Project manager

NIKHIL JAIN *** N Dunton Ave, Apt ***, Arlington Heights, IL 60004 Ph: 847-***-**** ************@*****.***

EDUCATION

• Part time MBA Candidate at Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL, USA.

• Post Graduate Diploma in Advance Computing from ACTS, Bangalore, India – 2001.

• Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from BIET, Jhansi, India - 1998.

EXPERIENCE: Ten years of excellent experience in Information Technology and two years of experience in Shipping Industry.

GE Healthcare, Barrington, IL, USA - Provides services in medical imaging, diagnostics, patient monitoring systems.

Scrum Master - Agile Project Manager Role Jan, 2008 – Present Barrington, IL, USA

• Responsible for managing numerous global teams of size 7 to 30+ engineers located in USA, Israel and India to execute several

critical healthcare domain IT projects and products written in technologies ranging from C/C++ to Java and .Net on

Solaris/Linux/Windows platforms. All projects required hospital/patient/exam workflow knowledge and familiarity with HIPAA,

DICOM and HL7 standards.

• Currently managing global team of 9 engineers spread across three geographic locations in Israel and USA to deliver next phase

of WebDX product explained below.

• Managed global team of 30+ engineers spread across three geographic locations in Israel and USA to deliver WebDX 2.0 web

based viewer application written in C++ and Java to display DICOM images and share medical information with diagnostic

capabilities expected to generate 63 million dollar revenue in Japan and Finland alone in current fiscal year.

• Led Centricity Analytics (Business Intelligence) product team of 7 engineers to deliver healthcare domain KPI dashboards and

reporting solution written in C#/Silverlight to help hospital CTO’s maximize the ROI. This product was result of innovation to

commercialization initiative at GE and has generated interest among leading hospitals around world including Stanford and HCA.

• Led team of 32 engineers’ spread across USA and India to streamline the product Design History File and CAPA (Corrective

Action and Preventive Action) process. This effort had highest business priority to face the FDA audit.

• Responsible for developing full scale project plans with resource allocations and executing full product development life cycle

using ‘Agile’/Scrum project management methodology.

• Responsible for coordinating between different cross-functional teams such as Marketing, QA/RA, Manufacturing,

Validation/Verification and Tech support teams to drive the product development plan and finding balance between compliance

and efficiency of processes.

•Responsible for defining technical scopes, creating scrum plan in terms of product backlogs, user stories and tasks,

monitoring and communicating project progress in daily standups, managing and mentoring team members, identifying the

risks and defining mitigation plan, managing and setting project expectations with higher management.

Lead Software Engineer – Global Team Lead Feb 2006 – Dec 2007 Barrington, IL, USA

• Led Global PACS engineering team of 11 members in USA and India focused on improving customer satisfaction by delivering

high performance Linux based platform solutions written in C++/Java ; upgrade paths and patches to 1100+ customer base around

world, generating revenues over 55 million.

• Led PACS Next Gen global product development team of 8 members to build universal workstation written in C#/.Net

technology stack that will connect with array of hospital information system to present one view to doctors. Coordinated with

teams at four global locations in USA, Israel, Netherlands and India to execute this project; next gen product is expected to

generate 28+ million dollars over next 3 years.

• Streamlined customer patches release process to deliver software in timely fashion to boost customer confidence in product,

improving customer satisfaction by 35%.

• Defined engineering process to trace product defect and requirements from User requirements and defect tracking tool to source

code control. This process was picked as best practice for defect resolution by GE Global Audit Control auditor.

Senior Engineer – Technical Lead Role Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 Mt Prospect, IL, USA / Bangalore, India

• Led a team of 5 developers in India to deliver breakthrough PACS SE Project. The Goal of this project was to reduce base cost &

service cost of the product to compete in medium segment market. Redefined the PACS architecture to reduce hardware, software

and service cost by more than 70%. The components for this product were mainly written in C++ on Linux platform. PACS SE

team received best team award at prestigious GE Healthcare Technology banquet.

• Collaborated with HP & EMC vendors to formulate the low cost solution. Presented PACS SE prototypes to higher management

& successfully piloted prototypes at customer site in Dixon, IL multiple times to understand and gather feedbacks. Worked

closely with design team in India to incorporate feedbacks into final product.

• Worked in Netherlands with the local team to integrate the RA600 print functionality with Centricity PACS backend to leverage

Intel platform based hardware. The goal of this project was to save on the hardware cost of Solaris server based print solution.

Design Engineer – Individual Contributor Feb 2002 – Dec 2003 Mt Prospect, IL, USA / Bangalore, India

• Re-designed and developed 2.1 DICOM Print Server to improve availability from 60% to 99%. This product was written in

C++ on Solaris platform.

• Worked with field engineers around globe to eliminate customer complaints and implemented new feature to improve

customer confidence in DICOM Print Server product leading to substantial improvement in market share.

Trainee Engineer - Internship Aug 2001 – Jan 2002 Bangalore, India

• Created website in J2EE technologies that managed GE employee travel and trainings to facilitate paperless record keeping.

Shipping Corporation of India - Serves India’s overseas and coastal seaborne trades as its primary flag carrier.

Marine Engineer Dec 1998 – July 2000 Bombay, India

• Supervising and managing technical crew during watch to manage day to day operations and maintenance of the ships propulsion

systems, power system, fuel supplies, water systems, refrigeration, computer-controlled management equipment, navigation and

communications systems.

• Worked with offshore technical experts at global locations in Morocco, Egypt and Sri Lanka to perform maintenance jobs.

SOFTWARE SKILLS / TECHNOLOGIES USED

• Languages: C/ C++ / POSIX threads programming, SQL/PLSQL, Java, C#\.NET, Perl/Shell script.

• Tools Used: Clear Case, Rational Purifier, Rational DDTS, Nunit, Resharper, DOORS, Scrumworks, Rational Rose Linux-GDB

and Solaris-Workshop

• Operation System: Solaris, Linux, Windows

• J2EE Platform: Servlet, JSP, JDBC, EJB concepts

• RDBMS: Oracle 8i, Sybase, Postgresql

• Web Servers: Orion, Apache with Jakarta Tomcat

Others: DICOM, Design patterns, UML, Data structures, OOAD, OS concepts

AWARDS / PATENTS / OTHER

• Given Top Talent rating (top 10%) in seven different years at GE Healthcare for significantly exceeding expectations.

• Recipient of prestigious “Exemplary Performance”, “Technical Excellence Award” and “Leadership excellence in growth

category” awards for PACS SE and WebDX 2.0 Product.

• Recipient of four “Healthcare Hero” awards for customer satisfaction, team leadership, innovation & execution.

• Submitted four patent disclosures related to PACS virtualization, imaging workflow and analytics algorithms.

• Green Belt in Six Sigma methodology.

• Active volunteer in GE Community Service and Junior Achievement Program.

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