Jay Soni Email & Phone Number

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

- Manage the implementation of multiple concurrent initiatives of varying complexity in a time efficient manner. Monitor and control activities according to plan.- Continuously identify potential issues, conflicts, and risks. Analyze, mitigate and escalate where appropriate- Implement end to end change management plans and plan and execute all communication related to these.- Collaborate and contribute on cross-functional enterprise initiatives and manage the effective execution of assigned deliverables.- Establish strong working relationships across client business units and platforms and collaborate with groups to define and achieve deliverables and ensure initiatives are constructively integrated into IT procedures and processes.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

- Led a team of software developers by providing technical guidance and ensuring that team’s priorities are in line with the client’s expectations, yielding in a timely delivery of high quality work- Engaged with clients (Bell Canada) on daily basis in order to discuss the business requirements by having regular scrums, resulting in a fruitful and incremental software requirement collection process and developed middle-ware decision services by using IBM Operational Decision Manager and J2EE framework, resulting in efficient business rule management systems for client needs

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

- Developed an interactive GUI for DIANE (Domain Informatics ANalytics for Enterprises, a consumable big data informatics platform targeted for business users or non-analysts) ) framework using client side web development technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript with Dojo and IBM RAVE (Rapidly Adaptive Visualization Engine)), resulting in a user friendly , cross-domain compatible interface that renders a range of advanced visualizations - Deployed the framework as web application ( for internal IBM customer support team to use with its installation and configuration), mobile app, and IBM CloudOE environment (targeted for internal and external users) , Also performed testing of the end-to-end scenario, identified defects and fixed them. - Enhanced control layer of DIANE by identifying major performance defect, leading to decrease in query execution time by more than 50%. Framework has been tested by company’s internal clients and on various external POC data from US based hospital and has been proven state of the art of its kind.- Engaged in substantial research on Hadoop technologies by exploring the HBase for storing big data-sets and other Hadoop/ MapReduce work, leading to performance optimization in terms of getting final results in real-time.- Engaged in research to develop a text analytics framework for the collaboration of IBM Watson API & DIANE using OpenNLP toolkit and IBM Worklight and performed semantic analysis & name entity extraction,resulting into an application that accepts user queries less restrictive to be closer to natural language queries.- Established overall project structure for a personalized web tasking application which allows users to delegate and automate tasks to a web agent using IBM Worklight and Bluemix CloudOE ,also reused and integrated UI components used in the past projects along with rigorous testing and bug reporting , resulting in an elegant solution.

Gandhinagar

- Developed a centralized web application ,”Student Management System” for a government project by using Agile Software Development Life cycle (C# with .NET framework on the control layer, MS SQL Server on the data layer and HTML5 ,CSS3, JavaScript for the GUI), leading to a successful and robust web application for the government dental schools.

Master Of Applied Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.8 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Volunteered at International student orientation, Dalhousie University in January, 2013

B.Eng, Computer Engineering, First Class With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Computer Engineering event (ClaroTechnico) committee member