Candidates About

 

Sudhir Seshagiri

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

·         Enterprise Architectures (Systems development, End-to-End Solutions, Distributed Client Server systems, Network systems) ·         Android Mobile App Development (Xamarin + Mono + C#.NET, Razor, cshtml, Eclipse + Android SDK, PhoneGap, SenchaTouch, JQuery Mobile, HTML5+javascript, SQLite, Mono Develop, Adobe Flex Builder4, AJAX, Action Script 3.0, Bootstrap, Angular JS) ·         Microsoft .NET Architectures (.NET 2.0-4.5, Asp.NET, C#.NET, VB.NET, Visual Studio 2008-2015, SPA, Razor View, MVC, Bootstrap, AdminLTE themes, Okler Themes, Jquery, Web API 2.0) ·         Windows Phone 7, 8.1, 10, .NET App Development (VS 2010/2012/2015) ·         Engineering Team Creation, Management Experience – 10 yrs. (Development and Support functions, over 18 people) ·         Test Architectures (System, IOT, Field, Automation) ·         Software Process & Stability Engineering ·         iOS Application Development (Xamarin, HTML5+javascript, Sencha Touch, JQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, Adobe Flex Builder 4,) ·         ITIL V3 Certified ·         Consumer Market Data Analysis (5 yrs. at Nielsen) ·         Distributed Team(s) Project Task Planning Experience (9+ yrs.) ·         15+ years’ experience in Windows servers, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, IBM AIX Operating Systems. ·         5 years’ experience in Tibco products (MFT) ·         Agile Project Management (Rally, Pivotal Tracker, Excel) ·         Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Systems Development ·         Microsoft Azure Cloud Systems Development/Architectures ·         Social Media Strategy development ·         ISO27001 Information Security Audit Preparation for Companies ·         Others: US Citizen.

·         Web-based Enterprise Systems Architectures (.NET Web services, ASP.NET, WCF, WPF, HTML, JSON, XML, SOAP, WSDL, XSLT, REST, ESB, SSIS, Python, Java, J2SE, J2ME, J2EE, PERL, PHP, Adobe Flex, Apache, IIS7.5, XAMPP, LAMP, WAMP, MSSQL, SQL2005, SQL2008, Oracle 8i-12g, PLSQL, Sybase, Ab Initio, ETL, AutoSys) ·         Enterprise Business Process Architectures (Inter dept., 3rd party hardware software vendors, partners) ·         Big Data Architectures (Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Map Reduce, DMXpress, ...) ·         Digital Six Sigma Green Belt Trained ·         International Experience with Global Team Management ·         In-depth Experience in Wireless, Consumer Market Research, Manufacturing, Background Screening, and Medical Weightloss Industries. ·         20+ Years’ experience in shipping successful projects/products to clients in over 18 countries worldwide. ·         CMMI & Agile Development Process ·         Requirements Gathering/Analysis/Management ·         Software Configuration Management (PVCS, Subversion, Clearcase, HP Quality Center) ·         Program, Project & Vendor Management (IT) ·         Mobile Internet Marketing Strategy development. ·         Cloud Migration Strategy development. ·         HiPAA Security Audit Preparation for Companies. ·         PCI Security Audit Preparation for Companies. ·         OWASP security guidelines Implementations for Projects. ·         CI/CD/Build Management with Microsoft TFS

 

EDUCATION

1. Master of Engineering (Digital Electronics)                                Karnatak University & IISC. Bangalore, India, 1995

2. Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Communications)                                    University of Mysore, India, 1992 

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

PRINCIPAL Architect/Development Director (Consultant)

The Judge Group, 40 Wall Street #2504, New York, NY 10005.                                                       Feb 2016 – Dec 2016

CLIENT: Global HR Research, 3902 Henderson Blvd, Tampa FL 33629.

Job Responsibilities:

·         Developed highly scalable, reliable and always available web applications architecture using .NET and Microsoft Azure Cloud services and technologies for a one stop solution for all Background Screening requirements.

·         Defined the Agile Storyboard for end-to-end implementation of the new built from scratch leading a team of 3 developers.

·         Led the interview process and helped the Client’s IT Department build their own .NET development team.

·         Manage, Track and report on the project development to senior management on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

·         Worked with the Client’s VP of IT Department, on various aspects of the Project Management with cost, scope, and quality aspects in mind.

