A persistent problem solver by applying analytical, design and technical skills with effective hands-on .Net Developer specialized in Object-Oriented Design and analysis with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including requirements definition, prototyping, proof of concept, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance. Specialized in VB to .Net migration projects.

Executive Summary:

• 7 ½ Years of extensive hands on IT experience in Microsoft and related tools and technologies
• Multi-skilled and has played a wide array of roles like Project Lead, Architect, Designer, Sr. Developer , Developer
• Skilled in interacting effectively with Customer Business Management, and Information Technology Management teams.
• Worked with different types of business software applications like Web Applications (intranet and internet), Windows Applications, Web Services, Portals, Database Programming & Integrations, Background Processing Operations, Systems Developments, Integrations and Upgrades.
• Expertise in .NET 4/3.5/2.0/1.0, VB, C#, ASP.NET, WCF, WPF,VB/COM MOSS 2007 / Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath Forms, MS SQL Server – 2000/2005/2008, SSIS, T-SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, XML, Visual Studio 2010/2008/2005, VSS, OOP/OOD, MS Patterns & Practices, ASP, VB, IIS, LDAP, Active Directory, Single Sign-On (SSO) and related tools & technologies.
• Experienced in ETL process using SQL Server Integration Services[SSIS] and SQL Server Reporting Services [SSRS].
• Experienced in Design and Implementation of Application based on Smart Client Architecture, Web Client Software Factory.
• Lead to resolve the technical issues. Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems in applications, databases and systems. Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications. Ability to grasp client’s vision quickly.
• Managed competing priorities efficiently and ability to multi-task. Ability to take ownership and to work well under pressure to achieve deadlines. Proven track record of delivering projects on time.
• Delivered results in on-shore, off-shore & multi-vendor projects development and delivery environments.
• Demonstrated performance in individual as well as in team environments. Flexible and adaptive as per project needs. Experienced in managing projects and leading teams as Technical/Team Lead.
• Six sigma Green belt certified and have experience in creating new process based on DFSS
• ITIL V3 Certified and have expertise in implementing Incident and Change Mgmt Process.

Key Skills:

Certifications:

• Six sigma Green belt
• ITIL V3 – Foundation Certified

Education:

Bachelor in Information Technology

Work Experience:
Executed more than 35 Projects and would like to highlight a few critical projects below.

Client: Confidential, Feb 2011 - Till Date

Project Description:
One of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The Company’s products are sold in over 150 countries and territories. For fiscal 2010, net sales were $7.8 billion and net earnings were $478 million. With 13 Manufacturing factories in 5 countries, 8 principle R&D facilities and many retail stores all over the world, Estee Lauder is one if the leading FORTUNE 500 companies ranked fifth among U.S. Household and Personal Products companies nationwide.

Migration of LegacyMicrosoft based applicationsto the latest .Net technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Migrate Legacy VB based applications to VB.Net based Winforms and Web applications.
• Execute implementation through planning, design, development, UAT, and deployment and enhancements to applications
• Discussions with the product architects and interaction with the end customers to provide business solutions.
• Coordinate and perform in-depth tests, including end-user reviews, for modified and new systems

Used: Oracle 8i/11i, VB.Net, WPF, WCF, Crystal Reports , COM+

Employer: Confidential, Duration: 2004 – Feb 2011
Client: Confidential,

Client Info:
Confidential, is a global leader in providing customers with high-performance specialty materials, including fluorine products; specialty films and additives; advanced fibres and composites; intermediates; specialty chemicals; electronic materials and chemicals; and technologies and materials for petroleum refining.
With research and development facilities around the world, including labs in Germany, New York, California and Shanghai, Honeywell Specialty Materials is on the cutting edge in several sectors of the chemical and high-performance materials industry. Based in Morristown, New Jersey, the business has approximately 10,000 employees and more than 50 manufacturing facilities worldwide. The business serves diverse market segments including automotive, healthcare, agricultural, electronic and food packaging, polymers/plastics, personal care, air conditioning and refrigeration, security coding, lubricants, paper and packaging, semiconductor, industrial and consumer power tools, paints and coatings, commercial and residential carpet, as well as body and vehicle protection.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an Architect in designing the Application and Creating Interfaces between the web application and the ERP system SAP.
• Implemented the application using the Common Application Data blocks (CAB) architecture
• Developed enhanced reporting using Crystal reports.
• Crated a very Robust Web service based Interface and provided various options in the application for error reporting and debugging.

Used: SQL Server 2005, ASP.Net, WCF, WPF, C#, Crystal Reports

Confidential,
Project: CCM Sales Standardization 2009

A Sales Standardization and Deployment initiative has been launched in the UOP CAS business to help meet/exceed Plan by providing support, analyses, training, and sales tools. A key enabler is the Pivotal CRM tool, CCM. The Project was to implement an Optimized Sales process containing Opportunity Management, Proposal Management, Customer contact Management using the Pivotal CRM system, CCM.

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implement the sales process using the Pivotal CRM system
• Work closely with Business representatives to understand the Business needs and translated the requirements to create an optimized sales process to improve the sales process using CCM.
• Provided and User Training and Warranty support for the application.
• Created Office Addins for MS Outlook to perform various business functions thru MS outlook using the web services.

