Apurbalal Gayen (PMP)
Project Manager
Email: ********@*****.***
Phone: +91-771*******
Professional Summary:
Project Management Professional with proven track record in delivering software development, Infrastructure and support projects. Experienced Agile Scrum Master & Delivery Manager with broad range of experience in delivering project. Experienced in Analysis, Design, Development, Support and Testing of the software applications. Experienced in AWS cloud, Big Data Hadoop, Enterprise application Integration (EAI) and Object-Oriented programing.
Managerial Assets:
Project Manager/Delivery Manager/Scrum Master for a US based leading consumer credit reporting agency; leading Scrum teams across UK & India including Project Planning, Scope Management, Schedule Management, Cost, Quality, Stakeholder management &Task allocation.
Project Manager for a North America based customer, leading a distributed agile team located at USA and India.
Project Manager for a North America based leading Insurance customer.
Project Lead/Team Lead for a USA based leading Manufacturing customer, Banking &Telecom customer.
Over-all delivery ownership, resourcing(H2R) and people management experience in leading and managing large and medium sized teams
Efficient in Release & sprint planning, execution and tracking (quarterly release cycle mode) in addition to account billing and resourcing
Strong analytical skills, ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and domains
Professional Certifications & Other Assets:
PMP – Project Management Institute (PMI) – Nov 2023
AWS - AWS Certified Cloud Solution Architect Professional – Feb 2021
SCRUM- Certification from UST Academy -Sep 2021
JAVA-Sun Certified from Sun Microsystems, Inc April 2009
Core Competency:
Project Planning, Scope & Schedule Management, Stakeholder Management.
Risk Management, Cost Estimation, Resource Management, Quality Management.
Process Improvement, Team mentoring, Scrum Master &Agile /Waterfall project management.
AWS Coud, Big Data, Java, Spring boot framework, DevOps, EAI tools, JIRA, Confluence.
Education: Master’s Degree in Computer Application (M.C.A)
Professional Experience :
Role: Senior Project Manager April’22 to till date
Client: Equifax Inc.
Org: UST/ PTEC (Product Technology and Engineering Center)
Out line: Managing a complex credit rating application to deliver firm-wide system by leveraging the existing infrastructures, reporting to Head of IT.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Project planning, scheduling and tracking including identify risk and mitigation plan.
Derived and Facilitate scrum ceremonies - Sprint planning, Daily standup call, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.
Work closely with Architects & Project team to ensure the best engineering practices, process and tools are adopted across the programs.
End to end resourcing for project & clients.
Actively participate in daily tech stand-up calls, collaborate with global team for resolving technical dependencies.
Ensure on-time software release by closely collaborating with Product owners /Managers and Operations team.
Responsible to monitor team progress against committed goal.
Support Product Owner in maintaining Product Backlog with priority and business value.
Communicate the project progress through various agile related metrics and performance indicators to key stakeholders
Key Achievements: Deployment automation delivered within six months -ahead of time; Billing service upgrade completed two months ahead of plan.
Environment: Spring boot, Microservices, Angular Js, JIRA, Google suite, AWS cloud, Service Now, Confluence.
Role: Project Manager Sep’21 – April’22
Client: Dell
Org: UST Global
Out line: Managing a project to Data Archival from 20 downstream application.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Project planning, scheduling and tracking including identify risk and mitigation plan and building charter.
Coordinating with Business to understand the business requirements, analyzing functional Requirement, key developments and implementations of projects on each phases/release using Dell Cloud.
Deriving project team including, Sprint planning, grooming for User Stories Standup meetings and coach the team members on Agile methodology implementations.
Guiding the team on creating the STM (Source Target Mapping) data archival along with that of guiding the right methodology and tools using ECS, Isilon.
Communicate with key stake holders’ day to day basis focusing on the project constraints- include scope, time, deadline, quality, deliverables, resources engagement & risks, etc.
Proposed POC for various legacy system changes and their sign-off for implementation.
Extensively worked for preproduction and postproduction plan & testing.
Coordinating with various team for migrating data from Data center to Data center.
Collaborate with business owner and various project teams for production changes and release.
Coordinating with multiples team for finalize prod changes using ServiceNow tool.
Key Achievements: Project has been completed one month ahead of plan.
Environment: ECS, Isilon,Service Now, Dell Cloud, Cassandra, Vault, Java/ J2ee, JIRA
Role: Architect/ Project Manager (IC), Freelance
Client: Cal State, CA Aug’17-Sep21
Out line: Managing a project to build Data Center Archival from 35 downstream systems.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Developed details Project Planning, scheduling including identify key resources.
Deriving project team including, Sprint planning, grooming for User Stories Standup meetings.
Working with key stake holders to define requirements & key deliverables including reports to stake holders and Directors.
Configured the cluster to achieve the optimal results by fine-tuning the cluster using Cloudera distribution.
Making sure Back up policies for the high availability of cluster at any point of time.
Extremely handle commission and decommission Nodes, targeting to load balancing as per the project plan.
Approved and roll backed roles of services as per the ongoing project plan.
Developed data pipelines with combinations of Hive, Pig and Sqoop jobs scheduled with Oozie.
Extremely worked to manage data link coming from different sources into HDFS through Sqoop, Flume.