·         Designed the Project’s Enterprise Architecture Strategy leveraging Components Off the Shelf (COTS) models to assemble and System engineer the project, using Azure Cloud Components and Services, etc.

·         Leveraged state of the art technologies, like Bootstrap Themes (AdminLTE, Okler), HTML5, Jquery, Javascript, MongoDB, JSON, C#.NET, SPA, Razor view engine, WCF, Web API 2.0, Azure VMs, Azure Hybrid Cloud realizations, Azure SendGrid Email solutions, Azure Storage Mechanisms (Blobs & Files), Azure Queues, Azure Redis Caches, Azure DocumentDB, Azure PowerShell.

·         Defined the Security Architecture for the entire project based on the 26 Cloud Design patterns for Security, performance, and Maintenance.

·         Trained the development staff on Azure technologies and the coding practices to follow for effectively implementing the cloud design patterns.

·         Hands on experience in setting up the Azure cloud environment needed for the project, including setting up of the website servers and associated Azure 3^rd party services.

·         Hands on experience in defining and coding in C#.NET SPAs, using Razor View engine, and MVCs.

·         Defined the Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Integration (CI) architecture for the project within the confines of the online Microsoft Team Foundation Services (TFS).

·         Defined the Agile Process and Practices to follow for the project using Rally online (rallydev.com), and integrated the CI/CD process to operate within the Rally, TFS & Azure environments.

·         Trained the teams on Agile processes followed for the project.

·         Defined the Build strategy for the project using Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Rally, and Azure, with code labeling and branching strategies.

·         Provided weekly/monthly project updates to the Client’s Senior Leadership teams, including EVPs, COO, and CEO.

·         Worked with the Client’s finance department, to define the project’s billing and legacy accounts applications integration strategies.

·         Performed consultant performance appraisals on behalf of the client.

·         Influenced the hire and fire decisions for my client.

·         Defined the Vendor Management Strategies and its technical implementation aspects within the project.

 

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER / .NET ARCHITECT (Consultant)

USM Business Systems, 14175 Sullyfield Cir, Suite #400, Chantilly, VA 20151.                       August 2015 – Jan 2016

Job Responsibilities:

CLIENT: Medi-Weightloss® Clinics, 509 S. Hyde Park Ave, Tampa FL 33606.

·         Introduced and on-boarded the client to Agile Software development processes and agile project management methodologies

·         Technical advisor to the Clients Execute CEO office on Agile practices, Cloud Migration Strategies, .NET Technologies on-boarding into the company.

·         Worked with the Client’s various department heads and detailed out over 12+ new projects that critically impacted their ROI and annual revenue growth.

·         Worked with their department heads, and drove the initiative of documenting the client’s complete & comprehensive Intellectual Properties.

·         Worked with their legal, marketing, finance and COO offices to build Intellectual Property valuation documentations and plans to enhance valuations.

·         Drove the initiative of fully documenting their IT departments, processes and procedures for future streamlining of their IT departments effectiveness.

·         Conducted in-depth ISO27001 and HiPAA security audits and successfully identified their current state with IT security, and suggestions to improve upon their current practices to keep them compliant with Medical data security.

·         Managed a team of 3 client developers and 1 architect towards realizing my goals.

·         With the client’s development team created a document framework to document their 1 million lines of python code.

·         Developed a Cloud migration plan for the client’s senior leadership team after thoroughly assessing their current state of their IT resources.

·         Delivered project status reporting to stakeholders on a weekly basis.

·         Designed and developed and project managed the realization of a new internet marketing website application, called webcore, using Windows 2012, Visual Studio 2015, ASP.NET, Razor C#, JSON, CSS, HTML5, JQuery technologies and hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk framework. The new website is available at www.mediweightloss.com

·         Introduced the client to software development using Microsoft .NET technologies, Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk technologies and was the go to guy for senior leaders and developers.

·         Conducted interviews and hired technical staff build a good development team for the client.

·         Provided technical leadership to the client in their efforts in establishing a social media strategy for their internet marketing department geared towards increasing their patient base.

·         Provided technical leadership to the client in their efforts to expand their presence in the mobile space. Negotiated with several mobile vendors, like BariApps, MyFitnessPal, FitBit, to come up with a realistic plan to expand the client’s services to support an online food/exercise journals for their patients.

