SATISH BYALI

 

PERSONAL DETAILS:

E-mail: SatishByali@yahoo.co.in

Mobile:1-832-212-8107

Location: Houston, Texas

Visa Status:Permanent Resident / Green Card Holder

 

SUMMARY:

·               IT Management Professional with around 20 years of experience in managing and delivering enterprise IT projects and solutions and managing geographically distributed technical teams.

·               Dedicated leader with proven track record on delivering results in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

·               Broad and detailed; Business, IT and Project Management experience. Strong history of building successful business, technology and management partnerships, developing high performance teams and leading change that improves organizational effectiveness, operational efficiency and shareholder value. Excellent internal and external reputation.

·               Proven ability to open and build strong and long-term partnerships with a wide variety of suppliers, vendors and key technology innovators.

·               Mainly responsible for the leadership, planning, monitoring and managing of multi-year enterprise applications development and support activities.

·               Drive the strategy, innovation, and best practices for the Application Development & Support teams using traditional waterfall and agile methodologies.

·               Strong business acumen, attention to detail, and passionate for producing greater work results within defined timelines, resources and budget constraints.

·               Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing to both technical and non-technical groups. The ability to target the most effective communication methods to the intended audience. Ability to successfully facilitate groups to consensus and decision making.

·               Experience in managing multi-year, large application projects successfully, from conception to implementation; Expertise in effectively & diplomatically managing vendor management, negotiating & managing contracts, evaluating technology, and authoring RFIs, RFPs and RFQs.

·               Ability to quickly understand the business areas supported and identifies solutions that utilize technology in the most effective way. Experienced in researching and proposing Buy vs. Build strategies.

·               Domain experience includes but not limited to; Oil and Gas (Industrial Gases/Utilities), Healthcare, Printing Solutions, Smartcard Security Solutions and Retail Solutions

 

CORE COMPETENCIES:

·               IT Program and Delivery Management

·               Aligning Technology with Business Goals, Vision and Objectives across the Enterprise

·               Strategic, Business and Technology Initiative Planning, Development and Support

·               Global Human Resource Management (on-shore/off-shore)

·               Vendor, Partner, and Stakeholder Management

·               Financial/Budgeting & Forecasting Management

·               Customer/Client Relationship Management

·               Business Development and Engagement Scoping

·               SDLC (Waterfall), RUP (Rational Unified Process) & Agile (Scrum, XP and Kanban) Methodologies

·               Demonstrated success in team building, managing and mentoring both; technical & management teams

·               Open Source technology evangelist

·               Strong understanding on virtualization, cloud architectures, and cloud monitoring (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS)

·               Strong delivery pipeline, build automation, continuous integration and configuration management

·               Acquisitions & Mergers

 

Extensive expertise in applications project delivery and management of:

·               5+ years of Healthcare related projects for clients; CareFirst, HealthSpring, BCBS & Molina

·               3+ years of Oil & Gas (Industrial Gas/Energy Utilities) industry experience

·               6+ years of Enterprise Architecture strategy relevant experience using TOGAF & Zachman frameworks

·               10+ years of Custom Applications Development, Maintenance and Support

·               8+ years of Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI) using BizTalk Solutions and Migrations

·               8+ years of implementations for Collaboration & Content Management using SharePoint Solutions

·               6+ years of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Implementations Delivery

 

 

EDUCATION:

·               Advance Project Management from University of Houston (UH) – 2011

·               PGD in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management (IRPM) from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan - 1996

·               BS (Electronics) from Karnataka University - 1995

 

 

CERTIFICATIONS:

 

·               PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP) since December-2011

·               Certified Scrum Master (CSM) since July-2011

·               Open Group TOGAF 9 Certified (Enterprise Architecture Framework) since August-2011

·               Open Group ArchiMate 2 Certified (Enterprise Architecture Modeling) since May-2015

·               BizTalk Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

·               SharePoint Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

 

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - AREAS OF FOCUS:

Following are the IT areas of focus; I've hands on working experience and in-depth knowledge:

 

Enterprise Frameworks: TOGAF 9.1, Zachman Framework 3.0

Architectural Patterns:SOA, ESB, EAI (B2B & B2C)

Modeling Languages:UML 2.x, ArchiMate 2.1

S/w Development Methods:Waterfall/SDLC, Iterative and Incremental, RAD

Project Management Tools:Microsoft Project Server 2013/2010, Project Professional, Office 365

