PARUL JOSHI
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Professional HIGHLIGHTS
• 12+ years of software development and management expertise, in startup as well as
large company environments.
• Excellent at OOA&D, UML, Design Patterns and other industry must-haves.
• Architected and Implemented a Service Oriented Architecture framework for the entire
IS of the company.
• Go getter and “can-do” attitude combined with hands–on managerial and technical
approach got high risk projects to completion with high customer satisfaction.
• Managed several simultaneous releases with aggressive schedules improving quality
and customer satisfaction with each successive release.
• Proven track record of taking on more responsibility and growth through the
organization.
• Significantly increased efficiency and productivity by implementing agile development
methodology.
• Expert in Java/J2EE, .Net, C#, JSP, JavaScript, Web 2.0 technology, Web services, and
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) etc.
• Skilled in the usage development tools like of IDE’s, debuggers, database optimizers,
SQL analyzers, source control systems, Bug tracking, build systems etc
Experience
2008– 2009 Hewlett-Packard Software Seattle - WA
Senior Development/Engineering Manager for HP Network Automation (HP NA)
Responsible for the development teams for the product, reporting straight to the VP of
Engineering,
Key Contributions/Responsibilities
• Responsible the engineering organization for the product, a total of 25+ people.
• Strong technical hands-on and management approach lead to superior quality and on
time delivery of the product.
• Architected complex business requirements using latest Java EE tools/libraries.
• Significantly increased customer satisfaction by refining old and rolling out new
processes across the teams.
• Successfully lead several concurrent releases and projects by using effective release
planning, prioritization, scheduling, mentoring and recruiting
• Improved productivity, team communication and quality by implementing agile
practices like XP and Scrum.
• Drastically reduced attrition and improved team morale by creating a culture of more
accountability and better rewards and recognition.
2003–2008 Expeditors International of Washington Inc Seattle - WA
Development Manager (CRM)
Expeditors International is a leader in global Freight management.
Key Contributions/Responsibilities
• Lead teams of developers to meet ever changing business needs by developing
applications using solid OOA&D, UML, design patterns, Test Driven Development
and other industry recommendations.
• Used latest technologies like Hibernate, Spring, SOA, Web 2.0 technologies, etc to
ensure products were built with an eye to the future.
• Excellent multi-tasking, decision making, load carrying capabilities tied with effective
delegation and management techniques helped keep several critical projects on time
and within budget.
• Increased product quality by incorporating new development and QA practices and
standards.
• Worked as the “Agile/Scrum Master” helping the organization smoothly and
successfully transition from waterfall to Agile.
• Established effective communication channels between business and development,
and provided technical and business guidance to teams to ensure delivery of a good
product.
• Recruited the best talent in the industry for various disciplines on the technical side.
2002–2003 T-mobile Seattle - WA
Senior Software Developer
Worked as a senior member/architect of the development team hiring and mentoring other
members on developing software services using several different technologies like Java, C#
and several Web technologies.
2000-2002 Vykor Inc Seattle - WA
Software Developer
A start-up company that provided enterprise software for the manufacturing industry.
Worked as a software engineer using Java, Swing, OOA&D, UML etc.
This application was developed using agile methodology like XP and Scrum.
1997–2000 Citibank (CitiGroup) Mumbai - India
Associate Software Consultant
Worked on creating and enhancing software following SEI- CMM level 5 guidelines. Lead
Implementation teams for global rollouts for Y2K and introduction of the Euro.
Education / CERTIFICATIONS
Sun Certified Java Developer
Bachelors in Computer Science – Mumbai University, India