Ashwini Chandru

813-***-****

acrrah@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Around 8 years experience in successfully managing complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements.

Cerstified Scrum Master. Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.

Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments.

Effective communication skills and record for coordination between globally located teams.

Managing the communication between IT and Business, guiding the testing teams to adhere to the requirements and business needs.

Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing, Cutover and deployment.

Rich experience in translating Business requirements to understandable IT systems requirements and Implementing CMM Methods & Procedures across the organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Have experience as J2EE Developer in development and deployment of Java Enterprise Applications using JAVA, JSP, JDBC, J2EE, Spring, Web logic 8.1, jboss, WebSphere 5.x Application Servers, Tomcat, and UNIX (Solaris)/Linux Environment.

Have experience in HTML, XML, Servlets, JSP, Java Script, Threads, JDBC and WebServer

Excellent analytical and communication skills, used to convert written/verbal requirements into design/code.

I am very strong working with ORM Frameworks like Hibernate and as well as working with JPA API.

Experienced in content management system like Autonomy and search engines like SOLR, IDOL.

Implemented Web Service and consumed third party Web Services using SOAP, SOA, WSDL also very strong in Restful Web Services

Proficient in using Spring 3 framework. Worked on spring modules like core spring, spring MVC, Spring AOP and Spring ORM.

FUNCTIONAL

TECHNOLOGY

Assumes accountability for the project and its delivery

Creation and management of project management plans

Analysis and understanding of proprietary systems

Maintains status and metrics information in relevant project/program management tools

Status reporting and facilitating governance meeting. Also reporting burn-down charts.

Strong application development and systems integration background.

Make use of my excellent communication in partner with BA to manage the requirements

Budget planning and tracking

Risk management and Communication Plan

Leading presentations and meetings with executive stakeholders

Issue escalation procedure

Coordinate UAT, release and deployment activities

Step by step cutover or migration activities with back out plan

Spearheading Go/No-go discussions.

Experience in Enterprise Application Development/Maintenance with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including requirement definitions, prototyping, proof of concept, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance of various applications.

Languages : C, C++, Java, HTML.

Search Engine/CMS : SOLR, Autonomy (Idol)

Java Technologies : J2EE 5, EJB 3.0, JDBC, JMS, Design Patterns

Java Web : JSP, Servlets, Struts, Tag Libs, Applets, JavaScript

Web Technologies : HTML, DHTML, XML, XSL, DOM, AJAX, DWR, REST, Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI)

Data Management : EDW, DB2, Oracle, MS Access, SQL-Server 2000

Design Methodologies: OOAD, UML, Rational Rose

OS : Windows 98/2000/NT/XP

IDE/Case Tools : Eclipse, WebSphere, IRAD

App Frameworks : MVC, CXF, Struts, Spring, MyBatis

Configuration Tools : ClearCase, VSS

Build Tool : Ant, Maven

Freeware Tools : SoapUI

Tracking/Reporting : MPP, Jira, AtTask (Workfront), Rally

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

1.Pepsico DPP Jan2015 – Till Date

Projects

DPP – Daily Production Plan

DRP – Daily Resource Planning

Duration

Jan 2015 to Till date

Role

Scrum Master

Location

5600 Headquarters Dr, Plano, TX 75024

Operating Systems

Windows 8

Technology, Tools and Environment

Java 8, Spring, XML, MyBatis, REST Webservice, DAO, JUNIT, Mockito, Soap UI, Scrum Methodology, Rally, MPP

Description

Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach couple of Scrum teams responsible for developing software products and automated tool. The Projects included migration from .NET to Java technologies. The DPP includes components of the items information being produced and also the Job statuses and its progression. The user is provided with the User Iterface to select the location and other details that he/she needs to work with.

Roles and Responsibilities

Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)

Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs

Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours

Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment

Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups

Reported the weekly statuses and the daily burn down charts.

Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress using Rally.

2.Tampa Bay Times Apr 2014 – Jan 2015

Projects

New Product Development.

Duration

Apr 2014 to Jan 2015

Role

Scrum Master

Location

490 1st Ave S, St Petersburg, FL 33701

Operating Systems

Mac

Technology, Tools and Environment

Java 1.6, Spring, XML, XSL, Autonomy with Idol, SOLR, Google DFP/GPT, Tomcat Server, SVN, At-Task

Description

Tampa Bay Times provided an opportunity to revamp the advertisement’s on their website ‘tampabay.com’ which is implemented using Google GPT.

Projects included migration from IDOL to SOLR, performance enhancements, mobile app development on Android. As part of the ‘New Product Development’ team, the entire Search component was updated from Idol to the freeware SOLR to make it cost effective. Also performance improvement on the SOLR was implemented. Responsible for guiding the planning, tracking and day-to-day activities of Web development teams during its transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.

Roles and Responsibilities

Successfully migrated more than 4 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months

Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings

Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise

Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks

Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India.

Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption

Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%

Authored and persuasively presented proposal to executive team, and directed initiative to revamp the site search capabilities.

Used At-Task for daily hours tracking, reported weekly status and burn down charts.

Tuned the processes and approach based on the retrospective meetings to minimize potential hurdles.

3.Catalina Marketing Oct 2012 – March 2014

Projects

Catalina Marketing – TOLT Interface.

Duration

Oct 2013 to March 2014

Location

Carillon Parkway, St Petersburg, FL 33716

Operating Systems

Windows 2008

Technology, Tools and Environment

Java 1.5,Spring,XML,XSL,Tomcat Server, RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS, Spring MVC, GIT, Gradle

Description

Catalina Marketing - Catalina’s personalized digital media drives lift and loyalty for the world’s leading CPG retailers and brands. Catalina personalizes the consumer’s path to purchase through mobile, online and in-store networks powered by the largest shopper history database in the world.

The projects involved getting the tickets raised in Remedy Force, extract the details and create the files. This involved interaction with TOLT an external vendor.

Trained and managed a globally dispersed team to support Sun IT technology using Scrum methodologies. Goals of lowering application support costs. Identify support redundancies and tasks that can be reduced, eliminated, automated, or merged with

others.

Roles and Responsibilities

Managed requirements and design phase towards identifying mutually agreed solutions with technical teams and business partners.

Worked as Technical Project Manager, product planner and Business systems analyst for IT driven projects for TOLT Online group.

Restructuring and re-defining the SDLC process workflows for agile development using Agile/SCRUM methodology.

Implemented Internet applications using Java, J2EE, EJB, Struts etc.

Integrate TOLT systems with multiple vendor applications, using RESTful web api.

Worked in collaboration with contracting team to manage statement of work (SOW).

Responsible for prioritized backlog creation, stories/task estimation, planning monthly iteration and releases and running daily Scrum.

Engaged in strategic business planning and implementation of business initiatives.

Experience in establishing project baselines and tracking to the established baselines

Responsible for successful management of scope and schedule on technology projects.

Communicating and working with all internal departments including Data warehouse, Accounting, Business intelligence and other shared services.

Provided weekly status updates to senior management and the organization at large, including executive presentations and tailored communications as necessary.

Risk identification, risk logging and escalation of issues discovered.

Contributor in setting design and development standards.

Provide business insights as well as recommendations for changes.

4.TopX July 2009 - Jan 2011

Client

Oracle Corporation Pvt Ltd

Redwood City, CA

Platforms

Windows XP, Unix

Team Size

8

Role

Software Developer

Technology, Tools and Environment

Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Struts Framework, Web Services (WSDL, SOAP), CXF, soapUI 2.0, J2EE Design Patterns, WebShere 5.0, RAD, Oracle 9, VSS

Description

The TopX Portal is an internal tool for GCP team members to get a consolidated view of our most important customers, including:

Support Hierarchies and Revenue from Support Customer Intelligence

Customer Contacts from SCW and ESS

Oracle contacts from GRP and ESS

Reference Activities, Collateral and Products from GCM References

Product Revenue from Marketing Operations

Program Participation and interactions.

Customer Issues from CFS

Customer Feedback summaries

Roles and Responsibilities

Testing and Deployment of code onto the Development/QA server

Developing the services by creating the WSDL, XSD and creating the SOAP stub and Java stub using soapUI & CXF.

Fetching the data from Oracle database for using it to merge with the Web Services developed.

Understanding the business functionality of the system, preparing design document, developing the application according to the approved design, Unit and Integrated testing and reviewing the code.

Prepared technical documentation, performed analysis, created functional and technical specifications.

QA Activities using the Automated Testing Tool.

