SUMMARY:

• 21+ years of experience in the areas of Managing Teams (Employees, Offshore Resources - Onsite and Offsite), Release Management, Change Management, Project Management, Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Solution Architecture, and Application Development.
• Proficient in Agile SCRUM, Waterfall and MATRIX methodologies.
• Experienced Manager leading the teams in the use of Confidential & Confidential custom tools to ensure they follow process.
• Knowledge of Lean Agile Methodologies, Kanban.
• Possess a combination of analytical and leaderships skills, with excellent organization and prioritization abilities.
• Highly driven and successful Manager with a proven track record of Release Management Team Lead and technical acumen for achieving results in Information Technology.
• Solid experience in Leadership positions with strong written and oral communication skills, working with different groups, both internal and external while managing offshore resources.
• Experience managing applications with tight schedules.
• Effective leader of diverse teams of information technology and business professionals with customer-oriented, business-driven, and results-focused mindset and attitude. Skilled Confidential communicating with multiple levels of management.
• Managed multiple teams comprising of 15 - 20 employees in addition to offshore onsite and offsite contractors.
• Ensured all processes were followed in accordance with company standards.
• Managed projects using Agile & SDLC models, gathering and translating business requirements into technical requirements and application impacts, effectively leading virtual and geographically diverse teams and successfully implementing complex projects.
• Defined project scope and objectives, guiding activities of a project/program team including delegating tasks to team members, identifying resources, and establishing master timeline for deliverables.
• Led high performance IT teams, providing technology vision, directing complex projects, and developing strategic direction to support the objectives of the business.
• Led multiple business development initiatives, including the proposal, and capture of IT outsourcing services, resulting in more than $2M in contracts.
• Excellent record of accomplishment in developing, aligning, and managing strategy, people, budget, technology, and IT financials to deliver the strong business values of Information Technology.
• Set goal and contractual expectations to the employees and offshore resources respectively.
• Conducted A&D (Achievement and Development) reviews for the employees directly reporting to me while providing inputs on the others.
• Managed resource, budget, quality, schedule, scope and risk aspects of projects till completion.
• Ensured that the teams were ready for Disaster Recovery and backups were in place.
• Ensured that ASPR violations were handled before any escalations took place.
• Ensured application security were in place and in circumstances where it was impossible to maintain, obtained NCTA (non-compliance Tracking and Authorization) waivers.
• Ensured SOX compliance and AUDITs were in place.

MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE TOOLS:

Release Management Tools: Confidential & Confidential ITUP (IT Unified Process), PRISM, Remedy Change Management and Trouble Management.

Project Management Tools: Confidential & Confidential ITUP (IT Unified Process), PRISM, MS Project, JIRA, SharePoint, tSpace.

Agile Scrum Management Tools: Rally, CLM (Collaborative Lifecycle Management), JIRA, Sharepoint, tSpace.

Requirements, Development, Testing, and Defect Management Tools: HP QC (Quality Center) / HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management).

Disaster Recovery Management Tools: DRPT (Disaster Recovery Planning Tool), ARM

Change Request Tool: CR One Tool.

DevOps Tools: JENKINS (CI), SVN (SCM), MAVEN (Build), Junit (Unit Testing), Selenium (Automation Testing)

CAST Analysis: Code analysis Tool for Software Quality.

Java Code Review Tool: SONAR.

CCDR Tool: Consolidated tool for Security Compliance checking for eVariances on SVN access, Database access, Application access and Role conflicts.

Technical Software Experience: J2EE, HTML, CSS, Hibernate, jQuery, Oracle, PL/SQL, Power Builder.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Senior Manager, Software Delivery Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Served as agile coach and Scrum Manager for multiple teams.
• Communicate and report to executive stakeholders.
• Work with Product Management, platform & development teams to prioritize product features and user stories into roadmap release plans via story mapping.
• Plan and coordinate releases.
• Facilitated Ceremonies and Meetings - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum/Standup Calls, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Followed up the Daily Scrum calls, Ceremonies.
• Reviewed Backlogs and worked with the Product Owners to prioritize user stories into release plans
• Coordinated project dependencies, risks, and issues.
• Identified, drafted, and implemented improvements in processes.
• Responded to impediments as and when the situation arose.
• Ensured the team followed the framework and processes.
• Applying agile framework of methodologies in a software development environment.
• Coordinating project dependencies, risks, and issues
• Identifying, researching, drafting, and implementing needed improvements in processes.

Senior Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of employees and contractors. Actively engaged in solicitation / interviewing / selection of lead project managers, employee, and contractor. Involved in employee and contractor performance assessment, and addressed performance issues as needed. Reassigned resources as business needs changed.
• Updated Project Manager Calculator Tool to determine resource needs. Closely monitor workloads to ensure resources were fully utilized. Created and maintained lead project manager workload spreadsheet to determine resource loading, and if new resources were needed. When contractors rolled off, worked with overall team to see if anyone could be engaged to pick up the project work.
• Overall oversight of monitoring detailed timelines and budgets to meet time to market and stringent financial expectations. Created leadership reports on project status. Collaborated with Lead Project Managers and Technology Solution Managers in determining issues and risks to the projects, and create a mitigation plan.
• Managed complex enterprise-wide projects for open architecture and network transformation.
• Ensured teams were following IT process for SQA compliance. Communicate with team on process changes that are occurring quite frequently. Ensure team is trained on new tools/processes. Solicited key team resources to do 1x1 training with team on new processes.
• Mentored new or less experienced employees.
• Managed customer stakeholders in order to set expectations that are in-line with the project plan and the project team's ability to deliver.
• Created and monitored detailed timelines and budgets to meet time to market and stringent financial expectations.

