SUMMARY:

• Rising technology executive with expertise in strategic thought leadership and innovative ideas who is noted for excelling in the areas of people development, process improvement, and technology implementation all to provide efficient business solutions while increasing the value of the company. developing people as next generation leaders, delivering new technology solutions, and directing overall application development at enterprise level.
• Experience in managing large teams with diversified background people with both on - shore and off-shore.
• Managing teams with development, support and QA skills in the .Net, C#, Java, IOS and Android areas. DBMS: SQL server, Informix, DB2 and Teradata.
• Has application development experience in Microsoft tools, .Net, VB, C++, C and Unix.
• Proficient in Waterfall, Agile (scrum and Kanban) and Iterative project management methodologies. Used tools MS project, Clarity, TeamForge, Jira and familiar with Leankit Kanban tool.
• Managed a team with responsible for the administration of project management tools (Clarity), Development (Microsoft stack and Java), Task management, Source code, Build and Quality management.
• Experienced working with customers on business priorities, budgets, application development, and vendors. I created and presented strategic application implementation roadmaps by working with business leaders and IT senior leadership.
• Built Application Development team capabilities to develop / test / release applications in the area of e-commerce and mobile applications at Greyhound.
• Transferred to lead a raw tactical team and immediately initiated team development. Improved team engagement from 50% to 90% by implementing road map plans, customer collaboration boards and agile development methodology. Systems performance also skyrocketed by 50% with 99.85% availability.
• Promoted and took responsibility of Asia Markets in IT and improved the relationship between CIO’s in China, Japan and India with the Bentonville IT department by focusing on collaboration, culture comparisons, business priorities, budgets, and systems delivery. Worked with Markets on compliance projects relating to PCI.
• Created and presented strategic roadmap to implement 5 major HR systems across enterprise (14 markets), which consists of business benefits, budgets, organization structural changes and ROI.
• Pushed to lead the implementation of a critical GRS project due to the complex business logic needed. Adopted agile methodology and completed on time and on budget. Pioneered a replenishment system for perishable goods and cashed in an enormous ROI as a result.
• Led, designed / developed / Tested workstation and web applications for more than 10 years. Developed big enterprise - wide cross-functional applications using different technologies like .Net, Java, Unix/C, SQL and ETL.

CAREER HISTORY:

Confidential

Sr. Manager of Application Development / QA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the team in the development of applications in the e-commerce and mobile areas
• Progressed career within Confidential with several different roles as a systems analyst, project manager, program manager, team lead and IT manager for development.
• I have acquired a great amount of IT experience while working in the Confidential supply chain and International teams.

Confidential

IT Sr. Manager - Application Development / Quality

Responsibilities:

• Expanded the team from 5 to 16 members to develop and support e-commerce and mobile applications.
• Implemented the Agile methodology for development across the organization (adopting SAFe)
• Vendor engagement: For developing Mobile applications (IOS and Android), Redesign of e-commerce application.
• Implemented more than 100 enhancements in the e-commerce applications. Initiated PCI compliance project.
• Laid the foundation for DevOps organization with automation and CI with Jenkins

IT Manager - Technology Services

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Transformed a tactical Enablement Integration team into a strategic, high performing team. Associate engagement improved from 50% to 90%.
• Migrated a high maintenance legacy source / build management system to industry standard applications: TeamForge, Subversion and Anthill Pro systems. Developers spread across multiple countries.
• Integrated TeamForge with HPALM and Clarity so users could focus in their environment instead of continuously shifting between different applications. ROI: 2.5 mil
• Closely worked with Pharmacy development team and logistics team to optimize the build and deployment process.
• We were able to achieve the significant performance gains in both Pharmacy and Logistics areas.
• Saved more than 500K by eliminating unused functionality and renegotiations with vendor contracts.

IT Manager - International Department

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Total Income application that is exclusively used by international customers by engaging third party vendor.
• Implemented a collaboration process to communicate on weekly basis with each market CIO and their direct reports for the first time ever.
• Implemented a process to escalate critical business priorities and systems issues so Confidential can deliver solutions more efficiently.
• Developed a proposal /HR systems roadmap to implement 5 core HR systems in all international markets by leveraging corporate licenses for the already bought systems.
• Worked with application development team and Markets to develop applications in the area of Finance, Accounting and Human resources.
• Worked closely with Markets to understand the regulations change and worked with development teams to in corporate compliance (PCI) changes in the applications.
• Conducted in order to embrace the partnership and culture of India and the markets within. Turnout: 1500 plus employees.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Laid a foundation for a transformational program called Global Replenishment System (GRS) to consolidate multiple forecasting and order processing systems all at once. Successfully implemented the first phase by developing replenishment drill-down capable reports.
• Led a cross-functional project to replenish perishable goods, which required complex business logic, item forecasting, and ordering.
• Led three new application development projects: Replenishment Visibility reports, Store Item Group profiles and Dynamic Policy Settings applications.
• Enhanced and maintained all front-end applications with a team of 12 associates.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered new applications: Traits Survey and Buyer Managed Pricing
• Supported and upgraded Major applications: Item Creation, Assortments, Store Groups, Item Groups, Traits, Tax Flags, and Job Position applications in item file. Major pricing applications included Buyer Managed Pricing, Cost, Retail & Margin Maintenance, and Markdown Systems.
• Closely worked with Modular based merchandising System Development.