Syam Nair

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

  · Highly Successful Technical / Development Manager – over 13+ Years of Experience

  · Developed and Delivered Products for several Fortune 500 companies including P&G, GAP,

Nordstrom, Tesco, Microchip & Kraft Foods, Walmart Inc, T-Mobile etc.

  · Focused on innovation and process to improve efficiency and increase bottom-line growth.

  · Hands on Agile Project Management using various agile methodologies

  · Plan & Executed Agile Transformation by adopting Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

  · Plan & Execute ongoing Staff Development & Training programs

  · Exposed to cross-cultural team development and international clientele and teams

  · Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills

  · Solid background in Object-Oriented analysis and design. Very good at various Design

Patterns, UML and Enterprise Application Integration, Build process using Continuous

Integration & Continuous Delivery

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  · Worked on latest technologies e.g., .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, Java / J2EE, Maven, Jetty,

CI using VSTS & Jenkins, Sonar

  · Solid experience in MVC, ASP.NET, AJAX, JQuery, LINQ, WCF, WPF, HTML 5, AngularJS

  · Experienced with VS 2010, 2012 IDE & Eclipse (Indigo)

  · Experience in SQL server (2008+), SSRS, SSIS etc.

  · Strong experience in SharePoint 2010 administration and customization

  · Solid experience in web development using Microsoft technologies

  · Solid experience in eCommerce, Multi-Commerce, Retail, Transportation and Semi-conductor

domain

WORK EXPERIENCE

Technical Manager / Development Manager, UST Global Inc.

: (206) 499-4126

e-mail : syamknn@gmail.com

Jan 2014 - Present

  · Focus on delivering the conversion project for Walmart Inc. for managing their

Transportation System

  · Focus on zero defect deliverables following TDD & scrum methodology

  · Focus on minimizing the code quality violations, using the Sonar report, and communicate to

team and management on frequent basis and take pro-active steps to avoid the occurrence

  · Engage in portfolio level activities to generate more opportunity and focus on new innovations.

Technical / Project Manager, Infosys Limited

  · Execute the project within the scope of time and budget

  · Engage the team to deliver value to business with quality of code, high code coverage, and on

less time

Oct 2010 - Dec 2013

  · Recruited and built a software development team that consistently delivered successful

projects to multiple Fortune 500 companies (Nordstrom, P&G, Tesco, T-Mobile).

  · Application solution designing for various retail applications and e-commerce applications

  · Cloud based product development for P&G USA & China to track and forecast inventory

within the distribution chain and retail outlets.

  · Developed and Deployed product for P&G USA, China & South Africa resulting in 15%

revenue increase.

  · Conceived, Planned, Executed and successfully deployed multiple e-commerce web

development and store management projects for Nordstrom Inc, Tesco, Walmart Inc. etc.

  · Efficient Project Planning with proper risk management strategies, efficient work breakdown

structure, proper communication plan and good RACI matrix.

Team Leader - Information Services, Microchip Technology Inc.

July 2005 - Sep 2010

  · Owned, managed and ran the company’s ecommerce store.

  · Recruited and managed both onsite and offshore web technology development teams.

  · Conceived, Planned, Executed and successfully deployed a “Web Based Firmware

Programming Center” - the first such initiative ever developed in the semi-conductor industry.

  · Revenue increase of $1.5M in Year 1 eventually growing to a business unit worth $100M over

a period of 5 years (10% of revenue target from business unit).

  · Introduced many innovative e-commerce modules like quick checkout, integration with various

payment systems and integration with warehouse management system.

Programmer Analyst, Infosys Limited.

Mar 2001 – Jun 2005

  · Conceived, Planned, Executed and successfully deployed individual e-commerce modules.

  · Full life cycle management - Planning, Development, Production Release, User Acceptance

Trials and Post-Production Support (Jockey, Kraft Foods, GAP, Publix Supermarket).

EDUCATION

Feb 2012

Aug 2011

Aug 2011

Jan 2001

Aug 1998

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Alliance, USA

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Institute, USA

Masters in Business Administration (MBA)

ICFAI University, India

Masters in Technology (M.Tech)

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras India

Bachelor in Technology (B.Tech)

Govt. College of Engineering, Trivandrum India