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Rajesh Jha

Columbus,OH

Summary

Proven track record of managing and delivering IT projects on time, within budget, and meeting quality standards, with around 16 years of experience in the Large-Scale IT industry, known for a personable approach to clients and co-workers as well as for delivering and implementing advanced software solutions to medium and Large-size businesses.

  • Experienced in managing multimillion-dollar programs/projects that needs planning, to make use of resources in a coordinated and optimized manner to bring the best value. Strong experience in the management of scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks.
  • Experience in closely working with business stakeholders by conducting discovery sessions to understand and document the user scenarios and incorporate them into the product backlog and roadmap based on business priority.
  • Strong project management skills that involve planning, distribute the workload among the team, planning the releases, collaboration with cross teams.
  • Collaboration with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards, guidelines, and blueprints.
  • Hands-on experience in system requirement gathering, analysis, design, development and troubleshooting for Web and Windows based .NET projects.
  • Strong in Business requirement analysis and functional specification design and documentation.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President

M & T Bank, Formerly Partners Trust
03.2023 - Current
  • Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.
  • Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols. It included providing performance related feedback during appraisal time.
  • Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
  • Utilized prior technical skillset in providing support for infrastructure design, software platform development, load testing, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

● Lead initiatives to transition critical software services into the Cloud and provide training to other team members on the new tools and processes.

● Managed project risks, identified issues, and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize impact on project timelines and outcomes. Monitored project progress, tracked key performance indicators (KPIs), and reported project status to stakeholders, including senior management and clients. Collaborated with clients and stakeholders to gather requirements, manage expectations, and ensure project deliverables met quality standards. Conducted regular project meetings, facilitated effective communication, and ensured timely resolution of project-related issues.

Principal Consultant

HTC Global Services
05.2022 - 03.2023

● Assisted IT Client Director in the planning and coordination of IT projects, ensuring adherence to project timelines and deliverables.

  • Directed onsite training for business users to maximize productivity.

● Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather project requirements and document detailed project specifications.

  • Evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication, and resource utilization issues.
  • Collaborated with clients from concept through final delivery of product or service.
  • Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.
  • Delivered outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
  • Managed multiple deadlines across several businesses to meet dynamic needs of multiple clients.
  • Aligned closely with business owners and employees to gather information and gain operational insight.
  • Organized and analyzed primary and secondary research to understand industry, market and company trends.
  • Created and developed detailed work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.

Technical Project Manager

UST Global
05.2018 - 04.2022
  • Served as technical liaison, supporting engineering, management and quality assurance for delivering stable, secure and resilient product.
  • Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
  • Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, and planning sessions to validate requirements.
  • Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines, and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.
  • Negotiated and managed project budgets to meet goals.
  • Coordinated with external vendors to deliver IT project components.
  • Maintain services during deployment and in production by measuring and monitoring key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health.
  • Lead initiatives to transition critical software services into the Cloud and provide training to other team members on the new tools and processes

● Reviewed existing code and ensured that it's secure, optimized and according to standards.

Technical Project Leader

Sigma Software LLC
08.2017 - 05.2018


● Creating and consuming Restful service to interact with the server side to perform insertion of records into Server.

● Analyzed requirements and designs as requested and documented systems thoroughly both in terms of design and implementation.

● Upgraded the front-end UI to angular4 from angularjs.

● Reviewed existing code and ensured that it's secure, optimized and according to standards.

● Fine tune the performance of SQL queries and procedures

● Perform Unit testing of applications using Nunit testing framework

● Prepared artifacts such as Technical Specification Document, Unit Test Plan, Project Status reports.

● Interacting with client on daily basis for status reporting purposes.