5.Reference Dashboard Feb 2009 – July 2009

Client

Oracle Corporation Pvt Ltd

Redwood City, CA

Platforms

Windows XP, Unix

Team Size

4

Role

Software Developer

Technology, Tools and Environment

Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Struts Framework, J2EE Design Patterns, WebShere 5.0, RAD, Oracle 9, VSS

Description

Reference Dashboard helps the Reference Managers/GCP Management to run various Statistics reports on Customer References, Collaterals and Reference Requests. This system would facilitate a centralized place for generating Reference Metrics. This would enable to consolidate the reporting requirements from every region.

Roles and Responsibilities

As a developer created programs for the requirement and unit tested to make sure it adheres to the specifications.

Validation of user inputs is done through Form Beans.

Created the JDBC related code which was used to connect to the DB2 database.

Struts Framework was followed for the application.

Request handling involved the coding on Java, Servlet & JDBC.

VSS was used as version control tool.

Creating unit test documentation

6.NOSDIG April 2008 – Jan 2009

Client

NOSDIG

Platforms

Windows XP

Team Size

7

Role

Software Developer

Technology, Tools and Environment

Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Struts Framework, J2EE Design Patterns, WebShere 5.0, RAD, Oracle 9, VSS, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g

Description

NOSDIG is an upcoming online shopping portal (www.nosdig.com).

Roles and Responsibilities

Part of the design team which made the database design.

Participated in design, development and testing.

Developed the Java code and Bean objects using the MVC design pattern (Struts)

Took part in the Designing of database tables.

Coded and tested stored procedures.

Was part of creating database objects, tables, views and indexes.

Created complex functions, stored procedures and packages by using PL/SQL for better performance.

7.DPS May 2007 – Mar 2008

Client

Barrick Gold Corporation, MARTA.

Platforms

Windows XP

Team Size

55

Role

Software Developer

Technology, Tools and Environment

Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Struts Framework, J2EE Design Patterns, WebShere 5.0, RAD, VSS, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, XML

Description

Deduction Payment System (DPS) greatly simplifies payment of the employees' voluntary deductions by automating the process which was previously paper-based and done manually. The clients of DPS include Barrick Gold Corporation, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transport Authority and City of Atlanta. The company offers services in the following areas:

Complete Solution for paying voluntary deductions in Oracle.

Complete Solution for garnishment processing.

DPS handles the following functions

Group/Hold payments and payment processing.

Information integration from HR/Payroll and AP.

Easy mapping of OAB, OSB and Standard deduction groups to appropriate vendor.

AP interface for invoice creation and check updates.

Sophisticated search and sort options.

Extensive list of Reports

Submission and tracking of processes and reports as concurrent jobs.

Multiple report display formats.

Built in date tracking and data validation.

Minimal data redundancy.

Roles and Responsibilities

Building design documents both functional and technical.

Interfacing with the clients with intent of requirement gathering & analysis to lay out the technical design.

Designing, coding, and providing bug fixes.

Developed the Java code, helper classes, Bean objects.

Performance tuning of SQL using Explain Plan after analyzing the table

Careful analysis & design of new change requests even at final stages of the project. Providing support to the client.

Responsible for configuration management & version control.

Value Addition

Provided insights into the Functional/Conceptual Design Documents and provided input on the impacted areas, Design flaws and estimates.

Training & knowledge transfer to the team and other developers.

8.GMS Oct 2006 – April 2007

Client

Nordstrom,

City of Atlanta

Platforms

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional/XP

Team Size

6

Role

Developer

Technology, Tools and Environment

Java, PL/SQL, XML, Oracle

Description

Exxor Corporation's Garnishment Management System (EGMS) simplifies company's garnishment processing manifold by automating hitherto paper based and manual tasks. Through a simple yet powerful user interface with Oracle HRMS and Accounts Payable, it integrates the set up of third parties, vendors, sites and garnishments. Information exchange with State Disbursement Units (SDU's) is made easy with the built in EFT capability.

Roles and Responsibilities

Enhancing EFT capabilities in GMS.

Installation of GMS on client database.

Involved in providing support to the client.

Interfacing with the client with intent of requirement gathering.

Requirement analysis to lay out the technical design.

EDUCATION, TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU), Karnataka, India.

Vidya Vikas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mysore

Aggregate percentage: 70.5

Intermediate college,

Department of Pre-University Education Karnataka,

JSS Pre-University College, Mysore

Percentage: 72

SSLC,

Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board,

Jnana Ganga, Mysore, Karnataka

Percentage: 80.66

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