PROFILE:

• Over 20 years of experience in various disciplines of IT, in the web and mainframe environments
• Result oriented, self - motivated, “generalist” IT technical director with a broad range of experience in project management, architecture, planning, analysis, system design, development, testing, implementing, maintaining large and complex applications
• Progressive growth from a Developer to Director with increasing responsibilities, having worked in various capacities including Consultant & FTE, both Onshore & Offshore as Expat
• Proven ability working in structured as well as unstructured environments under time critical deadlines, determining priorities, scheduling work, maximizing resource utilizations, improving system, processes and communication, resulting in direct cost savings in the millions of dollars

CORE STRENGTHS:

• Ability to interact effectively with the Business as well as the technical teams distributed across the globe in an Employee, multi-vendor setting with focus on continuous process and KPI improvements
• Extensive onshore and expat working experience with in-depth knowledge of the working culture, motivating factors for staff in USA & India
• Ability to handle multiple parallel projects/back-to-back releases across different teams
• Experienced in managing, leading, interviewing/recruiting, mentoring and motivating staff onshore, nearshore and offshore through Daily Standups, Reviews, Retrospectives, One on Ones, Transparency, Collaboration, Team Building, Delivery Team Empowerment etc., with a proven track record to deliver solutions in scope, on time and within budget.
• Experienced in successfully leading and growing dynamic cross functional teams. Responsible for up to 90 staff members with diverse technical and cultural backgrounds across different geographic locations/time zones
• Experienced in people-productivity improvements in IT Software delivery
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a positive attitude; team player
• Experienced in custom web application development, assessments, recommendations, third party tool evaluations & roadmaps to upgrade or improve technologies or software systems, enhancing old systems or building and implementing new systems from the ground up
• Excellent command on Frameworks, Java Design Patterns, OOAD, N-Tier, Business Process Management (BPM)
• Experienced in different development methodologies from Waterfall to Agile
• Extensive experience in IT solution delivery for various sectors including finance, reinsurance, pharmaceutical, healthcare, manufacturing, telecomm, etc.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Professional Scrum Master I
• Certified Scrum Master Professional - Yellow Belt
• Professional in Business Process Management (P.BPM)
• Six Sigma Green Belt
• TOGAF 8 Enterprise Architect
• Sun Certified Java Programmer
• HTML
• JavaScript
• Project Management
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Architecture, Design, Development and Implementation
• Business Analysis

SKILLS SUMMARY:

Hardware: Intel-based PCs, IBM Mainframes

Languages & Development Tools: JAVA, J2EE, JavaScript (JS), JScript.NET, HTML, DHTML, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), COBOL II, CICS, JCL, SAS, SAS/FSP, SQL, PL/SQL, CLIST, REXX, Rational Rose (Use Case, Class and Sequence Diagrams), IBM WSAD, IBM Visual Age for JAVA, JSF, JDBC, JPA, JQuery, STS, Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, Cassandra, Eclipse, STS, Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat, tcServer, DB2 Connect, JTest, OptimizeIt, INetSoft StyleReport, Trilogy, FILEAID, QMF, XPEDITER (Online and Batch), TSO/ISPF, BATMAIL

Operating Systems & System Utilities: Solaris, MS Windows NT/XP/2000/9x, HP-UX, OS/VS, MVS/XA, UNIX, DOS

Network Systems & Technologies: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP

Database Management Systems: MS Access, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, VSAM, SAS DB, IMS

Commercial Software: Metastorm, Lombardi Teamworks, Hibernate, Apache ANT, MS Project, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Trilogy

Methodologies, Standards & Others: Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Object-Oriented Design & Programming (OOD/OOP), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile - Scrum, Kanban, JIRA, Sarbanes Oxley, 21CFR Part 11 Regulations, ITIL Foundations, Infrastructure storage and management, Cloud Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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Director

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Project Planning and Execution, Business Engagement, Business Analysis, Resource Management

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Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed work streams, Created Project Plan, Schematics, Documentations; Provided Dashboards, Reports to PMO

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Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected, designed, developed and implemented a custom web application with big data visualization capabilities

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Architect

Responsibilities:

• Asses current state, recommend, architect, design, develop and implement a custom web application to provide the above capabilities
• Co-ordinate with various stakeholders and third party vendors for requirements and JAD

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Scrum Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with resources from different teams for internal functions as well as external interface contracts
• Helped Project Manager/Scrum Master at the Client site with various activities including task breakdowns, complexities, point assignments, defect prioritization, assignment and tracking etc.
• Designed, developed and implemented a custom web application to provide the above capabilities

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Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect, Design and Implement a toolkit to aid in the following processes as well as co-ordinate with onsite and offshore resources to fit the new toolkit with the ongoing/current process.
• Standardize input data as Meta Data and create Data Collection Templates.
• Provide a means for data collection and data processing - both batch and online.
• Provide a means for customizing and managing Data Cleanse Rules Engine.
• Provide an Exception Workflow process to manage and correct data.
• Provide a means for customizing and managing Bundling Rules Engine that would be used to automatically generate Migration Waves and Bundles.
• Provide a Workflow process to manage changes to Bundles, Wave approvals and cross movements.
• Execution: Provide dashboard charts and metrics to help track the migrations.

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Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with the team to analyze data from subscribers and help with the architecture and design to in corporate the enhancements.

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Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identify the application characteristics for application categorization efforts.
• Come up with a repeatable methodology, dashboards, metrics and formulae to categorize approximately 1000 applications based on an initial set of approximately 50 applications provided by the business.
• Co-ordinate and conduct smoke tests with application knowledge experts using Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) to identify compatibility issues with the target OS (Windows 7) and if applicable, target browser (IE8).

