EDUCATION

MBA
Masters Diploma in Software Engineering
International Diploma-Computer programming applications

CERTIFICATIONS - PMP; Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO),Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PMI member, Scrum Alliance member, Beginner of CFA program - Level I candidate

EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, Texas Jan 2008 - April 2009
Technical Project Manager - BP:

• Responsible for coordinating / managing release/change/incident management activities and projects supporting Integrated Supply and trading business.
• Managed numerous projects like Data center migration for Middleware teams, Documentation standardization, Citrix version upgrades, Citrix applications consolidation effort, Servers consolidation effort, Citrix nErgize(app) VM Dev/Uat environment change, UPLAN software Implementation, Informatica PowerXchange Upgrades, nMarket upgrades for Market changes, DR for nMarket power as part of business continuity planning, etc.
• Adhoc technical activities such as UPLAN software testing, MOSS 2007 functionality testing

Environment: Oracle, SQL Server, .Net, Share point,.Unix, Informatica, Business Objects, Citrix, IIS, Weblogic, etc.

Confidential, Houston, Texas Apr 2007 - Aug 2007

Project Manager/Consultant - SCI:

• Managed multiple projects - both internal and collaborated with Outsourcing vendor (Infosys)
• Planned, Executed, controlled, and closed projects adhering to SOX, CMMI, and PMI standards.
• The projects varied from POCs that involved investigation of latest technology (MOPS, MOSS) for document storage, work flow solutions etc.; vendor payments tracking for supply chain; testing phase of a pricing system for Strategic Pricing Group; to major enhancements to existing HR systems for process improvements.

Environment: SQL Server, .Net, Share point, MS Team System

Confidential, Houston, Texas Sep. 2006 - Mar 2007

Director of Applications Development / (Manager / Project Manager) - GEXA Energy:

• Key IT resource on GEXA's business process outsource project
• Interim Staffing plan, Staff development, SOX monitoring, daily operations of the group
• Collaborate with various business units

Environment: Oracle 9.2.x, SQL Server, .Net, JAVA, Power Builder, Windows

Confidential, Houston, Texas Jul. 2004 - Jan. 2006

Project Manager/Consultant - AIG Corp:

• Managed multiple adhoc projects
• Collaborated with business partners, various teams for Data / Financial / processes analysis
• Participated in various (mutual fund) products maintenance related strategic activities
• Established processes for data delivery to suit recurring business needs in conducting business
• Designed / developed multiple management reports to eliminate recurring adhoc requests
• Intense data retrieval from the data ware house for various analytical and reporting activities.

Environment: Oracle Data warehouse, PL/SQL, Crystal Reports, SQL Navigator, XML

Confidential, Houston, Texas 2000 - Jun 2004
Project Manager/Technical Manager (Applications Infrastructure)
Managed multiple projects:

• Multiple teams - Change management (lotus notes), Release management (builds, security), Application DBA and DA, Budgets, cost analysis for various projects.
• Contributed in various strategic activities related to cost reduction.
• Technical team for score carding project sponsored by CIO - Cognos Metrics manager. Designed architecture and implemented in .Net environment. Designed application; participated and contributed to metrics definition & requirements gathering; and functional design of data load processes.
• FERC reporting of California & Pennsylvania markets, Oracle 9i migrations of all wholesale databases.
• Liaison between applications teams and administrative teams (Database, Citrix & UNIX). Collaborated with other groups to manage all server side operations like lockdown of accounts for audit purposes (UNIX & Database). CITRIX server rebuilds, UNIX/Database upgrades etc.

Development Team Lead

• Led development teams supporting trading power in California and Pennsylvania markets, Q & A of development environment.
• Devised architecture for Genscape application including design and implementation of database and gathering requirements.
• Designed and developed Profit & Loss reports in Oracle reports 6.0. Developed and enhanced various PL/SQL Packages and procedures. Tuned packages and created tables, indexes etc. Developed several Shell Scripts. Made several enhancements to JAVA applications.Resolved numerous performance issues by creating partitions, correcting problems with indexes and partitions.
• Designed and developed multiple changes to bid structure. Rewrote ISO calculations in Day Ahead, Hour Ahead and Supplemental Bids.

Environment: Oracle 8.1.x/9.2.x, SUN Solaris, SQL*LOADER, SQL Navigator, DBArtisan, Erwin, Visio, JAVA2, EJBs, Weblogic 4.5.1/6.0, XML, Visual Source Safe, PVCS, Cognos, Impromptu, Cognos Metrics Manager, Microsoft Transaction Server(MTS), .Net, Power builder, VB, MS Project.

Confidential, Houston, Texas 1999 - 2000

Senior Consultant - Confidential

Multiple projects:

• Exception reporting for Oracle Energy Application that captured various data anomalies and correct bad data.
• Oracle Energy's administration.
• Conversion of Contract system from Legacy to Oracle Energy Land system.
• 1099 Tax Forms filing project.

Environment: Oracle Forms 4.5, Oracle reports 6.0, UNIX, Oracle 7.3, Oracle Energy, TOAD, SQL*LOADER

Senior Consultant - Confidential, Houston, Texas
Multiple development projects:

• Reporting on Teppco Inventory Management System (TIMS) application.
• Application development for Transport4 project - a web based application for accessing information for different carriers, and data validation efforts for Nominations application.
• Data Interchange of sales information (EDI) in Pro*C; enhanced application for 4010 standards; rectified issues for existing 2000 filing.
• New development project for IRS - EDI Implementation to file tax returns to IRS electronically adhering to all stipulated IRS rules.

Environment: Oracle Forms 5.0, Oracle reports 3.0, VAX/VMS, Oracle 7.2.3.4, Pro*C, PL/SQL

Confidential, Houston, Texas Jul - Dec 1998

• Analyst - TOSCO Corporation:
• Responsible for Tosco's Retail Pricing System. The application monitored retail gas stations pricing. Supported users in daily business activities.
• Devised business processes for application maintenance.

Environment: Oracle 7.3, Unix - Shell Scripts, Visual Basic 3.0, and Oracle Objects, PL/SQL

Confidential, Houston, Texas Mar - Jul 1998

Senior Development Engineer

Various development projects of customizing Altra's Gas Management System to meet customer's requirements. Contributed in preparing bids for projects from the customers. Environment: Visual Basic 5.0, Sheridan Controls 3.0, SQL*Server 6.5, Oracle 7.3, Sybase 11.1 Mani Vadlamani Page 3 SOFTPRO CONSULTANTS INC. - Houston, Texas 1996 - 1997 Consultant - Compaq Computer Corporation: Responsible for Auto accreditation module of the University (a Windows/Oracle database) application, conversion projects of applications involving Business Objects reports, E-Roster (An Electronic roster which enables the Instructors to keep track of students and classes taken on different sites) application. Environment: Oracle 7.3, PL/SQL 2.3, Visual Basic 5.0, PowerBuilder 5.0, Access 97, Business Objects 4.0/4.1

Managed multiple projects in Bombay, India 1991 - 1996

Confidential, Bombay, India 1994 - 1996

Systems Analyst

Environment: Oracle 7.x, Oracle Forms 4.x, Oracle Reports 2.5, Pro*C, C, C++, Foxpro 2.5, Quattro Pro, SQL COBOL.

Confidential, Bombay, India 1991 - 1994
Analyst/Systems Administrator: Environment: COBOL, WDOS

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) from Lithespeed, Certified ScrumMaster training (CSM) from Lithespeed, Agile workshop from VersionOne, Various Project management sessions for professional development, Project management refresher from Rita Mulcahy; SAP BW; Weblogic6.0 Server Administration from BEA Systems; Power Builder 8.0 from Sybase; JAVA2; Project Management in Information Technology from American Management Association (AMA); Cognos Metrics Manager tool administration from Cognos; Participated in .Net forums held in house. Conducted code / methodology reviews.

Technical Expertise

OS / Servers: UNIX, SUN Solaris, Open VMS, Windows XP/NT/2000/98/95/3.11, MS DOS 5.x/7.x, Weblogic 4.5/6.0/8.0, Microsoft Transaction Server, Webdb

Databases/Tools: Oracle9i, Oracle8i, Oracle Reports 2.5/3.0, Oracle Forms Designer 4.5/5.0, Access, Dbase IV

Languages: .Net, JAVA2, Power builder 5.0/8.0, Visual Basic 5/6, C, C++, Pro*C, COBOL, Foxpro 2.6, SQL_COBOL, Clipper

Miscellaneous: MS Project, Erwin, Visio, CASE Tools, Lotus Notes 5, Cognos (Reports- Impromptu) & CMM (Cognos Metrics Manager), XML, HTML, Crystal reports, Business Objects 3.0/4.1, Sheridan Controls 3.0, Jdeveloper, SQL Navigator, Toad, DBArtisan

Resident Status: Citizen of USA