Summary:

An IT professional with proven  analytical abilities and organizational skills with more than 8 years of  expertise in Windows/Desktop(WinForms), and Web Application development  (WebForms) (MVP, N-tier  Architecture) with more than 7 years of .NET  technologies(.NET 1.1/2.0/3.5)

 
• Experience in Designing,       Developing, Implementing, Testing and Supporting Software Solutions for       Fortune 1000 companies with a very good knowledge on the Software       Development Life Cycle.

 
• Worked extensively on Windows       Applications using C# .Net, VB.Net,       VB 6.0 and on Web based Applications using HTML, ASP, ASP.NET and JavaScript with good experience in Web Services, ADO.NET, ADO.NET DATA       Service, LINQ to SQL, AJAX, Remoting, Multithreading, Reflection,       Delegates,. Have good knowledge in deploying and configuring Websites       in IIS. Capable of developing Business components in C# and VB and       deploying the same in COM+ server.

 
• Posses Good Experience in N-Hibernate and implementing       solutions using the Modal View       Presenter architecture.

 
• Good experience in managing       enterprise IT project life cycle through all phases.

 
• Expertise       in business process analysis and in creating Business Process Requirements       (BPR), Software System Requirements (SSR) and Functional Requirement       Specs.

 
• Gained substantial knowledge in       SQL Server 7/2000/2005 and in developing SQL Queries, Procedures, Triggers       and other Database operations such as profiling and DTS services. Also       possess good knowledge in .Net Reporting Services and Crystal Reports.

 
• Have a good understanding of the       Dot Net Framework and developed Applications and Services for Windows Platform       using the same.

 
• Gained good understanding of the       HP3000 operating system and also learnt QUICK and QUIZ       programs (COGNOS provided utilities to program on HP3000).

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems: Windows  Vista/XP/2000/NT/98/95.

  Languages:   Visual Basic 6.0, C, C++, VB .Net,  C# .Net, ASP .Net, Classic ASP.

  Databases:  MS  SQL Server 2000/2005/7.0, Oracle 8i, 9i, 10i MS Access.

   Programming Environments: Visual Studio.NET 2003 /2005, Visual Studio 6.0.

   Web Technologies: ASP.NET,  WebServices, ASP 3.0, XML, XSD,XSLT, SOAP,WSDL,HTTP,XAMLXML Schemas, HTML,CSS,  DHTML.

   Web Servers: IIS  7.0/6.0/5.0.

   Middleware: ATL  COM, COM+, COM/DCOM, .Net Remoting, Web Services,

  Queue  (MSMQ), Active directory API.

  Data Access: ADO.NET,  ADO, SQLDMO.

  Scripting Languages:  VB Script, Java Script.

  Tools: BizTalk Server 2002, COGNOS POWER HOUSE TOOLS, Trackwise  7.0, Minisoft ODBC,

  HP Quality   Center.

  Modeling: UML, Model-View-Controller (MVC),  IOC, DI, Enterprise  Architect.

Version Control Tools: Visual Source Safe, Clear Case and Borland Star team
Others: MS  Office, MS Excel 2000 & 2003.

Education:

MASTERS    DEGREE in Computer Applications

    BACHELORS    DEGREE in Computer Technology

Basics of Supply Chain Management: APICS

    Trackwise Administrator: Sparta Systems
Programming    Concepts: Brain    Bench
Data    Modeling Concepts: Brain    Bench
Software    Configuration Management: Brain    Bench
Requirements    Analysis: Brain    Bench
Software    Testing Basics: Brain    Bench

Methodology: JRAD (Joint Rapid  Application Development), Waterfall

Professional Experience

Client: Confidential,   Dec  2011 - Feb 2012

Project: ICP

Description: XO Communications is a  telecommunication company and ICP is their Customer Portal. The ICP runs on a  .Net 3.5 platform with most of its data coming from an Oracle Backend Database.  This website is developed based on a Modal View Presenter design pattern.

Responsibility:  

 
• As a senior .Net Developer I was       involved part of the Custom Controls team I developed several Customized       Controls like the Customizable Grid View control that could display       Hierarchical Data and have varied editable controls on them.

