SUMMARY

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Engineering, 13+ years of experience in software industry, like MCP, MCAD, MCSD, MCSE, CSQA and Several accolades & like ShareFighter, early promotions during my work at Tata Consultancy Services and Microsoft Confidential, me will be a valuable member in any team encouraging collaborative working and inspiring trust & confidence in clients & colleagues alike.

OBJECTIVE

me is currently looking for a new and challenging position as a Technical Architect or a Technical Team Lead, which will make best use of my existing skills and experience whilst enabling further personal and .

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Managed C++, VB 6.0, VB.Net.

IDEs, Utilities & DBs: VS 2010/2008/2005/2003, VSTS, VSTO, Microsoft Test Manager, VSS, SharePoint, OCS 2007/2010, Microsoft Software factories, Patterns & Practices, Enterprise library, PerformancePoint Server, BSM 2005, Oracle developer Studio, MS SQL Server, MS Access.

Web Technologies: ASP.NET, Javascript, XML, XSD, IIS.

Operating Systems: WINDOWS 95/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7, UNIX/Sun Solaris.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Program Manager and Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with internal teams in defining teh roadmap and capturing Business user needs for teh enterprise JNDET (JatoNet Data Entry Tool) tool which was used by teh JATO Researchers across geographies to enter automotive industry News.
• Captured business requirements through UML Modelling & Visio diagrams and design aspect through HLD and LLD design documents.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with teh Enterprise end customers like Infosys, Wipro, CTS, Mindtree, Keane-Caritor, Robert Bosch,, SAP, CISCO, Honeywell, HP, Tesco and Accenture to understand their business needs and architect solutions using Microsoft technology stack. Business requirements were captured through UML Models and Diagrams were translated into detailed design documents. Through budgetary exercise, teh implementation effort was decided and implementation teams were assigned to develop teh code. Teh entire process was implemented using Visual Studio Team System 2008 and eventually 2010.
• Worked as part of Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) team, focusing on engagements in sales cycle solution development and proof phases with strategy briefing (SB), architecture design sessions (ADS), and proof of concept (POC) implementations to overcome technical blockers with delivery teams using Agile or Waterfall methodologies.
• Played a pivotal role in providing technical guidance, technology evaluation, technical query resolution, architectural guidance, deployment & migration support and technology evangelism to customers on Microsoft Dev tools platform which includes Team Foundation server (TFS), Visual Studio Team Suite (VSTS), .NET platform and teh Visual Studio Testing tools.

Account Technology Strategist for all Microsoft products for Enterprise IT/ITES customers

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with IT/ITES Enterprise customers in West Confidential providing end to end technical guidance, similar to teh DPE role focusing on teh entire Microsoft product portfolio including Core Infrastructure technologies like desktop OS, Server tools, configuration management & security tools and Office suite of products.
• Developed and maintained a healthy and valid IT Infrastructure and Client pipeline dat included initiatives and workloads/solution areas related to Infrastructure Optimisation (IO), Deployment and Security.
• Focused on business productivity and application portfolio of customer technology landscape and improved teh IO map. This included architecting solutions based on Microsoft technologies viz SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk and Performance Point Server (PPS) and developer tools along with Application Solution Specialists, and Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) Consultants.
• Architected an ERP solution based on Dynamics AX, SQL Server, SharePoint, BizTalk, MS Project, PPS (for budgeting & forecasting) and Hyper-V for a 3000+ sized IT customer, which was a $400K recurring deal for Microsoft and was teh largest AX win in teh country. This solution was to integrate and co-exist with many in house systems till module wise roll out and replacement was undertaken.
• Architected along with MCS consultants a Project Planning solution for an IT company which was targeting 4000+ users and integrated with SAP in teh backend. Teh solution comprised of Project Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, PPS and VS tools.
• Exceeded deployment targets, and Quota attainment to more TEMPthan 110%.
• Achieved several compete wins some being teh largest in teh country like Dynamics AX win, Forefront Security, Exchange 2007 deployments. Won “Share Fighter” and became teh trusted advisor for enterprise accounts.

Architect and Technical Pre-sales consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Being part of Microsoft technology Centre of Excellence (CoE) at TCS Redmond, me was involved in Microsoft .NET Consulting, Prototyping and Pre-sales defining high-level technical architecture, architecture reviews and recommendations, creating customer solution proposals, effort estimates, technical recruitment interviews, and presentations for various customers.
• Did Consulting engagements at customer sites (includes ST MicroElectronics, USAA, WA DOL etc.) for ASP to ASP.NET migrations, VSTS deployments, Outlook add-in creation, building web portals using ASP.NET, SharePoint and Vista deployments.
• Lead a 10 weeks project on KPIs and scorecards implementation using Business ScoreCard Manager (BSM earlier version of Performance Point Server - PPS 2007) from Inception to User Acceptance Test.
• Architect, Designer and Technical Project Manager for various projects from Microsoft on ASP.NET, Web Services SOA pattern implementation for Microsoft Patterns & Practices group and implementation of Microsoft PAG .NET frameworks. Was responsible for defining high level architecture and overseeing teh project progress through use case diagrams, Visio Wireframes, Design documents and coding in Visual Studio 2005 using Agile methodology.
• Performed requirements gathering and documentation of customer needs for customers like Safeco Insurance, TransCanada, GE RE, AC Neilson, Honda, NationalCity Bank, Rogers, Target, WorldVision etc for carrying out Pilots.
• Architect for VB 6.0 & ASP app re-engineering to ASP.NET at CH Robinson and Washington Mutual (WaMu) bank.
• Was responsible for creating reusable assets, .NET coding standards, requirements & design document templates, agile methodology adoption across projects, project profiles, contribution to public websites, white papers publications.

Programmer Analyst at Glodman Sachs

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Financial Sector at Glodman Sachs Head Quarters along with Microsoft Consultants for exposing teh APIs of ‘Distributed Framework’ (a Glodman Sachs internal SOA framework) to .NET.
• Was involved in end to end project design and execution with thorough study of teh C++ version of Distributed Framework (DF), preparing specifications & design documents, architecture, design, development and NUnit testing of DF.NET Managed C++ Wrapper.
• Developed a model based code generator tool in .NET for DF, which takes teh native (unmanaged C++) DF classes, wraps them and exposes as managed classes.
• Fully developed teh front-end in C# .Net using Winforms and SyncFusion Grid.
• Carried out performance tuning, and complete documentation of.NET front-end.

Systems Analyst and Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As part of MasterCraft (an Enterprise Application Development Environment dat consists of a set of tools for application modelling and model-based code generation) team at TCS R&D Center, worked on architecting, designing, implementing UML 1.3 & UML 2.0 meta-models, XMI Imports, and coding/testing of ADEX modelling tool.
• As part of QA team, active participation in Quality reviews, final inspections, TCS CMM level 5 process. Underwent Certified Software Quality Analyst exam and scored second rank.
• Worked in Insurance domain for 1.5 years at USAA, San Antonio, Texas as an onsite Senior Systems Analyst for capturing & reviewing requirements and developing Use Case models.
• Worked as Systems Analyst for teh Confidential Bank in South Africa from Confidential Offshore & HomeShopping customer J. D. Williams for 1 year and was responsible for teh requirements specifications, use case creation for defined scenarios, design specs, test case script documentation.