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SUMMARY

• About 7 years experience in software development, with experience ranging from a Senior Programmer to a Project coordinator and Technical Team lead / Architect.
• Experience in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle using requirements study, analysis, designing and architecting deliverable solutions.
• Extensive experience with ASP, Visual Basic, COM/DCOM, COM+ technologies, MTS, IIS, XML-XSL, MSMQ, Cedar XML Portal Server etc
• Hands-on experience with .Net, Biztalk Server.

SKILLS

• Internet ASP, VBScript, XML, JavaScript, IIS, HTML, XSLT, CSS
• GUI Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Interdev, Front Page
• Technologies COM, COM+, DCOM, MMC, MTS, MSMQ, Windows DNA
• Portals Cedar XPS XML Portal , Digital Dashboard
• Databases MS SQL 7.0/6.5, MS Access
• Operating Systems Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 9X, Win 3.X, DOS
• Functional Knowledge Web Portals Web development including CRM, Banking Check & document processing , Law Firms and Financial applications.
• Applications used MS Project, MS Visual Modeler, MS SourceSafe, Crystal Report, Visio 2000, Star Team
• Familiar with VC++, .Net, SOAP, Biztalk, Delphi, Java, Oracle, MS Exchange, SMTP, Active PDF

EXPERIENCE

XPS is a portal development product developed by Ditrix Cedar Software Corporation . It can be used to create corporate portals for Internal as well as external users. The portal can be used to aggregate information from disparate sources and present it in an easy to understand format. XPS uses XML through out for all its messaging and data storage.

Role:

In charge of the XPS group as Chief Technical Architect. This group provides XPS solutions to Cedar Clients. Primary responsibilities included gathering requirements, defining scope of work, working on project schedules, designing the XPS architecture, delegating and managing the project. Portals were designed and developed for clients such as for Mitchell, Jenkens & Gilchrist; GE Power Systems; Baker Robins etc.

As a Chief Technical Architect, managing the projects involved:

• Using MS Project 2000, develop and manage project plan and schedule, which must synchronize project through design, development, testing and migration releases.
• Ensure that systems maintain state-of-the-art analysis, design and programming techniques while meeting the current business needs of the user.
• Direct a project team in interpreting user needs and objectives into complex project plans.
• Lead assigned project tasks, performing all aspects of project management e.g., estimating, resource and task planning, prioritization, scheduling and status reporting .
• Contribute breadth of business knowledge and technical expertise to proactively manage change and ambiguity.
• As a part of this exercise, I keep myself abreast with new and emerging technologies/products such as Biztalk Server, .Net platform etc.
• Monitors progress of plans and takes corrective action where necessary to accomplish plan objectives.
• Using Microsoft Visio for drafting detailed architectural diagram that describe the existing undocumented n-tier architecture.
• Using MS Visual Modeler, Visual Basic 6.0, MTS/COM+, MSMQ, COM/DCOM, XML, XSL, ASP, VBScript, Visual C++, IIS, Visual Interdev 6.0, MS SQL, design, implement and test Internet based middleware components.
• Performed code review of: VB, ASP, JavaScript, COM/DCOM components.
• Managed team development environment and version control by administration of MS Visual Source Safe.
• Percentage of hands-on Development: 60 hands-on, 40 project management.

Environment: ASP, VB, XML, XSL, ATL COM, COM+, MSMQ, MS SQL Server 7.0, MTS and Windows NT 4.0 / 2000, MS Project

Product: XPS is flagship product of Cedar software used for creating interactive e-business portals.

Scope: Using XPS, Cedar s customers create interactive environments in which their employees, customers, suppliers and strategic partners can share and update information in real-time.

Role: Worked as team lead and was involved in the following

• Writing ASP code
• Designing, coding and prototyping of the web pages
• Extensive use of the COM components proprietary Cedar com object
• ADO connectivity to connect database on SQL Server in Windows NT
• Wrote XML parsers for the application using MS DOM
• Using MSMQ for asynchronous messaging.
• Used Stylesheets for rendering the XML data.
• Coordination.

Environment: ASP, VB, XML, XSL, ATL COM, MTS, MSMQ, COM+, MS SQL Server 7.0, and Windows NT 4.0 / 2000

Product: The Key-From-Image Data Entry System is a form scanning software provided to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Scope: In this application the forms are scanned and OCRed. The data is stored in the SQL database. It involves, reading the forms, accepting the data, correcting the data and applying the rules to this data, generating reports and finally uploading the data to the mainframe.

