Project Manager Management

GOTHAM ARTHANARI

G o t h a m . A rt h a n ari @ g m ai l .co m 571-***-**** 22003, Sun Stone Ct, Broadlands, Virginia 20148

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

A creative, analytical, proactive and well thought-out highly qualified Information Technology

professional with over 14 years’ of progressive experience in enterprise software systems design

and development. Recognized for the ability to rapidly assess business needs and provide robust

strategic technical solutions aligned with business goals by constructively applying assertive

communication and principled negotiation strategies with higher management and clientele.

Successfully architected, developed, and managed numerous software development projects in

Smart Grid Energy, Health Care, and Telecommunication domains by availing effective

leadership skills and strong knowledge in software engineering and IT project management.

Expertise includes Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Domain Analysis and Design, Business

Process Reengineering (BPR), Requirements Analysis, Risk Management, and various SDLC

Process Methodologies.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

MASTERS IN TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

George Mason University 2007-2008 Virginia, USA

Federal Executive Competencies Certification

GSA and Federal CIO University 2007-2008 Washington, D.C., USA

BACHELOR OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

R.V. College of Engineering 1991-1995 Bangalore University, India

T ECHNICAL O VERVIEW

Domain: Smart Grid Energy, Health Care Management, Risk and Compliance Management,

Telecommunication, Travel and Expense Management, and Airline Crew Scheduling

Design: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a

Service (PaaS), Domain Driven Design, Enterprise Integration Architecture (EIA), Design

Patterns, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), UML, Rational Rose Suite, Visio, Altova UModel

Process: Agile, SCRUM, Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), Rational Unified Process (RUP),

Test Driven Development (TDD), Microsoft Project

Language: C#, Active Server Pages .NET (ASP.NET), LINQ, Visual Basic.NET, VB Script,

JavaScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, SQL, Visual Studio Team System

Web and Client Server: Windows Communication Framework (WCF), Web Services (WS

Internet Information Server (IIS), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), SOAP, MS

BizTalk Server, Microsoft SharePoint

Database: MS SQL Server, MS OLAP Server, MS Access, ADO.NET

Reporting: Business Objects / Crystal Reports, Microsoft Reporting Services

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Responsibilities

Successfully contributed to all phases of software development life-cycle by utilizing solid

technical, management and leadership skills.

Initial Phase:

Involved in the process of responding to Request for Information (RFI) and Request for

Proposal (RFP).

Demonstrated to C-Level executives the measurable benefits of a chosen architecture in

terms of cost benefits, alignment to business goals, agility to expand, extend etc.

Performed and facilitated software requirement elicitation, definition and analysis activities.

Defined and developed Use Cases and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

Conducted stakeholder analysis to identify qualitative information to determine project

success criteria.

Formulated the development team structure, environment, communication plan, tools and

standards.

Identified and documented technical project risks using Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS) and

other risk management best practices like proof of concept prototyping.

Elaboration Phase:

Designed base-line architectures using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Domain Driven

Design (DDD), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) patterns, n-tier distributed

architecture model, and Model-View-Controller architectural pattern.

Evaluated software architecture by applying Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs (ARID)

and Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) processes.

Effectively communicated with respective stakeholders the customer needs, product

specifications, design targets, and the development process to support task performance.

Estimated size and effort of deliverables using Use Case Points (UCP) and Function Point

Analysis (FPA) estimation technique and tools.

Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions by facilitating in building immediate

consensus and participation by incorporating Delphi, SWOT, and Root Cause Identification

techniques.

Validated Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) documents for technical correctness.

Authored best practice coding guide for C# by researching and adapting proven industry

standards and guidelines.

Intermediate Phase:

Generated project milestone/schedule and performance reports which typically covered

metrics like earned value, actual vs. baselines, variance analysis, comparisons against

standard indices, and trends.

Conducted effective status review meetings by promptly issuing concisely written meeting

minutes respectively to both the customer executives and to the project team members.

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Minimized production release overhead and reduced testing cost by creating product

development lifecycle with effective development, change and release management

workflows.

