PROFILE SUMMARY:

• IT professional with 18+ years of SDLC experience with commendable success in: Project/IT/Technical Management~ Program Management~ Business Analysis Product/Production Support~ Team Management~ Service Delivery, Software Development & Testing~ Off - shore/On-site Management~ Quality Assurance, Business/IT Process Improvement~ Enterprise Architecture
• Skilled in mapping clients’ business requirements and translating these requirements into functional and Technical specifications
• Comprehensive experience in managing teams and projects
• Extensive experience with analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of software applications using J2EE
• Strong database skills, Object Oriented Programming and development knowledge
• Proven Management skills while worked as Project/IT Manager, Program Manager and Technical Manager
• Gained functional exposure for working in Finance, Corporate Investment Banking & Money Market Retail Banking, Airlines, Insurance, Re-insurance, Media, Supply Chain Management, e-Business (B2B and B2C), Manufacturing and Engineering industry
• Translating Customer requirements, Estimation, Tracking the progress of the project, reporting to the management from time to time
• Technical expertise in all aspects of the Master Data Management (for PIM), SDLC and PMLC involving requirement analysis, design, development, testing, UAT and product support etc.
• Exposure to different delivery approaches from Waterfall, Scrum and Agile
• Worked with 20+ team members at offshore/onsite and Managing multiple projects as Project and Program Manager
• Guide and work to prepare Proof Of Concept (POC) to demonstrate the feasibility on application and also to demonstrate the team’s readiness to take up new projects and proposals.
• Responsible for technical design, network requirements, infrastructure - server requirements, coordinate the maintenance of the servers.
• Responsible for quality process documents
• Actively coordinated between the Customers and Development Team spread across geographies.
• Adopted pragmatic approach in improvising on solutions and resolving complex business issues
• An effective communicator with strong analytical, technical, leadership, and interpersonal skills
• Conducting system analysis sessions for understanding client business processes as per management standards
• Suggesting technology-based solutions for enhancing functional efficiency and achieving business excellence
• Reviewing functional requirements and converting them into technical specifications
• Managing risks and planning for contingencies to ensure minimal effect on deliverables
• Experience in the software development life cycle involving business analysis, development, testing, QA, project planning, estimation, tracking and delivery
• Managing multiple enterprise wide complex projects while working as Project Manager and Program Manager
• Holding review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule / budgets, and ensuring timely completion and delivery of project to the client; handling the reviews of response to the RFP / RFI with clients
• Conducting system study and coordinating with team members for product documentation, system design & integration, coding, application maintenance, etc.
• Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines and extending post-implementation and maintenance support
• Designing, developing and implementing the workflow program, presentation and handling various phases of interface development based on technical specification

IT SKILLS:

Technologies: Java/J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL, SOA. Visual Basic, Shell Script, PHP, Perl, CGI, XML, C & Pro C

Middleware: Tibco Message Broker, Tibco IM, Tibco InConcert, Tibco Repository, Tibco Hawk, RMI & Tuxedo

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS Access & Lotus Domino R5

Oracle Tools: Oracle Forms, Reports, Designer, Developer, SQL*Loader, SQL*Net, Cognos Impromptu, Oracle Discoverer & DBA

Java & XML Technologies: EJB, Servlets, JSP, Swings, Applets, Spring, Hibernate, Angular JS, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, JDBC, XSL, XSQL, XSD & DTD

Application/Web Servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss, iPlanet, NES, NAS & JRun

Messaging System: Tibco RV, Tibco EMS, IBM MQ & JMS

Testing Tools: JUnit, WinRunner

Modelling Notations: Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, UML & Clear Quest

Case Tools: Oracle Designer & Rational Rose

Release Engineering: Perforce, ClearCase, VSS, CVS, PVCS & SCCS

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Clarity, HPQC, Rally, MS Project & MS Office

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, DOS, Linux & AIX

Products: IBM MDM, IBM WPC, IBM WCC, Tibco MDM, i2 Trade Matrix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Project/Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engage with business to understand requirements, propose solution alternatives, prepare staffing and release plans
• Conducting project kick off meeting, documenting and communicating project timelines, costs, risks and their mitigation plans, communication plan and escalation matrix
• Managing project progress and prioritizing the features for development
• Dependency resolution, tracking schedule and budget against approved plans and minimizing variances
• Streamlining delivery to minimize gaps between teams, staff planning, identify resource gaps and standardizing deployment process
• Organize review and status meetings with stakeholders and senior managers to communicate overall program status, issues and risks, quality metrics etc., and resolve their concerns through time bound actions
• On Infra projects: DR setup, system upgradation, OS patching Database setup.

