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Sharad Gehani

Maryland Heights,MO

Summary

DELIVERY MANAGEMENT MANAGER 22 + years of experience in various roles in Technology and Delivery Management managing web and digital applications leveraging expertise in Java/J2EE technologies. Progressive career with emphasis on IT Project Management from project initiation and blue printing to development, implementation, and support. Served as senior project advisor providing best-in-class consulting with external benchmark industry perspective. Strong leader with motivational skills for creating cohesiveness within teams and to drive results in team performance. Vertical industry expertise in Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, Telecom. Proven expertise in managing COTS and custom Applications engagements in a global delivery model with fixed price and managed outcome agreements. Expert in large deals transition and driving change management at organizational level with demonstrated strengths in operations improvement.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Delivery Manager

Tech Mahindra Americas
St Louis, MO
06.2010 - Current
  • Client Interactions: Managed business-critical program for Telecom client, responsible for lifecycle management of wireless data subscribers.
  • Managed transition of 'Large Managed Services Engagement' as a transition manager and brought the engagement to a steady state within the defined timeline.
  • Managed SLA and status reporting by presenting periodic reviews of operational performance.
  • Developing Quality Deliverables, HLD, review record. Project Plan, effort estimation, FRS, New engagements/Proposal (RFPs), Project Planning, Effort Estimation (WBS), Device implementation strategy for the project, Risk Management, Preparing & maintaining project plan & Project charter.
  • Design reviews, Team Management, Task Allocation, and Client-related communication.
  • Monitor overall progress, issue escalation, effectively communicate project expectations to team members, and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
  • Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes. Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals. Responsible for team mentoring and problem resolution of team members.
  • Accounting of project, Resource Management, RUS Generation Cost revenue/cost saving responsibilities Implementation of Six Sigma and CMMI LS in management processes
  • Responsible for implementing and improving Release Management, & Configuration PMI implementation, Metric Estimation Council member, Project Management, Transitions Management, Estimation, Risk issue management, Monitoring & Tracking
  • SLA Management, Business continuity, Quality cabinets, Client Relations

Associate Project Manager

HCL Technologies, Noida, India
Noida, India
  • Equant (USA), France Telecom(Paris)
  • Served in various capacities handling multiple projects for Equant (http://connection.equant.com/) including new development and enhancement requests
  • Connection is Equant’s Intranet Portal which offers, to both internal and external sources, point of access for critical Equant information and services as a personalized, customizable, single, primarily as every employee’s workplace
  • Responsibilities:
  • Involved in complete life cycle of software development including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, UAT support and production support of DMC and PDMC projects
  • Scope of responsibility also includes ensuring that all quality related processes (as mandated by HCL technologies quality procedures) are followed in the project, leading to defect free delivery & all project objectives are met
  • Ensured close co-ordination between all stakeholders including OBS Business team
  • Design reviews, Team Management, Task Allocation & Client related communication
  • Ensuring close co-ordination between all stakeholders including OBS Business team
  • Monitor overall progress, issue escalation
  • Scope of responsibility also includes ensuring that all quality related processes (as mandated by HCL technologies quality procedures) are followed in the project, leading to defect free delivery & all project objectives are met
  • Responsible for team mentoring and problem resolution of team members
  • Accounting of project, Resource Management, BRO Generation, responsible for implementing and improving Release Management, & Configuration Management processes
  • Cost revenue/cost saving responsibilities
  • Implementation of Six Sigma and CMMI LS in projects implementation, Metric Estimation Council member
  • Developed service-based architecture using Spring Boot
  • Designed and developed new functionality for both DMC and PDMC projects using Agile
  • Developed Java/J2EE components using Spring IOC, Hibernate and JPA
  • Responsible for development of functional from Requirement Specifications document, High level Design and securing the approval from Architecture and Design Review Committee
  • Involved in Project Planning to prepare and maintain Sprint plan and activities and ensuring Projects Charter is delivered
  • Managed Development resources, task allocation and client related communication
  • Implemented Six Sigma procedures and supported the CMMI L5 certification
  • Supported PM implemented Release Management and Configuration Management processes
  • Council member and improved and actively participated in SQA as Metric Estimation

