Avinash V Kapanayya, PMP
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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
. PMP certified technology professional with 5 years of project
management/co-ordination experience and 10 years of software
development experience delivering high quality Java/J2EE based
solutions for clients.
. Versatile contributor with a broad skill set that includes project
management/co-ordination, business analysis, systems analysis,
architecture, development and debugging skills.
. Agile delivery of software using practices from Scrum, eXtreme
Programming, etc.
. Expertise in software development life-cycle (SDLC).
. Efficient in working in an onsite/off-shore working model.
. Passionate mentor, taking advantage of formal and informal leadership
roles to develop cohesive teams.
. Dedicated, hardworking individual with intercommunication skills to
work at all levels of the organization.
. Successful in meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions
to meet needs of the customer.
. Object oriented architecture, analysis, design, and software
development mainly using Java/J2EE technologies.
. Hands on design and development experience in systems ranging from
simple stand-alone applications to multi-tiered web architectures with
a high degree of scalability, manageability, availability, security,
and performance.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jun 2008 - Till Date Verizon, Tampa, Florida
NSAG Sync- National Street Address Group Synchronizer
Product Owner
. Participated in Requirement gathering and scoping of the release.
. Developed Schedule, Risk and mitigation plans.
. Directed and managed the coding and unit testing phase, there by tracking
the schedule of the project.
. Facilitated meetings to identify analyze and fix business critical issues
during User Acceptance Testing phase via the use of SDLC.
. Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day
issues with emphasis on SDLC.
Tech Lead
. Designed, developed and managed all application related database changes
- DML, DDL, PL/SQL scripts includes complex scripts with multi level
joins and inner queries.
. Provided direction and leadership in the design and architecture of the
application.
. Suggested improvement by usages of Design patterns.
. Prototyped Quartz Scheduler.
. Provided direction with regards to Audit Trailing of the system, used for
Business Reports.
. Designed critical and complex Translation module, which included a work
flow mechanism.
. Fixed critical hibernate - NO Dialect mapping error by extending
Oracle9Dialect class of hibernate.
Environment: JDK1.5, J2EE, JSP, AJAX, Hibernate, Oracle10g, Oracle SQL
Developer1.5, Apache Tomcat Server, MyEclipse5.5, Linux OS, CVS Repository,
Web Services
2003 - 2008 Hewlett Packard (Bangalore, Houston, Cupertino)
2005-2008
Project Manager/Tech Lead
. Participated in requirements gathering at client location (Houston,
TX/Cupertino, CA).
. Worked on task breakdown and project planning.
. Developed Schedule, Risk and mitigation plans.
. Built cross asset dependency into the schedule plan and tracked for all
the internal assets dependencies.
. Performed Resource levelling to share resources between parallel
releases.
. Proactively generated and utilised Requirements traceability matrix till
project completion.
. Lead teams with maximum size of 12 resources from onsite (Houston,
TX/Cupertino, CA) and offshore (Bangalore, India)
. Facilitated meetings to identify analyze and fix business critical issues
during User Acceptance Testing phase via the use of SDLC.
. Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day
issues with emphasis on SDLC.
. Generated and presented Quarterly Business Reports for Senior Management.
. Tracked software customization, defects and issues via the use of SDLC
. Trained Application Support team with new release features.
. Performed Qualitative and Quantitative analysis of all defects at end of
each phase.
. Worked on Quality metrics like Defect Density and Defect Prevention.
2003-2005
Project Coordinator/Senior Java Developer
. Using Core Java, Java Thread pools, JDBC Transactions, Java I/O, and
Apache log4j have developed critical Standalone multi-threaded
application, consisting of high volume data load required for the
application.
. Performed high volume XML Parsing using SAX Parser and DOM parser.
. Generated XML output files using DOM Parser and XML Schema.
. Performed XML translations using XSLT.
. Did a proof of concept on Oracle XML Type column type and the design was
accepted and used.
. Involved in code upgrade when Java released Concurrency utilities -
Thread Pools, Executor framework and Synchronizers with Java1.5
. Designed and developed 'Intelligent Loader' which is Java Daemon process
to check for existence of the feed files for processing.
. Contributed towards Socket Programming module, through which user
subscriptions were processed.
. Worked on Shell Scripts to trigger standalone applications and to
generate error reports by performing grep operations.
. Worked in scheduling batch jobs with Tidal Scheduler.
. Mentored junior developers, code reviews, configuration and release
management.
. Co-ordinated with QA team to review test cases.
. Co-ordinated with onsite co-ordinator and QA team during testing phases.
Environment: JDK1.4/1.5, J2EE, Struts1.2, Weblogic 8.1, HP-UX, Oracle10g,
Tidal Scheduler.
2000 - 2003 Trigyn Technlogies
Analyst Programmer
Client - Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB)
Web Prime Trade Admin/Distributed Transaction Management System (DTM)
. Understanding existing Swing based PrimeTrade application.
. Designed new components using Rational Rose.
. Involved in development of Servlets, JSP's, Java Scripts for User module.
. Involved in writing initial factory method pattern framework, later used
by other modules.
. Involved in writing common JSP's and Java Scripts used by other modules.
. Involved in DTM architecture and application design.
. Involved in setting up of new Struts based PTAdmin application with multi-
broker architecture.
Environment: JDK1.4, J2EE, iPlanet6.0, Sybase, JSP/Servlets
EDUCATION
< Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science, Bangalore University,
2000.
CERTIFICATION
< PMP -2009.
PROFILE/SKILLS
PM Tools: Excel, OneNote, Project, Power Point, Visio,
Word, etc
PM Methodologies: Agile Methodologies, Scrum (Scrum Works)
Programming Languages: Java 1.5, XML, UML, SQL
J2EE Framework: JSP, Servlet, Struts, JMS, HTML, Java Scripts,
AJAX
Web/Application Server: Web-Logic, Tomcat
Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux, HP-UX
Database/ORM: Oracle 9.x/10i, Sybase, JDBC, ODBC and
Hibernate
IDE/Design Tools: Eclipse, Net Beans, Rational Rose, Visio
XML: XML Schema, DTD, Xerces, Xalan
Web Services: WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, Apache Axis
Others: Design Patterns, Quartz Scheduler, Tidal
Scheduler.