Vikas Kansal Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

• Manage customer products including PVS5 installation app, Energy Link portal, Energy Data Platform client app and part of Salesforce for customer issue support. Oversee technical aspects of various products including.
• Released commissioning application in four weeks and resolved all issues in four months by creating stakeholder panels to display problems and creating new discovery workflow to aid dealers in setting up devices.
• Successfully released customer facing monitoring application for commercial customer in four weeks by determining issues preventing use and modifying backend in.Net.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create product backlog, groom user stories and plan sprint.
• Lead and wrote code for building new server less monitoring portal using AWS services with nodejs, angularjs and material.
• Participated in architectural discussion for building postgres database to replace SQL database.

United Airline, Houston, TX

• Managed multiple projects simultaneously including creating new middleware components to process new messages distributed by IBM MQ, providing iPad native application for flight crew management of day-to-day.
• Successfully managed United Airlines data center move to Chicago, reducing adverse effects to applications.
• Leveraged technical expertise and management skills to become portfolio manager for United Airlines CCS group. Led 30+ simultaneous projects and offshore team members.
• Developed and negotiated all Statements of Work and Supplier Level Agreements. Established development organization and hired resources.
• Improved ETL processes to complete transactions on time and provide real time updates to other applications.
• Deployed SAN solutions that hold databases for production and DR environments.

Austin, Texas Area

• Defined and implemented development process, methodology, technologies. Based on organization culture and practices, created an agile process for URS need and help Mentoring development and stakeholder groups in the.
• Saved $2M annually with successful deployment of Estimation system with $1.2M cost to help manage projects from bidding to finish with forecast along project lifecycle.
• Built new development team to take over existing systems and build product backlog, allowing definition of resource requirements and budget allocation for product.

Austin, Texas Area

• Built and operated multiple cross-functional teams of 25+ engineers. Managed over 6 onsite and 30+ offshore US based software engineers in development and implementation of new system technologies. Worked with partners.
• Created procedures to unite US based engineers and offshore counterparts and overcome communication differences and understanding, resulting in greater teamwork and productivity.
• Guided transition to agile development to increase team efficiency and rapid release of product to market
• Streamlined best practices (continuous improvement and code reviews) to improve code quality and reduce regression bugs.
• Unified development tools and processes despite language, time zone and cultural barriers and improved global team performance in program delivery schedules. Improved average schedule deviation for software program.
• Received “Best Performance Award” two consecutive years, heading outsource division and successfully executing six projects, and decreasing development costs 50%.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Organized Cofee and Move projects for client, Verizon. Produced business requirement documents and approved project plans. Oversaw, mentored, and motivated team throughout project development cycle. Prioritized tasks based on scope and timeline. Evaluated any scope changes and monitored risk, communicating impact to stakeholders. Coordinated bug resolution.

Austin, Texas Area

Handled security management and ASPECT projects for client, AMD. Worked with partners to produce business requirement documents and gain approval of project plans. Created and managed four offshore teams with five to six members and all offshore development efforts. Followed change control board guidelines to create final package for deployment. Developed.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Cumputers

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science