Professional Profile

** ***** ** ** ********** in project management, application development, delivery, and support. Key contributor in defining strategy, adoption, and migration. Implement best practices and lead development teams to develop websites to support business needs.

Built software applications using languages and technologies of the .NET framework. Implemented Web trends, Tealium and Google Analytics plug-in code in applications to monitor website traffic. Recommend search engine optimizations, improve mobile applications user experience and usability of websites. Serve as a step-by-step guide for the application teams into the websites development journey. Prioritize projects, enhancements, defects & backlog. Lead and manage software developers, resource planning and remove roadblocks throughout the software development life cycle to deliver projects in time. Managed the Operations model comprising of L2 and L3 model to handle projects, enhancements, and bug-fixes. Developed in-house applications to automate the manual processes used by Cognizant Internal teams. One of the applications was built for the Security team to provision approval/rejections for the Security documents. The application and the technology methodology were appreciated and taken by Microsoft for case study as it was the first application to be built with 4-level workflow on MOSS 2007 technology. Managed a large program for Cognizant’s client Mattel, Inc worth $4 million to migrate the warehouse operations from legacy Oracle to an IBM product. Built 100+ interfaces for the migration using middleware tech stack: Node JS/Kafka & Datalake. Managed 5 cross functional teams with more than 75 members in this program. I enjoy building teams, mentoring next generation leaders and engineers. I am prepared to take opportunities that align with my passion towards technology leadership, engineering & innovation.

Experience In:

• Leadership

• Innovation, Automation &

Empowerment

• Applications Development

• Technology Strategy

• Content Management

• Execution, Vision & Roadmap

• Building high performance team

• Building cross-functional teams

• IT Process Improvement

• Collaborate with Security/Risk

Management

• IT Audit, Governance & Security

• IT Budgeting

• Resource Management

• Vendor Management

Technical Skills:

• VB, ASP, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET

• Microsoft SharePoint, Tridion

• HTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript

• IICS, Informatica, Cognos

• Node JS, Kafka

• Web trends, Tealium & Google

Analytics

• VSS, TFS, SVN, GitLab

• IIS

• Magic, Remedy, ServiceNow

• Windows/Linux

• Microsoft SQL, Oracle, AS 400

• Jira, Confluence, Teams, MPP

• UC4, CA

Education:

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Bachelors in computer engineering

(2004)

Madras University, Chennai, India

Post-graduate Diploma in Business

Administration (2007)

Symbiosis University, Pune, India

Nilofer Hameedullah

Cell: 716-***-****

Email: ad31do@r.postjobfree.com

Cognizant Technology Solutions Mar '05 - Apr '23

Senior Project Manager

At Cognizant Technology Solutions, as Senior Project Manager of Software Applications Development, delivered numerous Software Applications and enhancements. Digital Marketing website: Managed an agile team to support digital marketing website of Fisher-Price. Developed Advertising campaigns, promotions, Infant/toddler products’ registry and sweepstakes on the US and 44 international websites of Fisher-Price using .Net, SQL and Tridion. Designed emails for website subscriptions. Implemented Search Engine Optimizations and analytics code to monitor traffic to the site. Redesigned Fisher-Price -US site and it’s 44 international websites. Datacenter Migration: Migrate applications irrespective of the technology from one datacenter to another. Analyzed all servers on the datacenter, built an inventory of servers to be migrated and an inventory of servers to decommission. The migration involved rebuilding entire Infrastructure of the applications involving servers, setting up load balancers, setting up firewall and security rules for the applications to be accessed from internal and external network. I was awarded by Cognizant for this program. Windows upgrade: Upgrade applications from Windows 2008 servers to Windows 2016 servers. This included upgrading the applications’ technology to the newer version so its compatible with Win 2016 servers.

