ROLE:

Project Manager Technology , Solutions Architect

SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management Professional PMP , with over 12 years of IT experience.
• Exceptional Technical Managerial expertise with astute understanding of business operations and performance while overseeing operations for strategy, budgeting and development projects.
• Excellent customer/vendor interfacing skills coupled with the ability to negotiate effectively while driving all cost saving initiatives.
• Ability to successfully deliver results through strategic thinking, innovative problem-solving and managing teams both on site and off shore in order to achieve performance excellence.
• Experience in anticipating market trends to proactively design and implement action plans for the subject.
• Good understanding of network infrastructure and security policy, Digital Certificate systems, architectures and understanding if the business need scale up or scale out data architecture.
• Understand business/technology needs to work with open source technology, especially scale out principles like Hadoop, Mapreduce, Cloud computing Iaas, Paas, Saas etc.
• Plan, Manage and maintain Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS compliance for the company.
• Extensive experience is using Project management techniques to define scope and collect, analyze, document distribute project plans. Also, involved in UX user centric/ usability testing of complex client/server, internet, intranet data processing and business applications.
• Ability to manage cross functional and geographically dispersed team environments to deliver projects on schedule.
• Overseen projects in all facets of project lifecycle, including initiation and planning change, risk, and issue management and guiding and working with QA teams for performance/ Load testing, Test plan, Test case, Test Scenario and Regression testing.
• Proficiency using MS Project CPM effectively as well as other PM techniques Agile/Scrum and PERT to manage project schedules and message progress. SharePoint as a Project Management Information System PMIS , Jira and Mercury tools for bug fixing management. Version Management software's like VSS, SVN etc. MS Reporting, accounting with Microsoft Dynamics AX, Web Analytics 2.0 for better SEO/SMO practices.
• Excellent communication interpersonal skills, building strong working relationships with clientele and coworkers, while ensuring cooperation among company departments.
• Self-directed, disciplined, flexible, confident and ready for new challenges.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Created multiple technical proposals that facilitate new customer requests for increased revenues.
• An increased turnover reflected in per day in sales for worth 50,000 Krona NOK .
• Adopted techniques and architecture that reduced operational costs by more than 500K Euro.
• Reduced unscheduled outages, increased uptime from 97 to 99.7 for applications and websites, and achieved customer satisfaction.
• Advisory to the company's CEO and primary contributor to technology roadmap.
• Recognized for competence in error handling and problem solving, by the Scandinavian client.
• Chosen as the key liaison between the vendor and the offshore teams, to mentor, guide and negotiate.
• Provided system training in streamlining data entry procedures and processing requirements.
• Integrated Payment gateway for eCommerce portal single handedly, improving productivity in operations

MANAGEMENT BUSINESS SKILLS:

• Business Operations management, Resource management, Vendor management, Infrastructure management, Digital marketing planning, PCI DSS compliance
• Management Project lifecycle management, Enterprise Implementations, System Migrations, Application Architecture, analysis and development, Requirements Definition Analysis, Project Scheduling, Team Building Leadership, Project Budgeting Cost Controls, Quality Assurance
• TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• Software RDBMS: MS Project expert , Visio, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Oracle, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Mysql, MS-Access
• Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux
• Languages C , SQL, T-SQL, Java, Visual Basic 6.0, C, C , Java, VBScript, ASP 2.0/3.0/4.0, XML, IIS, HTML, DHTML, Java Script, UML, PHP, Cold fusion.
• Networking Protocols TCP/IP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, DNS, SOAP, Web Server IIS 4/5/6/7.5 , System and Network, SSL
• Middleware/Libs MTS, ODBC, ActiveX, Web Services, POS software
• Tools Visual InterDev6.0, Front Page, Visual Studio .NET all versions , Visual SourceSafe
• Knowledge Area Concepts of Cloud computing with IAAS, PASS and SAAS, Proposal based in PASS with Microsoft Azure and Google GAE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Project Manager with responsibility of IT Operations

Responsibilities:

• Project Analysis, charter, scope, aligning project need with company's objectives, planning, decision to develop in-house or outsource, involved in testing phase to monitor and control the project, closing the project with timely delivery, client satisfaction and lessons learned.
• Involved in analyzing the requirements for integrating business and technologies. Evaluating the need of new technology to sync with company's current objective of scope and cost.
• Procurement Management, Contract Negotiating, overseeing RFP Processes and procurement statement of work for all hardware software requirement. Coordinating and Liaison of IT Infrastructure needs for the company and the project.
• Oversee the timely compilation of vendor services, status reports while building metrics to track and report effectiveness against outstanding milestones/deliverables, status, resource requirements and issues.
• Keep leadership apprised of Sprint and Release progress, and identify risks and issues.
• Perform cost analyses, while minimizing organizational cost through product standardization and tracking.
• Perform requirement gathering, test case, test scenarios, performance testing.
• Manage and control the role and responsibility of critical data and code. Bridge between technical and senior level management for all critical things like Payment gateway, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS compliance.
• Responsible for all offshore development, document management with SharePoint as PMIS, bug management with JIRA and update/refine organizational processes for better management.
• Over see online marketing that is SEM on different search engines. Use Web Analytics for constant improvement of SEO / SMO, to reduce expenses for paid marketing and move over to Organic marketing. On some projects we managed to get 95 organic results and saved online marketing expenses.
• Get involved in new architecture to attain better web performance without increasing infrastructure expenses by using Hadoop principles. We managed to get great results on a multi-lingual with low end Cloud servers. Proposal for Microsoft Azure Paas for better scalability and reduce our responsibility to handle infrastructure related issue in long run.