Troubleshooting and monitoring Hadoop services using Cloudera manager.
Key Achievements: Successfully deployed multiple features & Data center has been established ahead of pan.
Environment: AWS Cloud, Cloudera, Jira, Shell Script, Java/ J2ee & Angular JS
Client: Travelers, Hartford Sep’ 2015– June 2017
Role: Project Lead/Architect
Org: L& T Infotech
Roles & Responsibilities:
Complete Project Planning, scheduling including identify key resources.
Drove project team including, Sprint planning, grooming for User Stories Standup meetings.
Working with key stake holders to define requirements & key deliverables including reports to stake holders and Directors.
Key Achievements: Data Lake has been completed ahead of plan. Fifty I-logs rules have been moved to Prod ahead of time.
Environment: CDH 5.4.5, Hive1.2.1, HBase1.1.2, Flume1.5.2, Map Reduce, Sqoop1.4.6, Spark2.1.0, Kafka, Shell Script, Oozie 4.2.0, Zookeeper 3.4.6., I-logs, Java/ J2ee.
Client: Macys, Atlanta Jan’15 – Jun ‘15
Role: Project lead/Architect
Roles &Responsibilities:
Configured the cluster to achieve the optimal results by fine tuning the cluster using Apache Ambari.
Implemented Fair schedulers and Capacity schedulers to share the resources of the cluster with other teams to run map reduce jobs.
Developed data pipelines with combinations of Hive, Pig and Sqoop jobs scheduled with Oozie.
Created data link to transfer data between database and HDFS and vice-versa using Sqoop scripts.
Developed real time pipeline for streaming data using Kafka.
Worked with Hive data warehouse to HDFS to identify issues and behavioral patterns and Configured and enable services for Microsoft R Server for analytical team.
Worked with operational team for Commissioning and Decommissioning of data nodes on the Hadoop Cluster.
Performed both major and minor upgrades to the existing cluster and also rolling back to the previous versions.
Environment: Hadoop HDP 2.3, Oracle, MS-SQL, Zookeeper3.4.6, Oozie 4.1.0, MapReduce, YARN 2.6.1, Nagios, REST APIs, HDFS, Sqoop1.4.6, Hive 1.2.1, Pig 0.15.0.
Client: Novelis, Atlanta Nov’13 – Aug’14
Role: Hadoop Analyst /Project lead
Org: Capgemini India
Roles &Responsibilities:
Installed and configured Hadoop clusters for Dev,QA and Production environments as per the project plan.
Developed Oozie workflows to automate data extraction process from data warehouses.
Supported Map Reduce Programs those are running on the cluster. Monitoring and tuning Map Reduce Programs running on the cluster.
Extremely worked in creating Hive tables, loading with data.
Responsible for architecting Hadoop clusters with Cloudera distribution platform.
Performed performance tuning and troubleshooting of various ecosystems jobs by analyzing and reviewing Hadoop log files.
Troubleshooting and monitoring Hadoop services using Cloudera manager.
Environment: CentOS4, SAP, EAI Integration, Hadoop HDP 2.1, HIVE, HDFS, Sqoop, FTP, Apache, SMTP, ETL, Talend, SQL, JAVA, VMware, HBase, Apache-Tomcat. Microservice
Client: Hisna, CA May’12 – Dec'12
Role: System Analyst
Org: APT Inc
Roles &Responsibilities:
Responsible for implementation and ongoing administration of EAI infrastructure.
Worked on the Requirement gathering Analysis, Design for set up TIBCO environment
Installed, Configured and Maintained various suite of TIBCO product
Designed, configured and managed the backup and disaster recovery for EAI server.
Analyzed Business Requirements and Identified mapping documents required for system and functional testing efforts for all test scenarios.
Setup the alerting mechanism using TIBCO Hawk Rule base implementation for application level, server level
Worked on creating EAR files and deploying BW projects in various environments
Implemented various technical Solutions using TIBCO Suite of solutions and Messaging.
Environment: TIBCO BW 5.9, TIBCO Hawk4.6, TIBCO administrator 5.6, EMS 5.1, Red-Hat Linux, SAPR/3, PeopleSoft adapter, MFT 7.0
June 2004 -2012 April:
Work on multiple projects for Client: Played role of Developer, Technical lead. Deutsche Bank (NYC) TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) Jan 05 2011 to March13, 2012, T-Mobile (Seattle), HCL Technologies, November12th2009 to December2010. Hewlett Packard Global Soft Ltd,May2006 -Feb2009 Client Mphasis India, June2004- May2006
Responsibilities:
Developed the technical design document and interface design document based on requirements.
Worked on developing various mapping matrix documents for data transformations.
Worked on code reviews to review the developed code in BW applications.
Designed, developed, and implemented Middleware application using TIBCO suite of products
Installed, Configured, Upgraded and hot fixed TIBCO, JAVA, SAP component
Extremely work Servlets and JSPs based on MVC pattern using Struts and Spring framework.
Used HP Service Center tool for call tracking for Incident Management and Change Management
Worked in the design of the application using UML/Rational Rose.
Worked in developing presentation layer with JSP, Developed JDBC code for backend processing.
Developing the front-end logic and validations