KEY COMPETENCIES GAINED THROUGH EXPERIENCE

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Domain Proficiency: Experience in diverse fields like Retail, SaaS and Telecom.
• Specialization in tools like Kenan, Service Manager and Jira. Good hands on implementation experience in handling pricing strategies and marketing events like loyalty, promotions and markdowns run by various retailers like GAP , WSI, Amazon, TESCO, and Wal-Mart.
• Business Skills Project Management, Business Analysis, Generating Leads, Project Estimations and Costing, Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC Agile and Waterfall
• IT Tools Good experience in Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Project Professional, Excel, SharePoint, Adobe Photoshop and other tools for creating wireframes and good hold on estimation techniques like Function Point FP and SMC.
• Technical Proficiency: Java, Unix, NDM Connect Direct, ATG, Spring framework, Stripes, SaaS SDPs, number of Open-source SDKs, Jenkins, Tomcat, Ant, Maven, Gradle
• Code Improvement Tools PMD, Checkstyles, SONAR, eCobertura, JUNITs etc.
• Operating Systems Windows, Unix
• Tools: Eclipse, TOAD, Putty, Enterprise Manager, Visual Studio, SQL Developer, SVN.
• Database: SQL, Oracle, MongoDB.
• Completed numerous Java and J2EE certifications.
• A paper on Emerging Trends in Wireless Technologies presented at IEEE's WSES World Scientific and Engineering Academy .
• Experience of working in both AGILE as well as WATERFALL methodology of software development.
• Extensive experience in developing highly scalable web applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and WORK PROFILE

Java Tech Lead Web-Application Development

Solution Design/ Project Management/Business Analysis

Profile 7.6 years of rich IT experience in diverse fields like software development, maintenance, pre-sales, project management and Business Analysis.

Consultant Tech Lead/ Business Analysis

Job responsibility:

• My current role is that of an IT Consultant/Tech Lead.
• Current Responsibilities involve
• Project Management
• Client Engagement Lead
• Solution Design and Client Deliverables in form of design and release documents.
• Work closely with business team and development team for conversion of Business problems into real world solutions.
• Managing a team of 12 members.
• Regular interaction with clients holding senior positions to generate new leads.

Other Responsibilities:

• Maintaining a track of latest market trends, collect relevant information, analyze them and create relevant business cases.
• Gather requirements and work closely with development team for implementation of POCs.
• Requirement elicitation for client projects.
• Involved in multiple projects to work on cost reduction/process improvement initiatives like Business Metrics and Application Retirement aimed at improving pre-existing processes lowering operating costs and improving overall business process efficiency.
• To identify and delegate responsibilities to right individuals to make sure all project bottlenecks are removed in order to accomplish smooth execution of the project.
• Tracking the progress of the project and share the progress with all stakeholders.
• Guide the team in case of issues and remove the bottlenecks for smooth execution of project
• Liaison with external team in case of external project dependencies and elicit ETAs for closure of issues or bottlenecks.
• Liaison between business and development team for effective communication of requirements by the business to the technical team.
• Strong Knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle SDLC such as inception, requirement elicitation, solution design, development, testing, deployments, user acceptance, application maintenance, and issue analysis and troubleshooting.
• Hands on development experience with various Java/J2EE frameworks like Java Core, Spring, myBatis and JDBC.
• Hands on development experience with build tools like ANT, Gradle.
• Good knowledge of build automation tools like Jenkins, Electric Commander etc.

Professional Experience:

Confidential

• Managing a peak team size of 12 team members.
• Technology Stack Spring, Stripes, knockout.js, jquery, Oracle, ANT, Gradle Jenkins, Electric Commander, Chef, Tomcat, SVN, GIT, PMD, Checkstyles.
• Current Role Technical Business Analyst/ Java Tech Lead

Primary Responsibilities:

• Overlooking the enhancement and testing of pricing applications.
• Liaison with business users to understand the functional requirements.
• Creation of High Level Design Document based on the functional requirements.
• Share the requirements with offshore team and guide them in estimating the requirements.
• Based on the estimations, come up with a cost plan to be shared with the business sponsor.
• Come up with the solution design for the business requirements.
• Create the detail design based on agreed business requirements and solution design.
• Supervise the development of the agreed and signed off solution.
• Track the progress of the project and share the progress with senior management on weekly basis.
• Review the artifacts being delivered to the client.
• Maintain synergy among different functional teams and ensure all bottlenecks are resolved on time.
• Liaison with Iteration Manager to update the Jira Scrum board.
• Replaced the application DB with Mongo DB to enhance application scalability and usability.

Other Assignments:

Confidential

• Facilitate the business team and development team to understand the business environment at Adidas.
• Generate new business leads
• New RFPs to demonstrate our capability in improving their web business the technology stack included technologies like Spring framework, Stripes framework, Oracle database as backend , tomcat as the deployment container, SVN for code versioning.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Offshore development lead.
• Supervised a team of about 15 developers and testers in designing and developing strategically important web-applications for adidas to boost sales, sales reach, site appeal, and sales margin.
• Supervised a separate team in enhancing the existing inventory management, pricing strategy and marketing tools to integrate and accommodate the new web-application within the existing domain.
• Help the business team realize cost benefits in terms of improved margins by overlooking the introduction of new promotion strategy.
• Guided the team in estimating, costing and designing the solution based on the requirements provided.
• Collaborate with the business team to understand the requirements and share the requirements with the technical team in form of high level design.
• Carried out certain RFPs for the client based on feedback received from business for improvement of client business leading to generation of new business for the parent company. The solution finally yielded good benefits for the client and was appreciated by the top management.

