SUMMARY

• Over 13+ years of experience in successfully managed complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements.
• Demonstrating technical proficiency in a high paced production environment & exercise judgment within defined procedures & practices to determine appropriate action.
• Makes recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and delivery of services through the use of technology and technical methods and methodologies.
• Works with Technical Engineers as required and ensures any solution within their specific specialism fits with strategic and technical direction.
• Ensure IT requirements are met and service quality maintained when introducing new services. Considers the cost effectiveness of proposed solution.
• Leads technical consultancy assignments which involve specialists from various disciplines, and takes responsibility for the quality, timely delivery and appropriateness of the team’s recommendations.
• Leads the technical activity (design, build, testing) in a significant or complex project or portfolio of projects, accountable to the technical engineer or project manager or portfolio manager for the delivery and quality of technical deliverables.
• Experienced in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as software engineering methods like Waterfall Method & Agile, and Design Methodologies.
• Strong communication skills when working with developers, project managers, subject - matter experts, stakeholders, system implementers, and application end-users.
• Assists others in resolving complex technical problems and investigating the root cause of problems and recommends smart (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) solutions.
• Adept in managing expectations, organizing and conducting UAT, support tools & infrastructure, getting requirements and product sign off.
• Participates in peer reviews of deliverables and carries out formal and informal reviews of technical designs, standards, documentation and/or implementations.
• Creative and aggressive self-starter with integrative thinking skills, capable of forming and maintaining positive and productive working relationships in internal, external, independent, and team environments.
• Effective communication skills and record for coordination between globally located teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, XML, XSL / XSLT, SQL, UML

Web Technologies: J2EE - EJB, JMS, JSP, JDBC, Servlets, HTML, CSS, Struts, SPRING, Hibernate

Scripts: JavaScript, ExtJS

IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA

Technologies: Web Services, REST/SOAP

Application Servers: WebLogic 9.1, WebSphere 7.0, Tomcat, JBOSS 4.0

Methodology: Design Patterns, Use Case development, Framework Design, object-oriented design, SCRUM/Agile

Configuration Management: VSS, CVS (Concurrent Version Systems), Clear Case, Subversion, GIT

Databases& Tools: Oracle, TOAD, SQL Developer

Productivity Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, PPT, Visio, Editplus

Business Domain: Ecommerce, Automotive industry, HealthCare

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Manager

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Responsibilities:

• Delivered various onshore-offshore model based projects involving the Backend platform, Connected Vehicle Business Operation Portal, Fleet Telematics, Real Time Traffic application & L2 support tools.
• As a Technical Manager, I led the efforts to the teams to efficiently deliver using the java methodologies.
• Providing solutions to Architectural issues and Design Review.
• Conducted envisioning sessions with stakeholders and impacted teams to gather the functional and non-functional features to be included in the program backlog/strategy workspace in Rally.
• Managedprojectexecution in Rally tool and ensured that all user stories and tasks are updated on a daily basis. Drive Iterations and Release level Burn downs for tracking and reporting.
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint review, product grooming and sprint retrospective.
• Worked with product owner on artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, sprint burn down.
• Conduct team meetings for project Status, discussing issues and roadblocks.
• Prioritized tasks, estimated time lines, prepared Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), authorized and assigned tasks, tracked progress, published status reports, planned deployments, organized and conducted UAT to get signoff, etc.
• Managed overall process and delivery quality. Manage budgets, forecasts and resourcing needs for the portfolio.
• Communicated regular Weekly Program Status to the executive leadership team and provided the RYG Status of the different concurrent work streams.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring 3.0, RESTFul Webservice, SQL Server 2012, Web Logic 11g, Agile, Rally

Associate Technical Manager

Confidential, Collierville, TN

Responsibilities:

• As an Associate Tech Manager, I led the efforts to the teams to efficiently deliver using the project management methodologies.
• Responsible through all project phases of initiation, planning, requirement gathering and analysis, design, development, installation, testing, maintenance and closing.
• Liaison between the technical teams and the business partners through eliciting requirements and enabling on time delivery.
• Ensured all project objectives were met within the scope time and quality standards.
• Used and followed the entire SDLC methodology to execute small enhancement and large integration projects.
• Performed risk analysis and mitigation through risk identification, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, risk response planning, risk monitoring and control.
• Prepared project plans and was responsible for risk management and planning.
• Prioritized tasks, estimated time lines, prepared Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), authorized and assigned tasks, tracked progress, published status reports, planned deployments, organized and conducted UAT to get signoff, etc.
• Weekly activities included reporting data, metrics and project performances to senior client executive and internal executive management.

Environment: Spring, JSF/Icefaces, WebServices, Junit, UML, Oracle 10g, Agile

Technical Lead

Confidential, Lancaster, PA

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead a team of seven members.
• Designed and developed a custom business rules module, using ExtJS and RESTFul WebServices
• Collaborated with the impacted teams to carry out RCA and permanent fixes of any issues involving impact to the business and shared the same with the leadership team.
• Monitoring & controlling project execution.
• Resource management & Project status tracking.
• Supported the technical account managers and partner operations with reporting directly to the director.
• Attended weekly status updates with stakeholders and prepared weekly status reports and monthly metrics for the project.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Web Services, Oracle 10g, Web Logic 12, Eclipse Juno, EXTJS 4.1, Agile

Technical Lead

Confidential, King Of Prussia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead a team of ten members.
• Project planning and estimation.
• Contribution in development.
• Collaborated with the impacted teams to carry out RCA and permanent fixes of any issues involving impact to the business and shared the same with the leadership team.
• Monitoring & controlling project execution.
• Resource management & Project status tracking.
• Supported the technical account managers and partner operations with reporting directly to the director.
• Attended weekly status updates with stakeholders and prepared weekly status reports and monthly metrics for the project.
• Enhancements of software applications.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring 2.5, Oracle 9i, Web Logic 7.0

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Web pages to manage login credentials and enabled single click logins for a team of fifty associates for the Web based client reporting products.
• Involved with the project management teams to engineer the requirements.
• Designed and developed a custom business rules module, using JSP and servlets in J2EE.
• Continuous co-ordination with test managers on different team activities.
• Performed user maintenance (user creation/deletion/lockdown/activation/password management) and provided production support.
• Mentored a team of over seven developers in Java, J2EE and Object Oriented concepts.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring 2.5, Hibernate 3.0, Oracle 9i, Web Logic 7.0

Sr. Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Code Development and unit testing.
• Involved with the project management teams to engineer the requirements.
• Designed and developed a custom business rules module, using JSP and servlets in J2EE.
• Continuous co-ordination with test managers on different team activities.
• Performed user maintenance and provided production support.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring 2.5, Hibernate 3.0, Oracle 9i, JBOSS 4.0

Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Code Development and unit testing.
• Involved with the project management teams to engineer the requirements.
• Designed and developed a custom business rules module, using JSP and servlets in J2EE.
• Continuous co-ordination with test managers on different team activities.
• Performed user maintenance and provided production support.

Environment: Java/J2EE, WINDOWS-2000, Oracle-9i, WebLogic Server 8.1