SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of diversified experience in System Analysis, DB Design, Technical Design, Implementation, Performance Tuning, Web development, Testing and Release / Build management in all stages of Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in various Information Technology areas involving Progress 4GL (OpenEdge).
• Technical Lead with more than 8 years of expertise in information technology coupled with excellent problem solving skills
• Adaptive communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner. Quick Learner.
• Excellent client management and communication skill, emphatic listener, persuasive speaker, with excellent presentation and negotiation skill set
• Good Exposure to Confidential Domain, Mortgage Domain and Information Management Services Domain
• Active participant in leadership meetings that involves discussions on team motivation, appraisals and issues/concerns of team members
• Presented two papers at Confidential one on Transactions & Locking Strategies and another on getting data from Progress DB to Microstrategy (Business Intelligence Tool) using Progress Data Direct
• Developed a Mobile Application for the Open Edge Mobile contest conducted by Progress Software Corporation

TECHNOLOGIES & TOOLS:

Languages: Progress 4GL 9x, 10x & 11x (OpenEdge), JAVA Progress App Servers/Web Services, Performance Tuning, Object Oriented Programming, Webspeed, ProDataSets

BI Tools: Progress Data Direct, MicroStrategy, WAVE Analytics

Databases: Progress DB Administration Basics, Fathom

Scripting: HTML, Java Script, JQuery

Environment: /Framework: UNIX, Windows

SDLC: Agile (Scrum & XP), Waterfall Model

Tools: /Utilities: Profiler, ProLint, ProUnit, Pcase, Putty, Tiny Term, Reflection Suite, MS Office 2010, MS Project 2010, PCT - ANT, WINSCP, Filezilla

IDE: OE Studio/Architect, Eclipse

Database Modeling: Erwin Data Modeler (ER & Dimensional), Microsoft Visio

Code Repository: Subversion, MKS

Issue Tracking Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye

Self-Developed Utilities: Program Tracer, Program Analyzer

EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the requirements for different releases
• Design and develop various features as per the requirements
• Involved in reengineering of the existing components and developed friendly utilities to facilitate code reuse and rapid application development
• Fixing the defects in QC for different releases
• Communicate with Onsite counter parts regularly to update the status on issues and defects
• Assisted developers/support team in debugging, analyzing the root cause and suggesting possible solutions for immediate failure recovery if any critical incidents are raised in prod

Tools: Progress 4GL, ProDataSets, Webservices, Beyond Compare, Reflection Suite, MS Office 2013, OpenEdge Architect, Microstrategy

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in story scoping and requirements gathering - tracked in JIRA (Agile Methodology)
• Interacted directly with onsite BA’s - raised clarifications and addressed risks proactively in scrum calls
• Interacting with the onsite counterpart for issues and queries in the project
• Worked on DB design, preparation of design documents, devloping code and code review
• Coordinate and guide my team that comprises of offshore developers, contractors/vendors in design, development and testing activities

Languages/Tools: Progress 4GL, App Servers, Webspeed, Java Script, JQuery, Progress Web Services, ProDataSets, Fathom, Profiler, ProLint, ProUnit, Reflection Suite, MS Office 2010, PCT-ANT, Filezilla, Erwin Data Modeler, Subversion, JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Production Support and Enhancements team (Team Size - 13) from Collegeville, PA
• Executed the projects end to end from requirements gathering till post deployment support
• Have experience in leading the team from both Onsite & Offshore
• Assist Project Manager on End-to-End delivery responsibility
• Active participant in base lining the GAO that is set for every quarter
• Significant contributor to achieve a CDI of over 9 consistently over an year
• Vital role in knocking off the issues that are older than a month which helps in providing value adds to the clients on the ageing metrics
• Took responsibilty in debugging and fixing any critical incidents that needs to be fixed on the same day
• Prepare the Daily status reports and send it across to client managers
• Active participant in the weekly prioritization meeting with client managers and business analysts in categorizing defects based on severity
• Organize Impact Analysis meeting that helps us to cross validate if the change would have an impact to existing functionality
• Demonstrate the new features to the Clients, Stakeholders, BA and Tier 2 group before moving the changes to PROD environment
• Ensure quality deliverable is delivered by the team with very minimal or no production defects
• Played the role of Configuration Auditor

Languages/Tools: Progress 4GL, App Servers, Web Services, ProDataSets, Profiler, ProLint, Putty, MS Office, MS Project, WinSCP, Erwin Data Modeler, Microsoft Visio, MKS, Subversion