SUMMARY:

• Proven management professional with a background that spans over 18 years in the information technology industry.
• Emphasis on providing leadership and management of development projects. Currently working on private and public Cloud technologies.
• Managed successful delivery of projects using Agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Dedicated, self - motivated achiever committed to success and very adept at juggling multiple projects, conflicting priorities in a high-pressured environment.
• Recognized for ability to define, focus, and meet all facets of the project lifecycle to achieve critical goals.
• Solutions-oriented professional who excels at managing projects, requirements, scope, project risk, co-located or dispersed project teams, client expectations, technical deliverables and thereby building successful solutions for organizations.
• 18 years of significant progressive experience in information-technology, focusing on Web-based and client/server-based applications, custom development projects, as well as integration with COTS packaged products.
• Experienced and seasoned project manager who has successfully led large project teams of 15+ people.
• Solid communicator with exceptional team-building skills.
• Strong problem-solver who can design solutions, assist team members and developers with their issues.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to individuals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Java, J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, Web services and SOA architecture.
• Blaze Advisor Rules Engine, ETL Pentaho,Dynatrace,Qlikview,Tableau
• IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, IBM MQSeries, Tomcat
• JIRA, Confluence,GIT/STASH,SVN
• IBM Content Manager, Peoplesoft
• DB2, Oracle, Sybase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Vice President Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Firmwide shared services platform running vendor based applications: Jira, Confluence and GIT-Stash.
• Managing 15 + team to design build and operationalize the above shared services.
• Adept at managing geographically dispersed global team with different time zones.
• Adjusted and re-aligned work to increase efficiency by using the time zone difference as an advantage.
• Responsible for deliveries on multiple products/projects. Currently working on internal private cloud technologies and deploying applications to private cloud.
• Adept at time management and priorities on different projects.
• Partner with the business on requirements and prioritization.
• Oversee requirements, development, testing and deployment activities.
• Manage scope and negotiate with stakeholders as needed.
• Provide risk mitigation for each release.
• Define roadmap for shared services tools.
• Drive the architecture and implementation aligned to the roadmap.
• Presentation to senior management on status and deliverables.
• Responsbile for project planning and resource management.
• Following AGILE/SCRUM methodology using JIRA/Greenhopper.
• Capture the requirements for Agile projects as epics & user stories.
• Setup sprint planning meetings and manage work estimation.
• Defined product backlog and organized multiple releases/sprints in JIRA.
• Managed the scope, requirements and priorities by frequently pruning the backlog.
• Created multiple project dashboards to track and generate reports.
• Supervise developers and manage their day to day tasks
• Responsible for performance reviews and ratings for my team
• Set clear measurable objectives as part of the performance & goal setting exercise.
• Mentor team members as needed.
• Approve contractor timesheets and work items.
• Conduct interviews and hire individuals as dictated by staffing conditions.

Technologies include: Atlassian’s JIRA, Confluence, GIT-Stash, Java, J2EE, Spring, Ajax, Tomcat, Hibernate, Oracle 11g, Pentaho,Tableau,QlikView,Cloud Foundry.

Manager-Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed a supply chain ELogistics B2B web product: Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) for Citibank.
• Reviewed, evaluated vendor proposals and collaborated with the business on vendor selection process.
• Developed Total Cost Ownership (TCO) spreadsheet to manage total projected costs over specified time.
• Collaborated with the business to define the SLAs for involved entities.
• Managed a 10+ member team across different releases and sprints.
• Consulted with the internal Architects to define shared technology environment for the project.
• Used Agile methodology, organized and prioritized the backlog.
• Manage requirements and scope for each release.
• Negotiate and partner with the business on requirements and MMF (Minimum Marketable Feature) needed for product release.
• Conduct sprint planning meetings and manage work estimates.
• Planned for different releases/sprints and defined the stories/epics for each sprint.
• Coordinated testing with the User Acceptance Team and focused the team to work on CTQ items.
• Presentation to business and project stakeholders, communicating project status and accomplishments.
• Manage risk for the project and mitigate risk for each release.
• Conduct interviews and influence hiring decision.
• Managed offshore vendor relationship.

Technologies include Java, J2EE, Spring, Ajax, Websphere, Hibernate, Oracle 10g, MyEclipse IDE, TIBCO Business Works, EMS and TIBCO iProcess.

Application Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and successfully delivered a multi year Global Payroll project implementation from initiation through post-implementation production support.
• Coordinated and interacted with global teams from Japan, Singapore and India.
• COTS integration: Oracle’s PeopleSoft Global Payroll 9.0 product using Java / J2EE technology.
• Requirements gathering, prioritization and negotiation. Provide IT sign-off on requirements.
• Drove the design, architecture for ETL (Extract Transform Load) solution.
• Interacted with cross functional teams to understand compensation and accounting requirements for each region around the world.
• Managed, lead and mentor onshore/offshore 10+ Java development team.
• Managed project/release scope and provide risk mitigation.
• Created and maintained MS Project plan, tracked project status.
• Created and maintained resource loading sheet, responsible for resource allocation.
• Responsible for performance reviews (360 feedback) for team members.
• Presented project status and accomplishments to senior management.
• Directed migration and deployment plans.
• Directed production support team to respond and resolve production issues.
• Lead testing strategy meetings, provided input on testing methodologies, also encouraged unit test driven development when applicable.
• Conduct interviews and hire resources.

Technologies included Java, J2EE, Spring Framework, Ajax, Websphere, Weblogic, Hibernate, PeopleSoft Global Payroll 9.0, Oracle 10g, Sybase, Eclipse IDE environment.

Manager Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead 5+ team, and successfully delivered development projects using Agile/Scrum Methodologies.
• Successfully delivered web projects namely complex event processing (CEP) system and a .NET to Java rewrite project for Claims handling.
• Created project schedules, resource loading spreadsheets and tracked status accurately.
• Mentor developers through the design, development efforts as well as provided guidance and direction for utilizing all the necessary technologies for development of the J2EE application.
• Other management responsibilities included performance review of Java developers.

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led and delivered a Enterprise Workflow Management project.
• Coordinated continuity of business initiative in creating offsite disaster recovery site for Mellon’s enterprise applications.
• Assisted in presentations for senior management by providing technical information, demos regarding application architecture.
• Heavily involved in CMM Level 2 and Level 3 transition teams to rollout CMM processes. In-depth understanding of CMM Level 2 and Level 3 processes.