PROFILE

Waqar Chaudhry is accomplished Technical Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP with demonstrated success in application design and development, system architecture and project management of large scale system integration projects. With a Master in Business Administration MBA and Master in Information System MIS , as well as over eleven years of consulting experience in private and public sector, Waqar has successfully managed and delivered complex enterprise-wide development projects for fortune 500 clients. To support these efforts, Waqar leverages his eight plus years of hands-on software development experience and his skill set in strategic planning, operations management, and performance management. Waqar has received many globally recognized certifications such as Project Management Professional PMP Certification, Certified Information Systems Auditor CISA and Certified Scrum Master certification.

SKILLS

Business: Project Management, leading stakeholder reviews, facilitating collaboration, SOW, SLA and Project Tracking.

Systems Integration: Implementation and configuration of COTS, Reporting Tools, Metrics and dashboards

Programming: Java eight plus years hands-on experience , C , Objective-C IPhone development , PHP, .Net, Spring, Hibernate, Servlets/JSP, JSF, JNDI, Junit, jQuery, CSS, Velocity, JSTL, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, JPA, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Apache, Tomcat, Resin, SOAP and REST Web Services, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, XML, JSON, XML, DTD, ANT, Hudson, Maven, Regular Expressions, JVM Tuning, Object Oriented Analysis and Design

Software Products

Filenet, Corticon, IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, JIRA, JAMA, Bamboo, PayPal PayFlow, Google Search Appliance, Google APIs, IPhone APIs, Crystal Reports, Jasper Reports, Oracle Forms and Reports, Cisco's Network Registrar, Solomon, FileHold, EMS, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Subversion, CVS, XCode

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

In March 2010, President Obama signed comprehensive health reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ACA , into law. The exchange, which is a major piece of the Affordable Care Act, is online marketplace designed to meet all the health insurance needs of individuals and small businesses. For the State of Connecticut I managed the design, development and integration of eligibility application for Health Exchange. With the help of this application the residents of state of Connecticut are able to find out if they qualify for Medicaid or other Connecticut health insurance programs or purchase a name-brand health insurance plan, which meets all state requirements for quality and benefits levels. Our project is one of the three states based exchanges have no issues as oppose to federal exchange that is plunge with technical issue. We are successfully enrolling citizens in Medicaid and private insurance plans.

• Worked with client to ensure that Health Exchange incorporates the evolving Federal guidelines as this is first of its kind project for all the entities involved.
• Managed four teams each with seven to eight developers that designed and developed the intake process, eligibility determination, web service integration with Federal Hub and enrollment process.
• Supervised technical design sessions and provided directions for solving complicated technical problems.
• Developed and managed software development plans and configuration management plans to ensure we meet the aggressive deadlines.
• Define and manage the technical scope, standards and guidelines for software development.
• Primary point of contact for leadership for status on day-to-day project management activities
• Created and monitored operational metrics such as Cost Index and Schedule index to measure performance.

Confidential

Implemented a project for Texas Education Agency to enhance performance management capabilities through creation of academic dashboards and early warning systems that will help determine which students are at risk of dropping out and recommend intervention strategies. It also includes data collection and validation of student data from various school districts and combine them into a central data warehouse and provide various reporting dashboard capabilities

• Managed team of developers that design, developed and delivered the application.
• Mobilize and lead global multi-disciplinary teams.
• Supervised team to deliver technical design documents.
• Performed software fit for various third party applications and presented options to the client.

Confidential

• Formed a core team by identifying resources from existing employees that had knowledge about different areas of the system so that the team had whole breadth of knowledge.
• Created a process to document the employee's knowledge about processes and procedures
• Installing new applications and customizing existing procedures in order to make them fit new requirements.
• Ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly
• To ensure data security we reevaluated users and their roles and their access levels.

Confidential

• Responsible for selecting new frameworks, setting design patterns and methodologies for software development.
• Developed a plan to incorporate newly selected technology with the existing applications.
• Managed a team of developers to design, develop and implement web application that allows thousands of agents to submit endorsements online.

Confidential

Aileron provides entrepreneurial education to small and medium size business. It was founded on the belief that as businesses reach and seek to move beyond the second stage, professional management is critical to sustainable growth. At the time Aileron was looking to streamline their business by automating most of their processes. I led a team to design and implement IT transformation strategy that was closely align with Aileron business goals.

• Proposed and implemented customize solution to streamline existing processes that increased performance by 150
• Managed client's expectations and effectively translated business needs into technical requirements therefore successfully completed the project on time
• Integrated with third party applications such Google Appliance, PayPal, Solomon, EMS, and Jira

Confidential

• Led a team to implement an integration hub that processes thousands of transactions per hour between eflatbed Inc. and its customers and suppliers
• Resolved client's biggest challenged of integration clients with varying legacy systems by implementing an integration hub solution
• Due to scalability of the system eflatbed was able to sign on 15 more partners in just two years including America's largest steel mill, US Still.

Confidential

• Led a team to develop AutoStore, an Enterprise Resource Planning solution for automotive dealers that dramatically enhance the customer experience therefore increased the customer experience by 30 .
• By enabling the sales staff to sell more of high profit add-ons, the AutoStore increased the annual profit by 1 million dollars for each dealership.
• Created a Finance and Insurance application for America Honda Finance that increased the insurance sales by 200 .
• Collaborated with Reynolds Reynolds to incorporate accounting functionality in AutoStore. This project enabled transfer of data from AutoStore to Reynolds Reynolds accounting module, hence making the process more efficient and error proof saving valuable time and money for our clients.

Confidential

• Developed an application to transfer data between HSBC and their retail furniture partners. The application provides instant private label credit approvals, thus, giving a rapid response to the buyers.
• Led a team of three software engineers to develop an application for our Maintenance Department that has revenue of 16 million. The application facilitated the department to create, track, modify, and renew a large number and variety of software licenses and hardware service contracts with our clients and partners. The project improved efficiency by 30

Confidential

• Founded a non-for-profit company that provides health information in a concise and easy to understand language
• Wrote a business plan, including a profit/loss forecast and a cash flow analysis
• Led a team of developers and web designer to develop functional site
• Outlined marketing plans to increase traffic to the site. In less than three months the traffic has increased 200