SUMMARY:

• Seasoned Technical Manager with over 14 years of proven experience in developing products with quality, on time delivery, and within budget.

• Strong experience in leading multiple projects simultaneously with start - ups, as well as enterprises
• Adept at overseeing all facets of Software Development life-cycle from Requirements to Release
• Outstanding communication skills; able to successfully build strong working relationships with coworkers and clientele, while ensuring cooperation among various departments.
• Experience in acting as a SPOC for multiple projects operating in an offshore-onsite model, Drive Product Delivery in an Agile Environment & coordinate between multiple interlacing programs.
• Strong skills in bridging the gap between Product, Technology, and Operations.
• Strong expertise in working with Client Operations department about a team size of 200
• Strong expertise in working with key business stakeholders in Product Line in creating road-maps to realize order-of-magnitude strategic improvements in time to market, cost, productivity, quality, by managing functional as well as non-functional requirements.
• Expertise in Developing Budgets, Coaching, Supervision, Staffing, Project Management, Process Improvement, Tracking Budget Expenses, People Development, Planning, Performance Management, Inventory Control, Communication.
• Highly accomplished Agile Software Practitioner, with experience in Scrum, XP, RAD, SAFe methodologies.
• Excellent in Computer Fundamentals, passionate in Coding and Technology.
• Received Leadership for managing key projects from Confidential (Harman’s client)
• Received the Key Contributor from Director of Engineering (Hewlett-Packard)
• Highly involved in Agile community; translated and published Agile Manifesto in a Native Language
• Received Student for scoring top marks in Data Structures, Algorithms and other subjects (Masters)
• Elected Student Chairman, brought in 20-35 part-time, and full-time employers (Graduate)
• Online payments: International ecommerce, mobile payments, reporting (incl. Chase, Amex gateways)
• Online advertising: CPA, CPC, CPM ad networks, ad campaigns, ad targeting
• Social networking: Social games, viral channels
• Gaming and apps: Monetization, distribution, games/app development, virtual goods
• Collateral Management System, Title Management System, Automobile Industry
• Mortgage/Lending, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI)
• Media and Advertising | Technology | Storage Area Network | Unified Communications

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Current / Handson: Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, RESTful, MySQL

Learning: Angular JS, Bootstrap, Hadoop, Cassandra, and other Open source technologies

Past: Struts, Flex, BlazeDS, Cairngorm, PHP, CakePHP, CodeIgnitor, C, C++

Ruby on Rails, AJAX, YUI library, JQuery, SOAP Webservices, JSP, Servlets, Jasper reports

PL/SQL, Stored Procedures/Triggers, VoiceGuide, VBA for applications, SharePoint - Web parts

RMI, JDBC, Quartz scheduler

Web experience: CSS, HTML, Javascript, Yahoo UI Library, JSON, SOAP and REST based Web services, VB Script, XML, EJB

Cloud technologies: Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Openstack

Social integrations: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn

Mobile experience: Android and iPhone Application/Game development and web-kit based mobile app development, Ionic Framework

Processes tools / Code coverage: Emma, Coverity and Findbugs

Web/Application Servers: Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere

OS: Windows, Linux/Ubuntu, Mac

Source control: GIT, GitHub, Clearcase, Perforce, CVS, SVN

Configuration Management: Ant, Maven, Stash, Gerrit, Bamboo, Jenkins

Databases: MySQL, Oracle DB, Solid DB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Memcache, Redis, MongoDB, Derby

Testing methodologies: A/B testing, usability testing, regression, load tests

Tools: Jira, Rally, Google Apps, Confluence, Smart sheet, Blueworks Live, MS Office, Adobe suite, Basecamp

Business Analytics, Business Intelligence: Tableau, QlikView

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential . Sacramento, CA

Technical Manager / Release Train Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business development, and client satisfaction for all projects executed for Dealertrack (Cox)
• Working with Client Operations department about a team size of 200, and driving the Maintenance & Production Support software development in an onsite-offshore model, and SPOC for offshore
• Work with Project, and Product management teams in planning, forecasting, and production at all stages of the product life-cycle
• Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
• Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers
• Participate in offshore vendor governance, manage key transformation and outsourcing programs
• Act as a key partner to promote delivery in an Agile software product development methodologies
• Work with key stakeholders, in ensuring the program meets the deliverable objective in the stipulated time constrains
• Adept at overseeing all facets of Project life cycle starting with day-to-day Product and Technology operations, Planning and hiring people, estimating costs and resources, Project and Program Management, Process Improvement, People Development, Performance Management, Communication
• Operate as the single point of contact for any matters specific to the client and ensure customer satisfaction
• Forecast revenues for the account, and track key account metrics, work on strategic initiatives
• Effectively work with Client Architects to determine technical goals and in corporate them tactically
• Expertise in Rules Engine and Tools such as IBM ODM/BPM, JRules.

