SUMMARY:

• PMP ® certified experienced Technical Project Manager with more than 18 years of hands - on experience in leading and managing large scale software development projects/teams .
• Experienced leader with excellent balance of technical and people/project management skills to work through all project phases from inception to project closing, ensuring development team success and ultimate project success in each phase and overall success of the project
• Expert in establishment and enforcement of software development life cycle processes (Water fall/Agile-Scrum) in order to deliver quality software within expected scope, schedule, cost and quality. (Proficient in JIRA/JIRA Agile—Confluence, FogBugz and customized process workflow models/tools such as TeamTrack-Dimensions)
• Experienced leader with hands on experience in architecting, designing, building and maintaining large scale enterprise level software systems and web applications/portals (Full Stack Development over .NET/C#, J2EE/Java, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Perl, Shell script, AJAX, JSON, jQuery/JavaScript, HTML, CSS, DB2, Oracle, Joomla/Wordpress, SOA, RESTful/SOAP based web services, Zend, SVN, Git, Team City, Jenkins).
• Experienced leader with hands on expertise in leading and managing day-to-day activities of (including hiring- training-building-coaching/mentoring-motivating-reviewing-firing-hiring cycle) high performance development teams (on-site and offshore; Scrum and traditional water fall) of sizes varying from 5 to 27.
• Experienced IT professional with strong knowledge of what makes an enterprise as a whole including its goals & initiatives, products and services, data and information, software systems and applications and Technology infrastructure. Practical application on translating business vision Business Strategy IT Strategy IT architecture Information and Data Architecture/Flows Software Architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct, Lead and Manage multiple software development efforts building and supporting one of the industry leading core automobile dealership marketing framework and back-end serving thousands of dealerships across US, Canada and serving more than million notifications a day
• Delivering high quality and sustainable software releases that deliver highest business value
• Technical Liaison / Scrum master between team and product team conducting planning, prioritization, execution and retrospectives for project execution and day to day operations
• Build and retain top notch resource talent through effective team building, motivation, recognition, retention and servant leadership
• Ensure quality software design and architecture (.NET/C#, Angular/JS, TS, MSSQL) to support the business
• Responsible for building and maintaining marketing platform including the core campaigns and notifications system, Group Campaigns, Loyalty System, Customer list Builder, and Messaging System
• Delivering smooth product releases consistently in 2-3 weeks of release trains
• Retaining high performing talents through effective people management

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Software Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct, lead and manage software development/client implementation efforts to envision, plan, build and maintain core software product and architecture in J2EE/Java, PHP, Tomcat, Apache, Spring, Hibernate, GWT, Shell script, Red Hat Linux environment to support core business (360 degree patient health data management)
• Ensure that client implementation projects are adequately staffed and executed through standard SDLC process (planning, analysis, design, coding, unit testing, user acceptance testing, deployment and post deployment) and Agile methodologies, delivering high quality information management systems and successful client installations.
• Oversee overall team and project performance and management, effective problem resolution within team and projects, team evaluation, retention, hiring / firing as well as satisfaction of internal and external customers while directing the projects to success.
• Technical Liaison / Scrum master - Review of open tickets, assessing timelines/deliverables/risks, Tickets prioritization, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, managing scrums, Sprint retrospectives. Creating/Updating resource plan for team, work assignments/resource allocations/re-allocations and tracking.
• Helping out team members to get through the hurdles in understanding requirements and other development issues towards meeting deadlines, SDLC process standardization, improvement and enforcement.
• Working with product team to establish alignment/prioritization towards specific release management trains.
• Performance evaluations, hiring and firing. Build the 27 member development team under 3 sub-departments. Hired 10 IT talents, eliminated 4 bottom lines and completed department performance evaluations
• Assisted in fine tuning application server and related back end tools not limited to cron jobs to streamline web based back end processes and improve performance of overall web based software product (SaaS model)
• Established and sustained improved software development process (SDLC) and methodologies over JIRA/Confluence
• Assisted in developing re-factored code / SQL for core software product (Java/GWT) and reporting tools (Spago, MYSQL) for improved performance and production failures
• Implemented IT productivity tools including new version of JIRA/Confluence for department usage and enforcement within the team
• Implemented revised Data Dictionary for data extracts and reports
• Completed vendor evaluation and selection for source code analysis and automated code review

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Manager - Application Development

Responsibilities:

