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Sr Integration Architect Resume

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Objective

Seeking a Software Development Management, Enterprise Architect, Integration Architect, Technical Account Management or Business Development Position with an organization focused on providing IT products and services.

Profile

Seshu has over 15 years of outstanding Software professional experience with ability to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating, and guiding teams including large multi-disciplinary teams located in multiple locations and offshore. Currently employed as a Director of Systems Integration and client services at a company that manages over $1 Billion USD with his primary responsibility is to manage the software development and integration implementations with various enterprise clients. He had proven experience managing teams to accomplish goals with a wide variety of tools with strong background in system integrations, release engineering and configuration management. Also an innovative software professional with notable success in software development initiatives with proven ability addressing business initiatives by leveraging technology, while managing risk and controlling costs to participate in planning, analysis, and implementation of solutions in support of business objectives. Seshu is proficient at providing comprehensive integration design, system analysis, and full life-cycle project management. Hands-on experience leading all stages of software development efforts, including requirements definition, design, architecture, testing, and support, along with good understanding of variety of technologies, building and maintaining excellent client, vendor, and employee relationships.

Project and Solutions Management
  • Over 15 years of industry experience in implementing software development and enterprise integration projects in various industry segments including Telecommunications, Food Processing and Grocery Distribution, Winery and Distribution, Industrial Fabrication and Automation, Consumer Packaging, Retail, and Manufacturing industries
  • Over 8 years of project management, implementation experience and post-sales consulting in enterprise integration
  • Worked in a multicultural team environment with team members from different parts of the world
  • Managed software development and integration projects up to ~5 Million USD including project plans, budgets, scope, time and resources
  • Liaison between client Executive management, Project team and Business Development
  • Coordinated with various teams and resources from internal and external vendors to ensure the seamless delivery of solutions to enterprise clients
  • Led software development efforts to manage all project activities including schedule development, project milestones, and documentation deliverables in support of various stakeholders’ requirements.
  • High level of competency in using Microsoft Project Management Tool
Implementation Management
  • Successfully led overall integration implementation effort for various clients with responsible for enterprise integration architecture, managing integration development, deployment.
  • Directed and managed all phases of implementation of iway integration solution at Haggen Inc, operates grocery stores in pacific North West.
  • Successfully completed Kendall Jackson integration initiative to exchange messages between JD Edwards enterprise system and warehouse management system. Being part of integration team architected, designed and developed delivery tracking management software to integrate real time delivery, route planning, route export, item status, ETA and confirmation services based on the order input from various clients.
  • Led the integration of PeopleSoft Supplier Relationship Management, Customer Relationship Management, and e-Procurement modules with JD Edwards’s enterprise software to add value to the existing and prospective customers using extended process integration. Delivered multiple projects using webMethods with Siebel, Ariba, and MH2 third-party software with JD Edward modules to increase the product marketability, which significantly improved overall sales.
  • Evaluated and coordinated efforts to establish agile development methodology with scrum flavor for the integration software development team. Interacted with Rally’s, a third party vendor to introduce their project management tools for agile development methodology.
  • Successfully led the project to deliver BtoC e-commerce web reporting solution to eBags Inc.
  • Worked closely with customers in prioritizing, channeling, resolving and escalating product issues
Product Management
  • Directed and managed all phases of software integration solution development by leading a team of managers, architects, project managers and engineers to build the solution
  • Managed and directed resources of 3rd party partners that provided on-site and off-shore product development efforts.
  • Managed complete development life cycle defining technical scope, objectives, resource allocation, software development initiatives including requirement management, design, development, testing and deployment phases.
  • Coordinated automation effort of configuration management process and deployment process to release frequent and periodic builds successfully.
  • Standardized development life cycle process and established proprietary integration methodology which was adopted by various software development teams within the organization and mentored technical leads with the processes that reduced standard implementation timeline by 60% and increased team development output by 40%.
