SUMMARY:

• Highly successful professional with extensive experience managing mission - critical projects from planning to delivery by fostering cross-functional collaboration and gauging client needs for high-quality delivery/support, functionality, and automation within time-sensitive and high-volume environments.
• Expert in delivering large-scale applications that exceed customer expectations and using complex systems to balance business and technical goals through product strategy, requirement specification, design, implementation and on-time delivery.
• Proficient in liaising with the stakeholders to assess their requirements and develop comprehensive IT solutions to streamline business processes.
• Devise robust solutions and correct root cause of failures; expert in developing IT strategies that can be adapted to meet the changing needs of customer and market demands and able to customize and introduce tools, programs and systems to enhance IT environments.
• Adept at diverse programming environments, developing solutions to complex problems and formulating complex implementations of IT road maps to members of the executive management team.
• Superb leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to prepare complex application design documentation and to interact easily with clients, vendors, consultants, and IT team members.

Areas of Expertise:

• Project Management
• Data Warehousing
• Software Development
• Web Design
• Business Intelligence
• Vendor/Relations Management
• Team Leadership
• IT Strategy/Security
• QA/Testing
• Deployment/Migrations
• Process Reengineering
• Application System Databases
• Needs Assessment
• Process Improvement
• Technical Support
• Applications Development
• Budget & Cost Control
• Data Extraction/Transformation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: UNIX V, HP-UX, LINUX, SOLARIS, MPE/iX, MS-WINDOWS, MAC OS X, Informix 4GL, COBOL, C, PERL, JAVA, Oracle SQL Plus, PL/SQL, J2EE EJB, Weblogic, HTML, JavaScript, ClearCase, Business Objects Crystal Reports, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project

Hardware: SUN SPARC, HP9000, HP3000, NCR Tower, PCs, Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance

Relational Databases: Oracle7, Oracle8i, ORACLE 9i, ORACLE 10g, ORACLE 11g, Informix-SE, Netezza Database

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed migration projects within time and budget. The projects entailed migrating from an older release to a newer release of the product.
• Worked with report developers to create the optimal data model for efficient reporting.
• Both SDLC and Agile development methodologies were utilized.
• Participated in code design and reviews.

Technologies used: ORACLE 11g Database, Korn Shell Scripts, SQL, PL/SQL, Business Objects Crystal Reports. Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Project.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Technical Programming Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed a project from initiation to deployment to automate a set of reports for the business users. Sourced data from multiple systems for the reports. The automation of this reporting system saved the business users 10 business days per month. Also managed an offshore development team for this project.
• Developed ETL scripts and a data mart with over 500 metrics, which were used to create a dashboard for store operations and provided the management team with the ability to track trends and identify/resolve root cause issues.
• Migrated the development system to a new server to facilitate disaster recovery; verified that applications in production aligned with version control system, and identified and corrected discrepancies.
• Lead a team of database developers to design data model and ETL code. Participated in code reviews.

Technologies used: Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance, Bash Shell Scripts, SQL, PL/SQL, Perl, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Project.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

IT Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created real-time centralized credit filter application, utilized by the order management systems, which significantly reduced write-off by identifying high-risk customer orders.
• Led the development process of a workflow backend application, which enabled real-time transaction views for performance evaluations, eliminating numerous manual processes.
• Created a workflow application to streamline transaction approvals by credit analysts, for orders blocked by the credit filter, which increased delivery turnaround and enabled the credit department to improve business processes and customer service.
• Created a datamart and reporting system to show the turnaround time for blocked orders and also the various reasons for blocking the order by the credit filter application.
• Integrated Confidential company’s credit and collections systems with HP’s systems. This involved data mappings between the two systems, developing scripts for migration of the data, migrating the data from source to the target system, validation and verification of the data.

Technologies used: ORACLE RDBMS, PL/SQL, C, JAVA, J2EE, EJB, Weblogic, Perl, Korn Shell Scripts, SQL, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Project.