SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Accomplished Information Technology Manager and Team Leader, with the technical knowledge and leadership skills to deliver innovative, detailed and timely solutions for multinational Fortune 500 firms. Recognized for technical competence, collaboration and training skills combined with the ability to communicate complex material to a multi-level audience. Strong consensus builder and expert negotiator, who is able to liaise with internal and external stakeholders to promote organizational success. Proven track record of successfully leading onshore and offshore development teams to deliver high quality work within strict timelines. Outstanding team player with abilities to tackle complex technical challenges, create effective solutions and continually learn new technologies.
• Technical Expertise: Strong skills in development of applications using Visual Basic.Net, C , .Net Framework, Object Oriented Programming, Web Services, SOAP, WCF, WPF, ASP.Net, MVC, ADO.Net, HTML, XML, XAML and LINQ.
• Team Development: Unique ability to communicate effectively across multi-cultural, multi-functional, and multi-level teams to create accessible, effective outcomes.
• Change Management: Astute at change management, readily able to incorporate new approaches, requirements, and features as a result gained rapid advancement across functions and specialized knowledge bases.
• Business Analysis: Proven ability to work with end users on gathering and analyzing business requirements, converting functional requirements to technical specifications and formally documenting those requirements for the development team.
• Value Added Expertise: Agile Development Methodologies, Team Building Leadership, Remote team management, Comprehensive Software development life cycle experience.
• Diverse Large-scale Industries Experience: Vast development experience on Web Services, Client/Server and Multi-Tier architectures in diverse industries including Billing services, Telecommunication Consumer Services, Manufacturing, Educational Systems and Financial.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Operating Systems: Windows 7/XP/2003 Server, UNIX.
• Languages: VB.Net VB 2005 , C 4.0, SQL, PL/SQL.
• Technologies: Microsoft.Net Framework 4.0/4.5, WCF, WPF, Web Services, XAML, SOAP, ASP.Net, XML, HTML, VBScript, JavaScript, MVC, IIS, NUnit.
• RDBMS: Oracle 11g/10g/8i, MS SQL Server 2010/7, MS Access 2010.
• Version Controller: IBM ClearCase, Team Foundation Server, Visual Source Safe.
• Tools: Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint, Crystal Reports, MS Project 2010, IBM Clear Quest, PLSQL Developer, TOAD, Install Shield, Visio, SOAPtest, Erwin, NAnt

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Managed and led R D Front-End team to develop, deliver, deploy and launch Comverse ONE Billing solution at 6 sites for one of the largest Tier 1 mobile network operator in Eurasia with zero defects 0/0/0 in a very aggressive timeline.
• Designed and developed the migration of .Net based Web services to WCF services using C 4.0.
• Implemented and collaborated the conversion of existing RTBS Windows based Form applications to XAML supported WPF application for Comverse ONE releases.
• Adapted to the new feature of .Net parallel programming using Task Libraries and PLINQ to effectively increase the performance of cache loading of static data by 20 , that acted as bottleneck for initial loading of application.
• Implemented exception-handling block to encapsulate the services exceptions/messages to user-friendly presentation.
• Designed and developed automated testing of Web services and business functionalities using NUnit that helped reduce regression-testing time by 30 .
• Worked on the analysis of requirements, creation of design, code, unit test and integration tests before documentation sign-offs and delivery to Quality Assurance.
• Prepared Pre Sales estimations and proposals for Green field customers thru close coordination with Architects, Business Analysts and Product Managers.
• Organized effective training within teams to bridge skill gaps. Coordinated development effort amongst cross-functional teams to deliver a well-integrated product for each iterative build.
• Mentored and trained an existing employee within 4 weeks, to lead a new Real Time Billing Solutions RTBS release while concurrently working on the design of Comverse ONE, thus saving the company 80K for a new hire.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed requirement specifications and made appropriate code changes in the framework of the Customer Care Web Service CCWS .
• Designed and developed 40 Web service APIs for CCWS using ASP.Net and SOAP.
• Designed and developed 30 Window Forms for Customer Care Client CCC and Systems Administration Workstation SAW using VB.Net.
• Designed and developed the business logic layer for Customer Care Batch CCBatch application.
• Enhanced Card Generator application to output Vouchers in XML and custom formats in addition to the existing Text format.
• As Feature Lead, designed, developed and documented 15 features for three RTBS releases. Ensured successful end-to-end integration and delivery for those features.
• Provided Technical support to Customer support group for troubleshooting and resolution of production issues during Go-Live events.
• Increased overall productivity of the Frond-End team by 25 by identifying skill gaps for offshore team members and recommending appropriate Technical training. Imparted application domain and business logic training to the offshore team members.

Confidential

Team Lead/Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• In-house development of CCTS application helped customer save 14K by eliminating the need to buy licenses for Third party software.
• Generated custom reports for online support systems using ASP.Net.
• Designed Developed Window forms for CCTS User Interface using VB.Net.
• Created Web Services for CCTS using ASP.Net.
• Developed packages and stored procedures in the database using PL/SQL.
• Implemented Server side scripting and Unit tested the Web Services using SOAPtest tool.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Discussed requirements from Marketing, Finance and R D users. Documented requirements and Design. Incorporated business rules into COM.
• Designed Developed the User Interface and Reports using Visual Basic 6.0 and Crystal Reports.
• Developed an interface between Visual Basic and MS Project 2000.
• Developed database scripts for objects and stored procedures using Oracle 7 and SQL Navigator.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• GUI development included programming and unit testing the above Client Server application.
• Database development included creating scripts both in MS SQL Server 6.5 and Oracle 7.33.
• Design and Development of Crystal reports.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed In-house various Client/Server and Three Tier applications for several customers.