 
• Designed and developed the changes       that were needed to update all hardcoded dropdown values to a List-Of-       Values from the database.

 
• Creating N-Hibernate mappings to       query the Siebel Database.

 
• Worked extensively on custom       logging on the batch upload screen to track user actions to the back end       Oracle table.

Client: Confidential, Irving   Aug 2011  -  Dec 2011

Project: SSAR  Integration

Description: The SSAR  Integration is project which is a part of the Bank wide Re Certification  program. The intent here is to get all individual applications in Metlife Bank  into one Certification and Access Management Platform.

Responsibility:  

 
• As a Business/ System Analyst, is responsible       for the gathering the administrative requirements for 20 applications.

 
• Working with the Business Owners on a day to       day basis to get an understanding of the existing certification and access       management process.
 
• Documenting the SSAR Integration  requirements for each and every application as Business Requirements and System Requirements Specs.

 
• Presenting the Requirements to the  Business, Certification and Access Management teams for their approvals and  working with the Developers to get them implemented.

 
• Designing the system and preparing  Functional Specs.

 
• Working with the Development team  to get the integration components developed in ASP.

 
• Developing System and User  Acceptance test cases and testing the applications as they get developed.

Client: Confidential, Plano TX  April 2011  -  Aug 2011

  Project: PI Invoice  Reconciliation

Description: The PI Invoice Reconciliation  system is a .Net based web application which loads the Server listing information  from HP and from PepsiCo's Configuration Management Data base, and reconciles  the server configurations between the 2 feeds and highlights the differences to  make sure the invoices are generated for the right configurations.

Responsibility:  

 
• As an Onsite Project Leader, was  responsible for development and management of budgets, determining project  scope, liaising between clients and staff throughout project lifecycle, and  ensuring objectives were met.

 
• Interfaced with business users to  prepare Business Process Requirements (BPR) and Software System Requirements  (SSR).

 
• Ensured all artifacts complied  with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines

 
• Lead a 5 member team and managed  the design, development and the implementation of the Reconciliation effort.

 
• Designed Test Strategy and managed  the system testing activity.

 
• Traced test cases and functional  specifications to SSRs and BPRs

 
• Also owned and managed the data  base lining activity at onsite.

Environment: .NET  3.5, C#, ASP.Net, C#, SQL Server 2005

Client: Confidential, Plano TX  Jan 2010  -  April 2011

  Project: Test  Metrics and Tools Management for One-Up Release 7

Description: The "One Up" initiative in PepsiCo has  been an ongoing project which has been executed as different Releases. In each release,  a set of Mainframe applications get migrated to SAP.

Responsibility:  

 
• Lead the Tools and Metrics team,  Designing and Developing Dashboards and Reports to track the status of the  testing efforts on the Release 7 roll out.

 
• Developing tools to aid the testing  mainframe applications and also to assist cross platform (Mainframe and SAP) testing.

 
• Training the new members on the  different Testing tools and Metrics, used as a part of the Release 7 project.

 
• Planning and Managing the Design  and Development Activities.

Environment: .NET  2.0, C#, SQL server 2005, XML, XPath, XSLT, ADO.NET, Borland Star Team,  HP Quality Center, Business Objects Reporting, VB Macros for Excel 2003

Client: Confidential, Plano TX   April 2009 - Jan 2010

Project: SPM 3  -  Route Planning System for FLNA

Description: SPM3 a Windows application was  developed in 2009 to replace it predecessor SPM which was an Excel macro based  tool. SPM3 serves as a Route Planning tool that helps Route Sales  Representatives and District Sales Leads in PepsiCo to plan their sales.

Responsibility:  

 
• Worked on a JRAD (Joint Rapid  Application Development) model and developed the SPM 3 application in C# .Net  which replaces the existing excel based version called SPM 2.

 
• Created Functional Description  documents detailing the functionality of the modules as and when they get  developed, to aid testing of the different releases in the JRAD model

 
• Developed tools to help excel  based users to be able to use excel shortcuts to browse through the data in the  new application as well.

 
• Performed Unit, Integration  testing and coordinated the User Acceptance Testing for both the pilot 1 and 2  releases.

 
• Managed the software configuration  and versioning using Borland Star Team.

