SUMMARY

• Senior Program / Delivery Manager with 20 years of experience with a proven track record of leading Application Software, Infrastructure and Big Data initiatives.
• Conceptualized and delivered number of new initiatives such as Big data analytics, Text analytics, Customer Loyalty Management and Lead Acquisitions etc.
• Technologist with hands on experience in evangelizing, architecting and developing the solutions.
• Managed the delivery of large initiatives involving ERP, Big Data, e - Commerce, business analytics, Mobile Applications, SaaS.
• Hands on experience with SDLC, and Business Analysis practices, including Waterfall, Agile/Lean (Scrum, SAFE, Kanban), Extreme Programming.
• With well-balanced experience and skills, played the roles to connect business, delivery and process management to optimal throughput for the initiatives.
• Lead teams responsible for key infrastructure initiatives such as Data Center Migrations, including Legacy Application Migrations, Updates and Conceptualized and Implemented support models for Infrastructure as Shared Services.
• Worked in number of key functional organizations such as Sales, Service Sales and Marketing, Customer Advocacy, Finance, Supply Chain, and Omni Channel.
• Rich industry experience such as Hi-tech, SaaS, Financial / E-payment, Retail, Marketing Automation, Manufacturing, Professional Services and Consulting
• Successfully managed more than 15+ complex releases with up to 300+ developers. Managed budget/resources/deliverables/ stake-holder expectations. The programs were typically 9-18 months duration.
• Lead and developed key release/program management processes, in the areas such as Release Governance, Risk Mitigation, Agile Releases and Change Management. These are being used in Confidential Enterprise Release Management Office.
• Played a role as Scrum master for Scrum of Scrums. Mentored and streamlined agile (SAFE) adoption to enable timely and efficient deliverables. Worked with Product Owners/Leaders to streamline continuous delivery.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Consultant (Sr Manager)

Confidential, San Jose, California

Environment: Hadoop, Hbase, Node.js, Angular.js, Mongo DB, Druid, JMeter, J2EE, AWS

Responsibilities:

• Conducting comparative research in the test automation and reporting domain
• Facilitating and leading the brainstorming sessions to define technical architecture (Cloud, NoSql, Data Visualization etc)
• Writing up epics/stories templates for upcoming development phases.
• Forming up scrum teams, hand-holding them to adopt to agile processes.

Senior Consultant (Sr Program Manager)

Confidential, San Jose, California

Environment: Hadoop, Hbase, Node.js, Angular.js, Mongo DB, Druid, iOS

Responsibilities:

• Managed the entire IT initiative working with senior leadership to ensure the successful delivery of their Hadoop, Hbase, Node.js, Angular.js, Mongo DB, Druid, iOS technologies.
• Oversaw 6 Scrum teams, played a role of Scrum Master for Scrum of Scrums.
• Worked with solution architects to facilitate smoother orchestration of data pipeline and data visualization using Node.js SPA architecture.
• Mentored and streamlined the Agile (SAFE) adoption for the Scrum teams increasing velocity and most importantly, enabling cross team dependencies.
• Partnered with key payment flows business leads to evaluate and implement the instrumentation required to capture the tracking data.
• Assisted senior management with yearly roadmap planning and managing the same in the Rally tool.

Senior Consultant ( Sr Manager)

Confidential, San Francisco, California

Environment: J2EE, TomCat, Oracle 11i, Oracle ATG, Hadoop/Hbase/Apache Solr, iOS /Android, SAP Transnet/Retail.

Responsibilities:

• Managed the team, deliverables and daily workflow responsible for delivering Big Data analytics, Text analytics, Customer Loyalty management and Lead Acquisitions etc.
• Interfaced with the business directly to gather relevant cross functional infrastructure stories to design and support the Big Date Infrastructure and work flows.
• Mentored and led both development and infrastructure teams in Scrum Sessions.
• Worked with CIO and senior IT executives to streamline their online ecommerce and In Store Retail Operations including e-Commerce site operation, Point of Sale Systems, Inventory Management, Reporting etc.
• Worked as Scrum Master/Product Owner on these projects/initiatives.
• Technical Lead driving the Mobile application and Mobile point of sale (POS) strategy and implementation using number of platforms and operating systems such as iOS / Android/ Windows Mobile etc.

Sr. Manager

Confidential, San Jose, California

Environment: J2EE, TomCat, JDBC, Oracle 11i EBS, Business Objects, Microsoft Projects, iOS /Android, Hyperion, Weblogic, Tibco, Informatica, Tools: Kintana, PPM, Rally, Confluence, WebEx, JIRA, Confidential Internal Tools.

