Technical Project Manager with 17+ years of experience leading all phases of diverse IT projects. Leverages strong business, financial and technical acumen to drive continuous process improvements, increase competitive advantage and bolster bottom-line revenue growth. Detailed and organized with proven strength in aligning business goals with technology solutions. Agile and Waterfall expert with track records of producing high-quality deliverables within timeline and budgetary constraints.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Manager
HM Health Solutions/Pittsburgh, PA ,USA
Pittsburgh, United States
08.2022 - Current
Manage and lead an application development team specialized in Travel & Loyalty software platforms for all the R&D work within organization and produce highly customizable solutions that fit clients' needs and enable the end consumer to do business with clients.
Oversee the creation of comprehensive technology solutions, technical implementations, and product road maps from the Business Project Managers and Infrastructure Managers within the Application development team.
Lead application development team in the review of business requirements, functional specifications and technical specifications for the design and development of applications for Travel and Loyalty software platforms and participate in all formal review sessions.
Provide technical support to application development team through development, testing and implementation stages of projects as needed including but not limited to architectural reviews, compliance reviews and various project artifacts, as well as solving technical impediments to provide an efficient environment for project implementation and execution.
Provide leadership and management within the application development team, including education, mentoring, coaching and leading teams to promote a culture of service innovation and delivery.
Mentor application development team and oversee process improvement, ensuring adherence to Best Practices by identifying training requirements and leading or arranging for training.
Ensure that development activity aligns with the organization's technology standards, principles, architecture roadmaps, service management standards, and customer experience framework, and supporting the development and definition of technical standards and approaches.
Identify software product improvements and technical feasibility of business requirements for the travel platform with product management and business leaders.
Work closely with the senior leadership team to identify client needs, industry trends, software technology roadmaps and client rollout strategies.
Serve as the primary point of contact between stakeholders and teams,facilitating communication and alignment.
Application Development Consultant
HM Health Solutions/Pittsburgh, PA ,USA
Pittsburgh, United States
03.2020 - 08.2022
Coordinated with management in defining project scope and deliverables.
Identified resource requirements and delegated job responsibilities.
Managed change control activities to meet business needs.
Presented project status reports to management on regular basis.
Worked with testing team to evaluate system technical performance.
Developed and enforced best practices for system architecture.
Ability to deliver project within allotted budgets and timelines
Ability to adapt to changing project priorities
Ability to oversee architecture development activities
Ability to execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
Senior Application Developer
HM Health Solutions/Pittsburgh, PA ,USA
Pittsburg, United States
12.2017 - 03.2020
Involved in Complete Software Development Lifecycle Experience (SDLC) from Business Analysis to Development, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
Used Teradata utilities fastload, multiload,tpump to load data
Worked on BTEQ scripts to transform data
Worked on Fastexport scripts to export data
Wrote, tested and implemented Teradata Fastload,Multiload and Bteq scripts, DML and DDL.
Constructed Korn shell driver routines (write, test and implement UNIX scripts)
Worked on views based on user and/or reporting requirements.
Performance tuned and optimized various complex SQL queries.
Good knowledge on Teradata Manager, DBQL, SQL assistant and BTEQ.
Gathered system design requirements, design and write system specifications.
Excellent knowledge on ETL tools such as Informatica, Worked on data warehouses with sizes from 30-50 Terabytes.
Coordinated with the business analysts and developers to discuss issues in interpreting the requirements
Extensively worked with Informatica– Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Transformation developer, Mapplet Designer, Mapping Designer, Workflow Manager, and Workflow Monitor to analyse various complex mappings, mapplets, reusable transformations, session tasks and Workflows as part of test data support
As a Data warehouse ETL sr. developer, am responsible for the business requirements, ETL Analysis, ETL test and design of the flow and the logic for the Data warehouse project using Informatica.
Executes system integration jobs for various projects with in EDW in providing needed test data to Business analysts
Extensively used Informatica Workflow Manager to run the workflows.
Test Lead
Anthem BCBS, Richmond, VA, USA
Richmond
06.2017 - 12.2017
Involved in solution delivery requirements gathering and estimating the efforts based on the requirements .
Prepare an estimate of the actual cost and then determine the effort in terms of man days to get the change request solved .
Participate in status calls with client Ensuring quality process compliance and timely delivery of applications as estimated .
Leading the ACES EnB Test stream
Creating the Test cases and expected layouts for Reports based on the Report Matrix
Creating the Test Data for test cases referencing the ACES EnB
Mapping the Scenarios and Conditions to the Business Requirements
Performing the mapping table checks with the EnB team
Performing Data Validation checks with EnB team
Logging Bugs, Bug Fix Verification, Proving UAT support to the business users.
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture
Pittsburgh, United States
07.2010 - 06.2017
Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Informatica, Teradata 14.0, IBM Mainframes,UNIX, ESP SCHEDULER, harvest,ClearQuest,Service Manager,View point,Oracle ,jcl,db2 and working to improve overall team performance.
Worked with development teams to correct problems and run test scenarios.
Checked client code for bugs and weaknesses using approved troubleshooting methods.
Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
Software Engineer
CSC
Hyderabad
12.2006 - 06.2010
Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.
Creating High Level Design/Low Level Design documents from Project Definition document.
Implementation activities.
Reviews and Inspection.
Production support and monitoring various cycles
Maintaining the Application Information Documents in the project repository.
Education
Bachelor Of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies
Park College of Engineering Technology
Coimbatore
04.2004
Skills
Delivery and Release Management
System Design and Reviews
System Migrations/Integrations
Configuration Management
Performance and Quality Analysis
Client Implementations, Testing / QA
Waterfall and Agile Software Development Life Cycles
Business and Technical requirements analysis
Budgeting and Resource Management
Client Communications & Presentations
Process Improvement Enterprise-wide Implementations
Highly proficient with JCL,COBOL,DB2,VSAM, Teradata ,INFORMATICA,o strong expertise in SQL queries
Timeline
Team Manager
HM Health Solutions/Pittsburgh, PA ,USA
08.2022 - Current
Application Development Consultant
HM Health Solutions/Pittsburgh, PA ,USA
03.2020 - 08.2022
Senior Application Developer
HM Health Solutions/Pittsburgh, PA ,USA
12.2017 - 03.2020
Test Lead
Anthem BCBS, Richmond, VA, USA
06.2017 - 12.2017
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture
07.2010 - 06.2017
Software Engineer
CSC
12.2006 - 06.2010
Bachelor Of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies