Project Manager

Manjunath Krishnaiah *******@*******.***

603-***-**** (cell)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Technically outstanding and business-savvy management professional with a

pioneering career reflecting strong leadership, qualifications coupled with

'hands-on' engineering expertise. Maintain focus on achieving bottom line

results while formulating and implementing advanced technology, process

innovation and business solutions to meet diversity of needs. Superior

track record delivering simultaneously large-scale, mission critical

projects on time and under budget. Experienced in all phases of Software

development lifecycle; Areas of strength include:

Application Development Project/Product Management Quality Assurance of

Products

Team Leadership and Release Management and Testing Tools/Approaches

Management Support

> 18 years of experience in Technology Management, Leadership and

management experience in software engineering, offshore/onsite team

management, Customer care and project management. Successful in

delivering products, crafting process improvements, building global cross-

functional teams, and achieving cost, quality, delivery goals for revenue

growth and customer satisfaction. Goal-oriented, highly motivated; able

to drive high-level objectives and lead complex projects with fluid team

sizes and schedules.

> Experienced in all aspects of the software development lifecycle

including product technical-functional strategy, release planning and

estimation, earned value management, product launch and demonstration,

and customer support. Proficient in client/vendor negotiation and

establishing relationships across internal departments. Proven success

leveraging automated testing frameworks and mobile technologies.

> Extensive knowledge on Oracle products like WebLogic server, Oracle/RAC

DB, FMW, JEE, JAVA, JConsole, JRockit Mission Control and flight

recorder for Java Profiling. Proficient in JBoss, GlassFish, WebSphere,

and Sybase Application Server on Windows and UNIX platforms.

> Developed various applications using Agile and Waterfall methodology,

involving databases like Oracle, RAC, Sybase, DB2, and SQL Server on

WebLogic and Oracle Identity Access Manager (OIM). Conducted SCRUM

meetings and acted as SCRUM Master, tracked issues, project progress

using JIRA, VersionOne, Rally software

> Experienced in programming languages, multi-platform development, Web

development, and various frameworks like OSGI, Spring and Struts.

Continually provided value added services to our clients through

thoughtful experience, productive coding/testing habits and good

communication skills. Good knowledge in Version control tools like

Perforce, P4, SCCS, PVCS, Star Team and Visual Source Safe

> Poses strong problem analysis skills with ability to follow project

standards and procedures as per client specifications. Proven track

record in education including Master degree in Management.

Professional Experience

Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Accenture

Oct 2014-till date

Responsible for creating IT strategies that define how IT will be utilized

to support an organization's overall business strategy. Identified

standards and best practices to define architecture, governance,

organization structure, staffing, and processes for managing portfolios of

projects. Continuous updating knowledge of evolving trends in IT strategy

and management and applied those to develop innovative business solutions.

Currently working for Accenture's clients to provide IT strategy while

defining process that will be implemented to upgrade their Oracle

Middleware installation along with its deployed applications. Involved in

performance tuning of WebLogic Server, Profiling of JAVA Applications using

JProfiler, VisualVM, Java Mission Control and Flight Recorder to identify

memory leaks, improve overall application performance.

Sr. Software Dev Manager/Sr. Release Manager, Oracle Corporation

2010- Sept 2014

Lead and managing a global team of over 35+ Senior Java developers,

Architects and QA Managers, who were responsible for developing enterprise

applications to deploy on WebLogic Server. Worked on Integration of AQJMS

with WebLogic Server, and GlassFish MQ Server. Managed multiple releases of

WebLogic Server, AQJMS, and WebLogic Multi-tenancy project with the focus

on SAAS and PAAS. Designed & developed applications with JDBC, JTA &

(JMS)Messaging system in SAAS/PAAS env. Managed and developed QA automation

Framework using Ant/Junit. Worked on Java Profiling, JVM tuning, monitoring

JVM using Mission Control and Flight recorder.

Responsibilities:

> Technical discussions with Architects and Product management group to

finalize requirements/specifications. Also, involved in

design/development of Enterprise applications including disaster recovery

(DR) scenarios like site Failover/Recovery along with HA solution

implementation.

> Worked closely with various stakeholders like Dev Management, Product

Management, PMO and Executive management to come up with a Release &

Project Plan for the future releases of WebLogic Server.

> Developed applications using JAVA, distributed transactions (JTA), JDBC,

WebLogic Messaging systems (JMS) and Advanced Queuing (AQ) JMS, C# in

.Net environment to test various WLS subsystems which interacts with

Oracle 9iR2, 10gR2, 11g & 12c Oracle/Oracle RAC systems on Linux and

Solaris. Experienced in Jython, Python and WLST. Java Profiling using

JConsole and JRockit Mission Control/Flight Recorder.

> Involved defining project goals for entire WebLogic QA team, define the

scope of QA for WLS release, track project progress using JIRA system and

update project goals with the stakeholders of the project.

> Developed test cases and worked with Quality Center, QTP. Managed and

developed applications using agile model. Track issues, project tasks

using JIRA and conducted SCRUM meetings as a SCRUM master.

Software Dev Manager, Oracle Corporation.

2008-2010

Responsible for leading and managing a global team of over 20+ Senior Java

developers, and Architects, who are responsible for quality assurance of

Messaging subsystem (JMS) in WebLogic Server, Integration of AQ JMS with

WebLogic Server. Responsible for design, development and implementation of

various JAVA based applications involving distributed transactions, JDBC,

JMS and AQJMS that were deployed on various latest versions of Oracle's

WebLogic products.

Responsibilities:

> Project management using MS project. Preparing project plans, scheduling,

task allocation and making sure team is meeting deadlines. Involve in

discussion with different departments to finalize project plans, PRD

specifications, design specifications, test design specification

documents.

