SUMMARY

• Senior Consultant with 19+ years of experience in managing, analyzing, designing and integrating applications in Life Science domain
• Having strong techno - functional skillset in implementation and Quality Assurance of LIMS Applications
• Expertise is sun setting legacy applications and migrating to LIMS
• Strong in infrastructure and release management of applications.
• Hands on experience in gathering and analyzing business processes, translating them into functional requirements and providing technical solutions in life science domain using LIMS
• Project coordination between various stake holders and handling large development & support team spread across the globe
• Currently managing Level 2 support team spread across the globe which is responsible for application stabilization (LIMS various research-based applications in Life Science Domain)
• Analyzing System Errors, troubleshooting network, server, database issues, reporting system issues
• Document issues and take it further to development team for bug fixing
• Expertise in Oracle Database, PL\SQL objects and performance tuning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Techno Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Perform the role of System owner of a cluster of around 5 critical validated and regulated STARLIMS applications
• As a Techno Functional Lead, responsible for driving strong business partnership and to deliver IT solutions that align with organizational business roadmap
• Lead the Validation team to define test strategies for projects, devising Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification, System Readiness Testing, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and perform Change Management with validation quality control process
• Lead the Application Support team supporting regulated/ non-regulated applications under Preclinical and Clinical Research area, Translational Sciences and functioning in an onsite/ offshore model
• Pilot the Data Center Migration Project in the Research landscape, including planning, installing and validating the whole suite of applications
• Govern the Compliance team that checks the Periodic application & user access reviews, user training compliance and regular reporting of compliance scorecard to the team
• Perform Metrics Management and periodic Status Reporting to the client senior leadership team
• Experience in technologies & tools like Microsoft (Vision, Excel, Powerpoint), SQL, Unix shell scripting, Sharepoint, HP QC/ALM, Toad and Putty.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Experience in configuring various modules within LIMS application
• Designing BarTender Labels, configuring within LIMS application including Zebra & Cab printer configuration on servers.
• Integrating interfaces with LIMS and testing end to end connectivity.
• Expertise in migrating Samples data from legacy systems into StarLIMS application. migrated commercial Sample data for ATB LIMS application, a StarLIMS product used in Amgen
• Preparation of detailed Data Migration Plan document encompassing the mapping of Source and Target tables and transformational logic to ease data migration
• Define validation plan and develop scripts for validating the migrated data.
• Preparation of Installation Qualification and subsequent addendums for packages fixing bugs and enhancements in LIMS application.
• Experienced in reviewing/analyzing the test results, defect reporting and tracking of any identified issues through defect tracking tools.
• Define strategy and develop Oracle PL\SQL scripts for migrating Sample information from legacy system running on Oracle 8i to LIMS application running on Oracle 11R2.
• Perform Database administrative tasks (Data base monitoring, Application performance tuning, export/import database dumps).
• Perform Application Server maintenance tasks viz. clearing application cache, log error reporting.

Confidential

Data and Reports Validation

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the data migration requirements to determine the source and target mapping columns.
• Validating the transformation logic rules applied within the ETL.
• Writing, reviewing and executing Oracle PL\SQL scripts for data validation.
• Updated the Requirement Traceability Matrix document.

Confidential

Lead Tester

Responsibilities:

• Scripted, reviewed and executed OQ scripts during the upgrade project and for production support.
• Maintained and configured the baseline environment during the project phase for various business clients and training.
• Worked with different e-Learning vendors troubleshooting and integrating their courses with the LMS.
• Updated the Requirement / Design / Requirement Traceability Matrix documents.
• Worked closely with Computer Validation for reviews and approvals.
• Performed Production support trouble shooting/debugging system issues.

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of the onsite coordinator role between the onsite and offshore team for all testing projects in Dev IS.
• Wrote Operation Qualification (OQ) scripted and coordinated the executed from offshore. Maintained the requirement Traceability Matrix between the requirements and OQ test steps to ensure that all requirements are captured and accurately tested..
• Interacted with clients extensively in understanding their needs. Played a pivotal role by efficiently coordinating and managing multiple testing engagements at the same time for different stake holders.
• Ensured timely delivery of all projects on time with high quality and exceeded the client’s expectations

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the Detailed Design documents for the project.
• Involved in Planning and Estimation.
• Provided technical support to Valeant team.
• Onsite - Offshore co-ordination.
• Prepared project specific documents such as Validation Master Plan, Standard Operating Procedures for Server Shutdown, Start, Backup and Recovery process and Installation Qualification Protocol.