Proven IT Professional With
Experience in Project Management
OBJECTIVE
To seek a Technical Project Management Position in
Information Technology/Enterprise Business solutions for
systems analysis and design, development,
IV&V/testing in Government, Defense, Financial
Institution where a diverse background and proven
technical and project leadership will be utilized and
advanced.
SUMMARY
OF QUALIFICATIONS
·20 years experience in the Information Technology field
with expertise in Project Management.
·Dedicated, hard working individual with the
intercommunications skills to work at all levels of the
organization.
·Outstanding motivator and builder of teams. Works well in
both team environments and individual assignments.
·Part analyst, project manager, leader, spokesperson, and
business/technical SME.
·Successful in meeting new technical challenges and finding
solutions to meet the needs of the customer.
·Plan, execute, and finalize projects according to strict deadlines
and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and
coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party
contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects
according to plan. The Senior Project Manager will also
define the projects objectives and oversee quality
control throughout its life cycle.
·Interact with middle and senior Management, than those that are
utilized when overseeing and directing the project team.
·Strong
written and oral communication skills.
·Able
to rapidly learn, understand, and apply new
technologies.
·Strong
customer service orientation.
·Ability
to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a
high-pressure environment
·Exceptional abilities in project design and management with
the organizational skills to assure success.
·Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
·Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business
goals in collaboration with senior management and
stakeholders.
·Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications
documents.
·Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and
stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
·Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
·Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project
goals.
·Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the
acquisition of required personnel from within the
company.
·Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants
if necessary during project cycle.
·Set and continually manage project expectations with team members
and other stakeholders.
·Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
·Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
·Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
·Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using
appropriate tools.
·Track project milestones and deliverables.
·Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements
documentation, and presentations.
·Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the
project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem
areas.
·Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential
crises, and devise contingency plans.
·Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved
parties throughout project life cycle.
SYSTEM
SKILLS
Project
Management, Systems/Software Analysis, Design,
Development
Technical Leadership ● Requirement Analysis ● Systems
Analysis, Design and Development ●
IV&V,Testing & User training
IBM WebSphere Studio
Application Developer (WSAD), OOA&D, IPC, RPC, Unix
Network Programming and IPC (message queues, semaphores,
TCP/IP, sockets), Low-level Asynchronous Serial
Communications Programming (interrupt-driven in DOS
environment), HyperCard (Macs), Multimedia ToolBook
(PC), InstallAnywhere, MS OFFICE Applications,
FTAM, GUI Tools (XVT, GPIP, G2 Expert System, Multiple
Menu-System), QuickPlace, LiveLink, SharePoint
Operating
System
Windows, Unix, Sun Solaris, SCO, MS-DOS, Mac OS, VMS
Databases
Nortel-proprietary database Table Control, MMIs for Several
Databases/Tables on Alcatel/DSC switches
Protocols
RS-232, Inband, ISDN, SS7, AIN, GSM/CDMA
Version
Controls
RCS, Microsoft Visual Safe Source, SDE (Alcatel-proprietary
built on top of Clear Case), MKS
Miscellaneous
Technically competent with various software programs,
such as Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, Power Point,
Visio.
MAJOR
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
·As project lead:
·Coached, mentored, and motivated project team members and
contractors, and influenced them to take positive action
and accountability for their assigned work.
·Oversaw and directed the project related activities of all IT and
contactor staff assignments on projects.
·Coordinated the activities of the project with other departments
within the enterprise and with technology solution
vendors and trading partners.
·Provided business functional and technical leadership to IT and the
enterprise.
·Negotiated resolutions through project obstacles and escalate to IT
Director if project success may be impacted.
·As technical leader and a component owner,
researched/captured/documented requirements and design
for internet applications using J2EE architecture for
SSA.
·As technical
leader, consolidated requirements for a conceptual
design of a DoD project.
·Managed the development and
demonstrated the Position Reference System (PRS) to JSC/NASA
successfully within a short span of time of 8 months,
saving the customer time and money. Developed low-level
I/O communications software (in C) on APA512S machine
vision processor and a PC.
·Developed software to provide
Inter-Process Communications (IPC) between several
processes on a UNIX machine in order to monitor
and diagnose various sensor faults in real-time
in a Thermal Test bed - a Space-Station project.