 

ARCHITECT – Enterprise Mobility

NIELSEN, 501 Brooker Creek Blvd, Oldsmar, FLORIDA USA 34677.                                February 2010 – July 2015

Job Responsibilities:

·         Architectural and technical leadership & direction in building retail market data acquisition end-to-end systems, and legacy systems conversions to .NET technology, to Nielsen's retail consumer business to over 18+ countries in EMEAI, APAC, LatAm regions, earning revenues of over USD 20+ million.

·         Development manager/Lead Architect for cloud based web client/server application development using .NET (C#, WCF, WPF, Web services) & WAMP technologies for Retail survey data & Panel management for EMEAI, APAC countries with a team of offshore software development consultants.

·         Architecture lead for planning, designing and development of Android mobile data acquisition systems for retail markets for Nielsen clients.

·         Worked with regional sales teams to drive/generate growth for Nielsen retail business.

·         Directed data mining tools development, proof of concept mobile application prototypes to advance enterprise mobility within Nielsen.

·         Traveled to various countries to showcase our mobile solutions for retail data management and generate potential clients.

·         Grew and managed geo-located engineering teams for the company.

·         Defined team roles and responsibilities for the Engineering Development and support functions for Nielsen's Data Acquisition Projects.

·         Led the interview selection process, throughout the past 5 years, for hiring 20+ strong software engineers from Nielsen partner company TCS, US-based High paid consultants, project managers and senior software developers across multiple teams and locations worldwide.

·         Performed day to day task and schedule planning and tracking for the engineering team, I grew from scratch.

·         Performed technical trainings to my engineering team on a daily basis, initially, gradually ramping down to once a month on Nielsen data collection enterprise web-based applications hardware and software systems and subsystems. Included retraining team on new programming skills to the team such as Python, PERL, PowerShell, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Mono, VBScript, PIG, Hive, JavaScript, etc.

·         Performed all project management functions for Nielsen's data acquisition projects for 3 years till we could hire 2 dedicated project managers for the team, and successfully managed all my project goals and stated KPIs.

·         Performed large scale budget planning for my data acquisition projects with my senior leadership team, on all hardware and software aspects including budget based headcount planning.

·         Led the continuous ongoing efforts with various product managers in 18+ countries, datacenter managers, SLT, clients on all matters related to my large-scale data acquisition projects' planning, implementing and deployment needs to multiple international sites.

·         Owned and delivered on the company KPIs and project goals related to on time delivery of my projects with 100% track record and my team was always recognized for always being in the green with project deployments and very low escaped defects.

·         Participated in various product strategy planning for Nielsen's retail market data acquisition visions and client needs.

·         Led the execution and successful deployment of few of the key product strategies entrusted to me, by showing my technical strengths and leadership skills on all of Nielsen data acquisition projects.

·         I designed and owned all the architectural systems and subsystems, both hardware and software components, for all of the Nielsen retail market data acquisition large scale enterprise client-server systems (web-based and applications) including the networking factors, Nielsen worldwide datacenter selections, technology to use for the projects, etc.

·         I created and owned the high level design documents derived from my architectural design documents that were given to my engineering team to review and derive the low level design documents.

·         Participated in all document, code and test reviews from my engineering team and owned the approval process.

·         Architected over 10 large scale enterprise web-based systems, and enterprise desktop systems.

·         Designed and performed hands-on coding of ASMX web services and hosted on an IIS based webserver for several of my projects.

·         Designed and coded several project specific reporting, data monitoring tools and API platforms, reusing libraries from other projects as well.

·         Redesigned several projects to better optimize the data collection code written in C#, C++, VB.NET, ASP.NET, WCF, WPF, Python, PHP, PERL, etc. and reviewed my team's code for better optimization and attainment of our project KPIs and goals.

·         Participated in several mobile user interface look and feel design for some of the mobile enterprise web projects and approval process.

·         Wrote several tools in Python for the project.

 

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT/TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM MANAGER – Mobile Devices

MOTOROLA INC – Mobile Devices, 600 N US 45, Libertyville, ILLINOIS, USA 60048     March 1998 – January 2009

Job Responsibilities:

·         Provided architectural and technical leadership & direction in mobile device software test and quality assurance processes (stability, Interoperability, automation).

·         Lead development Architect/manager for Manufacturing Pulse – Statistical quality evaluation software product for Motorola Manufacturing facilities, that allowed for external business revenue of  USD 2.5+ Million, and scrap savings of  USD 8+ Million/year.

·         Reporting to the Sr. Director, I...

·               (A)....led a distributed team to measure, identify, and root-cause product software instability issues, for

·               Motorola Mobile Devices 3GSM Linux/Java and P2K Platform products, across 23 development teams, located in 6 countries, for 12+ Motorola mobile phones, shipped to over 8 carriers in 7 countries and driving-down the in-stability rates to zero failures in 800 Hrs. of continuous operations on live carrier networks in American, European, & Asian market regions.

·               (B)....instituted and drove the Feature level Network-based Interoperability (IOT) Testing across Motorola's P2K and Linux/Java Mobile Devices Applications Development & Test teams, and led a globally distributed team of 30+ testers and engineers towards realization of stable feature performances on live carrier networks across American, European, and Asian Market regions.

·               (C)....realized an automation environment for the Motorola 3GSM and WCDMA p2k platform mobile devices' connectivity components(Bluetooth, USB, GPRS/HSDPA) resulting in leading a team to create an automation environment using Automat5, JavaScript, C#, PERL, KSH, that ran on 15 Motorola phones, with over 20 critical issues logged in, and over 250 manual test cases converted to automated ones.

·               (D)...perform comparative benchmark testing for Motorola 3GSM/WCDMA phones with industry standard mobile operating systems like Android, Windows Mobile, Mac OSX (iPhone), Symbian for performance, reliability, quality, user experience and recommend, incorporate changes accordingly into Motorola's offerings.

·               Established and directed a Product Stability Process & Metrics Quality Initiative throughout the organization.

·               Established an organization-wide Feature-level Interoperability Test (IOT) Processes, Practices, & Metrics across Development & Test teams.

·               Established a Test Automation Process & Metrics for the Motorola Connectivity Applications Team.

·               Established and directed the automated Stress and Performance Test Stability Lab in Brazil.

·               Managed vendors and Third Party Software/Solutions suppliers, in an effort to mitigate test blocking issues.

·               Influenced the product acceptance test process, plans, test cases, with service providers to facilitate speedy product acceptance.

·               Influenced the Modification of organization structure to improve efficiency.

·               Interfaced with Phone application development/test leads/managers to identify and execute-on acceptable testing strategies within set timelines and quality thresholds (Business driven).

·               Maintained the expected test results and performance figures and ensured concerned stakeholders' awareness.

·               Drove issue resolutions and communications to cross-functional stakeholders in my daily CCB meetings

·               Drove the result based test execution optimizations.

·               Participated in test result reviews and performance compliance to business needs.

·               Influence managed and facilitated the test executions in both live Customer and lab environments.

·               Drove the lessons learned activities for organizational improvement.

·               Worked with application teams to identify proper tools for knowledge sharing (mostly in-house tools)

·               Initiated and Drove the six sigma efforts for root-causing and reducing instabilities in the phone software, and applied the same to test practices and its improvements as well.

·               Led a team of 3 engineers to Architect, implement, deploy an automated test execution environments for the connectivity functionality within 3GSM & WCDMA Motorola phones, with strong focus on Bluetooth, USB, and GPRS / HSDPA Data connectivity.

·               Led & coordinated a distributed team (23+ SW development professionals) to build and test the Motorola Linux Java API Software Development Kit for its Linux/Java Platform based mobile phone products.

·               Coordinated among 23 development teams located in over 6 countries.

·               Performed program management duties of planning, scheduling, tracking, reporting to cross functional teams and other stakeholders.

 

R&D ENGINEER

Hewlett Packard Ltd.,

456, Alexandra Road, 13th Floor, N.O.L. Building, Singapore – 119962                                  Feb 1997 – March 1998

Job Responsibilities:

·         Development & test lead for HP Fault management Platform & Project Software Configuration Manager

 

Past Positions Held (Provided on request)                                                                                      April 1992 - Feb 1997

 

AWARDS & CERTIFICATION

1. Outstanding Contribution Award (Trip Projection)                                                                                                                              Nielsen, 2014

2. Outstanding Contribution Award (Homescan Premium)                                                                                                                    Nielsen, 2013

3. Certificate of Excellence (China Project),                                                                                                                     The Nielsen Company, 2011

4. IT Information Library (ITIL) v3 Certification,                                                                                        Loyalist Certification Services, USA, 2010

5. Certificate Course, Managing Projects,                                                                             ESI Intl. & George Washington University, USA, 2007

6. Certificate Course: Digital Six Sigma Green Belt,                                                                                                  Motorola University, USA, 2007

MISCELLANEOUS

1.        US Citizen.

2.        References available on my linkedin.com webpage.