Vasanth Nagulakonda

E-Mail: nagulakonda@gmail.com

~ Java Professional ~

Program Management / Software Development

 

Nearly 9 years experience of domestic and overseas experience in Service Delivery, Program Management and Software Development across domains such as Retail and Distribution, Public Safety, Manufacturing, Telecom and Transportation. Proficient in undertaking process improvement/ cost saving initiatives and sharing best practices. Expertise in modern concepts of end-to-end project/program planning and implementation from scope management. Keen planner with strong skills in client relationship management with proven success of managing large scale projects. Proven success in handling several process migrations while ensuring compliance to the SLA levels. Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills with proven abilities in leadership, team management, customer relationship management and planning. Expertise in implementing Client-server, N-tier, Web, Enterprise and Wireless solutions. Possess keen interest in social development activities and working with NGO’s for up-liftment of the weaker sections of the society.

 

COMPETENCY MATRIX

 

Process /Project Management

?       Planning project activities viz. scoping, estimation, tracking, change management, delivery management & post implementation support; implementing project plans within preset budgets and deadlines.

?       Monitoring offshore delivery management for technical deliverables of concurrent projects.

?       Helping customers in deciding road map as per business processes & aligning with objectives.

 

People Management

?       Managing recruitment, training as well as organizing, planning, and staffing operations.

?       Identifying the team’s training & development needs, designing and developing the appropriate training program and afterwards coordinating appropriate internal training programs.

 

SDLC Planning & Management

?       Directing software development activities for Business Process Mapping of the client and identifying core / critical system / processes and priorities.

?       Providing onsite as well as offshore support with clarifications on specific applications of the system.

?       Developing, implementing and providing support for business application software for clients.

 

EMPLOYMENT SCAN

 

Sep 2007- Apr 2008 with MedVantage Inc. San Francisco as Senior J2EE Engineer

 

Key Projects Handled:

           

Title: QualScore®                                                                     Client: MedVantage                  

Scope: A proprietary, patent-pending, web-based application for health plans. QualScore provides physician performance transparency to health plan members across multiple efficiency and effectiveness measures at the provider level.

Platform: Windows XP, IBM RAD 6.0/7.0, IBM WebSphere 6.0, MS SQLServer 2005, DELL

Duration: 7 months                                                                   Team Size:  5

Role: Customized the QualScore product for HCSC and delivered the pilot version as per the schedule.

 

Oct 2006 - Sep 2007 with Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc., San Ramon, CA as Tech Lead Cum Onsite Coordinator, AT&T (USA)

 

Key Projects Handled:

 

Title: DSL LoopQual                                                                   Client:  AT&T

Scope: Lead and coordinate the development, maintenance and support activities of initiative using Offshore Delivery Model.

Platform: Windows XP, AIX, IBM RAD 6.0, IBM WebSphere 6.0, Oracle 8i, DELL

Duration: 11 months                                                                 Team Size:  12

Role: Successfully handled various activities such as:

§          Transition of 3 projects (AM_NQ, RM_LQ and FEI) from Patni to Tech Mahindra ahead of schedule,

§          Took the ownership of those critical deliverables from onsite,

§          Reviewed the plans and implemented two Tri-Annual AM_NQ, RM_LQ and FEI Implementations,

§          Enhanced the EJB and JMS Interface test tools for AM_NQ BIS and RM_LQ BIS,

§          Provided production support for AM_NQ BIS,

§          Fixed existing bugs in AM_NQ BIS,

§          Performed WebSphere Administration and performance monitoring,

§          Developed AM_NQ BIS Log Viewer Application which was based on 3-tier architecture and was implemented using Apache ORO library, RMI, JSF 1.1, JDK 1.5, and Tomcat 5.5,

§          Acquired new project, Ethernet Over Copper (EoCu), by gaining customer confidence.

 

Sep 2005 - Sep 2006 with JK Technosoft UK Ltd., Birmingham as Senior Systems Analyst

 

Key Projects Handled:

 

Title: Socrates v7                                                                      Client: Specsavers UK

Scope: Socrates v7 is being developed as part of Specsavers corporate strategy for entering international markets and gain fast ROI. It is an application suite comprising of applications, namely, Appointment, DRS, Test Room, Contact Lens, Schemes, Dispense, POS and TAU being developed collaboratively by small Agile Project Teams.

