SUMMARY

• 24 years IT experience in software development working on wide range of platforms like Web technologies (JAVA/J2EE), Wireless (WAP, WML), ORACLE, ERP & IBM Mainframe Legacy Systems.
• Management experience of the full project life cycle including requirements gathering, creation of project plans and schedules, resource management, budgeting, facilitating project execution, deployment, and closure.
• Hands on experience in various project management methodologies like Waterfall and Agile Project Management.
• Practical experience of successful Scrum based development team management Effective negotiations and vendor management skills.
• Extensive experience in Operations / Production support - Incident management, Service management, Problem management, RCA, Process improvement, Resiliency, Change management, Monitoring & Automation.
• Hands on experience in Banking applications, Oracle ERP & supply chain mgmt.
• Strong people management skills, good experience working with offshore and integrating the changes into current environment.
• Excellent Communication skills both written and verbal.
• Hands on experience in core Java and server-side J2EE technologies for enterprise wide large-scale applications.
• Strong experience in JDBC, PL/SQL, SQL, writing stored procedures, triggers, functions, packages and exposed to various databases.
• Solid Programming Experience in Main Frame Legacy Systems using MVS, CICS, COBOL, IMS, DB2, JCL, TELON, SPUFI, IDCAMS
• Good Knowledge of QA methodologies, processes and best practices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Computer Language: Java, C/C++, PL/SQL, HTML, SQL, JHTML,XML, WML, php, Javascript, Perl, UniX Shell scripting.

J2EE: JBDC, JNDI, JMS, Java Mail & XML Deployment Descriptors (SAX and DOM)

Databases: Oracle 10/9i/8i, SQL Server, DB2 8.x/7.x, IMS DB

Application/Web server: IBM WebSphere Server 5.0/6.0, ATG Dynamo4.5/5/0, Oracle 10g, Tomcat 5.1, Apache 1.3, 2.0.

IDE’s: WSAD 5.x/4.x, Eclipse 3.0, JBuilder 10.1.2/3, RAD6.0, Vignette

Tools: Emacs, vi editor, SQL Navigator, SQL Developer, TOAD

Networking: TCP/IP, SOAP, RMI

API’s: J2EE, Java Beans, JSP, Servlets, EJB 2.0/3.0, Java Mail, JNDI.

Modeling Tools: UML, Rational Rose, MS Visio.

Web & GUI Environment: Swing, AJAX, JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Version Control Systems: CVS, Rational Clear Case, PVCS, STARTEAM, Vignette.

Framework: Jakarta Struts MVC Framework, Tiles, Hibernate, Log4J, JUNIT, Web Services (WSDL)

MainFrame: MVS, TSO, Cobol, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB, TELON, Expeditor

Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/NT/98, Sun Solaris 8.0, UNIX (AIX), LINUX. VMS(Mainframe).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Applications Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all phases of the project lifecycles to include requirements gathering, procurement, resource allocation, financial and personnel management and reporting.
• Work estimation, create Project plan and tracking the project status to ensure the deliverables are met within their predefined timeframe.
• Coordinate with Scrum teams - Daily stand up meetings, Sprint planning, refinement & retrospective meetings with product owners to address the backlog and lead the development team for the successful roll-out of monthly release.
• Lead the firm wide Scrum PTO pilot process to replace manual excel PTO approach.
• Lead ITSM - Production Change management process, peer reviews with Development teams to review the change requests and ensure successful deployment of Changes to production.
• Incident management, Problem management, Escalation management & Risk analysis. Lead the weekly meetings with business teams to address any outstanding tickets.
• Lead the offshore-onsite coordination to ensure active communication between the teams and maintain healthy partnership.
• Lead the enhancement of application monitoring (Splunk, Wily, Nagios), automation, micro services & coordinate with DevOps - Tech Refresh projects, Certificate renewals and CI/CD.
• Co-ordinate with QA team / Release team on UAT testing & production roll-outs
• Resiliency planning and testing - High Availability, Disaster Recovery & Sustained Resiliency activities.
• Third Party Vendor Management - Facilitated all aspects of vendor management. Onboarding contract resources, Review SOW & Budgeting
• Technical documentation & runbook maintenance to support the applications.

Environment: Java, JSP, JAVASCRIPT, STRUTS, HTML, CSS, Java Script, UNIX, WebSphere6.0, CVS, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, Jira, Splunk, Wily, DynaTrace, Nagios, Excel, Word, Visio, Powerpoint, Oracle, Cybase, ITSM, React

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business groups in gathering requirements, work estimation, Create Project plan and tracking the project status to ensure the deliverables are met within their predefined timeframe.
• Managed a team of 10+ members to support Web portal & Oracle ERP systems.
• Responsible for Incident management, Change management & Resiliency activities.
• Managing vendor relationships from commercial negotiations to implementations.
• Leading the team of resources to support Web portal & Oracle ERP systems.
• Involved in the design, development and testing of Web-Portal applications deployed on Oracle OC4J containers, using JAVA/J2EE portal technology.
• Involved in design, development and testing of PL/SQL Packages, Procedures, Triggers, Functions.
• Technical debugging of production issues, monitoring server logs and resolving the issues.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts for automating the processes and scheduling of DBMS jobs.
• Technical documentation of the project and updating the Operations Manual to include any process changes.

Environment: Java, JSP, JSF, JAVASCRIPT, STRUTS, TILES, HTML, CSS, PHP, Apache, Java Script, UNIX, ORACLE, ERP, Supply Chain, MYSQL, OC4J, PORTAL, SUBVERSION, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, JDEVELOPER 10.1.2/10.1.3 , ADF, STRUTS, PORTLET, SSO, Siteminder, Web Services, Remedy Tracker

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership, task delegation and completion of the project within specified timeframe.
• Work closely with Project Manager on business meetings and gathering the requirements.
• Involved in the complete design, development and testing of Customer First (Auto & Property) applications deployed on JAVA/J2EE technology using MVC framework (Struts)
• Driving the team from Technical Perspective, resolve any outstanding issues and ensure timely completion of the Module/project.
• Lead the weekly team meetings, code review, tracking project progress and updating the status to the project Manager.
• Set up UAT environment, lead the build process to deploy the code changes to staging and work with QA to ensure the changes are tested well and quality is maintained.
• Technical debugging of production issues, monitoring server logs and resolving the outstanding issues.
• Communicate with all levels of management in various departments and escalating the issues based on urgency
• Technical Documentation of the Project and Production Support

Environment: Java, JSP, JAVASCRIPT, STRUTS, TILES, HTML, CSS, Java Script, UNIX, WebSphere6.0, RAD, CVS, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, Vignette,Excel, Word, Viso, Powerpoint