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Nayi Disha Resource Centre is an online information resource that supports families of persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). Autism, Down Syndrome and other developmental disabilities - we have resources, events and support groups around all of these.

Autism Research & Multidisciplinary School (ARMS) is a day-time school for children and young adults with special needs, mainly autism spectrum disorders and other conditions such as Downs, Cerebral Palsy (CP), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other behavioral challenges.ARMS is the first project by Abhaya Care Foundation.

Partner position in Microsoft Global Delivery Team.• Responsible for requirements gathering & high-level scoping of project.• Responsible for liaison with onsite team and managing customer expectations• Responsible for conveying the project progress, status, risks and mitigation plans to higher management

This was a contract position in Microsoft Global Delivery Team.• Responsible for requirements gathering & high-level scoping of project.• Responsible for resource management and developing project schedule using MS Project• Responsible for liaison with onsite Project Manager and project team on day-to-day basis.• Responsible for conveying the project progress, status, risks and mitigation plans to higher management

Primarily responsible for IT and led the IT team through various projects. An enriching experience wherein I hired and mentored new recruits, built offshore IT team, managed vendors, developed SDLC policies and procedures to cater to company requirement, R&D with cutting edge technology, created prototypes and managed product releases and go-lives , solved day-to-day issues including technical and managerial.

Project Manager for an auto insurance company, Woodland hills, CA (October 2003 to Mar 2007)This project involved development and maintenance of a Claims Management System for an auto insurance client. The system was developed using Java swings front-end, legacy back end, MQ series middleware and DB2 as relational database. Team lead/Business analyst for a global travel management company, Mumbai, India (Jan 2002 to October 2003)The project was for development of an Integrated… Show more Project Manager for an auto insurance company, Woodland hills, CA (October 2003 to Mar 2007)This project involved development and maintenance of a Claims Management System for an auto insurance client. The system was developed using Java swings front-end, legacy back end, MQ series middleware and DB2 as relational database. Team lead/Business analyst for a global travel management company, Mumbai, India (Jan 2002 to October 2003)The project was for development of an Integrated Front Office System using java swings fat client screens, servlets and stateless session beans for business logic with DB2 as backend. IBM Websphere application server was used in this J2EE architecture. The system enabled the users to book hotels, leisure travel, and vacation packages for their customers.Developer for MasterCraft®, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, India (Apr 2000 to Dec 2001) Mastercraft® is an application development tool with model driven, component-based approach that supports development from analysis to deployment. This framework unifies a set of tools that comprises of an object modeling tool, a GUI modeler, an object oriented specification language – Q++, and a set of application generators and class libraries to support large scale, distributed developmentDeveloper for Central Government Office, Mumbai, India (Nov 1999 – Apr 2000)This project involved development of a client-server system for Central Government Office to enaling automation of Provident fund management for the employees. Show less