SUMMARY:

• 12 years of Lead & Management experience in all phases of Software Development life Cycle (SDLC) including Analysis, Design, Development, testing, Production and Implementation of Applications using Microsoft technologies.
• Successfully handled different project Risks (Technical, Organizational and External)
• Strong experience in planning, organizing and managing resources to successfully complete project goals and objectives, while honoring predetermined constraints.
• Good exposure of the technical document specification preparation using software/functional requirement specification document.
• Rich exposure in project coordination activities entailing Planning, Scheduling, as well as application maintenance & enhancement, project progress monitoring, regular reporting to various stakeholders and delivery as per quality, time and budgetary norms.
• An effective leader with proven abilities in leading teams during the project phase, guiding team members and enabling knowledge sharing among the team.
• Resourceful and deft in all phases of the SDLC (Requirement analysis, development, testing and troubleshooting), with strong programming, software upgrade and application support skills across technology platforms.
• Proficient in developing & streamlining systems with proven ability to enhance operational effectiveness and meet operational goals within the cost, time & quality parameters.
• An effective communicator with excellent coaching & interpersonal skills at multiple levels. High integrity, energetic leader known for ability to envision and create successful outcomes in complex environment.
• Excellent customer feedback on high quality delivery, enhanced customer satisfaction and excellent team building across departments, suppliers and customers
• Good Knowledge and experience of JAVA / J2EE Enterprise applications,VB 6.0, ASP, COM, DCOM, IIS 6.0/5.0, Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005/2008, .NET Remoting Services, Web services, Visual SourceSafe, UDDI.
• Experience with TDD (Test Driven Development) and NUNIT

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Primary Skills: Java,ASP.Net, C#.Net, VB.Net, ADO.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Web Services, XML, XSLT, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, PL/SQL, WCF,WorkFlow and Crystal Report for .Net. SQL Server SSIS / SSRS.

Operating System: Windows 2k, 2003 server, NT/XP and Vista

Application Servers: IIS 6.0 and Web Sphere.

Scripting Languages: Java Script, JQuery

Development Tools: Visual Studio.Net 2005, 2008 and 2010, VB 6.0, Visio, Dream Weaver and

XML Spy.: COM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, IL

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage and report on projects in support of Confidential Specialty pharmacies
• Implemented a service (JAVA) based project for processing claims from Caremetx(an external partner) through a synchronous call with Relay Health in NCPDPD standard for determining eligibility and validating claims.
• Deliver quality projects on - time and within budget
• Supported the business case and selection phases of a new $190+ MM BSS/OSS system.
• Reviewed SOW for Project Management Track including, project deliverables, project work plan and PM tools.
• Proposed PMO governance models incorporating off-shore/global development centers.
• Create and maintain project plans and schedules
• Create technical requirements and solution documents
• Assemble resources and drive cross-functional teams
• Manage the complete project development life cycle from requirements through deployment
• Actively manage scope and change requests
• Regularly communicate status to 40+ team members and business stakeholders
• Identify issues and risks and work collaboratively to resolve them
• Implement best practices and proven methodologies for managing projects, including lessons learned from previous projects
• Take a leadership role in training and mentoring team members, developing methods for improving productivity and efficiency
• Take appropriate steps/actions to ensure timely deliverables, project success and quality
• Served as primary day-to-day contact for software vendor/external partner (Creehan & Company, Caremetx) and successfully reduced the number of hours for migrating data of the biggest pharmacy from 124 hours to 7 hours.
• Escalate unresolved issues to senior management

Confidential, IL

Technical Manager/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with client for requirements, feasibility discussions and estimations. Designing the layout of web pages and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).
• Felicitated requirements for numerous small (frontend only changes) to large (more than 10 backend system impact) projects using various requirement analysis techniques.
• Coordinated and managed requirement delivery from various requirement teams for enterprise level projects.
• Created and maintained SharePoint site for the team to provide a centralized repository for requirement artifacts.
• Actively participated in requirement strengthening activities by providing constructive feedback and initiating new processes.
• Reviewed design specifications and test plans to ensure requirements are met and to minimize gaps during implementation.
• Conducted User Accepting Testing before the product launch and coordinated test results.
• Mentored new business systems analyst by providing them guidance and sharing knowledge.
• Involved in creating the WCF service Clients to consume WCF Services from external systems using web http binding based on REST in order to render the data in JSON from the services.
• Used LOG4Net for implementing Audit logging requirements of customer’s activity in the system.
• Used Team Foundation Version Control in Visual studio Team Foundation Server for version and source control.
• Involved in deployment of applications into IIS 7.5 and configuring accordingly.

