Project Manager Management

Jay Nelamangala

United States of America

Active MBI Clearance, Active Public Trust

Clearance

Will be provided

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Results-oriented Chief Information Officer with specialized background leading technology

programs for large federal information management systems. Balanced combination of superlative

stakeholder liaison skills, broad technical expertise, and outstanding leadership abilities.

Demonstrated ability to manage IT strategic planning function, providing organization-wide broad

perspective while being attentive to specific budget issues that shape annual performance goals and

objectives. Effective hands-on leadership style with excellent interpersonal skills to continually drive focused

teams toward performance excellence . Thorough knowledge of established and state-of-the-art

technology and practices while always staying abreast of emerging trends. Highly organized,

directing many projects at once while attending to all details. Received Chief Information Officer

Certification, GSA, 2011

STRENGTHS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior IT Specialist, US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 04/2012 – Present

Serve in project management contracted role to ensure delivery of quality information products and

services to meet USPTO, public, and intellectual property community needs and ensuring the

quality and integrity of the intellectual property data.

• Direct the planning, direction, and coordination of entire project

lifecycles including systems testing and development, quality

assurance, systems migration, disaster recovery, high-level

security, data storage and retrieval, records management, support

systems and user training.

• Plan, implement and evaluate short and long-term information

technology solutions. Lead project meetings and present progress

reports to Director, outlining project successes as well as

providing solutions to integration or implementation problems.

• Ensure adequate systems or process analysis, improvement, or

engineering support is available to improve manufacturing,

administrative and business operations.

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• Develop project management tools to include project workflow plans, risk management

plans, and communications approaches. Document requirements and validate processes and

requirements with stakeholders.

• Review deliverables and outcomes to ensure customer and organization requirements were

met within all time and cost parameters. Assess projects and propose solutions to improve

processes. Communicate with all stakeholders regarding any issues effecting project status.

• Chair development/implementation meetings with technical and non-technical staff and presented

progress reports to senior management and military officers, outlining project successes as well as

providing solutions to integration or implementation problems.

• Communicate regularly with non-technical and financial staff to ensure proper understanding of IT-

related processes and procedures, explaining highly technical information in simple, easily

understood terms.

SAIC 10/2008 –

04/2012

Washington DC Metropolitan Area

Senior IT Specialist, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 10/2008– 04/2012

Supervisor : Joanna Weber

Served as project manager for migrating EDS application from Informix platform to Oracle 10G

platform as part of the TE/GE modernization project to bring stability to the EDS-MEDS interface

using EFTU and completed all gap-log items.

• Gathered user and business requirements and worked closely with client end users,

management, and technical staff to ensure the relevance of architecture and system designs

to business process requirements. Planned project activities, resources and costs.

• Prepared status reports and communicated progress to senior management. Fostered and

maintained solid relationships and developed networks with key management in IRS IT community,

greatly enhancing ability to provide a fluid pipeline for data gathering and sharing.

• Collaborated with multiple divisions to migrate and coordinate software releases. Interface

with management to provide problem resolution, project tracking, status and reporting.

• Verified proper staffing of tasks and projects. Monitored and reported on project

performance, milestones, deliverables, issues, and accomplishments.

• Wrote shell and SQL scripts for daily downloads of EDS data for Business Objects reporting

purposes. Removed hard-coded features and made them dynamic and flexible by changing

them over to database lookups. Replaced Ace reports with Oracle reports.

• Added new features such as MEDS case number display in forms and screens, new user fee

flags for bounced checks and user fee payment status, EIN database lookups, and

sophisticated handling of MEDS transactions when cases were busy during transactions.

• Provided daily support for EDS production systems, monitoring of the daily Oracle log,

supporting TRAC application.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Successfully migrated the EDS application from Informix platform to

Oracle 10G platform as part of the TE/GE modernization project,

converting from embedded Informix SQL to embedded Oracle SQL.

• Completed many rounds of EDS data cleanup work which needed analysis

of programs, interfaces and enhancements and bug fixes to existing

code and scripts.

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• Completed several UWRs pending for many years such as status 40/41

changes, MEDS case no and EDS case no lookups during letter

generation, new user fee and unpostable reports with enhanced

features.

• Solved the DLN issue that had remained unsolved for many years in

IRS.

IBM 08/2006–

10/2008

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Washington, DC

Supervisor: Gerald Pendley

Senior IT Specialist

Served as project manager for Tax Exempt & Government Entities Division on IT modernization

projects, EDS, TEDS and MEDS. Migrated TE/GE applications and data from RM600 to Sun

Enterprise Server and providing program support for the migration from EDS to TEDS. Developed

strategy for data migration of open and closed cases from EDS to TEDS/MEDS.

• Interfaced with users, technical personnel and senior management to provide needs and

requirements analysis, problem resolution, support, guidance and solutions to business

needs.

• Developed documentation and specifications for all phases of Software Development Life

Cycle including Need Assessment, Development, Validation, Implementation and

Monitoring.

