SUMMARY:

• Senior Information Technology Leader with strategic, operations, development and change management experience.
• Accelerates organization performance by defining strategies that align IT with the business, and driving large scale program implementations, technology integration, involving cross - functional, multi-vendor, multi-continent teams. Collaborative business partner who builds, trains, and motivates highly successful teams and leaders to exceed customer expectations.
• 18+ years experience defining, designing, developing and implementing software systems/solutions for clients in Financial Services and Healthcare domain.
• Extensive hands on experience in object oriented analysis and design, open frameworks, application development using legacy and modern frameworks.
• Experience in architecture, application integration using SOA, REST, microservices, middleware technologies
• Knowledge of technology planning, technology roadmap and infrastructure development
• Provide mentoring and guidance on technical and architectural direction, methodology.
• Extensive project/program management experience, leading cross functional teams to successful delivery
• Experienced agile transformation coach, transforming projects, teams, and organizations from waterfall to agile methodologies while working with distributed teams
• Excellent understanding of agile development and delivery techniques - Continuous Delivery, Continuous integration, Behavior Driven Development, Automation, Delivery Pipeline
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both oral and written Specialties & Interests: Emerging technologies, Digital Architecture (Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Concepts: Program Management, Project Management, Strategy and Planning, Solution Architecture and Design, Software Development, Budgeting & Financial Management, Analysis and problem solving, Re-engineering, Systems Consolidation/Migration, Cross Functional Team Leadership

Software Development Methodologies: Agile, SCRUM, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), DevOps, TDD, BDD, SEI CMMi, PMBOK, PMP

Technical: J2EE, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Ruby, Selenium, Cucumber, Meteor, SOA, .Net, Node.js, Big Data, Web Services (SOAP, REST, Micro Services ), Mongo DB, SQL, Oracle

Tools: MS Office, MS Project, JIRA, Clarity, Share Point, Confluence

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Currently managing a project to migrate broker applications to new digital platform utilizing latest technologies (Node.JS, Spring, Mongo DB, MicroServices, Bamboo, GIT). The project is also being executed in Agile methodology and tools (CI/CD, TDD, BDD, JIRA).
• Managed consolidation and migration of legacy systems to state of the art enterprise platform. This project resulted in unified end user experience plus cost saves for business.
• Led various projects (3 MM+) in the Broker domain area in support various organization level initiatives.
• Led cross functional teams; monitored and managed project budgets, provided coaching and mentoring, supervised delivery, implemented stronger quality control methods.

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Claims Migration program for government business in order to allow BCBS-MN to comply with federal and state requirements, enable new functionality to meet growing demands of marketplace.
• Lead liaison responsible for bridging BCBSMN, TMG. Collaborate & Co-ordinate with internal and external entities involved in the program
• Led teams spread across geographies; monitored and managed project budgets, provided coaching and mentoring, supervised global delivery, implemented stronger quality control methods.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 15 members and 28 cross commit teams to deliver $2.5MM+; SharePoint 2010 based Collaboration solution for Advisor and their clients. This enabled Advisors to increase customer touch points; resulting in increased client satisfaction and revenue. As part of this initiative championed developing a custom solution for SSO in absence of a standard solution
• Led 4 application teams to complete data migration from the systems of the entity acquired by Ameriprise in a timely manner. The total effort included identification, scrubbing and migrating data of ~ 500K clients. This was a time critical activity due to legal aspects of acquisition
• Managed a CRM product module implementation involving multiple teams resulting in better utilization of marketing $$s

Technical Lead/Project Manager consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead for J2EE project to develop insurance premium financing application. Directly managed efforts of 4 onsite and 15 offshore resources to deliver quality solutions in timely manner. Architected and designed complex modules. Provided innovative solutions to business needs; once such solution resulted in increased performance of print jobs by 500%
• Conceptualized the idea of Knowledge Management Tool and led a team of 5 to implement the solution. This application provided a platform for collaboration between the onsite and offshore teams; and resulted in increased efficiency and productivity of the teams

Sr. Software Engineer consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led team of developers to implement various applications/modules - Credit protection system, I18N enabling EBPP product, Auto Yard Management system, Artifact Tracking system
• Led an effort to identify and customize/enhance open source artifact tracking application; this saved the effort of developing the application in-house
• Lead Programmer for Resource Tracking and Proposal Profitability applications.

Software Engineer consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead Programmer for various projects in mainframe and client server technology; involved in application development from analysis to testing; providing on call support.
• Suggested and implemented a solution which reduced the cycle time of nightly batch cycle by parallel processing of data (net reduction by 1 hour)