SUMMARY

• IT professional with over 10.5 years of experience in software/application development and delivery in the insurance, engineering and consulting sectors with extensive experience on Microsoft .Net technologies and RDBMS like Oracle and SQL Server
• Experience in all stages of SDLC (software development life cycle) which includes requirement gathering, analysis, design, development and deployment of Enterprise Web applications
• Project management experience with large scale client server applications involving projects of substantial duration, complexity and ambiguity.
• Skilled in planning, estimation, technology innovations and improvements by managing resources both onsite & offshore.
• Ensuring that positive project outcomes are achieved within the parameters of time, cost, scope, risk and benefits.
• Drive global Agile & Scrum programs and projects from end - to-end, with focus on building corporate competencies and providing strategic direction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivering on all project related metrics, budgeting compliances, quality assurance, performance improvements.
• Working towards architectural improvements, design, develop and integration of solutions, and formulate methodologies to optimize object-oriented software and database development.
• Engaging in the project life cycle to implement\ develop new change requests, implement IRDA guidelines and amendments requests through policy underwriters, improve processes right from registration of the claim to denial/approval and payment processing stage
• Ensuring on-time completion of tasks/assignments along with adherence to budgeted targets
• Define and set up processes such as coding standards, new request consideration and incorporating the same to eliminate leakages while maintaining system integrity
• Mentoring team for technical guidance, proposing innovative system designing solutions (optimizing techniques, DB designs, best coding practices)
• Involved in feasibility analysis, workflow design, high level design, scope documentation.
• Worked on Database design and development of vendor integration system
• Development of change requests which are complex and having impact on major functionalities
• Identifying technical snags, performing RCAs and implementing remedial measures
• Contributing towards performance and optimization of the applications on a regular basis; fine-tuning the database scripts to save query costs and also improve the user experience,
• Defined and set up processes such as coding standards, new request consideration and incorporated the same to eliminate leakages while maintaining system integrity
• Introduced TFS(Team Foundation Server) as tool not just limited to version control but also for preparing standardized estimations and performance of task assignments, task logging, tracking and descriptions including documentation maintenance
• Developed a requirement gathering process outlining the complete requirements(both high level and detailed level) for a Change Request with sign-offs from respective HODs and approvals by compliance and marketing teams
• Coaching and mentoring newer team members on project processes and various technicalities; cross-training team members to develop their skills sets and competency portfolio
• Conducting interviews to select and recruit the right talent pool as part of the recruitment process; deploying “right” person to “right” task as part of effective team management
• Identifying and allocating tasks for the resources in the team based upon the complexity, skillset and availability of resources. Tracking project progress and discussing concerns of team members through weekly meetings

Technologies: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, C#, ASP.Net, Oracle 9g, HTML/XML, JavaScript, WCF, JQuery, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, T-SQL, Application Performance Management

GLOBAL LOGICTechnical Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a team of cross functional resources for various CEB applications
• Responsible for architect, design and develop software applications and major functionalists.
• Liaised with onsite client team on a daily basis through daily SCRUM meetings
• Providing consultant advisory to the client; identification of problem statements, performing feasibility solutions and coming up with the development of best possible solution
• Demonstrate working prototypes and creating and sharing release document with the relevant stakeholders
• Lead and managed multiple reporting tool projects in the ORAP group with respect to Data collection/interpretation, complex and reliable reporting logic and Report generation
• Provided end-to-end solutions relevant to the various client/business requirements:
• Lead the development of Confidential project from scratch which included designing of the technical architecture and POC for retrieving data from a qlikview document objects
• Established processes for code reviews and best practices, code quality assurance, QA/Dev collaboration and other critical stages of a project life cycle
• Liaised with client leaders for requirement gathering, status updates and project reviews; lead the offshore team in daily calls for each respective project
• Conducted and lead Sprints on a regular basis; assessed the project performance and roadblocks by mitigating risks if any.
• Ensured user stories are delivered on time by following delivery process for getting requirements, quality, freezing code for UAT and deployment with version maintenance

Technologies: Visual Studio 2008/ 2010, C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2008, T-SQL, HTML/XML, JavaScript, JQuery, MVC 3, Entity Framework, SSIS, HighCharts, QlikView, DundasChart, Dotnetcharting, Telerik controls, Aspose, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Log4net, WCF

CCENTURESoftware Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project right from coding, database design, code for graphical report generation
• Coordinated with onsite team for requirement gathering; maintained application and fixed bugs
• Identified the need of and developed end-to-end utilities such as console/windows applications and schedulers to facilitate automation and improve the performance of the systems
• Generated highly graphical reports without any 3rd party reporting tool which was highly appreciated by senior management and the client
• Nominated as R&D member of the team and worked towards creating utilities, solutions that will automate some of the manual tasks like a build deployment checklist tool and many more

Technologies: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/ 2008, C#, ASP.Net, SQL-Server, HTML/XML, JavaScript, HTMLToPDF, VSS