Manager Project

Abhijeet Kothare

*** ******* ***** - ******** ****, Ontario, Canada L4B 4T7

647-***-**** acy5k1@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Lead Complex projects and managing cross functional teams to optimize technology and financial operations. Provide architectural guidance for the applications, services owned. Committed to quality and service excellence with aptitude for launching new technology operations using Agile methodologies on Cloud for building responsive applications and services. Establishing credibility with clients and vendors. Certified Scrum Master. Skills

13 years experience in J2EE technologies Struts, JSF, JSP,0 EJB, JPA, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, ORM tools, Oracle, Weblogic 9.2.4, 10.3, WebSphere 8+, JBOSS, RAD 7.0, Build tools SVN, MKS, ANT, Maven, GIT.

12+ years of experience in core java using AWT, Swing building GUI.

8 years of Ajax experience using JavaScript, JQuery, JSON, DOJO toolkit and SQLite.

Unix (Solaris, Linux) and Win32 operating systems.

Technical experience in SQL, SVG, XML, XSD, CSS, HTML, Visual Basic, Power Builder, SQLAnywhere, SQL Server, JAXB, Apache FOP, Style Vision, AquaPDF, Eclipse, TIBCO, Angular JS, Cloud technologies, Batch Schedulers, Cache frameworks.

Testing automation tools using JUnit, SOATest, soapUI, Karma, Protractor.

Persistence Frameworks: Hibernate, IBatis, JPA.

Databases: SQL Server, Sybase SQLAnywhere, SQLite, Oracle 11g, MySql 5.6 and DB2.

Enterprise planning and business intelligence.

Around 12+ years of experience in Project management scoping and requirements.

Recruiting and mentoring contingent and offshore developers. Work Experience

TD Bank Financial Group, Toronto, Canada Nov 2012 to Present http://www.td.com

IT Solution Designer

Design Development Lead in Cards and Merchant Services Technology that deals with various applications, webservices for retrieving and updating data on the TSYS vendor managed TS2 systems.

Impact assessment, resource-task estimation for intake, provide design solutions, coding and lead team of 3-4 developers for coding, unit testing, reviews.

Coordinating with both Project managers with PDLC. Provide valuable inputs and assist scrum master in technical impediments with developers or by engaging appropriate infrastructure resources by building relationship with other technology and ITS partners.

Design and help articulate features assisting architects for responsive application prototype [proof of concept] using Angular using OCA framework, Pingfed, JWT for SSO, JBOSS blueprints for estimating, usability testing.

Design and build REST API modules using RestEasy(JAX-RS), RAML, Spring, JSON, JIRA, Confluence.

Assist reporting manager in submitting Performance Risk Assessments, Intake requests and audit related queries.

Project Lead/SME for apps/webservers on legacy IHS/ AIX server being migrated to newer versions to support SHA2 certs upgrade as part of currency project.

Currency project to upgrade the new version of Customer link webservices for consumer apps and webservices.

Consult other designers in overseeing the complex project streams and reviewing code and project deliverables for peer review.

TD Wealth Application Management/Services

IT Manager/ Team Lead

Promoted as IT Manager/ Team leading a team of 4 in the Application Services.

Won Quarterly award in 2014 for successfully managing the incident/problem management of critical wealth Transfers application after transition from offshore team.

Ownership of Back office support systems related Wealth applications, Webservices and vendor applications in L2 support. Responsible for staff performance measurement, mentoring. Help liasion business by mitigating the incidents reported by Service Desk. Provide estimates involved in supporting the maintenance and handover activities with resource allocation.

Visited offshore site TCS vendor in 2015 to work closely with the team post transition of critical wealth applications/ webservices involved in L3 support domain. Handling multiple concurrent project handovers to understand the infrastructure and technical changes to assess impact. Build relationship with technology partners and periodic status updates to management.

SME for the batch, web and Microsoft applications supported by our team and assist in identifying the downstream impact by resolving issues within timelines.

Participated in Sprint Standup meetings for transfers, resource allocation, provide ROM estimates for Support and performance review of staff.

IT Solution Developer

Lead/SME for enhancements and maintenance of Wealth Transfers Application and Wealth Web services.

Lead Production Support team dealing with Incident/Problem management for major wealth applications and critical webservices like Customer profile /Order Entry/Marketdata consumed by WebBroker.

Coordinating with offshore team for smooth transition and support/enhancements of these applications/web services and fixing defects/ adhoc requests from business.

Assess impact and mitigate the incidents on timely basis.

Follow-up on the Root cause, coordinate and estimate the base fixes schedule.

Participate in the SDLC and ensure the stakeholders are updated on the developments. CIBC Toronto, Canada May 2008 to Nov 2012

http://www.cibc.com/

Advisory Application Developer

Advisory Team Lead with the Card Products on Chip Card Configuration and Batch processing applications which comprised of inventory management, return/replacement cards management and infrastructure currency related projects. Analyze, design and develop J2EE solutions based on business requirements for the retail banking technology group which support Deposit payments applications for Personal and Small Business banking. Involved in initial requirements for impact analysis, design, coding, testing of Deposit Product applications built on J2EE tiered architecture.

Enhancement

Project changes included the following:

Incorporate new account product features and interpret complex business rules involved in small Business partnerships.

Replacing proprietory Castor Framework to JAXB for populating data on the forms and Aqua PDF to Apache FOP to generate dynamic PDF forms based on the customer request.

Active participation and core member of Disaster Recovery Management team which involved in keeping the contingency environment up-to-date with Production.

