Technical Project Manager

ARNAB BHAR

* ******** ****,**** ****, NJ *****

Mobile: 617-***-****

Email: *****.****@*******.***

SUMMARY:

•Over 15+ years of total experience in Technical Project Management,analysis, design, architecting, development, testing and deployment of Client –Server Web based and B2B applications using JAVA /.NET technologies

•Over 7+ Years of Project Management /Lead/Analysts Experience

•Over 5+ Years of Experience in Agile Methodologies like Pair Programming, (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective), Test-driven development (TDD),Agile testing

•Extensive experience with managing content strategies using IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management, Oracle UCM and Vignette Content Management, SDL Tridion, Tridion Odata web Services.

•Mule ESB and Oracle ESB Experience

•Experience in building and managing SOA architecture Patterns and Web Services.

•Domain experience in Banking, Insurance, Telecom and Pharma.

EDUCATION:

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Roorkee, India

Bachelor of Engineering, IIT Roorkee (Jul’00 –Aug’05)

CERTIFICATIONS:

PMP SCRUM Master Certification

Intensive training sessions for PMP/ Spring/Agile Methodology/SCRUM

Undergoing TOGAF Certification Exams.

Oracle Java /Portal Architect Certifications

Omniture Analytics certification from Adobe

Banking 101 /Insurance 101 Certifications

Healthcare and Insurance Domain

Banking Domain experience

TECHNICAL and Management SKILLS

Project Management Tools

Microsoft Project,Rational Rose, Clarity, Sharepoint, Microsoft Office Products like excel, Powerpoint and other OneNote

Designing and Modeling

OOAD Using UML, MVC

Databases

Oracle 10g/9.x/8.x, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, MY SQL

Testing Tools

DDTS, TCM, Test Director, OpenSTA, JUnit, TestPartner, Quality Center

Ticket Tracking Tools

JIRA

Reporting Tools

Crystal Reports 9.0/10.0,Planview, Rally

Operating Systems

Windows XP/2000/NT, Unix- flavors e.g Sun Solaris V5,Linux

Portal/Middlware/Content Management

Oracle WebCenter Interaction Portal 10g

Oracle WebCenter Portal 11g

WebSphere Portal 6/7/8

Filenet /Captiva /Documentum /SDL Tridion

Mule ESB,Oracle ESB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

ADP :Senior Technical Manager Sep 17 - Till Date (Parsippany,NJ)

ADP is a payroll processing company with wide roots in managing, multi geography and tier systems . They are also providing broker services for insurance products

Domain:Payroll and Insurance

Team Size:22

Project Description:

Managing the End 2 end Technical Fabric of ADP GCC Platform

Assist in Development of SOA /REST based Web services .

Oversee Project Progress and Integration with Mule ESB and Java based Frameworks and Workday, Oracle HCM Solutions

Cloud based Development Using AWS and Docker Technologies

Responsibilties :

Work with Enterprise Architects, design and develop software applications and major functionalists.

Lead and Participate in Joint Application Design sessions with the client and help the Business Analyst with requirement gathering and requirement analysis.

Oversee projects with Integration with IAM suite of products like CA Identity Manager

Help prepare estimates and proposals.

Help the support team resolve problems.

Conduct design and code reviews.

Host sessions to train employees on new technologies and, or design ideas.

Mentor technical team and work with Team Leads to see things are in good shape

Give Upper Management weekly project status and cost summary .Used Planview and Rally for chalking out weekly project estimates .

Advise prospective clients on processes and technologies.

Evaluate solutions and technologies.

Optum :Senior Techno Project Manager July 16 - Sep 17 (Basking Ridge,NJ)

Optum is a health insurance company specialized in providing care in medical arena

Domain:Health Care and Insurance

Team Size:22

Project Description:

Managing the End 2 end Delivery of Optum Integration Platform

Oversight on Projects Development of SOA /REST based Web services .

Technical Oversight Projects on Focus on Files Based batch Processing Flows

Integration with Mule ESB and Java based Frameworks and Salesforce CRM

Cloud based Development Using Docker and Openshift Technologies

Responsibilties :

Managing day to day Technical activities of the Team .

