PROFILE

Hands-on management professional with 15 years of broad-based enterprise software development experience, including design and management oversight of sustaining engineering. Highly successful in building and managing a team of professionals driving business objectives. Extensive experience in running software development organizations. Exceptional skill in complete software development life cycle of software business systems. Recognized for leadership in project planning, scheduling, prioritization, contingency and risk planning, work assignments, and definition of scope for enterprise applications.

Key Strengths Include:

• Business, Strategy and Execution
• Offshore Project Management, Resource Management and Team Building/Leadership
• Developing Plans, Creating and Mapping Solutions and Orchestrating Solution Implementations
• Cross-Cultural Communications, Customer Liaison and Customer Needs Assessment
• SDLC, Software Architecture, Database Design, Software Deployment and Quality Assurance Monitoring
• Wide Functional and Technical Expertise in Oracle ERP Applications.

Confidential,Redwood Shores, CA March 2007 to Present
Group Manager
Spearheaded a global team of managers and Architects to develop Oracle Fusion, the next-generation web 2.0 based enterprise applications. Developed policies and procedures, technical standards, methods, and schedules.

• Increased development productivity 30% by implementing standard quality-assurance programs, application design architectures, and project-management methodologies.
• Drove outsourcing initiative, repositioned team and identified the right processes to outsource.
• Introduced Agile SDLC methodology (with 30 day sprints) into traditional (waterfall) environment; and worked closely with other development directors to develop a common formal SDLC.
• Turned around and delivered customized enterprise product solution to Oracle’s highly escalated customer (Alcoa) within a 2 week period improving customer satisfaction and retention.
• Awarded and recognized for outstanding contribution on fusion product development.

Confidential,Redwood Shores, CA October 2004 to Feb 2007
Senior Development Manager – Oracle Financials
Managed a global matrix team of 20 consisting of development managers, engineers and product managers in a high-end development environment. Directed all methodology processes for sustaining engineering of 6 enterprise applications, while simultaneously propelling quality assurance advances.

• Reduced backlog of production bugs by 50% through methodical and persistent implementation of improved processes.
• Increased bug resolution times by 10%. Reduced customer escalations by 60%.
• Generated substantial client satisfaction and goodwill by continuously exceeding targets and objectives for product lines.

Confidential,Redwood Shores, CA March 2003 to September 2004
Software Development Manager – Oracle Financials
Managed a matrix team of 6 engineers for development of Oracle Grantor System, a web enabled financial ERP application that facilitates grantees and grantors to seek and award funds. Managed development of Oracle Internal Controls Manager, a financial ERP application that helps companies perform corporate governance and conform to the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002.

• Delivered both the products on time with excellent quality and within budget.
• Developed and implemented technology standards, reducing unnecessary complexity and realizing a savings of 20% on maintenance costs.

Confidential,Redwood City, CA August 2000 to February 2003
Project Leader - Oracle Financials
Managed and led full life cycle development of web enabled Oracle Grants Proposal System, a financial ERP application, starting with analysis of architecture, product design, development and deployment. Product suite has currently 100 customers worldwide with a growing list.

• Identified and improved performance by 30% by reforming code across the entire application.
• Coordinated 11i Self-Service release activities with the Documentation and QA teams, which ensured superior quality of product and timely release.
• Served as key-contact person for top customers such as Jackson Labs. Role included customer confidence boosting efforts by convening regular conference calls and identifying key issues.

Confidential,Redwood Shores, CA August 1998 to July 2000
Senior Applications Engineer
Lead developer of a 6-member team designing and developing Oracle Grants Proposal System, an enterprise client-server application. Designed database schema for the product. Technology stack used for product development was Oracle Designer, Forms 6i, Reports 6i, PL/SQL. SQL and Oracle 7.3/8i.

• Stabilized and standardized code for Award Entry module of Grants Accounting System.
• Recognized consistently as a top performer within a team of 52 members.

Confidential,Redwood Shores, CA June 1997 to July 1998
Applications Engineer
Designed and developed Budgeting and Award Management modules for Oracle Grants Accounting System, an Enterprise Financial Application utilizing Oracle Designer, Forms 6i, Reports 6i, PL/SQL. SQL and Oracle 7.3/8i. Developed complex budgeting calculations and integrated the with another ERP application (Oracle Projects).

• Created critical reports for various batch-processing programs using Oracle Reports.

Confidential,Salt Lake City, UT November 1996 to May 1997
Software Consultant
Developed an application for an insurance company to efficiently track customer premiums and payments replacing an older legacy system. Technology stack used was Oracle 7.3, Developer/2000 (Oracle Forms and Reports) and Designer/2000.

• Automated billing invoice generation by writing a complex billing engine in PL/SQL, thereby reducing man-hours and billing errors.

Confidential,Bombay, India May 1994 to Dec 1994
Management Trainee

• Created and maintained corporate employee and inventory database using Oracle 7.0

M.S., Engineering

• Oracle Applications: (Fusion, R12, 11i) Financials (Purchasing, Payables, Receivables, General Ledger, Public Sector, Projects, Fixed Assets, Grants), HRMS, CRM
• Programming Languages: PL/SQL, SQL, JAVA, HTML, JavaScript, XML, Visual Basic, C, DHTML
• Technologies: RDBMS, SOA, SOAP, J2EE, EJB, UML, weblogic, servlets, Object Oriented Design, JSP, N-tier
• Software Tools: JDeveloper, XML Publisher, OA Framework, Oracle Developer (Forms, Reports), Oracle Designer
• Process: CMMI, Six Sigma