Technical Manager/Project Manager

Solution Oriented, Results driven motivated IT professional with proven skills in collaborating across teams, interfacing with clients, developing applications and deploying technology for delivering solutions to clients. Green Card Holder (No visa required). Willing to travel.

• 11+ years of overall experience in all aspects of SDLC including business analysis, requirements gathering and evaluation, work flow modeling, application development, test cases documentation and production support. 7+ years of experience in web/enterprise application development, mostly J2EE, including enterprise databases and web/application servers.

• Experienced in project management tasks such as planning, estimation, resource coordination, execution, delivery and post-delivery support. Delivered multiple projects on time within budget across single and multiple person teams.

• Created and Delivered documentation on systems including business and functional requirements, user guides, design documents, process flow diagrams and data models.

• Extensive knowledge in various software application development methodologies, system architecture, different types of testing and programming languages.

• Conducted demonstrations of software to technical personnel, business users as well as management. Demonstrated ability to deliver key concepts to technical/non-technical, internal and external customers.

• Multi-lingual and experience working with and adapting to various cultural styles of communication and interaction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Boldtech Systems, Inc. Denver, CO Jan 2007 – Aug 2007

An IT business consulting company, providing business and IT consulting services to Fortune 500 companies.

Senior Consultant

• Senior member of a 4 member team working at client site to document the business process and provide recommendations to improve it. Guided and mentored a junior BA and a developer during various phases of the project.

• Developed plans and coordinated efforts to interview clients’ on-site team members to document the ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ processes and created process flow diagrams using MS Visio. Analyzed the business operations, performed gap analysis and provided solutions and recommendations to upper management to streamline the operations.

• Planned and Coordinated project tasks including assigning work, interviewing clients, documenting process, gathering requirements and creating presentation material to achieve project objectives. Took responsibility for communicating the project updates to the Project Manager.

• Provided expertise in crafting a technical solution to automate report generation and send email to business users. Resulted in reducing the number of man hours utilized by approximately 70%.

• Assisted Sales staff and Senior Technical members in Pre-Sales related activities such as understanding client’s system and requirements, creation of Request for Proposals for projects, providing high level system architecture, researching and understanding technologies and attending on site initial pre-sales meetings at client’s site.

First Data Corporation, Englewood, CO Mar 2003 – Dec 2006

A Fortune 500 financial services company, it is the world’s largest independent third party processor dealing in transaction and bill processing for businesses and consumers worldwide.

Software Application Architect

• Senior member of a web application team that developed B2B web enabled applications using J2EE. Participated in all stages of SDLC for the duration of the project including business and requirements analysis, application development and support.

• Delivered multiple projects on time and under budget in single person and multiple person teams. Acted as interim team lead on several occasions leading junior members and contractors on the team, coordinating tasks between business, development, QA and production support teams and communicating project status to the Manager.

• Planned and coordinated various project activities including estimation, planning, and resource coordination within the development team and across other teams.

• Built reputation as the Subject Matter Expert on the system, application and architecture while mentoring several new employees and contractors on the project.

• Elicited requirements using various techniques such as document analysis, interviews, web site visits, creating mock-ups, use cases, various scenarios and process flow analysis.

• Developed plans for implementation and post production support activities for the application as well as the business team and followed through with successful delivery into production.

• Participated in various testing stages and supported the QA team in system and integration testing. Performed tests to find bottlenecks in the application, analyzed data and presented to the management.

• Evaluated and recommended solutions and strategy to re-engineer parts of application to improve the speed, efficiency and maintainability.

Compuware Corporation, Farmington Hills, MI Oct 1996 – Mar 2003

An IT company that provides enterprise software and IT services providing solutions that maximizes IT governance, application development, and quality assurance and application service management

Software Engineer/Analyst working in a client server technology in a consultant capacity at client sites in a client facing roles. Major achievements include:

• Participated in various stages of the project including planning, estimation, delivery, pre and post production support during the design, development and implementation of multiple applications. Delivered on time and under budget.

• Researched, conceptualized ideas and delivered proof of concept to team members and upper management. Initiated discussions on new technology and followed through with ideas to implement within budgetary constraints.

• Recommended changes to existing applications to improve the business process, speed and efficiency.

• Successfully delivered a new version of the software from the requirements gathering through to implementation and support.

• Conducted feasibility studies to migrate data from a legacy application to a web enabled technology and reported the findings to the management. Created data models, mapped data and successfully ported the application on time and under budget.

Comms People, Inc, Atlanta, GA June 1996 – Sep 1996

An IT service provider that augments staffing requirements for companies

Client Server Specialist in a consultant capacity at various client assignments

• Developed, installed and maintained database, software and tools for business and system analysts.

EDUCATION

Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, Denver, CO June 2007

Master of Business Administration, International Business

• Relevant courses: Global Strategy, Developing International Markets, Comparative Management, Multinational Finance, International Trade, Fundamentals of Finance, Values Based Leadership

• Activities: Vice President, Graduate Business Student Association. Helped coordinate efforts to secure judges for the annual Ethics Case Competition. Participated in various other student body activities. Member of the team that participated in the internal competition the previous year on the above mentioned case competition.

College of Engineering, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO Dec 1995

Master of Science – Environmental Engineering

College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India June 1990

Bachelor of Engineering – Civil Engineering

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE

• Languages: Java 1.1.x/1.2/1.3/1.5, J2EE, working knowledge of C/C++, Perl, PHP, SQL, Ant

• Web/Application Servers: IBM Websphere, working knowledge of BEA Weblogic, Apache Tomcat, Microsoft IIS

• Databases: IBM DB2 UDB 7.0/8.0, MS Access, working knowledge of Oracle, Informix

• IDE: Eclipse, WSADD, Borland J++, Visual Age for Java,

• Environments: Windows, working knowledge of UNIX, LINUX

• Business Intelligence Tools: Endeca

• Other/Misc Tools: MS Visio, MS Office, Change Management Tools such as CVS, SVN, AquaLogic Business Process Management, working knowledge of TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, FTP

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