SUMMARY:

• Senior IT Managing Consultant with comprehensive experience translating business needs into technology requirements that support company’s business objectives.
• Understand client requirement, and oversee product development throughout life cycle from initial design phase to official launch.
• Strong personal ownership and commitment to quality.
• Leverage Agile development methods and techniques to lead teams within dynamic environment and deliver within short time frames.
• Collaborate with business teams, technology teams, and key stakeholders and adapt to changing requirements and priorities.
• Security clearance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Systems: DOS, Windows 95/98/NT4.0/2000/XP, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP - UX. WebLogic 7 SP3, WebSphere, Linux, UNIX, JBoss-3.0.5 tomcat4.1.18, Jakarta-tomcat4.1.18, CURAM

Testing Tools: Rational Quality Manager, Quick Test Pro, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Requisite Pro, Team Track, Version Manager, JIRA

Language and Tools: C++, CGI Scripts, HTML, Java, JavaScripts, SQL, XML, Siebel, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, MS Office, Hummingbird Connectivity, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Informatica, GitHub, Jenkins, PVCS, SQL Explorer, Toad, Internet Explorer (IE), Java Web Start, Snag It

Database: MongoDB, Oracle 10g and 11g, DB2, MS-Access, Sybase

Networking Issues: Network Topology, Transmission Media, MAC Protocol, LAN, MAN, WAN, Ethernet, CSMA/CD, Token ring, Circuit Switching, Packet Switching, X.25, Frame Relay, ATM, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel, FDDI, ISDN, B-ISDN, Protocol architecture, TCP/IP, OSI, SNA, Intranet, Client-Server Architecture, Iridium

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Somers, NY

Business Analyst / Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated on 2 releases of CURAM application for State of Missouri, performing requirement reviews and verifications.
• Generated project documentations, improving functional design and test validation documents.
• Suggested and implemented key process improvements in support of upper management, increasing team productivity and quality of overall work produced.
• Assisted test automation team and produced scripts for automated tests, increasing test productivity 80% for smoke tests and regression scripts on new releases.
• Coordinated back-end activities, code deployments, and test phases, resulting in more stable software releases.

Project Manager / Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led infrastructure testing of and brought online new data center for Centers for Medicaid and Medicare, replacing outdated data center in Baltimore, MD and improving overall efficiency.
• Implemented best practices for testing, improving testing efficiency with minimal downtime.
• Generated detailed test documents, including test plans, test cases, test scripts, and end of test reports, leading to successful test readiness reviews.
• Discussed test status with upper management and architecture teams, delivering fact-based information for decision making and on time delivery of releases.
• Performed daily defect resolution sessions with architecture and operations teams, and wrote weekly defect status reports, significantly decreasing defect backlogs.
• Enhanced weekly status reports, increasing client’s confidence about on-time delivery of new data center.

Test Manager / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed verification and validation of 2 releases of software for Department of Justice Victim’s Compensation fund, leading to on-time deliveries.
• Improved application development, testing, and defect resolution processes by collaborating with client.
• Helped upper management with project schedules and generated daily status reports to involved key stakeholders, leading to smooth delivery of key deliverables.

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated on development and release of first electronic immigration application for US Government’s Department of Homeland Security by helping to develop e-file system that replaced paper-based processing.
• Delivered on-time software releases by heavily engaging within release planning efforts to determine scope of work.
• Improved team efficiency by working in smaller, Agile teams to determine requirements, priorities, and acceptance criteria needed for each sprint of software release.
• Gained client approval for completion of each software sprint by using Agile project management techniques and actively participating in key demonstrations to stakeholders for each successful software sprint.
• Minimized and eliminated risks by actively participating in project change and risk management meetings and providing valid resolutions.
• Developed strong team by mentoring junior members of staff on how to improve performance and work effectively in team environment.
• Decreased staffing costs 30% by managing staffing budgets and assisting in staffing plans for each phase of software release.
• Received 2 IBM Excellence awards in 2012 for going above and beyond.

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Transformed business requirements into technical requirements by analyzing stakeholder requirements and documents for development of paper-based operations web application used to access critical information about U.S. population.
• Implemented and delivered new functional web application for 2010 Census field users by managing small application development team.
• Collaborated with requirements team, improving overall quality of requirements and software specifications.
• Improved software quality by designing and developing test scripts using Quality Center.
• Increased clarity of written defects by generating defect generation protocol that emphasized core issues.
• Improved team training by facilitating sessions on new operations and addressing questions and concerns.
• Accelerated test output 50% by implementing Rational Requisite Pro and HP Quick Test Professional.

Software Verification and Validation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered modernized software for development of 2 new blood analyzers by determining company’s business needs and generating software requirements.
• Improved quality of releases by actively participating in software design review meetings and providing vital input.
• Adhered to strict quality standards set forth by the FDA by performing manual and automated software testing using Quality Center and Quick Test Professional.

Software Verification Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed software requirements by developing testing strategies and implementing new software design specifications.
• Managed new software release scope by logging change control requests.