OBJECTIVE:

Objective is to be Lead Developer of a team involved in developing complex applications utilizing state of the art technology, such as .NET, Java, BizTalk, SharePoint, .NET, UML and XML.

Experience: 18 Years
EDUCATION
Master of Mechanical Engineering, University of Memphis, 1996.

Thesis: Biometrics and Non-Linear analysis on small Joint Prosthesis published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British Edition).
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Bharathiar University 1990
TECHNICAL SKILLS
* LANGUAGES: ASP .NET, C#, VB .NET,JAVA, COM, COM+, SQL, PL SQL, JAVASCRIPT, VB6, XML, HTML
* DATABASES: SQL SERVER 2000, ORACLE 10 , DB2 UDB, SYBASE , MS ACCESS
* OPERATING SYSTEMS: WINDOWS 2000, NT, MS-DOS, UNIX, VAX/VMS, MACINTOSH
* TOOLS: VISUAL STUDIO 2008, WEBLOGIC,WSE 3.0, IBM WEBSPHERE, VISUAL INTER-DEV,BIZTALK, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 7.0, VISIO, HARVEST, CRYSTAL REPORTS 10, DREAMWEAVER, ACTUATE, BUS OBJECTS, TFS, SOURCESAFE, REMEDY,FRONTPAGE, FORTE, RATIONAL ROSE, DREAMWEAVER
* CONCEPTS: DATA WAREHOUSING, B2B SOLUTIONS AND RDBMS.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS:

US DoD                               – 3 years.

Federal Reserve Board      - 2 years.

AOL FINANCE                     - 2 years.

ExxxonMobil                     - 2 years.

FDIC                                   - 3 years.

American Red Cross           - 3 years

Patent and Trademark O/c – 1 year

Clearance level: DOD secret clearance

EXPERIENCE:  

2/2015 – Current                US Army                          Fort Belvoir&McLean.

Developer

- Working as team lead for maintaining web sites and reports for the FASCLASS and ASEMS users which are used all around the world. Users can run adhoc reports to query the fasclass database. The database is Oracle 11G. TOAD is used to query the database. The application is hosted on Windows 2003 R2 on IIS. C# and VB.NET is being used on the front end.  Harvest is used for source management, and CA is used for change management. Custom user controls are being used for the header and footer of the pages.

6/2013 –2/2015                    INFORELIANCE                     Fairfax, VA

Developer (US AIR FORCE SAF)

- Worked on maintaining webs sites for SAF. AFIMPT, WMS and BO are 3 of the major web sites under SAF. The web sites run under IIS 7 and are written in C# .NET with Infragistics and Javascript. Also involved in working on reporting application using WPF, SQL server 2008 scripts and attending daily SCRUM meetings. The reporting system is handled by Business Objects running against a SQL server 2012 database.

-Worked on reporting of the above mentioned systems. SharePoint 2010 was used along with MS excel services and Business Data Catalogue to generate web parts and web lists. The data was housed in SQL server 2008 R2 database.

-Worked on the Infrastructure on Demand (IoD) application for the NNSA. Job involved coding in Visual Studio 2012 with ASP.NET. Iod was interfacing with the HP Orchestration engine in the backend. Job also involved working with Infragistics controls for ASP.NET. Javascript is heavily being used for client side validation.

6/2012-5/2013                 The Patent & Trademark Office       Alexandria, VA

Developer

Developed applications to talk to each other, and implemented them. SharePoint 2010 was used along with the workflow engine to enter and approve timesheets for the employees. Visual Studio 2010 was used to code and testing was done using MS Unit. Also in charge of maintaining the oacs application. Job involved leading the operations and maintenance team, addressing trouble tickets submitted through the BMC Remedy system. TDD was implemented using

MSUnits in the development environment.

7/2009- 6/2012                        The American Red Cross          Ashburn, VA

Solutions Architect/ Lead

Designed a hub and spoke model for the BioArch division. The division had over a 100 developers, testers and analysts. Designed a utility using WPF and the MVVM design pattern. The utility is a smart client and is used to upload the blood collected from the donation sites into ePROGESA – the central blood processing system for the American Red Cross. The program then displays the status of the upload received from ePROGESA is the form of a grid.  RabbitMQ was used to schedule and transfer messages. WCF-Custom LOB Adapter from Biztalk and the WCF RabbitMQ Binding were used to communicate with each other.

