Java/J2EE Project lead

Sahana Khokhawala

*** *. ******** ******, *** #**,Sunnyvale, CA 94019

Mobile No: 408-***-****

************@*****.***

Summary

I am having software development over 11 years of experience working in all phases of

SDLC. Focusing on conceptualizing business needs and translating them into viable

technical solutions. Strengths include successful analysis, development and problem-

solving expertise with oral and written communications skills. Strong background in

JAVA/J2EE development environment has provided the opportunity to work on a

diversity of software projects.

Objective

To obtain a position of a project leader in a company, where I can utilize my

management and software development knowledge, with the opportunity for

performance-based advancement

Professional Summary

Extensive experience in managing enterprise IT project life cycle through all

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phases for past 11 years

Experience of 11 years working with global clients like Apple, BNP Paribas,

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FedEx, Merrill lynch, HP and Citibank

Worked at onsite for 2 years handling offshore and onsite team

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End-to-end management including requirements analysis, scoping, gap and cost

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benefits analysis, resource management, development, testing, pre and post

production activities

Responsible for project management and implementation of new software

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Re-engineering improvement; mapping existing processes, elements of change

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control; understanding the impact of changes on processes

Proven ability to deliver high quality IT projects on schedule

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Excellent interpersonal skills in communications and team management

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Achievements

Associate of Month (July – 2013)

POB (Pat on back-appreciation from Mahindra Satyam)

Sun Java 1.2 certified programmer

Employment Summary

Tech Mahindra/ Satyam Computer – Project Lead (Band P1b) [Sep/2006 – till date]

Fulcrum Logic, US - Software Programmer [Apr/2006 – Sep/2006]

Capgemini Consulting India Ltd - Senior Consultant [May/2004 – Mar/2006]

Nucsoft Ltd – Programmer [Mar/2003-May/2004]

Aptech Ltd - Senior Training Executive [Aug/1999-Mar/2003]

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Skills

O PERATING S YSTEMS: W indows 95/2000/XP, Basic Unix, AIX, Mac OS 10.x

Languages: Java, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSLT

Framework: Struts, Spring, Hibernate

Databases: O racle, SQL server, MySQL

GUI: V isual Basic, Visual Age

Case Tools: R ational Rose, Microsoft Project, Omni plan (Mac based)

Web Related: W eb logic 6.x,7.x,8.1 Application server, Tomcat 5.0, 5.5, 6.0.x, JRun

Tools & Utilities: E clipse, IntelJ, K awa,IBM Visual Age, JDev, Toad,Ant & M aven,

V SS, CVS, SVN

Experience

Point of Sale(POS), Apple [Sep/2011–Till date]

POS (point-of-sale) is a front ending retail system. POS software performs numerous

functions, such as sale transactions, taxes, discounts, exemptions; generation of

store accounting details and receipts; computerization of cash drawers and store

registers; interpretation of barcode scans; and queries against inventory and sales

databases. In Apple, POS application is launched on iPhone. Worked on Sweden

and Turkey new store open releases. It involved requirement analysis, Gap analysis,

ERS document creation, development, testing support and production pre and post

activities.

Contribution:

Study new geo store opening requirement and be a part of gap analysis

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Responsible for creating estimation and project plan for Tech Mahindra tasks

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Create and review design document, screen flow and db changes

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Assigned tasks, monitor and mentor onsite and offshore team members

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Development and unit testing of critical tasks

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Provide support during complete project life cycle (like, requirement phase,

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design, development, QA, IT, UAT, pre and post-production activities

Suggest solutions to critical business requirements so that business can take

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decisions based on feasible solution

Provide daily/weekly status to internal and external managers

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HDFC Bank, Mumbai [Mar/2011–Jul/2011]

E-Payments messages are sent from the HDFC corporate client’s to HDFC Bank’s

Enet System. Customer PI receives the IDOC messages from SAP system then

convert into XML format and forward it to the Bank PI system. The communication

between the Customer PI and Bank PI is via HTTPS and all messages exchanged

between them are signed and encrypted and forwarded to the Enet System.

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Contribution:

Due to lack of java and unorganized code, part of a functionality written in java

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was black box for Client.

Responsibility was to analyze the correct code and document the same.

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Document deployment steps of java module for SAP environment

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Create a working development environment on other system.

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This work made difficult client like HDFC to appreciate our efforts.

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Create java web service as a prototype on SAP server

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Support pre-sale team in CBCI feasibility study, resource estimation

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iVision Trade Finance -BNP Paribas, Mumbai [Mar/2008–Oct/2010]

iVision is a Trade finance application which is used globally by back office users.

