SUMMARY:

• Software Engineering Manager with 11+ years’ information technology industry experience owning information systems development, implementing IT applications, and driving continuous improvement through innovation and technology strategy.
• Project management experience over concurrent projects with competing priorities through efficient time management, managing budget and resource constraints, leading end to end software delivery with waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Proven ability to manage staffs through employee assessment / career development, training and coaching, project onboarding, task assignment, and advising on resolution of technical problems, administrative policies and procedures.
• Passionate about data and analytics, industry standards and technology trends, with proven track record in proactive research and identification of strategic opportunities to achieve business value through emerging technologies.
• Proven leadership skills with strong business knowledge and technical vision; able to lead cross - team collaborations, articulate technical solutions and build consensus with influence, tact, diplomacy, and people management skills.
• Possesses extensive hands on experience in fast paced multi-year software development life cycle (SDLC) with object oriented programming (OOP), web technologies, process automation, API integration, and IT security protocols.
• Expert ability to create presentation, generate progress reports and service level metrics for executives and leadership.
• Demonstrated competency in verbal and written communication skills; proficient in strategic thinking and organization skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Java
• Spring
• Hibernate
• Spring Boot
• REST
• XML
• Relational Databases
• Junit
• Scrum
• C
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• BPM
• Rules Engine (BRMS)
• Netflix (Eureka
• Ribbon
• Hystrix)
• NoSQL (MongoDB
• Redis)
• AngularJS
• Node.js
• Bootstrap
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript / AJAX
• Cloud Foundry
• AWS
• ITIL
• CMMI
• Software Quality Assurance
• MS Office (Word
• Excel
• Outlook
• PowerPoint).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Application Development Manager / Software Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Java and web development teams with technical leadership and accountability over systems analysis and development activities across multiple workstreams, in addition to management of annual budget and financial analysis.
• Established collaborative business relationships and productive partnership with program management and managers of other IT teams to understand business goals and blend cross functional expertise to align with organization objectives.
• Interview, hire, and mentor teams to build highly available and scalable distributed systems for financial services industry using Apache, Cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS), Big Data, Microservices architecture in Agile and DevOps environment.
• Defined project proposals (RFP) for engagement of new opportunities to support strategic initiatives for internet, mobile and data solutions, and translate technology vision into working software for consumer banking and finance business.

Technical Project Manager, Software Delivery and IT Service Management

Responsibilities:

• Delivered high velocity, highly visible PBM industry solutions and web development projects with responsibility over build and deploy strategy, release management, process definition, team management, and audit and risk compliance.
• Defined and monitored Service Level Agreements (SLA), identifying and mitigating risks to deliver solutions on time.
• Achieved data-driven, disciplined, structured approach to full systems lifecycle so that large scale solutions are delivered effectively within cost estimates, and processes continually improved for internal stakeholders and external consumers.
• Led development and implementation of Java and ETL based mission critical transaction processing systems for adjudication management and formulary products, with consulting on business requirements and technology utilization.

Software Development Engineer, Solution Architect, Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Initiated and led enterprise IT projects providing thought leadership and make/buy decisions, leading integration of vendor packages and technology evaluation with focus on new developments in IT asset, tools and service technology.
• Designed software architecture and engineered responsive UI frameworks for large projects that involved developing Java / HTML5 based solutions for interface modernization, performance tuning through code refactor, SQL optimization.
• Spearheaded new product development from scratch through adoption of open source software like Apache and Spring, with overall direction of enterprise software development, source code management, unit testing and regression testing.
• Developed proof of concepts (POC) to identify innovative solutions and appropriate architectural strategies, removing technical impediments through alternative approaches to facilitate agile development and product time to market.

Software Engineer, Full stack Java J2EE Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented single sign-on (SSO) based secured applications with Java, Struts, Servlet, JSP and Oracle with PL/SQL.
• Reengineered global web application with BPM, jQuery, AJAX, RESTful Web Services improving performance by 25%.