Sr Software Engineer

G.E., St. Louis, MO
St. Louis, MO
  • Birla Soft Ltd., Noida, India
  • Developed and supported Customer Account Link (CAL) for G-CDF
  • CAL, an internet-based application that allows dealers to view account information and make paperless payments on Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF) loans
  • Dealers simply access CAL from the GE application and internet/dealers/fees charged
  • (site: www.cdf.com) to use the application
  • Served as Team Lead managing the offshore team and delivery of the application to GE standards
  • Responsibilities:
  • Involved in analysis, design, coding and user interaction
  • Used AJAX and jQuery for client-side scripting, validations and to improve user interaction
  • Used Web application
  • Implemented DAO pattern for database connectivity and Hibernate for object persistence
  • Used SOAP UI tool, Swagger and REST Client for testing web services
  • Developed API to bind XML Schema to Java classes
  • Used JAXB/APIs and SOAP web services to expose and interact with other applications
  • Implemented and fine-tuned the application performance using Wily Introscope
  • Troubleshoot the automation of test cases using Mockitio
  • Participated in troubleshooting and triaging issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
  • Used Sun One Directory Server 5x as the LDAP server for user authentication of the connection applications
  • Led the efforts to implement bamboo build and deployment
  • Developed and implemented the framework using Cocoon for authentication module
  • A specific example would be when user whose account is migrated from St
  • Louis Floor Planning system to Hoffman Estates MAX system
  • This requires the user to use Hoffman Estates to view historical data such as payments and edocs
  • This migrated user, however, may be set up in DOL with the same user ID as in CAL, or with a different user ID
  • Either way, the setup is done in DOL, which is the authentication source for DOL
  • CAL to DOL system to make payments, view current and future edocs, etc., but use St
  • Louis
  • Developed SOAP based web services with 2-way SSL protocol for security
  • ORM and Hibernate
  • Developed client program for uploading the edocs
  • Implemented database access layer using

Sr. Programmer / Software Engineer

Eon Technologies, Gurgaon, India
  • Involved with The Bank Frame Corporate Solution to satisfy the needs of both the Corporate Banking sector and its clients
  • Corporate clients submit online or batch instructions in a pre-defined format that are then processed by their bank
  • This requires the corporate clients to setup and maintain their systems and facilities to generate and submit instructions to their bank
  • Responsibilities:
  • Reviewed and analyzed business requirements to have a good understanding of the application functionality to fix bugs
  • As an active member of the Defect Resolution team during the System Integration Testing and the User Acceptance Testing phase, researched the root cause and fixed bugs and defects within a short turnaround time per SLAs
  • Also supported enhancement requests while adapting client proprietary framework
  • Involved in the design and development of Forms and Reports
  • Environment: Java, EJB 1.1, JSP 1.0, JDBC, Beans, Java Script, BEA WebLogic, DB2, SQL Server

Education

MBA - Marketing Management

Symbiosis
Pune

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Samara State Technical University
Samara, Russian Federation

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Java, Python, C, C, SQL, PL/SQL, CSS, HTML5, ColdFusion
  • Scripting Languages: JavaScript
  • JEE/Web Technologies: SOAP, REST Web Services, WSDL, Java Beans, Servlets, JSP, JSTL, Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, AJAX, JSON, jQuery, CSS, XML
  • Frameworks: Struts, Spring, JMS, RMI, HTML, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Angular 4/5, Angular JS, React, Bootstrap
  • Application Server: WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Apache Tomcat
  • IDEs: Eclipse, Rational Application Developer (RAD)
  • DBMS: SQL Server 2008 R2, Oracle10g, Access, MySQL, Netezza
  • Productivity Tools: Maven, Ant, CVS, Harvest, Log4j, HOL, MS Visio, SVN, Jenkins
  • XSL, XPath

Certification

  • HPMP Certified
  • Safe Agilist, ITIL Certified, Azure Certified
  • PMP Certification

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth : January 10, 1974
  • Father's Name : Lakshman A. Gehani

Timeline

Technical Delivery Manager

Tech Mahindra Americas
06.2010 - Current

Associate Project Manager

HCL Technologies, Noida, India

Sr Software Engineer

G.E., St. Louis, MO

Sr. Programmer / Software Engineer

Eon Technologies, Gurgaon, India

MBA - Marketing Management

Symbiosis

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Samara State Technical University
Sharad Gehani