• Direct, lead and manage software development efforts to envision, plan, build and maintain the backend server/application components/configurations as well as multi channel / multi-tenant information systems (viz. client portals and intranet systems) from estimation to production deployment using PHP, Joomla, Stellent CMS, PERL, J2EE/Java, cURL, AJAX, JSON, XML, jQuery/JavaScript, MYSQL, DB2, Apache, Tomcat, Shell scripting, Red Hat Linux, WMB environment
• Design and implement Health Insurance/Plan systems from ground up to full-fledged quoting/enrollment/case administration systems using PHP, Joomla, Stellent CMS, PERL, J2EE/Java, cURL, AJAX, JSON, XML, jQuery/JavaScript, MYSQL, DB2, Apache, Tomcat, Shell scripting, Red Hat Linux, WMB environment to support private Health exchanges
• Integrate and maintain interconnected system components within and across participating Healthplans and their clients/third parties, perform website setups and administration across sub domains, health exchanges, third party and multi-tenant quoting/enrollment/case administration systems.
• Responsible for product map and building most cost effective and industry leading software solutions related to health insurance industry viz. Quoting systems, Shop and Compare portals, Broker/Agent portal, CMS driven portal management frameworks, health insurance service portals and CSR systems
• Ensure that projects are adequately staffed and executed through standard SDLC process (planning, analysis, design, coding, unit testing, user acceptance testing, deployment and post deployment) and Agile methodologies, delivering high quality information management systems.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps tracking current and future state of product features.
• Oversee/Lead overall team (sizes vary from 5 - 10) and project performance, effective problem resolution within team and projects, team evaluation, retention, hiring / firing as well as satisfaction of internal and external customers while directing the projects to success.
• Conceptualized, Designed, Implemented and continuously improved mission critical web-based information management systems and applications for health insurance third party administration which is core for the industry and major players including Health exchanges.
• Fine tuned and re-factored significant part of the core quoting/enrollment/case administration code base, back end server configuration and cron jobs to enhance performance and cater to new PHP versions and integration with innovative technologies/frameworks such as Magento, WMB
• Assisted in defining and establishing the SDLC process and its enforcement within the development department
• Took initiative for creation and maintenance of system designs and other system documentation not limited to web site information architecture, conceptual diagrams etc

Confidential, Fort Pierce, FL

Lead Developer, IT Solutions Expert

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain web based systems involving company web portal using Red Hat Linux, MYSQL, PHP, Shell scripting, cURL, AJAX, JSON, XML, jQuery/JavaScript, SVN
• Responsible for day to day enhancement and maintenance of the web portal that allowed B2C e-commerce
• Responsible for fine tuning and configuring application and back end server components/productivity tools
• Revamped (Design, build and maintain) the floral biz portal with improved workflows and reports.

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Lead Developer, IT Solutions Expert

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain web based systems involving company web portal using Red Hat Linux, MYSQL, PHP, Shell scripting, cURL, AJAX, JSON, XML, jQuery/JavaScript, SVN
• Responsible for day to day enhancement and maintenance of the web portal that allowed B2C e-commerce
• Responsible for fine tuning and configuring web based solutions that enabled Medical transcriptions and internal HR/Recruitment systems.
• Revamped (Design, build and maintain) HR portal with improved workflows and reports

Confidential

Senior Developer/Project Manager - Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, maintain and continuously improve Confidential systems from initial concept to state wide infrastructure involving interconnected intranets, extranets, internet portals (inter/intra state workflow systems, public databases / systems eg: Document management systems, government departments and local bodies, e-Tenders, e-grievance, e-library etc) and integration with various third party systems via web services and traditional client / server methodologies using PHP, PERL, cURL, AJAX, JSON, XML, jQuery/JavaScript, MYSQL, Java, DB2, Apache, Shell scripting, Red Hat Linux, SVN
• Lead and manage software development efforts to envision, plan, build and maintain the backend server/application components/configurations as well as the core Confidential infrastructure/systems from estimation to production deployment using PHP, PERL, cURL, AJAX, JSON, XML, jQuery/JavaScript, MYSQL, Java, DB2, Apache, Shell scripting, Red Hat Linux, SVN
• Directly responsible for maintaining and enhancing entire state government Confidential systems ensuring 100% system uptime and effective user support
• Ensuring that all projects are adequately budgeted, staffed and delivered high performance & high quality service to internal employees and citizens.
• Managed and supervised team (size varied from 8 - 10) which included team leads, senior developers, Business Analysts, Testers and Designers.
• Designed and implemented state wide Confidential portal, Document Management System, Meeting Management System, e-Tenders, e-Grievance, e-Library, Call Desk system which is still the model for other states
• Architected and configured the back end Red Hat Linux servers, LAMP stack and DB2 servers for ground up operation and optimal performance.
• Was retained as the apex consultant for the state government for extended years to innovate and maintain the Confidential infrastructure and systems