Project Manager Software Engineer

Shilpika Khera

Hercules, CA ***** 408-***-**** (C)

************@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

. PMP and Scrum Master certified Project Manager with more than 10 years of

experience in the insurance and professional services industry.

. Strong client and vendor management skills with the ability to identify

and resolve challenging project issues.

. Strong technical background with the ability to hit the ground running.

. Experience with Agile and Waterfall development methodologies like SDLC,

RUP and Scrum.

. Experience using Rational tools, MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, MS Excel

. Technical expertise include extensive knowledge of Java/J2EE

applications, EAI/Messaging products, multi-tier application

architecture, e-commerce systems and operations, process establishments,

and complete delivery management both in B2B and B2C.

. Self-motivated team player with excellent oral and written communication

skills.

DETAILS OF WORK EXPERIENCE

StoneRiver Inc, Oakland, CA

May 2005-Present

Senior Project Manager

Projects(s): Majestic Insurance/Comp Options

Strong project management experience engaged in all aspects of project life

cycle from requirements definition through development, implementation and

support. Responsible for successfully delivering multiple high visibility

projects utilizing cutting-edge technologies with budgets over $5M. Key

responsibilities include:

. Establishing baseline project requirements and monitoring project

scope.

. Establish and maintain a project governance plan

. Managing the change control process with cost or schedule implications

. Managing work plans, schedules, milestones, critical paths and project

scope

. Forecasting demand and resources, delivering executive status reports,

facilitating steering committee meetings and executive briefings, risk

management, resource management and prioritization planning.

. Tracking, managing and communicating progress to customers and

StoneRiver management

. Managing virtual teams spanning multiple time-zones and offshore

. Participating in recruiting, hiring and performance appraisals

. Proven leader with ability to build and motivate high-performing

teams.

. Responsible for conducting post-implementation reviews and communicate

lessons learned

Lead Software Engineer

Project: State Of California Insurance Fund

Lead development on the State Fund Policy management system project.

Planned and managed several projects that released on time and on budget.

Mentored and supported the team.

. In-depth knowledge of all the aspects of the product including

business functionality, technology, database modeling, and integration

with other State Fund products.

. Led product development effort for inter company communication board

(bulletin board) using the State Fund Online website.

Bearingpoint Inc. (Former KPMG Consulting)

Nov. 2004-May 2005

Senior Software Engineer

Project: Carlyle Group / Hawaiian Telecom

Environment: TIBCO Businessworks 5.x, EMS Server, JMS, TIB Rendezvous, XML,

PeopleSoft 8.8, CVS, Remedy ARS 6.0 (Client Only), Oracle 9i

Implemented the provisioning of a new and comprehensive computing

infrastructure to support the telephone system in the state of Hawaii and

replace an existing semi manual system.

. Closely worked with the client to analyze, design and develop the

business processes to integrate a PeopleSoft based Order Management

System using TIBCO Businessworks and the EMS server.

. Designed a TIBCO BW process to integrate the Remedy ARS system for

trouble ticket creation.

. Developed a JMS - RV Bridge to convert messages between JMS and TIB

Rendezvous middleware.

Accenture Ltd.

Nov.2002-Nov. 2004

Senior Programmer Analyst

Project: eBay Inc/ Online Dispute Resolution

Environment: JDK 1.4, XML, Oracle 9i, UNIX, Rational ClearCase 4.2,

Rational ClearQuest 2001, IBM's WSAD 5.1, IBM Websphere, eBay Application

Development Framework.

Implemented Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) systems to help eBay users

amicably resolve and manage disputes around transactions and payments.

Complete ownership of the Data Access Layer for the module incorporating

pagination, sorting and filtering. Closely worked with the client to

analyze, design and develop a rule based dispute closure module.

Project: eBay Inc/ Attribute Management System

Environment: Java Swing, JDK 1.4, XML, Oracle 9i, Rational ClearCase 4.2,

Rational ClearQuest 2001, IBM's WSAD 5.0, Perl, Unix

Developed a swing based Attribute Management System to facilitate "defining

and managing metadata", to control attributes-driven functionality for

eBay. Sole Ownership of the complex "Publish module" from conception to

delivery.

Programmer Analyst

Project: Siebel Systems / Universal Application Network

Environment: TIBCO Businessworks, Siebel 7.x, MS SQL Server, XML, XSLT,

XSD, Windows NT and Rational's Clearcase.

Developed a complex adapter suite to integrate Siebel application with

traditional back-office applications. Activities included basic data

validations, transformations and mappings, implementation of complex

business logic to convert and process data from the source system to the

target system. Developed common object relationships between the source and

the target systems and the associated business integration processes for

the same. Modified Siebel workflows, events and runtime processes for

workflows.

InfoGain Inc. (India)

Jan.2000-Mar. 2002

Sr. Java/J2EE/EAI Programmer

Project: TIBCO Adapter Suite

Environment: TIBCO suite of products, Weblogic server 6.0, Oracle 8i, JMS,

EJB, XML, Windows NT and GNU's CVS

Developed an Adapter Suite using middleware to provide out of the box

solutions for integrating various CRM and ERP applications.

Responsibilities included design and development of different components

(product specific and MOM specific) to help assemble adapters rapidly and

easily.

Project: ACTA Technologies

Environment: ACTA suite of products, Weblogic server 6.0, Oracle 8i, JMS,

XML, Windows NT, GNU's CVS.

Worked as technical expert of JMS to design and develop EAI JMS adapter for

integrating JMS enabled applications with ERP, CRM or Legacy systems using

ActaWorks.

Designed and developed a DTD Mapping tool for the Siebel system to convert

the Integration and Business Components in the Siebel System, to their

corresponding DTDs

Project: Capstan Inc.

Environment: Weblogic 5.0, JSP, EJB, Java Beans, Servlets, JDBC, XML,

JavaScript, Visual Caf , Actuate E-Reporting Suite, Oracle 8i, Visual

Source Safe, Windows NT

Developed a web based logistics tool to enable end-to-end visibility and

control of the international trade process in real time. Designed and

developed user catalog, routing engine and reporting modules using J2EE

technologies.

Ravvin Software Pvt. Ltd (India)

Jun 1999 - Jan 2000

Software Engineer

Project: Up4Auctions.com

Environment: Weblogic 5.0, JSP, EJB, Java Beans, Servlets, JDBC, XML,

JavaScript, Visual Caf , Oracle 8i, Visual Source Safe, Windows NT, Linux

Key responsibility included designing and developing extensible and

reusable modules (selling, buying, user registration and authentication) to

implement the entire bidding functionality for the Auction site

UP4Auctions.com using the MVC (Model View Controller) architecture.

Successfully integrated and ported the auction site from Windows NT to

Linux environment

EDUCATION

Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India, Master of Computer

Application

Delhi University, Delhi, India, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

. Project Management Professional Training and Certification (PMP)

. Scrum Master Training and certification (CSM)

. Project Management Fundamentals

. Project Estimation techniques

. Sun Certified Java Developer (SCJD)

. BEA Weblogic Platform 8.1 - Rapid Application Development

. BEA Weblogic Integration Platform - WLI

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