Role: Worked as team member and was involved in the following

• Development of two stand-alone clients in Visual Basic. This involved writing ActiveX OCX and ActiveX DLLs.
• Creating and maintaining SQL database.
• Created Web Reports using ASP.
• Using MSMQ to facilitate asynchronous message processing.
• Maintaining the version control using source safe
• Creating installation ready software.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, COM, MTS, IIS, MS SQL Server, MSMQ, and Windows NT 4.0,

Product: TDS Image is an application developed by J & B software Inc. Blue Bell, PA. The application is used to process the documents on the Unisys DP 250/500/1000 machines. The application is a product, which consists of two components

1. Base code,
2. Custom hooks.

Scope: This application will be used for remittance processing and payment processing.

Role: Worked as project coordinator and was involved in the following

• Development of tool in Delphi to work with the sort pattern.
• Customization of Report and Extract File generation code in Delphi.

Environment: Delphi 3.0, Visual Basic 6.0, MS Access, Windows NT 4.0, MS SQL 6.5

Product: TDS Image is an application developed by J & B software Inc. Blue Bell, PA. The application is used to process the documents on the Unisys DP 250/500/1000 machines. The application is a product, which consists of two components

1. Base code,
2. Custom hooks.

Scope: This application will be used for remittance processing and payment processing.

Role: Worked as project coordinator and was involved in the following

• Development of sort pattern.
• Report and Extract File generation
• Documentation.
• Custom coding
• Installation of the application on client site.
• Conducting user training and handling issues.

Environment: Delphi 3.0, 4.0, Pervasive 7.0, Windows NT 4.0.

ClearBranch application is a product to work along with DP35 Check processing system. The product is used in the banks for inward and outward clearing of documents e.g. checks . The application communicates with the DP35 machine through an OCX. The system handles - reading data from documents and writing it to the database. It also does encoding and endorsing of the documents, sorting the documents, imaging etc. Reports are generated based on the available data.

Scope: This application will be used for processing documents in a typical branch of an Indian bank.

Role: Worked as team leader and was involved in the following

• Feasibility analysis for the product.
• Software and hardware requirement study.
• Product Functional Specifications.
• High Level Design.
  • Detailed Design.
  • Database design
  • Design of GUI
• Preparation of Test Cases
• Development of the following modules.
  • Inward Track module
  • Outward Track module
  • Parser Module
• Coordination.

Data Migration tool to port the data from an Access Database to the MSSQL database for customers with heavy workload.

Environment: Visual Basic 5.0, MS Access 97, Oracle 7.3, and Windows NT 4.0, MS SQL

ClearService application is designed to work along with DP35 Check processing system to be used in the service branches of Syndicate bank for clearing of inward and outward documents e.g. checks . The application communicates with the DP35 machine through an OCX. The system handles reading data from documents and writing it to the database, encoding and endorsing documents, sorting the documents, imaging etc. Reports are generated based on the available data.

Scope: This application will be used for processing the documents in Service branches of a bank.

Role: Worked as a team member. I was involved in design and coding for the following modules

• Track Code
• Imaging module
• Migrating the data from Access database to MS SQL database for customers with high volume of data.

Environment: Visual Basic 3.0/4.0, MS Access 2.0, and Windows NT 3.51/4.0, MS SQL

Project : Analysis of clearing house operation in Reserve Bank of India.

The objective of this project was to analyze various clearing house operations conducted at Reserve Bank of India and customer banks in order to train the fellow group members. The project involved interaction with many bank personnels. This helped in having an insight in various aspects of clearing house operations such as inter branch clearing, national clearing, the time frames for the operations, the problems faced etc.

Conducted training session for the team members.

Sygnet Systems is a medium sized software firm, which caters to the software requirements in the local markets. The company came out with a product called "Patpedhi" which literally means Co-operative Credit Society .

Scope: The product was basically aimed to cater to the accounting needs of the Co-operative Credit Societies. This included a comprehensive integration of various ledger accounts like shares, loans, deposits etc.

Role:

Worked on this project as a team member. I was involved in designing and coding. I worked on my own on the following modules - Shares, Deposits & Members. My contribution was instrumental in design of the GUI for the product. The GUI was designed keeping in view that the Indian market was then dominated by non GUI s like DOS. So the initial version was used to simulate the screens in such a way that the even the hard core DOS users were comfortable with it.

Environment: Visual Basic, Access, Windows, and DOS

EDUCATION

MBA Finance , University of Bombay
BS Engineering , University of Bombay