SUMMARY:

• Dedicated, results - oriented professional with extensive experience developing software to create business solutions in diverse industries, including Finance, Retail banking and wealth management, Travel and logistics, Health Care, Mobile & Wireless Technology, and IoT cloud technologies.
• Skilled in aligning end-user needs with long-term resolutions to complex IT challenges.
• Track record of success building and scaling teams for enterprises, delivering quality products on time and to client specifications.
• Committed leader with expertise driving organizational agility through agile values, principles, and practices for software delivery through work with diverse, cross-functional project teams at all levels of the organization.
• Accomplished communicator skilled in developing relationships with clients and improving processes to drive cohesive, strategic operations.

SKILLS:

Business Analysis ~ Software Development ~ Project Management~Test Management~Agile Dev Ops Technical coach~Application life cycle management~release management~

Cloud Operations and Infrastructure

Product Delivery

DevOps, CI/CD

Cloud Solutions

AWS,CloudFoundry,VMware

Jenkins, Ansible

Microservices, Jhipster

Java 8, Software Dev

Configuration Management

Solutions Design

Agile/Scrum Coach

Risk Analysis

Business Analysis

Team Leadership

Test Plan Design

Business Process Modeling

Technical Writing

Lean Six Sigma

TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCIES:

PM Tools: MicrosoftProject, Clarity, MS Office, Visio and, SharePoint

Programming Languages: Java, HTML, Angular JS, COBOL, VisionPLUS, Map Reduce, Python

Defect Training Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Teradata, Cassandra

SOA/CI/CD/CLOUD: RESTful Web Services, AWS (EC2, Dynamo DB), Jenkins, Stash, Git, Bit Bucket, Docker, Chef, Ansible, Apache Kafka, Scala, Zookeeper, Jasmine, jUnit,Jhipster,Cloud Foundry, Confluence.

Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, JSF

Methodologies: SDLC Methodologies - Waterfall, Agile, Scrum Framework, Lean

CAREER PROGRESSION:

Confidential, New York, NY

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Technical/Functional discussions with IT Director, Senior Development Managers, and System architects to understand the product requirements.
• Portfolio planning, product backlog maintenance, User Story planning, prioritization, estimation
• Product delivery Management, Enterprise Architecture planning and Release planning
• Day to Day triage of issues/development stories involving AWS cloud services, Dev-ops and API management.
• Experience with tracking tools Jira, Version One and manage Onsite-Offshore towards smooth delivery
• Reporting to Director (Cloud Operations) & VP (Architecture)

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Technical Leader/Architect

Responsibilities:

• User Story planning, estimation, and Analysis for BackOffice API Core Services development.
• Coordinate with Architects,DevelopmentLeads of various IT teams, Vendors, and Business to figure out optimum solution
• Design and Migrating Mobile BackOffice Services into micro servicesportfolio.
• Design and maintain consistent, intuitive experiences across all mobile products.
• Plans, reviews test models, coordinates, defines and executes testing activities including acceptance criteria in coordination with lead project staff.
• Coordinates the development, updating and maintenance of testing scripts and procedures along with documenting outcomes.
• Leads and manages efforts in the development, recommendation for change, technological innovation, continuous improvement, and documentation of testing processes, practices, and frameworks, assuring a high level of system readiness prior to production implementation
• Participating in Technical/Functional discussions with IT Director, Senior Development Managers, and System architects to finalize the requirements, doing the feasibility study.
• Introduce Change management process and proactively manage changes/enhancements in project scope & budget where required.
• Managing offshore team and oversaw projects across geographies, a team of 10+ members.
• Groomed new joiners on technical and functional aspects of ongoing project tasks.
• Responsible for Product Management, Technology Delivery and Enterprise Architecture Support
• Leads theMicroServicesArchitecture and technology platform.
• Report directly to the head of software engineering and work closely on the planning process.
• Part of the Enterprise Architecture and software engineering group that is focused on best practices, reusable architectures and the definition and adoption of Open Source platforms, and running the engineering for Portals, SOA,MicroServices.
• Educated the team on the emerging new technologies like Docker containers and successfully Implemented Jenkins slaves and other productive applications as Docker containers to achieve auto scalability.
• Defined the roadmap to have themicroservicearchitecture to adopt the different capabilities to includemicroservicepatterns such asservicediscovery, load balancing, monitoring using container orchestration framework using kubernetes.
• Collaborated in design reviews, QA, and SAT/UAT exit criteria sign-off meetings.
• Designed and developed RESTful web services, micro services, to create, view, deploy, and update applications.
• Micro Services design and development using JHipster(Yeoman Generator) to create Spring boot at backend and Angular at frontend.
• Jhipster registry is an Eureka server, that serves as a discovery server for applications. This is how JHipster handles routing, load balancing and scalability for all applications.
• Registry is a Spring Cloud Config server, that provide runtime configuration to all applications.
• Registry is an administration server, with dashboards to monitor and manage applications.
• Declarative RESTClient:Feign.Feignis a declarative web serviceclient. It makes writing web serviceclientseasier. To useFeigncreate an interface and annotate it. It has pluggable annotation support includingFeignannotations and JAX-RS annotations.
• Gateways and the microservices will register themselves in the registry, If there are several instances of the same service running, the gateway will get those instances from the JHipster Registry, and will Load balance HTTP requests usingNetflix Ribbon .
• Provide a circuit breaker usingNetflix Hystrix, so that failed instances are quickly and safely removed.
• With Elastic Search option in Jhipster, Spring Data Elasticsearch is being used, and is automatically configured by Spring Boot. In development, JHipster uses an embedded Elasticsearch cluster.
• ConfigureSpring Cloud Stream with JHipster. Made necessary configuration in theapplication-*.ymlfiles to have a sampletopic-jhipstertopic, and to have an healthcheck monitor for Kafka (which will be available in thehealthadministration screen).
• Provide support for Kafka in a microservice environment, when using Docker. The Docker Compose sub-generator will generate a specific Kafka configuration, if one microservice or one gateway uses Kafka. All microservices and gateways will then use that Kafka broker for all their messages. The broker is common for all applications, as it is typically used as a message broker between applications.
• Deployment of Micro Services on CF (Cloud Foundry).
• Application Monitoring using Appdynamics, Kibana Logstashand NGINX for Infrastructure.
• CI/CD process using Jenkins, GIT (Gerrit).
• Following true Agile - Scrum methodology for SoftwareDevelopment.
• Following Devops Culture, Exposure to Docker (building and composing images for services) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra).
• Led a mid-size development and QA team of employees and contractors on the implementation of different media encoding applications for different media asset providers.
• Developed technology strategies and led implementation efforts to create a more effective media application with the configured capabilities to transform into different affiliate specifications.
• Have converted the key mono lithic applications in to smallmicroservicesto adopt the benefit of easy to test, deploy, manage, version, and scale singleservices.
• Architected and led the efforts to build aMicroServiceplatform to manage the lifecycle of media encoding, packaging and distribution from concept to pilot to development.
• Responsible for all aspects of decision making where it pertains to technology and applications for the line of business.
• Refine the REST API guidelines to transform the different restfulservicematurity level into resource self-describe connections.
• Architecting a solution to integrate the Mongo DB to have the document structure to accommodate the metadata data of different attributes of non-relational data model use cases.
• Experience in integrating with different product integration systems and several different applications provider's (ASP) with internal product applications.
• Served as the LeadArchitectfor a project to replace the existing media delivery process and implemented the distributed, loosely coupledmicroservicesto handle the packaged content distribution to the affiliates.
• Responsible for a program Containerized Solutions to transform the monolithic architecture platform into themicroserviceplatform.
• Guided the Dev Ops team to implement fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded project and led design review meetings. Oversaw estimating and planning projects; provided coaching and training to functional managers and development teams.
• Facilitated and conducted release, sprint planning, product and sprint reviews, daily standup meetings, and user story development.
• Collaborated across multiple lines of business and provided updates with program management. Served as SME (Subject Matter Expert) in IoT product development, business continuity.
• Requirement gathering for UI and micro servicesdevelopmentprior to each iteration, participating in various discussions with business analyst and System architects to finalize the requirements, doing the feasibility study.
• Translate concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Facilitate client’s product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for digital products.
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• Develop a coherent online product strategy spanning a wide variety of user experiences. Work with other organizational leaders to develop and communicate a complete online product, design, content, and user experience strategy and roadmaps in support of strategic business initiatives.
