MAGESH THOTTA

Education: Master of Science (Computer Science)

Mobile: 203-***-****

Email : ad1vju@r.postjobfree.com

IT Experience

Experience in complete software development life cycle (SDLC) i.e. Project management, Software design, development/testing, deployment and maintenance/ production support of several application using SCRUM and Waterfall methodologies.

Project Management/ Application Design and Development

Excellent Manager/Team/Servant Leader / Developer with technical / communication skills and total commitment to quality.

Managed / Developed applications in a complex, multi-tiered enterprise-wide systems using advanced technologies such as development and support for Web/Mobile Applications in Cloud, Client/ Server, J2EE/.Net and other technologies using OOA&D.

SDLC Methodologies – Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Iterative, Waterfall.

Program/Project Management – Planning, tracking, tactical execution, transition and effective resource management.

Leadership - Strategic planning, change leadership and performance enhancement. Proven ability to successfully manage large cross-functional multi-system projects and programs.

Resource Management – Coaching, performance management and talent retention.

Certifications

/Software Tools

Managed Projects involving the following skills with solid background knowledge on the following technical, managerial and leadership roles.

Microsoft Professional Certification AZ-900 – Azure Fundamentals

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certified for Conducting and Participating in Agile Projects

PMI/PMP Training Certificate from Southern New England Chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI/SNECMA @ Fairfield University Connecticut)

Sun Certified Java programmer (SCJP Certification from Sun Micro Systems)

Developed applications using Oracle and well versed with Microsoft .Net / Web Services/ Cloud/ SQL Server database development

Exposure to the architecture, deployment and design elements of new technologies such as AWS, AZURE Cloud/DevOps, and BIG DATA Technologies with cloud and OnPrem Splunk logging solutions and deployment pipelines such as Octopus and UDeploy.

Worked in traditional Waterfall and Agile Methodologies

Business Areas

Finance, Investment Banking, Insurance, Reinsurance, Military, High-Tech Manufacturing and Government

Career Summary

Client/Company Position Duration

Knights of Columbus Lead – Production Support April’ 2023-Nov’ 2023

Aetna/ CVS Health Tech Lead/ Tech PM Aug’ 2020-April’ 2023

MassMutual Senior Developer Jan’ 2019 – Aug’ 2020

UTC /Pratt & Whitney Scrum Master/PM-Ops Jun’ 2010 – Dec’ 2018

MetLife Inc Lead Information Consultant Aug’ 06 – May 2010

Pratt & Whitney Project Lead / Architect Apr’05 - Aug’ 06

SwissRe Sr.Developer / Lead May’04 - Mar’05

Career Progression

Knights of Columbus, New Haven, CT

Description: Worked as a Team Lead for the production support team at Knights of Columbus for supporting and navigating thru critical issues, incidents and high visibility tasks. Conducted daily huddles and several KT sessions with my team members. Worked with developers and technical people across several application development and business users to manage priorities with new development team’s CRM transitioning activities and to keeping the lights on supporting several apps in Java/ .Net and vendor’s financial apps using multiple Oracle/DB2 and SQL Server databases.

Cognizant Tech Solutions. (For Aetna, Hartford, CT)

Frameworks and Services (F&S Team) (For Document Inquiry / Viewer Portal) Sep’ 2020 – April’ 2022

Description: Worked as a Tech Lead/ PM using full scale Agile methodologies using Rally / JIRA on multiple projects/ Operations/POCs, design and SME for several Cloud migrations.

As part of the F&S team I supported the project onboarding and development activities for one of Aetna/ CVS Health’s top 10 critical application that enables users to pull key documents such as prescriptions, Doctor’s notes, Explanation of Benefits (EOB) and Tax information etc using the 2 step SOAP and REST based process in a highly secured/ encoded way.

Role:

F&S team/ Java Center of Excellence (COE) team is responsible for providing enterprise architecture solutions for enterprise-wide consumers for pulling several documents from our backend document repositories FileNet/Mobius/ Crawford and Clarity back ends with relational databases such as Oracle and DB2. This is achieved using highly secured certificate exchanges and by configuration of data power for 15 different enterprise scale apps all thru Aetna/ CVS Health apps.

My team and me gets involved with several post-production support teams, DBA teams, web and network engineering for support and Cloud configuration using Azure/ Red Hat Open shift configuration and support.

My team and me recommends and develop solutions and participate in several largescale projects to understand the scale of work and recommend suitable middleware, client interface and logging solutions across enterprise in addition to our own team’s development activities. Involved in several POC efforts to lead teams across enterprise.

