Summary

• Total years of experience: 16 years
• Roles: Senior Manager, Principal, Technical Delivery Manager, Project Manager etc
• Work Authorization: Green Card
• Specialization: Delivery, Project/ Program management Team Leadership
• Technical: Ecommerce, Business Intelligence Data Warehousing, Master Data Management

Work Experience: Key Responsibilities

Confidential

Recent Roles Senior Manager/ Project Manager/ Technical Delivery Manager

• Managed multiple projects with multi-million dollar budgets and multi-location teams
• Delivery leadership and Project Management for multi-million dollar Ecommerce implementations for Confidential
• Good functional knowledge of Retail Ecommerce including Order Management and Supply Chain platforms.
• Managed portfolio of projects on multiple assignments and with cross-location teams of up to 40 people
• Full life cycle project implementations in Waterfall, Lean Agile and SCRUM projects
• Reported up to the CIO level
• Team leadership task allocation, tracking, reviews, appraisals and coaching of team members
• Bottom-line for deliverables and customer relationship on multiple assignments
• Functional design, technical implementation strategy and full spectrum project management activities, including Scoping, Estimation, SOW creation, Release Planning, Work Breakdown Structure, Task Sequencing Scheduling, Critical Path Analysis, manage internal and external dependencies, prioritization, contingency planning, Risk management, Invoicing etc.
• Status, metrics dashboard reporting to executives and PMO
• Estimation, Costing, Budgeting, Financial Modeling, Cash Flows and ROI analysis
• Pre-sales: Proposal writing and presentations to clients
• Hiring, contracting and campus recruitment activities
• Ability to influence stakeholders, sponsors and project team members
• Active involvement in Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Release Planning, Configuration Management, Production Rollout planning, Test Data and Test Environment management etc
• Onsite and offshore project setup. Coordinated with team members across multiple locations in US, India and Canada
• Multiple Ecommerce implementations

Client: Confidential

Role: Senior Manager

Technologies: IBM InfoSphere MDM Server Standard and Advanced Editions , J2EE, Microsoft Project Planner, Visio, Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Leadership for Confidential implementation
• Bottom-line for project and customer relationship
• Business process consulting and implementation strategy partnered with the client for master data strategy and business process definition
• Strategy for MDM integration with Data Warehouse Teradata , Order Management System, dotcom and overall Ever-greening strategy
• Also Contributed to discussions for MDM integration with the ESB and other independent backend and external interfaces
• Setup of project processes and managing internal and external dependencies
• Scoping, Estimation, Statement of Work negotiations and release sprint planning
• Periodic status reporting to the PMO
• Mentor Project Managers and other team members
• Project budgeting, Costing, ROI analysis and scheduling
• Active pre-sales contributions generated over 5 million in sales in two months
• Facilitate project meetings

Employer: Confidential

Role: MBA Intern Portfolio Analyst

Technologies: SQL Server, ABSNET, Bloomberg, Vector Securities, R, Palisade Stat Tools, MS Excel

Responsibilities:

• Reported to: Managing Director/ Portfolio Manager
• Internship assignment taken up along with Confidential coursework
• Research, Analytics and Modeling of Mortgage Based Securities for a Confidential Fund MUTF: ANGLX and Hedge Funds
• Reporting, Data aggregation and analysis on MBS business intelligence solutions

Client/ Project: Confidential

Role: Technical Delivery Manager

Technologies: WebSphere Commerce Server 6.0, Sterling Order Management system integration , DataStage, DB2, Endeca, Google Analytics, Foresee, Web Tags, WebMethods, LoadRunner, JIRA, Quality Center, MPP, Excel

Responsibilities:

• Led the Development, Maintenance and Performance Testing teams for a multi-million dollar B2C re-platform project
• Responsible for project planning, change management, work breakdown structure, risk management, vendor coordination, status reporting and coordination with cross-functional teams
• Release Sprint planning and alignment with enterprise release schedule
• Led the daily stand-up meetings
• Developed milestone reporting template for schedule and scope variance, and delivery prioritization. It helped in improved co-ordination within and across teams
• Process definition for Systems and Test Data Management teams to streamline ETL and test data setup for development and test environments. This helped in reducing redundancy and better configuration control across environments
• Closely worked with the Web Analytics team for designing the Tags on the new web pages and capture of metrics in the Data Warehouse
• Revamped the approach for reverse engineering of system and business requirements from legacy DotNet codebase
• Coordinated with the Architecture, Testing, Production, Analytics and Business teams for reconciling business and system requirements with the existing production TMobile.com system
• Developed the guidelines for test environment management, configuration control and code promotion
• Worked with the Business and Architecture teams to identify and document missing external interfaces
• Supervised the IBM team for load modeling, identifying business transactions and performance test strategy

Client/ Project: Confidential

Role: Project Manager

Technologies: SQL Server, SSAS, SSRS, ASP, C , Team Foundation Server, MPP, SharePoint

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the development and maintenance of a portfolio of six Business Intelligence applications and data warehouse maintenance used by Georgia hospitals for healthcare analytics and regulatory compliance
• Represented IT team in board meetings and weekly status reporting to the CIO and senior business executives
• Defined SCRUM Project Management processes for development, release and rollout of new applications and changes
• Responsible for project lifecycle management, risk, configuration, release and defect management and conducting daily stand-up meetings
• Functional design of Statistical Measures reporting and oversight for UI and Functional changes to the web interface
• SharePoint Administration
• SCRUM process setup on Team Foundation Server

Employer/ Client: Confidential

Role: Project Manager/ Delivery Lead

Technologies: Weblogic J2EE Server, Endeca, Foresee, LoadRunner, MPP, Visio, Oracle, Quality Center, Excel

Responsibilities:

• Led 25 member cross-location development team with bottom-line responsibility for a Confidential B2B E-Commerce implementation for Confidential
• Brought back the project on track with contract re-negotiation and re-schedule of design and development activities to shrink the critical path for the project
• Managed lifecycle activities for the portfolio across three development tracks Core, Fraud, and Digital Marketing SEO
• Supervised, Mentored and trained team members across five different locations, including offshore
• Concurrently managed three projects in online banking and wealth management for Confidential in Confidential

Employer/ Client: Confidential

Role: Performance Test Architect

Technologies: LoadRunner, Silk Performer, Quality Center, Excel

Responsibilities:

• Load modeling
• Performance testing architecture and planning
• Performance test execution using Silk Performer

Employer/ Client: Confidential

Role: Test Architect

Technologies: JBOSS, Oracle, Solaris, SourceForge, Webservices, Abilitec, InfoBase, Digital Impact, LoadRunner, Quality Center, Excel, JMeter, Selenium, Quick Test Pro, Test Director, LoadRunner, SOAP UI

Responsibilities:

• Core team member for Interactive Recognition web service implementation in Agile methodology
• Testing of functionalities for Confidential, solutions for de-duplication, standardization and normalization of data from various sources and its assimilation in the data warehouse
• Test leadership, strategy, planning and execution for a digital marketing platform, a web service development project, CRM data warehouse operations, and performance testing for software and hardware infrastructure
• Implemented changes to testing and release methodology that resulted in over 50 improvement in productivity and reduced overheads in hardware maintenance
• Developed performance test methodology for the web service implementation and nightly data migration jobs by using SOAP UI, PL/SQL and Shell scripts and saved over 100K in licensing cost for automation tools
• Responsible for management of test data and test environments. Validation of data migration infrastructure and code.
• Managed a team of six test engineers to consistently achieve on-time and quality deliverables. Received team awards and formal appreciations for the accomplishments
• Participant in the daily standup meetings and Sprint planning

Employer/ Client: Confidential

Role: Test Project Manager, Software Engineer, Programmer Analyst

Technologies: JBOSS, Weblogic, WebSphere, Oracle, SQL Server, Active Directory, iPlanet, Apache, SharePoint, VC , VB, Solaris, Linux, Win NT, Mainframe, Webservices, Abilitec, InfoBase, Digital Impact, LoadRunner, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Test Director, Excel, PL/SQL,

