SUMMARY

• Senior manager with extensive experience in program management combined with an in - depth understanding of system architecture and application design and development.
• Solution architect with proven leadership abilities in delivering solutions for the Transportation Management Systems of leading retailers in North America.
• More TEMPthan 14 years of hands-on experience in designing and developing web and integration solutions.
• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert | TOGAF Certified | Certified Scrum Master | Certified SAFe 4 Practioner

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technical: System architecture, Java J2EE, Frameworks like Spring, SpringBoot and Hibernate, Web services - ReST and SOAP, Microsoft Azure, Messaging solutions including Apache Kafka and IBM MQ, Integration frameworks like Apache Camel and Mulesoft, Application servers like Oracle Weblogic and IBM Websphere, Oracle, Informix, MariaDB and MongoDB databases, Automated testing with JUnits, Continuous integration and deployment, Data stream processing using Apache Storm, Code quality using Sonar, UI technologies including JSP, HTML, CSS and Javascript, UML modelling, Memcached caching, Quartz scheduler, IDEs like IBM Rational Software Development Platform, Eclipse, SpringSource Tool Suite, IntelliJ IDEA and Anypoint Studio

Management: Program management, Project management, People management, Project management tools like Jira and VersionOne

Functional: Blue Yonder (erstwhile JDA) transportation management, Subject matter expertise in transportation management systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Owning large scale customer impacting programs in the digital customer acquisition and engagement area.
• Leading cross-organizational teams working on introducing key digital offerings to marketplaces like Canada, Brazil and Mexico.
• Developing roadmaps for large, complicated and scalable architectural changes to provide customers with digital experiences of world-class excellence.
• Working closely with business engineering teams to ensure dat business needs are met without compromising long term platform health and evolution of platforms.
• Communicating goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to cross-functional project teams.
• Hiring and developing the best by interviewing and evaluating internal and external candidates for software development manager and technical program manager positions.
• Recognized as a top contributor to digital content and commerce services in Q1 2021.

Confidential

Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defined the architecture for highly available and reliable integration between Blue Yonder Freight order management and in-house replenishment system.
• Mentored Java and integration developers to develop quality code, laying due emphasis on maintainability, reliability and scalability.
• As technical owner of the Transportation management system, liaised with the business to ensure return on investment from the commercial off the shelf product.
• Provided expert guidance to the operations team in activities like system configuration, tariff design, load rating and routing as they familiarized themselves with Blue Yonder TMS.
• Led the team implementing Blue Yonder Freight order management to replace in-house shipment confirmation applications. The team consisted of members from engineering, quality and release management, in addition to multiple vendor partners.
• Led Confidential 's tech in assessing important initiatives such as Breakthrough fuel and Blue Yonder Logistics procurement.
• Led initiatives to troubleshoot and resolve critical production issues liaising with various internal and external teams.

Confidential

Associate Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• As solution architect for the Execution and Visibility track of Blue Yonder TMS implementation for one of the largest retailers in the world, architected the integration of in-house fleet management systems and EDI systems with Blue Yonder TMS leveraging Mulesoft.
• Scrum-master and technical lead for the offshore agile team which worked on the loyalty application of a large retailer in the United States. Received recognition from the client for exemplary servant leadership.
• Interviewed senior UI and backend developers to build the scrum team.
• Part of the core group dat devised the execution model for an agile team working independently from offshore.
• Architected an application to execute continuous moves to reduce empty miles and improve driver utilization. Supervised the team dat implemented the system. The tech stack included SpringBoot, Hibernate, Apache Storm and Apache Kafka.
• Key architect in the enterprise-wide initiative to move towards API based integrations.
• Led the globally distributed team dat developed integrations with in-house components and third party services leveraging SpringBoot applications in Cloud.
• Led the technology modernization initiatives for load optimization, allowing the organization to run on in-house TMS till Blue Yonder TMS was rolled-out.
• Improved alerting and monitoring abilities of critical systems in the supply chain ecosystem.
• Responsible for the technical delivery of a ten-member team dat replaced fleet management systems written on End-Of-Life technologies with an application developed on a service oriented architecture.
• Implemented a scheduler application based on Quartz to schedule parallel load optimization runs. Provided APIs around the scheduler to ease support operations.
• Developed fail-safe applications for critical customer facing loyalty applications using Spring JMS.
• As a key member of Java programming practice, involved in design and code reviews of multiple projects.

Confidential

Technology Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the design and development of the reporting module in the corporate banking application of a leading bank operating in the UK and Ireland. Jasper Reports was the reporting framework used.
• Developed UI components using JSP and CSS for the trading relationship admin website of a German global banking and financial services company.
• Developed features in Spring framework for the direct selling website of an American beauty and personal care products manufacturer.
• Completed an extensive training program dat included basics of computer programming, algorithms, programming languages like C and Java/J2EE, industry best practices for software development and testing.