SUMMARY

• Proficient in Project Planning, Forecasting, Status Reporting, Change Management, Defect Management, Risk Management and Budget Management.
• Experience in leading projects as Technical Project Manager.
• Good Understanding of system development life cycle, Waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Worked on multiple projects which improved efficiency, quality and costs for the company.
• Pursing MBA in IT Management with expected graduation date of 2015.
• Excellent documentation, presentation and communication skills.
• Experience in ETL/Data warehousing, Business Intelligence, J2EE, SQL Server (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), Struts, MVC framework, Hibernate technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/7, Vista, UNIX.

Databases: ORACLE (10g/9i), SQL Server 2005, MS Access.

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, J2EE, .NET, SQL, T - SQL, PL/SQL,UML.

Web Development: HTML, DHTML, CSS, PHP, Struts, Hibernate, JSP, AJAX, JavaScript, XML, XSLT.

Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, JBOSS.

Tools: and Utilities:: Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Eclipse IDE, STS, Microsoft FrontPage, MS-Office, Firebug, TOAD,SQL Developer, CVS, SVN, CYGWIN, Javarebel, MQC, DB Visualizer, HP Quality Center, Advanced Query Tool(AQT), Lotus Notes, Clarity PPM, Microsoft Project, IBM RTC, Microsoft Project Server, Visio, Quickr, OneNote, BRMS Guvnor, SQL Server BI.

Domain Knowledge: Oracle, ETL, J2EE.

Industry: Insurance, ERP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create project charter for the roadmap items and get required approvals from senior management.
• Create detailed project management plan on how to manage project through all phases of the project using waterfall methodology project life cycle.
• Created Work breakdown Structure by identifying all deliverables for the project by meeting with the SMEs.
• Estimate the duration, cost for the activities using three point estimation technique.
• Coordinate with the business and IT to make sure all the requirements are identified and logged to define the scope.
• Host project documentation in a version controlled share point system called SPOT.
• Log risks throughout the project and make sure contingency reserves are created and monitored.
• Used Clarity PPM to request and assign resources to the project.
• Track and provide weekly updates on the project tasks, risks, budget and milestones and reassess the plan in a timely manner.
• Manage project changes through Change Control process by evaluating the impact in regards to budget and schedule.
• Make sure the deliverables are accepted through User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Accepted challenges to get consensus from the development team to accept the process on how the issues are logged and tracked via Issue Log.
• Reviewed the process flow with the stakeholders (Resource Managers and SMEs) to increase productivity of the projects.
• Created two week release schedule process to ensure the changes are deployed more frequently with the same quality. This effort saved costs by 20%.
• Created Cost Structure in Excel sheet for the business to fill and submit the requests to fit into the two week schedule and show the final costs.
• Create and present power point presentations on the lessons learned to the whole IT group.

Environment: Windows 7, STS, Advanced Query Tool v8, SVN, Jboss Drools, Business Rules Management System (BRMS), Java, Share point for documentation, J2EE, Clarity PPM.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management through all phases of the project.
• Very much involved in Requirements Gathering, Estimation, Scope management, Risk Management, Cost management and Quality management.
• Log risks in the risk database and make sure they are addressed accordingly.
• Managed the projects in Clarity PPM and Microsoft Project tools.
• Schedule and organize meetings with SMEs of other projects impacting the project.
• Weekly meetings to report status of the project to the stakeholders.
• Responsible for the coordination and interface with the client andITteam members on an ongoing basis.
• Responsible for coordination of the development schedule, scope, costs andprojectschedule, including issues and risks.
• Provide leadership for theProjectTeam as required for achieving the goals of the client.
• Coordinated offshore and onshore teams and worked closely with teams at different geographic locations.
• Review the BRD (Business Requirements Document), use cases and functional requirements with the Business and technical team and make sure everyone is on the same page.
• Review the test scenarios and test cases with the team and make sure everything is covered.

Environment: Java, DB2, AS400, RPM, DBUnit, myEclipse, Oralce 10g, Hudson,Visio, Clarity and Microsoft Project.

Confidential

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Played an important role as a Technical lead for the team helping them to understand SQL, Eclipse and other technical processes.
• Working as a prime reviewer of all the technical day to day tasks like reviewing release tasks SQL scripts, checking in files to SVN etc.
• Working closely with the team members and bring them to a more technical level of understanding the code and data.
• Propose new and efficient ideas of developing data in more easy and automated way.
• Worked on a new data base tool called Advanced Query Tool (AQT) which has lot of advanced features.
• Researched the complete features of the tool and prepared documentation for training purposes.
• Trained the team on how to load the data directly from the specs, compare data and many easy ways of developing data.
• Trained the team on how to take advantage of the tool on developing data in more easy and automated way.
• Created multiple documents explaining how to use AQT, Data I2I tool, Eclipse and the tools to run in the new QA Initiatives Project.
• Trained the QA team on Basic SQL and on how to write queries.
• Added a new feature of comparing data across two different databases.
• Took the ownership of the tool and maintains it. Gave additional training to QA teams and other teams of how efficiently they can use it and improve the quality of the data.
• Trained the data analyst team of how and when to use it so that we can catch errors before it can go to QA.
• Added a feature to copy data along with the label field to the database which saves a lot a time involved in manually adding the label to individual tables.

Confidential

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business requirements and implement them as business rules in the Jboss Drools Engine.
• Write rules in Guvnor using decision tables, DSL language.
• Write routes using Camel for integration.

Environment: Windows XP, STS, Advanced Query Tool v8, SQL developer, SVN, Drools Guvnor, Agile methodology, IBM RTC.

Confidential

SME/Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Played SME (Subject Matter Expert) role when the project is in the solution scoping representing the data analyst’s team.
• Added the functionality of copying data along with the label in the JUTILITY tool.
• Played a major role in testing the new process of developing data and how correctly the data is deployed into the new environments.
• In the later stages became the point of contact for any issues or concerns regarding how the data needs to be developed and deployed when the new QA Initiatives rolls out.
• Trained our own team and other teams to understand how the data needs to be developed and deployed.
• Written Java code to remove few of the workarounds followed in the process of developing the data.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Business Requirements document and Rate Factor Document and develop the data in Oracle database.
• Quickly understood the business knowledge behind developing data and the rules that drive the Java Code.
• Handled Mini Plus, Full and Complex Confidential .
• Worked on Complex Titan Plus projects for Ohio, Iowa and Nevada states which involves a special logic called as Reach Up.
• Involved in Complete Lifecycle of the projects. Interacted with the business when required to get the requirements right.
• Supported the project as both Data developer as well as Java developer when necessary.

Environment: Windows XP, myEclipse, Advanced Query Tool v8, SQL developer, HP Quality Center, SVN.