Environment: C .NET, XML, XSL, XSD, SQL SERVER 2005, IIS 7.0/7.5, VisualStudio.Net, WCF external web services consumption , WPF, SharePoint for reporting / project documentation, JIRA for bug management, WCAT for load/performance testing, Microsoft Dynamics AX. We also use LAMP Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP for some web based projects.

Confidential

Principle Quality Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in the design, development and maintenance of the QA Automation Tool.
• As a lead and developer, developed a small parser to replace win runner which increased the ROI exponentially since win runner license was no more required.
• Communicate with all project team members concerning their project tasks and distributing requirements into sprints.
• Used ADO, ADO.NET objects such as Data Reader, Dataset and Data Adapter, for consistent access to SQL 2000 data sources, and write backend stored procedures in SQL Server 2000
• Gave direction to the team as well as developed business objects in C for implementation of business logic, along with classes and interfaces by using C and .Net.
• Coached and mentored team members in Unit Testing and design.

Environment: C .NET, XML, XSL, XSD, SQL SERVER 2000, VisualStudio.Net, .net Remoting, win32 calls.

Confidential

Project Coordinator/ Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage project issues and risks: identifying, documenting and tracking.
• Helped set up an offshore team of 7 in India, and coached teams in effective adoption and understanding of the business model while training them for data entry and structure.
• Trained and mentored the offshore team for designing and development of new websites depending on the current and future business needs and demands.
• Coordinated, to make a web syndicate for the company for search engine optimization in order to increase in per day sales
• Facilitate project planning, development and maintenance of the modules as web architect.
• Worked as developer and team leader, created dynamic GUIs with .Net Web Controls and Data Bound Web Forms for the Administration panel and ASP in the user side visible to the end user with .asp .
• Worked in ASP.NET Web Forms, web services, ASP.NET applications, ASP.NET state Management, ASP.NET caching features, configuring ASP.NET optimizations, securing ASP.NET web application.
• Monitored and implemented online payment gateway with BBS bank in Norway.
• Used ADO, ADO.NET objects such as Data Reader, Dataset and Data Adapter, for consistent access to SQL 2000 data sources.
• Developed business objects in C for implementation of business logic and WEB pages using ASP.NET, VB.NET, C and ADO.NET as the data consumer.

• Developed the classes and interfaces by using C .Net coding, and wrote backend stored procedures in SQL Server 2000.
• Managed and developed the User Interfaces of the various websites using the HTML and ASP, ASP.NET framework, with front-end validations using Java Script and server side scripts using ASP, ASP.NET, with IIS as web server.
• Gave direction for use of style sheets for achieving uniformity through all the aspx pages, organized and documented user manuals and admin manuals
• Oversaw and managed the Desktop application used for buying of tickets in VB.net, and used XML, HTML for displaying information.
• Wrote test scripts for unit test and test plans, and overseeing the complete QC/QA process.

Environment: ASP, ASP.NET, C .NET, ADO.Net, ASP, ADO XML, XSL, XSD, SQL SERVER 2000/NT, VisualStudio.Net, IIS 6.0.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working in a team, gathering and understanding user requirements.
• Preparing Project Specific Documentation.
• Part of creative designing, where the site was given look and feel of 1970 TV show.
• Coding, testing and implementation of ADMIN for the Rubbertree site in ASP using SQL server as the database, solely.
• Front-end validations are done using Java Script.
• Designing Database structure.
• Client and server side enhancements and validations.

Environment: ASP, SQL 7.0, Visual Interdev, Oracle, PL/SQL, and Windows NT.

Other clients to whom services were provided:

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supervised the architecture of the network design framework.
• Developed part of admin module, for the user to create their own database.
• Also developed a very small functionally like the Enterprise manager in SQL server. The remaining site was made by 3Di Systems in USA. .
• The site is in Cold fusion but the database creation by user and the field's manipulations is done in ASP.
• Client side validations with JavaScript.
• Provided documentation for the ADMIN functionality, to the team in USA.

Environment: Cold Fusion, ASP, MS sql 7.0, Cold Fusion Server, Front Page