SUMMARY:

• A result oriented Project Manager with a total experience of close to 17 years (14+ Years of experience in IT covering project planning, execution & Software development in Java/J2EE and 2.5 years of Non - IT experience as a lecturer in an Engineering college)
• Comprehensive understanding of project management life cycle including designing & execution of Project Framework, Scope Management, Time & Cost Management, Human Resource & Professional Responsibility & Ethics.
• A keen planner & implementer with demonstrated abilities in spearheading swift ramp up of projects. Proven ability to manage key account relationships and projects.
• Have been involved in project estimations, deployment/ support of projects. Gained functional skills in analyzing the client requirements: translating new ideas into clients’ solutions including opportunity identification, requirements development, delivery, support & analysis and documentation.
• Executed projects using Agile Methodology and good in agile concepts.
• In depth understanding of J2EE, Core Java, Java Swings, JSP, Servlets, Web services, CORBA, Web Logic, LDAP, MQ Series, SQL, Oracle & DB2. I have also worked on a couple of projects in .NET area and a couple of projects using Confidential .
• Domain expertise in Point of Sale, Transportation & Retail (Apparel, Clothing, Food and Beverage) for the last 7 Years.
• Motivated by internal standards of performance to deliver quality results.
• An effective leader and communicator with strong interpersonal, leadership, analytical and relationship management skills. Team Management including recruitment, mentoring, training & performance management/ talent retention.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Case / system / Process Study
• Incident Management, Problem Management and Release Management
• Project planning, scoping, estimation, tracking
• Plan transition and execute Transition activities as per the plan in order to get into the steady state as agreed with the customer
• Document and share team leanings from the project, seek information and leverage knowledge from other projects in order to drive higher efficiency and effectiveness and preserve organization knowledge
• Project Operations Management: Allocate work, Track the project scope, schedule, quality, resource requirements, financials, risk, SLAs on a periodic basis, take corrective measures and communicate to all stake holders as per the communication plan. Track and comply to invoicing, resource allocations
• Implementation of project plans within pre-set budgets and deadlines.
• Delivery Management for technical deliverables of projects.
• Team mentoring, deployment, monitoring and development.
• Define best practices for project support and documentation.
• Understand & map client’s requirements / enhancements to the product and provide technical solutions
• Served as Single Point of Contact / interface for supporting 10 different web applications.
• Resource requirement analysis - software, hardware, network and manpower.
• Sample end to end demonstration for obtaining final User Acceptance before kick off.
• Reporting project progress to the client/ senior Management.
• Meet deadlines without compromising quality norms.
• Actively involved in Solution Design Phase for the clients’ requirements.
• Identify business core / critical system / processes and priorities.
• Resolve support/operational issues in liaison with project managers & business group.
• Develop, implement & provide all kinds of support for business application software for clients.
• Achieve customer satisfaction by ensuring service quality norms and building the brand image by exceeding customer expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: Java, VB, J2EE, Core Java, ibatis Framework, Java Springs Framework, Top Link, Java Swings, JSP. Struts 1.0, Asp.Net, VB.Net, Servlets, SQL, JDBC, hibernet.

Databases: Oracle, DB2.

Tools: Used Rational Rose for Modeling, WAS 6.0, WAS 7.5, Eclipse, JBoss, ATG, Web Logic, CORBA, Visual Studio for .Net, TOAD for Oracle, IBM DB2 Control Center.

Operation Systems: AIX UNIX, HP-UX, Windows XP, 2000, Windows 7, NT, 95 & 98.

Configuration Management Tools: Visual Source Safe, Starteam, CVS, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Joined the company as Software Engineer & rose to the position of Project Manager
• Received the
• Best Project Lead - R&R Award in 2009
• Introduction to Retailing certification
• Basics of CPG Retailing certification
• Retail Warehouse Management certification
• Retail Multi Channel Commerce certification
• Retail Merchandise Management certification
• J2EE Foundation certification
• J2EE Basic Programming certification
• J2EE Advanced Programming certification
• Object Oriented Analysis and Design certification
• Trained in Disaster Recovery Process
• Trained in Internet Applications at Confidential Training Center, Mysore, India from Jan 2004 to May 2004.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Proposals preparation
• Contracting & Agreement
• Project Scoping
• Estimation
• Resource Planning
• Scheduling
• Quality Planning
• Risk Planning
• Project Plan Review
• Transition Management
• Production Support and Incident Management
• Project Tracking, Control & Report
• People Management
• Project operations management
• Client Management
• Knowledge Management
• Unit / Organization activities

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Production Support.
• Defect Fixing.
• Co-ordination.
• Issue Analysis.
• Communication to all stake holders.
• Release Management.
• Tasks assignment to the team.
• Team mentoring.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis.
• Use Case Preparation.
• High Level Design.
• Coding.
• Regression Testing and Defect Fixing.
• Tasks assignment to the team.
• Team mentoring.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis and preparing proposals.
• Use Case Preparation.
• High Level Design.
• Tasks assignment to the team.
• Team mentoring.

Confidential

Technical Analyst and Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis and preparing proposals.
• Design, Coding and Code Review.
• Preparing test cases, testing and obtaining user sign off.
• Deployment and After Go-Live support.
• Mentoring the team and bringing up the new team members to speed.
• Distributing the work amongst the team members based on their experience and capabilities.
• Updating the client on the status at regular intervals.
• Writing scripts to build the jar and ear files for deployment.
• Consolidating the code and checking it into the repository (Starteam)

Confidential

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis.
• Preparing Mock-ups and getting them approved from the client.
• Conveying requirements to offshore resources and answering their queries.
• Preparing Requirements document and test plans.
• Effort estimation and resource allocation based on the timelines.
• Coding and Code Review for the team.
• Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Load Testing.
• Defect Tracking and Fixing Defects.
• Assist client during User Acceptance Testing
• Consolidating the code for all modules and checking it into the repository ( Confidential )

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• Coding and reviewing the code developed by the team members.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Defect Tracking and Fixing Defects.
• Consolidating the code for all modules and checking it into the repository ( Confidential )

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• High Level Design, Detailed Design and Database Design.
• Coding and Research.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Checking the code it into the repository ( Confidential )

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coding and Research.
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Checking the code it into the repository ( Confidential )

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• High Level Design and Detailed Design
• Mock up preparation
• Coding
• Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Checking the code it into the repository ( Confidential )