Environnent: Java/J2EE, Oracle, SOA

Confidential, RI

Technical Project/Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engage with CVS business and IT to understand requirements, propose solution alternatives, prepare staffing and release plans and submission of contract
• Conducting project kick off meeting, documenting and communicating project timelines, costs, risks and their mitigation plans, communication plan and escalation matrix
• Managing project progress and prioritizing the features for development. Since it’s retail project the schedules and budget are tight and conformance to quality is important
• Managing development of services, UI and mobile
• Support IT leadership with risk issues and defect resolution and escalations as appropriate
• Dependency resolution, tracking schedule and budget against approved plans and minimizing variances
• Streamlining delivery to minimize gaps between teams, staff planning, identify resource gaps and standardizing deployment process
• Organize review and status meetings with stakeholders and senior managers to communicate overall program status, issues and risks, quality metrics etc., and resolve their concerns through time bound actions
• Leading Production support team for any bugs, testing and fixes
• OS patching and upgradation projects.

Environnent: Java/J2EE, Oracle, SOA, Angular JS

Confidential

IT / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Meeting business users in branches across India, gathered user stories and requirements, understand process bottlenecks
• Documenting functioning of centralized and distributed operations team, stories, dependencies and constraints
• Responsible for technical design, network requirements, infrastructure - server requirements
• Coordinated with users, project managers/leads to conformance to development, quality and testing requirements
• Designed the re-engineered IT and business processes flow to reduce Turn Around Time (TAT), least human dependency, automation of processes
• Designed enterprise wide IT Strategy Road Map in alignment with business projections, scalability, agility and reduced operating cost
• I was managing and driving the project and the team.

Environment: J2EE, FinnOne, Unix, Oracle Server, SQL Server, SQL, PL/SQL

Confidential

IT / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to track and manage in-house IT projects.
• Coordinated with cross functional IT teams to ensure optimized utilization of systems with minimal downtime
• Weekly meetings with stakeholders and managements. As and when required had meetings with vendors to ensure timely delivery of services
• Reviewed networking and system architecture with respective teams for optimized performance.

Environment: Linux Administration, J2EE, Spring, Angular JS, Hibernate, Oracle Server, SQL, PL/SQL

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for successful implementation of multiple projects which were related to implementation of IBM software products and Product Optimization.
• I was directly managing all project managers for these two accounts
• The projects included assisting clients for:
• Technical support issues
• Optimize System utilization
• System Performance optimization
• Business development.

Environment: J2EE, DB2, ISAS, DataStage, CDC, Spring, Angular JS, Hibernate, MQ and Oracle

Confidential

Project Manager / Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible to track and maintain project progress, track of timelines, burn-down charts.
• I was facilitator for daily status update meeting with onsite and off-shore development teams of size 7+ at off-shore and 3 onsite.
• I was facilitator and lead for weekly status update calls with client which included key players from IT teams, configuration management team and system administrators
• By-weekly I had meetings with stake holders.

Environment: IBM DataStage 7.5 and 8.7

Confidential

Global Technical Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in gathering user requirements
• Designed and developed test plans and test cases to test system design and architecture
• Developed / modified automated test scripts for functional and performance testing for the MDM
• Performed installation, compatibility and integration testing of the system
• Contributed in user accepting testing for new client implementations
• As part of QA executed manual test scripts, logged defects and production tickets, created test matrix and test reports
• Evaluated and Analyzed technical specifications and design for optimized performance
• Gathered business requirements and help develop technical specifications
• Evaluated and Developed system maintenance procedures and scripts
• Provided technical support for the MDM for PIM application to global clients.

