EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Working in Information Technology for 18+ years and have experience in Banking and Financial Industry, Manufacturing & Distribution, Supply Chain, Health Care and Education

• Have played roles as Project Manager / Product In-charge, Project Leader, Team Lead, Developer

• Involved in developing applications in nTier, Client/Server, Real-time Automated systems

SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

• Working with offshore development team, onsite team handles QA activities

• Ability to closely track, manage and take ownership of all phases of projects

• Play role as a main point of contact regarding project status, change control, issue resolution, scope definition and requirements analysis

• Project Execution, Operations and maintenance, customer follow-ups

• Excellent communication skills displayed, while interacting with client, support groups, management and development team

• Process oriented approach to delivery ensuring high quality

• Well versed with Project management activities like planning, schedule, risk management, communications management, work breakdown structure, project estimates, contingency planning, backup and disaster recovery

• Have involved in developing diligent project metrics, analyzing them and presenting accurate and appropriate information in right forms (Dashboards, Reports etc) to Senior Management

• Have experience in planning, direction, coordination, and daily supervision of projects. Identifies, tracks, escalates, and help solve issues & conflicts

• Have experience with client interaction, planning, system analysis, design & development, integration QA tests & implementation

• Have successful track record of managing large projects, meeting project milestones, and developing long-term relationships with clients

• Have directed teams, motivated associates, united as one team and lead towards project goal

• High analytical skills, troubleshooting ability

• Translating User Requirements into templates, proto-types, System architecture & flow design and Database detailing

• Resource management skills – Evaluating, Hiring, Appraising

EDUCATION

Diploma in Computer Science & Engineering (3 years)

Bachelor of Business Administration (3 years)

DETAILED PROJECT EXPERIENCE (In reverse chronological order)

Morgan Stanley, Warren, NJ

Aug 2010 – Till date

Business: Grapevin reengineering (middleware)

Role: Technical Project manager

• FA place orders (Equity, Insurance, Mutual Fund) using Grapevin desktop applications

• Managing GV Reengineering effort, Reengineered Toolbar, GVNetRouter & GV support activities

• Conduct status review, progress review meetings with offshore development team (daily, weekly based on the project phase)

• Handle coordination efforts with various GV app owners, QA team, app entitlements, MF team

• Have written scripts, which launches GV components for WinXP & Win7

• Co-ordinate with horizontal APPDEV teams, who are direct users of reengineered infrastructure, confirm delivery, software upgrade, align support efforts to avoid fallbacks

• Prepare detailed project plan to track detailed task level activities.

• Have ownership to make sure delivery of code build, MF service development, QA activities, HP packaging, Tivoli wrapping for software distribution, planning deployment & communication, remediation & support

• Prepare weekly status report, dashboards to measure weekly progress of each project, present the same to higher management

• Worked with Technical writer, help prepared TWiki documentation for GV

• Worked with communication team, packaging teams and s/w deployment team for smooth deployment

Business: Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Joint Venture Conversion

Role: PMO Project Manager

• Managing FX, Futures & Precious Metals, Call Centers tracks Data Conversion

• Conduct meeting with team members for weekly status review, bi-weekly meeting with higher management for progress review

• Managed teams consisting of app owner, technical analyst, business analyst, team leader, and other resources, vendors - identify & define business requirements and track development

• Co-ordinate vendors efforts, keep close track of project phases, confirm timely delivery, avoid fallbacks

• Prepare detailed project plan for each track to monitor task level activities

• Prepare weekly status report for MSSB leadership team, dashboards to measure weekly progress of each track for conversion

• Work with track / team to identify issues, risks, dependencies & assumptions, find resolution and have mitigation plan for issues & risks

• Worked with Smith Barney team in collecting sample file, to facilitate data mapping activity

• Responsible for managing changes to track’s scope via integrated change control

• Prepare & post weekly status report on share point website, Project & Portfolio Management site

Experian AML, Miami, FL

Dec 2009 – July 2010

Business: Core Business domain: - Developed software for Anti-money Laundering

Role: Project Module Leader

Responsibilities:

• Leading team initiative for core business domain to achieve software development

• Enabling the software to use in Multiple languages like English, Japanese, Spanish – to cater multiple customer / Bank need

• Involved in front-end and back-end design and project flow

• Maintaining optimal resource utilization and costs

• Competency management for fostering innovation

• Coordination with Marketing team to improve/enhance customer satisfaction

• Have initiated meetings to keep the project phases, timely delivery, avoided fallbacks

