Management Development Manager .Net Experience

Kunal Shiradkar

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Somerset, NJ 08873 E-mail: **************@*****.***

USA

Objective:

To be a part of an organization that offers me a challenging career and provides me a scope to excel and grow along with it.

Career Highlights:

7 years of Software engineering experience in system study, system and requirement analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of business systems ideally coupled with object-oriented technology using Multi-Tier Architecture. Extensive work on System integration and Software development lifecycle methodologies along with implementation at the client sites. Ongoing more than 2 Years of Onsite working experience at client side with Metlife @NJ, USA. 3.5 years of Insurance functional domain experience.Currently working as a Technical lead for .Net / Oracle Insurance projects in broker dealer and leading for more than 20 offshore team members and coordinating with almost 15 onshore team members.My current role is to work with client manager to get the requirements, provide them high level L0 estimations, once requirements are finalized then coordinate with offshore manager / lead to have L1 estimations and then plan for number of resources to be aligned and then work with offshore team to complete the requirements & deploy the code to QA env. Ask QA team to test, AD (me & offshore tam) team to resolve the defects if any, take QA & Business sign off from on QA env. Then on Production release date deploy front end, database code to Production env and take the necessary sign offs on Production env.My role extends to request the applications for Veracode static & dynamic scans against security threats and Cast scan for to find out performance issues. Analyse their reports and fix the issues and then rescan the applications to ensure issues been resolved.Extensively working on Redesign of an enterprise application project where converting .Net 2.0 to .Net 4.0 and Oracle 10g to Oracle 11g. Implementing ODP.NET (Oracle.Dataaccess.Dll) to connect to Oracle 11g database. Replacing Web Services with WCF. Targeting mainly the performance issues in an application due to huge data by adding new Materialized views, Temp tables and cleaning up some of the non-required database objects. Use of Caching, Enterprise blocks for error handling in redesign code.Also currently working on two other Insurance applications in Broker Dealer where we have DB2 and SQL Server 2008 as a database and .Net 2.0 as front end technology.Expertize in source control StarTeam, Build Forge for Build process.Expertize in BMC Remedy / change request management for creation of change requests / incident requests.Execute PTG (Performance Test Group) tests before moving the code to production environment.

Experience Summary:

Onsite Project coordinator iGATE Jun’07 – till date

Associate Consultant Fluous Solutions Mar’06 – May’07

R&D Engg Lab India Oct’04 – Mar’05

Education Profile:

Executive MBA (Marketing Management) : Post Graduate Program in Business Management, 2008 -2010, SIES College Of Management Studies, Mumbai

CDAC (Diploma in Advanced Computing), 2006-2007, Mumbai Education Trust, Mumbai

B.E. (Instrumentation Engineering), 2000-2004, Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Certifications:

NCFM Certification on Basics of Financial Marketing

OCA (Oracle Certified Associates) completed in year 2007

Key Competencies gained through experience and education:

Software Languages: Microsoft .NET Technologies- asp.net and windows applications Visual Studio 2005 & 2010 and, PLSQL, C, VB, Web Services, IIS 6.0 & 7.0 configurations, LDAP, WSL Login

Databases: Oracle 10g & 11g Database, PLSQL and SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008

Professional Experience:

Technical lead with iGATE (Jun 2007 to till date)

Key Responsibilities: client communication, requirement analysis, coordination with onsite and offshore Teams, planning and implementation, configuration management, application development, unit and integration testing

Following projects undergone and responsibilities handled so far:Development and Enhancement of Enterprise application Investment Tracker and Client Profile Data in the Insurance Broker Dealer domain (BFSI) for client MetLife.In the Finance domain (BFSI), Development of Security Master Feed Tool to upload the security details from the Bloomberg workstation to legacy system for the client Satellite Asset Management, New York.Development and enhancement of the reports using Eagle Pace product in Finance domain (BFSI), for client Satellite Asset Management, New York.Currently involved in the migration of Visual Studio 2005 (.Net framework 2.0) to convert to Visual Studio 2010 (.Net framework 4.0).Currently leading offshore team of size more than 20 and coordinating with onshore team size of 15.As a part of migration / redesign project, taking the lead and working on many performance improvements areas. One of the major piece to introduce Materialized views and temp tables. Making it sure that all old sub queries, CASE WHEN THEN, DECODE statements, aggregate functions, groupings now to be part of Materialized view creation and removed from run time SQLs.Leading in front to target performance issues in the existing .Net code such as removal of accept changes if used inside FOR loops. Caching, WCF instead of web services, Enterprise Block for exception handling, error / debug / info logging are the few areas targeted on .Net side.Also currently working as an Administrator to be responsible for Star Team source control management which includes creation / maintenance of Star Team projects & Build Forge, creation of view & revision labels, creation of Builds using Build Forge application, promotion of Builds to respective environments, responsible for deployments to respective environments.Creation of estimation using WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) template. Also have some hands on of Microsoft Project Plan.Responsible for project delivery which in turn responsible for design document creation & reviews, unit test documents creation & reviews, code reviews.BMC Remedy creation and getting it approved is also currently one of my main responsibilities. I create remedy tickets for release deployment tasks, Daper Audits or any other tasks related to maintenance of application.Always involve in the recruitment process, took the candidate interviews for technology .Net 4.0, train the team members on application.Coordinate with PTG (Performance Test Group) team and execute PTG tests on the code before deploying it to Production environment. PTG tests include endurance test (END), user experience test (UET) and capacity test (CAP).

Associate Consultant, Fluous Solutions Pvt Ltd, Navi Mumbai (Mar 2006 to May 2007)

Key Responsibilities: client communication, requirement analysis, application development and deployment, unit and integration testing

Following are the projects undergone:Development of the Telecom Billing application for GTL Limited. GTL is in to Business where it provides towers to Telecom Companies. The billing is based on the number of different tenants (network provider Telecom Companies- Reliance, Vodafone, BPL, etc) using the towers.Development of Document Template application for automatic generation of the aspx forms for the client Bank Of Baroda.Development of internal project for Appraisal System for the employees.

CDAC, Diploma in Advanced Computer, MET Training Center, Bandra, Mumbai (Oct 2004 to Mar 2005)6 months extensive program on training and development of the latest Software Technologies.

Participation and Achievements:

Received Patni Valuable Contribution Star Awards (VCA) for years 2008, 2009 and 2011.Also winner of Dream Team award for consecutive years 2009 and 2010Oracle certified associates (OCA)Government Certified in Yogic Education .President of Kalaraag- the Inter College Drama Festival in the Mumbai region.Winner of the best drama and second best actor in the Inter college drama festival for the year 2003-04

Personal details:

Name

Kunal Shiradkar

Gender

Male

Marital Status

Married

Hobbies

Listening to Music, Participation in Theatre programs

Languages Known

English, Hindi and Marathi

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