PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• An innovative Project/Program Manager with a history of successfully directing product strategy and positioning and identifying opportunities to increase revenue and drive market share for multi - million dollar corporations.
• A catalyst for positive change repeatedly acknowledged for the capacity to work harmoniously with cross-functional business partners, identify creative solutions to new challenges and cultivate winning environments; regarded as a Subject Matter Expert in all phases of software development including R&D, prototype development, design, programming, deployment and production support.
• An achiever able to multi-task and perform well in deadline-driven environments, rapidly attain organizational integration and creatively institute data-driven process improvements which generate significant cost savings.
• A skilled communicator, influencer and negotiator with tactical vision evidenced by the effective management of local and overseas project teams across the full product lifecycle; strong technical background with expertise in Agile Methodologies, SQL, J2EE Based Enterprise Applications and major development technologies such as Lean, Scrum and Kanban.
• Extensive Experience in Supply Chain Management Industry including marine cargo logistics.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Project Lifecycle Management
• Stakeholder/Client Relations
• New Product Development/Launch
• Product/New Feature Roadmap
• User Acceptance Testing
• Program Planning/Implementation
• Research/Development (R&D)
• Offshore Staff Supervision
• Process/Performance Improvement
• Client Implementations/Launch
• Production/Technical Support
• Quality Assurance/Control
• Workforce/People Planning
• Cross-Functional/Team Collaboration
• Functional Specification Documents

TECHNICAL ADDENDUM:

Management Tools: JIRA, SCRUM, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Confluence, OpenAir, Workday and Salesforce, Microsoft Project 2010, HP Test Link Test Case Management Tool

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

Java/J2EE Technologies: Java 7, XML, SOAP REST Web Services, Servlets, Java Server Pages

UI Technologies: Canoo ULC, ZK, QT, Oracle Developer Forms5 - 11i/Reports/Graphics