Responsibilities:

• Recipient of Confidential IT Champion Award in 2012
• My last roll was working as a Senior Manager / Release Manager for Enterprise Release Management Office for about 4 years.
• Defined, oversaw and implemented various best practices for successful release delivery and program management office.
• Release methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, NGRM 2.0 and release types such as Quarterly, Monthly, Infra, P1/EBFs.
• Managed cross functional development and support teams across the Confidential Information Technology platform.
• Collaborated with Confidential Technical Services group, to align Engineering release processes and plans with Enterprise releases, infrastructure support models, QA/Sox processes etc, on various engineering initiatives, such as Smart-Care, Nirvanix Cloud Implementation for Case Notes, CBRE, and Salesforce implementation.
• Worked as senior manager responsible for Strategic IT planning and projects co-ordination required for “Market to Order”, “Segments Marketing” and “Issue to Resolution” (TS) functional flows within Confidential .
• Held overall responsibilities across all these projects were requirement gathering, scope analysis, Project Planning, Operational support and Cross-team co-ordination.
• Responsible for all strategic and co-ordination efforts for Confidential ’s Marketing and Sales IT applications support including Channels, Sales, Promotions, Executive Reporting, Marketing Applications, Customer Data Integration etc.

Principal Solution Architect

Confidential, Redwood City, California

Environment: J2EE, IBM Eclipse, Perforce, ANT, TomCat, JDBC, Perl, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, XML, BRIO, Hyperion HFM, Business Objects, Apache Flood

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in core product development especially writing application tools, libraries for integrating non-relational data sources such as Excel, LDAP etc

Senior Infrastructure Consultant

Confidential, San Jose, California

Environment: J2EE, JDBC, Hyperion Essbase, Netscape Directory Server, Netegrity SiteMinder 5.1, Oracle 8i, Perl (LWP, LDAP, Object Oriented,DBI), JavaScript, XML, Shell Scripting, Apache Flood

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for infrastructure development and management for Confidential ’s CA Finance portal using Netegrity SiteMinder, Bowstreet Portal Engine, Hyperion Essbase OLAP tool.
• Designed and developed various authentication schemas for group based, user level single sign-ons for managing access control. Implemented automation of security scripts.
• Design and developed the self-service Access Control Web Tool for managerial access control.
• Used Perl / Shell Scripts heavily in conjunction with Oracle database. Used various Java/Perl API for automation and system integration for Alphablox Reporting Server, LDAP. Also implemented the Apache/Tomcat log parsing mechanism to store hit counts.

Technical Lead, Consultant

Confidential, Milpitas, California

Environment: Oracle 8i, Apache, J2EE, JDBC, XML, PHP, mySQL, Flash MX, Perl (Object Oriented, DBI,Mod)

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Technical Lead on various projects for clients.
• These projects include eMarketing applications, CRM initiatives, Business Analytics Apps including Hyperion EssBase maintenance, Dashboard development.
• Responsible for day-to-day project deliverables from cross globe development teams.

Consultant

Confidential, San Jose, California

Environment: Oracle 8i, J2EE, JDBC, XML, XSL, Business Objects, Shell Scripting, Netscape Directory Server, Netegrity SiteMinder 4.6

Responsibilities:

• Using various technologies to cater various categories of reports, such as Business Objects, Java, Crystal Reports with extensive Oracle back-end development.
• The source data systems included Confidential ’s central Data Warehouse and group specific application DW (Lawson Professional Service Mgmt Suite and Performance Mgmt Suite)

Application Architect

Confidential, San Jose, California

Environment: Mod-Perl, Shell Scripting, J2EE, JDBC, XML, XSL, Oracle 8i, Apache Tomcat, UML, OOD, Sun Forte

Responsibilities:

• Apache/Mod Perl based architecture was introduced to develop proof of concept application for major Japanese client, which would enable fetching the financial data to email engine.
• Coded and deployed various modules and Software tools for eCRM and RDM market-space such as Confidential Confidential Depot www. Confidential .com, Auralite Direct Marketeer (Launched in Japan).

Software Engineer

Confidential

Environment: /Tools: Perl, SNMP, J2EE, Java Servlets, JSP, JDBC, Oracle 8i, Apache, Shell Scripting, Solaris, CVS, UML, OOD, HP OpenView

Responsibilities:

• This project was to develop important tool for systems engineers to manage and configure the networking demo labs spread all over the world (200+).
• Using SNMP, Java Servlets, JDBC, Oracle database and PERL Involved in developing the core part of the system through which polling networking device (SNMP pollable) using SNMP and its real time interface level status can be monitored by field engineers.
• Perl based interfaces were used for ease of implementation and for centralized server which monitors entire lab system, JSNMP/Servlets/Beans technology was used.