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Quincy, MA, US

• Oversaw overall engineering solutions and provide strategic vision and leadership for digitalizing research data capture at Rheos.
• Led a team of onsite, offsite, and offshore engineers and managed many custom software development projects
• Defined a long-term informatics strategy that aligns with Rheos business objectives and a short-term plan to satisfy the immediate need of the functional groups by collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Evaluated and created a clear roadmap for informatics infrastructure improvements and gained consensus form stakeholders.
• Managed vendor relationships, including selection, purchases, licensing, and ongoing maintenance of systems
• Prepared and managed annual informatics budget.

Quincy, MA, US

• Manage a team of engineering consultants and work with Biotech and Non-Biotech companies, helping them with evaluating and designing software solutions to their electronic data capture and process automation needs.
• Manage and lead custom software development projects and development teams (Onsite andOffshore)
• Manage vendors, consultants, and overall engineering budget.
• Plan and estimate of IT and Informatics projects for clients.
• Advocate and implement best practices for data capture, integration, and analysis from disparateexternal data sources.
• Design and implement data warehouse solutions to centralize data storage for reporting and datamining

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Stablished an engineering team at Genocea to develop a data capture and analysis platform for Genocea’s ATLAS™ proprietary antigen discovery platform.
• Provided strategic leadership across multiple functional areas to create broad, integrated informatics system vision for Genocea.
• Conducted analysis of enterprise wide systems across functional areas and design proposals to meet current and future strategic needs of the company.
• Evaluated and signed contracts with offshore software consulting companies to build offshore engineering teams.
• Hired software engineering resources onsite and at offshore and build software engineering teams.
• Managed multiple software development projects(budget, resourcing and communications with executive team etc.) and provide technical leadership to multiple engineering teams.

• I was hired to build a small-molecule screening automation platform for Constellation Pharma and was responsible for designing the enterprise software architecture and directing multiple onsite and offshore engineering.
• Participated in requirement gathering with scientists and external research organizations(CROs).
• Evaluated and signed contracts with offshore software consulting companies to build offshore engineering teams
• Hired, managed and provided technical leadership to onsite and offshore software development teams.
• Converted software development teams from waterfall SDLC to Agile by introducing Agile Scrum practices to get maximum productivity.
• Played the role of Scrum Master and Managed software projects.

• I worked as a consultant for Ore Pharmaceuticals Inc. to design and develop a software platform to capture and analyze internal research data and securely expose to their collaborators. I was involved in designing the.
• Re-engineered the existing software solutions to align with the new communication architecture.
• Introduced coding standards and SDLC best practices to the team.
• Created and reviewed requirement document, design documents and deployment documents.
• Designed software components to mine information form external web sites.
• Developed ASP.Net web applications and Win Forms applications.

Toronto, ON., M6P 4G4, CA

• Elections Ontario is the project initiated by Ontario province government to re-engineer and automate the entire election process. This project provided them a state of the art solution to handle the entire election by.
• Created architecture documents for some modules by describing the control structure and their implementation details.
• Created solution structures and base class structures for new modules.
• Conducted Codes Reviews.
• Configured Authorization Manager (AzMan) security by adding roles, tasks and operations.
• Designed and normalized the data models for some of the modules.

• The TravelBox Technology provides a cost-efficient platform for distribution and management of travel and tourism products via a multi-channel distribution model that incorporates multiple interfaces such as multiple.
• Involved in system analysis and design, using UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Class Diagrams.
• Designed and normalized the data models for some modules using CaseStudio-2.18.
• Implemented the client applications using Java Swing components in Borland JBuilder.
• Developed service class to access data using JDBC and web services to expose data for various reservation client applications.
• Created Packages, Triggers and functions for data retrieval, transactional updates, and fare calculations using PL/SQL in Oracle 9i.

Southborough, MA, US

Worked on Human resource management project in different capacities such as Software Engineer and Module Lead etc. (www.virtusa.com) HRIS is an enterprise web application developed for Virtusa (Pvt) Ltd to manage global human recourses in US, India and Sri Lanka. This system used merge replication in replicating data among different databases kept in.

Data Science Professional Certificate, Data Science

Graduate Certificate In Project Management, Project Management

Architecting Big Data Solutions

Sql Server Analysis Services (Ssas) For Business Intelligence

Data Modeling/Warehousing (Dimensional Modeling )

Mongodb Advanced Deployment And Operations

Mongodb For Dbas

Mongodb For Developers

Certified Scrum Developer (Csd)

Certified Scrum Master‎ (Csm)

Mcsd, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer

Mcad, Microsoft Certified Application Developer

Mcp, Microsoft Certified Professional

Certificate In It, Infornation Technology

Bsc (Hons), Computer Science