Sr. Quickbase Consultant Resume
Washington, DC
Summary:
- Senior QuickBase Developer – more than 16 years of experience in IT in the US – Strong experience in Applications Development, Project Management and Process Improvement.
- Solid experience in Government (Legal, Education, Transportation, Labor, Statistics), Manufacturing, Finance and Insurance industries.
- Hands-on and advanced level expertise in OOPS, Iterative/Agile and the entire SDLC.
- Experienced in different technology platforms: Cloud Computing, Web, Mobile and Client/Server.
- Expertise in QuickBase application development, implementation, both off-the-shelf and custom applications with native QuickBase and QuickBase API.
Employment History:
Sr. QuickBase Consultant, Confidential, Washington, DC
Responsibilities:
- Led the development of the eFiling application using Intuit QuickBase that enables about 1.1 million federal employees worldwide to file their cases with the FLRA via the Internet.
- Was able to save about $50,000 per month for the client by using the "Everyone on the Internet" role for the public and yet implemented several features similar to registered users, with an approval flow for such users, security measures and so on.
- Performed migration of multiple legacy Oracle forms applications to cloud computing technologies - QuickBase.
- Gathered business requirements from the existing legacy Oracle applications.
- Studied the existing Oracle applications, forms, stored procedures and triggers written in PL/SQL code to understand the business logic.
- As a part of the typical business analysis tasks, I gathered and documented business requirements, analyzed requirements, transformed business requirements to technical documentations, developed and implemented the application using Intuit cloud computing platform, QuickBase.
- Followed each and every step of the SDLC (Software Development Life cycle.)
- Designed and developed new QuickBase applications for each of the Oracle sub-components.
- Migrated data from Oracle to QuickBase..
- Used Exact Forms and Exact Forms+ for letters, notices, reports and other such canned Word/PDF documents to be generated by the QuickBase applications.
- Developed QuickBase reports with drill-down capabilities using dynamic parameters such as “As of Date”.
- Built different dashboards meant for different roles.
- Mentored junior QuickBase developers.
Technologies: QuickBase, HTML, QuickBase HTTP API, Perl, Oracle Forms, TOAD, PL/SQL, SQL, Excel, Exact Forms, Exact Forms+, JavaScript.
QuickBase Developer - Confidential, Washington, DC
Responsibilities:- Developed “DCPS-IMPACT Assessment System”, the key tool for the DCPS Chancellor to grade and assess the teachers to ensure the DC Public Schools identify and retain the best teachers for their Schools.
- Conducted business analysis tasks which included: gathering and documenting business requirements, analyzing the requirements, and transforming business requirements to technical documentations, developed and implemented the enhancements specified by the customer.
- Followed each and every step of the SDLC (Software Development Life cycle.)
- Handled one of the largest and most complex applications in QuickBase, with over 7,000 users, across 400 schools, 6,500 Educators over 20 functional groups and several geographical regions.
- Created tables, relationships, summary and look up fields, complex formulas, Forms, form rules and reports.
- Created separate dashboards with dynamic reports and charts meant for top level management as well as the Assessors and the Educators themselves.
- Developed custom pages with QuickBase HTTP API calls, Perl and JavaScript.
- Led a team of QuickBase developers, providing them with technical specifications, monitoring work progress and mentoring the junior members of the team.
Technologies: QuickBase, HTML, JavaScript, QuickBase HTTP API, Access, Excel, Mercury Quality Center, Perl, Exact Forms, JavaScript.
Senior QuickBase Developer/Analyst Consultant, Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ
Responsibilities:- Developed a Job Tracking Application using Intuit QuickBase to help job seekers keep track of their job search efforts. Managed project task of providing dashboard and reports relevant to the requirements of the Dept. of Labor Work Force Development.
- Performed basic business analysis tasks: gathered and documented business requirements, analyzed the requirements, transformed business requirements to technical documentations, developed and implemented the enhancements specified by the customer.
- Followed each and every step of the SDLC (Software Development Life cycle.)
Technologies: QuickBase, HTML, Perl, Quickbase HTTP API.
Practice Head - Confidential, Princeton, NJ
- Increased the visibility of the organization’s project management activities to the customers and to all employees worldwide.
- Carried out fundamental business analysis: gathered and documented business requirements, analyzed the requirements, transformed business requirements to technical documentations, developed and implemented the enhancements specified by the customer.
- Followed each and every step of the SDLC (Software Development Life cycle.)
- Designed a portal using Intuit QuickBase, to serve as a workflow tool and collaborative platform for all the practices within the organization.
- Saved the Organization up to $150,000 each year in improved productivity as routine communication tasks have been automated within the QuickBase application and does not need to be performed by the employees.
President and CEO, Confidential, Edison, NJ
- Started my own firm with the mission of providing quality technical services to customers with the goal of achieving 99.99% customer satisfaction.
