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 requisition, hiring and making resource decisions. Generate quarterly plans for all products and handle quarterly releases. Handle requisitions, hiring, and resource decisions. Create and receive purchase order (PO) approval for consultants and external vendors. Liaise between business and engineering group. Participate in system architecture and mentoring of development teams.• 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.• Completed IOT training conducted by C3IOT organization.

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 activities, building new data center (NDC) in Chicago. Built 186 physical and virtual servers and moved of 30+ applications hosted in Houston to NDC. Utilized existing data center as disaster recovery facility. Provided software and resources to assist United Airlines meet demand after merge with Continental. Led system architecture development for ongoing/upcoming projects. Built offshore team to support core business applications. Ensured active communication between client and development team. • 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 new process. Collaborated with stakeholders to create product backlog, groom user stories and sprint planning. Acted as a Liaison between business and engineering groups. Oversaw development of existing products. Handled HR for development group and wrote reviews for direct reports. Served on project board, providing updates on projects in pipeline and suggesting new projects and features.• 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 and alliances to create business requirement documents, business plans, and development plans. Provided continuous support to production environment. Worked closely with development teams to facilitate planning, review and retrospective meetings and to develop release plan. Collaborated with product owner to develop and prioritize backlog. Contributed to management and strategic planning meetings. Provided continuous feedback and progress reports to stakeholders.• 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 deliverables. • 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 with QA and development teams. Monitored and resolved production support tickets.

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 rollback strategies. Monitored and resolved production support tickets. Demo final implementation to stakeholders.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Cumputers

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science