Project Manager Management

MOHIT R. BALI

Address: **** ******** ******, *.*. Box 93534, R.P.O. Shoppers World

Toronto, ONT M4C 5R4. Canada

Voice: 416-***-****

E-Mail: *********@*****.*** and ******@*****.***

EDUCATION:

* MBA, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 1994.

Concentration in Management Information Systems.

Doctoral level course-work in Business Information Systems.

The OPS Applied Project Management course, Project Management Centre of Excellence, Ontario Public Service, Canada, 2005.

COM/DCOM Training, NIIT, 2000.

Application Development using Microsoft Excel with Visual Basic for

Applications, Microsoft Education Services, USA.

IBM Assimilation Training, Shared Medical Systems, Malvern, PA, USA. 1989.

* BA, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, USA. 1989. GPA= 3.8/4.0.

Graduated summa cum laude (highest academic honors).

Double majors in Computer Science, Mathematics.

Also completed course-work in Speech Communication.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: PCs & compatibles, IBM RS/6000, IBM Mainframe, HP3000, Apple Macintosh.

Operating Systems: Windows/XP/NT, DOS, UNIX/ SCO UnixWare7/ SCO OpenServer5/ HP-UX/ AIX, MVS, MPE, Apple Mac OS

Databases/ File management: Oracle, Access, XDB, DB2, UDB, IMS, VSAM, IMAGE

Languages: SQL, C/ Pro*C, High C, 8088 Assembly, UNIX Shell script, Visual Basic for Applications, COBOL/ Micro Focus COBOL, JCL, SPSS-X, PASCAL, QBasic, FoxPro, FORTRAN 77, Prolog, HTML

Communication/ Connectivity: MSMQ, MQ Series, ODBC, COM/DCOM, MTS, WAP, Tarantella, Non Stop Clusters, CICS, Novell, EDI, Attachmate, Ftterm, Profs, Reflection, PC/TCP, ftp, IBM Token-Ring LAN

PC Software: MS Office (Excel, Power point, Word, PowerPoint), Visio, Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, Freelance Graphics, Mac Write/MacDraw, Symantec pcAnywhere

Software Tools: OOAD/ UML, Visual SourceSafe, Razor (similar to SCCS), PVCS Tracker, PVCS Version Manager, Remedy, Business Objects, MS Project.

Software Processes/ Quality: RUP, RAD, SDLC, SEI CMM Level 5, ISO 9001

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

19 years of consulting and projects experience in the areas of: (i) technical and project management, programming analysis/ design; (ii) system administration and integration; (iii) user training & management, help desk troubleshooting. Effective communication skills.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT, PROGRAMMING ANALYSIS/ DESIGN PROJECTS:

(05-now) Code Management Lead. Government of Ontario. Toronto, Canada.

* Responsible for information and configuration management, library and code control, technology process for Human Services I&IT cluster serving two ministries for the province of Ontario in a multi-tiered architecture environment using IBM mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Remedy, SQL, Microsoft Access, ASP, Visual Basic, Windows XP, psftp, MTS, Business Objects, Symantec pcAnywhere, PVCS Tracker, PVCS Version Manager.

(03) Senior Project Manager. Advantech Computer Solutions. Toronto, Canada.

* Responsible for project management for website development with e-commerce enablement using Microsoft Project, Photoshop, ASP, Microsoft Access, Rational Unified Process.

* Course design for instruction in WAP, Software Project Management, MS Project, XML, MSMQ and MQSeries, UML and OOAD, Visual Modeling with Rational Rose J.

(01-02) Chief Technology Officer. Sham Sundar, Jog Raj & Co.

* Responsible for project management, architecture design for the construction iteration of developing a telecommunications software product for an overseas client that has been a unified messaging system involving unification of SMS, email, fax, voice, and internet.

* The platform has been Rational Unified Process, Object-oriented Analysis and Design, MS Project, Visual SourceSafe, UML, .NET, XML, MSMQ.

(00-01) Head, Offshore Development. SRIT, Onward Technologies.

* Headed offshore development centers for U.S. (Baxter HealthCare, Deerfield, IL) and U.K. (Alstom Power, publishing house) clients, and led a team of forty (40) professionals. It has involved technical, delivery, quality, sales support, and management responsibilities, in a consulting role.

* The Baxter environment has been Rational Unified Process/Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Suite, VB, ASP, COM+/MTS, SQL Server for design and development for a major re-engineering project in environmental health and safety.

* The Alstom Power project required development as well as ongoing support for a Point of Sales Transaction (POST) application using VB, COM/DCOM, and SQL Server.

* The other live- projects have involved web-enabled shopping mall with warehouse management, payment solution service provider with secure gateway development. Utilized tools have included Rational Rose, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Oracle 8i database server, Visual Age for Java, Win NT, JRUN Application Server, SSL, Visual Source Safe, and a rule based application with Visual Basic front-end, SQL server back-end, MS-Access, Win NT.

* Pseudo projects were developed with IBM Websphere as well.

(99-00). Projects Director. HCL Perot Systems.