Responsibilities:

• Project Management and Delivery responsibility for client projects, including budgeting, resource planning and revenue forecasting for the account.
• Offshore and onsite project setup
• Team leadership
• Test management of Confidential recoveries platform for a large credit card provider. Received an award from client.
• First to implement CMMI level 5 for a project at client location, client organization was at level 3
• Test leadership for the infrastructure changes of the enterprise portal for the Treasury Services LOB of a very large retail bank. Managed testing for production rollouts, data migration and system integration of a merger with another bank
• ETL testing and business analytics. Validation of data flow across several enterprise applications
• Development on VC , Install Shield, VB, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell scripting, Java etc.
• CMMI implementations
• Authored Root Cause analysis for issues and leaked defects using Fish Bone Technique and Pareto Analysis
• Active involvement in pre-sales and recruitment activities

CLIENT PROJECTS THROUGH INFOSYS:

1. Confidential

Test Project Manager- Enterprise Applications

• This client assignment involved test leadership for the web applications and data migration for the Confidential. The bank was integrating the Confidential platform as part of its acquisition of Confidential. The scope of the assignment included testing of data migration, system integration, multiple projects for enterprise portal, hardware and software infrastructure changes, production maintenance and implementation testing and disaster recovery testing for a suite of twelve applications.
• Test Project Management
• Test and team leadership for manual and automation testing teams
• Status tracking and reporting to the management, defect management and issue resolution with the stakeholders
• Test planning for Production Verification Testing for software and hardware releases

2. Confidential

Test Project Manager

• Confidential project involved replacement of an existing client server application for Recoveries business at 'Confidential' with a commercial off the shelf web product from Confidential. The new implementation supports 350 concurrent and over 500 occasional online users. It interfaced with over 60 other applications and the platform would generate over Confidential in revenues. Responsibility included test management of Performance and System Integration testing in the implementation and rollout phases. As the application moved into steady state phase, team's responsibilities shifted to overall system testing of the platform for the monthly releases.
• Test Project Management for a portfolio of testing projects
• Team Supervision for System and Performance Testing teams
• Test Strategy, Planning and supervision of Test Execution
• Test Automation
• Implemented the project at CMMI level 5
• Successfully led the test team under a very tight deadline and complex test environment.
• Successfully implemented eight consecutive defect free releases
• Received Performance award from the client

3. Confidential

Test Lead/ Programmer Analyst

• Confidential is a leader in navigation space and was developing a module for their industry leading Confidential products for managing 'Point of Interest' data. Infosys team's responsibility included Quality Assurance leadership for this application. The project scope included study of system requirements, development of test strategy and test plans and manual and automated test execution.
• Project and Team setup at offshore and onsite
• Requirements elicitation
• Team Supervision for System and Performance Testing teams
• Test Strategy, Planning and Supervision of Test Execution
• Test Automation
• Statistical Process Control and Defect Prevention
• CMMI level 5 implementation
• Team reviews and Appraisals

4. Confidential

Onsite Coordinator/ Test Lead/Programmer Analyst

• IdentityMinder and SiteMinder were the industry leading products from Netegrity in the Identity Access Management space. Infosys team provided Engineering support, including, development, testing, platform certification etc. This specific assignment involved Functional Testing, Directory Certification and Test Automation of IdentityMinder. Initiated the project with a 9 member QA team in Confidential and subsequently shifted to client site in Confidential as an Onsite Coordinator for the offshore team. Responsibility included day-to-day coordination between the customer's development team in Confidential.
• Taking customer requirements, coordinating with offshore QA team for timely and quality deliveries and ensuring day-to-day customer satisfaction.
• Development of test strategy and test planning for new releases
• Appreciation and development of test plans for new features
• Modification and review of existing test plans after each major and some minor releases to enhance feature coverage and remove duplication of testing effort
• Test reporting, Bug tracking and review of test results
• Test environment setup and execution of functional and System test plans
• Directory Certification using automation suites and various LDAP products
• Test automation using JUNIT, ANT and Low Level SDK and Web Services interface of the product.
• Issue resolution and setting up of project processes

5. Confidential

Functional Test Lead

• The Confidential product family is an array of flexible software solutions that unify extend and manage the digital campus. It enables institutions of higher education to deliver highly personalized information, Web services and community interaction to every campus constituent, from faculty and students to administration and alumni. Infosys team handled the functional and performance testing for the product.
• Development of test strategy
• Development and modification of test plans
• Test lab set up
• Test Plan Execution: Execution of test plans across supported platforms to ensure functional compliance as per design.
• Test Automation using Rational Test manager.
• Bug verification: verification of fixed bugs across supported platforms.
• Document Reviews: Review of Release Documentation, Operations Manuals and Help Guides.
• Coordination with the maintenance team for test planning
• Internal review of reported bugs
• Compilation of test results, review with individual team members and deliveries to the client
• Assistance to Project Manager in scheduling and task allocation
• Project documentation

6. Confidential

System Test Lead

• Confidential was a Confidential infrastructure company that provided solutions for securely managing and personalizing business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and Intranet portals. Confidential flagship product, SiteMinder, provides companies with a proven, scalable, and reliable platform for centrally securing and managing Confidential portals and their affiliates. Infosys was entrusted upon the task of System testing project of SiteMinder. The project mainly involved system testing of SiteMinder Policy Server on supported platforms.
• Test environment setup
• Imparting system testing training to the team
• Team leadership
• System Test Plan execution
• Test reports to the customer

7. Confidential

Programmer Analyst/ Software Engineer

• The project involved generating reports from the banking database in Oracle 8i using PL/SQL and the reporting module of Finacle. Worked as Developer and Module Lead and responsibilities included
• Requirements analysis
• Generation of reports using PL/SQL Stored Procedures
• Query optimization
• Integration with the Finacle reporting module using Shell scripts and the available C API's.
• Review and performance tuning of scripts
• Customization of Finacle user interface using the Proprietary script engine
• Team Management
• Configuration Management

8. Confidential

Software Engineer

• Confidential is a subsidiary of Confidential software products developed by various military organizations and released them in the market after Rebranding and Commercialization. Confidential outsourced the technical services to Confidential. The products where Infosys was engaged in the commercialization process
• EagleSpeed Real Time Database
• EagleSpeed Configuration Manager
• Khyon Expert System
• Overall responsibilities on this assignment included
• Product appreciation and code study
• Rebranding of products labels and API refactoring
• Code Enhancements
• Development of install scripts
• Testing and Bug fixing

9. Confidential

Software Engineer

• Confidential were the two Products developed by Confidential in the net security domain. Confidential team was responsible for Functional and Usability testing and developing the regression test suites using Silk.
• System Appreciation and Test environment set up
• Test plan execution
• Test Automation using Silk and execution of regression suits
• Test Plan preparation modification
• Bug verification: verification of fixed bugs across supported platforms.
• Daily and weekly reports to the customer
• Assistance to Project Manager in the following activities
• Adherence to project process guidelines
• Development of test plans
• Project Scheduling and task allocation
• Project documentation
• Team coordination
• Defect Triage

10. Confidential

Software Engineer

• Worked on full time Software Engineering training and certification
• Product Engineering
• Computer Hardware System Software
• Unix Shell AWK Scripting
• Oracle Database Fundamentals, SQL, PL/SQL, Data Modeling Design, Entity Relationship Diagrams
• Visual Basic Programming
• C Programming
• SDLC, IT Project Management and Quality Control
• CMMI, Defects Prevention,
• Ecommerce
• J2EE Development and Design
• Design Patterns
• IT Security
• Performance Testing Quality Assurance

Confidential

Deputy Project Head, Engineer

• Business analysis for Advance Process Control software implementation
• Project Management
• Project scheduling with CPM PERT techniques
• Carried out the NPV calculations of process units in a grassroots refinery project for project feasibility study
• Technical and process analysis for refinery units
• Worked in an energy optimization project in the refinery, resulting in ongoing cost savings for the company