Professional Summary

Decisive, action-oriented and results focused professional offering over 20 years of experience in the Software Industry with the last 5 years focused on Project Management.

Responsible for developing client-partner relationships, leading project teams, supervising projects, coordinating Offshore-Onsite program, Cost Budget planning, Risk Management, negotiating and maintaining SLA and managing activities associated with complex company-wide projects encompassing multiple organizations.

Offer outstanding talents in Resource Loading (Recruiting / Staffing), Resource Leveling (Sharing Resources), Team Building, Team Consensus, Budget Management, Developing Project Scope (Budgets, Timelines and Delivery Dates), Customer Relationships, Cost Avoidance, Continuous Design Improvements, Conducting Status Meetings and Customer Reviews. Driven by new challenges and strives to be successful in all endeavors.

Have managed small to medium size Project Teams and has also had exposure to working with On-Shore & Off-Shore Software Development Teams in tandem. Has considerable amount of experience in Managing and Executing Software Development and Design related projects using both Agile as well as the Waterfall Project Management Methodologies.

Gets along easily with people and is an excellent team player. Loves working with people and developing relationships - is a very good team player who possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Over 7 years of experience in PeopleSoft using People Tools along with knowledge of Application Engine, SQR's and Crystal Reports.Over 7 years experience in PeopleSoft Financials with emphasis on General Ledger. Working knowledge of the other Financial Products and how they feed into the General Ledger product.

Exposure to Financials & Banking Industry, Supply Chain Management Systems and Retail Systems in Industries such as Clothing, Hardware, Lumber, Lawn & Garden, Automotive as well as some exposure to the Health Care industry. In-depth knowledge of Purchasing & Receiving, Point of Sale, Store Orders, Returns & Transfers, Fulfillment and Business process knowledge,in various Industries.

Technical Experience

Programming Languages

MF Cobol, Net Express, Cobol/400, RPG/400, CL/400, AcuCobol,

Databases

MSSQL Server, Oracle, DB2/400, DB2

Operating Systems

OS/400, Unix, Windows

Technologies

PeopleTools, SQR, AppEngine, Crystal Reports, nVision, Trees

Office Utilities

Word, Excel, Power Point, MS-Project,Visio

Hardware

Sun Solaris, AS/400, ICL, Intel based machines

PM Tools / Software

MS Project, SharePoint, Clarity, JIRA, Sales-Force

Company Name

Confidential.

Duration

May '10 - June '11

Capacity

Project Manager

Environment

MF Cobol, Net Express, Java, Visual C++, Oracle, MSSQL Server

Tiburon Inc is in the Public Safety Sector and all their products deal with Public Safety.
I was brought on board to head a Team that comprised of Engineers working On-Shore here in Pleasanton as well as a Team that was working Off-Shore in India. I was involved in the Study, Design & Development of a few new modules that were to be integrated into Tiburon's existing Software Solution.

Company Name

Confidential,Cargo Partners, LLC., PleasantonCA

Duration

September '08 - February '10

Capacity

Project Manager - Product Development

Environment

MF Cobol, Net Express, Visual Basic, Oracle, MSSQL Server

World Wide Cargo Partners, LLC was a NVOCC in the Freight Forwarding Industry. I was the Project Manager responsible for the Design and Development of a New Product that would automate (as far as possible) the Life Cycle involved in the Freight Forwarding Industry. Worked with an Off-Shore Development Team in India where most of the development was being done. I did most of the design work and some of the developmenton shore here in Pleasanton.

Company Name

Confidential, Livermore, CA

Duration

May '05 - August '08

Capacity

Sr. Software Engineer / Technical Team Lead

Environment

AcuCobol, Visual Basic, .Net, Oracle, MSSQL Server

Activant Solutions provides Retail Software and services to the following industries - Automotive Aftermarket, Building Materials, Hardware & Home Centers, Lawn, Garden & Nursery, Lumberyards,Painting & Decorating, Pharmacy Retail, and SpecialtyRetail & Wholesale Distribution.
I was a part of a development team that was responsible for both Development as well as Support of their Flagship Software Product called EAGLE.

Company Name

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Duration

January '05 - April '05

Capacity

Functional Consultant & Technical Lead - PeopleSoft Financials - GL

Environment

PeopleSoft Financials, PeopleTools, Cobol, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

Kaiser Permanente is in the Health Care Industry. They had made a Business Decision to move their existing Legacy Systems to the PeopleSoft Suite of Products.
This Project was basically focused on understanding how their various Pharmacies and Warehouses worked and also to arrive at a solution so that at the end of the day their existing Legacy Warehouse Systems could feed correct data to the PeopleSoft GL System. Along with GL - we had to work with Inventory, Purchasing & Receiving & ePRO. I was the General Ledger Functional expert on the Project and was a part of the KPIT Team that basically was responsible for liaison between the various groups under the Kaiser umbrella.