• Oversaw development of IT standards, validation testing (including change control and

problem resolution) and recommend viable solutions to customer problems and requests.

• Created project schedules, conducted schedule reviews, tracked schedules and

communicated project progress to internal and external stakeholders.

• Defined new systems objectives, developed overall technical requirements, specifications,

and integration methodologies and identified optimum equipment components.

• Coordinated and communicated project deadlines, maintaining project chain of command

while ensuring accountability for stated milestones to minimize project delays.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Successfully migrated system from legacy RM/600 Server to SUN Enterprise Server

platform. Worked closely with client to assess and evaluate system/project needs and

specifications and conducted analysis of business requirements for interface and analysis of

client server systems.

• Completed EDS data cleanup work involving monitoring the EDS system, monitoring EDS

interfaces with other systems EACS and TEDS, and also needed several modifications,

enhancements, bug fixes to EDS programs.

• Identified data related issues in EDS data, and developed strategy for their resolution.

Repaired program related issues within EDS applications and also with EDS interfaces to

TEDS, LINUS and EACS systems.

RCI, Herndon, VA 06/2001–

08/2006

IT Consultant/Owner

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Provided leadership, project management and systems engineering expertise to public/private sector

clientele. Analyzed systems architecture; defined business and technical requirements; and directed teams to

develop data solutions.

• Planned, implemented, and directed the design, development,

operation, maintenance, and integration of a complete range of

information systems and applications to support IT functions.

• Gathered, developed, coordinated, and defined business requirements

for projects from initial phase to final implementation.

• Met with customers, analyzed business needs, and created customized

solutions based on personalized client specifications. Identified,

nurtured, and expanded customer relationships, acting as department

liaison for all issues.

• Utilized emerging and traditional marketing tools to identify areas for increased market.

Fostered and maintained quality business relationships with contracted and external

stakeholders.

• Researched and delivered business analysis presentations, communicating highly complex

operations and technical information to diverse audiences in clear, concise manner.

SIGNIFICANT CLIENTS/PROJECTS:

Fannie Mae, Herndon, VA: Provided STAMPS support and enhancements to production

systems for structured transactions in mortgage backed securities (MBS). Completed multiple

enhancements including posting of MEGAS which are settled and ready to be traded up to the

hour, exception reporting on the MEGAS, WAC/WAM/Coupon enhancements have been done.

SQR, K-shell, Autosys jil scripts, Sybase stored procedures. Bug entry and tracking using

Rational Remedy and ClearCase. Infrastructure enhancements with distribution lists, email, ftp

and web posting were done.

IBM, Bethesda, MD : Served as project manager for Porting C++,VC++ from AIX, OS/2 to

WinNT platform. Used McCabe tools to run various OO software metrics and static code

analysis such as cyclomatic complexity on all classes and sub systems of Health Information

Systems software to identify objects and methods which needed rework, enhancements and detail

code review.

FEMA, Washington DC: Program Manager for re-architecting and developing three tier

architecture for FEMA system. Served as technical liaison to define client business and

technology requirements. Defined and documented database administration policies and

procedures while developing and implementing corporate database constructs to identify,

evaluate, and recommend improved database management systems.

AT&T, Herndon, VA:;Team lead contracted provide technical expertise for moving software and

systems from NJ to VA, defining QA process and leading the QA team on their Customer Care

project. Systems tested were customer billing and inquiry product line, document viewer. Software

environment included DEC MessageQ middleware, STW testing tool for regression testing,

NeuronData, X-Motif and Oracle.

Eastman Kodak/Lorel, Laurel, MD: Team Lead for software development and system integration

of IRS DPS Project with KODAK image processing systems. GUI development using X-Motif,

UIMX on Sun-Solaris platform for the Image Capture subsystem of the IRS DPS project. Managed

all code reviews and SWIT testing. Development environment included Codecenter debugger, and

VCMS for source code control.

Jay Nelamangala

Northrup Grumman, Chantilly, VA: Managed System development for automating small tax forms

processing project for IRS SCRIPS project at Grumman Data Systems. Document imaging

application development for automatic electronic filing of tax returns in a PLEXUS, Informix,

4GL, Windows 4GL, NCR Unix server environment. Subsystems worked on : random sampling,

selection and QR of operator and program validation of input process, processing

acknowledgement file from EFS. Data modeling using Popkin’s Systems Architect.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

Vice-President of Engineering, Kshema Technologies, Ltd. Sterling, VA, 11/1999– 06/2001

IT Consultant/Owner, RCI, Herndon, VA, 09/1990– 11/1999

Senior Software Engineer, Formtek/Lockheed, Pittsburg, PA, 08/1986– 09/1990

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG, Pittsburg, PA

Master of Science in Computer Science, 1988

BANGALORE UNIVERSITY, Karnataka, India

Master of Business Administration

Master of Mathematics

Bachelor of Science in Statistics

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