Worked on the BizTalk interfaces project as an Enterprise Architect. Interfaced with the DRMS project which utilized Siebel. Designed the BizTalk application layer to talk to the central ePROGESA (Blood processing) system, and to it’s surrounding modules such as Surround (Blood testing), Logic (Blood storage), and CFS (The billing system). Also acted as the technical lead for 11 Biztalk/.NET developers. The files were sent either in text or XML format, and orchestrations were used to process them. BizTalk 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 and C# .NET 4.0 was used with SQL server 2008 R2 on Windows 2008 R2 operating system. Third party adapters such as N soft adapters were used to implement Asymmetric encryption, SOAP and SFTP adapters.

7/2008- 6/2009                         On Contract to HARRIS                                 McLean, VA

Developer

Worked for the US Military Health Services. The application interfaces with the Veterans Affairs BHIE system. Job involves designing the SOA project at the system level as well as the application level. Enterprise Architect (EA) was used to draw the design diagrams. Documents were created as per DoDAF standards. In charge of implementing security using Active Directory by way of Kerberos token. Implemented delegation and impersonation. Also in charge of guiding 25 developers on the application design for the Presentation layer, the business process layer and the middle ware team. Part of the job duties involved leading the middle ware team plus one Oracle DBA. The Entity Framework was used along with LINQ for DB persistence, lazy loading etc. The UI used JQuery and Node.js for a rich thin client with AJAX functionality. Wrote and recommended a router which will handle failover of an SOA system implemented using WCF. Made decisions as to when TCP/IP needed to be used and when the HTTP channel is to be used. Also in charge of deciding endpoint configuration used in the WCF and the usage of Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) to pass very large binary files using SOAP on a Windows Server 2008. Part of the job involved writing the logging and exception layer to be used by other teams. Custom fault exceptions were created to enable debugging between the SOA systems.

* Also worked on SharePoint MOSS 2007. This was a project for the American institute for Research (AIR). Gathered requirements from the clients and created Use Cases. Involved in creating web parts which would run against SQL server 2005. BDC Metaman was used to create LOB files behind these web parts. Also involved in the deployment of these web parts.

2/2008- 6/2008                          On Contract to Northrop Grumman                 Chantilly, VA

Developer

Worked on Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) .This is a desktop application written in Visual Studio 2008. It runs against an oracle 10G application. Worked on a stand-alone control in C#. This control runs against a third part server (Medicomp) to return medical problems and their description. The data is displayed in the form of a tree which is extended from a third party control (Infragistics Wintree). XSL-FO was used to format the reports in the system. Also wrote test cases for the application. The agile method of development with scrum teams was used on this project.

7/2007-12/2007                            On Contract to  Goal Inc              Abu Dhabi, UAE

Developer

Worked on Electronic Land Management System as the reporting lead. Job involves creating official documents for the city of Abu Dhabi, UAE. TFS was used for change management as well as for source management. The documents were created using Crystal Reports XI along with ASP.NET C# using the ‘PUSH’ method.  The reports run against an Oracle database via stored procedures which are organized in packages. Mentoring a junior developer was part of the job duties. Also involved in deploying the reports, trouble-shooting, performance tuning, fixing memory leaks, formatting the reports for special printers such as the card printers’ and mortgage sticker printer.

6/2007 – 8/2007

On Contract to Goal Inc

McLean, VA

Developer

Worked on rewriting old asp applications into asp .net applications for TSA. Also involved in modifying the design of old applications to an enterprise system. One such application is EDB. This is an existing application which is capable of consuming other applications and their data into a common web application.

4/2006 – 6/2007

On Contract to FRB

Washington, DC

.NET Architect

Worked on the Visitor application to gather requirements from the business users and architectured the system at the system level using RUP. MS Visio was used for this process. Also involved in implementing security using SQL server 2005 asymmetric encryption using certificates, prevention of sql injection, denial services, server side validations, AJAX etc. Implemented third party controls like Infragistics for added functionality.   Job also involves mentoring two other mid-level developers. This project is done using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP .NET C#. Used JavaScript for client side validation. The Infragistics grid had a pop-up template for each record for easier data entry. CSS was used to maintain the same look and fell throughout the web site.SQL server 2005 1024 bit asymmetric encryption was used.

