Sql Server Quality Control

Manish Sharma

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DIRECTOR - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Information Technology ~ Software Development ~ Strategic Planning

. Senior IT Director with over fifteen years of technical management

experience, have led onsite-offshore teams, heading the

architecture/development/QA departments and providing technical project

management, analysis following complete SDLC and architecture and

strategic development solutions using Agile, SOA and software design

patters.

. Seasoned professional, with unique combination of business and technology

providing outstanding project/budget planning, goal setting, execution,

monitoring and resource balancing skills with managing interactive

technology projects from concept to production within schedule, budget

and quality guidelines.

. Effectively training, motivating and mentoring junior managers,

engineers, architects and developers.

. Through a combination of teamwork and individual contribution, bringing

business, technology & users together and getting the work done.

. Excellent organizational ability, communication and skills.

CORE AND LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

Believe in planning and executing IT Architecture Implementation

Excellent team builder Project management

Technology Mergers & Integration Vendor & Contract Management

Managing/Developing people Offshore team management

Strong analytical, planning & Hands-on leader

organizational skills Extensive Network Management skills

Strategic Technical Vision Extensive telecommunications knowledge,

Effective mentor ISP, ACD, Call Tree

Planning/Budgeting Broad IT/MIS/CTI knowledge

Customer oriented IT Infrastructure & Operations (ITSM,

Quality focused ITIL)

Design/Implementation/Infrastructure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

06/04 - present

Horizon BCBS of NJ - Director Application

Development

Provide executive leadership as head of software and application development.

Lead, motivated, mentored, managed and headed the software development group

(architects, business analysts, programmers, DBA's and QA) planning,

coordinating, directing and designing all software applications.

Lead offshore team of programmers and QA resources.

Won 14 awards in the first 2 years of service for successful execution of

various IT projects.

Spear headed the migration and integration of data sources of various legacy

systems to web applications (.NET, C#, Java, J2EE, SQL Server) using Agile

bringing in over 300% efficiency.

Using C#, .NET, SQL Server, DTS packages, RFT - led the architecture and

application development of automating claims processing and resolving pends

increasing First Pass Rate to 85% from 52%.

Lead a team of architects - DBA's to fully automate the processing/generation of

HIPAA compliant 834 benefit and enrollment files, loading of provider and other

subcon files by creating SQL jobs/packages.

Introduced a simplified SDLC model, called the SABRE (Scope Architect Build

Release Evolve) which was adopted company wide as the standard of development,

providing uniformity across departments.

Developed processes/applications, which maintain data security and data

integrity on the databases to ensure regulatory compliance. Assisted the

organization in achieving URAC and NCQA accreditations.

Strict development controls and processes resulted in successful SOX audit for

the last 4 years.

Strategic Thinking - Created an inspiring dept vision and implemented a positive

new direction that quickly turned around an existing, dysfunctional team of

managers/programmers/network admins into an effective, cohesive unit and

increased productivity.

Responsible for the planning, execution and management of the teams, budgeting,

setting goals for the architecture/programming/QA depts, hiring/assigning

resources, quality control of projects.

11/01 - 06/04 SimStar, NJ (pharma eBiz) - IT Manager

Responsible for managing the architecture, programming, network and QA

departments reporting directly to the CTO. Also managed offshore resources, both

for programming and QA.

Managed multiple technical project teams and resources (team sizes from 10-18

people) using various technologies, from jsp to asp from servlets to .NET to

vbs, from Windows to Unix, from SQL Server to Oracle to deliver successfully on

numerous complex projects in a time and resource constricted environment.

Prepared business and technical solution proposals/documents for clients and to

pitch new business.

Introduced formal standards, policies and guidelines for the company (SABRE,

DAM, 360, Strategy Hour) to boost the morale of the employees and to better

manage projects.

Directed vendor management, database/server administration, and technical

helpdesk for over 200 users.

Drove production support, enterprise-wide disaster recovery plans, data security

and data encryption to protect member PHI.

Decision-making authority on all technology and organizational issues for the

company.

Responsible for the planning, execution and management of the departments,

budgeting, setting goals for the network/tech/QA depts, assigning resources,

quality control, and work progress of projects.

01/99 - 11/01 American Financial Group, NY - Technical Team

Lead

Lead the tech and QA departments with hands-on coding and working both on-site,

off-site for several financial and fixed income projects involving municipal

bond trading.

Designed, architected and developed n-tier sites using various technologies

Lead several simultaneous projects of various team sizes (8-15 developers and

3-5 QA members)

Prepared technical specs, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, Use Cases using UML

and RUP.

Lead several brainstorming sessions to improve user experience.

07/97 - 01/99 NECA, Whippany, NJ - Sr. Developer

WECARE (Web Enabled Customer Application and Relationship Express)

Developed modules using Java, J2EE, JSP, Websphere, Oracle 7.3, UML, JavaScript.

Designed and implemented optimistic locking of records.

Implemented Java, J2EE on Websphere. Data came through Oracle and jsp/HTML files

served the front end.

Designed and implemented general utility classes used across components.

11/96 - 07/97 GE Supply, NY - Java Developer

Worked on several n-tier websites using Java, Servlets, JSP, Weblogic, Oracle,

SQL Server and Javascript

Developed sites using IIS, ASP, Index Server, vbs. Implemented JavaScript

modules for validating user input.

Worked on automatic generation of reports.

09/95 - 10/96 TERA Technologies - Systems Analyst

Did complete development and testing of Netscape Navigator Plug-in using VC++,

MFC, extending the browsers capability to support other graphic file formats

such as tiff/cgm/dxf/c4/mlr.

Developed several Adobe Acrobat Plug-ins using VC++, SDK to support annotations

on PDF documents.

Designed and developed a user friendly Screen Editor for the UNIX with pull down

menus using curses library.

Education

. BS in Computer Science (Bombay University)

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