Agile Methods:Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban

Agile Tools:JIRA, Rally, VersionOne

Design Patterns:Creational, Structural and Behavioral patterns (GoF patterns)

Cloud Computing:Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure

Development Framework:.NET framework (until 4.5), Java Enterprise Edition 6

Programming Languages:C#.NET, VB.NET, Visual Basic, Classic ASP

Web Technologies:ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, JScript, JavaScript, AnagularJS, Bootstrap

Desktop Apps:WPF/WinForms, Silver Light, Prism

Services/Workflow:Web Services, WCF, WWF

EAI Tools/Server:MS BizTalk Server (until 2013 R2), ESB Toolkit 2.2, BRE, BAM, HL7 interface

Content/Collaboration Server: MS SharePoint Server (until 2013)

Relation DB Server: MS SQL Server (until 2014), Oracle DB Server (until 11g), Microsoft Access

ERP:MS Dynamics, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

CRM:Oracle Siebel 8.x

BI/Reporting Solutions:SSIS, SSAS and SSRS, Oracle BI Publisher

Other Tools/Server:VS .NET (until 2013), TFS (until 2013), IIS Web Server, MSMQ

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

KPIT Cummins - Houston, TexasJune 2004 to Current                                                                                                                                                                                     

Enterprise Principal Consultant working on various consulting roles with global clients, such as; Director, Applications Development and Support, Agile Coach, Senior Project Manager, Enterprise Architect and mainly responsible for end-to-end Delivery including Development, Maintenance and Support, Team Management and Technology Solutions for our global clients.

 

Key Responsibilities:

·               Propose IT strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating complex business needs presented by the Business and/or Clients; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.

·               Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures (CAPEX & OPEX); analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.

·               Manage global project and technical delivery teams including KPIT Cummins’s internal and client’s IT consultants as per project demands.

·               Performs salary administration and conducts interviews and makes recommendations for new hires, consultants and/or replacement personnel.

·               Develop and deliver long-term, short-term and quick-win strategies and technology roadmaps as per customer’s business vision, goals and objectives.

·               Delivers conceptual, logical and physical solutions that are sustainable and cost effective based on industry and business research.

·               Responsible for code quality through the implementation of models, design reviews, code review and unit testing.

·               Review, Advice and Evaluate various options and models for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS using Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

·               Oversees system monitoring ensuring system performance and timely remediation of problems.  Ensures system scalability through capacity planning.

·               Working with various organization teams as a mentor, advisor and agile-coach helping adopt Agile and Lean methodology to their culture and environments.

·               Manage client and stakeholder relationships and expectations. Interacts with IT and Business Management, Enterprise Architecture, external vendors, IT Operations, and other upstream and downstream stakeholders.

·               Responsible for implementing and championing all aspects of project delivery and program implementations as necessary/needed by client organizations.

·               Preparing, reviewing and approving UML design models, Object Relational Modeling (ORM) and Entity Relational (ER) models for each customer depending upon their business requirements.

·               Hands-on working knowledge on MVC, MVVM and other design patterns to bring design consistency across the enterprise.

·               Oversees all IT policies and practices including information security, data retention, business continuity and disaster recovery.

·               Oversees hardware and software lifecycle management including the installation of new and updating of existing equipment and software.

·               Oversees application code deployments and planned service outages to production environment.

·               Stays current on market, competition and trends including tactics, field concepts and practices applying them to strategies when applicable.

·               Establishes and sustains interactive relationships with external vendors and contacts to result in favorable networks to support the current and future goals of the organization and to benchmark practices/results to maximize organizational effectiveness.

·               Provides fiscal support for the departmental budget and manages within budget parameters to ensure financial benchmarks are met and proactive course correction is taken when necessary.

·               Implements software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.

·               Oversees assigned staff. Responsibilities include: recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; assigning workload; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; and coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.

·               Manages personnel as it relates to all projects or related work, establishes performance requirements, clarifies responsibilities of those supervised, conducts performance appraisals and plans for individual employee improvement.

 

 

Praxair Inc. - Buffalo/Niagara, New York          June-2013 to July-2015

Director, Application Development and Support (Consultant)

 

Praxair, Inc. is an industrial gases company. It is the largest industrial gases company in North and South America, and the third-largest worldwide by revenue.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Account delivery leadership, oversee customer engagements; maintain customer satisfaction, deal shaping, delivery performance and profitability.