10/2005-03/2006

Democracy Data

Alexandria

.NET Project Lead

Worked as an architect to design a new product for the company. This web based product was built using enterprise .NET technology. Part of the job was to determine the cost of the many tasks in man hours, and also to talk to the client managers to determine the feasibility of the project. The product is used by about 200 clients including top fortune 500 companies to communicate with the government through their clients. Crystal Reports .NET components are being used to interface with ASP .NET. These reports are generated in pdf format, and are accessed through a middle tier.  The existing clients are using an older version of this application which was written in ASP. Converted the Pfizer import tool which was written using VBA to an ASP .NET C # application. This application also implemented DTS packages and .NET Windows Services. COM wrapper was used to reuse old objects.DTS objects were called from ASP .NET

Stored procedures were written in SQL server 2005 to handle complex functionality.

6/2005 -10/2005

TekSystems/NPR

Washington, DC 

.NET Project Lead

Worked on SuperList, this is a web application for reporters, show producers and other users to help them air news stories. Tracked the progress of the project using MS project. The application is written in ASP .NET and uses infragistics: A third party web control. Also working on WIRES, this is an application that retrieves stories transmitted by satellite in real time. This is a .NET client/server application, which stores the stories in SQL server 2000. Used Crystal reports 10 for running reports against SQL server 2000.

* Worked on trouble-shooting problems on Blackboard,com. Implemented encryption of sensitive information in the SQL server database. The projects were written using MS .NET.

6/2003 – 6/2005

AOL TIME WARNER

DULLES/VA

Principal Software Engineer

Worked on Primavera Teamplay as the project lead. This was a third party system, which has integrated both project information and time entry into one. Deriving the technical requirements document (TRD) from the projects requirement document (PRD), designing at the system level, and at the application level was part of the job. Built 3 dot net interfaces, which run on the windows console of a Windows 2000 machine and wrote stored procedures and views in PL-SQL on an Oracle 10 dB. One of the interfaces is being governed by an ASP .NET Windows service built using Visual Interdev. These interfaces use advanced techniques such as Asynchronous multithreading, reusability of components through the GAC and ADO .NET. Worked on Contract Billing and revenue Assurance (CoBRA) as an architect. This was an application, which monitored the revenue coming into the company. This application has client/server architecture and was written in C# and VB dot net. Job also involved unit and system testing of these applications. WSE 2.0 was used to experiment with DIME as a means of data transfer. Remedy was used for bug tracking, and MS Visual SourceSafe and CVS were used for version control.

9/2002 - 5/2003

KForce

Mclean, VA 

Senior IT Specialist

* The Wage & Investment Program Management (WIPM) Tool was designed to assist with the project management functions. The WIPM Tool enables project managers to track issues and their associated action items, and risks and their associated mitigation activities, in addition to financial, milestone and performance status information. Job involved creation of ASP .NET web pages, creating Adobe Acrobat files, custom user controls, implementing COM objects on the web pages, creation of dynamic menus and the usage of Microsoft web controls such as TabStrip and MultiPage. Crystal Enterprise 8 and Crystal Reports 9, XML, XSLT, DHTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, UML, Visio, Windows2000, SQL server and VB .NET are also being used. Job also involved the creation of 25 crystal reports running against SQL server 2000, and integrating these reports in a .PDF format with Visual Studio. NET. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 was used to create the image files.
* Also worked on the Business performance review (BPR) to modify existing ASP .NET code in order to incorporate new functionality changes. Dreamweaver was used along with CSS to create the web pages. Used a third party control called ASPxGrid in order to display, sort and edit information through a grid format.

6/2000 - 7/2002

Exxonmobil (On Contract thru' COMSYS)

Tysons Corner, VA

Tech. Lead/ Senior Programmer

* Worked on ADFS (Access Development Facility System). This project was a pioneer project for the transition of the Exxonmobil IT division from Sun to Microsoft technologies. A user with the proper security would be able to view the different projects which have been completed, or which are currently in progress, or those that are scheduled to begin at a future date. The user will also be able view the software and hardware that each project uses. COM+ objects were created using Visual Basic 6.0 and were deployed on a Windows 2000 server. These objects run against stored procedures written in SQL Server 7.0. The business logic of the application and security was implemented using these COM objects. ASP pages run against these COM components on the IIS server for display on the browser. XML was used along with ASP and SQL server 7.0.to build a system where users will be able to monitor the status of the various projects in the company.
* ONTAP is an online order placing system created for the Exxon Mobil clients. This project was a conversion project from a legacy mainframe system to an Internet project. An initial load of the Oracle 9i database was made and subsequent loads were made by programs running daily to update the database. The back-end programs reads from four different flat files that were extracted from the MVS mainframe in Dallas and transferred to the Unix box in Washington D.C. Wrote up server side programs in JAVA running against the database using JDBC on an UNIX environment. Involved in writing database service objects like views, stored procedures and triggers using PL-SQL in Oracle 9i. Wrote JavaScript functions for front-end validation. Performed unit testing, system testing and documented results.
 