• UX design tradeoffs, resolving design details effectively with Consistency and how it applies in specific situations, balancing visual appeal and usability.
• Scoped, defined and lead thetesteffort for a large and globally distributed internal technology project (SaaSand ERP)
• Built an entireTestProgram from the ground up (processes, workflows, structure etc.)
• Lead effort to test functionality and configuration.
• Works across teams and across projects throughout the project lifecycle to ensure overall test strategy aligns with business goals and development capabilities
• Managed forecasting for 30+ members team and oversaw projects across geographies.
• Act as a liaison between PMO, Business, various IT teams and vendors.
• Led Planning and implementation for improvement to develop and service management.
• Develop full-scale integrated project plan, milestones, deliverables & demos and track them ongoing basis.
• Identify potential crises, monitor risk & issues, and devise proper contingency/mitigation plan.
• Estimate resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate and delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel for quick resolution.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path across various IT teams and Vendors.
• Determine content of status reports from project teams, analyze results and troubleshoot problems.
• Prepare periodical/weekly reports and graphical representation on actual progress of the project, trend, burn rate, resource forecasting and budgeted vs. actual expenses etc. and present them in front ofseniormanagement and key stakeholders.
• For better transparency, manage all project related documents through SharePoint site.
• Introduce Change management process and proactively manage changes/enhancements in project scope & budget where required.
• Designed and developed RESTful web services, micro services for Smart Devices.
• Agile - Scrum methodology for SoftwareDevelopment.
• Collaborated in design reviews, QA, and SAT/UAT exit criteria sign-off meetings.
• Played an active role in build and releases for UAT and Production environment.
• Involved in UI/UX design for web and Mobile Applications for product development.
• Exposure to Messaging systems (Kafka), Devops (Docker), and noSQL databases (Cassandra).
• Knowledge of GoLang, Spring Boot Application, Angular and React Native.
• Connecting industrial machines to the cloud. Developing customer-facing services and analytics. (Internet of Clean)
• Broad responsibilities on a small team: Development manager + business relationship manager + lead technicalarchitect.
• Identified features to enrich the M2M management by analyzing requirements, studying alternative designs, integration plan, risk analysis and created proof of concepts (SOA, JEE, .NET, ESB/Messaging, Sequence diagrams, message flow diagrams, etc.).
• Identified features to enrich the M2M management by analyzing requirements, studying alternative designs, integration plan, risk analysis and created proof of concepts (SOA, JEE, Java, ESB/Messaging, Sequence diagrams, message flow diagrams, etc.).
• Created the architecture, managed development of Big Data Analytics, UI/UX and (Java/AngularJS) delivered on schedule using Agile.
• Worked closely with senior management, DevOps and DBAs to build synergy and cohesion and met project milestones.
• Played a major role in the Data Center Migration and validation. Contributed to the Future State Architecture, Network architecture, project planning and validation.
• Built the Benchmark environment on a private cloud using VMWare, CentOS.
• Participated in the Network migration of huge customers and the managed devices (device life cycle management: Activation, Deactivation, Suspend, Autentication and Authorization).
• Directed the Benchmarking of the product, identified new use cases and ensured key features were tested for capacity and scalability.
• Created Processes to improve Productivity, and reduce escaped defects by implementing best practices like code reviews, Continuous integration with Unit Testing to reduce escape defects (Confluence, Rally, Jira).
• Conducted market analysis, competitive analysis and vendor selection for Application Performance Management.
• Managed a team to implement APM framework using Splunk and AppDynamics. Provided Knowledge Share.
• Planned and executed performance measurement of Web Services and Browser (Selenium, FireBug, jMeter. AppDynamics).
• Created the RESTful API Specification for theIoT/Thingspace platform in Swagger (OpenAPI). Contributed to the REST API Specifications and WEB API roadmap definition for the ThingsSpace platform.
• Created the requirements specifications, solution architecture and prototype for Location Based Services.
• Added improvements to the Data Warehouse application (Java, Storm, Maven, git) to eliminate data inconsistencies, processing failures and manual rework.
• Defined and captured capacity and performance specifications in the User Stories and Requirements.
• Participated in the monthly Operations Review and product roadmap development for the Line of Business.
• Measured and monitored KPIs from Production environment and addressed concerns about scalability and capacity, identifying bottlenecks and made incremental changes to architecture to address them.
• Interviewed potential candidates to build team onshore and offshore. Coached and mentored team members.
• Continuous learning and updating skill inIoT, NoSQL (Cassandra) and Cloud Offerings like AWS Solutions Architecture, Docker.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Undertook increased responsibility including: Mentoring and coaching junior engineers and technicians, documenting system architectures, requirements, and specifications, and reviewing designs for testability within Advanced Engineering. Accountabilities also included ownership of V&V activities from test plan creation, to test report generation.
• Successful delivery of the project design and product code implementation with high quality.
• Led the teams in daily stand-ups and regular story grooming, sprint planning and sprint retrospective sessions.
• Providing technical guidance for team of 20 members to meet their objectives.
• Source Control Management for the project using Clear Case.
• Ensuring effective requirement and design analysis for feature requests.
• Identifying design and process training requirements and accordingly training offshore members to increase the productivity.
• Obtained and interpreted requirements (BRDs/FRDs) from the LOB for customer communications (online banking, banking center, contact centers) channels into functional specifications.
• Served as a proficient technical resource for process design changes and implementation application enhancements.
• Created templates, process documentation and job aids to ensure consistency in data files development, data validation and quality assurance process, UAT testing and deployment certifications.
• Documented and made system changes to the OM User Interface Tool (Production Environment) to include DB Scripts, HTML coding, ability to read SQL code, manipulated data in excel templates; ensuring changes are accurate, gaps are identified and defects are resulted.
• Tracked improvement recommendations and maintain analysis during design, development and implementation phases.
• Facilitated release (project) meetings, peer review validations and perform manual testing and UAT testing.
• Tracked issues from conception to closure determining root causes; triaging bugs/or defects discovered during QA Testing.
• Provided hands on experiences using basic HTML, CSS scripting and editing experience and Agile methodology.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with the ability to manipulate/organize data in excel.