This product includes core & advice generation module. Core module is used by

back end users to create different import/export products. Advice generation module

is used to generate advices/report for client and banks. The product was deployed in

3 hub centers i.e. Paris, New York and Singapore. The project has 2 major versions

based on 2-tier architecture and version 3.3 is based on 3-tier architecture.

Contribution:

Responsible for maintenance of version 3.2 sites like Africa, Gulf, Israel, Canada,

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Europe

Involved with client onsite team in analyzing suitable software for advice module

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Responsible for finding pros and cons of various software studied

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Part of a team to present pros and cons to upper management to finalize the

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suitable software

Responsible for redesign and redevelopment of advice module

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Responsible for technical documents like design, technical specification, test

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cases

Responsible for creating and maintaining project management documents like

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project plan, traceability matrix

Responsible for identifying any risk and giving timely status to upper

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management

Managing, mentoring & monitoring maintenance and development team

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Responsible for estimations in development and maintenance work

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Responsible for quality & timely delivery

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Pricing-FedEx, US [Sep/2006–Feb/2008]

iVision is a Trade finance application. It is used globally by back office users. This

product includes core & advice generation module. Core module is used by back end

users to create different import/export products like Import/Export LC, Bill collection,

export bill negotiation/purchase, International guarantee, shipping guarantee. Advice

generation module is used to generate advices/report for client and banks which are

involved. The product was deployed in 3 hub centers i.e. Paris, New York and

Singapore. The project has 2 major versions as 3.2 and 3.3. Version 3.2 is based on

2-tier architecture and version 3.3 is based on 3-tier architecture. There are different

source codes versions maintained in CVS based on various sites.

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Contribution

Involved into understanding requirement and communicating to offshore team

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Responsible for work estimation and assigning work to offshore team

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Coordinator between client and offshore team

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Responsible for timely & quality delivery

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Responsible for representing status report to higher management & Client

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Involved in design and development using JSP pages, HTML, JavaScript, Java

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Ismart-Merrill Lynch, US [Apr/2006–Sep/2006]

Ismart is developed as a sales portal. This application is integration of Siebel and

Java. The data is saved in Siebel and java code used to get data through Siebel

Web service call. It is enhancement project.

Contribution

Responsible to gather the requirement and design screens Mock-ups as per

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requirement.

Responsibilities included development, integration and co-ordination between

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requirements team and development team

Responsible for integration in development environment, integration

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environment.

Developed integration between java and Siebel web service call.

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Developed JSP pages using XML and XSL.

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Developed test case scenarios for Functional Testing.

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Used of Ajax for validation and data retrieval.

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OCS- Hewlett-Packard [Jun/2004–Mar/2006]

Outlet communication system is developed for HP to give knowledge of new

products through e-learning. The HP Outlet uses this system across world. The

application is a localized application and framework based on struts

Contribution

Responsible for Designing Screens as per client’s requirement.

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Responsibilities included analysis, design, development and co-ordination

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between requirements team and development team

Responsible for Functional Specification and Technical specification

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Developed Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP), to route the submittals to the

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Hibernate components and render-retrieved information

Developed JSP pages using XML and Custom tag libraries for contract and

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capacity release modules to view different HP products.

Developed automatic email system using Java Mail to send an email to the

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customers regarding their registration information and updates about new

products.

Performed code reviews adhering to coding standards, helped in bug

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fixing/enhancements.

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CFX- Citibank N.A [Mar/2003–May/2004]

Foreign Exchange is a system, which provides way to book FX deal. CFX system is

used to automate the deal tree maintenance. This system is used to book all kind of

deals including cancellation, reversal, and rollover. This system provides a document

tracker module to back office that will aid in maintaining the document requirements

efficiently. This system also automates the process of verification of outstanding deal

balances. CFX system is a multi-branch system with a single application instance of

oracle database for a country.

Contribution

Involved in reading XML files using JAXP for parsing and transformed the same

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using XSLT.

Involved in writing build.xml file which will compile classes, create jar and deploy

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jar in web logic application server.

Involved in developing Unit test framework using JUnit, to test Data Access

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Objects (DAO).

Performed code reviews adhering to coding standards, helped in bug

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fixing/enhancements.

Used various Design Patterns like MVC, Session Façade, Factory Pattern,

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Singleton for the Design

Used the principles of Object Oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD) to design and

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develop the system.

Used UML with Rational Rose to develop use case diagram, Sequence diagrams

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Involved in developing the application based on the XML Load Framework.

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Implemented a Data Access layer for accessing the various data sources

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Personal Details

Education: B.E COMPUTERS from P.V.P.P College, Mumbai University in 1998

Personal Email ID: ************@*****.***

Date Of Birth : 2-Apr-77

Total Experience : 11 years

Passport: L3572677

Passport Validity: 06-Oct-2023

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Visa validity: 2-Dec-2014

Notice Period: 15 days

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