·Designed and developed
automated test tools on DSC/Alcatel Switches to test telecom protocols.Extensively
documented Systems Requirements and Detailed
Design documents.Developed an OSI CDR
Collection tool using J2EE-like architecture.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A.
MOST RECENT EXPERIENCE
United
Services Automobile Association (USAA),
San Antonio, TX
February
2006 – August 2007
Sr.
IT Software/Systems Programmer
Responsibilities
To
provide analytical, technical and administrative
expertise in the life cycle of IT solutions and
systems software.
Accomplishments
·As
Technical Lead, responsible for technical
management of IT projects of software and hardware
utilized in managing Logging Framework for the
J2EE Enterprise architecture
·Responsible
for making on-site analysis and design changes to
meet the needs of the customer
·Responsible
for managing and training on-site and offshore
resources
·Experience
at working both independently and in a
team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and
timelines through analytical and problem-solving
capabilities.
·Reacted
to project, scope and requirements adjustments and
alterations promptly and efficiently.
Flexible during times of change.
·Read
communication styles of team members and
contractors who come from a broad spectrum of
disciplines.
·Elicited
cooperation from a wide variety of sources,
including upper management, clients, and other
departments.
B.
CONSULTANCY
SILOSMASHERS,
Gambrills, MD
May
2005 – February 2006
Sr.
Business Analyst
Client:
Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS),Baltimore, MD
Responsibilities
To
Provide IV&V and Integration Testing support
to CMS for Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) (for
Parts C and D) operations at a sufficient level of
detail to communicate the end-to-end business
processes.
Accomplishments
·Tracked
and monitored MMA interface testing activities for
all systems.
·Identified
discrepancies in MARx testing activities.
Assembled test plans, test cases and updated
testing information from various MMA interface
partners.
POINTE
TECHNOLOGY GROUP, Inc.,Landover,
MD
November
2003 – May 2005
Sr.
Software Requirements Analyst
Client:BAE Systems, Rockville,
MD(March 2005 – April 2005)
Accomplishments
As
technical leader, consolidated requirements for a
conceptual design, developed process flow and an
MS project schedule for Systems evaluation and
testing of Underwater Launch Technology
Sustainment System.
Client:Lockheed Martin, Baltimore,
MD(November
2003 – February 2005)
Responsibilities
·To research, capture and document requirements and design
using J2EE architecture for Enterprise Technology
Services Contract (ETSC), an internet-based
application development contract with Social
Security Administration (SSA).
Accomplishments
·Provided
technical expertise, support, oversight and needs
analysis in functional areas such as, but not
limited to, design and development of appropriate
IT solutions and architectures, creation of
information and decision papers on IT issues,
assistance in the development of IT standards,
review of logical and physical database and
application design, change control and problem
resolution, validation and stress-testing of IT
solutions, facilitating the use of IT solutions by
end-users.
·Researched
current trends in Web Application Monitoring
(WAM) technologies and COTS tools.
·Documented
Detailed Functional Requirements (DFR), Detailed
System Specifications (DSS), and Test and
Validation Plan (TVP).
KEY
PERSONNEL,Tulsa, OK
April 2002 – June 2002
Consultant
Client:Risk Quants group, Williams Energy and Trading, Tulsa, OK
·Validated Curve Models. Studied the migration of C code
into MATLAB models for several energy curves
for oil
and gas (extrapolation and volatility curves
models).
·Wrote
MATLAB test scripts to validate the Curves.
WORLDLINK
INC.,Richardson, TX
Nov
2001 – Feb 2002
Consultant
Client:
Wireless Systems Laboratory
Samsung Telecommunications America,Richardson, TX
·Designed and
developed a PC-based Neighbor List Tuning Tool
(NLTT) - a Java-based GUI that analyzed PSMM
messages to propose a better neighbor list for the
CDMA network. Actively used by the customer on a
daily basis.ThePSMM
messages were collected from the networkin
a binaryfileand forwarded to a PC.This tool readand
filteredthe
messages based on tunable parameters to producea new neighbor list. Ran
statistical analysis on the data.
C.
TELECOM EXPERIENCE
ALCATEL
USA (formerly DSC Communications Corp.),
Plano,
TX
June 1996 – Nov 2001
Sr.
