OBJECTIVE

Obtain a challenging position where I can utilize my skills, experience and education in the management of IT resources.

SUMMARY

Fourteen years of progressive IT experience with five years in management role, working in a variety of industries ranging from small - scale to large-scale enterprise environments by leading and managing technical teams, training and coaching for optimum results. Identifying and achieving project goals by prioritizing and scheduling as well as coordinating with stakeholders and reporting to senior staff and corporate managers. Well-developed communication skills and expertise in business communications, demonstrated through training, and presentation skills.

SKILLS

• IT Management
• Project Management
• Organization Planning
• Traditional SDLC and RAD
• Technical Writing
• Architecting Technical Solutions
• Object Oriented Programming
• Application Design Development Implementation
• Database Design Optimization
• Database Development Implementation
• Systems Architecture Deployment

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Manager, Development

• Led and managed development team to create solutions to ingest editorial stories from various platforms into central data storage.
• Led development team that developed platform to ingest and output editorial stories in XML, JSON and custom formats to and from central repository using integration tools and API's built using C, Web API, REST.
• Conducted daily stand ups and weekly scrum meetings using Kanban boards to ensure project was on track and the consumer was aware of development efforts.
• Coordinated efforts with enterprise architecture team and deployment team to push code through various environments and troubleshoot issues if any through production and training environments.
• Managed tickets, code and documentation using tools like JIRA, GitHub, Confluence, etc.

Confidential

Manager

• Successfully led and managed development team to several successful initiatives by architecting innovative products and thus increasing efficiency and productivity.
• Used both traditional and agile SCRUM SDLC processes to deliver products within time, under budget and of highest quality by managing key stakeholder and steering committee expectations.
• Supervised traditional department management functions including fiscal responsibility, resource management, project management, and administrative detail consisting of software developers, database developers, system administrators and database administrators.
• Oversaw several initiatives consisting of IT development and improvements, saving organization at least 1 million of outsourcing cost over a period of 3 years. Additionally designed and implemented HA/DR solutions by extensive use of VMWare, vMotion and vRanger in-house and successful migration to new hosting provider, saving additional spending in the process.
• Formed and chaired IT Steering Committee which provided strategic direction as well architectural and technical guidance and ensured that all activities adhere to established processes and best practices are followed. The Steering Committee also reviews operational issues, IT infrastructure virtual environment, configuration management TFS and building a learning/growing organization.
• Pushed for production process automation and validation using SSIS packages, in order to enable resources to divert their time from operational support activities to newer initiatives.
• Led the development team to deliver several projects enabling company to provide reliable product delivery platform by creating and enhancing web/windows/mobile applications, web services SOAP/REST and API's using Microsoft. NET platform, including C, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, MVC, Entity Framework and Microsoft SQL Server.

Confidential

Senior Software Developer

• Managed team of developers to design, develop and deliver applications, coordinated full range of project development, from requirements gathering to final delivery.
• Part of core committee to define SDLC process along with best practices for the entire UCG organization and within IT organization.
• Overcame inexperience with editorial business process, to successfully lead and deliver the development of weekly auction values on a time constrained schedule on various platforms and also developed a .NET integrated windows authentication application using C with DevExpress toolset to create and manage editorialized values. Briefed team members and executives on expectations and project progress, and educated end-users in the operation and nuances of system/software capabilities.
• Quickly mastered DevExpress in a relative short period of time and used it to create an Excel like grid view interface capable of filtering/sorting data to manage appraisal inventory and display vehicle transactions.
• Part of the core planning and design team and led the effort to develop and deliver a 3-tier web based vehicle appraisal tool with inventory management system named AppraisalPRO using C, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, MSSQL, AJAX, XML, XSL, Web Services. This tool aids dealers in managing vehicles appraised at their dealership with all the summarized market data available at the finger tips to reach an informed decision on an appraisal along with the assurance to customer of NADA backed data. It also includes capability to search for transactions based on a given zip code and a set radius.
• Responsible for operational maintenance and enhancement of various projects which utilizes Microsoft .NET Framework along with MSSQL Server, C, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, AJAX, XML, XSL, Web Services and JavaScript.

Confidential

Architect

• Led and managed web team to support GTSI.com, e-Solutions and e-Business initiatives by research, analysis, design and development of solutions with quality Assurance and performance measurement.
• Mastered BizTalk in short span of time and led the effort of upgrading BizTalk 2004 to BizTalk 2006 for GTSI .com e-Commerce site integration with the latest companywide upgrade on PeopleSoft system.
• Led the effort of architecting and upgrading the existing ASP.NET 1.x framework based applications to ASP.NET 2.0 framework which not only improved user experience, but brought about significant reduction in the errors.
• Researched and guided the implementation of VS Team System based source control for applications and customized the Microsoft Agile software development methodology to tweak it for seamless integration within the current process. Created means for better project tracking using Team System by creating templates for work items and process workflow.
• Part of the team to define processes and guidelines to comply with audit requirements and generated reports using SQL reporting services.
• Led and managed the software team in maintenance and enhancement of website utilizing Microsoft .NET Framework along with MSSQL Server, VB.NET, C, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, AJAX, XML, XSL, Web Services and JavaScript by improving performance and building robust applications.

Confidential

Development Lead

• Served as team lead, a process owner and programmer analyst in dynamic technical environment, which required using various technologies. Collaborated with Marketing to identify new products and features, develop business strategy, and aggressive technology convergence plan.
• Managed a team of 4 to 6 software engineers per project to design, develop and deliver solutions by successfully completing all projects on time, under budget and in relatively short development cycle.
• Analyzed requirements, designed and developed web GUI's as well as backend processes utilizing Microsoft .NET Framework using MSSQL Server, XML, VB.NET, Visual Basic 6.0, ASP.NET, C, ADO.NET, XML, XSL and JavaScript to support clients that include Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kaiser Permanente, etc.
• Enhanced and maintained the company website and various product demo websites which utilized .NET Framework and web services. Also maintained websites on classic ASP, VB 6.0 and MSSQL 7.0 platform.
• Served as a sales engineer to demonstrate the technical capabilities to prospective clients and provided training sessions to existing customers.
• Extensive used DTS packages for ETL, data cleaning, data manipulation and data warehousing for provider directories.
• Created .NET applications to interact with MS Office applications, Adobe Indesign and PDF components like ActivePDF, PDF Toolkit, Tall Components, etc.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential

EMTS Web Developer

Confidential

Systems Analyst