Lalitha S.

Lalitha Subramanian Objective: Seeking a lead role with a software development organization using my skills and experience in developing Client-Server and Web based applications in Microsoft technologies. Job Profile : • Technical Lead- Responsible for Architecture and Design , Project Management and Team coordination Education: • Completed my Master of Computer Applications with 84% in June 2001 at Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore • A gold medal recipient in Masters Professional Experience: Nov 2006 – Jun 2007 – Infosys Technologies as Technical Lead Jul 2005 – Oct 2006 – MindTree Consulting as Project Lead Feb 2004 – Jun 2005 – Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) as Programmer Analyst. May 2002 – Jan 2004 – Changepond Technologies as Software Engineer. Jul 2001 – Apr 2002 – Sherlock InfoTech as Programmer. Technical Experience: • Six years of experience in designing and developing front-end using Microsoft Technologies including .NET and back-end like SQL-Server and Oracle. • 3 years of experience in Design, Development and Deployment of Web-based and Client-Server applications. • Experience in designing portal applications using Microsoft Office Sharepoint Portal Server • Over a year experience in Project management activities • Worked on Project proposal for Maintenance and support Summary of Accomplishments: • Consistently rated as a high performer. • Exposure to SEI CMM Level 5 Quality Systems. Skill Set: GUI • C#, VB.NET, VB, Java Web Technologies • ASP.NET, ASP, SOAP, XML, VBScript, JavaScript and IIS. Portal Server • Microsoft Office Sharepoint, Websphere Commerce Server RDBMS • MS - SQL Server, Oracle 8, IBM DB2. Middleware • COM & MTS. OS • MS Windows Data Access Technologies • [login to view URL], DAO, RDO, ADO Tools used • Visual Source Safe (Configuration Management) • NUnit (Unit testing) • Sharepoint Designer Reporting • SQL Server Reporting services Skills • Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle • Exposure to CMM Processes • Exposure to Project Management activities Jan 2007 – Jun 2007 Technical/Project Lead – Portal Redesign Team Size – 7 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana (BCBSMT), USA This is a project to enhance all the portals (Member, Provider, Employer, and Agent) to improve customer experience and gain the benefits of increased self service for high demand transactions. The objectives are: 1. Propose an architecture for Web content management of BCBSMT, replacing EKTRON CMS300 with Sharepoint Portal Server 2007 2. Replace BMC Directory Smart solution with single sign-on Asp.Net 2.0 security model 3. Recommend a portal solution to meet the future business requirements related to customization, personalization, reusable UI Components and better security 4. Identify and implement new UI design for static and dynamic contents on the site 5. Implement new features for all the portals Responsibilities • Explored the content management features of Sharepoint Portal Server 2007 and recommended new architecture replacing existing EKTRON CMS 300. • Delivered a solution approach using single sign-on Asp.Net 2.0 security model with appropriate service providers and user controls • Coordination with the team and UI designers for developing better UI • Involved in overall portal redesign using Sharepoint. • Explored features of Sharepoint designer 2007 for new UI redesign and mentoring offshore environment setup • Involved in preparation of Statement of Work for phase 2 activities , estimating the effort, team management Development Environment: ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server2005, Sharepoint Designer 2007, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, Windows 2003 Server Dec 2006 – Jan 2007 Technical/Project Lead – Worldwide (WW) Samples Application (Validation phase) Team Size – 3 Texas Instruments, USA The objective of the project is to implement a Business to Business (B2B) solution for WW Samples application using IBM Websphere Commerce 6.0 and establish a stable and scalable platform. I was involved in the planning phase to identify requirements that can be met with out of the box features of IBM Websphere and requirements that will require custom development, and provide cost estimate for implementation phase. Responsibilities • Generate Solution Approach document - Refine the scope of requirements by maximizing the use of Out of box features and plan activities to be performed in implementation phase • Arrive at a revised cost estimate for implementation phase of the project based on the scope • Technical support for offshore environment setup Development Environment: IBM Websphere Commerce Server 6.0 Nov 2006 – Dec 2006 Technical Lead – SQL Reporting Team Size – 2 British Petroleum (BP) USA This is a Proof of Concept (POC) work done for an existing Asp.Net application. The purpose of the work is to prepare reports using SQL Reporting services based on the requirements. The data was retrieved in a dataset from the oracle procedure and ReportViewer control was used to display the report. Responsibilities • Identify and understand the requirements for the reports in the existing application • Remote Deployment of the reports in BP environment • Presentation of the reports to technical lead at BP Development Environment: ASP.NET 2.0, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, Windows 2003 Server Feb 2006 – Oct 2006 Project Lead – Redcat Enhancements Team Size – 4 BurgerKing Corporation (BKC) USA REDCAT is Real Estate Development and Construction Activity Tracker system. The purpose of the application is to act as a tool for tracking restaurant development, starting from identifying target areas to opening a restaurant. This system is web-based and is the replacement application for the Lotus Notes Database. The primary actors of the application are Development Managers, Development Associates, Construction Managers and other BKC Development personnel. Role and user management is done through Active Directory Services and a webservice is used to get the permissions for the user. This is an existing application in .Net and the following are the objectives of the project 1. Identify screens which caused data inconsistency due to partial transactions. Fix the same by using SQLTransaction between the business calls. 