RAJAT KHANNA

Rajatkh2002@gmail.com

682-564-4157

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

·   Expertise in management of a global team of engineers and project managers. Demonstrated leadership capabilities by leading large teams and mentoring them along the way.

·   Very strong experience executing & delivering projects using Agile, Scrum, Iterative, Waterfall methodologies and enabling continuous integration & delivery.

·   Expertise in successfully collaborating with Product Development & PMO teams to establish cohesive team environment.

·   Significant Object Oriented Analysis, Architecture and Design experience using OO Methodologies and Design Patterns. Experience with initiating/establishing mobile & cloud application development frameworks.

·   Substantial experience efficiently architecting scalable, multi-tenant, high-performance software solutions for large, enterprise level clients.

·   Significant experience implementing (developing) very large enterprise software solutions.

·   Very strong experience in the efficient management and distribution of task assignments among software development team members.

·   Extensive experience and expertise in overseeing software engineering team throughout the full lifecycle of software development (requirements gathering, design, architecting, development, integration, test, release & transition of software products).

·   Proven ability to effectively lead a technical organization. Strong communication and negotiation skills.

·   Successfully lead & managed the development, implementation & adoption effort for multiple e2e ERP implementations.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

·   Architecture/Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative, SOA, Cloud, Multi-Tier, Web Client, Mobile, Queue, Event driven, Client Server, Cloud (Azure)

·   Languages: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, Java Script, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, XSD, C, C++, Java, JDBC.

·   Databases: SQL Server, NoSQL DBs (Mongo Db, Couch base)

·   Development Tools: .Net Framework, Sencha Architect (iOS / Android), Visual Studio, BizTalk, WCF, SharePoint, Microsoft BI (Power Pivots/Views/Power BI/SSRS/SSAS), Workflow Foundation, AJAX, WPF, Silverlight, Web services, TIBCO EMS , TFS,VSS, MS Enterprise Library, HTML, JavaScript, and Java Applets. 

·   Modeling: UML, ER diagrams, MS Visio

·   Web Servers: Team Foundation Server, Internet Information Services (IIS)

·   Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux.

 

EDUCATION:

·   Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas

·   Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering (with honors), Maharshi Dayanand University, India

 

Certifications:

·   PMP (Project Management Professional) – March 2013 – License 1589156

·   ITIL – Nov 2012 – License 954560

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Director of Software Engineering

Mansfield Energy, Houston, TX                                                                    Aug 2013 – Current

(Yearly Revenue: $9 billion)

 

Responsible for overseeing, developing, and coordinating all aspects of the software engineering team. Responsible for understanding the business and developing technology strategy that aligns with business strategy. Lead the engineering team technically, in order to drive excellence in software development, but also handled all administrative and career duties associated with the engineering team. One of the primary leaders responsible for

developing a strong working knowledge of designated business processes and ensuring that business technology is designed to support business unit goals and objectives and responsible for successful delivery of projects that create value for the business.

 

•Successfully lead, managed and mentored a team of approx. 40 Sr. Architects, Technology Leads, Sr. Project/Solution Managers and developers

•Provided architectural and technical leadership & guidance to staff. Executed & delivered projects using Agile, Scrum, Iterative, Waterfall methodologies.

•Successfully lead & managed the development, implementation & adoption effort for e2e ERP implementation.

•Established and documented the policies and procedures for the engineering team

•Developed organization structure (onshore & offshore both) that optimizes software delivery

•Developed clear vision, goals and metrics for SE staff each year that supports company goals and objectives

•Drove innovation in order to maximize speed, throughput, and reusability, while maintaining or improving quality and enabled continuous integration & delivery.

•Ensured sound engineering design, process and quality practices are followed

•Trained and lead staff so that software delivery is optimized

•Established, cultivated, and managed relationships with strategic 3rd party partners. Also, optimized the mix of internal versus outsourced resources and services.

•Managed P&L for SE team to meet or exceed budget goals

 

Technology Stack: .NET, BizTalk, SQL Server, Microsoft BI, Sencha Architect (iOS /   Android, TFS, Azure, WCF, SharePoint.

 

Enterprise Architect

Mansfield Energy, Houston, TX                                                              Aug 2010 - Aug 2013

(Yearly Revenue: $9 billion)

 

      •Translated business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns, such as adaptability, scalability, multi-tenancy, availability, and reusability.

•Drove and defined enterprise frameworks, best practices to support the business and technology strategy.  These frameworks enabled a flexible service-oriented architecture that encouraged reusability and achieved necessary performance standards

•Collaborated with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, and blueprints.

•Successfully implemented strategy and design to lay down framework & architecture to facilitate mobile application development for iOS and Android platforms. Also, successfully initiated the need, roadmap & strategy for cloud development architecture (Azure).

