SUMMARY:

• 16 years of experience in the Information Technology industry of which 8+ years as program/ project manager.
• Managerand project strategist with a track record of successfully planning, directing, tracking, and managing release of global consumer products and services.
• Worked in various locations in the world.
• Experienced in all stages of the software development life cycle with a hands - on involvement.
• Well experienced in building and mentoring highly motivated teams focused on achieving goals.
• 8+ years of experience in project management of development and maintenance of software products for industries such as finance, e-commerce, biomedical, project management and telecom.
• Well Experienced in on-site offshore model.
• Keep up-to-date with changes in the industry through continuing professional development
• Earned MBA from Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of business.
• Trained in PMBOK and PMI practices. Pursuing PMP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management tools: MS Project, Visio, and MS Excel

Operating System: Windows, UNIX (Solaris), Linux, HP UNIX, VMS

Languages: C++, C#, VB, ASP, Java, Shell scripts, PL/SQL, Pascal

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase

GUI: Visual Studio, .NET

Middleware: IBM MQ Series

Web Server: IIS, WebLogic

Automated Test Tools: SilkTest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St Louis, Missour

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing exchange specifications and software change notices and providing design and implementation recommendations to marketing and management for review.
• Provided software modifications/upgrades using Pascal and C for utilities used by external groups which provided maintenance of the entire market symbol databases.
• Provided 24/7 technical support for Production. Support Help Desk to provide responses to client queries.
• Trained transition personnel in regards to various aspects of North American Commodities market support including software requirements, ticker feed support and integration support.
• Responsible for participating in change management board, stakeholder interaction and management, analyzing and minimizing risk (risk management).

Environment: C++ (Windows/VMS), Pascal (VMS), Team City build environment with Subversion, PL/SQL (Oracle), MS Project, Visio, Clarity

Confidential

Project Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development of an integrated platform for real time news processing (NEWS for common platform), Data from various gateways are processed and saved to a common database. This data is sent to all clients downstream.
• This platform is being developed so that the same data can be used by all the clients. Worked with developers to design, develop and implement components for various platforms, revamping the older technology products.
• My team also worked on proof of concept using C++ and Java on Windows and UNIX to help in selection of language/OS.
• They are now deployable on other OS. Verifications are conducted to ensure continued data integrity and security.
• News reference symbols of all exchanges are maintained in the database. All referenced symbols are maintained using stored procedures which are maintained and updated as required.
• Responsible for driving the redesign of historical technology to enhance the software and enable deployment on alternative operating systems like windows.
• Helped to speed up the retirement process for older technology products.
• After the proof of concept, other products are also in the process of migrating to new technologies.
• Worked with developers and clients to create components for various platforms.
• Worked on the first production version software releases.
• Responsible for participating in change management board, stakeholder interaction and management, analyzing and minimizing risk (risk management).

Environment: C++ (Windows/VMS), PL/SQL, Pascal (VMS), Configuration management using Collabnet, Subversion on Windows and CMS on VMS, Visio, MS Project

Confidential, Rockville, Maryland

Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of development from identifying user requirements to working towards global launch of data for products in the suite.
• Unified the database of the two companies using ETL techniques, eliminating the need for the maintenance of separate systems and operating teams, resulting in head count savings to company realizing extensive cost savings.
• Worked closely with development, support teams and partners to define and implement key platform components that drive value for all platform stakeholders.
• Hands on involvement in design, coding and release activities along with team members.
• Responsible for participating in change management board, stakeholder interaction and management, analyzing and minimizing risk (risk management).

Environment: C/C++ and Shell script on UNIX (HPUX), Sybase, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned and managed all aspects of taking over the project from an outsourced company to an in-house team of development, testing and support. Leading to savings and better control over project management.
• Managed all aspects of the project, beginning with building the team from scratch.
• Led a cross continent team of developers, testers and production support that took over the project operations.
• Managed resource allocation, compliance activities, project scheduling activities; Conflict management and issue resolution with on-shore and offshore teams.
• Conducted client facing presentations on data content, method of working and capacity projections as well presentations to internal groups on development roadmaps, service issues, and detailed cutover plans for hardware/software changes.
• Responsible for participating in change management, stakeholder interaction and management, analyzing and minimizing risk (risk management).
• I also had the additional responsibility of MQ series administration.

Environment: C, C++, PL/SQL, IBM MQ series, Oracle 9i, 10g, Java, VB, ASP, C# .NET, IIS, on Unix (Sun Solaris 5.8) and Windows2000, MS Project, Visio, Lotus Notes

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the knowledge transfer and work sharing with the offshore team.
• Demonstrated continuous product improvement while reducing risk, resulting in increased work efficiency and capacity.
• The team took on more projects from the client, resulting in revenue generation.
• Handled project updates and coordinated integration and release activities across global teams.
• Delegated tasks and reviewed deliverables.
• Coordinated release activities between onshore and offshore teams.
• Responsible for participating in change management, stakeholder interaction and management, analyzing and minimizing risk (risk management).
• Hands on involvement in design and coding as well as review.
• Configuration management of code and other project related documents.

Environment: C, C++, Oracle 9i, TCL/TK on Unix (Sun Solaris 5.8) and Windows2000, Configuration management using CVS on Unix.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Was actively involved in interviewing candidates to build this team.
• Led the team to make the product platform independent, therefore marketable to more clients.
• Involved in client interaction to review requirements and other specs.
• Prepared detailed design. Assigned and reviewed tasks with engineers and peers.
• Responsible for participating in change management, stakeholder interaction and management.
• Hands on involvement in designing components, coding, delegating tasks to team members, and scrutinizing code.
• Configuration management of code and other project related documents.

Environment: C++, PL/SQL, Oracle, MS SQL, QT on Linux and Windows2000, Configuration management using VSS.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• One of the core developers working on new releases as well as maintenance of released versions.
• Incorporating new technologies and improving performance, leading to significant improvement in client satisfaction.
• Resolution of bugs as reported by client and product support engineers.

Environment: C, C++, PL/SQL (Sybase), and Win32 SDK, Configuration management using Perforce.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading the three-member team that completed this project.
• Designed the software and component interactions.
• Coded for the VSS COM components, which fetches all the files from the various Project databases over the network to the local folder of the web server.
• Also coded the component, which converts the various files to HTML format by manipulating the MSOffice object model.

Environment: VB6, ASP (Java Script), Oracle.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing the base classes for database handling tier; it basically handled all stored procedures.
• Any class accessing the database has to go via this tier. Also was involved in developing the error-handling module using the basic Exception class in VJ++. The exception handling was customized to the requirements of the project.
• Managing the offshore development and coordination with the on-site team.
• Responsible for coding and cross-checking of source programs, delegation of work to the team of four and scrutinizing code of other team members.

Environment: VJ++ COM, ASP, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, PL/SQL, MS SQL server 7

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team that designed the Architecture for this site.
• Data across the tiers is sent as XML string while all data is processed in the middle tier using MSXML parser.
• Microsoft’s XMLDOM has been used for data submission instead of the traditional form submit.

Environment: COM with VJ++, ASP, JavaScript, DHTML, and XML, PL/SQL (MS SQL Server)