Platform: RedHat Linux, Eclipse 3.1, CVS, Ant, JDK 1.5.0, JUnit, MySQL 4.1, Hibernate, Spring, Cruise Control, Fujitsu Siemens

Duration: 11 months                                                                 Team Size:  15

Role: Managed activities such as:

§          Agile Model Driven Development approach, for reusing the existing Progress DB to rewrite the Socrates V5, and other migration technologies available in market,

§          Member of the Agile Team responsible for Contact Lens and Schemes projects,

§          Representative of the Contact Lens project Team in Architecture and Developer SIG (Special Interest Group),

§          Developed several complex reusable UI components,

§          Completed several collaborative tasks with other projects that are part of Socrates V7,

§          Improved the relations among team members leading to my client reap benefits from excellent team work.

 

Jan 2004 - Feb 2005 with Xinthe Technologies (P) Ltd., Visakhapatnam as Technical Architect cum Lead

 

Key Projects Handled:

 

Title: APVExpress.com                                                               Client: Invensys

Scope: The project involved rewriting APVExpress.com, a B2B portal for selling Invensys’ products, earlier on ASP to J2EE compliant server with SAP retained as backend ERP.

Platform: Windows XP Professional, Rational Rose Enterprise Edition, IBM WSAD 5.0, Apache Tomcat Server 4.1/5.5, MS Project Professional 2002, Acer 7600G

Duration: 4 months                                                                   Team Size:  7

Role: Participated in the scope management of the project and prepared SOW, applied Rational Unified Process methodology to the project plan and execution, prepared the project plan with estimates based on functional points, setup the development environment for the project.

 

Title: NextGen Human Rights Tracking System                             Client: Fair Factory Clearing House (USA)

Scope: A web application based on .NET platform meant for Fair Factory Clearinghouse, a consortium of US manufacturers.

Platform: Windows XP Professional, RapTier, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Rational XDE, Visual SourceSafe, MS Project Professional 2002, Acer 7600G

Duration: 4 months                                                                   Team Size:  12

Role: Prepared the project plan with estimates based on functional points, setup the development and configuration environment for the project, guided the team with a template for documenting use cases, reviewed the use cases documented by the team members.

 

Title: SFA on PDA                                                                      Client: Reebok, USA

Scope: Development of Sales Force Automation on PDA that is auxiliary to the SFA based on Apache Tomcat with MySQL and SAP as staging and ERP, respectively. The application has features like Login authentication, Refresh Customer Data, Refresh Product Data, View Customer Status, Order Entry and View Order Information.

Platform: Windows XP Professional, J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1, JAVA SDK 1.4.2, MySQL, Acer 7600G

Duration: 3 months                                                                   Team Size:  5

Role: Mentored the team on J2ME and Wireless Toolkit, designed the application using OO techniques.

 

 

 

Nov 2002 - Jul 2003 with Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore as Programmer Analyst

 

Key Projects Handled:

 

Title: Brewery Schedule Maintenance                                          Client: Confidential

Scope: Rewrite part of the SEC system, identified as Brewery Schedule Maintenance (BSM), currently on Infobasic/ PIOpen to browser based web application on a Java application Engine and Oracle. Project scope includes Daily Scheduling functions, OT/ vacation solicitation, absence tracking, OT tracking, employee inquiry and employee master information/ data from SAP. Project has milestones of deliverables divided into broad phases, namely, Phase1, Phase2, Phase3, Phase4 and Reports.

Platform: Rational Rose Professional J Edition, Erwin 3.5.2, MS Project, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Quest TOAD, Parasoft JTest 4.5, Cosmonet RADAR, Oracle 8i, Windows 2000, Compaq

Duration: 3 months                                                                   Team Size:  20

Role: Responsible for leading Vacation Picks module team and successful delivery of Phase4, IMPROVED the quality of BSM application and maintainability of code by doing thorough code reviews and independent unit testing, designed vacation picks, parameters and holiday maintenance modules taking reusability, performance and consistency into consideration, etc.

