Development Quality Assurance

Sri Anne

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Profile

Results Oriented IT Executive with significant leadership experience in

Application Development, Web and Mobile platforms for organizations

Business Experience

I have a broad range of experience, having worked in Manufacturing, Travel,

New Media, Entertainment, Airlines and News industries. My systems

experience includes secure B2B & B2C Portals, Mobile Portals, eCommerce

Systems, Social Media platforms, SEO, CMS, CRM and Identity Management

Systems.

Competencies

> Strong business acumen, gained by working collaboratively with senior

executives, subject matter experts, partners and vendors on end-to-end

solutions.

> Building high performance teams to capitalize on technology and create

innovative products and services. Implementing technology delivery

strategies to increase revenue through focusing on business value and

increasing efficiency in software development execution.

> Extensive experience in building and scaling offshore teams

> Implemented Agile development processes (SCRUM) for distributed

development teams.

> Culturally aware, having worked in Europe, India and US. Extensive

experience of working with offshore partners and teams.

Experience

05/2008 to Till Date

Senior Director, IT, PR Newswire, New Jersey, USA

> Accountable for technical execution for Product development initiatives,

ensuring engagements are scoped, executed and delivered according to

planned terms

> Full responsibility of all disciplines of Technology groups such as

Business Analysis, Software Development, Quality Assurance and Project

Management, leading global team of 40+ professionals.

> Working with functional heads to create technology and product roadmaps.

> Scope development, resource allocation, schedule and cost

estimation/planning for technology projects and phases involving

technology

> Perform build vs. buy analysis, identify and qualify vendors, negotiate

and formulate contracts and SLA's.

> Led and evangelized agile development processes across the company.

Transitioned 4 development teams to Scrum, coaching and mentoring teams.

Active member of team working on implementing Agile Product Management

Framework for PR Newswire.

> Managed for end-to-end delivery of several multi-million dollar projects

including: Creating a Social Media Monitoring platform, CMS

implementation, Identity Management System rollout, Deploying a specialist

Social network,Single Sign On system deployment, Mobile website launch,

Secure Customer portal launch, Search system deployment, e-Billing

deployment and several product upgrades, using .NET, Java, LAMP, Ruby and

Oracle Package technologies.

> Led efforts to reduce application infrastructure, which yielded 35%

reduction in infrastructure in 6 months

> Established goals for the user experience design, oversight on

Information Architecture and usability studies including card sort

exercises, design of personas, QFD and prototyping exercises with

customers

> Identify and implement SEO, web analytics and mobile strategies for PR

Newswire.

11/2005 to 05/2008:

Manager, Business Systems Group, PR Newswire, New Jersey, USA

> Managing a team of Business Analysts, oversaw for analysis activities at

PR Newswire for a number existing products and new initiatives,

effectively bridging business and technology.

> Worked with business leaders & partners to elaborate several new product

ideas, cross-functional process improvement initiatives, supported

business case development, making best practice recommendations to

influence project direction and managed stakeholder expectations.

> My role includes business process modelling and optimisation, planning

and overseeing analysis activities, workshop facilitation & documentation

of requirements using UML and managing project scope.

> Responsibility for ensuring the quality of deliverables. Created policies

to facilitate effective requirements gathering & documentation, monitor

quality of the outputs, and solicit feedback from stakeholders on the

effectiveness of the process.

> Managerial activities including responsibility for recruitment of the

team, identifying training needs, carrying out performance appraisals,

ensuring compliance with departmental procedures and preparing budget

proposals.

01/2004 to 11/2005

Development Manager, PR Newswire, Oxford, U.K

> Lead a team of Developers, responsible for the successful delivery of

enhancements to existing products and systems, working in conjunction with

the Business Analyst and Project Management teams.

> Architected large volume, scalable internet systems using frameworks and

technologies such as JSP, JSTL, Struts, Tomcat, Apache, Weblogic, JBoss,

Oracle and Hibernate.

> My role included elaborating requirements, designing solutions using

industry standard patterns and designs, creating UML Design artefacts and

keeping them up to date.

> Responsible for the recruitment of the development team. Conducted staff

appraisals and developed personal career plans for the team

> Successfully introduced and implemented standards for development

including Requirements Standards, Logging. Coding and testing standards.

09/2001 to 01/2004

Sr. Technical Analyst, HyByte Solutions and Services Ltd, London, U.K

> Leading a team of software developers, was responsible for the

successful development of various mobile applications and product

designs, working with vendors/partners including Vodafone, O2 & t-

Mobile using Java and J2EE technologies

> Pre-sales support, including new product presentations, assisting

marketing department in the product promotion process and helping

clients to understand and evaluate the company's products.

> Was involved in producing software blueprints for innovative projects

including m-commerce initiatives for local government in the UK.

> Convinced top level management of the need for a disciplined approach

to software development in the company, proposed and actively

participated in implementation of extreme programming.

07/2000 to 08/2001:

Software Executive, LBi Group, London, U.K

> Was a part of the development team responsible for designing and

developing high-performance B2C web sites including an eCommerce

system for an airline and an entertainment portal for a TV Channel

using Java and J2EE technologies

> Responsibilities included requirements elaboration, active

participation in technical architectural design and development of the

content management system used for the site and configuration

management.

> Participated in usability studies to evolve the interface to meet

accessibility and usability standards of clients.

04/1998 to 06/2000:

Software Engineer, InfoTech Enterprises Limited, Hyderabad, India

> Worked on the design and development of projects such as a Navigation

System for Palm Devices (C++/VC a Web based HTML Editor (Java), a

Timesheets System (Java, ASP), an ERP System (VB, Oracle) and an

Applicant Tracking System(VB).

> I was trained and was responsible of implementation of ISO 9001

standards across multiple projects in the company.

Formal Education and Professional Certifications

> MBA, Thames Valley University, London

> Bachelor of .Engineering (Computer Science and Technology), India.

> Certified Scrum Master

> Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

> PRINCE2 Certified Professional

> Sun Certified Java Professional

> ISO 9001 Trained

> Pragmatic Marketing Framework.

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