Objective

I enjoy providing solutions for challenging business problems using the latest technologies.

Summary

Strong leadership skills.

• Expert in architecting high - traffic data-centric applications, with a focus on the application architecture including hardware, middle-tier, and database optimization.
• Over fourteen years of industry experience.
• Team player with experience in successfully developing and leading strong teams and projects.
• Developing skills in ASP.NET, MVC, C, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, Entity Framework, Linq, Bootstrap, Knockout.js, Classic ASP VBScript, HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ADO, ADO.NET, SQL Server, Oracle, T-SQL, PL-SQL, XML, and IIS.
• Strong academic skills combined with hands on software industry experience.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, time management and presentation skills.
• Fast paced and eager learner.
• Certified Scrum Master. License: 000216255

Skills

Technologies:

ASP.NET,ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, HTML, DHTML, Entity Framework, Linq, ADO.NET, ADO, IIS, Regular Expression

Platforms:

Windows, Web, Mobile Android, Client-Server

Concepts/Methodologies:

Scrum, Agile, Unified, Waterfall, Hybrid, SAAS, SOA

Databases:

SQL Server, Oracle, mySql, SQLite

Development Environments:

MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, Macromedia Homesite

Version Controls:

Tortoise SVN, Team Foundation Server, Visual Source Safe

Frameworks:

.NET Framework 1.1 - 4.5

Tools: Utilities:

HP Quality Center, HP ALM, HP Agile Manager, RemedyForce, SmartSheet, BaseCamp, Bugzilla, Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw, MS Visio, Telerik controls, Microsoft Enterprise Library, nUnit, nDoc, Code Smith, Macromedia Captivate, Camtasia, CodeRush, Refactor Pro, ChilKat components, GPG, OpenPGP / Eldos

Experience

Confidential

Principal Developer

• Worked as a SME for HP's Quality Center QC, Application Lifecycle Management ALM and eApprove products which are proprietary products designed to ensure compliance with Federal regulations for Pharmaceutical software product testing.
• Customized core products and business rules engine to provide customized experience for Avnet customers which are primarily Pharmaceutical companies that are highly regulated by Federal laws
• Worked closely with customers to gather and analyze requirements.
• Worked closely with internal team and customers to implement Scrum as Development methodology. Team was using waterfall methodology prior to adopting Scrum.
• Translated business requirements into technical requirements. Created user stories and other development tasks.

Technology platform

Microsoft Technology Stack, HP APIs

Confidential

Applications Development Manager

• Served as a hands-on manager at Celebrating Home which is nation's largest party planning home decor provider
• Worked with IBM to implement Sterling OMS and IBM WebSphere commerce solutions
• Worked closely with all Business units as Solutions Architect
• Managed a highly integrated system which supported many third party solutions including Warehouse Management System, Order Entry, Accounting, Fulfillment Center, Personalization and other manufacturing units
• Managed in-house and international Application Development and QA teams
• Reported directly to the CIO. Contributed in strategic planning of short-term and long-term technology and departmental goals
• Lead an effort to demystify and re-architect legacy systems to mitigate the stability issues for a very demanding customer base
• Maintained systems integrations and helped to automate manual processes
• Worked closely with Business Intelligence team to architect solutions for complex business problems such as compensation for direct sales, sales promotions and special content delivery based on stringent business rules to name a few

