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Shrikant Shetty

Burbank,CA

Summary

Driven senior software development professional successful at gathering requirements, developing scopes and managing project timelines in an offshore model. Train and mentor junior employees while developing and overseeing cohesive, productive teams.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Developer

Nexstar Media Group Inc.
05.2023 - 01.2024
  • Application Maintenance and Enhancements Post Transition from WB Environment.
  • Coordinated with project management on database development timelines.

Sr. Developer

Warner Media
09.2020 - 04.2023
  • Working with different WBD IT teams to handle CW application cloud infrastructure requirements.
  • Working with third party vendors to implement application interfaces and support them.
  • Coordinating with CRM and application SME to refine requirements and delegating to offshore team members.
  • Managing offshore resources to track change requirements and implementation.
  • Handling user system issues and handling emergency bug resolution.
  • Coding for new requirements as and when needed.
  • Helping CRM with any adhoc project related IT activities including implementing WBD security compliance, Firewall/network changes for impacting supported CW applications by me.
  • Transitioning the CW applications to Nexstar Media Group Infrastructure after sale of The CW Network LLC.

Sr. Service Delivery Lead

Capgemini
12.2015 - 09.2020
  • Developed strong relationships with clients, resulting in increased repeat business and referrals.
  • Served as the primary point of contact for clients, addressing concerns promptly and professionally.
  • Facilitated effective communication between Capgemini teams and external partners to ensure seamless coordination during project execution phases.
  • Implementing Capgemini change management procedures & practices in the project and support related activities.
  • Designing, developing & supporting application interfaces with third party vendors.
  • Helping CRM with any adhoc project related IT activities including implementing WBD security compliance, Firewall/network changes for impacting supported CW applications by me.
  • Mentoring offshore team members.

Software Engineer

SVK Systems Inc. U.S.A
06.2002 - 09.2015
  • Identified and resolved critical software bugs, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability.
  • Participated in code refactoring sessions, enhancing maintainability of legacy systems without compromising on functionality or stability.
  • Optimized database structures to enhance data retrieval speeds, improving application response times significantly.
  • Writing requirements & design documents.
  • Mentored junior developers in coding best practices and efficient problem-solving techniques.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.

Software Professional

ClientSoft Inc. U.S.A
04.1999 - 05.2002
  • Identified and resolved critical software bugs, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability.
  • Participated in code refactoring sessions, enhancing maintainability of legacy systems without compromising on functionality or stability.
  • Optimized database structures to enhance data retrieval speeds, improving application response times significantly.
  • Writing requirements & design documents.
  • Mentored junior developers in coding best practices and efficient problem-solving techniques.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) -

Bombay University
05.1994

Skills

  • Powerbuilder 2021
  • SQL Server 2017, Sybase 1503
  • Knowledge of AWS cloud and experience working AWS resources to host an applicaton
  • Managing Teams in an offshoring model

Telephone

(818) 641 4056

Projects

Project:  Sales Traffic Billing System

Tools: Powerbuilder 2021, Sybase 15.0.3, Sql Server 2017, AWS

Client: The CW Network LLC 

Date: October 2011 - Jan 2024

Description: The Sales, Traffic, and Billing System (STBS) application is designed to help CW Network to manage and optimize the sales, administration, and billing of commercial airtime and programming line-ups sold by the television network to advertisers and agencies. The sole source of revenue for the network is from Commercial Advertisement spot sales.

This was developed initially as Client Server System and later moved to AWS environment at Warner Bros/CW Network.

I was Capgemini Lead working with WB Cloud Engineering Team and Capgemini Offshore Team to  migrate this application along with other CW applications to AWS environment and migrating the application from Sybase 15.0.3 to SQL Server 2016.

I had developed integration for this application to different data providers.



Project: 4Star

Client  : Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA

Tools: Powerbuilder 11, Oracle 9i/10g

Duration : June 2007 to Sept 2010

Description: This is a primarily sales and distribution system for the theatrical and non theatrical engagements that includes booking, print control, Market plan, grosses, billing and box office, cash and settlements modules.

I had designed & developed new modules and redesigned the class libraries to introduce service oriented architecture similar to PFC.


Project  : Kingsway Insurance Information System (KiiS)

Client : Kingsway America Information Technology, Mobile, AL

Tools  : PB 9.0/10.5,  MSSQLServer 2000/2005 

Duration : March 2006 to June 2007

Description : This application takes care of insurance business needs of the four subsidiaries of

Kingsway Financial Services Inc. The important modules include Policy, Point of Sale (POS), Claims and Reports. I was responsible for Claims Module.

Responsibilities include:

· Interacting with Business Analyst and writing Requirements Documents.

· Writing Design Documents.

· Streamlining the old code and writing ancestor objects to accomplish the new functionality.

· Generating reports or data extracts for filing with the state agencies.


Project  : Alabama Social Services Information System (ASSIST)

Client : Department of Human Resources, State of Alabama, U.S.A

Tools:  PB 8.0, Java Components deployed on EAServer 4.2 (On Windows NT), DB/2 7.0 on MVS/ESA

Duration : April 1999 to FEB 2006

Description : This ASSIST System was re-engineered from a clent/server to a web based architecture using JSP, JDK1.4, Powerbuilder 8.0, EAServer 4.0 & DB2 stored procedures. Responsibilities include:

· Studying the user requirements and interacting with the business analysts.

· Component designing, designing html & jsp pages, Integration of Cynergy Systems EAF framework with the components implementing generic functionality like Caching, Error Message Communication, Datawindow html manipulation.

· Implementing Common functionality using Clientside Javascripts.

· Developing jaguar components for Search, Outliner & Tickler modules using EAF Framework. For Outliner & Search Modules, I have developed a generic database driven web HTML tree wherein common jaguar components interfaced with JSP, Javabeans and Javascript.

· Writing DB2 stored procedures & Triggers for data manipulation & business logic implementation using IBM Stored Procedure Builder.

· Developing ASSIST reports for web environment. Here, custom Powerbuilder components generate data in XML format and interface with Java classes & servlet to generate reports in PDF format.

· EAServer Performance Tuning.

· Mentoring other developers in the team.

· Production support.



Timeline

Sr. Developer

Nexstar Media Group Inc.
05.2023 - 01.2024

Sr. Developer

Warner Media
09.2020 - 04.2023

Sr. Service Delivery Lead

Capgemini
12.2015 - 09.2020

Software Engineer

SVK Systems Inc. U.S.A
06.2002 - 09.2015

Software Professional

ClientSoft Inc. U.S.A
04.1999 - 05.2002

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) -

Bombay University
Shrikant Shetty