Manage Production Support and Base fixes coordinating with manager.

Technologies used: Java/J2EE, Struts, Tiles, JSTL, MQ Series, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, Apache FOP, Aqua PDF, SOAP, JSF, Eclipse, Castor for XML binding, web services, Oracle using Weblogic 9.2 server, update project Sharepoint, Mercury ALM and JIRA used for defect tracking. Cruise Control for builds automation, MFTS, UNIX shell scripts for file transmissions used for batch processes scheduled by Autosys and maintaining runbooks, Visio for Blue prints, UML for design diagrams and MS Project for time tracking and task estimates.

Core Responsibilities:

Convert the business requirements into functional specifications.

Work package Lead responsible for intake estimates, resource allocation and providing design documents, Deployment plans for the releases.

Involved in Coding, Testing, debugging, implementation, integration.

Coordinate with Vendors for the deliverables and test changes,manage builds using continuous integration tool and run automated test suite.

Provide estimates to support the development in terms of feasibility, cost, time, and compatibility with other programs.

Conduct Design document, code walkthroughs, status meetings with business operations to discuss fixes for outstanding productions problems and variance meetings with QA during the test cycles.

Mentor new programmers, coops to make them familiar with our technology framework.

Production support and coordination with other legacy systems involved and provide updates to the business operations.

Work package Lead for project and Base Essential releases.

Lead a team of 1- 4 developers based on the project requirements.

Well versed with CIBC SDLC process methodology and support PM in providing deliverables and sign-offs.

Conduct code Reviews, Technology assessment, tracking the development status, sign-offs, timelines and assist manager with development tasks.

Exegenix Research Inc., Toronto, Canada Sep 2002 to May 2008 Java Developer

Analyze, design, develop and support the product that automated the conversion of Word, WordPerfect and PDF documents to XML.

Create UML Designs for generating use cases, class, sequence diagrams.

Development of User Interfaces in core java, which served as an inspection cum editor tool for supporting the XML document conversion. This multi-threaded application communicated with the set of protocols with the backend server engine built in Perl using core java Swing Framework.

Lead role in developing RIA for dynamically solving and updating deobfuscated characters in the solver database. Integrating the UI with the workflow built using JSP, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, Apache Tomcat and SQLITE.

Evaluate various Ajax frameworks like GWT, Dojotoolkit and JSF, Struts for the same.

VBScripting for automatically converting the customer documents [Word/WordPerfect] in the queue to postscript. The documents were loaded to scanning queue to determine appropriate tasks, convert to postscript and then uploaded for conversion by the ECSEngine. Chrysalis Information Systems Ltd. Apr 2001 to Mar 2002 Systems Analyst

Contract Rights & Obligation Management & Evaluation. (CROME) Client: Concordia Inc. Pittsburgh, USA

Crome Tool:

This project was developed using Extreme programming practices story boards for user requirements, business cases, problems, steering phase using pair programming to facilitate test driven development for a tool developed to help a corporate manage its contract portfolio. It simplifies and streamlines the creation and approval of contracts for policy setters within the corporation to review and control the contractual terms as negotiated.

Modules developed using Microsoft Word Programming (VBA) with MS Access database.

Module lead where responsibilities included managing set of customized menus and UI forms invoked for different Terms & Sections of the contract. The contract data was stored in MS Access database. Retail Banking System

Retail banking system is an application framework with service-based architecture comprising core services that can be implemented to any legacy application.

Part of the development team involved in design and coding a standard framework used for Retail Banking.

Creation of Test cases.

Technologies used Java Servlets, XML, Junit, Tomcat, Oracle. Princeton Software Exports Ltd. Feb 2000 to Apr 2001 Software Consultant

Client: Hindustan Dorr Oliver

Provide maintenance support for financial accounting system and Employee Monitoring System using PowerBuilder and SQL server. This included enhancements requested by the end user coordinating with the Development Manager/ Lead.

Client: Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) Develop a Batch Authorization Module and log report from UI which triggers Oracle query in the backend. This was extracted from the GUI system which performed CRUD for a Brokerage Software which allowed users to directly import instructions provided by the share brokers through a Standard Output file matching the NSDL [National Securities Depositories Ltd.] format. Instructions include Accounts Transfer, Inter-settlement and Delivery Out. Electronic Clearing System service provided by Reserve Bank of India by which share depository users can electronically debit their customer bank accounts by having an arrangement with the associated banks. The bank

(Sponsor) acts as an intermediary accepting debit instructions presenting it to the local clearing House, receiving the response file, which is processed in this system.

My role involved design, coding and testing of UI for Inward Entry (Specific - One time/Walk in Client or Regular client), Customer Mandates & generation of the Output file for the Local Clearing House thus segregating Bank /Branch wise.

Sansui InfoTech Ltd. Mar 1999 to Jan 2000

Systems Analyst

Clients: ICICI Bank, All Cargo Shipping

Worked at client sites for banking and shipping brokers business units for gathering requirements, design, code, test and implementation of the changes involved in building the inventory system and cargo tracking system. GUI was built using PowerBuilder and SQL Server.

Trade Wings Ltd. Dec 1996 to Mar 1999

Computer Programmer

Design, code, test implement and maintain different business applications for garments inventory, hotel registry, foreign exchange and courier services.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Mumbai University.

Diploma in Application software and Database programming. Completed Situational Leadership, Building dynamic teams and Negotiation skills training. Certified Scrum Master

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