Sambandan Kumaran
Lewisville, TX *****
: 214-***-**** :acvuiz@r.postjobfree.com
Certified ScrumMaster®
IT professional that aligns technological solutions with business and operational objectives. 15+ years of experience in Distributed and web development, project management, business systems analysis, team management, cost reductions, relationship management and application portfolio management.
Seasoned and versatile Certified Scrum Master, with extensive experience in agile management.
Experience in Analysis, design & building products, solutions, frameworks, data model, application of complex IT needs for key players like Onemain financial, Citi financial, Citi Auto, Bank of America, Malaysian Banks and various international Clients.
Key strengths:
Agile Principals
Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
Communication
Relative Estimation
Project Management
Story-Based Development
Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings
Conflict Resolution
SW development /Data warehouse Experience
Devops and Cloud Knowledge
Technical Skills
Database:
Oracle 11, MS SQL Server,DB2/400, SQL, PL/SQL,MONGODB
Languages:
Core Java, J2EE, RPG, CL, XML, JavaScript, C, JSON, .NET, JSP, Spring hibernate, HTML5, XSLT, JQuery
Web Services:
JAX-WS, WCF, REST
Frameworks
MVC, .NET
BI/ETL
SSIS, SSRS, Informatica
App/Web Servers
Websphere 6.1,8.5,IIS, Tomcat,Iseries
Methodologies
OOAD, Agile, scrum
Operating System
Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows,OS/400
Networking/Administration
OSI model, TCP/IP, network analysis using security tools (tcpdump, wireshark, ping, etc), NAT, B2B, Firewall, Web proxy.MQ, Data queue.
Open Source & Tools
MSProject,TFS,GITHUB,MSVisio,QC,SharePoint,Splunk,AppDynamics, Sitescope, HP BSM, Servicenow
Certifications/Knowledge
ITIL,CSM
Cloud Concepts, Cloud infra. Technologies - Virtualization (Virtual box, KVM), IaaS (AWS EC2), Containers, CI/CD (Jenkins/Chef),Python, Ruby
Education
Advanced Diploma in Systems Management (1994), NIIT, India
Master of Science (Physics, 1992), Annamalai University, India.
Bachelor of Science (Physics, 1989) - Bishop Heber College, India.
Professional Experience
Onemain Financial, TX (July 2013 to present)
Sr. Tech Analyst / Scrum Master
Distributed applications are suite of applications built on Java and vendor integrated applications.
Responsibilities:
Guides and coaches the organization on scrum practices (guards and supports the scrum process).
Act as servant leader and remove impediments jeopardizing the timely completion of sprint items.
Schedule/facilitate sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each sprint. Work with product owners and delivery teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint.
Lead team estimation during the sprint planning meeting(s).
Monitor sprint and team velocity utilizing Agile Tools.
Communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the backlog owner and stakeholders.
Facilitate daily stand up meetings.
Facilitate retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint / project – ensure highest priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed out.
Coordinate as needed with other PM's, Resource Managers, or Portfolio Managers the delivery of non-development components.
Delivered multiple Java,.NET and DWH projects involving web services, REST, Websphere,MVC,DWH technologies.
Worked on multiple .NET projects as senior developer.
Citi Financial, TX _ (July 2010 to July 2013)
Sr. Infra Tech Analyst /Specialist
Distributed applications are suite of applications built on Java and vendor integrated applications. Application Management engineer for 14 applications built on Java and Hybrid technologies.
Key Accomplishments:
Led geographically dispersed teams to design, engineer and support business applications and integration.
Implemented several application modifications, system integrations, application consolidations and technology upgrades.
Involved in the relationship with tech teams and Vendors to implement the solution for issues and enhancements to existing and new systems.
Provided technical direction with documented gap analysis between design and application functionality differences using data and code/log analysis.
Performed pre and post-implementation analysis to avoid deployment and implementation issues.
Projects/Responsibilities:
Led multiple Java projects and support using WebSphere, J2EE, JSP, SQL, Hibernate and Oracle DB.
Worked with project and development teams for design, architecture, solution and gap analysis for Java and .NET applications.
Worked on Requirements gathering and User Stories development. Prepared and reviewed requirements Traceability Matrix for multiple projects.
Guided Test team for Code and data coverage and assisted on test plan preparation for business applications.
Integrated multiple data, services with Citi internal systems and Vendor based external system using MQ, SOA, Tibco, SFTP, NDM
Designed and developed Hub and Spoke model for NDM file transfer via Mainframe to Internal/ external distributed and Vendor applications.
Upgraded Citifinanical.net using ICMS, HTML5, CSS, JQuery, and Java Scripts. Converted from FAST to Attivio search engine.
Led multiple application technology upgrades including Windows 2008 to 2012, IE 11 upgrade, SQL 2008 to 2012. WebSphere 6.1 to 8.5, Solaris to Linux, Tomcat and Java upgrade projects.
Implemented team member suggestions on Citifinancial.net using REST API.
Participated and conducted Sprint planning standup meetings and agile testing.
Accountable for Sprint release, Change management, prod implementation and verification.
Citi Auto, TX (August 2006 to July 2010)
Infrastructure Lead, Vice President.
Citi applications comprise of various tech stack and deployments. Integration includes complex infrastructure, components, and business services based on mainframe, intranet, and external and outsourced vendor’s applications.
Key Accomplishments:
Led infrastructure projects, including: setup of multi-site infra changes; firewall installation;
web server launch; database design; license implementation; database rollout; VPN integration across WAN; Intranet design and installation in DMZ.
Led special projects on ISeries and windows infrastructure environments.
Led selection, installation, administration, maintenance, upgrades, and backups for critical Iseries/AS400 based financial system.
Saved $MM by retiring application / infrastructure on Citi Auto IT divesture program.
Developed KPI and SLA for financial applications.
Projects/Responsibilities:
Led application infrastructure onboarding projects and implemented B2B, Firewall, DNS, Certificate, and Proxy for external vendor applications (Black Knight Escrow).
Installed, configured and supported applications based on MySQL, Tomcat, .NET, MS-SQL, WebSphere.
Led migration of DB2/400 based data warehouse to MS-SQL based data ware house using Informatica. Led business coordination, SQL DW design, migration, validation and documentation of EDW.
Designed and developed various ETL mappings using informatica. Supported ETL and Cognos environments for scheduling and production issues.
Contributed for maintenance of data repository, data flow changes and Dictionary.
Project Coordinator between business, ETL, BI and internal IT teams for delivery.
Led analysis of ETL Performance and Cognos system issues and developed solution by working directly with ETL developers and Cognos admin.Sugessted and implemented various SQL performances, Batch performance to meet DW SLA availability.
Provided Support and SME consultation for Distributed applications.
Led Auto IT Shutdown program, data transfer, optical transfer, statement transfer, multiple infrastructure decommissions including server network, ISeries from corporate infrastructure (MM Cost Saving).
HCL Technologies, USA (July 2002 to August 2006)
Project lead /On-site Coordinator
Auto finance application is origination and Service application based on AS400 with multiple middle ware and internet and Intranet Technologies.
Key Accomplishments:
Project lead and Delivery manager for Clients applications.
Executed more than 38 projects and increased production stability with various services improvements.
Projects/Responsibilities:
Led production support, incident management teams.
Manager for offshore support and AS400 special projects.
Responsible for the daily health, SLA, performance analysis and Metric reporting.
Provided support for AS400 based Auto applications including WebSphere, Messaging, Tape backup, and Optical support.
DR coordinator for AS400 based financial applications and conducted multi-data center COB tests.
Led multiple ISeries development projects (38+) using various programming languages (RPG, CL, ILE, Java, .NET, FileNet, BizTalk, IBM Ondemand and Tibco).
Acted as a subject matter expert to junior team members with regard to providing 1st, 2nd and 3rd level production support for financial applications.