Prakash Kava

****, ********* **** **** ****, Unit 5E, Newcastle, WA-98059.

acgkck@r.postjobfree.com

Experience Summary

. Over 15 years of experience in Software Engineering primarily in high

volume / large scale Product Development that involves in depth technical

knowledge of all application tiers (Web, Business, Integration & Backend)

and full breadth of solution (Transactional & Operational to Business

Intelligence & Forecasting)

. Over 10+ years of experience in managing Engineering, QA, Performance &

Production Support teams for product development & maintenance.

. Extensive experience in product delivery by simultaneously utilizing

teams spread across onshore and offshore centers.

. Experienced in real time SASS based application development & support

with 0% tolerance & 99.99 uptime.

. Specialized in Product Design & Architecture, Data Management &

Performance tuning across all layers of application.

. Experienced in providing 24*7 / 18*5 Production Support (Zero Downtime).

. Excellent ability to debug and resolve technical problems in highly

complex systems and strong analytical skills.

Technical Skills

Languages & Scripting JAVA, Groovy, Grails, JSP, C#, HTML / Java Script

RDBMS Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL

ETL Tools Pentaho (Kettle), SSIS, TSQL, PL/SQL

Reporting Tools Pentaho, Business Objects, Cognos 8, Microstrategy,

Actuate, BIRT

Operating Systems Unix (Solaris 8), Windows, Linux

Education

. Bachelor of Computer Science & Engineering, India. (May, 1999)

. Diploma in Computer Technology, India. (May, 1996)

Work Experience

Edifecs Inc, USA

Edifecs provides software that streamlines the exchange of information

among health plans, hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers and other

healthcare organizations.

Director of Engineering April

2013 - Till Date

Technical owner for Claims Dimension and Revenue Reconciliation Management

business solutions. The solutions integrate with customer's backend systems

and provides complex operational intelligence to reduce administrative cost

of processing and compliant trading with providers or government entities.

Engineering Manager November

2005 - March 2013

Transaction management application serves as a platform to store any EDI

data and provide real-time visibility and analytics on its data. The

product uses distributed repository architecture for scalability and

RESTful APIs to manage & scale resources based on need. The application

functions flawlessly on multi-terabyte data, can load hundreds of millions

of business items in fully scaled out mode.

Technologies: JAVA, JSP, Grails, Groovy, Elastic Search, Lucene, Hibernate,

Platforms: SQL Server or Oracle, any application server, Windows or *nix

O/S

Responsibility

. Own product development and timely delivery of platform and business

solutions.

. Hire and Mentor new development and QA team members for business

sustainability.

. Responsible for successful customer implementation of products.

. Responsible for architecture and design for scalability and performance

of all layers of enterprise application.

. Responsible for strategic planning of engineering teams and performance

review / growth plans of individual team members.

. Involved in requirement collection, design, impact analysis & responsible

for timely delivery of optimizations & enhancements.

. Responsible for feature prioritization, sprint planning and code & test

reviews for individual sprints.

Syntel Inc.

Syntel is a leading global provider of integrated information technology

and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) solutions spanning the entire

lifecycle of business and information systems and processes.

Project Manager January 2003 -

October 2005

DBA, Database Developer August 2000

- January 2003

Technologies: Oracle 8i/9i, Database Replication, JAVA, JSP, Perl

Platforms: Unix

Responsibility

. Project & Resource planning based on customer needs.

. Hiring and training team members for successful execution of projects.

. Team Lead (Database / Development / Production Support).

. Team lead for 18/7 production support team having an SLA of 0% tolerance.

. Responsible for requirement collection, database design, architecture,

time estimation and capacity planning.

. Involved in requirement collection, design, impact analysis & responsible

for timely delivery of enhancements.

. Designed & developed procedures for complete fail-over process involving

no downtime for the Valuelink system.

. Developed data marts & data migration procedures using TSQL, PL/SQL.

MeGA eServices, India

Software Engineer

July 1999 - August 2000

Environment: Visual Basic, COM, Java, Perl, CGI, Windows API, XML, ASP, SQL

Server, MySQL

Platforms: Windows, Linux

Responsibility

. Requirement Analysis, Database design / analysis

. System development, Unit and System testing of modules

. System deployment & Integration of System

Prakash Kava

7420, Newcastle Golf Club Road, Unit 5E, Newcastle, WA-98059

Phone: 425-***-****

Email: acgkck@r.postjobfree.com

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