Trinity Data Solutions, Flemington, NJ

Apr 2007 – Nov 2009

Business: Software development, custom solutions provider

Role: Project Leader, Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements, decided scope of project

• Project planning, keep tracking / maintaining schedules

• Delivered proto-types to customer, attained approval for phase development

• Coordination and delivery responsibility for separation and integration projects

• Making sure quality and project milestones are met

• Have scored name as successful mentorship model

• Worked with team during implementations and collected custom improvements

• Handled release in stages and got approval on them upon successful implementation

• Followed development standards to make system ready for future solutions

• Status reporting to the client on timely basis

• Issues tracking system used to keep customer intact

Amano Cincinnati, Roseland, NJ

Mar 2006 – Mar 2007

Business: Real time solutions provider

Role: Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on up-converting old system to new

• Involved in project planning meetings and proposed better development standards

• Ranked as better team player through hard work, quick solutions

• Involved with test team and taken inputs to make better improvements

• Involved in meetings with support team to understand pitfall to be avoided in new system

• Handled release for testing team

• Issues tracking system used to keep errors & fixes

Trinity data solutions, Hillsborough, NJ

Aug 2000 – Dec 2005

Business: Software development, custom solutions provider

Role: Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing software, designing databases

• Introduced better code standard for whole team to follow and improve

• Involved in bring new technologies, components to speed-up, as well make better system

• Involved in meetings with clients to discuss, issues, enhancements and new requests

• Developed custom reports using various development tool

• Involved in analyzing existing system and see ways to better improve the same

• Worked with ERP solution team, to make sure that custom developments gets integrated seamlessly

• Involved in hiring new talents

HCL Technologies Ltd., Chennai, India

Jun 1999 - July 2000

Business: Software Development Company

Role: Team Leader, Member Tech. Staff

Responsibilities:

• Played role of Team Leader, managed multiple team members

• Helped team members to understand code development (they were inducted from another developing environment)

• Worked with testing team

• Support development cycle

Botree Software International Ltd., Chennai, India

May 1998 - June 1999 Role: Product In-charge

Sankhya Systems & Controls Pvt. Ltd., India

Feb 1996 - May 1998 Role: Project Manager, Sr. Developer

AUM Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India

Apr 1994 - Dec 1995 Role: Software Developer

Sri Lakhsmi Systems Products, Chennai, India

Feb 1993 – Mar 1994 Role: Software Developer

RK Power controls, Chennai, India

May 1992 - Feb 1993 Role: Software Developer

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Knowledge and Abilities Framework

C#, WinForms, GUI interfaces & custom \ .Net 3.5, 2.0, 1.1 & Compact Framework 2.0

Controls, Windows Services, ASP.NET \ Design Patterns

WebForms, Web applications, AJAX, SOA, \ Factory method implementing Decorator &

SOAP, WSDL, Multi threaded real-time \ Proxy patterns \ Model View Control

Software development, SQL Scripting \ Creational Patterns

(Involved in all levels of development)\ Prototype Pattern \ Pluggable Adapter pattern

Development Environment Relational Database

MS Visual Studio .NET 2008, 2005, 2003\ SQL Server [versions 2005, 2000, 7, 6.5] \

Borland Delphi (versions 2009, 2006, 8, 7, Oracle [10, 8], MySQL, SQL-Anywhere, \

5, 3, 2, 1), [Java – mid-level development] \ Interbase / FireBird, MS-Access DBMS \

C++, Pascal, PHP, FoxPro, Clipper \ like MAS90 ProvideX, SQLite, Paradox, dBase\

Reporting tools Tools (Design, Planning, and Methodology)

SQL Server Reporting Service, SQL \ Microsoft Project (Desktop / Server), Axosoft \

Server Notification Services, Crystal Reports \ OnTime, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Visio, Team

[2008, 9, 8], DevExpress XtraReports, \

Fast-Reports .Net & VCL, Delphi Quick Reports\

Tools for Development Customer Support

Developer Express (.Net & VCL), WebEx, PC-Anywhere, GoToMyPC, LiveMeeting \

IPWorks (.Net), LeadTools (v15), \ NetMeeting

Loftware Barcode Label, TurboPower, \

LMD Controls, Woll2Woll Controls, \

Crystal Reports Merge Modules\

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