 
• Used HP Quality Center extensively  to track defects and to take them to completion.

 
• Supported the pilot implementation  of the application.

 
• Developed, Deployed and tested the  application enhancements that were planned for National Rollout.

Environment: .NET  2.0, C#, SQL server 2005, XML, ADO.NET, Borland Star Team, HP Quality  Center, VB Macros for Excel 2003

Client:Confidential, Roswell, GA   May 2008  - Apr 2009

    Project:

 
• Operational  Assistance for 20 (.Net, ASP and Access) based applications in Kimberly Clark  Healthcare Portfolio.

 
• Trackwise  Implementation for Compliant Handling in Kimberly Clark

Description: The  internet and intranet sites are the back bone of the Kimberly Clark Healthcare  portfolio. All new promotions and products need to be made available on the  internet and intranet sites. The intranet based sites include sites for Payroll  processing, Incentive Calculations, Complaint Handling etc. Each of the  internet site pertained to a product in the healthcare portfolio of Kimberly  Clark.

Responsibility: 

 
• Lead a technical team as a part of  the Operational Assistance and New Project Development engagements for Kimberly  Clark under the Health Care Portfolio.

 
• Designed and Developed promo sites  like HAI Watch and the Kimberley Clark Intranet site, in ASP.Net and Classic  ASP.

 
• Was responsible for resolving and  ensuring high customer satisfaction with a very quick turn around on Severity 1  and Severity 2 issues.

 
• Provided guidance and helped the  team resolve Severity 3 and 4 issues and made sure that the Service Level  Agreements were met.

 
• Handled the estimation, planning  and execution of enhancements and small projects for the Health Care portfolio  in Kimberly Clark.

 
• Unit tested the individual  delivery pieces, Performed project integration and performed Integration  testing. Coordinated the User Acceptance Testing for the enhancements.

 
• As a certified Trackwise  Administrator, was involved in the configuration activities of the Complaint  Handing system in Trackwise.

 
• Also took care of user training  and post implementation support for the new "Trackwise" based Compliant  Handling system.

Environment: Microsoft  Visual Studio.NET, MS SQL Server  2000, Access 2003, Classic ASP

Client: Confidential, PA   Nov 2007  - Apr 2008

    Project: Support and  maintenance of 15 (.Net, Classic ASP and Access) based applications in Saint  Gobain

Description: Support  and maintenance of 15 (.Net, Classic ASP and Access) based applications in  Saint Gobain

Responsibility: 

 
• Was taking care of the Level 2 and  Level 3 support and maintenance of 15 applications which included Windows  Applications in VB.Net, Web Based Applications that were developed using  ASP.Net, Classic ASP and Several client server and windows applications  developed on a Microsoft Access platform.

 
• Designed, Developed and Unit  Tested various enhancements to the applications

 
• Was concurrently, providing  offshore a technical and functional transition on the applications.

 
• Taking care of the day to day  issues with these applications and making sure we meet the Service Level  Agreements (SLA) in fixing them.

Environment: Microsoft  Visual Studio.NET, MS SQL Server  2000, Access 2003, Classic ASP, Oracle

Client: Confidential, Greer SC   June 2006 to Nov 2007

Project: VISION

Description: The  existing VI Order to Cash System used by MPF (Mitsubishi Polyester Films) ran  on a HP 3000 and was about 20 years old. The technology was near obsolete and  the system did not address the growing business needs. The objective of our  project was to re-engineer the existing HP 3000 based Order to Cash used by MPF  at its manufacturing division in Greer into a more reliable, robust and  scalable solution.

The  Business Process Cycle covered the entire business process from the Order  Creation for a Customer, Order management, Invoicing and Cash Receipt. The  cycle begins when customer demand is identified. This demand must be confirmed  and converted to an order to either start production or ship product from  inventory. The order is then tracked through production, warehousing and  shipment. Once items are shipped, an invoice is created and finally payment is  recorded.

 
• The  key functionalities of this project are identified as

 
• Order  Management

 
• Customer  Management

 
• Inventory  Management

 
• Shipping  & Billing

 
• Accounts  Receivable

 
• VI  Interfaces

 
• Feedback  & COA

The HP 3000 system was to be converted to a robust  Microsoft .NET web application  using ASP.NET and VB.NET.