Well-Seasoned Client Facing Role

Used Microsoft Power Point to provide Bi Weekly status to all Stake holders

Used Visio to produce Process Flow Diagrams

Used Microsoft Word for producing RFP and other proposal documents

Scrum master for Core Team

Doing occasional Code reviews and Architectural Reviews.

Oversight various development projects with Integration with Mule ESB /Java

Doing Budget Forecasts and cost estimation for VACCN project

Was Involved in doing financial gap analysis for onboarding resources for WY Phase II Project

Bug Tracking using Rally and HP ALM

Gathering Business requirements and Customer coordination and Presentation

Amex: Techno Project Manager Feb 16 - July 2016 (NY City)

Amex is a credit card and financial company providing credit products

Domain:Finance

Team Size:10

Project Description:

Managing the delivery and Financial aspects of Data Governance Platform and Development

Development of SOA /REST based Web services

Integration with Mule ESB and Collibra Connector

Responsibilties :

Managing day to day Technical activities of the Team .

Overviewing various development projects with Integration with Collibra Data Governance Platform integrated with Mule ESB

Bug Tracking using Rally

Using Clarity for Project management

Gathering Business requirements and Customer coordination and Presentation

Work on various aspects of concerning Mule, collibra connector development.

Petra Systems: Techno Project Manager Oct 15 - Feb 2016 (South Plainfield,NJ)

Petra Systems is specialized in providing renewal energy products and installations for state and national clients

Domain:Renewabale Energy

Team Size:10

Project Description:

Managing the Intelliview Analytics Framework.

Development of SOA /REST based Web services .

Integration with Hadoop and active MessageQueue.

Responsibilties :

Managing day to day Technical and Functional activities of the Team .

Scrum Master for the Core Team

Doing Code reviews and Architectural Reviews.

Overviewing various development projects with Integration with active Message Queue and Hadoop Distributed System.

Working on Financial Forecast for State based upcoming clients and providing the strategy to stakeholders

Gathering Business requirements and Customer coordination.

Agreeya Solution : Techno Project Manager

Client:Verizon Wireless Aug 13 - Sep 16( Bedminster,NJ)

Verizon is a telecom company specialized in providing wifi and telephone based products

Role : Technical Project Manager

Domain:Telecom

Team Size:20+

Environment : Java/J2EE,Microsoft Project,Rational Rose,JIRA

Project Description:

Management of Development of SOA /REST based Web services and Integration with ATG-Commerce Portal comply with Six Sigma Techniques.

Responsibilities :

Communication and Goal Setting

Maximize productivity by setting clear expectations and proactively communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and top management.

Draft and distribute project objectives and tasks to the solutions team.

Negotiate successfully with clients, staff and outside vendors.

Nurture relationships with project teams as well as business and SME’s.

Project Delivery

Work with multiple PMs on POS Wireless Platforms and/or team leads on complex projects.

Use Agile Delivery Methods for faster turnaround of projects and defect resolutions

Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources using Clarity .

Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.

Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects using Microsoft Project Manager.

Guarantee the attainment of key milestones by proactively tracking metrics and project outputs.

Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups and/or projects proactively.

Leadership

Work with project team and key stakeholders to devise best practices and continuous improvement of project delivery across the enterprise.

Synchronize the efforts of major initiatives involving multiple groups and departments.

Coach, mentor and motivate Team leads.

Exemplary track record of success in mentoring of team members that consistently produce in high stress environments.

Escalate issues and concerns appropriately and in sense of urgency.

Offer input and feedback on growth and development opportunities for other PMs.

Cognizant – Techno Project Manager Nov ’11 – Aug’13(Multiple Locations)

Projects:

Metlife (US) Feb ‘13- Aug ’13(South Plainfield,NJ)

Metlife is a health and auto insurance company specialized in providing insurance products in the same sphere .

