Naveenkumar Sivashanmugam

Client: Wellpath, U.S.

Technology: Dot Net, Azure, CI/CD, Angular, Web API

Tools: Azure DevOps, SSMS, Visual Studio, ServiceNow, MS Teams, Zoom

Development Methodology: Agile/Scrum

Background: Maintenance and enhancement of the application named ERMA, an EHR which takes care of patients profiles, medication, Lab orders, Treatment types etc. across prisons at various counties under U.S. federal government. Reports & charts can be pulled out of the system for users mainly doctors or nurse or other legal executives. Patient data are maintained confidentially in the system.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for bi-weekly sprint releases.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Managed over 50+ sprints. Increased team's productivity by 12%.

Client: Ford Motor Company, U.S.

Technology: Rally, Oracle PL/SQL, MS SQL Server, PowerDesigner, LINUX, Shell Script, AutoSys

Tools: CA Agile Central (Rally), SQL Developer, SSMS, BMC Remedy, IT Connect

Development Methodology: Agile

Background: FBMS application deals with managing the Customer, Vehicle data used to make a deal with Fleet Customers.

Incentives offered to the fleet customers of the Ford across North America, Europe, Britain. The customer would be negotiated with various offers and deals created by Account Manager through the application.

The finalized deal with the all the details will be sent to various downstream systems including payment system.

Helps Ford dealers & customers in serving them right deal for the requirement and budget by providing them with incentives and offers.

There is a subproject GBMS with same functionality specifically designed for US government.

Project mode is PDO (Product Driven Organization)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master of agile team comprising of 10 resources.
• Increased productivity of team by 18%.
• Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.

Client: Thomas Cook, U.K.

Technology: Oracle PL/SQL, Sybase, SQL Server, Shell Script

Tools: SQL Developer, SQL Advantage, SSMS

Development Methodology: Waterfall

Background: Thomas Cook is a leading Traveling company based out of UK & Ireland and has wide services across the globe.

The Project scope is handling the Business Change Requests (BCR) for any new development or any change in the existing business logic.

Maintenance of the Custom Apps.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.
• Prepared detailed reports on updates to project specifications, progress, identified conflicts and team activities.
• Took on additional job duties during unexpected backlog, resulting in meeting project target date.
• Established open and professional relationships with team members to achieve quick resolutions for various issues.
• Single handedly worked on server migration projects for two consecutive times.
• Performed key role in Oracle to SQL server migration project.
• Established Development of new features.
• Root cause analysis.
• Query tuning.
• Bug fixes.
• Scripts and batch schedule maintenance.
• Mentoring junior teammates.

Client: Merck, U.S.

Technology: Oracle PL/SQL

Tools: SQL Developer

Development Methodology: Waterfall

Background: Merck is a leading American pharmaceutical company.

This project is about development of Merck Vaccine Division Application with new features and changing the existing functionalities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Code changes.
• Bug fixes.
• Development of new feeds.
• Involved in implementing software development life cycle project from requirements to steady state.
• Modified PL/SQL packages based on requirement/technical specifications.
• Coordinated with offshore team for development activities.
• Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Manual Testing.

Client: State Street Corporation, U.S.

Technology: Shell Scripting, ASE iSQL, SQL, UNIX, AutoSys Job Management

Tools: JIRA - Bug/Task Tracker, dB symphony - Incident/Service Tracker, Smart (Project Management)

Development Methodology: Waterfall

Background: Portfolio Investment Management System (PIMS) – The Application provides all of the basic functions necessary to support portfolio accounting, trade communications, and client reporting.

PIMS being the accounting system, manages static data such as security, client information, price information, trade information, corporate actions flown into the system or captured in the system to do accurate and real time accounting and book keeping of various assets against Client/Account/Portfolio level. PIMS Data feeds – The module receives Inbound Feeds from Upstream Applications and performs the end of the day calculations and sends the processed Outbound Feeds to Downstream applications.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Code changes.
• Root cause analysis including code investigation.
• Bug fixes.
• Development of new feeds.
• Scripts and batch schedule maintenance.
• Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Manual Testing and Regression Testing.
• Reverse engineering.

Client: Deutsche Bank, Germany.

Technology: Java, Shell Scripting, SQL, UNIX

Development Methodology: Waterfall

Background: GBMS (Global Business Messaging services) is Messaging Technology Project and it is directly involved with cash processing system with major clients of the Bank.

Predominantly involve in Code changes, releasing it in the production and also supporting the application.

Incident Management, Problem Management and Cluster Managers are other roles in this Project engagement.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Code changes
• Bug fixes
• Co-ordination with different teams
• Technical analysis
• Documentation & maintaining KeDB