SUMMARY:

• Accomplished senior - level executive with a progressive 18-year experience in business and product development, cross-functional global team leadership and delivering applications with sustainable gains.
• Entrepreneurial leadership style with highly effective coaching skills as well as a solution-oriented approach to problem solving.
• Over 6 years of experience working with Agile methodologies with more than 3 years as Scrum Master.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Oracle EBS: All Versions

Oracle Utilities: RAC, Dataguard, 10gAS, Datapump, Exadata, Analytics, RMAN, Oracle PaaS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows, Unix, HPUX, AIX & other flavors

Languages: PL/SQL, Java, C/++, Shell Scripting

Others: Demantra, Golden-Gate, Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence), Analytics (OBIEE/ETL)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Agile Coach, Program Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coaching teams and transforming them from Waterfall to Agile methodologies, increase velocity, sustainability and meet commitments
• Strong on hand experience in Agile Software development frameworks and methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, user stories, Scrum Ceremonies and remote user testing, user story mapping, and rapid prototyping.
• Involved in writing proposals, SOW for vendors, interfacing with business to report status and any issues that need immediate attention, status reporting to senior management.
• Accountable for team of IT professionals, institutionalizing technical and managerial processes, overseeing the development and maintenance of systems
• Strong experience in Vendor Management, Virtual / Remote team management and offshore / onshore team models. Worked with almost all major vendors in the marketplace on fixed cost and T&M projects.

Sr. Manager

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Lead a global team of consultants (on-shore and off-shore) responsible for installation, configuration, maintenance of applications environments and their technology stacks (including Database) for the Product Development Organization following Agile principles for product development.
• Provide oversight of design and implementation of Agile methodology including Scrum and Kanban
• Lead pilots of Oracle Public Cloud PaaS for new customers.
• In partnership with Sales team, provide expertise for formulating technical / functional support activity to prospective clients and existing customers.
• Contribute to large or complex pre sales opportunities that needed creative and simple solutions.

Program Director and Vendor Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the delivery and support of IT services for AICPA (American Institute of CPAs- with more than 412,000 members in 144 countries)
• Responsible for planning and partnering with project team members across stakeholder groups to implement projects related to application support, Single Sign-On, Payment Tech amongst many others including key project delivery elements of processes, technology, adoption and communication
• Responsible for managing vendor relationships for PaymenTech (Payment Processing platform offered by Chase) and Vertex (Tax Technology Solution)
• Work with AICPA in identifying initiatives to promote operational efficiency such as implementation of Single Sign-On.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and led the implementation of a complex multi-domain SSO system incorporating Oracle Identity Management and Microsoft Active Directory (~20MM)
• Co-ordinate with various stakeholders at client location to gather requirements and manage expectation.
• Support development and software quality assurance to ensure optimal progress and product stability for end users.

Technology Consulting Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Various Clients such as GE, Everbank, Mattel and Kodak: Responsible for leading large onsite technical engagements related to performance tuning (EBS and Database), database and EBS upgrades, patching and cloning for a variety of clients.
• Recognized as a Domain expert for Oracle Demantra application.
• Collaborate with Oracle Sales and engagement teams in conducting roadshows, identifying expansion opportunities, lead pursuit and participate in the proposal development process.
• Manage a large account for a leading global information-content and technology company based in Michigan.
• Responsible for defining account strategy and building strong client partnerships.

Team Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage a large team of Oracle DBAs responsible for maintaining the Oracle applications (11i) for the client.
• In partnership with the counterparts in UK, identify potential processes for outsourcing and enabling successful transition to India team.

Senior Database Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supporting oracle internal customers across the globe including California and Austin.
• Installing Oracle apps on production server with TEST, PROD and DEMO instances.

Project Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for resolving customer site-specific issues including database installations and configuration.
• Ensure smooth running of organizations internal application and maintain/monitor weekly/daily batch processes.