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Architect And Team Lead Resume

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Washington, DC

SUMMARY

  • More than 11 Years of experience in IT industry as Architect, Tech Lead, Developer.
  • Excellent Financial, Mortgage and Insurance domain knowledge. CFA Level II candidate.
  • Experienced with application related to Real Estate Owned assets, Private Equities and Debts, Buyouts, Consumer Banking, Employee Stock Purchase programs and Pension Plans management, Loan Originations, Servicing and Closing, Property Appraisals and Evaluations etc.
  • Experienced in all project phases of projects including Business Case Evaluation, Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Designing, Development, Testing, Packaging and Deployment, Post Delivery Support using best of teh best project management processes. Also experienced in outsourcing strategies and onsite - offshore coordination
  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since August 2011.
  • Experienced in IT projects’ budget, cost, time, and quality and risk management strategies. Also experienced in Data Backups and BCP (Business Continuation Plan) strategies.
  • Have a very good understanding of CMMI standards and successfully implemented highest possible standards repeatedly. Also participated and halped establish PMOs for project management and setup teh process for teh projects.
  • Experienced in Agile using Scrum and Extreme Programming models, also experienced with Waterfall software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
  • Good understanding of UML based methodologies and tools such as Rational Suite, Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, ClearCase and ClearQuest.
  • Experienced in using Microsoft Project and other project planning resources such as AtTask, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, and other Microsoft Office tools
  • As a technical architect, excellent understanding of advanced coding concepts, n-tier application architecture, UML diagrams, and design patterns such as MVC, MVP, and MVVM etc. Also have a very good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) reporting tools such as Crystal Reports, Data Dynamics Active Reports, SQL Server Reporting Services, SSIS packages
  • Extensive hands-on experience in internet/intranet based web applications and client server based desktop applications using latest Microsoft Technologies including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, AJAX, WPF, WWF, WCF, REST services, JavaScript, JQuery, XML CSS, HTML5, IIS configuration, SQL and Oracle databases, EF framework, N-Hibernate as a developer.
  • Very good understanding of RDBMS database architecture in Microsoft SQL and Oracle, also NoSQL database such as Mongo DB. Good experience in large database management, performance tuning, normalizing and de-normalizing and analysis of data. Also have participated in data modeling and data mart creations.
  • Expertise in Data modeling, creating Conceptual and Logical Models, analyzing and gathering reporting requirements, also good understanding of Reporting systems and Data Warehousing concepts & tools (Informatica, Cognos, Business Objects, BO)
  • Lead teams of 10-15 people and projects as big as $4-5 million and have worked in projects with team size of 40-50 people.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington DC

Architect and Team Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding teh legacy existing applications and create a plan to upgrade them using latest technologies
  • Analyzing teh business case and providing and architecting teh solutions for teh same.
  • Create GAP analysis for teh upgrade project and write business and functional requirements
  • Create realistic project plans with duration and cost estimates for these projects
  • Architect new applications using latest technologies such as .NET 4.0, MVC 4.0 and WCF.
  • Mentor team for new architecture and technologies such as MVC 4.0, WCF, Team Foundation Server workflows.
  • Participate in data modeling meetings and halped team finalize data models.
  • Created coding guidelines and setup unit testing environments and also mentored team for same.
  • Streamlined teh development process using backlog tracking system in TFS for managing requirements and defects backlogs.

Confidential, Bethesda MD USA

Architect and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Help visualize teh business needs for new applications or enhancing existing applications.
  • Provide feasible solutions for these requirements by writing functional and non-functional requirements and propose a sound architecture and design for these requirements.
  • Architecting teh applications suitable for scaling and to teh best possible quality standards using MVC 4 framework and other .NET technologies.
  • Get teh application developed from teh team of 6-8 people as team lead and technical architect for teh project.
  • Set coding guidelines and development workflows for teh development.
  • Evaluate new technologies and halp decide teh future path for application development.
  • Understand teh business case and finalize teh feasible requirements and estimate teh duration and cost for teh same.
  • Prepare and manage teh project plan for teh project and provide timely reports of teh project
  • Managed risks associated with projects and designed appropriate contingency plans. Also created risk mitigation strategies to avoid certain known issues in teh project.
  • Worked in agile environment and facilitated backlog review and Sprint planning
  • Created use case and activity diagrams to illustrate teh application functionality and flow using Microsoft Visio tool.
  • Prioritized teh requirements and bugs for each sprint based on teh business need.
  • Helped create business objects for reporting needs of teh project.
  • Participated in creating data mart data models and contributed extensively creating teh data migration strategies for these data marts.
  • Defined and managed teh project scope with stakeholders and development teams.
  • Help setup PMO for project management in teh company
  • Conducted trainings for IT teams to better understand different templates in TFS such as CMMI and Agile for maintaining project documentation and requirements, bugs and test case tracking and maintaining backlogs.
  • Also assisted development teams to evaluate new technologies and halp decide teh future path for application development.

Confidential, Bethesda MD

Onsite coordinator, Business Analyst, Project Manager.