·               Manage a high-performing, geographically diverse team of up to 40 technical and management professionals that included; Project Managers, Architects, BAs, Developers, QAs and Contractors and a yearly budget over $6MM

·               Manage partners and relationships that utilize 70% contractors / 30% core team to deliver enterprise solutions.

·               Produced detailed timelines for each application release and implements effective project control by monitoring the progress of the software release and reporting the status.

·               Prepared and managed Strategic Plans with annual Capital, Resource, and Expense budgets.

·               Developed and maintained positive relationships and communications with the leadership team to ensure alignment of goals and priorities. Oversight of IT policies and procedures to ensure effective controls are in place that meet all regulatory and policies.

·               Collaborates with business owners and subject matter experts to identify technology solutions for key business objectives.  Partners with Enterprise Architects to determine supporting strategies.

·               Actively participate and keep abreast in project planning and coordination with other key members involved in project management efforts, and interact regularly with seniors leaders in the company.

·               Managing engagement Risks by providing appropriate metrics and measurements.

·               Major application and technology implementations responsibilities include:

o       Oracle Meter Data Management (MDM) for Industrial Gases for managing metering, billing, outage, production and stock transfer functionalities for large complex contracts for main three regions.

o       Managing project delivery from budget, resource & schedule perspective for Oracle JDE / Oracle Fusion Middleware

o       Technical account management for SharePoint 2013 upgrades solutions and migrations.

o       MS BizTalk 2013 R2 integration between custom apps and Oracle JDE system, BizTalk mappings, custom pipeline components, BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.2, BizTalk Business Rules Engine (BRE) and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

o       Direct, lead and manage .NET custom applications development

o       Infrastructure upgrade project for AWS cloud adoption and migrations (for on premise, on cloud and hybrid solutions)

 

 

Consolidated Graphics, Inc. (a RR Donnelley group) – Houston, TexasJan-2010 to April-2013

Director, Application Development and Support (Consultant)

 

Consolidated Graphics (CGX) is a provider of digital and commercial printing, fulfillment services, print management and proprietary Internet-based technology solutions.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Responsible for spearheading Healthcare related Applications, Product Development, Middleware Development and Support functions along with overseeing System security and Datacenter operations.

·               Directing and managing a high-performing, geographically diverse team of up to 60 technical and management professionals that included; Project Managers, Architects, BAs, Developers, QAs and Contractors and a yearly budget over $10MM

·               Ensures the consistency and maintainability of existing applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions.

·               Prepared and managed Strategic Plans with annual Capital, Resource, and Expense budgets for the group.

·               Developed and maintained positive relationships and communications with the leadership team to ensure alignment of goals and priorities.

·               Oversight of IT policies and procedures to ensure effective controls are in place that meet all regulatory, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and HIPPA requirements.

·               Responsible for designing and developing new applications and product capabilities while also ensuring the security, stability and scalability of consumer-facing responsive website, and backend corporate systems

·               Collaborates with business owners and SMEs to identify technology solutions for key business objectives.  Partners with Enterprise Architects and Infrastructure teams to determine supporting strategies.

·               Plan, Assign, and Direct the activity of all technical personnel involved in the Design, Development, Implementation, and Support of Custom and Enterprise Applications.

·               Manage the Application Landscape and Roadmap and strategy documents.

·               Maintain and evolve an effective team structure as CGX's business and system needs change.

·               Insure that all ITIL processes are properly executed according to standards – change & release management, incident management, problem management, capacity planning.

·               Transformed the group into a business-aligned team that delivers high quality enterprise applications on a consistent basis using management methods that allow the best approaches to be recognized and implemented.

·               Directed the team through the creation of new business applications starting from concept, requirements, technical designs, development using Agile and Waterfall SDLC, QA, UAT, and then deploying throughout the enterprise.

·               Integrated legacy systems and products to new cloud based software solutions to add enhanced features to legacy applications.

·               Spearheaded client and partner contract agreements.

·               Oversees Contract Resources & Delivery Management.

