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Oakland, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Designed and implemented a case management solution. (Technologies: IBM PD, F5, J2EE, IBM BPM, IBM WAS, Apache, IBM DB2 with HADR, MS Visio, Jira, Confluence)• Coordinated with business and technical teams, collected requirements, and managed the provisioning of infrastructure, created the roll out strategy document, managed releases to dev, QA and pre prod stages.• Developed and documented a release management strategy specific to the BPM solution.• Created a run book and transitioned the environment to the client’s technology solutions team.• Documented an operational procedures manual to maintain the BPM infrastructure.

Toronto, On, Ca

1) Management Duties:• Led & managed a team of senior engineers responsible for development and support of the J2EE solutions in a ratio of 60% project and 40% operational duties.• Designed Key Performance Objectives for the team and evaluated on a quarterly basis.• Managed the team budget and allocated bonuses based on the performance appraisal.• Involved in Business Continuity Planning.• Developed and executed the technology road map/strategy for the application services team.• Coordinated with QA and business teams. • Performed cost benefit analysis of IT contracts and was instrumental in repatriating a vendor contract saving $1M plus in 2 years.2) Project/Product Management Duties• Identified the need, proposed business case for sponsorship from the senior executives.• Identified stakeholders and collected requirements from the business as well as technical members for the internal service request portal to track various issues handled by the operations team.• Identified gaps and input the missing links as necessary.• Designed a road map and roll out/implementation strategy.• Managed the development of features and test cycles by prioritizing the requirements.• Ensured the project was on-time and on-budget.• Provided cost, time and resource performance reports to the senior management.• Managed releases as per the roll out strategy and provided post production support.Technologies: TFS, Rational Clear Case, IBM Lombardi 7.2, OAM/OID, Microsoft AD, MS Project, MS Visio.3) Projects Managed:• Oracle Data warehouse, Cognos BI & TM1. • ADP interfaces to process the pension payments.• Oracle EBS - HRMS and AP/AR modules.• Antidot’s Fluidtopics as a pension documentation repository. (MongoDB, webscale Search)• Internal corporate website for content management. (Oracle UCM, Oracle Express DB)• Migration: Oracle RAC databases from HP-UX OS to AIX 7.1 on IBM Power 7 machines.• Migration: Pension apps from physical servers to VMware platform.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Implemented the bank’s Anti Money Laundering Solution phase1 (Technologies: IBM WAS 6.1, Norkom financial compliance software, Introscope, Solaris, RHEL, Tivoli Access Manager/Directory Server, IBM DB2) • Automated the creation of Development & Test environments to meet the high demand from Development and QA teams. • Analyzed performance issues using uptime, Tivoli performance viewer and Introscope and suggested fixes.• Provided on-call support as required.

• Implemented and supported the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies – Single Information Systems solution (Technologies: IBM WAS, Apache, Curam, Crystal Reports, IBM DB2, Cruise Control, PSCP, Tivoli Performance Viewer)• Implemented and supported the Canadian Pharmacists Association’s application. (Technologies: IBM WebSphere Portal Server, TextML Server, AIX, DB2)

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Gathered and analyzed project requirements.• Implemented and supported the bank’s easyweb, web broker, creditlink applications (Technologies: IBM WAS 5.1/6, IHS, Oracle DB, MKS SI, AIX)

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Consulting, Entrepreneurship

Ontario Graduate Certificate, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering