Seshu Durbaka
(612) 284 4583
dseshu@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
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Certified PMP with 10 years of Technical and Project Management with PMO experience in a 15 year career.
Projects in Health care, eCommerce, Remote Computing, Enterprise Integration, SOA and ERP.
Complexity includes ATL-COM, MS Exchange CDOM, IBM-MQ, Mainframe, EDI, and ASP.Net in single project.
Business Process engineering in backend financial services - Merchant Banking, Asset Financing, MF Processing etc.
Managed 8 cross functional project teams leads and one Technology lead in a 4.5M $ project.
Development projects from Business Analysis, Concept, Design, Coding, and Testing through Maintenance.
Managed a team size of up to 28 people in application development projects and 8 Team Leads in matrixed project.
Earned Value Analysis for Budget management and Portfolio management with P&L.
Deliveries involving Disaster Recovery, Database upgrades, Migration.
Working with user groups and technologists alike - Client CTOs, Technical strategists, Head of User Groups.
Simultaneously multiple projects from multiple time zones (North America, Europe, and Asia)
Risk Monitoring and Mitigation techniques in global multisite delivery model.
Estimations based on Function Point, COCOMO II, and Use Case models with Delphi techniques.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from REC Srinagar, India
• Project Management Professional from PMI since 2005
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Tools
Methodologies
Architecture
PM Tools
Rational Rose (UML), Erwin, Requisite Pro, C#, Visual Studio.Net, Borland Delphi, Lotus
Notes, MS Exchange 2003, Biz Talk, Share Point, VSS, CVS, Coldfusion, Crystal Reports,
ADSI, Install Shield. SQL Server, Analytical Server, Windows Terminal Services
RUP, Component Based Development, Agile with virtual SCRUM meetings, CMMI,
Onsite–Offshore model
SOA, Enterprise Architecture, Model Driven Architecture
MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Niku
PROJECT EXPERINCE Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
Role: Senior Manager (Strategic Technology)
Grand Junction, CO / Minneapolis, MN
May 08 – Jan 09
Description : CSC’s Strategic Technology services delivers technology intensive applications and supports various verticals troubleshooting their technical management problems in delivery. As a senior manager, he has delivered SOA based enterprise integration solution with Biz talk enterprise server 2006 and product upgrades in health care industry. Responsibilities:
• Program Management support involving 3 development teams and an external vendor.
• Resource task allocation and management in mutitime zone development teams across USA.
• Review integration architecture with .Net Web Services, flat files, EDI 837 with client CTO for approval.
• Reviewing, negotiating and presentation of integration architecture. • Unit testing and business orchestration walkthroughs.
• Coordinating and supporting integrated program schedules.
• Managing delivery team in multiple time zones. •
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Innovative technology and human resource risks mitigation stragtegies to effectively control budget.
Negotiating and forecasting project budgets in mergers and acquisition environment.
International Species Information System (ISIS)
Role: Technical Project Manager
Eagan, MN
Feb 08 – Apr 08
Description: ISIS delivers and supports the world’s most current, comprehensive and reliable source of information on animals and their environments for zoos, aquariums and related organizations to serve institutional, regional and global animal management and conservation goals. Project involves Clinical medicine, Animal, Insititution, Storage facilities, and planning & Tasks Management, Responsibilities:
• Planning, Coordinating and participating PMO Meetings.
• Project planning including Scheduling, Configuration, Risk, Communication and Quality planning.
• Vendor evaluation offshore resource management.
• Team building. • Migration from legacy systems using SSIS.
• Planning and tracking technical and functional POCs.
• Establishment of project component library.
• Process management with onsite checks and balances
• Coordinating meetings with SMEs for functional scope resolution. College of St. Catherine (Twin Cities Collaboration)
Role: Project Manager
St. Paul, MN
Aug 2007 to Nov 07
Description: College of St. Catherine is part of Twin Cities Collaboration in Minneapolis based collaborative group of four institutions implementing an ERP solution. Integrating 3rd party products include Data Warehousing, Document Management, Report Generation, eCommerce solutions etc.
Responsibilities:
• Project management activities including planning, tracking, coordinating, communication.
• Vendor evaluation, resource management, and coordination with other collaborative institutions. • Collaborative Disaster Recovery planning.
• Data cleansing, migration from Informix to Oracle.
• Planning and upgrading Oracle Databases including ODS.
• Project planning for Decommissioning, Transition & COTS products Integration.
• Technical evaluation and integration of COTS products.
• Budget management including support to invoice reconciliation.
• Each institutional project budget is over 4 Million Dollars. EZ Solutions Inc
Role: Consultant Edison, NJ Jan 2007 ­ July 2007
Description: EZ Solutions is a New Jersey based startup technology software solutions company with growth plans for US, Europe, and India.
Responsibilities:
• Project estimations and costing.
• Technical Proposals and business investment plans.
Changepond Technologies
Role: Sr. Manager – Projects (.Net portfolio)
NJ / UK / India Feb 2006 – Jan 2007
Description: Changepond is a technology intensive software solutions company focused in Logistics, Education, Insurance arena servicing global clients in California, Minneapolis in US, Europe and South East Asia. It has an established name in sports domain with US Soccer, FIFA, and A1GP as its clientele. Responsibilities:
• Managed a portfolio of .Net Projects (CASMAN, CHARM, Simpacta, EduMetry, Freightzone, TempZone, DPS, Tolomatics) with ensuing repeat orders.
• Freightzone, TempZone, and DPS projects are part of a program with revenue realization perspective.
