PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

AGILE PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER

• Lead complex technical project teams and manage on - time delivery
• Oversee a companywide program focusing on a workplace transformation
• Work alongside HR and facilities to implement new strategies and initiatives
• Gather data from employees, consultants, vendors and other contributors to determine value adds
• Lead the development, delivery, and management of key strategic business initiatives leveraging limited cross-functional team resources and budget to meet business needs and targets
• Act as main liaison between leadership and the IT groups
• Work with third party vendors and act as liaison between vendor and client
• Identify risks and issues effecting both tactical work streams and strategies at the program level. Develop mitigation strategies and effectively articulate strategies to effected parties including all stakeholders and program senior leadership

AGILE PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules to include tasks, responsible and participating parties, deadlines, and milestones.
• Document and communicate objectives, plans, status, issues and risks to project participants. Help in mitigating and managing risks.
• Migrate traditional teams to SAFe Framework using agile principles. Implement training programs to bridge the knowledge gap.
• Implement end to end requirements traceability for portfolio management.
• Organize release trains at executive, product and development layers of the organization, and implement end to end requirement traceability process.
• Lead training programs in the department for ASPICE/ISO compliance processes and have successfully implemented the processes.
• Build dashboards using eazyBI to report quality, status and roadmap information to executive leadership.
• Continually look for opportunities to improve current processes and approaches to project management, and drive the implementation of these changes.
• Work/interact directly with all internal departments to execute the product cycle (R&D, DMO, Quality)
• Establish and ensure metric based continuous quality improvement. Partner with all levels of the organization in developing new metrics and/or improving existing metrics.
• Maintain and Enhance processes for communicating metrics to management and BUs. Proactively deliver metrics and metric utilization as related to department goals or projects.

PROJECT MAAGER /PRODUCT OWNER

• Manage stakeholder requirements and expectations in accordance with the scope of work
• Lead Steering Committee meetings to provide program/project updates to senior leadership
• Manage issue and exception reporting for all project tracks
• Lead system analysis, design, integration, documentation requirements
• Lead requirements gathering sessions for the entire project
• Lead effort for the completion of all Functional/Technical Design Documents
• Manage product backlog and facilitate Iteration Planning Meetings
• Facilitate Retrospective meetings
• Gatekeeper/Manager of all new project requests from PMO and all other product owners
• Manage requirements solicitation, documentation, testing and tracking throughout project life cycle
• Capacity, resource and metrics planning to internal stakeholders.
• Coach and mentor integrated onshore/offshore team, aid and influence positive team culture
• Communicate estimates, actuals and forecasts to corporate PMO
• Business/development process improvements

SOFTWARE LEAD

• Designed, developed and enhanced the GeoMatch geocoder.
• Engaged in architectural discussions surrounding the GeoMatch and its web service interface, Simple Location Service (SimpleLS), which is deployed in jBoss 4 using Spring Web Services
• Redesigned and performance-optimized GeoMatch and XGC (the Oracle database component of GeoMatch) to accommodate a need for multilingual searches.
• Procided training to customers within NAVTEQ on the use of GeoMatch.
• Supported multiple versions of geomatch software across the organization for mutiple user groups.
• Used Spring Batch to design a batch geocoder that consumes input records from a flat file and creates output and reports as flat files.

Environment: Java 1.5, XML, SOAP, Spring Batch, JBOSS, eclipse 3.3.2, IBM Rational ClearCase

Confidential

SR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / LEAD

• Involved in System requirement gathering, design, development, deployment and maintenance phases.
• Designed OBNA and IVS system Architectures and created necessary documentation (SRS, SAD and SDD) as for Navteq’s internal software review procedure.
• Coordinated weekly review sessions with developers to monitor development status.
• Participated in weekly Working Group Meetings with VII Consortium and development teams of other Private Service providers to co-ordinate project development effort.
• Created and maintained development, Integration and Production environments for Web Logic Server and used IBM ClearCase for Source control and change management.
• Implemented application security through certificates using AXIS ramparts to communicate with Advisory Message Distribution Service using web services.
• Installed, Responsible for design, development and delivery of Off-Board Navigation system and In-Vehicle signage software for VII (Vehicle Infrastructure Integration) project of Michigan Department of Transportation. Provided configured and maintained deCarta Geo mobility software instance (web services and DDS) to process routing, geo coding and map generation requests.
• Participated in a rigorous On-Road testing to confirm the timely message delivery and message hand off between multiple RSEs (Road Side Equipment).
• Both IVS and OBNA Applications were show cased in ITS World Congress - 07

Environment: Java 1.5, JSP, Servlets, XML, SOAP, HTML, Struts, BEA WebLogic 9.2, eclipse 3.3.2, IBM Rational ClearCase, AXIS, deCarta DDS.

SR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

• Designed and developed interface using JSP and HTML to store patient information in repository and register all the documents to the registry.
• Designed connectR profiles to accept messages and convert them to HL7 format before sending them to the registry.
• Implemented Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with web technologies to reduce the complexity and accommodate better interoperability and modularity.
• Implemented struts framework to code the business logic using tiles. Manage sessions to communicate patient context between tiles and pages.
• Used SOAP calls to connect, communicate and query the data from CMC a third-party service provider, where the XDS registry is located.
• Designed XSLT style sheets to display XML medical document. A separate style sheet is selected dynamically depending on the source of the XML medical summary.

Environment: Oracle 9i, Java, J2EE (JSP, Servlets, XML), SOAP, HTML, Struts with Tiles, Apache Tomcat, eclipse, XSLT, ConnectR, HL7, PVCS.

SR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

• Design and Creation of EUSD database to store transaction details, EUSD rules, account information, IDC Security Information using process (DFD) and data models(ER-Diagrams) in Oracle 9i.
• Design and Development of a daily process to create end of day transactions XML extract file for each client using Java and XML.
• Development of a process to store information from an existing Converg - e end of day SMF extract file in the EUSD database.
• Design and Development of business logic to load daily account files, match end of day securities information with IDC data and determine reportable securities and transactions using UNIX Shell scripts and WSAD.
• Development of stored procedures and functions in PL/SQL calculate the withholding tax amount by determining the scope of each transaction depending on the if transaction is an Interest Payment, Money market or Corporate Action.
• Development of Web Transaction, Security and Account Entry system using Java Beans and Servlets. The screens are designed using JSP.
• Participated in User review meetings and used Test Director 8.0 to periodically log the development issues, production problems and bugs.

Environment: Oracle 9i, Java, J2EE (EJB, JSP, Servlets, XML), Web Sphere 5.1, WSAD, UNIX (Shell Scripting and Auto-sys Scheduling), XSLT, XPATH, LDAP, Test Director 8.0, Windows 2000.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Feasibility Analysis, and creating Status Reports using MS Project.
• Designed Database by creating Data Flow Diagram (Process Model) and ER Diagram (Data Model).
• Developed class diagrams, flow charts, Use cases, sequence diagrams using Rational Rose tools.
• Configured Weblogic server 7.5 to create a local environment of the application. Used Weblogic to deploy jar and ear files.
• Designed and developed several middle-tier components to implement the Business rules in different Tiers - Data access Tier components, Processing components (business rules) and user interface components to access developed method and properties.

Environment: Oracle 8, DB2, Java, J2EE (EJB, JSP, Servlets, XML), SOAP, Weblogic 7.5, WBIMB 5.0, MQSI, Crystal Reports 8, Server Controls, Web Services, HTML, DOM, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XSLT, XPATH, LDAP, Windows 2000.