Role : Technical Project Lead (4 months)

Domain : Insurance

Team Size : 15

OS : AIX, Linux, Windows 2003 /2000 Server, Windows-XP

Environment : Java/J2EE,Microsoft Project,Rational Rose,JIRA

Project Description:

Manage Development of RPP –EPP Migration project involving managing extensive development in JAVA/J2EE and Portal Technologies. Involved with Portal Architects to advise correct use of frameworks like Dojo, GWT, jquery for various UI related developments.

Responsibilities:

•Oversee and Involve in architecture and design reviews and ensure artifacts are checked in to repository

•Provide weekly reports to Management of Project Status Progress and Achievements and Milestones.

•Publish Project Metrics Weekly and Coordinate follow-up meetings with Business SME’s

•Involved with Business Analysis to ensure clarity in requirements and documentation.

•Coordination of Deployment and Publish of the applications in various environments during the life cycle of the project.

•Oversee and Monitor Testing Teams to identify memory/thread/method level execution analysis for identifying memory leaks and Performance bottlenecks using RAD Profiler tool.

•Coordination of Development of various content strategies using SDL Tridion Artifacts (Authoring and Presentation templates, Components, Content, Workflows, and Profiles).

•Coordinated with Project Teams for migration of existing WebSphere EE application stack to Jboss App Server.

•Used Starteam for version controlling.

Staples HR IT Support (US) Nov’11 – Jan’13(Boston, MA)

Staples is retail client specialized in office and home based retail products

Role : Technical Project Lead (14 months)

Domain : Retail

Team Size : 15

OS : AIX, Linux, Windows 2003 /2000 Server, Windows-XP

Environment : Java/J2EE Frameworks,Portal Technologies,JIRA,Clarity

Project Description:

Oversee Development and Maintenance of “Staples@Work” “Report to Web” and “Partner Portal” using Oracle Webcenter (Formerly BEA Aqualogic portal) technology

Contribution:

•Oversee and manage Development of various enterprise applications (“ Staples@Work” “Report to Web” and “Partner Portal”) for Staples .

•Creation Weekly Reports of Project Status and sharing with Upper management.

•Conduction meetings with Client Parties and making meeting notes

•Involved with Business analyst in preparing design documents, developing use cases, identifying classes and objects, drawing class diagrams, sequence diagrams using Rational Rose and identifying the design patterns to be used during implementation.

•Worked with Performance Testing Teams for monitoring and testing database queries and connection pools for better performance.

•Worked and supervised with production support and enhancement Teams

•Provided Technical Support and Guidance for Debugging various portlet, java and .net applications as part of production support.

•Used Star Team and Build Forge for version control and build respectively.

Wipro Technologies –Senior Technical Lead /Manager Jul ’05 – Nov’ 11(Multiple Locations)

Projects:

1.MasterCard EIS (US) Mar 2010 –Nov’ 2011 (O’fallon, Missouri)

Nov -2011 – March 2012 ( India Development center, Hyderabad)

Role : Technical Manager (1 Year)

Domain : Retail Banking

Team Size : 150

OS : Solaris 10, Windows 2003 /2000 Server, Windows-XP

Environment : Omniture web analytics,Excel,Microsoft Project

Project Description:

Emerging Internet Solutions is one of the premier areas of MasterCard wherein all the web related applications are developed with the latest state of art web technologies.

Contribution:

•Supervised the team for creation and updating of different security groups for OWASP Compliance.

•Involved with Architecture teams to oversee the Object Oriented Analysis and Design of the application.

•Involved in managing and improving the performance of the J2EE applications and ensure Production tickets are tracked and closed

•Responsible to ensure testing of the Applications is correctly accomplished using JUnit and other testing tools.

•Involved in release management activities from Dev to Test and Production servers.

•Involved in Maintenance of the multiple releases i.e. fixing the server side bugs of the project.

•Co-ordinate with QA for testing, Production releases, Application deployment, integration and conducting walk-thru code reviews.

•Involved in end to end life cycle for migration of WebSphere 8 based EE application to Jboss 6 middleware technology stack .

•Developed Home grown Scripts for various stages of migration and deployment.