Company Name

Confidential,

Duration

January '99 - January '05

Capacity

Sr. Developer & Technical Lead - GL (PRD)

Environment

PeopleSoft Financials, PeopleTools, Cobol, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

Prior to being bought out by Oracle - PeopleSoft had developed a vast array of products using their PeopleTools technology.
I started out as a Sr. Developer on their General Ledger Product and over a time grew to becoming their Technical Lead on the same.There was a six month period of time where I took on Acting PRD Manager duties and managed a team of about 16 Developers and QA Engineers combined.
I was single handedly responsible for maintaining some of the more complex modules like Allocations, Journal Edit, Posting, Journal Generator etc.
I was awarded the GL MVP 2004 award across the entire Financials Team.
Often I was called upon to assist Tier I Customers and solve Production related issues and problems. There were a couple of occasions where I was asked to fly out to assist the Implementation Teams with their work.I spent 8 weeks in India training a team of about 20 individuals at PeopleSoft's Off Shore development facility.

Company Name

Confidential,Pleasanton, CA

Duration

April '98 - December '98

Capacity

Team Lead at Intrepid / Project Manager at PeopleSoft

Environment

PeopleSoft SCM, PeopleTools, Cobol, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2/400

Intrepid Systems was acquired by PeopleSoft. Prior to being acquired by PeopleSoft, Intrepid had developed a package called Evolution that was Software for Retail Stores.
It had an AS/400 version as well as a PeopleSoft version.
What started out as Programming and Bug fixing eventually lead me to being made Team Lead while we were still at Intrepid and then made Project Manager when we got acquired by PeopleSoft.
I lead a team of 5 developers and had to work with a common pool of QA Engineers.
During this tenure I mainly worked on the PeopleSoft Version of the Product.
Modules that I worked on were Store Operations, Purchasing, Receiving, ePRO, Inventory Management, Ordering.

Company Name

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Duration

April '97 - March '98

Capacity

Consultant at Intrepid Systems

Environment

AS/400, Cobol/400, CL/400, Evolution 3.x & Evolution 4.x

I started my tenure in the United States with a Consulting role at Intrepid Systems.
I spent most of my time fixing bugs reported by the various Clients of Intrepid Systems.
Towards the end of 1998 was selected to lead a group of developers to ensure that the Evolution 3.x product was Y2K compliant. A lot of this work was done by writing tools to automate this process. This project was delivered ahead of schedule much to the delight of the management at Intrepid.
I was also selected to start work on the Intrepid Evolution 4.x product which was PeopleSoft based.

Company Name

Confidential, India & Tokyo, Japan

Duration

January '95 - March '97

Capacity

Project Manager AS/400 to Client Server Migrations

Environment

AS/400, Cobol/400, CL/400, Microfocus Cobol, Net Express, Oracle, Unix

The Client was Hitachi of Japan. They had two large Insurance Companies who had tons of Legacy RPG and Cobol Code on the AS/400 and were looking to get out of the IBM bind.
With the help of tools we were able to automate the process of migration and brought them to an MF-Cobol System with an Oracle backend as Stage I of this migration.
I lead a project team of about 40 people in India and then had to take a team of about 7 to Japan during the implementation phase of the project.

Company Name

Confidential, Holland, Germany

Duration

January '92 - December '94

Capacity

Project Manager European Operations

Environment

Miscellaneous

Responsible for Techno-Marketing ADA's Software Capabilities & Tools in Holland & Germany.
Responsibilities included Telemarketing, Systems Study & Design, Prototyping, Specification generation & Implementation of various Application Packages / Projects.
It was both a challenge as well as a lot of fun trying to Sell Europe on the advantages of using an Off-Shore Development Methodology.
Once the contract was signed and the Proto-type was signed off on I would take the same and hand it over to a Development Team in India.
Some of the Industries that I worked on were Banking, Property Management, Retail, Document Indexing and Retrieval.
I had to represent ADA Software at the prestigious CeBIT International Trade Fair in Hannover Germany during this time.

Company Name

Confidential,India, Holland

Duration

January '87 - December '91

Capacity

Programmer

Environment

Realia Cobol, ICL Cobol, ICL Machines, Intel based Machine

Started out as a Trainee Programmer and basically kept on enhancing my skills and abilities. DPS was a Data Processing house which meant that we had the opportunity to write a lot of programs and work on a wide array of projects for different clients.
I was selected to be part of a team for two Projects based in Holland. One was a Library Management Software Project for one of the biggest Libraries in the Netherlands while the other was a Document Indexing and Retrieval Software for a Microfilming company.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce (Hons)

Visa Status

I am a citizen of the United States.