ARUNANAND ADDEPALLI (ARUN)

· Mobile: 214-437-2636

· Email: arun.addepalli@yahoo.com

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· TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER   · SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

PROFILESS

PROFILE

Successful Technical Project Manager and solution architect delivering complex, challenging, business critical software solutions. Strong Project management expertise in Project Initiation, Project planning, Risk/issue management and mitigation plans, stakeholder communication, Quality delivery management, deliverable tracking, team building and mentoring. Also technical expertise in application integration, application development, application and data migration, Digital Asset Management platform, database development, modeling, Solution architecture, infrastructure planning.

 

†       Seasoned Technical / Project lead, qualified Project Management Professional (PMP).

†       Strong technical leadership skills in the area of Systems Architecture & Application Design, Solution Delivery, large-scale implementations through all the phases of SDLC for cost-effective and revenue-generating applications.

†       Experience in managing projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

†       Diversified experience in multiple Domains – HealthCare, Digital Media, Telecom, OSS/BSS and IoT.

†       Experienced in managing complex projects, interfacing with on-shore, near-shore and off-shore development teams.

†       Experienced in software / vendor evaluation and selection, customization, implementation, operations and support.

†       Experience in gathering & analysis of Business Requirements, derive System and Technical specifications.

†       Strong Project management skills in Scope management, Stakeholders engagement, Issues/Risk management, escalation management, Project Planning activities, resource allocation, Work Breakdown Structure, estimates, project cost and change management.

†       Experience in software release administration and release commitment.

†       Experience in team forming, team building and managing global teams.

†       Experience working with PMO and key project stake holders to communicate the project status and escalations.

†       Multi-tasking talents in team communications, organization, adaptability and attention to detail in time-sensitive situations.

EDUCATION

Masters in Science (MS) with Electronics Major

 

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional (PMP)

 

US PATENTS

Lead contributor on a US patent #20120158667

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

Ø       Project Management Tools & Methodologies: MS Project, JIRA, Visio, Excel, Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall.

Ø       Architecture Design / Patterns: SOA, Message Bus, Client/Server, N-tier, Component Based, Object Oriented and Layered.

Ø       Enterprise Frameworks: TOGAF and ZACHMAN.

Ø       Application Integration Patterns: Web Services, Message Queue, File Transfer, Broker, ESB.

Ø       Development Environment: Java / J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, MVC, XML, JSON, HTTP, SOAP, REST, API’s, Web Services, Active MQ, JMS, Kafka.

Ø       Application Design Tools: Altova UModel, Altova XMLspy, Visio, Power Point.

Ø       DB Design / Modeling Tools: SSMS for MS SQL Server, TOAD for Oracle and Workbench for MySQL.

Ø       DevOps Tools: Confluence, JIRA, Hudson (aka Jenkins).

Ø       Virtualization & Cloud: RHEVM, VMware ESXi, Docker, Solaris LDOM’s and Zones.

Ø       Scripting:  UNIX / Linux Shell scripting. T-SQL scripting.

Ø       Application Servers: BEA Weblogic Application servers, IBM WebSphere Application Servers, IBM WebSphere Process Servers, Apache Tomcat, IIS.

Ø       Knowledge Of: ITIL (Incident, Change & Problem Management), Hadoop Big Data eco system, DataStax Cassandra, MongoDB Cloud Computing, AWS, Azure.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

www.conexis.org

 

·   Project: KP Connector Services (KPCS)March 2015 – Present

o   Domain: HealthCare

o Role: Technical Project Manager / Solutions Architect

 

Achievements: Successfully delivered the KPCS’s Process Improvement Engineering Project within the timeframe, budget and meeting stakeholder’s expectations. Being critical nature of the project for overall program of the Conexis platform, aggressively managed issues/risks/critical path for the outcomes of the project delivery.

 

Ø      Managed Process Improvement Engineering thru research and redesign existing workflows & drive end-to-end redesigned solution implementation.

Ø      Faciliated  requirement elicitation workshops to analyze and document  Business and Technical requirements.

Ø       Managed project using Agile methodology. Created new workflows, Epics and User Stories, issue backlog, and sprints by assigning issues from backlog.

Ø       Conducted daily scrum meetings with the project stakeholders.

Ø      Conducted Sprint task anaysis and broken down big tasks in to sub-tasks and assigned Story points.

Ø      Reviewed existing architecture and application designs.

Ø      Reviewed existing database design and data model using Altova DatabaseSpy.

Ø      Based on the research and interviews, Identified gaps in existing workflows and suggested remediation.

Ø      Recommended changes to workflows related to Subscriber enrollments, Coverage changes, Billing and Invoice generation.

Ø      Effectively managed project risks and issues by tracking each of them with a mitigation plan.

Ø       Point person for planning release content, coordinating release effort, and communicating release readiness.

Ø       Managed  development, testing, deployment and also put together process for post production support.

Ø       Provided technical guidance to developers on T-SQL scripts , stored procedures.

