worked with vendor on RFP, SOWs and negotiated the level of effort.
• Managed a team of 35 resources which included district internal employees and Motorola resources.
• Estimated schedules and IT staffing allocations, monitored progress and provided executives with regular and accurate project status updates.
• Proactively identified risks, analyzed them and provided mitigation plans.
• Managed multiple N-Tier .NET projects from inception to implementation.
• Collaborated with stakeholders with in district, across various projects, to streamline the project delivery process and as a result reduced the project budgets by 20 and 40% for complex projects and small enhancements respectively.
• Created and spearheaded training program to cross train team members.

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Technical Manager/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of twelve developers.
• Conduct their reviews.
• Provide High level LOE’S on new projects.
• Resource management.
• Establishing processes within the dev group.
• Cost estimation and budgeting.
• Direct and manage project execution.
• Stakeholder communication.
• Establish a technology road map. Migration of current application to the next version of technology.
• Researching on building reusable components that we can use across different project.
• Performance improvements of current applications.
• Working on the scalability and availability of applications. Making application load balanced etc.
• Providing technological solution to existing challenges in the company. Improved the deployment process by writing application to automate our weekly deployments.
• Presently working on an application for automatic generation of web sites. These web sites are based on certain templates but are highly configurable. I am building this in .NET 2.0 making use of server controls, web parts and AJAX
• Worked on architecture and design of application. Wrote the detailed technical spec for it including business objects design.
• This application interfaces with two external vendors. Handled the communication with the third parties. Establishing service contact and the technical details for the contract.
• Lead the team of developers by example. Explaining them technical design and providing them sample for implementation of business objects.
• Worked on the database design for the project.
• Communicated with the business as the application was being built.
• Brought QA up to the speed on this application for testing.
• Communicated with the network department for the procurement of server for this application.
• Supporting the applications in production including evaluation of change requests and other bugs.

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Architect

Technologies: BizTalk 2006, .NET, SQL Server 2000.

Responsibilities:

• Work as mentor to Confidential people in Field and Confidential direct clients in Architecting and designing solution using Confidential technologies.
• Providing solution in BizTalk 2006 and Confidential .NET.
• Assess client requirements and provide them recommendations on hardware Licensing etc.
• Provide technical leader ship to client’s developer’s with hands on coding.
• Solve performance and scalability issues with any existing applications.

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Senior technical specialist

Technologies: ASP.NET, BizTalk 2004,XML,Enterprise services(COM+), Web services, IIS Server, MS SQL Server 2000, C# (Web Forms and Win Forms), ADO.net, VBScript, Java Script, HTML, DHTML, Windows NT

Responsibilities:

• Lead project by providing technical leader ship to software engineers in the project. Also worked as interface between client and development team gathering requirements, functional spec, etc.
• Created a loosely-coupled architecture using BizTalk 2004 publisher-subscriber model.
• Designed and coded business processes making use of BizTalk orchestrations and rules engine.
• Use BizTalk 2004 business activity monitoring (BAM) to capture and record intermediate state of data while it is flowing through business processes.
• Set up BizTalk processes to run in a server farm environment for better performance and fault tolerance
• Designed and coded an ASP.NET interface to present data also exposed business processes (orchestration) as web service so that ASP.NET presentation layer can communicate with BizTalk middle layer.
• Created SQL Server DTS packages to transfer data from flat files (AS400) to SQL Server tables. Also automated these DTS packages to run from a C# WinForms application.
• Designed database and wrote stored procedures(T-SQL) to retrieve data

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Sr. Software Engineer December

Technologies: ASP, ASP.NET, XML, Visual Basic 6.0, COM, MS Visual InterDev 6.0, IIS Server, MS SQL Server 7.0/2000, C# (Web Forms and Win Forms), VBScript, Java Script, HTML, DHTML, Windows NT

Responsibilities:

• Developed web application framework components using asp, VB and XML for a web-based workflow management system that uses dynamic workflow, document capture, and document management capabilities.
• Created and deployed ActiveX Controls over the web.
• Globalized complete application to support multiple languages.
• Solved performance related problems for clients.
• Re-designing the product in .NET technology using ASP.NET, WinForms, C#.
• Wrote a WinForms Application to generate Database Tables dynamically.
• Designed and Coded a Multithreaded Logging Mechanism for a Web-Farm environment using C#.
• Used .NET Remoting to communicate with a Windows Service from Web Server.
• Written custom controls (.NET) to support common functionality across various aspx pages in project.

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Programmer/Analyst

Technologies: MS Visual InterDev 6.0, ASP, Visual Basic 6.0, COM, IIS Server, MS SQL Server 6.0, VBScript, Java Script, HTML, DHTML, Windows NT.

Responsibilities:

• Developed the ASP code for a career recruitment web site.
• Created a COM component (ActiveX Dll) that provided a search facility at the web site.
• Participated in database design and development.

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Software Engineer

Technologies: Visual Basic, XML, XSL, MTS, and JavaScript

Responsibilities:

• Using MIDL, wrote the interfaces for the Commitment Management System (CMS), a web based B2B application that supports the documentation and tracking of negotiated merchandise commitments made between Rediff and merchandise vendors around the globe.
• Implemented business and data objects.
• Implemented the UI and presentation layer, making extensive use of XML DOM.