SUMMARY

• Overall 14 years of experience in IT Industry, played multiple roles across all SDLC phases.
• 8 years of experience in analysis, design and development of client and server, web based and N - tier application.
• Expert in developing web applications in Microsoft Visual Studio .Net IDE using .Net 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and SQL Server with T-SQL and stored procedures.
• Proficient in Web Services, SOAP, XML, CSS, HTML5, AJAX and JavaScript
• Worked extensively with Data Adapter, Dataset, Data reader as a part of ADO.NET to access and update database
• Expert in debugging an application using the debugging tools provided by the Visual Studio.Net IDE.
• Lead and mentor a talented team of developers to develop, design, and implement scalable and future-proof software solutions.
• Solve interesting and challenging problems from refactoring to design and testing.
• Proven records in Production support, Enhancement & Bug fix and Release managements.
• Proven experience in Client Management, Vendor Management and Multiple Internal teams (Functional, Technical and support teams) managements.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Participate in a fast-paced agile software development lifecycle.
• Certified SCRUM Master (CSM) from ScrumAlliance®
• Fluent in using Microsoft Project Plan, Visio, Word, Excel and Power point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Completing the overall implementation plan by coordinating individual PMs/Tech leads for the 23 applications.
• Work with major vendor partners (MetLife & Fidelity) for theirs tasks sequencing and integration.
• Setting up the command center for the weekend implementation.
• Create the play book with the sequence of events for IT command center.
• Create a 24/7 schedule for the command center support. Templates for tracking the Issues logs during the implementation.

Confidential, Worcester, MA

Onsite Project Manager

Technologies: Java, XML, XSLT Transformation, WebLogic, Oracle, COBOL, JCL, DB2 and ETL Reports.

Responsibilities:

• Integrated Project planning
• Prepare and control Statement of Works and Change Order
• Effort estimation and costing
• Resource hiring and allocation management
• Planning for Quality Management and control.
• Closely monitor and control the project schedule and cost
• Co-ordination between projects and inter dependent enterprise apps team
• Lead and mentor a talented team of developers to develop, design, and implement scalable and future-proof software solutions.

Confidential

IT Project Manager.

Technologies: .NET (Windows application), SSRS Reports, Java, WebLogic, BEPL Orchestration, Oracle, PEGA Workflow, ECM Documentum, Mainframe, COBOL and DB2.

Responsibilities:

• Integrated Project planning
• Prepare and control Statement of Works and Change Order
• Effort estimation and costing
• Resource hiring and allocation management
• Planning for Quality Management and control.
• Closely monitor and control the project schedule and cost
• Co-ordination between projects and inter dependent enterprise apps team
• Lead and mentor a talented team of developers to develop, design, and implement scalable and future-proof software solutions.
• Conduct project review meetings periodically and take necessary corrective actions as required, report status to the client periodically, resolving people and project issues, identifying risks and mitigation plan, monthly billing and invoicing to client.

Confidential

IT Production Support Manager.

Technologies: Cognos, Informatica and DW, ETL scripting, testing and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Production support for all applications or interfaces built by Cognizant as part of Confidential program
• L1 support for few Applications such as TA, VPA which are not built by Cognizant
• Additional RPG applications transitioned from the MM team (due to re-org)
• EDI support currently done by Hartford

Confidential, Enfield, CT

IT Delivery Manager

Technologies: Sitecore (Content Management), Cognos, Informatica, ECM Filenet, SAP ABAP, ASP, VB, VB.NET

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a talented team of developers to develop, design, and implement scalable and future-proof software solutions.
• Design and implement a new product’s distributed system backend.
• Solve interesting and challenging problems from refactoring to design and testing.
• Participate in a fast-paced agile software development lifecycle.

Confidential

Onsite Technical lead

Responsibilities:

• Project management activities and coordinating with different technology team members like .NET, J2EE and Mainframe teams.
• Consolidation of Support Activities of these applications by meeting the stakeholders of the applications and documenting the information gathered.
• Interact with the end-users of these applications to gather requirements for various upgrades/Production issues to be done to the applications.
• Production support ticket handling and analyzing the defects. Providing the fix for the production issues and planning for implementation of the changes.
• Effort and Cost Estimation of the upgrade work to be done on these applications.
• Environmental up gradation support and also doing the production support.
• Perform database maintenance and tuning activities of these applications.
• Track day-to-day support activities for the applications.