·               Major application and technology project technology implementations responsibilities include:

o       Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) for Medicare/Medicaid solutions (for BCBS, HealthSpring, CareFirst & Molina clients)

o       Healthcare providers, medical benefits and insurance coverage using .NET based Custom and Enterprise Applications (for BCBS, HealthSpring, CareFirst & Molina clients)

o       Responsible for providing solution and implementation for high volume variable data processing for healthcare customers using Oracle BI Publisher.

o       MS SharePoint 2010 content, collaboration platform for the corporate and OpCos (operating companies)

o       .NET based Custom and Enterprise Applications

o       Overseeing MS BizTalk 2010 integration across custom apps, DPCS product systems and Oracle DOO (Distributed Order Orchestration) systems, BizTalk mappings, custom pipeline components, BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.2, BizTalk Business Rules Engine (BRE) and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

o       Classic/Enterprise Storefront implementations

o       SnapShotU – From product inception, design, review until production deployment

o       Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) for Medicare/Medicaid solutions (for BCBS, HealthSpring, CareFirst & Molina clients)

o       Overseeing the implementation of Oracle DOO and Fusion under Oracle Early Adopter Program (EAP) for order routing and transaction management.

o       Microsoft Azure cloud migrations (on premise, on cloud and hybrid solutions)

 

 

CaraSolva Inc. - Lafayette, ColoradoJan -2008 to Dec-2009

Lead Architect / Manager, Application Development & Support (Consultant)

 

·               CaraSolva SaaS based application is to converge high tech and healthcare experience to improve lives and lower healthcare costs by providing cloud delivered solutions for the long term care market.

·               Suite of nursing and professional caregiver solutions based on HIPAA compliance.

·               Simple, efficient and secure SaaS based tracking system that provides automated daily tasks for long term nursing facilities, hospices, host homes and group homes.

·               CareSupport – Foundational and main intelligence module, automates nursing/caregiver functions.

·               MedSupport – Focuses on administration and scheduling of medications.

·               PharmacySupport – Interfaces directly with pharmacies for medication through HL7 standards.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Responsible to deliver Software as a Service (SaaS) for Medication Administration and Task Management for caregivers in MRDD and assisted living homes.

·               Responsible to design and provide cost effective mobile health applications to monitor and enhance the health of individuals with chronic conditions.

·               Objective is to improve medication adherence, track vitals, care tasks, diet and exercise, while measuring impact on behaviors, health outcomes and wellness.

·               Worked collaboratively across the organization: interpret user requirements, identify the root cause, research possible solutions, and identify most feasible solutions.

·               Own the entire software development lifecycle for software systems. This included different development methodologies (Agile, Iterative, and Waterfall), as appropriate for the specific system or project, well versed in all development functions: analysis, requirements, design, coding, testing/QA, implementation, deployment, support.

·               Interact with client teams and manage external 3rd party vendors to insure strong system performance.

·               Responsible for architecting, leading the team, developing, deploying, operations and to maintain all core modules of the application suite.

·               Directs and prioritizes the work load of subordinate personnel.

·               Reviews all UML designs, code and unit test plans where applicable.

·               Approve all business requirements prior to the technical solution.

·               Analyze, Plan, Develop, Test, and Implement the development projects of assigned software, participating proactively in each of its stages.

·               HL7 interface implementation for patients’ health information and pharmacy details. Implementation for EDI health care transaction types.

·               Management experience included, supervising applications analysts, business analysts, developers and QA testers.

·               Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

·               Mentor and develop team in technical and project delivery areas.

·               Reviews thoroughly all designs, code and unit test plans where applicable.

·               Design and implement appropriate metrics for reporting on key performance and quality indicators.

 

 

Datacard Inc.(now Entrust Datacard) - Minneapolis, MinnesotaJan-2007 to Dec-2007

Lead Technical Architect (Consultant)

 

Secure ID and Personalized Card Solutions

·   IDWorks (Identification Software):  Helps seamlessly create high-quality secure cards.

·   ViaNET: Web-based suite of identity info-system for data retrieval, image capture and card issuance.

·   Smartcard and Government solutions: Personalized and identity management to deliver exceptional security and fraud prevention for government ID card programs.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Instrumental in setup, build and manage strategic account-partnership between organizations.

·               Accountable to organize, conduct & execute successful key stakeholder & client workshops.

·               Undertake, lead & manage turnkey smartcard solutions & IDWorks projects for Datacard clients.

·               Direct working relation and reporting into project sponsor, senior executives and directors.

·               Responsible for developing Web-based and Windows-based applications.

·               Involved in Troubleshooting and Debugging of the application within the stipulated time.

