SUMMARY:

• Over Fifteen years of experience in the field of Information Technology.
• Over seven years of experience in DW, Analytical and Business Intelligence projects.
• Experienced project manager in customer facing roles.
• Experienced in managing projects over 2M in a multi - vendor model.
• Experienced in managing IT Infrastructure, IoT, Big Data, mobile app development projects.
• Experienced project manager in managing global teams in Agile and water fall delivery models.
• Experience in managing project staffing.
• Coached team to adopt and deliver on agile model.
• Customer-focused performer committed to quality in every task - from personal interaction with co-workers and users to high level of service provided to company / customer.
• Have technical expertise in complete software development life cycle process which includes Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Troubleshooting, Debugging and Implementation.
• Preparation of various technical and project documents.
• Oversee smooth implementation of the application at client location.
• Extend post-implementation, enhancement, integration support to the client.
• Flexible, Innovative, Quick learner and rapidly adapts to emerging technologies.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team and committed to continuous self-improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

BI: OBIEE 11g, 10g, Siebel Analytics 7.8, Business Objects XI

DW / ETL: Informatica Power Mart, Informatica Power Center 9.x/8.x

Languages: PL/SQL, C, C++, Java, Unix Scripting

Databases: Oracle 8.1/10g/11g, MS Access, MySQL

Scheduling Tools: Control-M, Tidal

Version Control: Harvest, SourceSafe, SharePoint

Reporting Tools: Data Reports, Crystal Reports

PM Tools: MS Projects, Rally, Jira, Confidential PPMC, Clarity, Confidential ALM

Big Data Stack: HDFS, Pig, Hive, HBase, Sqoop, AWS S3, DynamoDB

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Irving, TX

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily stand-up meeting with the project team.
• Work with product owner and other stake holders for requirements gathering.
• Track the requirements as Epics, User Stories in Jira.
• Facilitate technical discussion with the Architect and Product owners for impediments.
• Schedule code review with Gerrit and follow-up with Architect
• Facilitate timely build of the changes.
• Work with QA team for Functional and System Integration Testing.
• Ensure bugs are tracked in Jira and worked by Development team on priority.
• Facilitate show and tell session of the product to stake holders and document their feedback.
• Facilitate Sprint Retrospective session and document the lessons learnt.

Confidential

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily stand-up meeting with the project team.
• Review user stories and estimates, tracking with Rally.
• Help and resolve the road block for the teams to continue with development.
• Tracking and reporting of project status with stake holders.
• Periodically reviews of team velocity.
• Ensure the team delivers the agreed milestones as per schedule.
• Review and enhance project documentation.
• Ensure adherence to project quality standards.
• Help the QA team in defect tracking and dev team on resolutions.
• Participate in show & tell session and document the feedbacks.
• Estimations and Forecasting of project budgets using clarity.
• Work with operations team for smooth project transition.

Confidential

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Review project plans to plan and co-ordinate upgrade project activity.
• Involved in discussion on blueprinting sessions.
• Help the client managers with SOW Preparation.
• Work with HR team for project Staffing.
• Develop and manage Confidential for projects using Microsoft Project.
• Documentation of project plans including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding and staffing.
• Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, scope and schedule.
• Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Establish and execute project communication plan with higher management.
• Monitor and track project milestones and deliverables.
• Negotiate with project stakeholders for any changes to the project scope or schedule.
• Schedule and facilitate meetings with different vendors involved in the project.
• Perform risk assessment and develop response strategies.
• Monitor performance of project team members and share feedbacks.
• Submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
• Co-ordinate UAT Testing, Perform Defects or bug tracking and review code fix.
• Work with project excellence team on the lessons learnt documents for future projects.
• Release management planning adhering to the change management requirements.
• Ensure approvals from Technical Advisory Board and Change Advisory Board reviews.
• Establish and manage Security Controls to meet Security management policies and SOX compliances.

Confidential

Project Lead

Software Used: OBIEE 10.1.3.4, oracle 11g, Syncsort, Informatica, Control M, Unix

Responsibilities:

• Providing the guidance and other technical support to the team members while processing the clients' project
• Arranging sessions to discuss technical loopholes while working on the project and ways to clear them
• Achieving high standards of project by strictly following the rules like life cycle development
• Developing the working models for the domain using "Business Process Modeling Tools"
• Meeting clients to discuss the work progress and enlisting their requirements and specifications
• Managed User groups and Security for the OBIEE Reports.
• Design and development of metadata repository Physical, BMM, Presentation layers.
• Design and development of reports and customized interactive dashboards.
• OBIEE Security set-up using LDAP.
• Performance improvements of reports by analyzing queries.
• Developing PL/SQL procedures and functions for data transformations.
• Design and development of ETL to source data through Informatica.
• Development of unix code using Syncsort for Change Data Capture.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Software Used: Business Objects XI, Tidal, SQL Server.

Responsibilities:

• Initial requirement gathering, high level and detailed technical design preparation.
• Data modeling and ETL design.
• Development of business objects universe and integration with database.
• Development of Business Intelligence reports.
• Integration testing, NNIT Testing and UAT testing.
• Implementation and post-implementation support.

Confidential

Software Used: SQL Server, Java, Tidal, oracle

Operating System: Windows NT

Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day to day Incidents handling of the Confidential Supply chain applications.
• Handling escalations and provide interim solutions to enable Business process continuity.
• Analysis of Business Intelligence reports.
• Involved in deep level investigation of application issues.
• Assisting development team to identify and fix the bugs.
• To act as a Bridge between business and development teams.
• To conduct weekly meetings to understand business issues and find scope for improvement.
• Complete understanding of applications to resolve the incidents in minimum time.
• Developing good rapport with different teams to get the issues resolved in minimum time.

Confidential

Software Used: SQL Server, C++, EDI, Java

Operating System: Windows NT

Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for any Developments, Enhancements, Bug Fixes and Production support.
• Fine-tuned the Database Procedures and functions for application stability.
• Involved in designing, planning, scheduling and estimating the given requirements.
• Ensure changes have been made as per requirements & released on committed deadlines.
• Prioritizing the bug fixes and releasing the fix in production during the release window.
• Insisting strong adherence to ITSM Processes, across the team, in all aspects.
• Worked on weekly, monthly statistics and providing feedback to team for improvement.
• Reporting the trends and status to management and customers on regular basis.
• Conducting internal knowledge sharing sessions.
• Effective team member with strong trouble shooting and problem solving skills.
• Part of SWAT Team and worked on re-designing of the database.
• Part of change and release management.