 

Oct 2001 - Nov 2002 Freelancer, Hyderabad

 

Handled freelancing assignments projects such as:

§          TeleProcess for PacketWare Inc. (USA)

§          Overseas Gardens Residents’ Welfare Association (India)

 

PAST EMPLOYMENTS

 

Oct 1998 - Jul 2001                 Software Experts Inc., Boston as Web Developer Consultant

 

§          HR/Payroll processing Application for Fidelity Investments (USA)

§          Carrier WRAC-II System for KeyCommerce Inc. (USA)

§          Direct Order Transaction System for KeyCommerce Inc. (USA)

§          SunStore for Sun Microsystems Inc. (USA)

§          DICOM Processing Intranet Application for Software Consultant, Luminary Solutions Inc. (USA)

§          Amigo Travels’ Web-Shop for Amigo Travels (USA)

 

May 1998 - Sep 1998             StreamSoft (India) Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad as Senior Software Engineer

 

§          CdrChute for StreamSoft Inc. (USA)

§          Configuration Management Tool for OSI-LAN for StreamSoft Inc. (USA)

 

Jul 1997 - May 1998                Wipro Systems Ltd., Hyderabad as Systems Engineer

 

§          Daikoku Resource Management System for IBM (Japan)

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

- Java 2 Fundamentals                                                     - OO Concepts

 

ACADEMIA

 

1997     B.Tech. (Computer Science) from JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad

 

TRAININGS

 

?       Agile (XP Test Driven Development) Methodology

?       J2ME

?       PLM Fundamentals

?       J2EE (EJB 1.1/ 2.0, JNDI, RMI, JSP)

?       JAVA (Core JAVA, AWT, JDBC, I/O, NET)

?       Quality processes

?       Oracle (RDBMS concepts)

?       OOAD

 

 

 

IT SKILLS

 

Client-server/ N-tier/ Internet/ e-Business/ Wireless

 

Languages                                 :           JAVA, C++, C, C#, SQC, PL/SQL, ASP

Internet Technologies                 :           J2EE, .NET, XML, HTML, JavaScript, ISML

Commerce/ EJB Servers/Open    :           IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic 8.1, Apache Tomcat Server 4.1/5.0/5.5,

Source Frameworks                                Intershop enfinity, ATG Dynamo Server, Powertier, Hibernate 2.x/3.x,

Databases                                 :           Oracle 8i/10g, ObjectStore, DB2, MS Access, MySQL 4.x, SQLServer 8.0

IDEs                                         :           Eclipse 3.0.x/3.1.x, IBM WSAD 4.5/5.0, Symantec Visual Café

                                                            1.0/2.0/4.0, JDK 1.0/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4.2/1.5, MS VC++4.0/ 6.0, Borland

                                                            JBuilder 3.0, MS Visual InterDev 6.0, J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1, MS

                                                            Visual Studio .NET 2003, IBM RAD 6.0/7.0

Other Products                           :           MS Project, Rational Rose 4.0/'98/2000/JEdition/XDE/Enterprise Edition,

                                                            Erwin 3.5.2, MS IIS 4.0, Netscape Fasttrack Server 2.0, DreamWeaver,

                                                            Sun JWS, Rational Clearcase, Visual SourceSafe, CVS, Quest SQL

                                                            Navigator, Quest TOAD, Parasoft JTest 4.5, Symantec pcAnywhere,

                                                            Cosmonet RADAR, TagsWare RFID software, WinCVS, Ant, XML Spy,

                                                            JUnit, CruiseControl, Introscope, Remote Administrator 6.2, Citrix

Operating Systems                     :           Solaris 2.6, AIX 4.2, Win ’95/ NT/ 2000/ Me/ XP, DOS, RedHat, Linux

Hardware                                  :           Compaq DeskPro, Compaq Proliant, Sun Sparc, IBM MPro, HP Vectra,

                                                            DELL, Toshiba, Acer, Pentium 4, HP Compaq, Fujitsu Siemens