Environment: Java/J2EE, MQ, XML, DB2, MDM, PIM, Oracle, Cygwin & WebSphere

Confidential

Staff Software Developer

Environment: DB2, Oracle 9i, Java, WebSphere, Records Manager, Content Manager & Records Enabler

Responsibilities:

• As Global Technical Support Engineer provided technical support for the MDM, ‘WebSphere Customer Centre’ and ‘WebSphere Product Centre’, ‘Records Manager’ and ‘Content Manager’ systems to global clients
• Assisted in gathering user requirements for enhancements
• Assisted clients for technical support issues
• Interacted with global clients to collect and document their business requirements for system testing
• Closely worked with the development teams to develop and document test cases to test enhancements
• Developed / modified automated test scripts for functional and performance testing for the MDM product
• Performed installation, compatibility and integration testing of the system
• Analyzed and Troubleshoot the client issues
• Developed system test and maintenance procedures

Confidential, St. Louis Park, MN

Project Lead / Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Collected business user’s functional requirements and developed logical and physical specifications
• Evaluated the system design and architecture and carried out the gap analysis. Redesigned and developed the ‘File Load’ process in Java
• Designed and developed test plans and test cases to test system design, system changes and architecture
• Designed and Developed database model
• Contributed to user accepting testing and provided Production Support of the system
• Developed Oracle Forms, Stored Procedures and Reports; performed integration of system with Front-end
• Setup development and production environment.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring, MQ, Oracle Forms 6i, Oracle Reports, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL* Reports, UNIX, Cygwin, Oracle 10g, Apache, PVCS & CVS

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Technical Specialist / Architect

Responsibilities:

• I was part of Enterprise Architecture team and designed, reviewed and evaluated existing designs. Made architectural design changes for the internal applications
• Worked with development and support teams to evaluate and optimize the system procedures
• Gathered and Documented business user’s requirement at application level and at enterprise level. Developed use cases, logical and technical design of the system
• Designed and developed logical and physical specifications
• Researched and evaluated the technical information for optimized performance with minimal downtime
• Performed impact analysis and impact of change from testing perspective including time, cost and risk
• Designed and developed test plans and test cases and documented them
• Designed the system architecture to achieve the single sign on capability
• Provided Production Support of the applications leading offshore team and coordinating with onsite teams.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring, MVC, Visual basic, C, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, UML, SiteMinder, MQ, Lotus Notes, SQL, PL/SQL, Unix, DB2, Oracle 9i, ClearCase & CVS

Confidential, Eagan

Sr. Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirement analysis
• Developed system for scanning fright bar codes through hand scanner in C, Pro C and Tuxedo services
• Performed module and product testing and implemented the system into production
• Provided production support of the application.

Environment: C, Pro C, Tuxedo, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, AIX, Oracle 8i, DB2 & ClearCase

Confidential, Eagan

Sr. Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed java business objects
• Performed the debugging / trouble-shooting of functional and technical errors
• Conducted module testing and bug fixing.

Environment: Java Servlets, HTML, Java Script, UML, C, Apache / JServ, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, Oracle 8i & SCCS

Confidential, Eagan

Sr. Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed new modules using java servlets and oracle functions and performed conversion of modules from XSL/XSQL to java servlet with additional business features
• Coded the enhancements of GUI with more features and flexibility in XSL/XSQL and java Servlets
• Performed code debugging / trouble-shooting and bug fixing for business and technical errors
• Conducted module testing.

Environment: Java Servlets, HTML, Java Script, XSL, XSQL, HTML, C, Apache / JServ, PL/SQL, UNIX, Oracle 8i & SCCS

Confidential, NYC

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Tibco Message Broker Sheet for trade acknowledgments and converted them to java classes. Evaluated performance and design of the system
• Designed and developed business reports and reporting tools in PHP, Perl, SQL, PL/SQL in Unix
• Developed Admin Console ‘Supportal’ using JSP and beans
• Rulebases to Implement Monitoring plan for the Applications using Tibco Hawk
• Served as the Business Analyst to gather, document and analyses the requirements for business reports sub-project. Developed data model, use cases, logical and physical specifications and design
• Gathered and Analyzed requirements to identify test requirements and impact of change from testing perspective including time, cost and risk
• Developed and executed test cases and automated test scripts for functional and performance testing for the system
• Coordination with Global Production Support Team, Traders and Business Users globally for troubleshooting of the various types of technical errors in real time environment
• I was part of UAT team
• Evaluated, developed and documented system maintenance procedures and scripts
• Mentored and Lead the Off-Shore Production Support Team of size 10+,

Environment: J2EE, EJBs, Java Beans, JSP, HTML, XML, Tibco Message Broker, Tibco InConcert, Tibco Hawk, Tibco RV, Web Logic, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, JBuilder, JMeter, Unix, Oracle 8i, Perl, PHP, CGI & CVS.