Technical Team Lead, Sr. Analyst - IT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Confidential application in client server environment using Java Swing, J2EE, Hibernate and Oracle as the database engine.
• Developed and maintained web based MMI and AOTX applications using Java, JSP, Java Script, SPRING, Hibernate and Oracle.
• Responsible for designing the framework of the applications, Data modeling, and developing different components.
• Created UML and sequence diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Used SPRING framework for Dependency Injection and Hibernate to interact with the database.
• Implemented web based customized report generation.
• Enforced Java coding standards and design principles for the department.
• Conducted code reviews to adhere to the company standards.
• Developed web services to provide functionality for inventory and cost base pricing.
• Implemented unit testing using Mock objects and Junit framework.
• Documented coding standards and design strategies.
• Managed and mentored other team members.

Environment: Java, Java Swing, J2EE, Hibernate, SPRING, Oracle JavaScript, JSP.

Platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX, Tomcat.

Tools: ECLIPSE, Toad, SQL Developer, Dreamweaver, Changeman, CVS, EXPRESS ONE, PRISM.

Sr. Analyst (Java Developer)

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Converted the existing Confidential application from Power Builder into Java.
• Developed Confidential marketing system in client server architecture using J2EE.
• Implemented Web Services using SOAP protocol, XML, WSDL, to interact with legacy functionality.
• Implemented MVC architecture to decouple the functionality.
• Developed DAO layer using JDBC, connecting to ORACLE back end.
• Created Stored Procedures using ORACLE to calculate the COST reports.
• Used TOAD to create and manipulate tables.
• Implemented unit testing using Junits.
• Enhanced the Confidential marketing system to work based on the current Business Logic by creating new screens and redirect the Emails to appropriate personnel in the Marketing and Cost system.
• Designed new screens and created tables to enable the new application to map to these screens while ensuring that the legacy applications could be gracefully retired.

Environment: Java, J2EE, JDBC, Oracle.

Platforms: Windows, Tomcat.

Tools: ECLIPSE, JBuilder, Toad, Changeman

Consultant (Power Builder Developer)

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Provided communication capabilities to the Trade Finance system.
• Extensively used third party tools to facilitate the above.
• Upgraded and installed the Remote Application Manager using Citrix’s Program Neighborhood by manipulating the Modem.INI and other related INI files.

Environment: PowerBuilder (6.5) and ORACLE 7.2.

Platforms: Windows, Citrix.

Tools: SWIFT, PVCS.

Consultant (Power Builder Developer)

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Developed data entry system to support marketing team using PowerBuilder 6.5 and PFC.
• Implemented integrated EMAIL capability using MAPI mail and OLE connections to Microsoft Word to include Word Documents as EMAIL attachments.
• Created stored procedures in ORACLE 7.2 to transfer data between system databases. Created user objects and functions to in corporate business logic and data validation.

Environment: PowerBuilder (5.0, 6.5) and ORACLE 7.2.

Platforms: Windows.

Tools: PVCS.

Consultant (Power Builder Developer)

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• This project contained five modules, namely Client, Retainers, Partnerships, Funds and Tax
• I was involved with the first four modules.
• As a Programmer/Analyst, I designed the set up screens (Master and Master-Detail).
• Involved in taking user specifications from the user and designing the appropriate objects.
• Tracked the various billing cycles i.e., monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually.
• Tracked the clients involved in the partnership.
• Generated regular capital calls and the invoices for the clients in the partnership
• Recorded, market values of the various funds
• Created reports for the system having various groupings and sort orders.
• Developed new screens using PowerBuilder 5.0 for an application, which existed on UNIX platform.
• Used ORACLE 7.2 as the database for SQL transactions.

Environment: PowerBuilder (5.0) and ORACLE 7.2.

Platforms: Windows, UNIX.

Tools: PVCS.

Consultant (Power Builder Developer)

Confidential, New Orleans, LA

Responsibilities:

• Used Confidential ’s framework to work with objects in PowerBuilder 4.0. This framework is somewhat similar to that of PFC’s in PowerBuilder 5.0.
• Used third party tools like, ECM ( Confidential Change Management) to POST or MOVE ORACLE files.
• Created Windows and DataWindows. Some DataWindows were created dynamically.
• Used dynamic SQL and Embedded SQL.
• Generated Reports - Marketing reports. Reduced the number of screens the user had to respond by adding additional functionality. Created Triggers, Packages, and Stored Procedures
• Extensively used functions like DECODE along with group functions to insert values into tables, based on values from a combination of several tables.
• Modified Stored Procedures.

Environment: PowerBuilder (4.0) and ORACLE 7.x.

Platforms: Windows, Unix.

Sr. Programmer Analyst (Power Builder Developer)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed new screens for data entry that included validations using PowerBuilder (4.0).
• Developed reports to keep track of Purchase Order and Activity Plan.

Environment: PowerBuilder (4.0) and ORACLE 7.x.

Platforms: Windows.