•Developed enterprise architecture documentation, including as-is architecture, to-be architecture, architectural roadmaps, and technology standards

      •Provided strategic technical vision and leadership

     •Assured enterprise application integration by selecting tools, specifying shared data and code resources, defining interfaces and data-flows, and monitoring progress.

•Performed design reviews across company and collected enterprise architecture       performance metrics to assure continuous improvement.

•Design and execute proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities, including building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures.

•Executed & delivered projects using Agile, Scrum, Iterative, Waterfall methodologies.

 

Technology Stack: .NET, BizTalk, SQL Server, Microsoft BI, Sencha Architect (iOS /   Android, TFS, Azure, WCF, SharePoint.

 

 

Solutions Architect / Sr. Consultant

Client: Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX                                                   Feb 2007 – Aug 2010

Dibon Solutions Inc. / Enterprise Project Group

 

Shell Trading - .NET Foundation project

The .NET Foundation project was scoped to perform several initiatives aimed at establishing a baseline of support for Microsoft .NET development technologies and platforms at Shell Trading.  Requirements for the project included providing architectural and design guidance on the use of Microsoft technologies, tools, and platforms for application architectures and functional and technical scenarios common to Shell Trading, developing an end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) that addresses processes, tasks, roles, and tools across Shell Trading, including support for the Shell Project Delivery Framework (PDF), Design and implement .NET-based frameworks or components that provide support for key aspects of application development at Shell Trading.

 

·   Successfully guided various ongoing Shell trading project initiatives such as Cash Month, MVP by participating and reviewing in team architecture solution design sessions.

·   Architected, designed & developed Rich Client UI using Silverlight3.0, Telerik Silverlight Controls, .NET3.5, and C #, Expression Blend, XAML and LINQ Framework with M-V-VM Design Pattern.

·   Designed and consumed TIBCO EMS service to host inbound and outbound queues to interface between WCF Services and ENDUR JMS gateway for data pull / push.

·   Designed a custom framework that implemented an abstraction layer on Open Link Open Components .NET API for Shell Trading.

·   Designed and implemented a Rule Engine using Windows Workflow Foundation.

 

Technology Stack: .NET, TIBCO EMS, SQL Server, Silverlight, TFS, WCF, RIA, XML

 

Shell Oil, Downstream, Jiffy Lube International

Responsible for the software architecture, design, development and delivery of a portfolio of critical enterprise software development projects. The projects were executed for Jiffy Lube International, a Shell retail business unit, and collectively delivered in excess of $15 million per year in financial benefit to the company. Provided technical leadership to several development teams with a collective budget of $3.25 million and a total of twenty IT project resources on three teams using the Shell full-life cycle software development methodology.

 

 

Customer Loyalty Project

The Customer Loyalty project was undertaken to address functional enhancement requirements for the Shell Lubricants Fast Lubes organization’s Jiffy Lube Point of Sale (POS) system. The project was undertaken to address systems enhancement requirements for the organization’s Marketing and Customer Experience organizations.

 

·   Requirements for the project included, provided an upgrade to the enterprise POS system with enhanced and broadened vehicle processing capabilities, customer facing marketing systems, current delivery mechanisms of the Jiffy Lube published oil drain interval recommendations and stronger business control measures in the applications functionality.

·   Implemented functionality that allowed a customer to enroll in the Customer Loyalty Rewards program, track the customer and deliver financial incentive to the customer. The project was also responsible for interfacing with SAP to implement financial support provided by Shell Lubricants to Jiffy Lube stores.

 

Payment Card Enhancements Project

The Payment Card Enhancements Project provided substantial enhanced functional capability to the enterprise POS system with enhanced and broadened payment card processing capabilities, as well as stronger business control measures in the applications functionality.

 

·   The enhancements provided merchant processor cost reduction capability during debit/credit payment card transactions, increased the user experience for both back offices and stores, implemented stronger business control measures in the application functionality and in the reporting.

·   Finally, it provided streamlined point of sale transaction completion processing and administration.

·   Implemented functionality that recognized a payment card based on type – credit, debit or credit/debit card, implementation of payment card processing when connection to merchant processor is down and implementation of the standardization of method of payments.

 

United States Lubes Pricing Tool Project

The United States Lubes Pricing Tool (USLPT) was developed and deployed to be the primary enterprise software environment used for the development and management of customer pricing and allowances given to downstream customers within the Shell Lubricants business unit, a $50 billion per year unit of Shell Oil.

·   The software was developed and used for pricing management of B2B and B2C customers, including very large national accounts such as Wal-Mart stores.

·   Finally, the software development project implemented and maintained substantial two way data interfacing with Shell's global SAP environment as well as other supporting enterprise applications systems.