Designed and implemented reusable frameworks and libraries in C# and ASP.NET applying

software patterns and best practices.

Conducted code reviews using FxCop code analysis tool to aid in the process.

Designed and developed web based portals using various Microsoft technologies.

Final Phase:

Created performance test plans, executed test scripts, produced performance report using

Visual Studio Team System web testing suite.

Managed customer expectation by obtaining sign-off from all appropriate parties that the

deliverables meet or exceed all specified functional and non-functional requirements.

Designed and prepared Runtime Infrastructure Detailed Design and Runtime Infrastructure

Build Guide detailing procedures to Install and configure the solution's software components

in the production environment.

Work Experience

July 2008 – August 2009

GridPoint Inc, Virginia

Worked as a Solutions Architect / Technical Project Manager for GridPoint, a leading clean

tech company, pioneering in providing innovative smart grid platform solutions to optimize

electrical grid management.

Responsible for architecting the Online Account Management (OAM) & Online Energy

Management (OEM) product suites based on Cloud Computing concept, incorporating Service-

Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a service (PaaS)

models.

Designed the integration architecture for GridPoint’s solutions stack with other Smart Grid City

consortium partners using Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) patterns.

As part of the technical sales team presented proposed solution architecture to C-Level

executives.

Built, lead, mentored and managed a team of 7 software engineers & 3 test engineers.

Successfully introduced and implemented SCRUM software development methodology.

Responsible for managing timely completion and correctness of deliverables, conducting

weekly meetings/conferences, tracking upcoming deliverables and presenting weekly status

reports to the stakeholders.

May 2007 – June 2008

Holon Systematics Corporation, Virginia

Worked as a principal architect for Holon Systematics, an IT consulting and training provider.

Engaged in assisting software development firms in establishing robust software development

processes, architecting and developing web applications and training and mentoring their

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software development teams in the latest .NET technologies.

As an Architect / Technical Project Manager was responsible for managing the full

development life cycle of various sub-systems of an Enterprise Governance, Risk and

Compliance Management solution for Brabeion (Archer).

Designed modular, extensible and reusable portal solutions based on Domain Driven Design

(DDD) model, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) model, and ASP.NET MVC Framework.

Captured design decisions using 4+1 architectural views and created the object design model

of the application using Use Case analysis and UML diagrams.

Developed proof-of-concept prototypes using .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Workflow

Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Silverlight.

Conducted training sessions on various .NET topics including C#, ASP.NET, and .NET

Framework.

July 2006 – May 2007

Avanade, New York

Worked as a .NET solutions architect consultant for Avanade, a joint venture with Accenture

and Microsoft. Avanade is the leading technology integrator specializing in providing

information technology services on the Microsoft enterprise platform.

Consulting to Health Dialog of Boston, MA working in Collaborative Customer Care (C3)

project as Solutions Architect.

Responsible for developing an overall assessment of the ‘as-is’ architecture using ATAM

methodology and proposed ‘to-be’ technology and architecture alternatives for the

deployment and scaling of next generation C3 enterprise application suite.

Designed key elements of the application around Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that

included: Interoperable Web Services and BizTalk based Business Rules Engine (BRE).

May 2000 – July 2006

iGate Mastech, Virginia

Worked as a .NET consultant for iGate consulting to Ericsson Inc of Reston, VA. Served in

various roles including Sr. Software Engineer, Application Architect, Technical Project

Manager and Solutions Architect.

Responsible for designing and implementing the base-line architecture for numerous mission

critical applications like My Network Portal, TEMS Presentation Suite and TEMS Report.

Applied Rational Unified Process (RUP) an iterative software development process framework

as the primary Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and extensively used

Design Patterns to communicate design decisions.

Managed an 8 member team responsible for developing extraction, transformation and

loading (ETL) tools using .NET platform and various data sources including SQL Server, MS

OLAP, and Business Objects Universe.

Designed the architecture, implemented the business logic and database structure for an

enterprise reporting tool using Microsoft technologies.

From October 1995 and May 2000 worked in New Zealand and India as Software Engineer in various domains

including Travel Management, Accounting, and Airline Crew Scheduling.

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