Confidential . Woodland Hills, CA

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversee technical operations of building ReachLocal’s media platform, successful in assessing architecture, suggesting changes to the ecosystem; worked closely with Technical and Product Management teams
• Effectively translated road-maps into software architecture and design, coach offshore teams
• Prioritized deliverables, work with product managers in Release planning, Sprint planning
• Created RFPs through conducting JAD Sessions,, interviewing stakeholders, shortlisting and evaluating vendors, creating project plans. Successfully executed the plan per schedule.
• Setup effective processes to ensure smooth delivery, code quality, feature and timeline commitments
• Highly responsible for liaising between offshore teams in India; provide technical guidance and domain s
• Successfully created Display Budgeting Automation System, Sales Proposal Tool, Data Visualization and analytics tools

Confidential, New York City, NY

Technical Manager / Senior Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Engage with the organization wide program management team to create a successful product implementations adhering to time, budget, and business objectives
• Meeting with business partners and technical committee to to gather and rationalize business and avert technical constrains like scalability, and performance respectively
• Managing, reviewing Business Requirement Documents, reviewing designs and specifications. Translating requirements into Wire frames working closely with UX/Design team
• Identify and develop new opportunities on current project and integration with other products
• Analyzing work capacity and prioritizing features using Critical Path Method and other techniques
• Estimation and Planning based on Agile methodologies, working with Engineering team to promote iterative development
• Mentor project team members on product and domain
• Providing product demos to Internal and External teams, and manage client relationship

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Technical Lead - Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a challenging, fast-paced work environment for Media and Advertising products, integrating the platform with social networking sites (primarily Facebook), Ad Exchanges (Google DoubleClick, Yahoo Rightmedia)
• Responsible for developing and leading in creating Offer Console, Offer Wall, Display Console, Onboarding apps, Facebook - Status-show app, iPhone and Andriod game - Hamster Heros
• Managing 8-10 high profile Developers and QA, responsible for their career growth

Confidential, CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and Development of XP Performance Advisor, Hands-on contribution to SAN QoS, Storage Virtualization solutions
• Successfully rearchitectured the product using new technologies, redesigned successfully for VPAT, and other EU usability standards and ported the product to support IPv6
• End-to-end Design and Implementation of archival mechanism using Oracle Data Pump API’s
• Defect Fixing, Process Enhancements, develop test cases, code reviews and contributing a major chunk for user guide and release notes
• Build and release manager, excellent in using install shield, clearcase, and similar tools for packaging
• Managed complex modules independently, mentored 3 engineers
• s include successfully implementing Log4j and chainsaw; code coverage and analysis Tools and introduced Spring and Hibernate framework, established process for code review and best practices.
• Worked with field engineers and clients in resolving customer escalations
• Worked closely with Pre-Sales team for Technical showcase, answering client queries in live forums

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Software developer for Intellect Product Suite - an Enterprise Banking Software Platform based on Service Oriented Architecture and J2EE technologies.
• Coding / Developed set of Common API’s for which form as the backbone for all other services that interact with the platform
• Created work flows using Visio, High-level and Low-level design documents
• Involved in gathering functional requirements, interviewing clients, documentation
• Successfully deployed the Core Intellect Product Suite at customer locations
• Strong expertise in BFSI, specifically, Charges, General Ledger, and Central Liability System
• Worked with Citibank, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Development Bank of Singapore

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Unified Communication platform, specifically iAllWays, comTracker and Marketing AllWays
• Independently worked on Marketing AllWays, email marketing and SMS marketing software, which has abilities to analyze customers’ behaviours, and interests through clicks; and provide the analysis as reports
• Developed TagEzee - an XBRL Tool, to compare and analyse Financial Reports
• Major contribution as a developer for iAllWays product suite, designed GUI screens and comTracker, a communication tool which captures all field work information and updates the server for Executive reports.
• Developed Business Layer components in Java, Servlets and Development of Data Layer using queries and PL/SQL
• Acted as hardware and network engineer - Installing various OS, and setting up machines for testing
• Technical writer for iAllWays suite of products, Bug Fixing, UI Changes

Confidential

Trainee Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an trainee engineer for iAllWays product suite using Java and J2EE technologies, TagEzee - XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) using VBA (Excel Macros) and C++ API’s as Business Layer