Software Engineer

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Summary:

Over ** years of Software Development, Implementation, Technical Team

Management and Software Architecture experience.

o Fully accountable for the management of project timelines, scope

and milestones for several concurrently executing projects. Managed

the complete Software Development Lifecycle as well as Enterprise

Application Lifecycle.

o Practiced Scrum and other agile methodologies such as iterative

development cycles and integrated them with PMO objectives.

o Managed distributed software development teams.

o Presented and participated at symposiums on Formal Software

Development methods. Presented the paper "Confluence of EVM,

Quality Control & Software Architectural metrics".

o Received "Intuit Innovative Impact-2007" award for introducing new

Software Development Methodology at the Enterprise level.

o Strong educational background, relevant professional certificates -

PMP and Sun Certified Enterprise Java Architect

o Expert in Web Architectures (SOA & EAI), OOAD, Java Application

Servers, Software Design Patterns, Data Modeling & Integration.

Objective: Seeking a position as Senior Software Project/Development

Manager.

Experience:

EJ Partners, LLC -San Diego May 2008-June

2009

Sr. Manager - Enterprise Application Projects

7-Eleven Program: Managed a team of 12 distributed developers to

deliver V2 of the E-Commerce platform. The distributed platform

integrated centralized Inventory Management System with local vendor

Supply Chains.

. Initiation Phase: Participated in customer pain points and vision

statement draft meetings. Drafted Service Acceptance & Delivery

Targets.

. Planning Phase: Led "Statement of Requirements" meetings. Created fine

grained WBS through Architectural Functional Decomposition. Defined

team as well as individual activities to form baseline master plan.

Assisted in Cost and Budgeting estimations. Defined software metrics

for tracking (Quality Control & EVM reporting).

. Execution & Closing Phase: Led daily scrum meetings. Laid out the

Architecture for ESB integration, based on the principles of Loose

Coupling and Cohesiveness. Supervised creation of all Software

Architectural deliverable artifacts (Sequence Diagrams and Entity

Relation Diagrams). Tracked daily software development progress

through nightly builds. Owned Risk Register and Issue Mitigation.

Triage regularly with QA & Product Management. Presented EVA status to

executive management at 7-Eleven. Gave guidelines to QA for

Performance & Load Testing.

Intuit, San Diego

January 2005-April 2008

Software Manager

. Managed matrix structured Software Development teams on several

concurrently executing projects.

. Reinforced sense of accountability to developers - lead by example.

. Sought by fellow PMs to assist them on their projects. Leveraged

strong Enterprise Java background to provide them with unique insight

to prioritize, baseline and control changes on their projects.

. Commended for introducing Enterprise wide processes to tame the cowboy

coding culture prevailing amongst developers.

. Created Software Project Metrics Library, specially tuned to manage

Enterprise Java projects.

. Made presentations to upper management that led to expanded business

opportunities.

. Received strong support and high performance rating from Senior

Management for orchestrating change, leading by example and

trailblazing.

. Received commendation from Maria Shriver (first lady of California)

for contributing on her charity project.

Union Bank of California, San Diego

January 2001-November 2004 Software Development Manager

. Managed, Developed & Deployed the Branch Teller Project - one of the

most highly visible projects at the time. Energized a team of 8

developers by communicating the vision for the project and molded them

into very productive Java developers to successfully deploy THE

mission critical application.

. Organized project team members to ensure communication and

understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives. Acted as the

point of contact with product management.

. Managed costs, schedules and quality by overseeing project

deliverables. Ensured schedule and budget were met. Identified need

for changes and revised baselines within established UBOC

guidelines/policies as appropriate.

. Performed ongoing reviews and reported project status; identified

project risks. Managed Requirements Review, PDR, CDR, Test Readiness

Review, and Operational Review. Developed, recommended and

implemented risk mitigation solutions as approved and as appropriate.

. Interfaced with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage

changes to projects such as but not limited to, technical

requirements, business requirements and schedule. Determined when

additional resources were needed as per resource leveled schedule.

. Provided personnel performance review input.

Pioneer Mutual Funds/One World Consulting, Boston

April 1999-December 2000

Software Architect

Developed and managed a mission critical application to provide single

login to all Pioneer web sites, as well as infrastructure for all

Personalization, Push and Wireless technologies.

Fidelity Investments, Boston

September 1996-April 1999

Principal Quantitative Software Engineer

Worked on several high visibility & high pressure projects for some of

world's biggest Mutual Fund Portfolio Managers. Developed

sophisticated algorithms for Portfolio Management (Bond analytics,

Active Portfolio Management) Instrumental to putting 2 major

Java/early J2EE based systems in production.

Raytheon Software Systems Lab (Sudbury, MA)

June 1993- August 1996

Software Engineer

Designed & developed kernel device driver software (using structured

development methodologies) for satellite network communication

systems.

MIT - Research in Engineering (Cambridge, MA)

June 1990 - June 1993

Research Engineer

Developed software for Infrared Imaging Systems based on Statistical

Signal Processing techniques & Pattern Recognition algorithms.

PAR Defense Systems (Utica, NY)

Feb. 1989 - May 1990

Systems Engineer

Developed software for Radar Systems, 3-D matched filtering

techniques.

Education: MS Finance August 1996 Boston College

GPA:3.7/4.0

MS Computer Science June 1993 UMASS/Boston

GPA:3.9/4.0

MS Electrical Engineering August 1988 Univ. of

Illinois GPA: 4.5/5.0

BS Electrical Engineering Feb. 1986 L.D.

College of Engineering, India

(Top 5% of

class)

Excerpts from past Annual Performance Reviews:

Intuit:

(August, 2007) Neil offers more to the organization than PM methodology.

With his strong background in Software Development and Enterprise Java

Architecture domain, he provides a unique insight towards solving issues

cannot be addressed by traditional PMI methodology.

(August, 2006) One of the biggest challenges facing CTG is the prevailing

"code first" culture. Neil addressed that issue by bringing awareness

towards the best practices of Software Architecture and Project Management.

By making one extension of the other, he not only secured a buy off from

hardened developers and programmers, but also made them partners in the

process. It was a delight to watch the seismic shift. As we embark on an

organization wide effort to modernize our Software Development Practices,

Neil is an ideal catalyst to introduce a positive and sustainable change.

Union Bank Of California:

(March, 2004) On any given day, Neil is more likely to be putting fires in

boiler room than preaching in board room. He sincerely pushes each

individual team member to excel and over achieve. Neil's "can do" attitude

rubs off the development team. Under Neil's stewardship, the quality of

team deliverables have continued to improve for 3 straight quarters.

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