Confidential

Sr. Applications Developer / Architect Healthcare Alliance

• At nation's largest healthcare alliance, successfully lead several mission critical projects under tight deadlines due to changes in U.S. Healthcare Laws and overall business growth.
• Served as Subject Matter Expert SME for Novation's Contract Management System, Forms Management System and Online Price Tier Activation System. These systems required a keen understanding of business domain and practices as well as the intri Confidential es of Enterprise level data management which required a certain level of domain knowledge of internal ETL processes and external vendor data feeds.
• Served as SME and worked directly with over 17 teams to provide high quality solutions for usability, performance, scalability, reliability, and overall security needs.
• As SME, I was responsible for keeping mission critical systems performing with minimum outage. This required effective communication and problem solving skills to help direct cross-functional teams to get bottom-line results.
• Worked closely with Business to gather requirements and Architected many successful systems.
• Re-architected and improved new and existing complex business systems. Re-architected Classic ASP legacy code base to .NET Platform.
• Mentored junior team members and was responsible for managing their day-to-day activity pertaining to development tasks and ensured consistent design and development practices.
• Worked closely with Productions Services to ensure accurate code promotion, maintained builds, version control and hot fix releases.
• Lead a team which developed and maintained several applications. Processing huge amount of data in an efficient manner has been critical to ever-growing Nationwide Healthcare Alliance containing following sister companies: Novation, VHA, Provista, Apexus, and CHA. Some of them are listed below:
• Architected a solution to automate new and existing Member signup for Base Pricing. This system communicated with multiple Enterprise solutions to gather new member information and their eligibilities based on their past spend patterns. It contained a sophisticated engine which processed million records efficiently on a nightly and on-demand basis. The smart processing engine ensured that there was no performance degradation to other transactional systems.
• Architected a system to allow grandfathering and pre-slotting customer Pricing Tier Levels. Tier Levels are used to slot members into different pricing structure based on member's hospitals purchasing history.
• Designed and developed a system which allowed product Suppliers to upload data in excel file. System parsed the uploaded file and reconciled the data which was then transferred to staging data repository which allowed the Analyst team to make any final adjustment and update the database. This automated system significantly reduced the manual work hours by up to 4220 manual process was taking an average of 4 days whereas the automated system takes less than 45 minutes .
• Designed and developed a system which created and populated dynamic PDF files and displayed it to the users. System also allowed multiple PDF forms to be merged and displayed as one file.
• Designed and Developed system to track membership tier request and request aging. Aging was used to ensure timely approval/denial for particular Pricing Tier request. This system increased the revenue by about 10 by reducing manual work hours to up to 30 .
• Architected and developed a notification system which relayed thousands of alerts to users including Admin users, Suppliers and Members. These alerts contained status changes including but not limited to Pricing Tier, Request Approvals / Denials, Membership Status Change etc.

Technology platform

C, ASP.NET 4.5, AJAX, jQuery, LINQ, XML, HTML 4 5, XHTML, XSL, XSLT, SQL Server 2008 R2, Telerik Tools, iTextSharp, ActivePDF, Classic ASP, SSRS, TFS, ASMX, WCF, RegEx, nUnit, TopTeam, SAAS, SOA

Confidential

Software Engineer Automotive Industry

• Designed a Windows Form application which enabled car dealerships to develop PDF forms using a built in UI Control library. The PDF Forms were used to gather and display buyer's data which was stored at Ristken's data repository using web services. On request the data and XDP form was retrieved from the database, merged and displayed to the client.
• Architected a plug-in architecture to allow UI Controls to be deployed dynamically by Ristken which were downloaded and plugged in to the Application dynamically.
• Due to the ever-changing nature of these forms designed a versioning mechanism to display buyer's data with the correct version with which it was saved.
• Designed Admin interface to administer the Dynamic Forms' properties and data repository.
• Created object model for XDP XML Data Package File . The Designer used pure .NET controls which were then translated into XDP and vice versa to generate PDF Files.