·   Successfully implemented a complex functional enhancement called “Net Price Visibility”, which allowed the system users to view real time product pricing with existing discounts reflected on customer invoices. Accurate and timely pricing communications to customers during the sales cycle had historically been difficult for Shell due to the size and complexity of the existing, multiple systems environment.

 

Technology Stack: .NET, SQL Server, VSS, Web Services, XML, IIS, CSS

 

 

 

Technical Lead / Sr. Software Developer

Client: Horizon Lines, Inc. / DAS Inc., Dallas, TX                 Sep 2004 – Feb 2007

Dibon Solutions Inc.

 

Horizon Lines, Inc., an American domestic ocean shipping and logistics company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the largest Jones Act maritime shipping and logistics company and accounted for approximately 37% of all US container shipments linking the continental United States to Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

 

Founded in 1954, Dallas-based Dependable Auto Shippers (DAS) is one of the largest vehicle shipping service providers in the world. With more than 90 certified partner facilities, DAS safely and efficiently transports more than 100,000 vehicles each year.

 

Performed Senior Software Developer (Technical Lead) responsibilities on various enterprise software development projects involving Dependable Auto Shippers, its B2B and B2C clients such as Harley Davidson, Horizon Lines and Gigamoves (an EBay company).

 

 

DAS Request Project

Dependable Auto Shippers is an exclusive partner for EBay Motors. Redesigned the EBay systems to produce a more intuitive, efficient systems process in order to provide an advantageous customer experience for auto shipping to the client.

·   Designed, constructed and implemented a system that interfaced a variety of key business driver information, including service rate and quote results, to the client in real time. The technical approach utilized an XML request passed from EBay Motors which required a response from the embedded DAS system functionality under aggressive time constraints. The functional enhancements were completed in the agreed timeframes and delivered in support of the embedded DAS shipping request system functionality, to be used by EBay Motors.

 

DASSTAR Project

Replaced the existing portfolio of isolated legacy applications with a comprehensive and reliable web based ERP solution. Participated in design & development of the ERP system and deployed with Ordering modules including Corporate, Retail, Specialized and Global Orders; Risk Management, Accounting integration, Claims processing, Service Delivery Management, forecasting, tracking & payment processing.

 

      Ship My Vehicle (SMV) Project

The software development effort was performed for Horizon Lines Inc. in support of a business partnership with DAS. Produced functionality that provided Horizon Lines customer’s the ability to request global move services quotes and receive those quotes for global moves via the web site www.shipmyvehicle.com. The project functionality was developed and deployed consistent with the expectations of the partnership.

 

XML Leads Project

Provided functionality in support of DAS referral services for customers who wanted to receive shipping quotes from DAS via XML feeds. The referral services in the developed system fed an XML-based rate request to DAS and in return received an output XML which produced the base price for the specified DAS service and any additional services that were identified as appropriate.

 

DASWEB Project

Participated in design & development of an application for achieving and maintaining the online management of operations at DAS. The project included addressing the functional requirements of the comprehensive business workflow process supporting retail, global vehicle and global motorcycle shipping. Designed the applications environment to be capable of supporting very high transaction throughput. The motorcycle module was designed and developed in partnership with Harley-Davidson Corporation of America.

DAS RATE ENGINE Project

DAS manages a separate web service for there Retail and International orders. This web service uses WSE 2.0 for security token and has functional implementation to give rates that include the "Base Rate" for a move and all the possible up sells that are possible for that move like Valuation, Enclosed, Top Load, Expedite, Guaranteed Service etc.

·   Redesigned this web service with a total makeover of the business logic as the DAS rate model changed significantly in 2006.

·   Changed the business logic layer of the application.

 

DASTRACK Project

This project was expected to produce a system that could obtain accurate, real-time information concerning the current location of an automobile being shipped by DAS on behalf of a client.

 

DASPAY Project

The DASPAY system was developed to be used to manage all the DAS payables. The systems managed all payables transactions that occurred at DAS including mode of payments, as well as all business control reports. The system was developed to include features to create payables, handle all invoicing to DAS corporate accounts, handle the commissions paid to referrals or commission vendors, manage approvals of all the payables due, and transfer data from DASPAY to the DASSTAR system and vice-versa.

 

Technology Stack: .NET, SQL Server, VSS, COM, Crystal Reports, Web Services, XML, IIS, CSS, SQL Reporting Services 2000, Java Script

 

 

Supermica Limited, India                                          2000 - 2002

Software Engineer                                

 

HONORS:

·   Research Scholarship – University of Texas at Arlington for Master Studies

·   Honors Certificate - Maharshi Dayanand University for excellent academic records in Computer Science and Engineering

·   Academic Scholarships from high school through college graduation

·   National Academic Scholarship Offer - C.B.S.E (Central Board of Education in India) for Bachelor Studies

·   Physics Award - Ranked amongst the top 0.01% in India

·   Invited to the annual Meeting - Hosted to honor the top 5% of the students