* Projects Director for Technology for the organization. It has involved research and development on emerging technologies of commercial importance including WAP security, Palm operating system, and Multimedia compression. The assignment has involved leading a team, developing a technology roadmap, research and learning emerging technologies, technology communications, and establishment of tie-ups with research institutes. Also researched and initiated the set up of the company’s first organizational chat server. Authored forty-five (45) articles in WAP security, Multimedia compression.

* Projects Director for a leading publishing-house (Times of India) client for developing their four web sites with e-commerce enabling. It has involved leading a team of sixty (60) software and quality assurance professionals including four (04) project managers, team leaders, and software engineers. Responsibilities have included end-client contact, project management, supervision, design, training, organization, and overall management responsibility for the four (04) projects. The technical platform has been IBM Websphere, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), XML, and Rational Rose/UML for design. SEI-CEMM-Level 5 quality procedures have been observed.

* Initiated and organized a program to train eighty (80) software engineers for Sun Java certification for overseas staffing in the U.S.A. emphasizing adherence to SEI CMM Level 5 quality standards.

(99). Vice-President. CIC.

* A consulting role in handling the information technology division of a group of companies with an annual turnover of approximately US $50 million.

* The technical leadership approach involved business development as well as software applications development for a payroll and human resources system under Oracle, Windows.

(98). Projects Manager. Client Railinc Inc., FL, USA

* A technical projects management role in IBM mainframe development using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM for offshore development for U.S. railroad client in an ISO 9001 quality environment.

* Responsibilities have included leading a forty (40) member team in a hands-on manner, staff supervision, and program management for technical software analysis and development in business process re-engineering training and solving Year 2000 problems for legacy systems.

(96-97) Software Engineer. Client DCIS of United States Air Force through Computer Sciences Corporation, Montgomery, AL, USA.

The ultimate client for this contract project has been a branch of the United States Department of Defense.

(a) UNIX, C, Oracle, and SQL:

* Systems analysis and detailed design of external interface to financial/ general ledger system for reporting activities of the three hundred (300) Defense Commissaries worldwide.

* Solved Electronic labeling technology problems. This also involved use of embedded SQL (Pro*C) and Developer/2000, Oracle Forms, UNIX Shell script programming.

(b) Year 2000:

* Used Micro Focus COBOL, SCO UNIX, UNIX shell scripts to solve Year 2000 problems for grocery legacy systems involving approximately one million lines of code. The second part of this project has called for a detailed analysis and programming for integrating Year 2000 modifications and compliance within current software development.

(96). Systems Analyst. Client AT&T, Herndon, VA, USA.

* Completed systems analysis assignment for move of Integrated Desktop project from Tier 2 to Tier 3.

* Worked with the architectural design for TeleCenter System deployment on Windows NT platform. Involved use of HP-UX, Windows NT, and Microsoft Office.

(95). Programmer Analyst. Essex Group, Ft. Wayne, IN, USA.

* Programming, software development, systems analysis and design, end-user interface for a Wire & Cable Executive Information System (EIS) using Visual Basic (VBA), SQL server, ODBC, Excel. Major enhancements for an existing Excel macros system that interfaced with an OS/2 server. Subsequently re-programmed the system in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to interface with a SQL server via ODBC (open database connectivity).

* GUI (graphical user interface) application development with FoxPro, SQL on SCO UNIX server before 02/ 95.

(91-94). Teaching and Graduate Assistant. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

* Performed SPSS-X programming and data analysis on IBM mainframe to support EDI (electronic data interchange) Market Research.

* Statistical research on Apple Macintosh.

* Designed and programmed an audio/ video cassette-library database management system (DBMS) team project using XDB (RDBMS in SQL).

* Programmed and designed a 95-subprogram decision support system team project in dBase III plus for Boeing Helicopters.

(90-91). Programmer Analyst. ComputerAid, Allentown, PA, USA.

* Air Products' system conversion.

Converted Genmem membrane system from FORTRAN 77 to HighC for chemical engineers of Hoechst Celanese on IBM 80386 virtually single-handedly. Involved use of DOS extender, 386/debug. The system was complex, large, and had no documentation.

* Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Information Services.

Performed IMS programming for financial and steel production applications. Used COBOL, JCL on IBM 3090 mainframe.

(89-90). Programmer. Shared Medical Systems, Malvern, PA, USA.

* Programming, analysis, and software development for Patient Accounting

Applications. Used proprietary (hierarchical) database, COBOL, JCL on IBM 370 mainframe for several client hospitals in the greater Philadelphia area.

* Responsible for maintenance of a large standards (VSAM) file.

(86-89). Programmer. Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove, PA, USA.

* Center for Computing Services. Developed and implemented programs in COBOL interfacing with IMAGE database management system, MPE, Query, and View on HP3000 mini-frame. Wrote new programs from scratch, requirements analysis, systems analysis and design, as well as modified existing software for (clients, i.e.) accounting/ business, financial aid, admissions, alumni/ development, and telecommunications offices of the university.

