PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Responsible for strategizing and planning an organization's technology and future strategy, as well as implementing new technology and maintaining current systems.
• Ensures teams are effectively supporting maximum uptime and stability in the company's computer systems and networks
• Extensive experience working with executive teams, managing budgets, creating and championing organization engineering strategy.
• Over 20 years successfully planning and executing a number of projects ranging from $1 M to over $15 Million.
• Excellent leadership capabilities encompassing mentorship, teambuilding, training, motivation and completion of projects on - time and under budget.
• Excellent experience within the Confidential environment, market data, energy trading, front office software development, developing a solid business understanding.
• Experience working with all cutting edge technology especially within J2EE/.NET/data warehousing/ETL area.
• Certification in project management (2008) and software development (2000).
• Experience with fundamental program management techniques including budgeting, work breakdown structure, schedule development, risk management and general PM processes
• Experience with Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall software development process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technical skill set: Java, J2EE, Python, C#, JSP, Struts, Confidential, XML, Hibernate, Spring, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, multi-threading, WebServices, WebSphere, Tomcat.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Specialized in managing critical, enterprise-wide trading applications in a fast paced challenging environment.
• Ability to facilitate a collaborative approach to work and serve as a relationship builder (internal and external) with flexibility and finesse to "manage by influence"
• Managed projects related to market data, portfolio risk management and PnL monitoring.
• Delivered projects related to interest rates, swaps, futures, bonds trading, rates curves to predict the future of the market and applications related to managing day to day risk for traders portfolio.
• Ability to be hands as well as managing the project as a manager.
• Actively work with developers in analysis, technical design and architectural decision.
• Executed projects in all different areas of J2EE technology like transaction management, spring, hibernate, core processing, XML interface, web interface, SQLs and store procedures etc.
• Responsible for managing a new software development projects and accountable to deliver parallel projects on time and on budget.
• Interface with other technology teams, business users, operations and vendors.
• Initiate new projects with project sponsors, stakeholders and team members. Document scope, benefits, approach, risks and constraints.
• Managed team distributed across multiple location (3 or more).
• Delivered projects using onsite-offshore model.
• Prepare, maintain and publish project budgets, including all time and materials expenses, such as hardware, software, development and support resources, etc.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements based on CMM-style assessments and implementation of development methodology improvements based on Rational Unified Process.
• Coordinate the engagement of other IT constituencies, such as EDP Audit, Global Support Organization, Global Architecture, and Production Management.
• Identification and communication of project risks, and the development of risk mitigation strategies and escalation procedures.
• Assistance with requirements gathering, documentation, prototyping and walk-through, as required.
• Coordinate definition and institution of service level agreements (SLAs) for internal and external service providers by application and location.
• Engage QA Testing Team and assure timely completion.
• Coordinate with Production Management to plan for UAT Testing Team and assure timely completion.
• Assure proper planning for production server redundancy and provisions for fail over to Disaster Recovery site.
• Coordinate with Production Management the cross-application testing, synchronization of test environments and communication of status integrated applications systems.
• Skills Utilized: Trading application life cycle management, Certified project management professional, J2EE/.NET development, Python, Program Management, Budget and Cost Containment / Analysis, Human Resources Management Systems.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Java J2EE Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Project lead, monitored the development progress and was responsible for the design integrity and quality of the developed software.
• Insured proper use of the framework and communicates changes and new requirements for the framework.
• Provided technical direction and support for complex issues.
• Ability to work in a team environment, while possessing self-sufficient and proactive leadership characteristics.
• Communicated with management and other departments with respect to problems, risks, schedules, budgets, and cross-functional activities.
• Planned, assigned and accomplished all goals given to the team.
• Involved code management process.
• Involved in integration and defect tracking process.
• Resolved day-to-day issues with development and production cycle.
• Provided consultation on complex projects
• Tools and Technology used: Clear case, Rational rose, Java, servlets, Jsp, Confidential, Websphere, XML, MQSeries, Oracle, ETL, .NET, Data Warehousing.

Confidential, NYC

Team Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Acted as developer lead, prepared Use Cases for the project, prepared sequence diagram, and class diagram in Rational Rose.\
• Developed prototype and framework for project utilizing Visual Age for Java.
• Involved in Development of JSP, Servlets and EJBs for project.
• Developed control servlet logic, Confidential controller logic and XML parsing.
• Built connectivity to mainframe utilizing MQ series.
• Took the lead on the more difficult modules of claims and subscriptions.
• Prepared coding standards and performed Websphere installation.
• Prepared test plans and performed testing.
• Coordinated efforts with junior developers for timely delivery and quality output.
• Software tools: Visual Age for Java ver 2.0, Rational rose 98, JSP (1.0), Servlets, Confidential Confidential HTTP web server, Confidential Websphere application server

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client to gather requirements and prepared Use Cases for the project
• Prepared sequence diagram, class diagram in Rational Rose'98 using booch methodology.
• Developed the prototype for front-end screens utilizing Visual Age for Java for Enrollment module, Account Summary and Account Detail module.
• Developed JSP, Servlets and EJBs for Enrollment and Account summary module.
• Prepared coding standards.
• Software tools: Visual Age for Java ver 2.0, Rational Rose 98, Confidential HTTP web server Websphere application server

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Developer

Responsibilities:

• This web based project helped the client to track the customer in terms of visit details, proposal details, tele-conference details, feedback, and competitor information.
• Automatic mailing facility incorporated in the project helps to make arrangements for customer visit, proposal tracking.
• Language: Java
• Software tools: Visual Age for Java ver 2.0, Rational rose 98, JSP (1.0), Servlets, Confidential Confidential HTTP web server, Confidential Websphere application server

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Started career with global consultancy firm TCS and gained exposure working on an onsite-offshore model.
• Worked as onsite coordinator, developer, team lead in different projects