Ø      Mentored Tier 1 and Tier 2 operations teams on various system flows and production issues.

 

 

www.verizon.com

 

 

·   Project: Digital Asset Management (DAM) PlatformFeb 2010 – JAN 2015

o   Domain: Digital Media

o   Role: Technical Project Manager / Solutions Architect.

Achievements: Successfully architected, designed and delivered Digital Asset Management Project managing on-shore, near-shore and off-shore teams and vendors. Introduced and managed the project using both Waterfall and transformed to Agile methodology as per the enterprise standards. Delivered the project within the timeframe, budget and meeting stakeholder’s expectations. Due to time to market criticality of the Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) program, aggressively managed issues/risks/critical path for the outcomes of the project delivery.

 

Ø       Lead the facilitation between project teams, business stakeholders to define the project scope and critical business needs for the project in the program.

Ø       Lead the DAM project team to gather Business requirements to perform system analysis and develop use cases.

Ø       Built the detailed project plan by driving the project teams to divide the project deliverables to manageable and trackable with both internal and external dependencies defined.

Ø       Managed the project execution thru Agile and Scrum methodology.

 

Ø       Participated in creating enterprise level candidate architecture using TOGAF methodology and participated in architecture reviews by Enterprise Architecture (EA) Review board.

Ø       As a Solution architect led the JAD sessions and guided the project team to develop the HLD showing all application components based on a combination of SOA & Message driven architectures.

Ø       Guided the project team to build detailed design documents showing class diagram, process diagram, deployment and sequence diagram, limitations and assumptions.

Ø       Refined architecture and application design in iterations as a result of learning’s, limitations and changes to requirements.

Ø       Guided SIT team in writing test cases from system requirements and UAT team from Business requirements.

Ø       Interviewed, formed and managed a mixed team of developers from 3rd party vendor, onshore, near-shore and offshore resources.

Ø       Built RACI matrix for setting clear expectations across the teams for effective delivery model.

Ø       Effectively tracked Project issues, risks and prepared mitigation plans based on feasibility.

Ø       Performed system analysis of Motorola Asset Management platform and suggested numerous enhancements.

Ø       Designed new web services and coordinated with global development teams to develop the services for the DAM platform in Java / J2EE environment.

Ø       Introduced CONFLUENCE platform to assist in collaborating & sharing knowledge with global teams.

Ø       Created custom workflows in JIRA to assign & track issues and used SCRUM methodology for sprints.

Ø       Created custom JIRA Dashboards for Senior Management reporting.

Ø       Recognized as DAM module SME in assisting User Acceptance Test, Performance Test, and Ops Support.

Ø       Conducted team build activities and recognized team members for their achievement.

Ø       Conducted performance reviews and provided feedback and personal development plans to team members.

Ø       Prepared and managed release management plan and coordinated between teams for timely releases.

Ø       Led the team to perform capacity planning for staging and production environments and worked with Production teams for code deployments.

Ø       Provided hands on post-production support and conducted RCA and suggested remediation.

Ø       Acquired critical knowledge on Digital Media Lifecycle Management, Velocix CDN, Opentext, Digital Media formats, Metadata transformation & normalization, Online Video Platforms, Aspera File Delivery platform, MediaInfo tool for media metadata extraction, Solr search optimization tool, Media transcoders- Rhozet, Signiant and Tele Stream, Digital Media Lifecycle Workflows, Digital Media Chunking for Adaptive Bit rate, AWS Elastic Transcoder, DRM Technologies: Google Widewine, Motorola Secure Media, Digital Media Delivery Technologies: mpeg 2 ts, mp4, Smooth Streaming, hls.

 

 

 

 

·   Project: Verizon Content Management Services (VCMS)April 2009 – Jan 2010

o   Domain: Digital Media

o   Role: Technical Project Manager / Automation Solutions Architect

 

Achievements: As a Solution architect / Project Manager took over all responsibility to deliver VCMS Project and lead the project requirement gathering, architecture, design, development, testing, and production deployment.

 

Ø      Managed a mixed team of resources from on-shore and off-shore to design and develop workflows to automate Pre-Ingest Process of the video content and its associated metadata in to VCMS.

Ø      Conducted project meetings with VCMS Operations team to capture the operational requirements, analyzed and documented use cases.

Ø      Identified all manual steps followed by operations team and documented end-to-end flows.

Ø      Identified 5 content providers for Sprint-1 to automate the pre-ingest workflow.

Ø      Designed and Architected end-to-end automation solution which can be easily extended to multiple content providers, total of 90.

Ø      Led the development team to develop the code in Java / J2EE on Linux 5.x environment.

Ø      Provided support for all facets of SDLC thru SIT, and production deployments on Websphere Application Servers in a Clustered environment.

 

 

 

·   Project: Connected Home from VerizonOct 2008 – April 2009

o   Domain: IoT

o   Role: Solutions Architect

 

Achievements: As a Solution Architect took over all responsibility to deliver the application design and architecture, evaluate various solutions and lead the architecture, design, development, testing, production deployment of the solution.