Responsibility: 

 
• Played roles in design,  development and testing with responsibilities such as

 
• Shouldering overall  responsibilities to understand Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet  targets and deliver solutions in accordance with Cognizant quality control standards  and business practices and procedures.

 
• Have developed a level of  competency, which helps to anticipate issues and solve them in advance.

 
• Imparting domain and technical  knowledge to the new entrants and also fellow team members.

 
• Also responsible to perform the  analysis for various enhancements gathering requirements from the Clients,  perform impact analysis to find out the systems/programs that could be  potentially affected by proposed change(s), coding, and testing and  implementation activities.

 
• As part of rollout type of works,  the responsibilities include performing analysis on the business requirements  and development of high level and detailed system design, test environment  set-up, Data Migration Activities, system testing, implement the system in to  the production environment and providing warranty support.

 
• Preparation of the following  various technical and functional documents (where applicable depending on the  request types) Requirement Specification document, High Level Analysis and  Approach document, High Level Design Document, Detailed Design Document, System  test plan and test procedure document and implementation plans.

 
• Was part of the Maintenance and  Support team providing a 24/7 support for the VISION and Films Material Flow  system for more than 8 months.

 
• Further responsibilities also  comprise of ensuring top quality deliverables from Cognizant to client and  collection of project metrics.

Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, MS SQL Server 2000, HP300, Cognos Powerhouse  Tools QUIZ, QUICK, QTP, Minisoft ODBC

Client: Confidential, Greer SC   July  2005 to June 2006

Project: FMF (Film Material Flow)

Description: The  objective of the Film Material Flow project was to re-engineer the existing HP  3000  -  Turbo Image based Film Material System used by MPF at its manufacturing  division in Greer into a more reliable, robust and scalable solution. The key  objectives of the project include.

 
• Data  Consolidation and removal of redundancy

 
• Enhanced  User Friendly Interface

 
• Reporting  Accuracy and Data Standardization

 
• Ease  of Maintenance

 
• Elimination  of manual interaction in identified flows

 
• Scalability

The HP 3000 system was to be converted  to robust Microsoft .NET web  application using VB.NET.

Responsibility:

 
• Got involved in Knowledge Transfer sessions with the  client to get an initial understanding of the project and the film lines.

 
• Analyzed the Requirements by reading through the  existing HP3000 code.

 
• Was Involved in training sessions educating the team  on the business process in Mitsubishi
 
• Reviewed Design Documents for the Business       Components and Batch Applications and submitted the same for client       review.

 
• Developed a lot of interface programs (Windows       Applications using Vb.Net) to make the application interact with various       devices in the manufacturing plant like the Programmable Logic Controllers       for Weighing stations, Conveyer Platforms and Roll Storage arms.

 
• Designed a key interface wherein the new       application interacts with another HP3000 system. Did a lot of analyses       around this interface and played the key role in identifying the       interfacing portions.

 
• Reviewed and tested the VB.Net Code.

 
• Took part in User Application Testing team and       did a lot of code changes to accommodate new client requirements.

 
• Took total control on the DB environment setup       for development server and the QA server.

 
• Was also involved in setting up the application       and its dependent components on the production environment.
 
• Was part of the Maintenance and Support team  providing a 24/7 support for the Films Material Flow system for over 3 months.

Environment: VB,  ASP.NET, ADO.NET, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, HP3000, COGNOS Power  House Tools (QUICK, QUIZ and QTP), Minisoft ODBC.

Client: Confidential,  Oct  2004  -  June 2005

Project: Ready  Set Grow

Description: The Schwan Food Company with millions  of customers and more than 6000 employees handles large volumes of data related  to its customers, employees, products, sales, assets, regions etc. In order to  handle such voluminous data the Schwan Food Company used Mainframe systems to  validate, store and process the data. This mainframe system ran on a base of  about 4-5 million lines of code. Since such a system is non user friendly,  bulky and very difficult to maintain, The Schwan Food Company decided to  rewrite all the Mainframe applications in .Net thereby eliminating the  Mainframe systems over a period of time and move to a more robust, user  friendly and easy to maintain .Net environment.

