SUMMARY:

• A result driven Application Development Manager with expertise in Application Development, Solution Architecture, Technical Leadership, Technology Strategy, Program Strategy & Roadmap and Project management with over 13 years of experience in Healthcare and Manufacturing Industry.
• Endowed with strong business acumen and excellent record of delivering large scale, mission critical projects on time and within budgets with great quality.
• Very efficient in architecting scalable, high available and high performing enterprise level applications.
• Proven ability to conduct accurate IT analysis, problem solving skills, assess technical capabilities, conduct strategic planning, Risk analysis, budgeting, and manage projects.
• Highly experienced in vendor management, managing distributed development teams, identifying the technology stack and products, analyze the cost of building vs buying solutions.
• Experienced in software development methodologies like Agile / SCRUM, Waterfall, SDLC.
• Successfully managed a portfolio of 10M+ with the team size of 30+ developers, scrum masters, architects and analysts.
• Demonstrated motivational leadership in building, training and retaining high performing teams.
• Customer focused.
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal and listening).
• Quick learner, Strong leader and Mentor.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Language: Java, C/C++, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, UML, Bash, XML, HTML, Assembly language for 89c51 Rd2 controller

Database: Oracle 11g (XML DB), MongoDB, MySQL

Frameworks: J2EE (Servlet, JSP, JDBC, JSTL, JMS, JPA, JAXB), Spring stack (Core, IOC, AOP, ORM, Integration, Batch, MVC), iBatis, Hibernate, JUnit, testNG, Mockito, JBehave, BRMS/JBOSS Drools 5.3, IBM extreme scale, JBOSS Data Grid, IBM RAM, Mule ESB Struts, AJAX, EJB 2.0, JSTL, Adobe Flex.

Operating System: Linux(RedHat/Ubuntu), Unix(HP - UX/Solaris), Windows 7/8/10

Development Tool: Eclipse, NetBeans,, Toad, SQL Developer, Ant, Maven, Gradle Winscp, Putty, XMLSpy, JMeter, CA APM, CA Lisa YourKit, JIRA, ALM, QTP, SOAP UI, uDeploy, FishEye, SONAR

Application System: WAS, WSAD 5.1, JBoss, Tomcat, ActiveMQ, Jenkins,, Bamboo, ALUI Portal, Plumtree 5.0

Web Services: REST, SOAP, SOA, EAI

Source Control System: Git, Subversion, CVS

S/W Dev Methodology: Agile/Scrum (RallyDev), Waterfall, SDLC

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Application Development manager

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

Responsibilities:

• Managed a 10M+ portfolio within Core clinical Group. Managed day to day IT delivery and implementation.
• Active contributions to software development strategy and product roadmap.
• Lead development and manage the complexity of distributed systems (e.g. Web 2.0, SOA, ESB patterns, client server, legacy system integrations, master data management concepts, batch vs. real-time considerations, rule evaluation technologies).
• Translate business requirements into meaningful customer experiences
• Lead team in collaborative development of prototypes for demonstration of concepts
• Responsible to create and drive the roadmap, systems, hardware, staffing, development and budgeting for the Applications Development teams for 3 distinct release trains with in core clinical group.
• Build a multi-modal communication and content management engine assembled using best of breed open source technologies, which is extensively integrated with other key areas (e.g. Eligibility, individual, product, claims, insurance plans etc) in Confidential to holistically manage Customer’s Health advocacy information.
• Developed and Managed several customer facing interfaces (MyCigna.com Motivate Me page, Hallmark integration etc). Used various integration patterns to integrate with various application / systems in Confidential . Improved the operational efficiency for the business team to set up the client configuration.
• Worn multiple hats in the various stages of different core clinical projects, played the role of Dev manager, technical lead, solution architect, Product owner and Scrum Master.
• Responsible to create/assist with the creation of Conceptual Solution Architecture and Logical Application Architecture documents.
• Actively participated in the system architecture, technology identification, and prototyping and building proof of concepts and presented them to the Business for further development sign-off.
• Designing the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and REST based Services that can be accessible by various technology platforms.
• Contributed heavily in Performance Tuning, Code optimization, code reviews to improve the quality of the developed products.
• Approve proposed project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy.
• Responsible to manage, coach and mentor the development managers, developers, architects and system analysts.
• Lead the vendor management with the offshore strategic vendors for Core Clinical. Maintained key vendor relationships and appropriate outsourcing methods for operational efficiency and accelerate delivery in several critical projects. Participated in the RFE process to elect the right vendor organization to reduce the operational cost and improve quality.
• Meet with Business partners to identify the business needs and deliver solutions to support the need.
• Formulate technology strategy; define governance processes by interacting with the Product owners, Stakeholders, SME’s, end users and higher management.
• Improved team productivity by creating several reusable components, several tools, automation, catching the design and code bugs early in the cycle. Took various software engineering initiatives to implement service virtualization, BDD / TDD, Pair programming, 3 Amigos, Specification by example technique to speed up the delivery to the market place and improve the quality of the product.
• Influenced and Succeeded in enforcing the best practices and lessons learned in this product, to be used by the entire department / organization.

Senior Associate

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to create/assist with the creation of Conceptual Solution Architecture and Logical Application Architecture documents.
• Prototyping and Creating Proof of Concept / Technology (PoC/ PoT) based on the Initial Architecture and validating it against all system requirements.
• Lead the application design, project plans, established priorities and monitored progress.
• Contributed extensively in the SOW creation for different projects at different client locations.
• Responsible for putting best practices in place, protocols and training for all the programmers and making sure everyone are following the best practices and protocols.
• Evaluated project status and resource utilization and implemented changes to improve the team's effectiveness.
• Responsible to manage, coach and mentor the applications developers/architects
• Managed day to day IT delivery and implementation at all the onsite client locations.
• Responsible to develop successful team culture and ensure that all departmental processes are efficiently applied.
• Managed the onsite and offshore teams and contributed heavily in the staffing process to select best talent.
• Successfully moved most of day to day work to offshore in order to cut costs and increase productivity.
• Responsible for delivery of quality service to Clients.
• Responsible to ensure reliable, timely and consistent communication of project priorities, status, and timelines for offshore work.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included requirements gathering, designing of the Use Cases, generating object model, and low-level design docs, implementation of the module specific business logic, unit testing, and delivering code as per schedule and documentation.
• Involved in Design and Construction of a module called Browse
• Worked as Team member.