Databases: Oracle 7-10g, MS SQL Server and MYSQL

Web/Application Server: Apache Tomcat

Framework: Spring, Hibernate, JUnit Automated Testing

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows-2007/XP Professional

IDE: Jetbrains IntelliJ-Idea 8 -12, Eclipse, Visual Studio

Code Management: Subversion, CVS, SCCS

Other: TeamCity, DB Visualizer8.0, In-House Carina Framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Product Increment Planning.
• Worked with product owners to identify the New Feature Road Maps, Epics and stories representing product functionalities for the release.
• Worked with scrum teams to perform release level grooming based on available contents and macro level view of team capacity and first draft of team deliverables were determined.
• Facilitated town hall style forum where individual teams presented their contents and break-out sessions were held for dependencies discussions.
• Based on series of intra-team discussions, each team adjusted their deliverables and sprint plan was created with proper allocation of stories to the individual sprint.
• Finalization of product functionality for sprint operations.
• Scrum ceremonies and Sprint Execution.
• Worked with scrum masters for creating scrum ceremonies, Product backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily stand-ups, Sprint review and Sprint Retrospection.
• Supervision and facilitating agile coaching for scrum teams.
• Facilitated weekly scrum of scrums (SOS) meetings between scrum masters to create collaboration among scrum teams.
• Mention about monthly product operations review.
• Mention about product review.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearhead new product development activities from initial vision to release; gather feature and business requirements, oversee planning of software systems and drive quality assurance operations.
• Initiate discussions with the Professional Services and Product Management Groups to analyze product requirements and define functional specifications documents (FSDs) for each new feature.
• Identify development issues, disseminate problems into small mini-releases and submit to the Quality Assurance (QA) department to create test plans aligned with development unit testing plans.
• Facilitate weekly development and mini-release code reviews meetings with cross-functional team members; utilize in-house technology framework including Java 1.6/1.7, ULC thin client, Hibernate and java customization language groovy.
• Review functional and development release notes with Product Management, Documentation and QA Departments prior to release.
• Manage sustaining readiness program after general availability (GA) software releases.
• Direct engineering development sustainment responsibilities across complex software applications including test strategy and plan development, scope, approach and cases mapped to software requirements.
• Act as the single point of contact to gather client-reported and internal QA reported bugs; perform the initial review, assessment and assignment of bug-related issues.
• Provide technical expertise and perform code reviews for solution codes and associated J unit tests.
• Schedule fixed releases during regularly planned releases and/or initiate off-cycle build requests.
• Involved in the development of a J2EE/ULC based next generation terminal operating system; designed, developed and implemented Road transportation logistics, terminal appointment systems, order processing systems and break-bulk cargo handling systems.
• Managed domain analysis, identification and definition of business entities and object relational mappings utilizing a hibernate framework to be used by the business tier.
• Oversaw the design and development of business tier using configurable business rules definitions tasks, client specific groovy plug-ins and extensible code extensions.
• Directed the design and development of web service Application Process Interfaces (API’s).
• Managed Test Driven Development process; maintained a vast J-unit test to maintain maximum code coverage.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technical Module Lead/Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Performed the initial functional and gap analysis for the client’s homegrown IT system; facilitated multiple rounds of discussions with the client’s functional analysis team to prepare Functional Specification Documents for the finalized requirements.
• Developed terminal IT systems utilizing Oracle forms 6i, PL/SQL for Oracle 8i, Java 1.5, and Java server page.
• Oversaw workforce and people planning for software development, quality assurance operations and release cycles; traveled to Europe frequently for client testing and acceptance meetings.
• Architected and implemented semi automated truck processing systems with computerized pedestals and third party vendor communication systems.
• Designed and developed a Do It Yourself Desk ( Confidential ) transaction processing and truck queue management system for truck drivers including customized interfaces to connect Confidential ’s host system with Confidential ’s homegrown planning and administration system.
• Managed the integration of Confidential TOS with several other third-party vendors providing support for gate key card readers, pedestal control messaging systems, truck queue status electronic display systems and driver pedestal communication systems.
• Customized functionality modules for processing yard inventory, customs and rail operations.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Senior Software Engineer/Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with cross-functional team members including Project Managers and Engineers to gather client system implementation details and customization requirements.
• Designed and developed technical design specifications for feature customization and data conversion requirements utilizing Oracle Developer 2000 Tools (Oracle Forms 5/6i, Oracle Reports and SQLPlus).
• Sourced, selected and managed third-party vendors for the conversion of legacy Oracle 3.0 forms; performed functionality regression testing and fixed/fine-tuned the forms as needed.
• Customized the most comprehensive road transportation truck-processing module, aligned with the client’s existing truck transaction processing functionality, in order to receive and deliver containers and chassis to and from the terminals; spearheaded numerous client implementations at major port cities worldwide.
• Directed the Oracle Forms 3.0 conversion project for Confidential ’s container terminal host system Confidential, which consisted of over 300+ forms spanning over several functionality modules; utilized a consultant proprietary forms conversion tool prior to manually refining and testing to match the original functionality.
• Spearheaded several client home legacy systems data conversion projects in preparation for system implementations; collaborated with System Analysts to map the client’s system business entity to the Confidential business entity relationship model. Developed data conversion tools to import extracted client flat data to the Confidential database.

Software Engineer

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Integral member of a team responsible for the software design and development of the in-vehicle GPS navigation system; designed and developed interactive user interface screens and route guidance. Maneuvered algorithms for the embedded Motorola 68020 based system and implemented voice guidance control software mapping to specific maneuvering points on the generated destination route.
• Worked in tandem with a development team on the design, development and testing of a Model Data Interface (MDI) project sponsored by the Confidential . Interfaced real time traffic/accident data communication with current destination route guidance plan and generated the most efficient detour options for the driver. Enhanced the electronic display presentation tier to show real time traffic locations.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential, Portland, OR

Responsibilities:

• Tested the Graphical User Interface of Electronic Design Automation Testing Software, SABER; partnered with the development team to design and execute test plans, report bugs on a weekly basis and retest software after weekly builds/patches.
• Served as the Acting Build Master responsible for monitoring weekly automated pearl scripts and reporting failures (as needed) to the development team for their weekly releases.