SUMMARY:

• Highly Skilled senior IT Professional with over 12 years of experience in Financial Markets and Cruise industry. Successfully lead development of large scale Strategic Software Solutions using micro - services architecture and mobile technology solutions.
• Expertise in managing Traditional and Agile-Scrum projects for implementing in-house and vendor products and providing technical business solutions. Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-up, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective.
• Have been working diligently with Software Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Business Units and Management team by coordinating with onsite-offshore distributed teams to deliver critical applications using high-end technologies and cross-functional teams.
• A self-motivated, excellent communicator and efficient collaborator with strong interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical Project Management: Lead new development, re-engineering, enhancement and support teams. Train and build highly skilled technical teams. Efficient communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and innovative thinking. Good risk management and problem solving skills. Highly Reliable and Committed. Scheduling and maintaining tasks and emphasize on Quality. Weekly Project Status Reporting for Upper Management. Daptiv Task Allocation and time management. Coordinate Onsite-Offshore teams. Technical Interview panel being part of Talent Acquisition team. Working on task estimation and tracking milestones and deliver software solutions.

Agile/SCRUM: Writing User Stories, Conducting Daily Stand ups, organize Sprint Planning and Retrospective Meetings, Backlog Grooming, maintain artifacts & Burndown charts using VSTS/TFS and Mentoring technical teams. Have knowledge of SaFe Agile and Kanban.

Documentation, Change management & Implementation: Developed technical Wiki, User Stories, Functional Requirements, Detailed Design Documents, Application test Case. Initiate Change management tasks and version control using various tools TFS, Remedy, JIRA, Service-Now. Coordinate initial server setup, monitoring and deployment tools, CI/CD using Team City & Octopus and application deployment with various teams, including network, DevOps, DBA, Vendor and Business Users.

Vendor Management: Contract negotiation for procurements and product development, Test Lab Setup, collaborate with PMO and technical teams to integrate and implement vendor products.

Technical Software and Tools: Hands-On Software Design, Development, writing complex algorithms and Implementation experience using Microsoft technologies, extensively using ASP.Net, C#.Net, Web API, Web Services, Javascript, XML, JSON, MS SQL Server, Oracle and MS Access and Visio. Version Control using TFS and GIT BIT Bucket. Project tracking with MS Project, VSTS, SharePoint and Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.

Data Migration, Reporting and Compliance: Data migration involving multiple data sources and reporting complex data structures for Business Continuity. Analyze and implement standards to adhere to SOX, PCI, PII and EU-GDPR regulations.

Domain/Industry: Financial Services and Investment Banking, Cards Processing and Travel, Hospitality & Cruise.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Analyst - Agile Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the integration and implementation of Gangway and E-Muster Mobile Solutions across the Fleet with minimal resources and reduced the vendor coordination effort. Successfully carried out the fleet implementation rollout and retrofit of the Micro-services mobile application using CI/CD.
• Facilitate SCRUM ceremonies, conduct daily standups with Vendor SCRUM teams and in-house teams and track progress. Track User Stories using TFS and facilitate backlog planning meetings, Review and Retrospective with the Vendor and in-house Development teams, Business Owners and Quality team.
• Negotiated SOW contracts with Vendor to finalize an optimal Vendor support agreement.
• Application Project Manager for Casino Project initiation conducting questionnaire sessions and workshops with Business Teams to gather system requirements. Worked with Vendor to analyze scope and effort, timeline to integrate new system with Property Management system and project planning workshops. Identifying and documenting application requirements and writing user stories.
• Reduced system downtime and built trust with the Business users and Management teams.
• Plan effort and schedule for New Builds and coordinate Dry Docks and deviations.

Confidential

Technical Lead/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead large scale high visibility projects and managed mid-sized team working for the Global Markets Investment Banking. Received s for exceptional contribution for the Software application engineering.
• Traveled to various locations for new Project initiation and offshore team setup. Coached project teams to build highly skilled technical and domain groups reducing external costs.
• Lead CORE Derivatives Reporting team. Reduced the Federal Month-end reporting turnaround time by 40% by automating process by implementing Data Transformation tools and Macros. Coordinated the Data migration between Derivative systems. Validate data and provide sign off for the upstream systems.
• Re-engineered Securities legacy applications designing and developing end to end solutions using advanced Microsoft Technologies. Enhanced compliance and SOX applications and implemented complex algorithms for trade systems.
• Volunteered to Design and Build multiple in-house applications reducing resourcing cost. These applications were developed to automate business processes to increase productivity.
• Part of Talent Acquisition technical team and been part of weekly walks-ins and technical recruitment drives to help screen highly skilled technical resources.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Have Engineered software applications using Microsoft suite of Products and lead technical teams.
• Experienced in designing and building Software applications for Credit Card Processing and Data Capture and Workflow management systems using Microsoft Technologies. Successfully implemented the solution for AMEX APAC and UK regions.
• Automated Data Capture process increasing the business operations productivity. Received for automating the Software application support process that eliminated the need for dedicated support resources.
• Customized the Prepaid Cards Reporting Product for AMEX and built an extended SCRUM team, leading the offshore standup calls and maintaining Burndown charts and working on Sprint planning and Retrospectives.