VENKATA PRASANTH KAKANI(PMI-ACP)®
Projects Lead – Health Net
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Sacramento, California
Project Description
Manage multiple development, maintenance and production support web projects
Roles & Responsibilities
Web application designing, development, integration, release management, build deployment,
capacity & infrastructure planning, production application support and business collaboration.
Liaison between business teams and CTO teams in leading web projects and feature
enhancements.
Manage production support and technical development teams at onsite and offshore.
Perform project and minor enhancement assessments; Prepare SOW’s, TSD’s and resource
loading.
Perform code development, review, commits and deployment to QA/UAT/PROD environments.
Plan and implement monthly project builds and track production support issues and reports.
Conduct leadership, prioritization, and task assignment to support and development teams.
Mentor the development and production support teams on application issues resolutions, best
practices aiming for continuous improvements.
Conduct daily team stand up meetings, resolve outstanding technical issues and provide design ,
architectural guidance to the projects.
Responsible for timely delivery of projects, enhancements and 24/7 support production support
with 99.99% SLA.
Consultant - Medicare Enrollment System
Project Description
Development and maintenance of Medicare Enrollment System.
Roles & Responsibilities
Collect the requirement specification from client, design & develop modules.
Collaborate with multiple teams in designing the work flow of the system.
Lead a team of 3 members and delegate tasks and conduct meetings every day.
Plan & implement minor enhancements, requirement changes and solve issue tickets.
Prepare documentation for client side application level maintenance.
System deployment, 24/7 production system support and fix bugs.
Developer - Institutional Repository Tool Development
Information International Associates, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Technologies : PHP, PERL, XML, HTML, CSS, jQuery
Project Description
June2011 – Oct 2011
Nov 2011 – Dec 2012
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Sacramento, California
Technologies : PHP, Java, Alfresco, MySQL, DRUPAL, Jaspersoft, Talend ETL
Nov 2011 – Present
12155 TRIBUTARY POINT DR
SACRAMENTO, CA 95742
PRASANTH.HYD@GMAIL.COM
(865) 206-1795
Skills
Core Competencies
Project Management
Team Leadership
App Development
People Management
Service Delivery
Release Management
Change Management
Business collaboration
Design & Architecture
Agile Methodologies
Scrum
XP
TDD/FDD
Lean
Kanban
Programming
PHP
Java
JavaScript
AJAX
Perl
jQuery
JSON
XML/XSL/XSLT
HTML 4/5
CSS
Fotron
CMS
Drupal
Moodle
Joomla
Mediawiki
Wordpress
Specify
Digir
Cloud
Amazon AWS
Rackspace
Linode
Firehost
Myhosting
Development of front end User Interface for Institutional Repository Tool built on top of Open
Source System Fedora commons & Solr search engine.
Roles & Responsibilities
Coordinate with project manager and client in developing SLA documentation.
Collect the requirements specification from customer, design & architect the system.
Development of Front End User Interface System using JavaScript, PHP, XML.
Integrating the Front End System with Backend Solr search engine and Fedora Commons.
Automate text cleanup process using PERL, before data is uploaded on to Fedora Commons.
Demo the system, fixing up issues, track change requests and update codes.
Prepare documentation for client side application level maintenance.
System deployment , 24/7 production system support and fix bugs.
Developer – SAIN/USGS
Information International Associates, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Technologies : PHP, MySQL, JAVA, JavaScript, PERL, Oracle BEAWeb portal, jQuery, Google
maps API, Yahoo pipes API, Fusion Tables, XML Parsers, Skip fish, Acunetix and Web services
Project Description
South East Appalachian Information Node is the south east node of NBII representing
Tennessee, Alabama, Florida , Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina. SEIN collaborates,
manages & supports all bio informatics related projects of these five states. SEIN supports in
collecting data, meta data, Developing tools and provides access to national biological
information to all users
Roles & Responsibilities
Collect the requirements specifications, data sets/raw data from biologists/Information science
scientists.
Design, architect, develop, document and maintain web tools.
Conduct Skipfish, Acunetix application vulnerability scans and fix discovered issues.
Set up Media wiki and document application development process, FAQS and help notes.
Train Biologists, Content managers on developed tools.
Provide cloud computing consultation to clients.
Develop web mapping applications for various geo data sets.
Provide 24/7 production system maintenance and issue support.
Provide Systems administration support, server patches, software updates, cron jobs, backups
and maintenance of multiple Linux & windows servers.
Write automation scripts using PERL, PHP for data format transformation, data clean up,
Information gathering processes, Quality Analysis process, testing and data accumulation.
Coordinate with content managers, biologists and propose new application prototypes.
Make regular database backups and submit them to collaborators.
Get trained on latest technologies, conduct research and participate in poster presentations and
proposal writings.
Provide consulting on writing NSF proposal writing to various southeast bioinformatics partners.
Developer - Climate Change Science Institute Website
Information International Associates, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Technologies : PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript and Drupal
Project Description
Development a reusable, semi-customizable website for Climate Change Science Institute.
