SACHIN GUPTA

Cell: +1 (971) 256-3140, writetogupta@yahoo.com, Location: Phoenix, AZ

Professional Summary & Skills

1. Overall 15+ years of IT experience working in diversified fields of application software

development, maintenance and re-engineering projects in legacy systems and client

server environments.

2. Over Nine (10+) years of IT experience in business analysis, design, testing and

implementing Object Oriented Programming Concepts (OOPS), Service Oriented

Architecture (SOA) based Applications, client-server applications, N-tier applications, CRM

tools (Salesforce) and Windows Services based applications.

3. Experience in CRM tools like Salesforce (Apex, SOQL)

4. Experience with analyzing business needs, gathering requirements, planning, organizing,

documenting, and testing software applications.

5. Excellent understanding of DevOps methodologies and good understanding of modern

DevOps platforms using Dockers etc. with experience in validating a large product/service

using DevOps

6. Extensive experience with test simulators and developing automated test scripts.

7. Excellent understanding of Cloud architecture, software development and Agile

methodology

8. Proficient with software development tools/environment such as Jenkins, JIRA, GIT etc.

9. Strong fundamentals of distributed systems development, tools and designs.

10. Good understanding of VMs and Containers.

11. Experienced with rational unified process (RUP), agile (Scrum) software development,

waterfall methodology, six sigma standards and UML.

12. Experience in participating JAD sessions for project definition, analyzing requirements,

Developed use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams and activity diagrams

13. Strong analytical skills, evaluation and high degree of initiative. Coordinate all aspects of

project - planning, scheduling tasks, tracking, and monitoring risk analysis.

Technical Skills

Technologies JQuery, AJAX, JSON, C#, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, .NET Framework (2.0, 3.0, 4.0), XML, XSLT, XSD, Python, Entity Framework, WCF, Salesforce CRM

Architecture GOF Patterns, MVC, 3-tier Arch., OOAD, UML, Multi-Tenant Architecture

Tools VS20XX, VSTS, TFS, WinCVS, SVN, Radar, NUnit, SandCastle, NDoc, Continuum, MS Project, Clarity, JIRA, HP ALM, Rally

Database MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008

Development Process Agile SCRUM, Water Fall, Six- Sigma

Estimation technique FPA, COCOMO, Planning Poker

Certifications

Certified Salesforce Developer (401) – In Progress Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certified Scrum Master (CSM®) Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate in Web Designing and Management (CWDM®) Certified Microsoft Solution Developer (MCSD®)

Professional Experience

Client: American Express, Phoenix, AZ, USA Jan’15 – Till TodayProject: International Account Setup Automation (GMS)Role: Technical Project Manager/ Scrum Master Team Size: 12

I started working in Global Merchant System Platform in American Express as TPM/SM. I am working on International Account Setup Automation Product (iASA) that covers four region and 20 countries. I’m managing E2E projects, funds and playing role of E2E Scrum Master. I’m managing portfolio of $2M and working on Sales force CRM. We are using Rally for Managing projects in Agile.

Responsibilities

Facilitate sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each sprint. Work with product owners and delivery teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint.

Communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the backlog owner and stakeholders

Conducting daily scrum meeting, Sprint planning, Show and tell, Backlog sizing/refactoring, Sprint retrospectives, Assists the team in becoming a self-organizing team, Removes impediments that prevents team from accomplishing its sprint goals

Facilitate retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint – ensure highest priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed out 

Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state, including time to be burned and status 

Coordinate as needed with other PM's, Resource Managers, or Portfolio Managers the delivery of non-development components

Adding or removing stories based on burn-down of the current sprint and discuss with BSA/ Lead BSA 

Represent the team daily at the Scrum of Scrums meeting to report progress against burndown Portfolio and budget management in Clarity  Measure velocity and productivity (burn rate) of the scrum team by analyzing team metrics

and identifying improvements to the teams engineering practices and tools. Communicates information on the teams progress and successes to all stakeholders through

timely creation of the Burn Down charts and other team metrics. Define and managed quality matrix (USA, VV, RE, DL, DD) and providing project status to

senior management in WSR and MSR. Responsible for day-to-day operational management of all activities and functions.

Environment Salesforce, Apex, SOQL, Rally, Clarity

Client: Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, USA Feb’13 – Nov’14Project: Intel Reuse Repository (Intel Foundry Services)Role: Technical Project Manager Team Size: 15

Intel Reuse Repository (IRR) 3.0 is built on Siemens Product Life Cycle Management Enterprise product Team Center 9.1.The primary purpose of the system is to provide a secured application that hold all the IP and allow the other people within the Intel to access components and IPs so that they can reuse components and IPs in different product.

The second purpose is to provide IPs to the external customers. This environment is using the same data as IRR is using. By this system only external customer can download the IPs by using SFT (Secure File transfer).

Responsibility

Managed project scope, schedule, Risk and Issues Log, Project and Stage Plans, reports like Meeting Minutes and Communications.

Worked with technical leads and line mangers from project initiation and throughout the various project stages to ensure all outputs are defined and therefore resourced and executed correctly.

Provided 24X5 production support worldwide to all users including Intel customers and Intel custom foundry both.

Conducting daily scrum meeting, Sprint planning, Sprint review demo, Backlog sizing/refactoring, Sprint retrospectives, Assists the team in becoming a self-organizing team, Removes impediments that prevents team from accomplishing its sprint goals,

Measure velocity and productivity (burn rate) of the scrum team by analyzing team metrics and identifying improvements to the teams engineering practices and tools.

Communicates information on the teams progress and successes to all stakeholders through timely creation of the Burn Down charts and other team metrics.

