Accomplished Information Technology Professional with strong Technical and Management skills

Summary of qualifications

§ Over 8 years’ of experience in software development and information technology management

§ Comprehensive experience in software project management including requirement analysis, design, system level integration, test engineering and deployment

§ Outstanding analytical ability for new technology, web and mobile applications

§ Unique combination of technical and management skills

§ Team builder with excellent motivational and leadership abilities

Demonstrated Technology Experience

§ J2EE Applications using JSP, Servlets, Enterprise Java Bean’s

§ Allaire Jrun, Tomcat (JSP & Servlets)

§ C, Perl 5, PHP4

§ Oracle 8.0, SQL Server 2000, MySQL

§ Visual Basic 6

§ E-Commerce integration in web application

§ Application to Application integration

§ Distributed N’ tier client server applications

§ XML in client and server side applications

§ Advanced Coldfusion Development

§ Microsoft Access, Visual FoxPro 6.0

§ Apache Server on Redhat Linux and Solaris, Netscape FastTrack Server on IRIX

Certifications

§ Microsoft Certified Professional (2002) (MCSD Track) – Analyzing requirements and developing solutions

§ Microsoft Certified Professional (1998)

§ Certified Netware Administrator (1998)

Professional Experience

Design Trust, Wilton, CT July 2000 – Jan 2004

Manager, Information Technology Department

Responsible for overall management of IT Department; Responsibilities include overseeing developers, managing development systems, databases and network, managing ongoing developer education initiative, managing technical support for various internally developed products. Experience includes full lifecycle product development experience including project management, functional specification, application configuration, development, testing and deployment.

§ Successfully manage multiple team of developers; responsible for creating web based and desktop applications ranging from web sites to e-commerce applications, content management system, extranet and intranets, web based sales and HR applications

§ Planned, developed and maintained e-Site Builder, a content development and management system, which was utilized in developing multiple sites such as www.usirealestate.com, www.dannon.com, and ACE Insurance risk managers portal.

§ Managed and developed cutting edge content management system using J2EE and Oracle for Citibank e-Business

§ Planned and managed development of Contact Explorer, a Visual Basic 6 based contact management tool and Microsoft Outlook add-in that complemented DT Client Extranet and allowed consultants and other parties to access contact information from within Microsoft Outlook; Synchronization of server database with local database allowed offline access to information

§ Planned and managed development of XML Explorer, a cutting edge windows desktop application that was designed to manage objects that can be represented in a tree structure such as File System, Users and Groups, Projects etc., Interface of XML Explorer is written in Visual Basic 6. The desktop application is a “fat but thin” client because it uses the power of windows to display and take input but delegates to server side java application by communicating instruction to the server. This approach maximized user experience, reuse of existing code and minimized development cost.

§ Planned, developed and maintained sales extranet for Citibank; utilizing XML based procurement technology linking sales extranet to third party vendor warehouse application

§ Planned, developed and maintained sales extranet for Dannon; sales extranet application utilized PHP & MySQL and allowed Dannon brokers to receive sales related materials, updates, forms, coupons etc., in a timely fashion

§ Planned and managed development of IM@Work; a secure corporate communication tool that facilitates work in global corporations by allowing users to communicate and share files while documenting communications to any data store and providing auditing and reporting facility to the enterprise.

§ Planned and developed first version of DT Templater, managed further development of DT Templater; a template-processing tool based on open source project velocity, which is utilized in multiple Pfizer intranets to give flexibility of dynamic database driven content while being static.

§ Planned, developed and maintained company’s project management extranet – Client Center; a J2EE application deployed on tomcat 4 and using MySQL as database backend. Client Center manages project and directory database of several thousand client contacts and vendors etc., It also allows various project managers, consultants and clients to collaborate on projects, upload prototypes, post work orders, post status reports, have virtual meetings and many more project management related tasks.

§ Planned and managed development of Dannon Brand Center; a vendor extranet allowing Dannon to manage ongoing projects with there vendors.

§ Manage, develop and implement project plans

§ Recruit and train team members, develop employee career advancement guidelines

§ Participate in pre-sales and sales process with clients, provide technical support to sales team, project managers, consultants and developers

Keiler and company, Farmington, CT July 1999 – 2000

Consultant

Application development using Visual Basic, PHP3, PERL, HTML, Java Script, and server side includes using Oracle 8.0 as back end database.

§ Developed original Speedline web content management system that allowed development of following web sites

o www.speedlinetechnologies.com – Speedline Technologies

o www.cooksonelectronics.com – Cookson Electronics

o www.cooksonsolutions.com – Cookson Performance Solutions

§ Developed CPS Web-Ware™ as part of CPS E-Commerce initiative that featured A2A integration with another ASP application developed & hosted by a development partner of CPS

§ Work with visual basic developer to develop server application that utilizes Microsoft office application and VBA to convert incoming office documents to HTML and insert them in Oracle database so they can be managed further by the Speedline content management system.

§ Worked with project manager, client and third party vendor to iron out technical and integration related issues, participated in testing and deployment of the application and worked with users for usage related issues.

§ Help manage Apache server, Name server & other system configuration.

SNP Technologies, Hamden, CT Dec 1998 – July 2000

Software Engineer

Responsibilities include development & deployment of custom software’s based on Visual FoxPro, FoxPro 2.6, Crystal Reports, Visual Basic, Microsoft Access and Microsoft Office.

§ Transportation Cost Management Software based on Visual FoxPro 6.0; integration with SBT Accounting Software

§ Point of sales software originally developed in FoxPro 2.6 and later reengineered in Visual FoxPro 6.0; integration with SBT Accounting Software

§ Development support for Cold Fusion based web sites

§ Systems management, installation, administration of TCP/IP Networks comprising UNIX & Windows NT servers

Education

M.B.A (Information System), Institute of Management Studies

Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India

B.Sc, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India

Note:

§ Professional experience older then 5 years is omitted for brevity.

§ References and further information will be provided on request.

Manish Namdeo