SUMMARY

• A Highly organized and efficient individual in agile - paced multitasking environment with more than10+ years of Information Technology experience which includes Project Management and Technical Lead in versatile projects relating to various applications.
• Assiduous efforts with innovative thinking has driven my undertaken projects towards successful completion in both team-setting and working independently, with an understanding of business requirements, application of excellent skills and adhering to work ethics.
• Previous accomplishments have ascertained my strong belief in agile methodology, team work and leadership values.
• Dexterous in Project management / Scrum Master leading cross-functional global teams using best practices, appropriate methodologies, governance, and processes in versatile platforms and projects
• Managed global Teams, Designed, planned and implemented various IT, Computational projects
• Experienced in conducting Agile practices- Release Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint backlog, Sprint Planning, Program Increment planning, Daily Stand Ups and Retrospective
• Excellent experience in complete SDLC, Digital transformations, Waterfall method, Agile process and transformation, JIRA and Confluence management tool, MS Project, MS Visio, Lucid Chart, Agile boards (Scrum and Kanban) and other management tools
• Certified and experienced in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Scrum Master
• Experienced in Portfolio Management for various project implementations
• Effective resource management and a constant motivator for development and testing teams to drive projects and meet timelines
• QA management for system integration testing and excellent hands on experience in overseeing, designing and executing End to End Use Cases and test cases for quality assurance
• Creation of project budget plan, budget tracking and generating budget reports
• Deployment planning and overseeing deployment of applications and components in coordination with DevOps and development teams
• Excellent interpersonal communication between clients, stakeholders and service providers.
• Adroit in process groups, using strategies and techniques such as critical chain, KPI, etc. and decision making
• Create and maintain Project plan which includes project scope, WBS, charter, Key milestones, work schedule, resource allocation
• Constant Monitoring, tracking deliverables and change management using different methods and practices
• Experience with SOW, generation of progress reports, status updates of deliverables, project communication reports and presentations
• Managing change requests after project initiation and in development phase across cross-functional teams
• Amicably solving technical issues, dependencies and risk management for providing planned deliverables
• Creation of project documents in compliance with Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) of organization and maintenance of meeting outcomes, decisions, action items, etc.
• Organizing and conducting various planned and ad hoc project meetings and demos for stakeholders and business owners
• Knowledge / experience in CRM, ERP and BI tools and technologies
• Worked in different architectural makeup’s in SDLC such as monolithic, SOA and micro services
• Knowledge of using Spring framework for JAVA enterprise applications
• Managed / led projects which include Web services (REST/SOAP), API developments cum testing for integrating components
• Hands on experience in general System administration and Linux admin activities
• Excellent knowledge and experience in different infrastructure management, IT security features, IAM and IT Disaster Recovery practices
• Knowledge and experience in working with database, data lake and data warehouse
• Proven experience with data transfer using data ingestion tools according to data characteristics
• Data migration management from premises infrastructure to AWS Cloud
• Knowledge of Azure, Team Foundation Server and IDE platform - Visual Studio
• Privacy Compliance Management
• Formulation of Big Data solutions for traditional enterprise businesses and lead big data team(s)
• Managed Hadoop ecosystem and Cloud platform(s), and big data administration which includes Hive, Sqoop, Pig, etc.
• Hadoop ecosystem management and administration which includes Hive, Sqoop, Pig, etc.
• Experience in various computational methods and software tools for data analytics knowledge or experience in programming / scripting languages (Perl, R, PHP, SAS, SQL, C++, Fortran, JAVA, Python, .NET)
• Application of Statistical methods (parametric / non-parametric tests), modeling, and simulation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle

NoSql Databases: Hbase

Operating Systems: LINUX, UNIX, Windows

Scripting: Shell Scripting

Microsoft: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Visual Studio 2003/

Hadoop Framework: HDFS, Map Reduce, YARN, Zookeeper, Hive, Hbase, SqoopSpark, Hue, Sentry, Oozie, AWS etc.

