INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

SHAILA VAIDYA

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Mississauga-ON-l5b 0C1

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL

Experience in : • Project Lead • Team Lead • Track lead • Application development

Technology Snapshot: Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, VB.net, ASP.net, VB 6.0, Oracle Forms 4.5 /6i,

SQL Server, Crystal Reports, SSRS, Oracle Reports, C, Unix, VBscript, JavaScript

Key positions: Technical Track Lead, Onsite coordinator.

Core competency: Technical Leadership, Application Development, Manual testing.

Other Competencies : • Professional Attitude • Client orientation • Process

Adherence • People management • Estimation techniques.

EXPERIENCE

Team Lead, Yardi Systems Feb 2006–June 2010

@ Mississauga, Canada and @ Pune, India

Yardi Systems is a leading provider of integrated real estate investment management, accounting and property management software. With headquarter in U.S, Yardi Systems has presence in various other countries.

In the role of team lead, I was the technical co-owner of Construction, Maintenance, Inventory Control and Fixed Assets modules of the product (Asset and Property management)

An overview of my responsibilities at Yardi Systems : Team management (10 members)

This involved conducting daily team meetings for status reporting, work allocation, knowledge sharing and brain storming. Also provide technical and domain support to team members.

Conducted appraisal meetings for performance reviews, setting of KRO, discussing KRA.

Conducted team building activities to ensure that a positive healthy work environment is maintained. Also conducted one to one meetings with team members regarding personal issues/conflicts. Process improvement - established new processes for ensuring a smooth coordination within development and QA team, defined new processes/standards for QA documents and testing. Resource planning based on the estimated efforts.Resource development as per PDP planned for each resource in discussion with PM.Onsite – Offshore co-ordination using conference calls, GoTo meetings among PM in US, myself in Canada and Team working out of India.Conducted training sessions for new resources during technical induction of Yardi database design and structure, demonstrating working of key modules like, Maintenance, Fixed Assets and Construction.One of my key KPI was an attrition control of team, which was met at 90% for consecutive 2 years. Analysis and design of new modules/reports

-Was involved in the analysis and design phase of all projects within Maintenance, Fixed Assets and Construction modules. These projects included development of new web pages, analytical reports, crystal reports, and data import (ETL) utilities.

-I was majorly involved in the design and development of a new module for Fixed Assets management. This included gathering requirement from functional team, preparing functional description documents, architecting data flow to integrate into the existing system, creating prototypes, designing and coding of web pages, conducting presentations.

-I was also responsible for delivering ETL projects for data import for Fixed Assets.Led Quality Assurance team and was responsible for designing and review of test description documents, regression testing and integration testing using black box/white box methodologies.Provide estimates for custom programming requests.Conduct technical interviews to hire new employees.

Technologies used: VB.net, ASP.net, SQL Server, SSRS, Crystal Reports,Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, VBScript, JavaScript

Project Lead @ Aksharchhaya, Pune, India Nov 1999 – Jan 2004

As a consultant I was responsible for design and development of Advertising Information System to manage advertisements published in Hearst Magazines, U.S

My primary responsibilities included:Conduct technical interviews to hire new employeesManage the development and QA team (6 members)

Conduct daily team meetings for work allocation and review.Designing a solution based on gathered requirements.

Understanding the work flow of existing system, additional client requirements and designing a solution to satisfy them Developed functional specifications and system design specifications. Led testing efforts. Ensured issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.

Writing of code for various modules of the system.

Conducted code review sessions to ensure that the project standards are met.Onsite – Offshore co-ordination

Daily email communication with client, weekly status call.Performance management of reporting resources.

Technologies used: VB 6.0, Crystal reports, Oracle

Developer @ BPL Cellular Ltd, Pune, India Jan 1999 – Nov 1999

BPL mobile was one of the leading cellular service providers in India. In my short sting with BPL I was involved in one of the crucial project to set an interface between switch and billing system, which helped BPL save lot of manual efforts and consequently minimize the risk.

Designed and developed a Credit On Invoice system using Oracle Forms/Reports, Crystal reports.

My primary responsibilities included,Application development using C, Pro*C, UNIX shell scripting, Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports.

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Science June 1997 – Apr 1999

University of Pune, India

Passed With First Class

Bachelor in Computer Science June 1994 – Apr 1997

University of Pune, India

Passed With Distinction

Higher Secondary Certificate, Class XII June 1992 - Apr 1994

University of Pune, India

Passed with First Class

Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, Class X June 1982 - Apr 1992

ICSE Board, New Delhi, India

Passed With Distinction

Skills

Communication

Facilitation of effective team and client meetings.

Delivered informative, well-organized presentations.

Technical

Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, VB.Net, ASP.Net, VB 6.0, Oracle Forms 4.5/6i, Oracle Reports, SQL Server, C, Unix

Leadership

Leading a team by example.

Teamwork

Facilitated effective team interaction.

Client Management

Managed client expectations effectively.

Increased customer satisfaction

Project management Influencing, leading, negotiating and delegating abilities.

Ability to initiate/manage cross-functional teams

Character

High energy, Dependable,

Positive attitude, Professional and mature

Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, set goals and meet deadlines

Flexible and knowledge-hungry learner

Able to Multi-Task

Certifications

Preparing for Project Management Professional - by PMI.

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