* Supported the AT&T System 75-data/ voice switch. Used UNIX on AT&T 3B2.

* Systems programming and analysis for Operating system (titled pcunix),

Compiler, Assembler team projects in ANSI C interfacing with 8088 assembly on IBM-PC

* Programming and analysis for a complete student registration database

management system using dBase III plus.

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION and INTEGRATION PROJECTS:

(99). Senior Consulting Systems Engineer. SCO.

Designed and developed migration tools for SCO UNIX 's OpenServer5 to

UnixWare7 operating systems’ migration for NASDAQ client in the U.S.A. It involved working with C, UNIX shell scripts, Java-based Tarantella application broker.

(94). Associate Member of Technical Staff. Automatic Data Processing, Mt. Laurel, NJ, USA.

* Responsible for UNIX system administration, communication system management, network troubleshooting; korn shell script programming and C coding for download and backup scripts on IBM RS/6000 under AIX to support several corporate clients across a WAN. Configured IBM-PCs for connectivity using PC/TCP.

* Setup a Windows NT server, Novell print-server for an IBM token- ring LAN to enable financial quotes on workstations running under Windows for Workgroups.

* Modified a communication server for a dial-up option using DOS batch files programming and thoroughly tested it.

(85-89). Computer Operator. Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove, PA, USA.

* Performed MPE system administration assistance on HP3000 miniframe. Worked with system management tools, utilities, crash recovery, resource allocation, monitoring use, upgrade to series 58.

* Responsible for regular system backup on HP3000 mini-frame.

USER TRAINING, HELP DESK TROUBLESHOOTING PROJECTS:

(95-96). Adjunct Faculty and graduate teaching assistant. Virginia

Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.

* Instructed ninety (90) university upper-class students in project development in Qbasic, structured programming, microcomputer applications (Microsoft Excel, Word) under DOS/ Windows, Novell LAN.

* Used Microsoft Access for Quality assurance/ Projects evaluation.

* Performed database design to assist faculty teaching.

(91-94). Teaching Assistant. Drexel University. Philadelphia, PA, USA.

* Instructor, technical troubleshooter, Project manager, Systems analyst for building decision support systems (DSS) projects using Excel macro programming on Apple Macintosh for MIS recitation. Instructed three hundred (300) university upper-class students during each quarter semester.

* Developed an instructional model for hands-on DSS building and user-oriented GUI development employing structured programming techniques.

* Software support on IBM-PC, Apple Macintosh using DOS, utilities, Excel, MacDraw, MacWrite. Software configurations, hardware installations, tutorial and research support.

(90-91). Programmer Analyst. ComputerAid, Allentown, PA, USA.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Personal Computing.

* Provided PC support to corporate clients for DOS, Lotus 1-2-3, Freelance, WordPerfect, Ftterm, Attachmate, Profs, mainframe communication.

* Manned help-desk in a team environment.

* Instructed a preview class in DOS.

(86-89). PC Micro-laboratories Monitor. Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove, PA, USA.

* Provided help desk troubleshooting support to users for DOS, dBase, Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, Enable, PC-Talk, Reflection/ R3 (PC to HP3000) communication, printers.

* Monitored IBM-PC micro laboratories operations, performed software configurations, upgrades, backups, installations, and hardware repair.

OTHER MANAGEMENT WORK EXPERIENCE:

(92) Success program graduate assistant. Drexel University. Philadelphia, PA, USA.

* Site project manager and co-supervisor for accelerated pre-engineering

residential summer program.

* Implemented operations as a resident director.

(86-88). Building Manager and Resident Assistant. Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove, PA, USA.

* Supervised campus center and game-room operations.

* Managed logistics and coordination for the campus center that included various administrative offices.

* Facilitated summer conferences as a university host.

* Managed residence hall operations, supervised and counseled residents, organized programs, enforced university policy.

HONORS/ AWARDS:

* International Scholarship. Army Scholarship. Who's Who among American Universities and Colleges. Faculty Award for HCL Perot Systems - Competency Development Center. Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. John App Honor Society. Dean's List. University Scholar. Mathematics Honor Society (Kappa Mu Epsilon). Resident Advisor to Computer Consultants' project. Academic Programs Committee. Honors' Program. Outstanding member of Interact Club for humanitarian, cultural, social activities (affiliated with Rotary International). Team captain for United Way campaign- Shared Medical Systems. Crop Walk participant. Black stripe-red belt in Tae-kwon-do Karate. Gold Medal in 3rd Annual District Tae-Kwon-Do Championships.

PUBLICATIONS:

* "A perspective on the outsourcing of Object-Oriented Software Development", Faculty working paper series 94-04-21, Drexel University, 1994.

* "An investigation of the promise of Artificial Neural Networks for unsupervised learning and distinctive recognition in industrial autonomous guided vehicles", Faculty working paper series 94-07-01, Drexel University, 1994.

* Wireless Apps with PKI-based Security IT Ascent, The Times of India, October 25, 2000.

* Piping up security

* Bridging the gap in WAP, The Economic Times, December 28, 2000.

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