PROFILE/SKILLS

Summary: Software development manager with 9+ years of hands-on technical experience creating scalable and reliable applications, and leading small highly-productive development teams.

Project Management
Methodologies and Tools: MPP, MS One Note, MS Excel, Agile Methodologies, Scrum
Programming Languages: Java 1.5, XML, UML, SQL
J2EE Framework: JSP, Servlet, Struts, JMS, HTML, Java Scripts, AJAX
Web/Application Server: WebLogic, Tomcat
Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux, HP-UX
Database Environments: Oracle 9.x/10i, Sybase, JDBC, ODBC
Object-Relational Mapping: Hibernate
IDE/Design Tools: Eclipse, Net Beans, Rational Rose, Visio
XML: XML Schema, DTD, Xerces, Xalan
Web Services: WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, Apache Axis
Build/Configuration Management: CVS, Visual Source Safe (VSS), ANT
Others: Design Patterns, Quartz Scheduler, Tidal Scheduler.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

PROJECT MANAGER/TECH LEAD/SR JAVA DEVELOPER

• As Project Manager /Technical Lead – I have lead 2 complete projects successfully from Initiation till Closure of the project. In the process
• I represented the IT team and worked with business and functional teams for requirement gathering and scoping.
• Worked on Project Plan, Risk and mitigation plans.
• Worked with design team, as a design member and as a lead, for Analysis and Design of the system.
• Monitored and controlled the coding and unit testing phase, there by tracking the schedule of the project.
• Lead the code review process.
• Create and distribute weekly status report to all stakeholders.
• Co-ordinated with Testing, Business and Development teams during Integration and User Acceptance Testing Phases.
• Provided functional training to Support team by preparing training materials and technical presentations.
• Provided Installation instructions to Support and worked through the installation process.
• Supported the application through warranty phase with limited resources.

• As Senior Java Developer –.
• I have extensively worked on Object Oriented Analysis / Design and development of multi-tier & distributed J2EE applications.
• I have worked on proof of concepts for some of the proposed architectural design changes.
• I have trained and mentored new team members into the team.
• I have written technical papers for the organization, about my successful proof of concepts.

SELECTED ACHIVEMENTS

• Process Initiatives –
• Tracking of Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Tracking Inter Asset dependency matrix
• Defect Root Case Analysis at end of each phase.
• Peer Review Process - As part of core team, I have helped the process of Peer Review being seriously considered by accommodating the review process as part of my project plan, there by making it mandatory.
• Support Initiatives – I took over the functional training process to Support group which till that time was owned by business team. I covered functional and technical training with complete document, there by reducing number of invalid issues being opened by Support.

• Team Bonding – I have been fortunate to enjoy great atmosphere in all my project teams. I am proud to state that I initiated several of the initial team gatherings which fostered the team spirit.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Science

CERTIFICATION

• PMP

CAREER HISTORY

Experience:
Jun 2008 - Till Date Confidential,Tampa, Florida
Product Owner/Tech Lead
NSAG Sync– National Street Address Group Synchronizer

Confidential, NSAG Sync serves as a web-based work flow system between NTAS and the Group 1 system. NSAG Sync displays the results of the compare between NTAS/AAIS SAG (Street Address Guide) and the Group 1 Application. This electronic display allows the user to view, update, and report progress on the Group 1 reports related to a specific SAG file. NSAG Sync also includes administrative tools which allow automatic creation, referral and updates. The system was created to provide the particular user group an automated approach to the TAR/TXD management for Local Franchises Authority (LFA).

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate with Business Team to collect the requirements and manage the scope of the releases.
• Create and manage Project Plan.
• Host daily meeting to identify, analyze and fix business critical issues during User Acceptance Testing phase.
• Design, develop and manage all application related database changes.
• Developed complete Reporting module of the application.
• Developed critical Translation module, which is utilised to create or approve new TAR/TXD codes.
• Maintained Security module.
• Developed Daily Batch Jobs required for the application.

Environment: JDK1.5, J2EE, JSP, AJAX, Hibernate, Oracle10g, Oracle SQL Developer1.5, Apache Tomcat Server, MyEclipse5.5, Linux OS, CVS Repository

Sep 2006 - May 2008 - Confidential,Houston, Texas
Project Manager / Tech Lead
Confidential,is a tool that aggregates content from multiple disparate sources and provides one source of content to all publishers. Provisioner drives in lowering total cost of ownership for HP in two ways:

• It aggregates content from multiple disparate sources driving a lower TCP (total cost of publishing)
• The Provisioner Content Model (PCM) format further reduces TCP by standardizing and normalizing the disparate feeds from across the enterprise into a single coherent and transparent format.