Used: SQL Server 2005, Pivotal CRM 5.9, Office tools, visual studio tools for office

Confidential, 2008 -2009
Project: Data Centre Rationalization

Honeywell Specialty Materials had many small Data Centres in the various locations and Honeywell wanted to consolidate the Data Centres in two primary locations one in Data Centre East and Data Centre West.

Responsibilities:

• Identify servers that needed to be upgraded/migrated/decommissioned.
• Identify potential candidates for VMware and setup VMware environments for Windows servers
• Consolidate the SQL server and Oracle Database servers in a huge cluster to optimize the storage and enable failover
• Upgrade ASP, .Net based web applications to latest versions
• Upgrade SQL server 2000 packages to SQL Server 2005 packages

Used: SQL Server 2000/2005, .Net 2.0, 3.5, ASP, Office tools, Visual Studio IDE

Confidential, 2007 – 2008
Project: Nexus Web Implementation

The Nexus program is designed to work as a stand-alone program or in conjunction with the facility’s established manufacturing execution system (MES). Information from the facility’s MES is communicated to Nexus through a “middleware” application. The application is used in the sites Spokane, Santa Clara, Seelze, Fombell, HEC (Mansfield, Chandler, Bryan and EC), Singapore and Korea for generation of Certificate of Analysis (COA). The Nexus System is now being accessed using the Citrix Interface. Honeywell Specialty Materials would like to implement a web front end for some modules of the Nexus application. The system will allow valid users to login to the system, and generate a COA for the selected specification, sample and customer details. The users can view the generated COA and can also manage them. The users can also generate an electronic COA (ECOA) for the configured customer and can also generate a few other pre-defined reports.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the front end UI designing/ server side coding
• Developed the business and data layer classes for application functionality.
• Implemented Prototype JavaScript Client validations for cross-browser compliance.
• COA based HTML reports using XSLT.
• Implemented the logs for automation & scheduling of Jobs.
• Designed and developed SAP Interfaces using the SQL Server Integration Services Packages.

Used: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Business intelligence Studio, ASP.Net, WCF, VB.Net, VB 6.0.

Confidential,
Project: Lactam Transfer Tracking 2008

Honeywell Resins and Chemicals needed a web based application to track the inventory movement between the Manufacturing plants and to improve the storage location details for the intermediate goods in SAP. This requirement called for a ASP.Net, VB.Net based web solution which has a interface to the SAP MM module.

Responsibilities:

• Designed a web application to track the inventory movement between the Manufacturing plants.
• Designed and implemented the requirements from the business for daily reports that would help the plant users maintain the daily cycle.
• Worked closely with the business users to understand the current pain points in maintaining the latest data in SAP and designed a robust SAP Middleware using WCF.

Used: ASP.Net, VB.Net, SQL Server 2005, WCF

Confidential, 2007 – 2008
Project: OverTime Meal Ticket System

The Overtime Meal Ticket Tracker is a web based application designed for Honeywell Specialty Materials. The system will allow valid users to login to the system. Based on the type of the user (Guard, Cash Custodian and Admin) they are allowed to perform various operations. The Guard will issue the Meal Tickets and also generate balance report during the shift change. The Cash Custodian will replenish money to guard by running the Cash Replenishment report. The Cash Custodian will also reimburse money from finance by running the Cash Reimbursement report The Admin can create/remove/modify users and also revert entries.

Responsibilities:

• Estimate and Plan the work, Translate Requirements
• Interacting with the stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
• Design and Development of the web application
• Creating the interface using Windows Services based HR system Kronos and the .Net application

Used: ASP.Net, VB.Net, SQL Server 2005, Windows Service

Confidential, 2005 – 2006
Project: Specialty Materials Maintenance and Support

The project is a maintenance projects were we maintain and support 70 odd applications. Applications are from different technologies. This project aims at providing SLA based support/solutions for all the Applications in Honeywell SM and handle the Maintenance/Change Requests for the same.

Responsibilities:

• Providing application support for critical applications.
• Working on Enhancements and change request in various Microsoft based applications
• Creating Test case and Test plan for Change requests
• Performing Unit Testing , System Testing and Integration Testing

Used: Oracle 8i, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, ASP.Net, VB.Net, Java, JSP

Confidential, 2004 – 2005
Project: LIMS Log

Honeywell lab technicians test various samples (typically grouped as jobs) in the lab. A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is required to track the projects they test and the tests they perform using different techniques. LIMS web application will track all the details and reports can be generated.
Lab Analysts can enter the testing details. Job is the analytical work done which will be entered into LIMS web application. A job may have one or multiple samples. Testing will be conducted on the samples using different testing techniques. The different testing techniques are grouped as Logbooks. Repeated tests may be performed on a sample for a technique. The job (open or closed based on tab selection) listing for the logged in user is displayed. Closed job cannot be edited. For a job, multiple samples can be added. When a technique (tests) associated with a sample are completed the technique gets closed. A Technique cannot exists in more than one log book.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Software Project Plan along with the PM
• Involved in design and coding for the application
• Programming and Unit Testing
• UAT and Warranty support for the application

Used: Web/App Server –IIS 6.0 , Database - MS-SQL 2000, HTML, JavaScript, ASP .Net VB.Net