Smita Gadkari
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Summary
Rational Tools Specialist with extensive background in Integration,
customization, Implementation, troubleshooting and administration of
rational tools, seeking a rational specialist position.
. Around nine years of experience in setting up the development environment
adhering to RUP principals for projects in banking and healthcare domain.
. Experience in Requirements gathering and management using tools like
Rational Requisite Pro and Rational Rose
. Strong experience in change management and defect tracking using Rational
Clear Quest. Thorough knowledge of customization of Clear quest schemas
using VB and Perl scripts.
. Strong experience in integration of rational tools using the Rational
Administrator
. Well versed with schema import/export and data migration using rational
maintenance tool.
. Strong relational database modeling experienced with DB2 and SQL Server.
. Versatile team player & fast learner with excellent client management,
inter-personal communication skills and presentation abilities.
. Extensively experienced in conducting training for users on the
implemented tools and processes.
EDUCATION
Masters of Business Administration - Institute of Management Education.
Pune, India.
Bachelor of Commerce- Pune, India
Certifications
RUP (IBM): Rational certified RUP Consultant
CAPM (PMI): Certified Associate in Project Management
MCP Microsoft Certified in Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications
with VB.
Technologies and Tools
Requirements Management: Rational Requisite Pro
Defect and Change Management: Rational Clear Quest
Configuration management: Rational Clear Case
Testing: Rational Test Manager and CQTM
Process framework: RUP
Scripts: VB and Perl
Databases: DB2 and SQL Server
Professional Experience
Location: IBM India Client: IBM Global applications, Netherlands
(Aug 2007 till June 2009)
- Involved in providing solutions to clients using rational tools.
- Setting up development environment, providing technical support and
customization of the existing systems in various domains.
My Contribution:
. Provided solutions to customers in Change management and defect
tracking tools. Designed database schemas as per client requirements.
. Trouble shooting and issue tracking.
Location: IBM India Client: IBM ABN Amro, Netherlands
(Aug 2006 till June 2007)
- Involved in providing solutions to clients using rational tools.
- Setting up development environment, providing technical support and
customization of the existing systems in banking domain.
- Involved extensive interaction with EDS for hardware and user database
support.
My Contribution:
. As a Technical Lead was responsible for a team of 5 offshore and 2
onsite resources
. Set up and support all the rational tools that form the SDLC
environment.
. Work as a bridge between the onsite support and offshore team.
. Record, track and report daily issues.
. Troubleshoot all rational tool related issues that were implemented in
the ABN environment (Reqpro, Clearquest, Testmanager and Clearcase in
UCM enron.)
. Customize products as per the client requirements.
. Provide Estimates, Risk and Impact for a request.
. Coordinate with the onsite support and users for deciding the
timelines for tool drops or other related issues.
. Raise requests with EDS helpdesk for hardware/user creation and other
issues
Location: IBM India Client : Caremark Inc. USA
(June 2005 till June 2007)
- Provide clinical care and pharmaceutical health care services.
- Development and software support.
- Provide solutions and support projects that implemented rational
products.
My Contribution:
. Designed a common Clear Quest schema for all the projects in the
Caremark account. Also involved customizing the tool to meet the
project needs.
. Defined a process for the defect management and change requests
management.
. Integrated Clear Quest, Requisite Pro and Test manager.
. Reports generation.
. Implemented the process of Requirements management using the Rational
Requisite Pro tool,
. Provided training to all the team members of all the projects to
implement the tools and follow the processes.
. Carried out mentoring activities so as ensure that the processes are
being followed and required reports are being generated.
Apart from the above projects supported multiple projects for Rational
Products in a shared delivery mode, also administered the rational
project servers at the Pune location.
Location: Interlink Inc. India Client: Archstone Smith, USA
(Dec 2004 till May 2005)
- Development project with primary module being the interest calculator
- Use case analysis, design traceability with test cases and test scripts.
- Requirements management and designing the traceability matrices.
My Contribution:
. Requirements management using Rational Requisite pro
. Designing requirements to test cases traceability matrix
. Use case analysis
. Designing test cases and test scripts using Star Team
. Defect tracking
Location: Interlink Inc. India Client: POD printing service, USA
(Sept 2004 till Nov 2004)
- Development project involved interfacing with Zebra printers
- Use case analysis, design traceability with test cases and test scripts.
- Requirements management and designing the traceability matrices.
My Contribution:
. Project management
. Responsible for team of 4
. Customer interaction
. Resolving time and budget issues
Location: Interlink Inc. India Client: Denver Health Immunization Registry
(Sept 2003 till Aug 2004)
- Involved managing the Immunization registry system across all the
immunization clinics in Denver.
- Streamlining the immunization process by managing patients' vaccination
history.
- Centrally controlling the vaccine database and immunization history
My Contribution:
. Requirements management using Rational Requisite pro
. Designing requirements to test cases traceability matrix
. Use case analysis
. Designing test cases and test scripts using Star Team
. Defect tracking using Star Team
Location: Softlink Technologies Pvt. Ltd. India Client: Kysor Panels Pvt.
Ltd.
(Feb 2001 till Dec 2002)
- A B2B online shopping portal
- Involved designing a web site so as to enable users to view, place
orders for the listed products.
My Contribution:
. Instrumental in developing the product catalogue.
. Involved in Database designing
. Developing the sessions and Application start/end modules
Location: Sammon Software services India
(March 2000 till Jan 2001)
- Web based job posting and matching (Keyword based) site. Allows a client
to post open positions and update corporate profiles. Allows candidate
to apply for the open positions. Search skills based available
positions.
My Contribution:
. Web Design, Developer
. Designed and developed Client interface pages and Candidate Resume
posting page.