> Involved in developing design documents for Enterprise applications which

includes disaster recovery scenarios like site Failover/Recovery. Also

involved in HA solution implementation.

> Develop applications using Java, .Net/C#, distributed transactions (JTA),

JDBC, WebLogic Messaging systems (JMS) and Advanced Queuing (AQ) JMS to

test various subsystems in WebLogic server. These applications interact

with various databases like Oracle 9iR2, 10gR2 and 11g RAC systems on

Linux, and Solaris

Software QA Manager, BEA Systems, Inc.

2006 - 2008

Responsible for leading and managing a team of 12 who are responsible for

quality assurance of JDBC, JTA and Messaging subsystems in WebLogic Server.

My team is responsible for design, development and implementation of

various JAVA based applications involving distributed transactions, JDBC,

JMS that are deployed on various latest versions of BEA's WebLogic

products. Responsibility includes developing applications, project

management, leading engineering QA team and maintenance of production

applications for various BEA's products.

Responsibilities:

> Worked with third party vendors to hire contractors, publishing job

description in our internal sites, reviewing and interviewing various

candidates. Staffed new QA engineers for worldwide engineering QA team.

Mentored new hires to bring up to the speed and managed the team

successfully to meet the projects deadline. Managed offshore teams and

projects.

> Developed applications using distributed Global transactions (JTA), JDBC

and messaging (JMS) systems to test various subsystems in WebLogic

server along with Oracle/ Oracle RAC DBs on Linux, and Solaris.

> Worked closely with product management and Product development teams to

finalize QA project plans. Involve in sizing effort and identifying any

outages during course of product release cycle.

Sr. Software Engineer, BEA Systems, Inc.

2003-2006

Project Lead in engineering QA team, developed applications involving

databases like Oracle, Sybase, DB2 etc. These applications are used to test

various versions of WebLogic server.

Responsibilities:

> Involved in design, development and implementation of various JAVA based

applications using OSGI and spring framework to test next generation app

server.

> Involved in automation of test execution in our QA infrastructure. These

systems will report test execution outcome and notify the stake holders

of this application.

> Reviewing of edocs for various subsystems like JDBC, JTA and messaging

systems. Provide review feedback to documentation team.

Consultant, Sybase Inc.

2000-2002

Developed Java based Portal Interface for Sybase Enterprise Portal. As a

member of Enterprise team, involved in development of Sybase Enterprise

Portal server. Sybase Portal Interface enables companies to create a

unified portal infrastructure for moving existing business processes cost-

effectively to the Web.

Responsibilities:

> Designed, developed and implementation of portal interface for Sybase

Enterprise Portal Server which was successfully deployed on Sybase

application Server (EAServer) and WebLogic application server

> Developed the Dynamic Web pages using JSP/Servlets. Troubleshooting and

debugging of Servlets and JSP in the application. Involved in bug fixing

and maintenance of applications

> Implemented Application Logic in JSP and Servlets and made connectivity

to EJB Components for the Retrieval of Query results from the Database

through Database layer (Session Beans) using JDBC

Consultant, FedEx Corp.

1997-2000

Worked as onsite Lead at FedEx and was responsible for coordination between

onsite/offshore teams (in Bangalore, India). Involved in testing of FedEx

Remote Server (FxRS) which is part of FedEx Shipping product suite

Involved in Testing and bug fixing in the releases of development, staging

and production and assisted the client's team with system analysis, system

configuration and code construction on Tandem Platform.

Programmer/Analyst, Simplex Solutions (P) Ltd., Bangalore INDIA

1996 - 1997

Involved in development of Inventory and Accounting Software packages which

was developed using C and Dbase. Worked as customer support (like bug

fixing and customizing) these packages for our clients. The work also

involves creating new Dbase tables manually and appending data into Dbase

tables

Technical Skills

Languages/Scripting: Java, JEE, Servlets, EJB, JSP, JDBC, Java Beans, OSGI,

Spring & Struts Framework, .Net, C#, Swing, XML, XSL, ASP, Visual Basic

5.0/6.0, C, C++ COBOL, JavaScript, HTML5, K-Series Tandem (Guardian 90),

NSQL, Pathways, Tandem Subsystems

Web/Application Servers: WebLogic, Websphere, EAServer (Sybase App Server),

ITP WebServer, Tomcat, JBoss

Databases: Oracle12c, Oracle 9i/10g/11g RAC, Sybase, MS SQL Server

2000/2005, UDB DB2 (v7 to 9.1), Informix 9.x, and MySQL 5.x, Tandem-NSQL,

MS Access

GUI Tools: BEA Workshop, Eclipse, JBuilder, Visual Basic 5.0/4.0, Rational

Rose, TogetherSoft Control Center 5.5

Project Tools: MS Project 98, MS Project 2000/2002, AGILE/SCRUM

Version Tools: Perforce (P4), Visual SourceSafe 5.0/6.0, CVS, PVCS, SCCS,

SVN and Star team

Education & Additional Information

PMP - Currently pursuing PMP/PMI certification and expected to be certified

soon

Masters in Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ (Dec 2008)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Bangalore, INDIA (1995)

Associate Degree of Engineering, Technical Education Board, INDIA (1991)

ACHEIVEMENTS AND AWARDS

> Awarded as "best employee of the month" for outstanding performance as an

Onsite leader for Dev of Shipping Server Project in FedEx, Memphis, TN.

> Awarded "Bravo Zulu" award from FedEx Corporation, Memphis - TN, for

outstanding contribution for the IA/OE application (Logistics)

development.

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