Management Manager

Sandeep Khamesra

(B.Tech, MBA)

Portland, OR ****9, USA

Phone : 971-***-**** *********@*****.***

Technical Management Software Development Certified Scrum Master

Resourceful and multi-skilled Technical Manager with 9+ years’ experience in technical program management, software development and quality management, resource and project management, and staff mentoring

Versatile professional with ability to perform across diverse industries, including freight forwarding, retail banking, financial services and IT support

Won ‘Employee of the Quarter’ award for innovative development of key modules, and credited for strategic leadership in successful software management

Cross-functional, analytic and systematic approach to driving projects and resolving complex business issues

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for team collaboration and customer service

Leading-edge, in-depth technical and knowledge-based expertise and experience

Conscientious and highly motivated team builder and leader committed to excellence and high quality

Core Strengths

Technical Management

Productivity Improvement

Project Management

Financial Software Systems

Software Development

Resource Management

Product Development

Technical Talent Acquisition

Web Based Applications

Software Design

Resource Planning

Quality Management

Education & Training

Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Oregon, USA, 2011

B. Tech in Computers, NIIT, Surathkal, India

Certificate, Marketing Strategy for Business Leaders, Cornell University, NY, USA, 2012

Certified Scrum Master

Technical Expertise

Language: Java, Blaze, SQL

Environment / Stack: Web Services (SOAP, RESTful), Hibernate, Spring

Design: OOAD, Design Patterns

SDLC: Agile Methodology, Traditional Waterfall

Process: Test Driven Development, and Continuous Integration

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MongoDB

Others: Maven, Jira, HPQC, RTC,

Professional Experience

RHT, Portland May, 2015-Oct 2015

Sr. Consultant

Key Accomplishments:

Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations

Identified risks and unknowns, and defined and drove resolution plans

Managed technical design dependencies and facilitated issues discussion across teams and managed WAR rooms for escalations.

Managed day – to – day work of engineers and ensured high quality product releases.

Worked closely with other teams for dependencies and releases.

UTi Worldwide, Portland, OR July, 2010-Mar, 2015

Development Manager - Freight Forwarding System

Outstanding management of multi skilled Agile team facilitating delivery of high quality systems for business needs, and all aspects of resource management including technical talent acquisition, resource planning, allocation, performance review, mentoring and coaching.

Key Accomplishments:

Led engineering team to high quality product delivery of highly scalable, performant and data intensive web services.

Developed highly productive software team through hiring, mentoring and coaching

Managed and inspired development engineering team on a day-to-day basis.

Strategically collaborated with cross functional teams, senior management, DevOPS, infrastructure team and successfully rolled out releases on schedule.

Forged key partnership with product management to establish direction of application development.

Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.

Supported and Protected team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintained focus on sprint commitment and continuous improvements.

Evangelized processes like TDD, code review, continuous integration across teams.

Reviewed the application design / code and re-factored portions of the applications based on best practices.

Team member 1-on-1s and performance reviews.

Fiserv, Corvallis, OR Apr, 2003-July, 2010

Development Manager - Retail Banking

Successfully managed team of 10+ engineers in all phases of development and delivery of large-scale financial software systems, including designing and developing key financial modules for batch processing of ACH files, Service Fee and Real time transaction.

Key Accomplishments:

Managed multiple enterprise scale projects for retail banking functionalities targeted towards Canada and US credit unions.

Build and mentor offshore development team for product development

Strategically led production support team in managing critical issues post go-live or under warranty period

Implemented and maintained development best practices

Created project plan tasking, resource allocation, and scheduling.

Spearheaded user acceptance test plans, coordinated customer testing, evaluated and prioritized test results, and produced action plans to address system issues.

Rapidigm, Portland, OR Jan, 1997- Apr, 2003

Delivery Lead

Key Accomplishment:

Exceptional leadership in delivery of strategic project by integrating web-based application to legacy financial system, while successfully managing team, performing periodic reviews, and role of SPOC for client during delivery process

Career Notes

Intel - Senior Software Engineer

Excellent lead developer for Intel home server application using object oriented design, and successfully performed proof of concept and design of solution, based on jukebox & Intel Home Server application using java and JSP

Micron Technology - Senior Software Engineer

Developed order and return management system using C++ with RDBMS Database system using Object Oriented design

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Awards & Distinctions

Won ‘Employee of the Quarter’ Award at Fiserv for leadership initiative in Key Modules Development

Won Recognition as Key Contributor at UTi for successful management of software components

Coached Jr. and FLL Robotics team and won ‘State Team Core Value’ Award

Coached U-9 Basket Ball team for 3 consecutive years

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