Technology platform

C, ASP.NET, AJAX, SQL Server 2005, XDP, XML, Adobe LiveCycle, RegEx, HTML, DHTML, nUnit, WCF, SOA

Confidential

Software Developer Retirement Industry

• Re-architected Delphi and VB6 legacy code base to .NET Platform
• Created a data reconciliation Web Service solution for client data synchronization
• Developed N-tier calculation engine that allowed easy updates and provided built in security for actuarial data and company trade secrets

Technology platform

C, ASP.NET, AJAX, ADO.NET, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, IIS, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio .Net, Visual Source Safe, Windows Server 2003/XP, nUnit, SAAS

Confidential

Software Developer / Project Lead

• Lead many successful projects with involvement in complete SDLC.
• Created an Intranet portal to display departmental dashboard leveraging Business Intelligence data, live feed from different machines, shipment information, supply chain data etc.
• Designed and developed global affiliate warehouse management system for managing finished goods, raw materials and scrap steel. This product resulted in savings of 1.5 Million dollars in decreased inventory required. System supported 14 languages including English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, and German etc.
• Created a Scrap Bidding System where customers could log in and bid and buy scrap metal and defected pipes etc which could not be used as normal production items. This application expedited the bidding process and increased sales up to 35 .
• Reengineered product activity portal from the classic ASP core to allow support for new features authored in ASP.NET. Gave the portal a face lift using ASP.NET and AJAX to provide better user experience.
• Created Online Invoicing system that displayed invoices to the customer in PDF format. Invoices were sent to the customers via post, fax and email. We digitized the process by capturing PDF image when an invoice was printed, that image was stored in a SQL Server database by using FormEscape application. Since the business data was in Oracle, created a .NET windows service that was responsible for synchronization of two databases which enabled the online Invoicing system to function without discrepancies.
• Created numerous applications which provided reporting solutions for on the floor operations within the mill including but not limited to reading data from PLC Monitors, Spectrometers etc.
• Worked closely with ERP team to create reports which provided information for critical daily Business Intelligence needs with a graphical representation for better visualization.
• Used SSIS Linked Server component to integrate legacy data with the OLAP data layer.

Technology platform

C, ASP.NET, AJAX, ADO.NET, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Classic ASP, VBScript, IIS, SQL Server, Oracle, PL-SQL, Visual Studio 2005, .NET Framework 1.1 / 2.0, Visual Source Safe, Windows Server, Windows XP-Professional, RegEx

Confidential

Software Developer

• Created a Customer Information System using ASP.NET and SQL Server 2000
• Created applications for 'Customer Care Search' and 'Customer Billing modules' using C and SQL 2000.
• Designed and developed an inventory management system which also enabled the sales website to display in-store items.
• Technologies used: C, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000

Technology platform

C, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, HTML, XML, CSS, IIS 6.0, SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP Professional.

Confidential

Software Developer

• Created an online data repository system where sales associate could store the sales/business related information.
• Created a system to allow recruiters to store and track consultants profile and current status.
• Used custom search algorithms to index and search word documents.
• Technologies used: C, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000

Technology platform

C, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, IIS, SQL Server 2000, ADO.NET, Windows 2000 Server.

Confidential

IT Specialist

• Managed all phases of company's technology upgrading
• Planned and installed LAN
• Managed Software/Hardware Inventory
• Managed Software/Hardware Updates
• Troubleshooting LAN issues and common hardware problems, that included maintenance, repair and replacement issues of components and proposing appropriate solutions.

Confidential

General Manager

Directly managed IT, Sales Distribution, and Marketing departments.

Distribution Manager

Managed product sales and distribution

Software Developer

• Designed and implemented a Sales, Inventory and Administration application for the company, using Visual Basic 6.0 and Oracle 7
• Designed and implemented a complex One Time Entry system which kept Sales, Inventory, Customer Records and other administrative data in sync.
• Used Crystal Reports to generate Daily, Monthly reports etc.
• Technologies used: VB 6.0, Oracle 7, Crystal Reports

Confidential

Web/Graphic Designer

• Managed all aspects of Online and Print Media Graphics.
• Successfully interpreted Business Ideas into Modern Graphics.
• Created Custom Logo, Advertisement, Web Pages, Book Covers, Broachers, and Business Cards and Greeting Cards etc.
• Created and managed the Central Idea of Design for clients.
• Assisted Senior Designers for Design Concept .
• Created and Managed all aspects of Color Scheme for various clients