Software Engineer V
·Developed a test automation tool (WATT) on a PC running
SCO Unix. Designed and developed C/C++
programs on Unix platforms to automate the testing of call
processing scenarios on DSC/Alcatel Switches using
telecom protocols like Inband, ISDN, SS7, AIN.
Extensively employed TCP/IP Network Programming
to make programs on different Unix platforms to
communicate data and messages.
·Backup-D Channel Testing.
·OSI Call Detailed Record
(CDR) collection - FTAM and socket communications
to collect CDRs over the network.
·Documented Functional and
Systems Requirements for Call Interception Configuration
and Subscriber Tables GCALLINT and GINTCNFG
(GSM).
·Developed Table Control
software in BNR-proprietary language PROTEL.
D.
SPACE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
UNISYS
SPACE SYSTEMS CO., Houston,
TX
Feb 1993 - Dec 1994
Software Engineer Specialist
·Documented Systems
Requirements for Payload and Vehicle Subsystems
Integration for Space Shuttle data.
·Developed the Output Display
Script (in FORTRAN) – a Space Shuttle project.
·Wrote scripts in
Rockwell-proprietary GUI language (GPIP) for the
Upper Stage Lighting Constraint (USLC) Processor -
a Space Shuttle-related project.
McDONNELL DOUGLAS SPACE
SYSTEMS CO, Houston, TX
Oct 1990 – Jan 1993
Senior
Engineer
·Developed a Multimedia
application (ToolBook) for Verification and
Validation (V&V) of Expert Systems.
·Developed Remote Procedure
Calls (RPC) in C for Gensym's G2 Expert Systems
language.
·Developed software to provide
Inter-Process Communications (IPC) using
AT&T's message queues, shared memory, and
semaphores, between several processes on a UNIX
machine in order to monitor and diagnose various
sensor faults in real-time in a Thermal Test bed -
a Space-Station project.
LOCKHEED ENGINEERING &
SCIENCES CO, Houston, TX
June 1987 – Oct 1990
Senior
Associate Engineer
·Developed a low-level I/O
communications software (in C) on APA512S machine
vision processor and a PC to provide interface
with vision subsystems of Extra-Vehicular Activity
(EVA) Retriever.
·Supported EVA Retriever's
vision perception group. The retriever is a robot
designed and built at JSC/NASA to retrieve
free-flying objects in space, like an astronaut
and a tool, during an EVA. Procured vision-related
hardware, like APA512S machine vision processor
and a computer-controlled turntable, for the EVA
Retriever.
·Project Leader: Developed methodology and demonstrated the
Position Reference System (PRS) to JSC/NASA
successfully. PRS was designed to test and
calibrate a Laser Docking Sensor by using CCD
cameras as sensors. This project generated four
technical reports and one technical publication.
EDUCATION
·M.S.Applied
Mathematics (Statistics), University of Houston at
Clear Lake, Houston, TX – Dec 1992
·B.E.Electrical
Engineering (Communications), R.E.C. Srinagar, Jammu
& Kashmir, India – July 1984
HONORS
·Performance based promotionatAlcatel
USA to Sr.
Software Developer V
position (June 2000), Plano, TX
·Night Out AwardatDSC Communications Corporation
(June 1997),Plano, TX
·Best Paper AwardinRobotics and Experts Systems (ROBEXS’
1989) conference,Palo Alto, CA
·Performance based promotionat Lockheed to Sr. Associate Engineer position (Fall 1988), Houston,
TX
·Commendationreceivedat Lockheed for presenting two technical papers at
ROBEXS’89
·Commendationreceivedat Lockheed for presenting one technical paper at
JAIPCC’89
·Commendationreceivedat Lockheed for presenting one technical paper at
Instrument Society of America Conference, 1988
·Twice Gold Medalistfor standing first in the statewide high-school examinations
MISCELLANEOUS
·U.S. Citizen
·Willing to Travel and Relocate
·Currently National President of
Kashmiri Overseas Association, Inc. (koausa.org), a non-profit, tax-exempt socio-cultural
organization registered in Maryland, USA. Its purpose is
to protect, preserve, and promote Kashmiri ethnic and
socio-cultural heritage, to promote and celebrate
festivals, and to provide financial assistance to the
needy and deserving.
