PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Outstanding Software professional with over 15 years of 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. Proven experience managing teams to accomplish goals with a wide variety of tools with strong background in system integrations, release engineering and configuration management. 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. 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.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Integrations Architecture and Design
• Technology Assessment and Solutions
• Technical Specifications Development
• Research and Development
• Team and Project Leadership
• Policy and Procedure Development
• Risk Assessment / Impact Analysis
• Contingency Planning

Certifications

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Education

• Master of Business Administration
• Master of Science in Computer Science
• Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering

Professional Experience

Confidential,New York, NY September 2007 to November 2009

Sr Integration Architect – Client Services

Directed and managed technology and enterprise integration projects providing operational leadership, overseeing accounting, consulting, research, human resources, IT, and client management. 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.

Provided guidance, knowledge and expertise for other affiliate and corporate offices, collaborated on initiatives and spearheaded technology initiatives during client calls. Managed scheduled implementation meetings with sales, product management, professional services, business analysts both internal teams and external vendors to track key deliverables.

Key Accomplishments:

• Successfully led overall integration implementation effort for Flow International ERP migration to Microsoft AX 2009. Responsible for enterprise integration architecture, managing integration development, deployment.
• Successfully implemented GIS mapping server integration project with The City of Lansing police department enterprise data to support a business intelligent effort as a part of decision support systems implementation.
• Directed and managed all phases of implementation of iway integration solution at Haggen Inc, operates grocery stores in pacific North West. Led a team of architects, and engineers to architect, design the solution and implement price optimization, top loyalty web service interface, and HQ to KSS and RDS projects.
• Interfaced with account management, executive management and technical teams at Haggen to negotiate the project requirements and level of estimates, and budget for the entire project. Managed and directed resources of Peacom, iWay partner company which developed integration solution. Provided project management and budget status on weekly basis to executive, and account management teams to make timely decisions to ensure successful delivery of the project. The team successfully implemented and deployed integrations into production as part of phase I implementation.
• Implemented KeHe Food distributor’s integration solution with various modules of JD Edwards to LDES, KeHe’s legacy system. Managed complete development life cycle including requirement management, design, development, testing and deployment phases. Developed 15 channels that included JD Edwards sales, PO, invoice, customer, inventory, A/P, A/R, and EDI (810, 850, 860) modules.

Successfully completed Kendall Jackson integration initiative to exchange messages between WinLux JD Edwards enterprise system and warehouse management system. Being part of integration team architected, designed and developed WMS to Cheetah, a delivery tracking management software. Developed channels to integrate real time delivery, route planning, route export, item status, ETA and confirmation services based on the order input from various clients.

Confidential,Denver, CO March 2007 to August 2007

Technical Manager (Software Projects)

Managed technology projects defining technical scope, objectives, resource allocation, software development initiatives, assumed responsibility for all aspects of project leadership ranging from the definition of user requirements to overall project administration with emphasis on project scheduling, tracking project progress, resource allocation, milestones, tasks, issues and action items. Also, managed various external and internal stakeholders, and vendors to deliver software with excellent quality and within time & budget.

Key Accomplishments:

• Successfully initiated multi-tier portal development project from project initiation. 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.
• Managed and led data migration effort of external interfaces of the various applications to Facets application from legacy systems. Also engaged in managing the discovery and requirement phase to identify the scope and leading development initiatives by interacting with the business users within Great-west and external vendors. Also interfaced with external clients in various problem domains to manage data migration related to healthcare services provided by them.

Confidential,Denver, CO February 2005 to March 2007
Software Integrations Manager
Managed all aspects of complex projects defining technical scope, objectives and ensuring all resources are effectively utilized. In support of the software development initiatives, assumed responsibility for all aspects of project leadership ranging from the definition of user requirements to overall project administration with emphasis on project scheduling, tracking project progress, resource allocation, milestones, tasks, issues and action items. Also evaluated, managed risks, and resolved multiple issues while keeping customers/users abreast of project status with project reporting and documentation.

Key Accomplishments:

• Successfully helped the team to migrate existing webMethods 4.6 software to the latest architecture and webMethods 6.5 toolset for integration platform within the production services, development and testing groups. Coordinated testing efforts at various levels of development and interacted with QA teams, product owners, internal users and external consulting firms to deliver software solutions to meet requirements.
• Saved $500,000 dollars per year in revenues by leading team to design, review, create, test, and implement integration solution using webMethods 6.X to automate trouble ticket alert control system with remedy A/R system. Also coordinated automation effort of configuration management process and deployment process to release frequent and periodic builds successfully.
• Successfully led a project to re-architect, and re-factor existing TN administration module to integrate with customer account management and procurement systems using web services, and SOA architecture. Also managed successful delivery and deployment of integration solution using latest middleware EAI toolset by a team of software engineers and consultants to integrate AMOF (In-house built ERP system) with Billing and workflow systems within the company to support national operations center using latest agile development methodologies.
• As a part of the team, 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. All software projects developed using iterative, interactive, and incremental process of scrum agile development methodology to manage and control work.
• Standardized development life cycle process by proactively taking action to develop an integration methodology exclusively used for middleware ESB integrations development. This methodology maintained consistent architecture throughout the software development organization. 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.
• Led tier-3 support activities associated with middleware integrations environments that use primarily various versions of middleware to support real time integrations in place with AMOF (CPO, CAM, and CPM), Billing and workflow systems within the company.