Cloud computing platforms &Cluster Management Tools: AWS, Hadoop, Cloudera Manager and Hortonworks

Languages and RDBMS: Perl, Python, SQL, Matlab, R, SAS, FORTRAN, C++

Web technologies: HTML, DHTML and MS Front Page.

MS-Office: MS-Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Swanktek, NJ

Portfolio Management - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Project management of different business PODs
• Design of project roadmap plan mapping business initiatives, epics and user stories for building development tasks
• Performed scrum ceremonies (Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective, etc.) for development and integration of application / services for end-customers and digital transformations
• Effective cross-pod / resource management and mentoring in various conditions or circumstances
• Coaching of best agile practices for transit easily from waterfall to agile method
• Management of complete development cum defect life cycle
• Coordinated with DevOps for deployment of Micro Services and Applications
• Prepared and provided JIRA Reports, Sprint boards, Dashboards, score boards, MS 365 spreadsheets, etc. for the entire project monitoring and reporting
• Documentation of project documents in Confluence
• Managing defect cycle for closing severe defects before the product release
• Provided weekly status report for project leadership meeting
• Performing additional business POD management roles whenever need or gap arises
• Generation of variant models for improvement of team performance in existing methods
• Effective collaboration with Experience owners (product owners), Senior project manager, Technical leads, Scrum of scrum team, Development, QA and DevOps cross-pod teams

Confidential

Project Manager - Technical

Responsibilities:

• Portfolio management of different (waterfall/ agile) technology teams engaged in privacy initiatives across the enterprise which includes ERP, HR, Business domains, etc.
• Guiding the enterprise project teams for strategic processes and tooling
• Providing technological solutions for privacy integration to be CCPA compliant
• Review of business requirement documents for data privacy integration program
• Development and review of use cases for the privacy implementation for different projects
• Providing technology solutions to client for tag management
• Identify tooling required for privacy compliance.
• Presentation of technology solutions, conducting review meetings, and providing status updates for technology projects.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Project Manager & Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing and leading cross-functional agile IT teams for JAVA / Angular JS based development and testing of deliverables
• Managing and driven global (Offshore and Onshore) agile teams through complete SDLC
• Managing QA for functional, system integration testing, test auditing, End-End testing
• Managing Deployment phase and coordination with teams DevOps teams for deployment of components and applications
• Preparing project plan, charter, delivering status reports and other project documents
• Adroit in using agile scrum approaches for driving teams to provide deliverables of business value
• Conducting daily scrum calls for resolving or mitigating issues in development and testing
• Effective coordination with different product teams for integration of applications such as Publons, DAIS- NG, IMS, WoS, ES, etc. for accomplishment of tasks using agile scrum approaches
• Overseeing development and testing of customized CRM application (Curation UI) for customer interaction
• Designing performance tests and overseeing performance testing team for running automated tests using Neoload
• Designing, preparing use cases and test cases and managing End-End testing
• JIRA administration for Sprints in agile methodology to drive development cum testing
• Convening / arranging meetings for development and testing teams based on day to day requirements

Environment: & Applications: AWS, Spark, JAVA, Angular JS, JIRA, CRM, Micro services, MySQL, JAVA Selenium, Neoload, Qubole, Skybot and Unix/Linux

