SUMMARY

• Over 13 years of total experience, 5 yrs. in Project Management including Project Management Professional (PMI certified PMP) leading all phases of diverse technology projects including Ecommerce Applications.
• Business strategist: Plan and manage multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communicator: Leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Extensively involved in entire QA Process and defect Management life cycle.
• Slashed payroll/benefits administration costs 30% by negotiating pricing and fees, while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services.
• Proficiently handles multiple projects/clients.
• .Proficient in analyzing business requirements, Solution Design and architecture, developing approach notes / specifications, test strategy and change controls
• Strong understanding of SDLC processes / methodologies and project management metrics
• Expertise in detailed project planning, resource recruitment / allocation / leveling, delivery monitoring and people management.
• Proficient in Visual Studio 2010, CSS3,WWF,WCF, WPF,XAML,MVC 4.0, C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2008,2005, Microsoft Enterprise Library for .Net 2.0,3.0,3.5,4.0, mobile applications.
• Good working knowledge in HTML5, XML,XSLT, JavaScript and JQuery
• Proficient in Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, Beyond Compare, SQL Profiler, FxCop Code Analysis, NUnit/MS test cases, Quality Center

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Analysis/Management: Custom Software Development, Database Design (RDBMS), Systems Engineering, System Migrations/Integrations, Enterprise wide Implementations

IT Project Lifecycle: Requirements Analysis, ROI Analysis, Costing & Budgeting, Project Scheduling, Testing/QA/Rollout, Business Analysis

Value-Added Leadership: Cross-Functional Supervision, Team Building & Mentoring, Client Relations & Presentations, Business & IT Planning, Vendor Management

Languages: WWF, WCF, MVC 4.0, C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2008, 2005, Microsoft Enterprise Library for .Net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, Microsoft .NET 2010, Informatica, VC++ (MFC), COM, Java webservices

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0, Windows2000, Windows XP, Windows 7

Project Mgmt Tools: Microsoft Project Plan 2010

Testing/Tracking Tools: Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Manager | Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects over large-scale and complex technology initiatives. Managed budgets of up to $3M and cross-functional teams of up to 25 developers, programmers, analysts and technical specialists.
• Working with the business development, business partners and product management field, while effectively handling requirements elicitation and analysis.
• Responsible for the effective Client Communication and stakeholder management and creating technical specifications for .Net, SQL 2008,Java Web services, Informatica MDM
• Drove the high-quality completion of systems engineering, software/database development
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structure.
• Monitoring/Tracking the project activities against baseline plan and shared defect reports daily and weekly basis to clients.
• Mentoring the team members while guiding them on charting out their career plan and path.
• Coordinated with vendors and resolved issues and reviewed contacted work performed by vendors.
• Budgeting, including thorough knowledge on forecasting techniques.
• Creating and managing the project/product documents such as Project scope, project plan, and Functional Requirements documents (FRD), Software Requirements Documents, stakeholder register, lessons learnt during the project.
• Create and share relevant executive reports while keeping them updated on the progress of various project.

Environment: C#, ASP.NET, JQuery,JSON,JavaScript, Entity Framework,CSS3,HTML 5.0,Responsive web design, JQuery, WPF,XAML XML,MVC 4.0, SQL 2008,Informatica, MDM, ETL, Informatica, Webservices, Visual Studio 2010,.Net Framework 4.0,Quality Center

Confidential

Project Lead |Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Handled the responsibility of Scrum Master.
• Led the team of size 15 working based on Agile/Scrum Methodology (Sprint Duration 2 weeks), in a geographically distributed setup.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project.
• Created user stories and technical specifications for the current sprint through client discussion sessions.
• Document and report all found defect in Quality Center.
• Handled cross-functional teams of developers, programmers, analysts and technical specialists.
• Extensively involved in entire QA Process and defect Management life cycle
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments
• Supported management with weekly performance review presentations.
• Coordinated development and testing activities.
• Documented the lessons learnt in the closing phase.
• Managed different technical stakeholders dependent on component.

Environment: C#, ASP.NET, JQuery, WPF, XAML, MVC 4.0 Entity Framework, CSS3.0, HTML, Responsive web design, XML, JavaScript, SQL 2008, Visual Studio 2008,.Net Framework 3.5,Quality Center

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business requirements and designing as per the business requirements.
• Developing critical modules of the application.
• Ensuring quality deliverables to client by performing review.
• Providing assistance to the team members.
• Coordinating between the testing team and development team for ensuring a defect free code delivery.

Environment: C#, ASP.NET, XML, JavaScript, JQuery, SqL 2000, Visual Studio 2008, .Net Framework 2.0,Quality Center

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business requirements and designing as per the business requirements.
• Developing critical modules of the application.
• Ensuring quality deliverables to client by performing review.
• Providing assistance to the team members.
• Coordinating between the testing team and development team for ensuring a defect free code delivery.

Environment: C#, ASP.NET, SqL 2000, Net Framework 2.0, Quality Center

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and designing the application as per the business requirements.
• Involved in the development of critical modules
• Responsible for bug reporting and tracking
• Mentored the junior developers on technical aspects of the deliverables.

Environment: C#, XML, Visual Studio 2005, Net Framework, Quality Center

Confidential

Senior Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and designing the application as per the business requirements.
• Developed few modules and also performed Integration testing for other modules.
• Kept the project manager and product committee informed of task accomplishments and issues periodically
• Mentored the junior developers on technical aspects of the deliverables.

Environment: VC++, C++, SQL server, Visual Studio SQL server, Visual Source Offsite

Confidential

Developer and QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of the application, defect fixing
• Also performed Integration testing for other modules.
• Co coordinating with clients for issue resolutions

Environment: VC++, C++, SQL server, Visual Studio, Rational Rose, SQL server, Clear Case

Confidential

Developer and QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the debugging, development of the SASIXP Application.
• Involved in preparation of the Test Plan, Test cases, Testing, (White box Testing, BlackBoxTesting)

Environment: C++, C, Visual Studio

Confidential

Developer and QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of the test tool, debugging, Preparing test suites, testing Multifunction peripherals.
• Prepared INF files for installation of various Multifunction Peripheral Devices and tested them.
• Prepared a test tool using VC++, which tests the functionality of Dot4 layer.
• Proactively identified the test areas and Designed Test suites, and prepared test cases
• Achieved the quality goals specified for the Project.

Environment: MFC, COM, C++, Visual Studio 6.

Confidential

Developer and QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide Button manager Support.
• Enabling for Win XP by modifying the Install Shield files.
• Identified and made changes for installing the scanner software on Windows XP Operating System. This involves making changes in the Install Shield Script files for identifying the new Operating System (Whistler in this case), installing the appropriate drivers, determining which I/O strategy to use for that combination of scanner and the operating system etc.
• Verifying the help Files on Windows XP OS..
• Verification: - Verification on previously supported Operating System.
• Localization Testing: - This involved testing in 11 different languages.
• Defect Fixing: - Fixed defect in the install shield help files of the scanner application which includes debugging INI and INF Files.

Environment: VC++ 6.0, 5.0, 1.52, Install Shield 5.5, 5.1, 3.0, Helper utility