Confidential

Application Development & Technical Services

Responsibilities:

• Formulated all aspects of project plans, including staffing, analysis, development, testing, and implementation.
• Created and managed the Defect Management process, using Quality Center.
• Manage dashboard data flow builds by identifying appropriate data needs and sourcing collaborating with technology team to build online reports.
• Create Business Requirements Document, Workflow and Process Document for process improvement and reengineering.
• Translated vendor requirements into BOA SDLC documentation
• Worked with developers to document technical requirements
• Held peer reviews on design documentation
• Created test plan and test scripts for custom development
• Uploaded design documentation to Share Pointe folders
• Completed Traceability Matrix from functional design back tobusinessrequirements
• Worked closely with developer to validate vendor requirements impacting batch "end of day" and "end of month" processing
• Worked closely with developer to validate vendor unit test results
• Created test plan and scripts to be stored in HP Quality Center
• Performed root cause analysis on active defects

Confidential

Senior business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in writing efficient and effective Test Plans, Test Strategy, System testing, End-to-End testing and User Acceptance testing.
• Participating in the planning, development, coordination and presentation of specific testing needs as appropriate to the quality assurance needs of the end user.
• Assisting business users in defining UAT test cases and plans; Established and maintained test cases and test data in Quality Center.
• Coordinated with the QA Team for testing activities across multiple systems and managed Conversion test execution.
• Helps in conducting Gap Analysis (GAP), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and System Integration testing (SIT) and SWOT analysis.
• Recommend changes for system design, methods, procedures, policies and workflows affecting Medicare claims processing in compliance with government compliant processes.
• Providing the required test data for the developers in order to fix the defects.
• Participating in QA team meeting and bug tracking meetings.

Confidential

Techno functional Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded Frequent Flyer feature of development project and accurately identified client’s key requirements.
• Developed queries and ran queries using BTEQ scripts in Mainframe environment; reported program creation and ran using Mainframe jobs.
• Analyze the keybusinessproblems and visions & translating them into process/technical solutions
• Review, identify, and recommend opportunities to optimize, consolidate, refactor, reuse, simplify and streamline the infrastructure and software asset base.
• Design and enable actionable solutions with subject matter expertise.
• Develop technical documentation, including requirements documentation, data models, and data dictionaries.
• Perform current state analysis, identify gaps with respect tobusinessvision, define solutions and prepare Architecture Roadmaps.
• Act asbusiness-to-technical liaison and manage client relationships.
• Collaborate with professionalBusinessAnalysts for elicitationBusinessIntelligencerequirements
• Responsible for Project's requirements gathering, cost & revenue budgeting, task allocation, monitoring and controlling, metrics & milestone analysis
• Team Building, Learning & Development activities for Team Co-ordination
• Provides support and technical guidance to ensure architecture and framework are aligned with BI application needs.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed project automating Loan Data management system for Confidential consumer lending applications and designed product qualification engine to support various consumer lending products across North America.
• Collaborate on VMx Interface project to convert card payment modules to VMx (XML gateway) to improve efficiency of process requests.
• Tested program changes using FE for Loan simulators; modified code according to product rules engine.
• Converted card payment features mapping to input/output response engine modules.
• Ran and managed backend jobs and fixed defects related to COBOL programs.