Confidential,Denver, CO January 2001 to February 2005

Principal Software Engineer/Project Manager

Organized and led efforts to design, develop and implement targeted technology solutions. Designed effective business processes and managed day to day activities of activity planning, scheduling and resource allocation.
As the integrations team project manager, led software development team and was primarily responsible for managing all project activities including schedule development, project milestones, and documentation deliverables in support of various stakeholders’ requirements. Also was responsibilities for collaborating with all project stakeholders, attending project meetings, developing presentations, and tracking project progress. Tracked progress, reported project status, defined processes, standards, and project budget. In this role, developed cost, schedule, and technical performance requirements.

Key Accomplishments:

• Successfully 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. Also, delivered multiple projects to develop integration solution using webMethods with Siebel, Ariba, and MH2 third-party software with JD Edward modules to increase the product marketability, which significantly improved overall sales.
• Successfully led the offshore development team to develop integration solution using both versions of webMethods (4.6 and 6.X) with various modules in JD Edwards enterprise software saving over $1,500,000 a year. Successfully completed requirements gathering, refined them, and designed prototype with wide range of extensibility and flexibility to satisfy all requirements.
• Successfully led the team to customize Siebel and Ariba tools to meet the requirements of JD Edwards’s customers as the software is packaged with JD Edwards’s enterprise software.
• Standardized multiple source control systems and build methodologies for integrations team code base with Star Base 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.
• Established proprietary integration methodology derived from webMethod’s GEAR standard. This methodology 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%.

Confidential,Greenwood Village, CO July 2000 to January 2001

Senior Consultant/Project Manager

• Successfully led the project as technical project manager to deliver BtoC e-commerce web reporting solution to eBags Inc. The project involved coordinating with clients to gather requirements, develop software solution, installation and customization of broadbase server, analytical OLAP server.

Confidential,Denver, CO July 1998 to July 2000

Lead Software Engineer

• Led a team of programmers that designed and developed a database archiving module for capacity analysis and planning tool for corporate planning, forecasting, and scheduling telecommunications inventory.
• As a primary contact for modeling environment collected and documented requirements from clients to customize capacity analysis-planning tool. Also, evaluated hardware, software and database requirements for the software development team.

Confidential,Dallas, TX May 1997 to July 1998

Professional Services Consultant

• As a part of Latin American operations extensively traveled to client on-site facilities in Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Caribbean Islands to Implement, Customize various financial banking client server products designed to fulfill wide range of credit/debit card transaction processing needs, network controller that provided an interface between the POS terminals and omnihost server through a LAN/WAN.
• Successfully led a team to develop and deliver a debit reconciliation module for Bank of America Merchant Services system to reconcile the debit transactions on daily basis with respect to the raw data files received from various Debit networks.

Confidential,Hyderabad, INDIA September 1991 to December 1995

Management Representative – ISO 9000

• 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.

Technical Skills Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, Perl, e-Script Operating Systems:

UNIX (Sun OS 4.1, Solaris 2.5), Windows, MAC OS, Novell

Database Systems:

Oracle, Sybase, Tera data, UDB, SQL Server 2005, 2008

OO Design:

UML using Borland’s Control Center, Object Modeling Technique (Rumbaugh Methodology), with Rational Rose software.

GUI Tools:

Siebel™ , Ariba®, Oracle Forms 4.5, Oracle Reports 2.5, Visual Basic 4.0, Power Builder 4.0, Macromedia

Case Tools: StarTeam, CaliberRM, PVCS, ClearCase, Visual Source Safe`, subversion, Configuration Management 1.0 (Information Engineering Facility), CVS Developmental Tools: Eclipse, WSADIE 5.0, WebMethods Developer, Integration Server, JDeveloper, Extended Process Integration (XPIe), MS Visual Studio .Net Framework Development Methodologies Agile Development Methodology (XP & Scrum), Iterative Development Methodology, Release Process Model, RUP ERP Software: JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, AMOF (Time Warner In-house built), Microsoft Dynamics 2009 EAI/Integration Tools: iWay, WebMethods 6.X (Fabric), WebMethods 4.5, Active Works 2.0, Web Services, SOA, XML, DTD Architect