Key Achievements:

• Awarded a development project to create the backed services for their online portal using the following technology stack Spring, Stripes, Oracle, SVN, PMDs, Web Sphere Application Server .
• Awarded the development of their business tools for maintaining inventory, pricing and model details miadidas admin and Configurator for configuring the designs for their newly released models .

Confidential

Primary Responsibilities:

• Development Lead My team designed two client critical applications end to end and ensured smooth integration of the new applications with the William Sonoma framework. The William Sonoma technology stack included technologies like Core Java, Spring, FTL, WebSphere and Oracle as the backend database.
• Business Development SPOC Responsible for nurturing future opportunities and maintaining the relationship with the client thereby helping improve channel revenue of the unit.
• Iteration Manager Responsible for maintaining the status quo of the team progress and utilization of the team.

Other Responsibilities:

• My primary responsibility as part of this assignment was that of Java Dev Lead. As Java Dev Lead, I was responsible for designing the solution based on client requirements.
• Come up with the high level design for each of the functional requirement and share the details with the offshore team for implementation.
• I developed and unit tested few of the functionalities for each of the two different modules that I worked on as part of this assignment.
• Came up with Junits to automate the unit testing process and Jasmine tests to automate the functional tests using Selenium.
• Deployment of the newly developed components at the end of every iteration.
• Update Jira board based on the progress and share the status with project manager/ higher management in form of Jira reports or status reports on a daily/weekly basis.

Key Achievements:

• Grew sales from 250k to 500k in 7 months.
• Delivered additional revenue, selling the newly released, cutting-edge e-commerce business solution Social Edge a tool for marketing purposes, thereby opening a new revenue channel.
• Successfully delivered the modules on promotions and membership with zero defect and a satisfied client.
• Managed a peak team size of 12 members.

Confidential

Primary Responsibilities:

• Accomplished project module launch for 14 countries by ensuring necessary tweaks in existing code base to support internationalization. The same framework was then leveraged for all 68 countries in which Avon operates with success.
• Supervised the team on testing the entire application Java, Spring based for time sensitive releases.
• Installed, maintained and trouble shooted the Tomcat server used for application deployments and application running.
• Designed complex framework of leveraging the existing codebase for framework based on the principles of application Internationalization and localization I18n .
• Integrated the application with Mongo DB to enhance application scalability and usability.

Key Achievements:

• Part of the winning team for testing and maintenance of an eCommerce solution which grew to a peak strength of 30 members and a customer base of over 22mn. I led this assignment in the capacity of a Tech Lead.
• Helped improve customer confidence and took the initiative to resolve the long pending IT issues within the company.
• Managed a peak team of 5 team members.

Confidential

It was an in house initiative to explore the upcoming markets trends and opportunities in SaaS Software as a Service as a business opportunity. My role involved around gathering information, analysis of the collected data and exploration of concrete opportunities in the form of business cases/ customer proposals and proof of concepts. As part of this assignment we collectively developed an estimation model for SaaS applications using Function Point and SMC.

Managed a team of 2 members.

Confidential

• As part of TESCO I had the opportunity of working in a challenging role as an analyst cum software developer on advanced e-commerce technologies like ATG e-commerce and Hybris. My major responsibilities included understanding of functional and technical requirements and helping team understand the final customer requirements. It was also my responsibility to ensure conformance of the final offshore customer delivery with the customer needs. As part of this assignment I had the opportunity to work on ATG Framework for development of TESCO's e-commerce platform which is among the premier packages available in market for the development of retail enterprise applications.
• The portal today holds strategic importance for TESCO as they look forward to take on bigger retailers in the retail landscape. They are looking forward to leveraging their existing business and explore new opportunities using their new business model. I also consulted them for an assignment to implement cost reduction/process improvement initiatives by analyzing their existing business processes and systems and removing the redundancies from the system.
• Managed a team of 4 members.

Confidential

• I was designated as a module lead for this assignment and was responsible for a total of 15 applications of which 10 were handled by my team members and rest were handled by me. The domains ranged from corporate finance to billing, order entry, business intelligence and service delivery. These applications involved technologies like Java, Unix, PL/SQL, NDM, ASP, and Tibco Messaging Services.
• We also developed and presented a small POC using Tibco business works and submitted a RFP to the client for business traction worth 0.5mn. We were finally successful in bagging this opportunity.
• Managed a peak team of 4 members.

Confidential

Worked with Mr. Taranjit Singh of CME dept. and handled the development of Mobile Application and Services using Lucent's MiLife and Java SDK. The main purpose of this application is to locate users with in a specific area and enlist them on the mobile console based on their distance from the application user thereby giving an idea of their distance from the primary application user. An initiative based on IMS and Convergence.

Confidential

Worked with Mr. Taranjit Singh of CSPD dept. and handled the development of Voice Mail to Text Converter and vice versa using Java Media Framework JMF . Completed voice mail to text Conversion and vice versa using SLEE and Media RA based on Java as part of customer requirement. This project was an initiative to achieve convergence within mobile and computer networks. It also had a utility for impaired people.

Confidential

Assisted and facilitated the assembling of weather forecasting system using MEMS technology