Vinit Pandya Email & Phone Number

Vienna, Austria

The primary role of the Department of Safeguards (SG) is to deter the proliferation of nuclear weapons. As the software architect, my responsibility includes the planning and architecture of applications built for the Department of Safeguards with respect to technology choices, security, storage of confidential information, transfer of data between secure networks, skill set resourcing for projects and synchronization of projects delivery and to provide interim solutions for projects dependent on other projects yet to be delivered. Other responsibilities and achievements include:• Leading teams for delivery of projects, and introducing self organising teams, with lean agile approaches, with an emphasis on a bottom up approaches and managing upwards in a PRINCE2/AGILE environment. • Consultation, consolidation and review of business processes and procedures and technology choices and providing best fit solution with respect to technical environmental considerations and business needs.• Technical Planning and Mapping for new projects and for newer versions of existing projects.• Exploration of Technology choices across the departmental projects.• High Level consultation for various projects in startup phase, provided technology, design and pattern advice.• Fast prototyping for proof of concepts and demonstration of the applicability of concepts to the projects being developed• Creation of frameworks to speed up development• Governance of technology and pattern choices across all the projects.

Vienna, Austria

The Field Activity Reporting (FAR) project comprises of an application for nuclear inspectors to record inspection data on a range of devices (laptop, platform independent tablets and phones), with both online and offline capabilities. My responsibilities include end to end development, building development frameworks, development facilitation, network and system setup and administration.• Developer, Acting Team Lead, Development Facilitator: Back and front end development for the project, with key person responsibilities for architecture and coordination, and facilitation of technologies and frameworks for the team. Technologies used: HTML5, Emberjs, jQuery, BootStrap 3, C# 4.5, WPF, Entity Framework 5, SQL Server 2012, Git.• Network and Infrastructure Administrator: Responsible for the design, setup and administration of the team’s private network, and setup of all member’s computers using ghosting, setup of Active Directory, DNS, Forward and Backwards Lookup Zones, Gateways, source control synchronisation between networks, SQL Server setup, Certificate Authority, publishing Domain Certificates, Delegation, IIS Setup for application deployment, SSL Certificate binding.• Integration Server Engineer and Release Deployment Engineer: Responsible for the configuration and deployments to all environments (internal testing, external testing, external deployment, production deployment), for which I created automated configuration transformations which allowed for automated deployment to all environments. Created integration and deployment servers using Jenkins.

Kaiser Trading Group is a Commodity Trading Advisor trading highly liquid markets using a systematic computer approach. All development has been completed in C# .NET 3.5 and 4.0 with key elements such as Winforms and WPF, WCF using Service Contracts and Messaging for Communications, Castle IoC, Unit Testing, SQL Server 2008 and 2012. Key Projects and Responsibilities:• Architect and Lead Developer for Investment and Trade Support Team: Back office functions including trade to account allocations, trade reconciliation engine, statement reconciliation engine, internal and external reporting, internal trading, position rolls. Projects also include Operations Dashboard with real time reporting and customizable user home screens• Senior Developer for Execution Team: Focus trading via developed Trading Platform (EPA), Algorithmic Trading System (Limit and Stops), and External Platforms. Projects also include Risk Management Blotters, Real Time Fills (Trade) Reconciliation, development of National Futures Association certified algorithms for Trade to Order matching.• Development Facilitator: Implemented Agile and Monthly sprint based development. Setup of Case Tracking Tools (FogBugz), Source Control (Mercurial and Kiln), Build an Integration Servers (Jenkins), Merging and Release Strategies, DB development upgrade paths.• Production Management and Support: Admin access to all production systems and configurations. Managing releases and release strategies, hot fixes, patches and UAT environment with triaging of all production requests and issues.• Senior Developer in RnD: Short development sprints to build toolkits for better management of models, indicators, with better usability.

Victoria Electricity is the 4th largest electricity retailer in Victoria with branches in SA, QLD and NSW. Projects and achievements include:• Architect and Developer for Complaints Project: Enterprise scale project targeted to save the company millions of dollars per year on man hours and caters for up to 500 users across various channels. Technologies include: C# 4.0, SS2008, WWF 4, RIA WCF, EF 4, MVC 2, and JQuery.• Redefined IT structure, development and release methodology porting all development to agile with recommendations to change management structure, client interfacing and delivery methods, later applied with sound results.

Brave Energy Systems focuses on product development and consulting services in the energy and utilities sector. The software portfolio ranges from Billing Systems, Data Management, Gateway Services, Job Processor Services, Reconciliation Services and more. Projects and Key Responsibilities include:• Team Lead for Brave Data Warehouse: This project involved the design and architecture of a multi data source OLAP database, updated every night. It was designed around reporting requirements, along with fiscal and update time restrictions. Technologies used: SS2008, SSRS, SSIS, Oracle 9i.• Architect and Developer for Job Processor: This is an in house development of a grid computing software capable of working through millions of work items data per hour. Working over MSMQ, the architecture allows the attachment of worker agents to scale out the work. I was responsible for assisting in the architecture, was involved in the core development.Technologies used: C# and VB.NET 3.5, SS2005, MSMQ, Linq, DTC, log4Net• Developer and Consultant for Bravo: Bravo is the signature product Brave with modules such as Bill Reconciliation, Standing Data Repository, Gateway Services, Market Integration and many more. I have been developing modules in the Bravo application and have been continually introducing proven Patterns and Practices.Technologies used: C# and VB.NET 3.5, ASP.NET, AJAX, WPF, WCF, Linq, SS2005, SSRS, SSIS, [Limited Silverlight]• Architecture and Design Consulting for Meter Data Management: With the rollout of smart meter new architectures are to be put in place to be able to import and manage over 5TB of data. For this project, I was responsible for working with Microsoft to investigate the capabilities of SQL Server and to collaborate over the implementation of MS SQL Azure and MS HOHM.• Consulting for Database Setup and Management• Consulting Services for Clients

Information Outlook is a Microsoft Certified development and consulting house providing solutions for tracking financials in both the private and government sectors. The software portfolio includes Microsoft-Dynamics NAV and CouncilManager. My responsibilities include:• Senior Developer for CouncilManager: CouncilManager is a data management and accounting application targeted at the local government sector to automate council processes. As the senior developer, reporting to the team leader and project manager, I was responsible for the entire SDLC ranging from the FRD, EDD, SDD, architectural design and framework, development and testing, as well as pre-sales demonstrations, training and mentoring other members of the team. Technologies Used: C#.NET 2.0, SQL SERVER 2005, Linq, CAB, SCSF, XML• Team Lead for Account Schedule Report Manager (ARM): ARM is an automated reporting component in MS DynamicsNAV by integrating it with MS SSRS. As the team lead, I was responsible for researching, designing and developing the communications (Web Services and MSMQ) between the two applications. Technologies Used: C#.NET 2.0, SQL SERVER 2005, Linq, SSRS, Web Services, SOAP XML, Messaging Queues