9/1997 - 5/2000

FDIC (On Contract thru' COMSYS)

Washington, D.C. 

Tech. Lead/Senior Programmer

* Part of a team that created the ATS web sites using ASP. COM/DCOM was written in Visual Basic 5.0. These objects were created to increase the performance of the HTML pages in the browser and to implement security. MTS was used along with the Windows NT 4.0 server.. Also involved in analyzing the various new reporting tools such as ACTUATE 4.0 and BUSINESS OBJECTS 3.0 for Client/Server and Web applications, and upgrading to higher versions of existing tools such as Crystal Reports and Forest & Trees.
* Designed and developed a system to manually update data of 17 tables in FDW which was being built. The data-warehouse resides on a DB2 5.0 System installed on an OS390 operating system. ASP was used to create the front-end screens. COM objects, which were deployed on an MTS server, were used in this project, which connected to the database through the SIMBA server.
* Involved in building web pages using ASP, HTML and JavaScript. The web pages would report of the Financial Data-warehouse (FDW), which resides in DB2 on an OS390 operating system. The web site had numerous standard reports in three modules namely Receivership Reporting System, Business Planning and General Ledger. It also had the facility for ad-hoc querying.
* Performed DBA work on FDW such as creating tables, performance tuning of queries that were timing out, maintain system tables, collecting data from Buffer-pools, migrating data from one region to another and helping junior developers in fine tuning their queries. Tools that were used to perform these functions on the mainframe are BMC, Activity Monitor, File-Aid, Relational tools and QMF.

7/1997 - 8/1997

UP&UP (COMSYS)

Gaithersburg, MD 

Programmer/Analyst

Designing an application to process data received from various network providers. Data is received and Data Analysis is performed to filter it into standard format before Data Migration to the AS 400. Guide and provide technical advice to junior programmers. MS ACCESS 97 and VISUAL BASIC used for project.

2/1997 - 6/1997

MCI (COMSYS)

Washington D.C. 

Developer

Worked on the tax filling system for MCI. BORLAND C++ was used to write the application for project and SYBASE 10 was the Database. CRYSTAL REPORTS 5.0 was used to generate the required reports. The project was used to automate the tax filing system for MCI. Part of the job was to debug the C++ code.

10/1996 - 1/1997

Preferred Health Systems

Bethesda, M.D.

Developer

Main report developer for an application developed for Blue Cross, Michigan. CRYSTAL REPORTS 5.0 was the main reporting-tool. VISUAL BASIC 4.0 was the front-end for application and SQL sever 6.0 was the back end. Involved in modifying codes. Application was used to process personal information, primary/secondary diagnoses, insurance claims, and patient information.

7/1996 - 10/1996

UTA

Arlington, VA 

Developer

Part of a team which designed/developed code for GENESYS, an application used to examine 10,000 + banks in the USA. Application would determine the financial stability of banks and generate reports using CRYSTAL REPORTS 5.0. GENESYS will read from 100+ tables created in MS ACCESS 5.0, and will use 250 screens built utilizing VISUAL BASIC 4.0. It was classified into 5 modules: Capital, Assets, Management, Earnings and Loan. Work involved designing and developing codes for management module to handle personal/official details of officers in bank: names, title, address, number of shares owned, board meetings attended, committee assigned, etc. Project implemented latest add on controls such as VCI Formula One, Visual Spell, Visual Check, SS Widgets, ODBC and OLE techniques.

EDUCATION:

4/1996

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS 

US-TN-MEMPHIS

Master's Degree

SKILLS:

Skill Name

Skill Level

Last Used/Experience

Asp

Expert

Currently used /8 years

C#,VB

Expert

Currently used/14 years

Oracle, Sybase, SQL server, DB2,PLSQL,Transact SQL

Expert

Currently used/11 years

JAVA

Expert

3 years ago/4 years

Data Warehousing

Expert

2 years ago/4 years

DOT NET

Expert

Currently used/14 years

Crystal Reports

Expert

Currently used/8 years