 

Ø       Based on the application type and available devices in the market, architected and designed a solution using IBM Message Broker and underlying IBM MQ Series messaging solution.

Ø       Built prototype and demonstrated designed solution to the product owner and got approval to move ahead with the development.

Ø       Configured Message Broker and Message Queues in a clustered and HA environments.

Ø       Hands on in setting up the development environment by installing and configuring Message Broker along with message Queues.

Ø       Provided hands-on guidance to development team on message queue connectivity and usage.

Ø       Coordinated with development team to build the proposed solution and made sure there are no deviations.

Ø       Worked with testing teams and production deployment teams to promote the developed solution to production in a timely manner.

 

 

·   Project: Verizon Call Assistant (VCA) ProvisioningAug 2008 – Dec 2008

o   Domain: OSS / BSS

o   Role: Infrastructure Solution Architect

 

Achievements: As an Infrastructure Solution Architect took over all responsibility to deliver the application infrastructure design and architecture, evaluate various infrastructure solutions and lead the architecture, design, development, testing, production deployment of the proposed solution.

Ø       Designed a parallel provisioning system for Verizon customers using FiOS & VCA products.

Ø       Gathered and analyzed requirements and created a high level design using Message driven architecture.

Ø       Evaluated openLDAP versus IBM MQ-Series and created prototypes along with development team.

Ø       Hands on in setting up the MQ environment and configured Queues with built-in high availability and disaster recovery.

Ø       Worked with development team to build the solution around Message Queues.

Ø       Coordinated with testing teams and production deployment teams to setup Message Queues in production.

Ø       Management quickly recognized the benefits of this solution and awarded the team with excellence.

 

 

·   Project: Frontier Migration (Project North)Sept 2007 – Jul 2008

o   Domain: Datacenter Migration

o   Role: Migration Lead

 

Achievements: As a Migration Lead, took over all responsibility to deliver the migration project and lead Verizon side of the teams to manage all migration artifacts including but not limited to systems, applications, databases, network etc.

 

Ø       Created a data center migration Project plan and included all identified systems, applications, data and other supported components to be migrated.

Ø       Created a project schedule using MS Project to track all project related activity.

Ø       Interviewed and hired vendor resources and assembled development and testing teams on the Verizon side and assigned resources to identified tasks.

Ø       Identified low level components and documented the Work Breakdown Structure tree.

Ø       Created communication plan to coordinate project activity with Frontier personnel related to Migration.

Ø       Coordinated with Frontier resources in setting up the mirror infrastructure on their network with all hardware, required middleware and connectivity.

Ø       Updated project plan periodically and identified potential risks upfront and created risk mitigation plans.

Ø       Developed project reports to be presented to Senior Management.

Ø       Configured hands on all UNIX / Java application packages to suit Frontier’s infrastructure & network and migrated all identified applications to Frontier infrastructure successfully.

Ø       Coordinated testing activity with Verizon and Frontier testing resources.

Ø       Hands on configured network devices like Cisco’s Iron Port, email security device.

Ø       Resolved conflicts arise during the lifecycle of the migration project.

Ø       Successfully migrated all identified components over to Frontier and received Client signoff to close project.

Ø       Documented Lessons learned and closed the project.

 

·   Project: Verizon IOBI Verizon ONE, Verizon HUB & Verizon VWMay 2002 – Aug 2007

o   Role: Tech Lead

o   Domain: Telecom

 

Achievements: As a Technical Lead, was overall responsible for Unified Communications Platform and lead the project requirement gathering, architecture, design, development & testing and production deployment.

 

Ø       Designed a unified communications platform involving SUN’s Calendar, Messaging and LDAP.

Ø       Designed and developed Wireless Notification system which uses SMS protocol to send out text messages.

Ø       Successfully Installed and configured Solaris 8 and Solaris 10 Zones.

Ø       Successfully installed and configured BEA Weblogic servers 9, 10 and SUN ONE Calendar Servers 5/6, SUN ONE Messaging Server 8.0, SUN ONE LDAP servers.

Ø       Performed OS and Middleware upgrades including OS patches.

Ø       Monitored and administered OS, Middleware and applications.

Ø       Hands on wrote Unix shell scripts for application Monitoring and log porting.

Ø       Coordinated with on and off-shore development teams in integrating custom java API’s with the SUN ONE services.

Ø       Worked with cross development teams to integrate their components with our custom API’s.

Ø       Worked with SIT and UAT testing teams as a SME for this module.

Ø       Coordinated with Production to setup the infrastructure and deploy Middleware and applications.

Ø       Recognized as module SME in assisting Operational Support for live production.

 

 

 

 

 

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Converge (Formerly NECX). Peabody, MA · 2000 – 2002

Sr. UNIX Systems & Siteminder Administrator

 

Daewoo Motors India Limited, Surajpur, UP India · 1998 – 2000

Assistant Manager IT