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirements gathering at client location (Houston, Texas).
• Worked on task breakdown and project planning.
• Co-ordinated with 12 resources in Analysis and Design phase from onsite (Houston, Texas).
• Lead the construction and Unit testing phase from off-shore (Bangalore, India). Involved in mentoring junior developers, code reviews, configuration and release management.
• Worked on one of the module involving Core Java and extensive DB queries.
• Co-ordinated with QA team to review test cases.
• Co-ordinated with onsite co-ordinator and QA team during testing phases.
• Trained Application Support team with new release features.

Environment: JDK1.4/1.5, J2EE, Struts1.2, Weblogic 8.1, HP-UX, Oracle10g, Tidal Scheduler.

Nov 2005 - Aug 2006 Confidential,Cupertino, California
Project Lead / Tech Lead

• Confidential,Participated in requirements gathering at client location (Cupertino, California).
• Worked on task breakdown, project planning.
• Co-ordinated with 8 resources in Analysis and Design phase from onsite (Cupertino, California).
• Lead the construction and Unit testing phase from off-shore (Bangalore, India) Involved in mentoring junior developers, code reviews, configuration and release management.
• Worked on 2 modules involving Core Java (multi-threads).
• Co-ordinated with QA team to review test cases.
• Been onsite co-ordinator during testing phases, working from Cupertino, California.
• Co-ordinated with Support team for build activities.
• Trained Application Support team with new release features.

Environment: JDK1.4/1.5, J2EE, Struts1.2, Weblogic 8.1, HP-UX, Oracle10g

Jul 2004 - Oct 2005 Confidential,Houston, Texas
Senior Software Engineer/Project Co-ordinator

• Confidential,Participated in requirements gathering.
• Involved in Analysis, Design, and development of interface module, which reads disparate sources, varying from XML to text format to DB link, and formatting them to Standard XML format.
• Worked extensively on Core Java/PL-SQL/XML (SAX and DOM parsers)/XSLT.
• Did POC on usage of Oracle 9i XML Type column. POC was accepted and same was used in the module.
• Co-ordinated with QA team to review test cases.
• Been onsite co-ordinator during testing phases, working from Houston, Texas.
• Co-ordinated with Support team for build activities.
• Throughout the project, mentored new joiners.

Environment: JDK1.4/1.5, J2EE, Struts1.2, Weblogic 8.1, HP-UX, Oracle10g

Jul 2003 - Jun 2004 Confidential,Bangalore, India
Senior Software Engineer

• Confidential,Obtained Knowledge Transfer from external team to understand current project version and future release design of interface module, which reads disparate sources, varying from XML to text format to DB link, and formatting them to Standard XML format.
• Worked on interface module, extensively on Core Java/PL-SQL/XML (SAX and DOM parsers)/XSLT.
• Worked on writing project repository.
• Worked on struts based UI module.

Environment: JDK1.4/1.5, J2EE, Struts1.2, Weblogic 8.1, HP-UX, Oracle10g

Feb 2003 - Jul 2003 Confidential,
Analyst Programmer
Confidential,Trading Systems are located in multiple regions like New York, Sydney, London, Japan and Zurich. In order to propagate customized data across multiple regions, a customized distributed transaction management system is developed using Ambrosia messaging architecture. DTM being generically designed, is currently used in Web based PrimeTrade Administration System.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding existing Swing based PrimeTrade application.
• Involved in DTM architecture and application design.
• Involved in setting up of new Struts based PTAdmin application with multi-broker architecture.

Environment: JDK1.4, J2EE, iPlanet6.0, Sybase, JSP/Servlets

May 2001 - Jan 2003 Confidential,
Analyst Programmer
Confidential,is part of Prime Trade (PT) systems, which is used by the Prime Trade support staff to administer the user preferences, entitlements and other important information used by the Prime Trade system. This system uses DTM to replicate data at real time to all four global regions. Ambrosia messaging is used for ‘real time publishing’, to all regional Web-PT Admin server cache systems. And it is developed based on MVC paradigm.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding existing Swing based PrimeTrade application.
• Designed new components using Rational Rose.
• Involved in development of Servlets, JSP’s, Java Scripts for User module.
• Involved in writing initial factory method pattern framework, later used by other modules.
• Involved in writing common JSP’s and Java Scripts used by other modules.

Environment: JDK1.4, J2EE, iPlanet6.0, Sybase, JSP/Servlets

Dec 2000 - May 2001 Confidential,
Software Engineer
Confidential,This is intranet web application developed for Trigyn. The application was used by employees to share their experience or knowledge within the organisation.