Roles & Responsibilities
Coordinate with project manager and client in developing SLA documentation.
Jan 2011 – Aug 2011
Jan 2011 – Oct 2011
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
ORACLE
BIGDATA
HADOOP
APACHE PIG
HIVE
HDFS
ETL
Talend
Jaspersoft
Doc Management
System
Fedora Commons
Alfresco
Caching
Memcache
Varnish
Source Code Control
CVS
WEB/APP Servers
APACHE
TOMCAT
IIS
TOOLS
HP Quality Center
BMC Remedy
phpMyAdmin
SQLdeveloper
MySQLdeveloper
SSH
Eclipse
SOA
RESTFUL
SOAP
Operating Systems
Linux/UNIX
Mac
Windows
Google SEO/API
Google Analytics
Google Maps
Collect the requirements specification from the customer, design & architect the website.
Develop website using Drupal Content Management System.
Lead a team of Graphic designer & content editor and coordinate with client.
Attend weekly meetings, demo the ongoing development, test and fix weekly bugs.
Document application development process and usability.
Consultant - Inter-American Biodiversity Network
Information International Associates, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Technologies : Joomla, PHP, MySQL, CSS
Project Description
Development of IABIN website using Joomla open source content management system.
Roles & Responsibilities
Coordinate with project manager and client in developing SLA documentation
Collect the requirements specification from the customer, design & architect the website
Develop website using Joomla Content Management system
Install, update Joomla plugins, themes and extensions
Develop necessary plugins for Joomla using PHP, MySQL
Develop Joomla theme using CSS & PHP
Coordinate with content manager update content on to website
Update Joomla instance periodically
Install, update maintain Linux server
Application maintenance of other IABIN subsidiary websites
Consultant - Oakridge Strategy Group
Information International Associates, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Technologies : DRUPAL, PHP, MySQL, CSS
Project Description
Development of Newsletter distribution site development for Oak Ridge strategy group
Roles & Responsibilities
Coordinate with project manager and client in developing SLA documentation.
Collect the requirements specification from the customer, design & architect the website.
Develop Newsletter distribution site using Drupal, PHP, PERL and MySQL.
Document low level website development process and usability.
Update monthly content, create accounts and reset password when required.
Train Content managers on tool usability.
Developer - E-Learning System
Information International Associates, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Technologies : MOODLE, PHP, PERL, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript
Project Description
E-learning website development for Chase Environmental Group employees
Roles & Responsibilities
Coordinate with project manager and client in developing SLA documentation.
Collect the requirements specification from the customer, design & architect the website.
Develop website using PHP, PERL, MOODLE, MySQL, HTML and CSS.
Attend monthly meetings, demo the ongoing development, test and fix weekly bugs.
Document application development process and usability.
Feb 2010 – Sep 2010
Aug 2010 – Oct 2010
Sep 2010 – Feb 2011
Train clients on tool usability.
Business Development and Technical Operations
Information International Associates, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Technologies : Google Apps, Process Maker
Project Description
Assist in companies Business developments, communications, outreach, technical operations,
optimizations and strategy planning
Roles & Responsibilities
Coordinate with project manager and client in SLA developing documentation.
Assist in business developments through communications, outreach and social media marketing.
Coordinate in competing for NSF and other Federal agency funding opportunities.
Research and analyze companies’ technical operations and provide process optimization and
profitable solutions.
Involve and provide insights in company strategy planning and business development.
Developer - CMS Tools & Process Automation NCMI
Information International Associates, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Technologies : Mediawiki, PHP, PERL, MySQL,HTML, CSS and XML
Project Description
Develop and maintain Content Management Tool for content managers to upload text,PDF,
media and Geo referenced information. Automate Wiki to PDF, text to wiki conversions.
Roles & Responsibilities
Collect the requirements specification from the customer, design & architect the website
Develop website using PHP, Mediawiki, MySQL, HTML and CSS
Develop automation scripts to convert Wiki formatted text to PDF and text formatted documents
to Wiki format using PERL.
Create User accounts, add multiple group based privileges and maintenance of websites.
Automate database back process using PERL/SHELL scripts.
Maintenance of updates of Windows server.
Application Manager & Systems Adminstrator
Office Of Informatin Technology, UTK, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Dec 2007 – Dec 2009
Roles & Responsibilities
Linux, Solaris and Windows Systems and Application Administration (RHEL, Fedora, Solaris,
Win)
Building/ maintenance of Web & Data Base Servers (Apache, Tomcat, ISS, Mysql, Postgresql)
Server side scripting for process Automation using SHELL/PERL scripts
Web Designing and Maintenance (Linux, PHP, Mysql, css)
Working as Application Engineer on Open Source Technologies (Drupal, Moodle, Joomla,
Specify)
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®
Project Management Institute
2014 - 2017
Feb 2010 – Sep 2010
Feb 2010 – Sep 2010
Computer Engineering, Master of Science
University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
GPA 3.7/4.0