VIJAY KUMAR RAJA GRANDHI
BENGALURU
Summary
Results-driven software development project manager with 15 + years of experience in managing complex software projects. Proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions on time and within budget, improving efficiency by at least 20%. Seeking a challenging role to utilize my expertise in software development project management. Domain Knowledge in Health Care, Logistics, Document and Record Management, and Education ERP. Three years of ONSITE experience to the UK for giving production support in terms of fixing production issues, implementing change requests and effectively coordinating between onshore and offshore teams
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Program Manager
Quest-Global Technologies
Bangalore
06.2016 - Current
- Preparation of Project Charter before the start of the Release and coordination for the Approval Process
- Key Member in the Project Road Map group for defining the RFCs for the Release and grouping the same based on the functionality and Usability Aspects
- Responsible for leading the Development and QA team and ensuring the release reached the customer base on the committed date and RFCs
- Reviewing Functional Specification Documents with the knowledge of Usability, Internal Controls and System Integrity
- Responsible for XCP product design and development from the start and also SPOC for Customer Billing Statements
- Responsible for releasing the last 4 Releases of XCP successfully without much Scheduled Variance
- Played scrum master role by coordinating in terms of organizing daily scrum calls, retrospective meetings, estimation meetings and resolving impediments by timely escalating it to Business analysts or stakeholders
- Technical support to the development team
- Take part in designing and developing big functionalities
- Initiate communication channels between team members and customers by reducing the ideal time when there is a dependency
Project Manager
TVSi
Chennai
03.2014 - 06.2016
- Preparation of Project Charter before the start of the Release and coordination of the Approval Process
- Responsible for leading the Development and QA team and ensuring the release reached the customer base on the committed date and RFCs
- Responsible for XCP product design and development from the start and also SPOC for Customer Billing Statements
- Responsible for successfully releasing the last 4 Releases of XCP without much of the Scheduled Variance
- Played scrum master role by coordinating and organizing daily scrum calls, retrospective meetings, and estimation meetings, and resolving impediments by timely escalating them to business analysts or stakeholders
- Technical support to the development team
Assistant Manager
ISG Novasoft Technologies
Chennai
05.2013 - 03.2014
- Played scrum master role by coordinating and organizing daily scrum calls, retrospective meetings, and estimation meetings, and resolving impediments by timely escalating them to business analysts or stakeholders
- Technical support to the development team
- Take part in designing and developing big functionalities
- Initiate communication channels between team members and customers by reducing ideal time when there is a dependency
Deputy Project Manager
CSS Corp
Chennai
04.2010 - 05.2013
- Involved in requirement gathering with Clients based on functional specifications
- Analysing the requirements and identifying the activities for estimating the effort
- Preparation of LLD and HLD documents
- Providing estimates for tasks
- Involved in Project tracking in terms of effectively monitoring the progress of activities and reporting the status to the Manager
- Weekly status meeting with Client
- Interaction with Customers in terms of giving demos about the project deliverables
- Involved in code reviewing using FXCOP and Code Analysis
- Assisting the team members in terms of solving technical issues, code reviewing, debugging and sharing knowledge about technical concepts
- Implemented a Search engine to retrieve records using dotLucene Indexing services
Project Lead
CSS Corp
Chennai
04.2004 - 03.2010
- Involved in developing the presentation layer, business layer and data Access layer
- Involved in preparing impact analysis documents based on change requirements from customers
- Coordination & Interaction with clients for production support, issue simulation and patch release
Software engineer
IBFI
Chennai
11.2002 - 03.2004
- Designed business entities and business logic components
- Developed business logic interfaces
- Implemented payroll, Inventory, and Library modules
- Preparing requirement specification documents based on customer customization requirements
- Developed business logic interfaces and other middle-tier components using VB COM
- Visited customer place for System integration and implementation
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Vel Tech Engg. College
06.2000
B.Sc - Electronics
G.V.P.D.College
01.1995
Skills
- Project Management
- Business Management
- Software Development
- Agile methodologies
- Interpersonal Communication
- Time management
- Problem Solving
- C#NET
- ASPNET MVC
- JavaScript, jQuery, CSS
- Boot Strap
- WPF, XAML
- ASPNET Web API
- WCF
- REST APIs
- Microservice
- Design Patterns
- SQL Server, Oracle
- Dockers
- GIT, TFS
- LINQ, ADONET
- Crystal Report 11
- XML
- SOAP
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Telugu
- Tamil
Affiliations
• Adjudged as Navigator for year 2010 in CSS Corp.
• Adjudged as Best team twice consecutively for 2014 and 2015 in TVSi.
Timeline
Program Manager
Quest-Global Technologies
06.2016 - Current
Project Manager
TVSi
03.2014 - 06.2016
Assistant Manager
ISG Novasoft Technologies
05.2013 - 03.2014
Deputy Project Manager
CSS Corp
04.2010 - 05.2013
Project Lead
CSS Corp
04.2004 - 03.2010
Software engineer
IBFI
11.2002 - 03.2004
Master of Computer Applications -
Vel Tech Engg. College
B.Sc - Electronics
G.V.P.D.College
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