  • Provide live production support for applications

Lead Developer

Sigma Software LLC
07.2016 - 07.2017
  • Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
  • Interfaced with front-end and back-end development teams to develop unified product, smoothing out coding conflicts before problems arose.
  • Involved in requirement & design meetings to suggest design ideas and valuable inputs to increase the performance of the application.
  • Created and consumed web service method to interact with the server side to perform back-end operation into Server.
  • Designing the solution on MVVM pattern to support multiple clients.
  • Created WPF application & C# that interacts with database, which uses Microsoft application blocks to connect to Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Perform Unit testing of applications using Nunit testing framework
  • Prepared artifacts such as Technical Specification Document, Unit Test Plan, Project Status reports.

Senior Software Engineer

GreenByte Technologies LLC
01.2016 - 07.2016
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
  • Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
  • Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in .net and working to improve overall team performance.
  • Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
  • Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming experience C#. Net, SQL and XRM.
  • Checked client code for bugs and weaknesses using approved troubleshooting methods.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.

Technical Project Leader

Hexagon Capability Center India Private Limited
03.2012 - 11.2015
  • Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
  • Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
  • Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
  • Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation.
  • Implemented best practices to drive quality IT project delivery.
  • Created and implemented contingency plans to address potential risks.
  • Resolved staff conflicts and identified potential areas of improvement.
  • Negotiated and managed project budgets to meet goals.
  • Developed and introduced IT strategies to improve operational efficiency.
  • Worked as the technical leader in defining the technology, building the product design and implementation for stable and resilient software.

Senior Software Engineer

Prime Focus Technologies
10.2010 - 02.2012

● Participated in the requirement elicitation of the ClearEdge form.

● Designed the forms using the asp.net UI.

● Designed the control logic and work flow.

● Implemented appropriate error handlers for Run Time and Design Time Errors using C#.NET.

● Participated in client reviews and feasibility study.

● Participated in the bug fixing and associated in enhancing forms.

● Involved in Writing Views, functions, triggers, stored procedures.

● Involved in writing Unit testing for Business layer.

● Involved in writing integration testing for repository.

● Created an automated File Copy Windows Service that can be scheduled using a web

● application, for post deploy backup of files from their production to backup servers using

● ASP.NET and C# Windows Service.

● Participated in preparation of test cases.

● Components in .NET Framework.

● Involved in unit testing and bug fixing.

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra
10.2007 - 03.2010
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
  • Designed the forms using the winforms.
  • Designed the control logic and work flow.
  • Participated in client reviews and feasibility study.
  • Participated in the bug fixing.
  • Participated in preparation of test cases and unit testing.

Education

Bachelor in Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

JNTU Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India
05.2007

Skills

    Technical Skills

    Web skills: ASP, ASPNET MVC 45/40/30, Java, HTML, Angular, AngularJs, JavaScript, XML/XSLT, VBScript, IIS, Cascading Stylesheets CSS, MicrosoftNET ASPNET, WPF

    Languages: C, C#Net, VBNET, HTML

    Middleware: WCF, ADONET, MSMQ, Web Services, COM/COM/DCOM, MTS, ActiveX

    Databases: MS SQL SERVER, Oracle, MYSQL, Informix, MongoDB, SSIS

    Design Tools/Skills: Visio, UML, Miro

    IDE Tools: Visual Studio, Sql Server Management Studio, Expression Blend (40/30/20)

    Version Controls: Visual Source Safe (2005), Sub Version, TFS, GIT, BitBucket, GIT Lab, Accurev

Timeline

Vice President

M & T Bank, Formerly Partners Trust
03.2023 - Current

Principal Consultant

HTC Global Services
05.2022 - 03.2023

Technical Project Manager

UST Global
05.2018 - 04.2022

Technical Project Leader

Sigma Software LLC
08.2017 - 05.2018

Lead Developer

Sigma Software LLC
07.2016 - 07.2017

Senior Software Engineer

GreenByte Technologies LLC
01.2016 - 07.2016

Technical Project Leader

Hexagon Capability Center India Private Limited
03.2012 - 11.2015

Senior Software Engineer

Prime Focus Technologies
10.2010 - 02.2012

Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra
10.2007 - 03.2010

Bachelor in Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

JNTU Hyderabad
Rajesh Jha