OBJECTIVE

• Dynamic business strategy leader with 10+ years of expertise in leading, business/IT development, customer relationship and profit maximization.
• Passion for innovation, initiatives and strong background in leading and developing IT teams.

SUMMARY

• Technology leader with 10+ years of experience leading IT teams and building IT/Software solutions, architecture services and custom solutions including Mobile development using enterprise technologies and Agile Methodologies like Scrum and XP
• Experienced in working with CEO, PMO and executive team to build the business IT strategies, review and develop new business processes to reduce the cost, increase productivity and efficiency.
• Experienced in information security, risks mitigationplan, resolution, providing leadership, vision and support to all departments.
• Deep and broad understanding of enterprise - wide organizational and leadership dynamics, client interaction, group behavior, cross-functional consensus building and interactive processes.
• Result driven, Team building, Mentoring, Goals setting, Conflict resolution and Performance appraisals.
• Experienced in developing, leading and managing geographically “far-flung” offshore/onsite teams.
• Areas of expertise includes Enterprise solutions and integration, E-Commerce, n-tier and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Client server technologies across multiple functional domains.
• Can do attitude and help team to do the same.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skill.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PM Tools: Jira, Asana, Visio, Microsoft Project, Teamwork.

Languages: Java, J2EE, PHP, C#, AngularJS, jQuery, REST

Technologies: Middleware(Tomcat/JBoss), SAAS, SOAP, SOAPUI, Apache.

Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, Grails, Yii, Spring MVC.

Database: Oracle, SAP HANA, MongoDB, MySQL, SQL Server.

OS/Cloud: Amazon Web Services(AWS), Linux, Sun Solaris Unix, Windows 2008/12 Server, Windows XP, 7 and 10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Technical Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Worked with WF Enterprise IT teams to manage the server’s migration from the local data center servers to enterprise data centers, oversaw the Production Server build plans, DR plans, QA and Backup/Restore strategies.
• Involved in extensive complex analysis, design and incorporate cloud level changes, authentication processes, change control, deployment strategy and support and information security readiness assessment (ISRA) processes etc.
• Established the project plan baseline, defined project scope, business cases, secured necessary resources, monitor/control the risk, progress from initial concept to deployment, built product backlog, sprints and release backlog using Jira.
• Worked with various LOB units to design and build technical strategies, direction for maintaining and accessing technical and LOB documentation.
• Provided project status reports, initial cost and schedule estimates for PMO review and approvals.
• Maintained quality, security and compliance procedures and involved in creation of or updates to and testing of the business continuation plan. Follow up and supervise the selection of appropriate IT solutions and ensure that the functional requirements are fully met.

Confidential, Orange, CA

Director (IT / R&D)

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with PMO & stakeholders to refine scope, schedule, cost, issue, risk, quality, SOW requirements, RFP, and social/cloud architecture for the integration of various back end services offered to the portal.
• Organized all IT functions to better serve PMO, Business units and clients. Developed IT standards and procedures to streamline Development, Implementation and Production Support.
• Prepared cost benefit analyses for projects, serve as the platform IT leader and SME with business stakeholders in prioritizing projects.
• Worked with CEO to prepare the white paper study guide, monetization and related investment material. Presented the whole Architecture, Feasibility and Revenue Model in various investment meetings.
• Lead the IT annual budgeting and planning process and participated in the individual business units budgeting process with an annual budget of 2m+. Ensured the alignment of projects with the technology to provides maximum ROI.
• Lead IT teams comprises of Project Managers and IT professionals to manage IT development, infrastructure, applications and services. Provided operations management, including security, backup/recovery/disaster planning, off-hours staff coverage.
• Provided strategic technology direction and spearheaded advanced technology initiatives. Scaled technology and policies during company growth from 10 to 50+ professionals.
• Developed recommendations for joint or coordinated application project delivery across platforms and business units in collaboration with other platform-level Directors, Information Technology

Confidential, Irvine CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with PMO, stakeholders to analyze and design the consumer loan/lending/settlement requirements based on various factors like credit, bank and fraud rating, promotional plans, customer retention, issuing merchant credit cards, billing, payments and delinquencies, governance compliance etc.
• Implemented Project Management processes to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards, and meet customer expectations.
• Established the project plan baseline, defined project scope, business cases, secured the necessary resources, plan and monitor the progress from initial concept to deployment, built product backlog, sprints and release backlog using Jira.
• Lead a team of IT professionals to build a mobile app solutions across a range of business functional areas, delegated tasks, created and reviewed milestones, change management and impact analysis.
• Deployed and managed the Data Integration, Microservices and SAAS solution on AWS EC2 instance.
• Provided technical and business guidance and direction to project team members. Maintained and managed the project plan and burndown chart as needed.
• Supported marketing, accounting and operations team.
• Automated the QA regression testing using Java 7, Grails and Junit.

Confidential, Monrovia CA

Senior Lead/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with stakeholders to design, analyze the requirements, wrote the initial functional specifications for complex and strategic projects.
• Worked with analysts and third party vendors to analyze technical risks, PCI compliance assessment and resolution.
• Design, developed and deployed ETL to build DWH from the TJ POS sales data to generate TJ executive dashboard having various order and sales metrics by region, state, store etc.
• Maintained and managed the project plan and status reports needed.
• Analyzed some of the old legacy system(QIL) to migrate/upgrade as per the TJ business IT needs.
• Mentor and ensure team works as per the Confidential ’s SDLC standards, reviewed code and provided feedback.
• Managed and handled emergency level support calls as needed for multiple applications during off/on peak hours.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Senior Lead/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, maintaining, testing UI.
• Involved in writing backend business objects, DAO’s, middle layer, session management, writing triggers and oracle procedures (PL/SQL) for data synchronization, data mining and SQL tuning.
• Involved in the study, impact, implementation of new features into the existing billing web and mobile apps.
• Handling client’s customization requirements and wrote technical specifications based on the functional specifications.
• Supported client for configuration issues, bugs and critical fixes to the CC&B client’s production environment.
• Mentor and ensure offshore team works as per the Confidential SDLC standards, code reviews and provided feedback.
• Involved in R&D to come up with new features as may fit in the current product line and come up with timeline to include in future releases.
• Scheduled future releases, upgrades at the client sites, QA timelines.