2. JPMC Imaging Application (US) Jan’ 2009 –Feb’ 2010(Columbus,OHIO)

JPMC is a banking client with product’s and avenues for Loan and banking domain

Role : Tech Lead(1 .1 Year)

Domain : Retail Banking

Team Size : 175

OS : AIX 5.2, Windows 2003 /2000 Server, Windows-XP

Environment : Filenet P8-BPF,Java /J2EE frameworks like struts 2.0,.NET Framework 3.5, EMC Storage Products, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Load balancing Devices,Captiva Imaging products and Kofax.

Project Description:

A production /Short development support project of Chase bank wherein Home Loan Applications are processed. The project involves the Imaging platform which refers to the entire ecosystem of applications & servers used to support scanning, indexing, image compression, image storage and retrieval of various paper-based documents.

Contribution:

•Develop applications on FileNet P8 Suite of Products,EMC Captiva suite of products using Java, .NET 2.0 framework. Wrote SQL queries to interact with.

•Worked on Filenet BPM Process Designer to develop and configure Loan Processing Workflow.

•Installed upgraded Filenet 3.5 to 4.0 versions and involved in full life cycle of upgrade process.

•Further enhance existing software base for the customer on FileNet ESB and Captiva platforms.

•Provide quick resolutions to critical production issues/bugs on FileNet and Captiva platforms.

•In general, responsible to help with production bug fixes, drive resolution of problem tickets and fix the issues within the agreed upon SLA time frames, software enhancements and new software development activities.

•Worked on UNIX administration and shell scripts (AIX 5.2).

•Also did unit and integration testing in UAT environment and freeze various requirements for bug fixes as per SDLC of a bug fix.

3. Novartis US WebFactory (US) June 2006 - Nov 2008, Mar 2011- Aug 2011

Novartis is a pharma company specialized in providing products for oncology and other medical sphere’s

June 2006 – Aug 2007 (India Development center, Kolkata, India)

Aug 2007 - Nov 2008 & ( US East Hanover,NJ)

Mar’11 – Aug’11(India Development center, Kolkata, India)

Client : Novartis Pharmaceuticals, US

Role : Onsite Coordinator /Tech Lead (1.5Year)

Domain : Pharma/ Manufacturing

Team Size : 200

OS : Sun Solaris, Windows-XP

Environment : Java,XHTML,XML,XSLT,Netbeans,JSR -168 Portlet API, Oracle 10g,oracle /BEA Aqualogic G6 (formerly Plumtree Portal), Domain -Pharma,Manufacturing

Project Description:

As part of this project, Wipro provides fixed non-discretionary or Baseline Services covering break-fix and operational support Services to the EIS Division of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, US for:

• IHS (Intranet Hosting Services)

• WIS (Web Integration Services)

• IWS (Integrated Workspace Services)

Contribution:

•New application design, development and implementation

• Spring and Hibernate frameworks used

•Application support

•Report any functional gaps in existing applications and suggest business process improvements.

•Test plan preparation, Review of test plans, unit & integration testing.

•Work with the on-site technical lead and off-shore team for functional enhancements & application interface development and delivery

•Compilation of the User Manual and hands on training to the users. Worked on Java /J2EE and legacy PHP portlets.

Ananth Technologies Mar’ 04- Mar’05

Role : Developer

Team Size : 30

OS : Windows-XP

Environment : Oracle 9i,WebSphere Studio Application Developer,J2EE,JSP,Java Beans, Java Servlets, WebSphere, HR, JDBC, Java, Manufacturing

Project Description:

Tracks all details of employee and implements HR related functionality

Square Enix Game /Ananth Technologies Mar’ 98- Mar’2000

Role : Part Time Developer/Freelance /Video Game competition

OS : Windows-3.1

Environment : C/C++,Assembly language,Windows 3.1

Project Description:

Develop Console based Game on Borland C /C++ and Assembly language

AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS:

•Buzz LightYear Award ( 07/07/2012)

•Feather In My Cap (03/29/2008)

•Feather In My Cap (Team) ( 05/21/2007)

•Feather In My Cap (Team) ( 09/06/2006)

•Thanks A Zillion(12/15/2006)

•Achievement in Game Design (12/5/2000)

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