My team and me executed enhancements by working across several consumer web applications teams across Aetna/CVS Health.

I lead the technical team that supports several internal/external consumers using Aetna’s strategic SSO process using PassThru App and other related service layers and large frontend solutions such as Aetna Navigator (Existing consumers) and Account Manager (New Account creation).

Environment: ScrumBan Board, JIRA, Confluence, J2EE, REST/ SOAP, CI/CD, DevOps, SOAPUI, POSTMAN, Karate Framework for API testing, Mobility, GitHub, Rational Application developer, IBM Websphere, DataPower, DB2/Oracle databases, Java Script/JSON, UDeploy, Octopus, Docker, Kubernetes deployment pipeline solutions, MONGO DB /PostgreSQL, Cloud technologies with Azure/AWS and RedHat OpenShift (Containerization), AWS Clusters, Application Security standards (Cloud/OnPrem), EC2, Lambda, AWS Code, S3, AWS Batch, AppDynamics, Splunk, DynaTrace and Grafana.

Cognizant Tech Solutions. (For MassMutual, Spring Field, MA)

BAU Team (For RetireSmart / Total Rtmt. Center) Jan 2019 – Aug 2020

Description: Worked as a Project Manager (onshore

Cognizant resources) using full scale Agile/ ScrumBan (Scrum + KanBan) methodologies to execute the compliance/ production support and enhancements for RetireSmart (RS) and TRC applications.

As part of the BAU (Business As Usual) team we as a team successfully executed the ADA (Americans for Disabilities Act) recommended changes for MassMutual’s flagship ‘Retire Smart’ application and the final release scheduled with tight deadlines to avoid penalties /Govt’s compliance issues. We addressed several production issues and some important enhancements by working across several teams across MassMutual.

Role:

Responsible for RS / TRC application’s and Edge portal’s compliance towards ADA compliance. Worked with in fully Agile development team that comprises of multiple product owners and offshore/onshore development team members.

Independently handled teams’ Bit Bucket code management, code integration, managing repositories, Jenkins and Octopus builds using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines (CI/CD).

Production support activities involving Reflex database team. Met tight deadlines/user expectations and SLA defined by the product owners of legacy TRC/ RS(Retire Smart).

Responsible for preparing and reporting the Bi-weekly project status on behalf of Cognizant onsite/offshore resources working on several applications under DX (Digital Experience Team).

Independently supported QA Deployments on my own user stories and on behalf of other team members and conducted Scrum Meetings and updated the board.

Provided release support during monthly sprints, Pre and Post implementation testing and coordinated several efforts with different team and vendor as required.

Environment: ScrumBan Board, JavaScript, JIRA, Confluence, .Net 4.5/4.7, Visual Studio 2018, IIS, SiteCore Content Management System, Digital Initiatives, Mobility, GitHub, DataPower, UDeploy, Octopus.

Kubernetes deployment pipeline solutions, Cloud technologies with Azure/AWS and RedHat OpenShift.

CYIENT Inc. (for Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, CT)

UTC Applications Development / Operations IT (Multiple Apps) Jan 2011 – Dec 2018

Description: Scrum based Project management responsibilities on Visitors Management system involving the export control restrictions and screening of the visitors and identifying the required changes and roles to the system as per several roles across lines of business like Legal/ Compliance, International Trade Compliance (ITC), security teams spread across several locations in US and sites abroad.

Role:

Team Lead/ Onsite PM for rewrite of Global version of QCPC (Quality Clinic Process Control) application at the UTC Corporate level with both web/Mobile Application.

As a Scrum Master/PM, make necessary updates to be compliant with the strict Federal Govt. regulations (FAA) and keeping up with personal/export control guidelines data security/retention thru Sprint planning meetings, managing backlogs with Product owner, removing roadblocks reported by Scrum Team members, running daily Scrum meetings and Sprint Review / Retrospective.

As a Scrum Master for application development/Operations, planning timelines /scheduling of various project tasks and closely working with end user development / vendor and support teams.

Instrumental in developing teams mature towards agile practices and establishing agile framework best suited for the project.

Successfully conducted Scrum of Scrum meetings to help manage critical path and enterprise level, external application / technical dependencies and vendor dependencies in support of teams and product owners for success releases.

Testing and Production support activities and management of user expectations and SLA to further enhance the application features and meet the short term/long term goals.

Managed program level risks, issues, resource planning and staffing strategy, third party vendor contracts and work efforts.Played a key role ensuring business needs are met in a timely manner by encouraging continuous integration pilots, technical debt prioritization and training.

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