  • Interfaced with business users, vendors and users to define high level scope, and level of estimation. Identified resources for the entire project and conducted JAD sessions to define and finalize requirements with various stakeholders within the project team.
  • Interacted, evaluated, and provided recommendations for various third-party vendor tools such as webMethods, SONIC, WebLogic, subversion, and mySQL, Xplanner to be used for creating software development and integration solutions.
Business Management
  • Interfaced with account management, executive management and technical teams to negotiate the project requirements and level of estimates, and budget for the entire project. Also developed proposals as part of project scope and estimation activities
  • Provided project management and budget status on regular basis to executive, and account management teams to make timely decisions to ensure successful delivery of the project.
  • Responsible for collaborating with all project stakeholders, attending project meetings, developing presentations, and tracking project progress.
  • Managed implementation meetings with sales, product management, professional services, business analysts both internal teams and external vendors to track key deliverables.
  • Demonstrated proven ability to identify, analyze and solve problems while meeting business objectives and responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, sales forecasting and alignment of goals to corporate initiatives.
  • Managed various external and internal stakeholders, and vendors to deliver software with excellent quality and within time & budget.
  • Managed software and integration development teams up to a size of 35 resources. Responsible for hiring new employees and manage their career path and training needs
  • Responsible for annual target revenue up to $5 M with an outstanding entrepreneurial skills, excellent oral, written, analytical, organizational and presentation skills
  • Saved $500,000 dollars per year in revenues by leading team to design, review, create, test, and implement integration solution to automate trouble ticket alert control system with remedy A/R system.
  • Standardized multiple source control systems and build methodologies for integrations team code base with StarTeam, saving $600,000 a year.
  • Automated build request, build generation, and install process for 10 development teams, allowing all teams to have on-demand access to builds from reproducible source.
  • Liaison with BVQI, an ISO 9000 (international organization for standardization) certification agency to design, develop, specify and review quality management systems and procedures to oversee the production of a product or service developed.
Skills Summary
  • Project Charter Creation, Proposal Creation and Presentations to C level Executives.
  • Expertise in Project Management ( PMP Certified, Microsoft Project Management Tool)
  • Business Development (Estimating , Selling Project services, and generating additional business to the company)
  • Experience with Enterprise Software Modules (JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, AMOF, Microsoft Dynamics 2009)
  • Business Process Consulting (Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Financials, Workflow)
  • Software Development Expertise (C, C++, Java, Pro C, PL/SQL, Java, HTML, Perl, .Net Technologies)
  • Integration of all flavors of Enterprise Software with industry standard integration tools, and methodologies using iWay Integration Tool set, WebMethods, TIBCO, XPIe, Jitterbit, Mirth, SOA,Web Services and EAI
  • Web Application development (using Net 3.0, C#, ASP.net, MS-SQL 2005, 2008)
  • Exposure to various Software Development methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, Iterative Development, Release Process Model and RUP methodology
  • Expertise in case tools (StarTeam, CaliberRM, PVCS, ClearCase, Visual Source Safe`, subversion)
  • Hands on Experience with Developmental tools (Eclipse, WSADIE 5.0, JDeveloper, MS Visual Studio)
  • Exposure to various databases (Oracle, Sybase, Tera data, UDB, SQL Server 2005, 2008)
Career History
  • Confidential,Sr. Integration Architect (Sep 2007 thru Oct 2009)
  • Confidential,Consulting Technical Manager (Mar 2007 thru Sep 2007)
  • Confidential,Enterprise Integrations Manager (Feb 2005 thru Mar 2007)
  • Confidential,Project Manager (Feb 2004 thru Feb 2005)
  • Confidential,Principal Software Engineer (Jan 2001 thru Feb 2004)
  • Confidential,Project Manager (July 2000 thru Jan 2001)
  • Confidential,Lead Software Engineer (July 1998 thru July 2000)
Certifications and Memberships
  • PMP Certified – Professional Management Institute, 2005
  • Member of the PMI Institute
Education
  • Master of Computer Engineering and Technology
  • Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering
Recognition and Awards
  • Client awards for successfully managing enterprise integration implementations -2008-09
  • Company sponsored MBA program at JD Edwards - 2002
  • Promoted to Management role from the Technical Career Path at JD Edwards – 2001
  • Outstanding Team Contributor Award – US West, 1998
  • Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Teaching Assistant and Research Fellow, University Of North Texas, 1995
Presentations Given
  • “Integration Development Methodology” presentation at various client sites, 2005-09
  • Weekly project presentations to executive management, (On-going)
  • Enterprise Integration Architecture and Product Demonstrations to ‘C’ level Executives, 2008-09

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