Responsibility:

 
• Analyzed the Requirements for the Accounts  Receivables and the Commissions Module from the related COBOL code.
 
• Prepared       the Design Documents for the Business Components and Batch Applications.

 
• Developed       the Business Components and Batch Applications.

 
• Developed       Windows based tools in C# that would help teams to test their Business       Components.

 
• Created       the Test Cases and necessary Test Data to test the Components and Batch       Applications.

 
• Performed       the Unit Testing for the Components and Batch Application.

 
• Performed       the Parallel Testing of Batch Applications with the Mainframe System.

 
• Supported       the onsite team during System Testing

Environment: C#,  ASP.NET, ADO.NET, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, MSMQ, COBOL

Client: Confidential,   Jan  2004  -  Oct 2004

Project: National  Insurance Database

Description: The National Insurance Database is a  system built to report prior insurance history for a driver. Insurance policy information is collected  from contributing insurance companies in any format that is convenient, timely,  and contains the required policy data elements.  The policy data is reformatted, validated, and loaded into the National  Insurance Database. Contributing  insurance companies may access the policy data to determine prior insurance for  a driver at the time of writing a new policy.  Access will be provided through an Internet application or through an  integrated connection with the insurance company. The company customers will be billed each  time an insurance inquiry is completed and the customer will be invoiced each  month. The key functionalities include Collect Insurance Data, Load Insurance  Policies, Access Insurance Data, Bill Customers, Maintain Insurance Company  Information, Maintain Product Information, Maintain Customer Information and  Archive System Data

Responsibility:

 
• Analyzed the Requirements for the NIDB Website
 
• Prepared       the Design Documents for the Business Components and WebPages

 
• Developed       the Business Components and WebPages using C#.

 
• Created       the Test Cases and necessary Test Data to test the Website.

 
• Performed       the Unit Testing for the Components and Website.

 
• Supported       the onsite team during System and Integration Testing

Environment: C#, ASP.NET,  ADO.NET,  HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, MSMQ, COBOL

Client: Confidential,   Feb  2004  -  July 2004

Project: CSI  (Customer Service Index)

Description: The Customer Service Index (CSI)  aimed at automating the process of evaluating the performance of the employees  of Schwans on a monthly basis, calculating the incentives that they would be  eligible for, setting targets for the next month and sending the incentive  information to the payroll system. The system also allows the targets of the  new month to be changed at any point during the course of the month.

Responsibility:

 
• Took up to the designing and  development of the core batch applications of the project.

 
• Designed the "modify baselines"  site used in the project, which was later developed in ASP. Net.

 
• Was involved in the development of Unit and System  test cases for the project and performed both Unit testing and System testing.

Environment: C#,  ASP.NET, ADO.NET, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, MSMQ, COBOL

Client: Confidential,   Sep  2003  -  Feb 2004

Project: CC  Telemoney Replacement

Description: CC-Telemoney replacement project emerged because the  client Schwans wanted to replace the third party credit card processing tool  Telemoney, which processed data from a tilda ‘~' separated file, with another  third party tool called Super Charge which processed XML files and did not want  any further changes in third party tools to affect any of the programs. For  this we brought in a Schwans format and made all Schwans programs to interact  in this format. And we had BizTalk Server 2002 to map this format to the format  required by other third party tools.

Responsibility:

 
• Took up the design and development  of the Application Integration Components (AIC's) using C#.

 
• Programmed with BizTalk Server  2002 to achieve integration with the C# code.

 
• Also developed Unit and System test cases for the project  and performed both Unit testing and System testing.

Environment: C#,  ASP.NET, ADO.NET, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, MSMQ, COBOL,  BizTalk Server 2002

Client: Confidential,   Aug  2003  -  Sep 2003

Project: Explore Next Generation  -  Explore NG

Description: The Explore NG aimed at providing an interface to  the client to help the storing and maintenance of its customer, product and  shipment information.

Responsibility:

 
• Developed and tested few serviced  components in C#.

 
• Unit Tested the Explore NG site.

 
• Was involved in the coordination of the onsite -  offshore communications on the proceedings of the module.

Environment: C#,  ADO.NET,  SQL Server 2000