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed and delivered multiple data services and new implementation projects, including the convergence of business systems for major global enterprises.
• Identified, analyzed, and improved project critical tasks by designing and implementing new processes that reduced data import time from 30 days to 20 days and cost of an implementation project by 30%.
• Improved resource utilization rate on billable hours from 45% to 65% by establishing and adapting best practices in resource allocation and project planning, coaching and mentoring the time in a more effective time management process, and providing direct training and motivation for better focus.
• Improved RFPs by clearly defining proposal impacts, increasing client retention by 10% and improving client satisfaction by 25%.
• Facilitated BA sessions for effective requirement gathering to capture client business needs and propose more effective solutions.
• Championed Iterative Development and Agile Processes for large projects over traditional methods
• Documenting functional and technical specifications of the Legacy power builder Data Entry
• Worked with database team in database design and data modeling.
• Worked with SMEs to design the architecture and finalize software requirements and tools.
• Involved in the migration of version control from TFS to RTC SCM.

Confidential

Technical Manager/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions to gather requirements.
• Involved in High Level Design document and Coding Guideline documents.
• Defining the functional specifications based on the requirement study done.
• Created various artifacts like Business Rules, Screen Specification Requirements (SSR), Messagesand Use Cases and recorded them in IBM Rational Requisite PRO.
• Designed and developed the class diagrams and sequence diagrams using Rational XDE.
• Evaluated impact of customization to existing products, and collaborated with Business Analysts and customers to gather requirements and author specifications.
• Developed Financial Management System in the WCAIS which was an independent system.
• Managed the implementation and delivery of a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) project, including financial controls, internal audit, operational risk, compliance, IT governance, and risk management modules as an enterprise and SaaS implementation.
• Involved in Database Design for the Finance Module.
• Designed Business Functionalities to create a mapping between roles and the page level access for the users of WCAIS using VB.Net

Confidential, Irving TX

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, and defined the Object oriented solution using UML diagrams like Activity diagram, Sequence diagram, Class diagram for this application.
• Delivered all software development projects consistently 5% below cost expectations.
• Carried out design of components, initiated Iterative Development, provided design solution for front end and back-end development, and for database queries.
• Achieved a 5% improvement in product quality and significantly reduced time spent on client user acceptance testing.
• Designed and developed web forms using Visual Studio .Net Framework 3.5 and C# for application.
• Designed Customized components using C# Language and the project Was built on n-Tier Architecture with extensive use of Object Oriented programming Techniques like Encapsulation, Inheritance, polymorphism and Abstract Classes etc..
• Developed User controls and Business components to be used throughout the application.
• Developed WCF Service to share the business related data with other applications.
• Used Validation Controls for corresponding validations required for business logic in the Forms.
• Staff pages Authentication and Authorization using Active Directory (directory services and Siteminder), Pagelevel access using Fine Grain Access Control (FGAC).
• Created Shared Assemblies in C# to reuse the code in multiple web applications.
• Actively involved in coding and designing using C#, XML, ADO.NET, JavaScript, HTML, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
• Designed database structure and set relationship between tables.
• Designed and implemented data access layer using ADO.NET and C#.NET.
• Participated in architectural discussions and developed application software using proven Agile development practices including Test-Driven Design/Development and Continuous Integration.
• Used Design patterns such as Singleton design pattern.
• Involved in Unit testing of the developed modules and findings are documented for peer reviews using NUnit.
• Provided 24X7 production support and resolved issues within the designated time frame.

Confidential

.NET Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing user interface and prototypes for the application using ASP.NET
• Business model and logic were implemented using C#.
• The backend database connectivity modules were designed using ADO.Net with SQL Server 2000 as the database.
• Actively involved in coding and designing using C#, XML, ADO.NET, JavaScript, HTML, and Cascading style sheets (CSS).
• Used Validation Controls for corresponding validations required for business logic in the Forms.
• Used Data Sets and Data Grids extensively to retrieve, display and manipulate data from the database.
• Developed and managed database objects like stored procedures to maintain business logic and enforce data integrity.
• Used JavaScript for validations and customizations of the front-end screens and controls.
• Involved in configuring web. Config file for form Authentication and Authorization.