Responsibilities:

  • Performed as onsite coordinator for offshore team. Helped them understand teh requirements and guided them for coding and delivery standards.
  • Architect a prototype using Microsoft Expression Blend - Sketch flows.
  • Architect and implement project as a smart client application using WPF technology, MVVM and Mediator design patterns.
  • Created proper Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) and Non-function Requirement Documents by interviewing teh stakeholders and SMEs.
  • Implemented agile methodology with short sprints. Also contributed extensively for creating project plan.
  • Facilitated daily scrum meeting, reviews, analysis and release planning, demos and other Agile Scrum-related meetings
  • Performed as onsite coordinator for offshore team. Helped them understand teh requirements and guided them for coding and delivery standards.
  • Created use case and activity diagrams for major process flows of teh project.
  • Created prototypes using Microsoft Expression Blend - Sketch flows.
  • Helped in architecting and implementing project as a smart client application.
  • Helped designing data modeling for teh project.
  • Also did research and directed team for business continuation strategies and backup plans.

Confidential

Architect and Sr. Developer for Web Applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Participated in finalizing requirements and later prepare FRDs and Non-FRDs for teh same.
  • Estimate time and cost for teh requirements and prioritized them into sprints. And also maintained backlogs for teh requirements.
  • Worked closely with end users and halped them use teh business rules engine (InRule) and configure teh business rules.
  • Worked for few different projects, which included modifying teh web application, modifying and consuming WebServices, modifying and creating SQLServer Stored Procedures for REO project, which were parts of Desktop Application.
  • Designed/Architected teh web pages for REODirect project and contributed extensively in designing teh architecture for dis project using n-tiered architecture and later MVC.
  • Created WCF web services for REODirect solution and also created data contracts and operation contracts for these WCF services. Also created few POCs with WWF technology.
  • Involved in implementing CWAB design patterns for REODirect and Desktop Application solution.
  • Coded business and data access components for key modules applying C#.NET 3.5, OOP’s Concepts (using all new concepts like generics, Implicitly Typed Variables, Anonymous Type/ methods, Extension Methods, Object and collection Initializes, Lambda expressions).
  • Maintained coding standards and programming strategies as well as standardized teh interface between UI and business components to ensure consistency throughout teh application and peer code review
  • Developed complex custom AJAX controls which are effectively used in all web parts
  • Involved in performance tuning of teh application using code refactoring and Query optimization
  • Developed a prototype for a smart client application for LPS internal use using WPF based UI using C#.NET 3.5 and Microsoft Expression Blend studio.
  • Also in dis project came up with an innovative way of automating 90% of teh development of web pages for REODirect project which saved alot of time in development and dat was well appreciated by my team and project manager.
  • Also developed teh Broker Registration website which became a part of Desktop Application later. It was entirely designed and developed by me.
  • Also halped QA team in automating test cases for DIS (Desktop Integration Services) project.

Confidential

Sr. Software Developer

Responsibilities:

  • Replace current login system with a SSO (Single Sign On) system which uses SiteMinder Application provided by CA.
  • Contributed extensively for configuring DMZ (De-Militarized Zone), Web and App servers.
  • Secured teh website using SSL certificates and few other measures which were required to make dis website less prone to hacker’s attacks.
  • Developed Data Access tier using N-Hibernate to access data from SQL Server.
  • Developed web pages using C#, VB.NET, web forms, HTML and AJAX
  • Developed UML Class, Component and Object diagram
  • Developed .NET classes using object-oriented paradigm
  • Apart from dis me also developed few crystal reports required for dis application.

Confidential, New Jersey, USA

Onsite Coordinator and Module Lead.

Responsibilities:

  • Worked as module lead with team of 3 people (at offshore).
  • Did teh GAP analysis between existing applications developed by BNY and Mellon Corporation
  • Did teh impact analysis of new changes and prepared teh requirements document for teh modifications and new addition to teh application.
  • Used UML for activity diagrams for new methods.
  • Prepared design documents and test cases and send them to offshore team for development.
  • Used agile scrum methodologies for development cycles in multiple sprints.
  • Used DTS Packages in SQL server 2000.
  • Developed web pages using AJAX and javascript as front end and C#.NET as code behind and SQL Server 2000 as backend.
  • Got teh new changes developed by offshore team and ensure quality of delivery and delivered them to client.

Confidential

Team Lead, Developer and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

  • Performed as onsite coordinator for developing reports in Crystal Reports.
  • Gathered requirements from Business users, did impact analysis on these requirements and estimated teh function based work efforts required for these requirements.
  • Got them developed and tested from my offshore team and deliver them to teh client business users.
  • Apart from dis provided support for regulatory reports needed to submit to teh respective country government.
  • me was lead developer in NFR (Non Functional Requirements) team. We developed common controls like role based tab controls, security enabled controls for web application, enhanced data grid control for Windows Application.
  • Developed few POC (Proof of Concept) for REIOS Web Application & Disconnected Application.
  • Developed main navigation and authentication system, master page (index page) and a few web pages for REIOS AGI system. During dis period we needed to develop web pages along with all backend layers including stored procedures required for database. Also brought application to MVC architect standards and halped team to set up teh coding guideline for teh same
  • Developed prototype required for Disconnected Application, which was a Smart Client Application. Later me was responsible for teh Development of Disconnected Application for which me performed a role of technical lead for dis module of 10 people.
  • At teh end of project me was responsible for teh Deployment & Maintenance activity of REIOS web application as well as Disconnected Application.
  • Also me was responsible for providing Support to onsite team as a post-delivery handover process for some time.

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