·               Responsible in developing Stored Procedures, Views, Indexes, Scripts for database transactions on SQL Server 2008. 

·               Developed Custom Reports and different types of Tabular, Matrix, Ad-hoc and distributed reports in multiple formats using Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

·               Implemented Source Code Control Systems like Microsoft Visual Source Safe and Microsoft Team Foundation Server for the overall project.

 

Environment: UML, Design Patterns, Visual Studio.NET, C#, ASP.Net, VC++, Microsoft Enterprise Library, MS Access, IIS, HTML, DHTML, Web Services, SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)

 

 

Diversey Inc. (now ‘Sealed Air’) - Racine, WisconsinJune-2004 to Dec-2006

Project Lead (Consultant)

 

WCMt (Web Content Management Solution)

·   Using MS Content Management Server (CMS) and MS Commerce Server (CS) to manage Product Catalog related content for Diversey's corporate portal.

·   Data being integrated using MS BizTalk Server (BTS) from their JDE systems in USA and SAP systems in European regions.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Understand requirements, scope it, design specs, get reviewed & approved from business.

·               Plan, manage and coordinate development activities across multiple teams (onshore/offshore).

·               Team player, work collaboratively w/business owners and client IT teams to rollout solution globally.

·               Involved in Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing and maintenance phase of modules of software life cycle.

·               Designed and developed complete front-end using ASP.NET Web Forms.

·               Designed web forms by implementing CSS, HTML and JavaScript

·               Created User Controls for the header and footer of the website which appears in all the pages.

·               Worked extensively on web forms and data binding controls like data list and drop down boxes. Used pagination and sorting features of data grid in reports.

·               Designed and developed stored procedures and User defined functions SQL Server Database. Implemented role based security and customizable workflows based on a user's role.

·               Created queries and stored procedures in the SQL Server Database

·               Involved in code optimization for resolving performance related issues.

·               Implemented validation using ASP.NET validation controls.

·               Extensively worked on ADO.NET objects.

 

Environment: UML, Design Patterns, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, BizTalk, CMS, Commerce Server, .NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft Enterprise Library, XML, ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET, C#, MS SQL Server 2000, SQL, IIS6.0, WINDOWS 2000 and SSRS 2005

 

 

Deloitte - Mumbai, IndiaSept-2003 to May-2004

Sr. Technology Specialist

 

GlobalAdvantageIHR for American Honda Motors

·   Migrate 2-tier client-server (PowerBuilder based) to 3-tier web based.

·   Web based application to handle; administration, payroll processing of expatriate taxation.

·   Main modules includes; System Admin, Company Variables, Hypothetical Tax Templates, Eligibility Templates and Worksheets

 

Responsibilities:

·               Work with PM and client stakeholders to clarify and prioritize requirements and business objectives.

·               Develop estimates and schedules for projects; including resource allocation, timelines and budget management.

·               Responsible for development and delivery of following work products: project scope definition, project plan updates, status reporting and overall project communication.

 

Environment: .NET, ASP.NET, BizTalk and MS SQL Server

 

 

SYSTIME - Mumbai, IndiaFeb-2002 to Aug-2003

Project Lead

 

VersaPOS™ (Lite, Enterprise and Integration Server) Retail Solutions

·   A complete, scalable Point of Sale (POS) retail management system, including inventory, bar coding and multi-store inventory system for retailers of all sizes.

·   Enables seamless integration with ERP/back-end systems (Ex. JD Edwards World® and EnterpriseOne® versions) for true centralized data consolidation.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Requirement reviews, design documents, prioritize features and product development.

·               Issue fixes, testing, product releases, implementation, support and maintenance.

 

Environment: .NET, ASP.NET, classic ASP, VB6, MS Access and MS SQL Server

 

 

Akshay Software Inc. - – Mumbai, IndiaJuly 1996 to Jan 2002

Sr. Software Developer

 

Various Projects/Clients executed with ASI:

·   WebVidya (distance learning online programs)

·   Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd (SHCIL) intranet development

·   Omnia Intranet Website / Rolling Bearing Management System

·   Call center application for wholesale and retail dealer of HP brands of PCs

 

Responsibilities:

·               Working closely with customers to help identify and define requirements.

·               Involved in all stages of software development life cycle.

·               Lead, mentor, and manages project teams

 

Environment: .NET, ASP.NET, classic ASP, VB6, MS Access, MS SQL Server and Oracle Server

 

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