SUMMARY:

• Scrum - certified and CSSLP-trained Team leader who is Experienced, Proficient and Goal-driven. A professional equipped with a rich mixture of skills gained from training, certification and years of practical experience. A certified Microsoft .NET professional with years of experience in the field of Information Technology. Interacts easily with people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and professional levels through excellent interpersonal relationship skills combined with dynamic analytical, time management, leadership, problem-solving and organizational skills to independently multitask, plan and direct demanding project operations and complex schedules - a true advocate of principle-based actions in delivering predictable and sustainable outcomes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Software Team Lead, Scrum Master, Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

• Lead a team of 4 Software Engineers. Developed and maintained web applications with Visual Studio, ASP.NET, MVC-Architecture, MSMQ, VB.NET, C#, Web Services, RALLY, JSON, AJAX, IIS, ADO, SQL Server, VB6, COM+, ActiveX, XML, VSS, and Star Team.
• Analyzed penetration test reports by 3 rd parties for the web applications. Responsible for explaining the vulnerabilities to the developers and QA team. Performed code reviews to ensure vulnerabilities does not exist.
• Managed the design and development of PARC (Payments Archive Research Center). PARC is a multithreading application which uses Microsoft suggested practices such as “Membership” and “Role based security”. Made necessary changes to the .NET Membership DB structure to suit the product requirements.
• Scrum Master for the PAN project, Leading and facilitating agile ceremonies such as daily stand-up, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, sprint demos and other Scrum-related meetings. Using CA Agile ( RALLY ) for coordinating various events. Helped with efforts to transform teams from Waterfall to Agile principles at the Enterprise IT Portfolio level.
• Trained, on-boarded Scrum Masters, Project Managers, and Product Owners to get up to speed faster. Partner with Executive leadership, IT Governance to ensure compliance with project methodology and controls.
• Coordinated server-load-balancing web applications on A10-Networks load balancers. Responsible for exploring architecture of A10 load balancer and recommending the settings to the IT team at the data center.
• Re-designed existing application’s user authentication to use VASCO - tokens for multifactor authentication.
• Responsible for enhancing, trouble-shooting and maintaining PPUSA (Pay Plus USA) for the clients. PPUSA is a multithreading, MSMQ based, web enabled funds transfer solution for financial institutions in the US.
• Engineered complex database search engine for FinCEN search; using .NET CLR objects running under SQL server as well as the installation/upgrade package for PARC using Microsoft .NET Deployment Project.
• Working on enhancements of existing payments solution for financial institutions in the US (developed using VB6, SQL server, COM+), the product processes FED, SWIFT, International and other type of financial messages between the banks.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Reading, PA

• Played a key role in design of ActiveX controls architecture which could be hosted by an independent application. All the ActiveX controls share the session data between them. Developed generalized utilities which can be used for various UI objectives. Suggested and implemented design changes to the ActiveX controls and UI which made them very user friendly.
• Created an easy to use, intuitive user interface with “Gantt chart” for “Shift Scheduling” and entering exceptions for specific days. Developed complex stored procedures and triggers for SQL server and ORACLE that were used by the COM objects for “shift scheduling” and “Work Order” cloning/creating.
• Architected AssemblyStep module that helps operators working on jobs to look at the step specifications for an operation, the reference documents for that and logs the time spent by each operator on each step of the assembly line.

Senior Software Consultant/Analyst Programmer

Confidential, Framingham, MA

• Provided consulting services to different clients for Microsoft platform based projects. Responsible for the architecture of COM components. Lead analyst/developer of a team of 3 developers responsible for middleware components for a web based College Campus community portal (Mascot Networks). Created web pages for scheduling and coordinating events and activities of different campus groups as well as developing “Chat Room” for the web based Campus community portal.
• Designed and developed ActiveX components for “The Revenue System” (TRS) for the IDG Inc. Played a key role in design, optimization and finetuning data exchange between COM components and presentation layer in n-tier architecture.
• Designed and developed “Image Processing” module for ETS (Educational Testing Services), which helps capture, storage, and retrieval of photos and essays of examinees of the TOEFL exam. Responsible for the architecture of the entire Application. Wrote complex triggers for logging and reporting the changes.