Confidential, MD

Kafka/Hadoop Management & Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed agile scrum teams, driving technical discussions, managing deliverables, mentoring team members, deploying applications in a production environment, and providing support & maintenance for both onshore and offshore.
• Managed cross-functional teams for data migration from different source systems to DAP
• Managed complete infrastructure implementation for legacy data transfer to data lake
• Implemented Confluent Kafka cluster for real time data in Agile environment acting as a servant-leader - scrum master
• Prepared project documents and reports for POC and phased projects required for implementation
• Managed integration of POC reference architectures such as Kafka and Data Analytical Platform (DAP) in Hadoop.
• Managed configuration, administration and monitoring of Hadoop cluster using Cloudera manager
• Coordinated with Data engineering and Data scientists team for Business Intelligence analytics works
• Applied Big Data technologies for producing technical designs for Big Data implementation.
• Coordinated with technical teams for installation and configuration of Kafka &Hadoop eco- system tools.
• Communicator between clients and service providers to meet with client’s requirements
• Offered technical guidance to team members for installation and configuration tasks including micro-services, APIs, REST and NoSQL database.
• Evaluated and documented technical design relating to use cases and proof of concept for Kafka and Hadoop integration.
• Assisted in data ingestion from Kafka to Hadoop environment.
• Worked on Data Lake architecture to collate all the enterprise data for data analysis to find operational and functional issues.
• Good knowledge / experience on cloud computing infrastructure, Elastic Search Data ware Housing, ETL, BI, Visualization tools, and Machine Learning.
• Successful development of hdfs sink connector to integrate Confluent Kafka and hdfs.
• Used Hadoop ecosystem tools, viz. Hive, HBase, Spark, etc. for data transferred to DAP.
• Hadoop cluster performance tuning in context of the production workloads/jobs.
• Troubleshooting in data ingestion and transfer from Kafka to Cloudera Distributed Hadoop cluster

Environment: & Applications: Hadoop, MapReduce, Yarn, Hive, HDFS, HBase, spark, ZooKeeper, Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH), Oracle DB and Unix/Linux.

Confidential, MD

Project Manager and Lead Hadoop Admin/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed project management tasks such as project planning and monitoring, budget planning resource planning and cost management
• Managed the cross-functional teams (onshore and offshore) using agile methodology
• Enabled transformation of waterfall to agile platform to apply scrum practices for successful delivery of products
• Conducted scrum team meetings
• Pursued Hadoop administrative tasks such as Installation and configuration of Hadoop cluster
• Transfer of legacy data to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
• Overseen Data analytics team using Business Intelligence (Tableau)
• Designed ETL flows for data transfer from source to sink.
• Application of third party distribution such as Hortonworks for big data transfer and management.
• Assisted team in optimization of Hadoop cluster performance.
• Performed cluster monitoring and troubleshooting in big data transfer.
• Deployed Hadoop ecosystem tools such as Sqoop, Hive, etc.
• Used Customer Relationship Management technology for customer support

Environment: & Applications: Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, HDFS, Pig, Sqoop, Oozie, Hortonworks, Nagios, Hortonworks HDP 2.0/2.1, MySQL, and Unix/Linux.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Project Manager & Technical Lead (Big Data)

Responsibilities:

• Performed as a lead role in Hadoop cluster ecosystem design and implementation using waterfall method.
• Data ingestion from sources into HDFS and Hadoop cluster management using Cloudera Manager.
• Worked extensively on Non-Java tools such as Hive and NoSQL database.
• Handled different sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
• Used Sqoop to import and export data from HDFS to RDBMS and vice-versa.
• Creating Hive tables and loading with data and writing hive queries (which will run internally in map reduce way).
• Prepared HBase tables and loaded data for further analysis.
• Experience on Commissioning, Decommissioning, Balancing Nodes and tuning server for optimal performance of the cluster.
• Supported development team in review of Hadoop log files and data backups.
• Formulated procedure for the development of disaster recovery processes.

Environment: & Applications: Redhat Linux, Hadoop, Oracle Virtualbox, Apache and MySQL.

Confidential, Albuquerque, NM

Project Manager and Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Managed the bioinformatics projects
• Prediction of protein interaction models using bioinformatics and computational methods.
• Data mining & management and database design and development.
• Application of statistical methods for data analysis in various studies (viz. epidemiologic studies).
• Genomic sequence analysis
• Maintain Linux servers running versions of CentOS, Red Hat, and Oracle Linux
• Documentation and Generation of Reports