Facilitates close collaboration between the client product owner and the team. Define and managed quality matrix (USA, VV, RE, DL, DD) and providing project status to

senior management in WSR and MSR. Responsible for day-to-day operational management of all activities and functions. Interaction with Offshore team to clarify requirements for design/development work at

offshore.

Environment SQL Server 2012, VS2012, HP ALM, Jquery, Ajax, JSON, XML, WCF,ASP.NET, C#,TeamCenter 9.1, ITK, TCScript, JIRA, MS Project

Achievements1. Delivered 4 releases successfully with in the agreed time and quality.2. Improved processes and reduced the development cycle by 60%.3. Defined and implemented various processes for requirement, design, code and deployment

for improving overall quality.

Client : Lexis Nexis Inc. , USA Project: LN Corporate,Micro Sites & Communities

Oct 2011 – Nov 2012

Role: Software Development Manager Team Size: 40

LN is world’s leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions to professionals in law firms, corporations, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic institutions and risk and compliance assessment. Re-engineered and Redeveloped of existing applications to make them more scalable, robust and adhere to latest standards and frameworks to establish communities (Open/Closed) for encouraging collaboration among LN businesses, product owners, practitioners and users. Encourage social networking and word-of-mouth referrals

Delivery Management Managing LN account and team of 40 software developers at offshore. Track the development progress and assess & reinforce quality Liaising with cross functional teams, internal customers and customer Responsible for day-to-day operational management of all activities and functions. Validate the usability of the product (testing scenarios on the product)

Technical Management Convert the learning into a customer experience by creating exhaustive, prescriptive and

succinct specification documents

Refine the specifications based on early customer input and finally deliver the finished product on time as per the specifications laid out.

Involved in developing and reviewing in application architecture. Partner with development and work through the entire product cycle as the advocate for end-

users and customers. Interaction with Onsite team to validate and clarify requirements for design/development work

at offshore.

Environment C#, VS2010, Community Server, SQL Server 2010, ADFS, Odata, Ajax, JSON, XML, WCF, ASP.NET MVC, Jquery, Java, Objective C, iOS, Xcode, SQLLite

AchievementsPrototyping and Capability building in Community Server , a platform by Telligent Developed/Setup 25+ communities (open/closed) that includes Customer facing sites and an Internal community for LN RE employees to collaborate Setup framework using which the turnaround time for setting up new communities can be minimized. Creation and implementation of themes/design per community site for enriched user experience.

Client : Microsoft Corp. ,USA Project: Bing Search

July 2009 – Nov 2011

Role: Technical Program Manager Team Size: 30

Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is the web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine“) from Microsoft. It crawls, analyzes, and indexes billions upon billions of webpages and other Internet content and relates all of that to keywords and phrases used by searchers (the principal way end users access the content of a search engine index) but in broader terms, Bing is really a decision engine —a faster way to make more informed choices.

Project Management Managing team (offshore/Onsite) of 30 SDE/SDETs working on Bing Twitter/Face book

Integration, Bing Search Ux Projects. Managing communication requirement, change request, feature requests (Scope Change Request)

Managing communication within and across the team, Implemented matrix, processes for better productivity and quality.

Implemented Agile - Scrum Process. Organize daily scrum meeting and discuss progresses, impediments and targets achieved.

Ensuring the right processes; the right tools; and the right people are assigned and that these components are carefully aligned to maximize the project's overall performance for future organizational success.

Technical Management Involved in design review, code review and Design Documentation. Wrote specifications for

tools used for Bing Twitter/ Bing Facebook Integration. Reviewing work products from offshore, addressing and fixing critical customer defects. Enhancement and development of Semantic Search API to tune the Bing Search Engine

performance. Designed and developed innovative tools for user-centered environments for distributed

development environment, especially for the semantic classification, Semantic Indexing and Filtering, automation of build process, Automation of localization.

Environment C#, ASP.NET, VS2010, SQL Server 2010, Ajax, JSON, XML, Jquery, KAF, WTT, BedRock 3.0, Product Studio.

Quark Inc., USA Project: Quark Publishing System

July 2004 – Nov 2008

Role: Sr. Technical Lead Team Size: 20

QPS 7 is the newest generation of enterprise publishing platform from Quark - completely re-architected and re-engineered based on the latest technology platforms and open, industry

standards. It is geared towards facilitating collaborative publishing workflow and solutions as well as a development platform for partners and system integrators.QPS 7 was launched at Vienna in the first week of October 2007 during IFRA and at NY during the first week of November.

• Initiated and supervised, architected the development of an automated approach for localization for Windows and Mac OSX - saving several person months of effort towards software localization.

• Proposed an XML based UI definition approach that enabled cross platform (Windows, Mac and Web) client applications to use a consistent UI definition.

• Designed and implemented Localization Automation Modules for SDK Developers.• Designed and implemented Archive and Restore module for Digital Assets for end users.• Designed and implemented tools to build Automation for Windows and Mac Clients for SCM.

Environment C#, WinForms, VS2008, XML, Objective C, COCOA

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft ( http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/ ) [2001 – 2004] Project: Primavera, FairsNet

July 2001 – June 2004

Role: Research Associate Team Size: 20

Project: PRIMAVERA The aim was to build a content management system for broadcasting applications on three well-developed technologies: audio/video processing, information retrieval, and development of software architectures for distributed services.

Project: FAIRSNETThe European Union funded Take up Action project FairsNet aims at refining, customizing, and validating a Web-based IT solution for trade fair business domain.

Environment ASP, ASP.Net, C#, COM, MTS, Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server 6.5

Education

Master In Computer Science from Maharshi Dayanand University, India (2008-09) Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application from Agra University, India (1995-97) B.Sc. in PCM from Rohilkhand University, India. (1992 -95)