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Scrum team member

Responsibilities:

• Participated in daily scrum activities.
• Designed, developed and implemented the enhancements on the existing application platform (.NET, MS SQL Server Database, Telerik Controls, MICO Forms, Fitnesse tests, SharePoint, SVN)

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Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with Current State Assessment, Gap Analysis and Road Map.
• Provided Future State Architecture

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Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Improved performance many fold.
• Delivered requirements document, design document and unit test cases.
• Provided estimates and pros and cons of different approaches for the design.
• Designed, developed and implemented new requirements.

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Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and implemented the BPM processes, UI forms, .NET scripts etc. with Oracle backend.
• Designed, developed and implemented a BPM solution for a Clinical trial Safety Update Report tracking and notification system.
• The goal of this project is to provide visibility and tracking for the safety report creation, review, and submission processes to ensure visibility and compliance within the organization.
• Metastorm BPM was used to automate the reminders, document compilation, drafting, review and approval of the safety review report prior to submission to regulatory authorities.
• The system contains a main process to orchestrate the overall solution; a batch process to run based on a configurable schedule to check and send out notifications; and other supporting sub-processes. The system integrates with EDMS via a Web Service to check for the presence of documents using the Metastorm Web Services Process Orchestrator.
• Pre canned reports with filters were developed using Hyperion and made available through Metastorm Forms.
• Provided Proof of Concept.
• Designed, developed and implemented the BPM processes, UI forms, .NET scripts etc. with Oracle backend.

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Architect

Responsibilities:

• Delivered an architecture and design document
• Developed proof of concept using Lombardi Teamworks, Weblogic, Oracle.

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Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and implemented a Web User Portal using UML, Java, JSP, JS, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Apache ANT etc.
• Designed, developed and implemented Teamworks Shared Services that used Hibernate for integration of Teamworks with Oracle backend.

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Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed, hands-on developed and implemented a reporting framework using Java, JSP, JS, CSS, JavaScript, SQL. The system ran on Weblogic Application Server and used Oracle as the backend database.

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Technical Lead/Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed interfaces for communication with various systems using Java, XML. The system ran on Websphere Application Server, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for middle tier integration and used DB2 as the backend database.
• Conducted integration testing

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Technical Lead/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assess the upgrade effort on the application side.
• Detail a task list with an execution path and timeframe.
• Lead a team of developers; Oversee and review application upgrade.
• Provide hands on technical support; Establish and create desktop environments to ease development process.
• Recommend process improvements, performance enhancements, products/tools/technologies to the client.

Environment: Windows NT, Windows 2003, UNIX, WAS 3.5, WAS 5.1, WebSphere MQ (MQSeries), IBM MQ Workflow, Rational Rose, J2EE, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, JUnit, Load Runner, Crystal Reports etc.

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Technical Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead, Oversee, develop and review UML object model, design and development.
• Coordinating with the different groups like Onshore and Offshore Development teams.

Environment: LDAP, BEA Weblogic, Rational Rose, J2EE, JSF, XML, Sun JAVA Studio, DB2, DB2 Connect 7.2, JUnit.

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Technical Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed modules using UML.
• Lead, oversee and review object model, design and development from onsite and offsite teams.
• Architected, designed and developed a micro-architecture framework using JAVA, Oracle, DB2 to augment JSF.
• Architected, designed and developed a security administration system for the Users using the JSF & PL/SQL.
• Coordinating with the different groups like Usability Engineering Group; Middleware Group & Development team.
• Researching new products/tools/technologies and come up with best practices before handing off to the development team.

Environment: Siteminder, LDAP, Sun Java System Web Server 6.1, IBM WebSphere, Rational Rose, J2EE, JSF, XML, WSAD, DB2, Oracle, PL SQL, DB2 Connect 7.2, JTest, OptimizeIt, INetSoft StyleReport, Ab Initio, Windows XP, Sun Solaris.

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Technical Lead/Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed modules using UML
• Lead, oversee and review UML object model, and development from the team.
• Coordinating with the different groups like Middleware Group & Development team.
• Researching new products/tools/technologies and come up with best practices before handing off to the development team.

Environment: Siteminder, LDAP, Sun Java System Web Server 6.1, IBM WebSphere, Rational Rose, J2EE, XML, WSAD, ANT with Starbase/Starteam, DB2 UDB, DB2 Connect 7.2, JTest, INetSoft StyleReport, Windows XP, HP UX 11

Technical Lead/Senior Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create object model, design, develop, unit test and create sample application to test the framework.
• Enhance framework to support multiple application requirements.

Environment: Siteminder, LDAP, Sun Java System Web Server 6.1, IBM WebSphere, Rational Rose, J2EE, XML, WSAD, DB2 UDB, DB2 Connect 7.2, JTest, Windows XP, HP UX 11

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Technical Lead/Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Lead, design, develop, test and implement the web based intranet system for Policy Information.

Environment: Java, Servlets, JDBC, VA for Java, Oracle, Windows 2000, Weblogic and UNIX

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Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Development and support for the Commission Manager component of a software product from Trilogy.

Environment: Trilogy, Java, Servlets, JDBC, VJ++, and VA for Java, Oracle, and UNIX

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Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tier 2 level Systems Support for maintaining, developing and trouble shooting all web & applications and servers owned by Confidential

Environment: Java, Servlets, JDBC, JSP, HTML, UNIX, Mainframe, SQL Server, SAS, DB2 and Windows NT.