- Prepared a business plan containing the Mission and the Vision statement, financial planning, Quarterly goals and annual goals.
- Planned, designed and implemented business processes on "How to handle a Customer's sales or inquiry call", "How to create a new order", "How to fulfill a customer order", "How to make a purchase" etc.
- Automated these business processes in QuickBase, HTML, Perl and JavaScript to improve employee productivity.
- As a part of my responsibilities as a business analyst, I gathered and documented business requirements, analyzed the requirements, transformed business requirements to technical documentations, developed and implemented the enhancements specified by the customer.
- Followed each and every step of the SDLC (Software Development Life cycle.)
- Marketed the firm via various channels such as through partners in the trade, advertising, City and State Chambers of Commerce etc.
- Identified costing and resources necessary to complete these business processes. Managed the budget, created scheduled and corresponding deliverables with dates to complete these tasks identified in each of the business processes mentioned above.
- Performed organizational and strategic planning, Budget management, issues tracking, Administrative Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and human resources.
Project Manager/Product Expert, Confidential, Iselin, NJ
- Avoided several millions of dollars in penalties for various financial institutions by completing multiple projects on time, within budget and scope, for implementation, configuration and enhancement of anti-money-laundering compliance software from Metavante®.
- Migrated and enhanced “Swift Message Director”, a product meant for small and medium sized banks, using VB.NET and XML.
- Business analysis skills: gathered and documented business requirements, analyzed the requirements, transformed business requirements to technical documentations, developed and implemented the application enhancements.
- Followed each and every step of the SDLC (Software Development Life cycle.)
- Managed projects that involved technologies such as: ASP.NET, HTML, MS SQL Server 2000, 2005 (in a cluster environment), Visual Basic and XML.
MTA B&T Embedded Applications Developer/Analyst, New York City
- Increased revenue by $120 MM each year and reduced the delays at the E-Z Pass lanes for MTA, by developing a suite of applications to run on Pocket PC (Windows Mobile devices)
- Increased the application availability to 90% and improved customer service by identifying the root causes for the deluge of support calls coming from the users of the Pocket PC application. I envisioned and spearheaded the usage of modern enterprise-level technologies such as CEFusion, to solve these issues and to create foolproof, self-healing, and “bullet-proof” solutions.
- Increased profits by $5 MM each year by re-engineering the business process for replacing defective Pocket PC Devices with repaired ones and reduced the turnaround time from 3 weeks to 1 week.
- Improved the maintainability of two major Fiscal Control System (FCS) applications by upgrading them to the latest version of Visual Basic, Crystal Reports and COM components on the Windows XP SP2 platform.
- As a part of business analysis, I gathered and documented business requirements, analyzed the requirements, transformed business requirements to technical documentations, developed and implemented the applications.
- Followed each and every step of the SDLC (Software Development Life cycle.)
Technologies: .NET Compact Framework, VB.NET, Visual Basic 6.0, eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0, Pocket Access, ODBC (between Oracle, MS Access and Pocket Access), Visual Studio 6, 2003, 2005, Enterprise Library 1.1 and 2.0, Erwin, Visual SourceSafe, Oracle 8i, 9i through 10g, PL/SQL, Pocket PC 2000 through 2002, Windows Mobile 3 and 5 Operating systems, CEFusion, CFCOM, Crystal Reports X, QuickBase, Windows XP, MS SQL, XML and Perl.
Senior Developer/Analyst, Confidential, Philadelphia, PA
In every project, as part of business analysis, I gathered and documented business requirements, analyzed the requirements, transformed business requirements to technical documentations, developed and implemented the applications. Further, I followed each and every step of the SDLC (Software Development Life cycle.)
- Developed a highly visible thin-client ASP based database driven web-application for tracking Yarn movement in their ware house. Used HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, Managed the entire SDLC Process for all application development projects.
- Implemented some of these transactions on Handheld Intermec PC that interacts with the same business logic as the ASP application only with a different User Interface.
- Upgraded a Laboratory Screen Reporting System from Power Builder version 6.5 to 8 both using Oracle 8i and 7.3 databases.
- Developed SQR 4.0 programs to generate letters and reports that read an ORACLE 7.3 database for their Defined Benefits System (DEFBEN).
- Developed a Decision Support System to evaluate claim situations and come up with the best decision to be taken by the Insurance arbitrator. Used Power Builder 5.0, Oracle 7.3.
- Built a Data Warehouse application (Power Builder 3.0, Oracle 7.1.)
Technologies: ASP, PowerBuilder 3.0- 8, Oracle 8i, Oracle 7.1, Oracle 7.3, ODBC, PL/SQL, Stored procedures, triggers, Visual Interdev 6.0, HTML, VBScript, JavaScript, Visual Basic 6.0, SQR, SQL.