Akash Garg Email & Phone Number

Falls Church, VA, US

United States

I am involved with the following activities: · Identify and understand process improvement opportunities to design and implement better ways of work.· Champion change in a complex environment to consistently improve quality, speed, productivity, maturity, and cost· Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define unified processes, tools, and metrics·.

Reston

Organized and facilitated Program Increment, Pre-planning, value stream, resulting in a 20% increase in the overall value delivery at the program level. Facilitated daily standups, backlog grooming, and release retrospectives for multiple teams, which helped to resolve impediments quickly. Managed stakeholder expectations by demonstrating and communicating.

Chevvy Chase, MD

• Project planning, managing backlog of epics, features and user stories for the project.
• Effectively implemented scrum methodology for planning, organizing and execution.
• Conducted daily standup, sprint retrospectives, sprint and release planning.
• Made decisions for competing priorities based on project ROI.
• Monitoring sprint burn down, team velocity and removed impediments.
• Defined a repeatable process to resolve application architecture issues. The process defined concrete deliverables to measure progress.

Chevvy Chase, MD

• Geico.com was redesigned and developed using latest technologies to improve performance, scalability and adaptability to accommodate new business requirements.
• Designed and implemented ability to retrieve previously quoted cases, using Java Server Faces (JSF), Spring Webflow, Ajax, Blaze rules engine, spring framework and DROOLS.
• Developed several lookup services to retrieve data from IBM DB2 database, using Hibernate, spring and Tangosol (caching framework).
• Designed and implemented web services on both the ends i.e., new and legacy Mentoring developers to use new framework, technologies and integrating middleware services. IT Architecture and Integration Management.
• Designed and implemented event driven Swing based framework application
• Mentored team members to use that framework.

• CNN Video Processing: Web enabled system that requested video files digitization from VTR tapes, cataloging of digitized files, archiving of cataloged files. Core interfaced was achieved using C++. Java layer provided.
• Used design patterns - observer design pattern to monitor activities
• Developed Web component using JSP, AWT Applets, XML, XSLT, XPATH.

Delhi, Calcutta - India

Implementing concepts of Customer Relationship Management. Automated System, which servesinformation requirements to all the levels of the organizations. It maintains details of clients, employees, their accounts and management policies in a network environment (LAN). This system increased efficiency of client servicing (by reduction of response time.

Master'S Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Bachelor'S Degree, Bachelor Of Science, 1St Class

Bachelor of Science with specialization in Chemistry, Zoology and Botany.