End-User Automation Provide client software packaging, operational support for distribution tools, and deployment functions for administration and management of Windows PCs within the Mattel & Fisher-Price environment. In Summary…

Over the 18 years tenure at Cognizant, I have played multiple roles as hands-on Software Engineer, Technology Lead to my current role as Senior Project Manager. As a technology leader, I strive to understand IT project needs by analyzing requirements and provide technical/process solutions to achieve desired outcomes. I have worked extensively with line of business to gather business requirements through open-ended discussions, brainstorming sessions and participate in joint application design sessions to provide new projects/enhancements’ estimates. I have taken care of IT budgeting, prepared project roadmaps that assists with resources and cost forecast. I have extensive experience in all phases of SDLC like requirement analysis, designing, coding, implementation, testing and maintenance with both waterfall and Agile/scrum prototypes. Developer empowerment was one of the deliverables within Cognizant. I have periodic 1-1 with all team members and put together plans for them to achieve their goals and overcome their weaknesses. Our team was supporting applications across the globe, and we had an SME for each region’s applications. I have incorporated intra-group learning where each SME would train the other team members on their applications. Also, when new team members join the team, they were each tagged to a senior developer to train and assist them during their initial months. In addition to this I took feedback from the Business Analysts after every project completion (in case of waterfall model) or after every sprint (in case of agile model) and incorporate the feedback. This learning and feedback helped application teams to improve quality of the work they deliver. We collectively celebrate success and I take every measure to recognize team members on their achievements.

I have worked as a WEB Solutions Architect for WEB based projects developed in the .NET and SharePoint technology. I played a key role in the applications end-to-end technical design. Worked with various Infrastructure teams to decide the Windows servers’ capacity, their zone placement, IP assignment, load-balancer set up. Coordinate with Security team to apply the server patches, rules, SSL, SCOMM alerts and apply rules to allow external/internal traffic routing to the servers. Coordinate with Business users to review the test cases and align with all the users needed to test applications during UAT and post-application launch. At Fisher Price, we automated the operation of the Products design team by developing SharePoint online application built on O365. We also migrated all the sites that were on SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint online using tools like Sharegate; hence moving everything to Cloud. Cognizant Technology Solutions Mar '05 – Apr '23

Title: Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Managed IT projects for various Functional teams

Digital Marketing Teams to support Responsive sites built using .NET, SDL Tridion, HTML5, Bootstrap, Angular JS & Endeca.

IT & Call Center projects developed in VB, Power Builder, ASP.Net, C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP, SharePoint with MS-SQL server databases.

IT maintenance for Warehouse operations using AS400 technology

Data warehousing Portfolio comprising of making updates in IICS, GBQ, Cognos Reporting & DQG.

Infrastructure projects involving Windows server migration/upgrade & migration applications across datacenters.

Supply chain programs including Vendor product upgrades, programs involving multiple streams like Oracle, Node JS, Kafka, IICS, GBQ, IBM tools͘

• Worked as Technical Consultant with various 3rd party vendors for products, hardware & software upgrades.

• Work with the individual regional Business Analysts across the globe to gather business requirements and provide estimations/cost for the projects.

• Apply advance knowledge across project management principal areas for execution and delivery, contribute at local team-wide level to share knowledge and support others, serve as a mentor to junior colleagues to grow identified skill gaps, and participate in cross- border mentoring and peer alignment to share lessons learned on challenging projects.

• Prepare Project charter, Project plan, Statement of work documents.

• Collect, review & publish project status with regards to schedule, resources (people and optionally funding/cost), risks/issues and features (the solution and its quality) that influence project performance and completion.

• Work with various internal and external stakeholders for resolving the blockers.

• Report issues/risks and concerns to the leadership. Provide mitigation plan as needed. Jun ‘04 – Mar '05

In summary, Helios & Matheson gave me the opportunity to start my career as a software developer. I was trained in .NET to develop new applications, support live .NET applications & also migrate ASP to .NET applications. Helios & Matheson

Title: Software Engineer

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