• Delivered CRM and Case Management solutions in Medical Intermediary Insurance sector. • Business Analysis, Architecture, Code Review, UAT and Hosting a LMS application in Education.
• Migrations project from VB6 to VB.Net in manufacturing sector.
• Multiple application deliveries in Waterfall, Agile, RUP and CMMi methodologies.
• Risk mitigation with external entities for Security standards, Wire Frames and Database reviews.
• Assignments from Bristol, London in UK and technical workshop in Denmark. • Technology reviews with CTOs for Architecture, Data cleansing, Mining and Replication with DMZ.
• Driving project management with reviewing of Architecture, Design, Code and Test Cases.
• Case management and CRM solutions with eCommerce in Medical Intermediary Insurance sector. • Metrics and project status reporting for the portfolio of projects. • Estimating and architecting solutions in Microsoft Technologies. • Projects from Logistics, Health Care (Insurance intermediary) and Education domains.
ISG Novasoft
Role: Sr. Project Manager (Presales and Architecture)
NJ / Singapore/ India Feb 2004 – Aug 2005
Description: A global technology solutions company delivering business solutions to its clients worldwide in Information Technology Advisory Services and Business Process Outsourcing.
Responsibilities:
• Evaluation and IT governance tools like Clarity to establish PMO concepts.
• Estimations using Use Case model, Function Point Model, & COCOMO II models.
• Solution Architecture Presentations to US and Singapore companies resulting in opening of account.
• Evaluations of technology servers like Biztalk, Share Point, and RTC for various solutions.
• Configuring sales Force.com for Lead or Order business cycle. • Engagement models for outsourced for a BPML product development • Managed a SOA based Solution Architecture to Global Air Rescue operations.
• . Net smart client and web interface. Service interfaces in ASP.Net
• Biz Talk SOA interface with external applications. • Architecting solutions both in Microsoft and Java Technologies. • Techno­functional support to a banking project.
CG Maersk Technologies
Role: Project Manager (Enterprise Integration)
NJ / India Mar 2003 – Feb 2004
Description: Subsidiary of Denmark based logistics Software Company with ports related software products and servicing projects in logistics domain to global clients.
Responsibilities:
• End to end B2B ­ EAI application development project for a global shipping company.
• Followed stringent Enterprise architectural principles. • Project planning, task allocation and from onsite through a web base Project Management tool.
• 3 Tier architecture with COM+ Components
• Interfaces to Navis Express, a Port Terminal management tool & Mainframe through IBM MQ. • ASP.Net for website, MS Exchange CDO objects for Mail processing.
• Used component based development on an extended onsite – offshore model • Review of offshore Use cases and Design documents for seamless integration at onsite.
• Allocation, tracking and Review of deliverables in a multi site development scenario. • Winning client confidence by Business Analysis and Technical Presentations
• Conversion of prospect into a long­term relationship.
VJIL Consulting Ltd
Role: Product Manager India / UK Apr 2000 – Mar 2003
Description: An ISO 9001 Certified global IT consulting, Software Development Company with operations in USA, India, Europe, Middle East & Asia Pacific.
Responsibilities:
Product Management: • Techno­Commercial solutions to a California based application development Product Company.
• Impact analysis for converting it from 2­tier to 3­tier architecture with COM components.
• Build and Configuration Management for 3 Version releases with addition of 8 modules.
• Designing for backward compatibility with earlier versions. • Used by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler in design practices to meet QS 9000 standards.
Portal Development
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Database Design Review and User Interface design
CMMI ­ Capability Maturity Model – Integrated:
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Internal Standardization of processes to meet CMMI – Staged approach. Process automation by introducing tools for estimations, Visual Modeling, Configuration Management and Requirements Tracking.
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Identified areas for introduction of test tools and established an independent test team. Metamor Global Solutions
Role: Sr. Quality Analyst
India Jul 1999 – Apr 2000
Description: One of the world’s leading providers of business and IT services with disciplined program management and global delivery models. Responsibilities:
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Drafted and reviewed existing QMS resulting in successful assessment of SEI – CMM Capability model.
Implemented QMS in legacy maintenance projects & identified improvement areas. Conducted Internal Quality Audits and prepared audit reports
VJIL Consulting Ltd Role: Quality Analyst
India
Jan 1997 – Jul 1999 Description: Global IT consulting, Software Development Company with operations in USA, India, Europe, Middle East & Asia Pacific.
Responsibilities:
• Analysis of business processes with workflow perspective.
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Lead the team in Design, Development, Testing and Maintenance phases.
Electronic replacement of Records maintenance.
Workflow Automation, Implementation supports.
Identified areas of improvement in various business processes.
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Lead an independent test team. Management Consulting Experience
Companies/Clients: KPMG Consulting Group and Financial Services
Mar 1990 – Dec1996
Responsibilities:
• Carried out a major systems engineering exercise in Production – AU and FCC, Maintenance ­ Mechanical, Maintenance – Instrumentation in Down Stream oil refinery.
• Business processes reengineering exercise in financial services in Financial Services like Asset Finance, Retail Distribution, Public Issues, Mutual Fund Processing, and Merchant Banking divisions of. Management consulting.
• Other experience includes Cement industry in manufacturing sector.
Professional Contributions.
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Coordinated the activities of a Software Process Improvement Network chapter for the year 1998. Sustained teething problems of this non profit organization at its budding stages and contributed to its current strength. It is currently sustained by memberships from most of the global software corporate giants and hundreds of individual memberships. As a part of this coordinating role, organized programs in PSP, TSP, Testing, Introduction to CMM, Requirements management etc towards software process improvement.