TECHNICAL SKILLS AND SPECIALITIES

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Role: Program Manager Technical

• Program and Project Management, Operations and Maintenance and New Development Task Orders
• Manage M of tw applications RMS-360 .NET portal based application , Dynamic Case management Appian BPM , and maintenance of data integrations t legacy applications and data repositories/data warehouses used by retailers/manufacturers/public entities and general public t search and research on reported incidents and corrective actions.
• Lead a team of 14-16 team members of various disciplines such as SQL Server DBA, .NET developers, tech leads, Appian process developers, business analysts, technical writer, QA and System Engineers t support the applications Tier 2 and deploy scheduled software releases.
• Lead analysis, design and development efforts for a new development task order aimed t extend current Appian Application in production with existing legacy application functionality and transition t the target state new application architecture
• PM responsibility for planning, managing and delivery of contractual deliverables based on statement of work, baseline project schedule and payment schedule

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Role: Principal Oracle SOA Architect and PM

• Mentored the development team in a SCRUM based framework -
• Customization of Oracle 11G SOA customization and ADF 11G development
• Developed hands-on mock-ups using Balsamiq and BPMN workflows using Visio
• Usage of the Human Workflow SOAP/EJB APIs and building a custom Worklist client.
• Usage of Task Notifications, User Messaging Service UMS and Approvals through Email
• Implementing complex regulatory processes represented in BPMN flowing across roles in 50 States and 5 PHMSA National regions
• Project Management, Client Deliverables Management Response t RFPs
• Responsible t work with COTR on adhering t payment schedule based contractual deliverables
• Restore state of the project from 3 months-late for a 12 month project duration t a stable state in 2 months
• Write technical and solution approach, staffing, Basis of Estimate BOE and project planning for issued task orders
• Develop interview and on boarding of strong technical team members for multiple projects

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Role: Technical Program Manager

• Restructured Development Team t support transition of application t support full operational capability
• As the custom OC4J based human-drugs approval application moved from 400 users t 2800 users, Vikas restructured the development and operations team t ITIL based service operations model t sustain this added scope and scale of the program, and add substantial efficiency recognized by the client.
• Negotiated new delivery model with Government COTRs and merge 4 projects M , new development and enhancements, upgrade/rewrite OC4J application t Oracle 11G SOA/ADF, and Business Objects based Business Intelligence Reporting t a program called DARRTS 3.0
• Engaged in Tech Refresh planning and design t move deprecated OC4J application int Oracle 11G SOA using toolsets BPEL/BPM for system and human-approvals across CDER and specific roles outside FDA but within HHS, screen development using ADF 11G, OSB, web services development t integrate with new web-based CDER real-time review systems, and Documentum.
• Worked with Government PMS/COTRs t get in consensus on SCRUM based approved release planning cycle that included - sprint planning, development and retrospective/feedback structure for all releases, and increased product owner frequent collaboration
• PM Program Management, Performance Management and New business development
• As PM Program Manager, established integrated time-phased baseline for all projects under the program.
• Lead the program with 4 Task Orders with total contract value of 21M, with a reporting structure of 3 PMs, and 55 team members in technical and business discipline
• Delivered successful software releases in close coordination with Government COTRs t meet CDER vision of stabilizing the DARRTS program and get a strategic plan t develop functionality t meet needs that came with new acts such as PDUFA prescribed drug user fees act and GDUFA generic drug user fee act scheduled for FDA t collect more than 300M from industry sponsors per year
• Gather intelligence and write technical responses t win new work such as continuation of current task orders and new business connected t the DARRTS program such as upgrades and a new QA based application proposed t be developed using Oracle 11G ADF

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Role: Technical Program Manager

• Stabilization of performance and integration issues, and new development -
• Worked with GOVT Joint Program Management Office JPM technical steering committee on the goal t establish service-based framework with SLA's, interface and specifications, this helped derive all pain-points categorized by service types, root cause category/sub-categories, and determine time-phased action plans
• Leveraged my Siebel technical architecture skills and experience t move hard-coded customizations done for integration t newly developed SOAP based web services and work on a SOA based model with rest of the J2EE functionality hosted on the Web Logic servers
• Established a detailed estimation model for M, new developments specifically based on type of development, such as J2EE UI and service coding, Siebel, Manugistics, OBIEE, Informatica and web services integration with transportation provider based systems, and EDI based Transaction Types.
• Worked closely with DISA counterpart infrastructure team t plan and execute upgrades for hardware and software such as moving development and test environments t VMware.
• Addressed surge needs and infrastructure changes during peak periods by transitioning Production Pre-Production environments t DISA and SDDC based hybrid cloud.
• Major activities in cloud migration included developing implementation plans, conduct cloud pilots, manage cloud production deployments, collect lessons learned, and recommend changes t service management.
• Leveraged DISA's provided platform as a service paas t manage upgrades such as Web Logic Server 32 t 64 bit upgrades, Siebel 7 t 8.1, implementation of OSB based routing of messages, OBIEE 10G t 11G upgrades, transition custom reports developed in Java, Siebel, Actuate int template based BI Publisher reports environment
• Modeled and implemented some of the move processes int new Oracle 11G BPM processes, and demonstrated integration of BPM process with mainframe services using BPEL
• Technical Program Management, Earned Value Management ANSI 748 EIA 32 criteria compliant
• Worked closely with Government PM, COTR and Program Team t move a troubled project within 4 months int a 'green' stable state. Received compliments from US TRANSCOM program and contract office, reflected in 'excellent' and 'very good' ratings on Contract Performance Assessment Report CPAR for 2 consecutive years.
• Implemented an integrated time-phased based baseline for the program and facilitated successful baseline sessions with senior level DOD officials.
• Under Vikas' program management leadership, DPS was SRA's first large-size program t get certified as fully compliant under EVM EIA-32 criteria.

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Role: Technical Lead, Project Manager

• As Technical Lead Key personnel , led implementation of this unique CRM implementation int full operational capability
• Joined SRA International on this contract, as Technical SME for Siebel Public Sector, developed Copyright Office's reengineered business processes in 14 months, using JAD approach t release first pilot for motion picture applications which was about 60 of the total applications.
• Designed Integration of Captiva Input Accel digitization scanning , OCR and indexing of paper-based forms int Siebel CRM database.
• Implemented Integration of Siebel based Copyright Registration with Endeavor Library system using Endeavor's proprietary EDI Transactions based on Library of Congress's MARC 21 format
• Implemented Integration of copyright application with Pay.gov portal using Siebel's outbound and inbound SOAP based web services
• Integrated Siebel with Xerox Free Flow using Java based API and provide centralized fulfillment and printing of copyright certificates and request-based based documents
• Successfully managed implementation of electronic copyright application int full operational capacity
• Took Project Manager role in the midst of implementation and delivered a successful rollout of electronic copyright eC service
• Managed a Project Team of 15 t 18 team members of technical and business disciplines
• Facilitated structured JAD joint application development sessions with Copyright process owner, subject matter experts and product owners
• Oversee a successful project from facilitating change of baseline requirements, refinement of business processes through JAD sessions, delivery of software releases through implementation, delivery of contractual deliverables and fully operational application int operations by working with Library of Congress' ITS Information Technology Services group