2. Replacement of a third party workflow tool Template with custom workflow logic 3. Functional changes/ Enhancements in the application Responsibilities • Analysis and approach to handle the transaction changes and custom workflow logic. • Preparing low level design document for the technical and functional changes • Team coordination and assigning tasks to the team members and reviewing • Estimation of various enhancements and Change Requests • Mentored the team members technically • Knowledge transfer to the team on the BurgerKing business process and various applications handled. • Coordination with team for application build and release for System testing Development Environment: ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server2000, Windows 2000 Server Aug 2005 – Jan 2006 Senior Developer & Lead – Websales Development Team Size – 3 BurgerKing Corporation USA Websales is a web based application, that was developed to manage the sales submission process of restaurants owned by Burgerking, and franchise owned restaurants. This sales submission tool is a part of the BK Gateway portal, which acts as a centralized tool and provides easy access to many other systems. The updated restaurant information is obtained from Aries webservice and data caching is done for the same for easy retrieval of data. Responsibilities • Study and analysis of the requirements and documentation of low level design, • Team & onsite coordination for building the application and releasing to System testing, • Analysis and estimation of change requests, analysis and preparation of approach documents for the change requests and enhancements, • Study on unit testing tool NUnit and develop test cases for the business layer • Code reviews for other team members Development Environment: ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server2000, Windows 2000 Server Jan 2005 – Jun 2005 Developer – Customer Relationship Management Team Size – 5 ADP Dealer Services USA ADP has deployed its CRM application to various vendors in the vehicle industry and it is tightly integrated with Elite – a legacy application. This project was for performance tuning of the application. The nightly job was running for 8.5 hours and this was reduced to 4 hours after tuning. My responsibilities are – • Identification of the code blocks that needs to be optimized • Study of the Business development process and documenting • Identified the stored procedures to optimize based on the business logic, and optimized the selected stored procedures • Testing the validity of data using Redgate, analysis of the procedures and documenting the list of tables, the source and destination of data and the business flow involved. Development Environment: SQL Server 2000 Feb 2004 – Oct 2004 Developer – Ready Set Grow [RSG] Team Size – 6 (For Group 2 – Corporate Tax, Gift Certificates) Client – Schwans, US The project (RSG) is of reengineering model in which the client’s Mainframe Application, which contains 4.5 million lines of COBOL code, needs to be converted to Client Server applications on the Windows platform using .NET technology. My responsibilities are - Analysis, Design and Development of the application, involved in Design and Development of web pages, COM+ components and stored procedures for Corporate Tax, preparation and execution of Unit Test Plans and doing Peer reviews. Development Environment: ASP.NET, C#, COM+, SQL Server2000, IBM DB2, Windows 2003 Jul 2003 – Feb 2004 Developer – Customer Handling and Relationship Management [CHARM] Team Size – 8 Client – Medical Defense Union (MDU), UK Description The Membership System resembles a web site that is accessed from the MDU's Intranet home page, which runs entirely within Microsoft Internet Explorer using IIS 5.0. My responsibilities are - Design and Development of the application, designing forms, development of database components and Implementation of Windows Authentication, writing stored procedures and integration of various screens, support the application. Development Environment: VB.NET, ASP.NET, VB6.0, COM, SQL Server2000 Jan 2003 – Jun 2003 Developer – MAS Vector Synchronization Team Size – 8 Client – KPMG, US KPMG Auditors maintain their client information centrally. Auditors can download the information and upload it after making the changes. My responsibilities are - Design and Development of the Synchronization logic, design and Development of Data resolution screen and COM components to upload and download engagements, support the application Development Environment: VB.NET, C#, VB6.0, ASP.NET, ASP, SQL Server2000 Oct 2002 – Dec 2002 Developer – CMS and SRi [login to view URL] Team Size – 5 Client – CT Insurance, US Content Management System (CMS) is an intranet repository for all the insurance acts, laws & regulations in US. My responsibilities are - Design, Development and Implementation of the Application, Component design to establish Database connection, to parse and edit XML files and to log errors, development of Admin module and Content Management module pages. Development Environment: ASP, VB6.0, XML, Oracle May 2002 – Sep 2002 Developer – Retail Improvement Center [login to view URL] Team Size – 5 Client – JD Power Associates, US Blue Oval Certified Retail Improvement Center (BOCRIC) is a perfect delivery system for Ford Motor Company to help all Ford dealers to improve their delivery process performance. My responsibilities are - Design and development of the application, graphs creation using ChartDirector and integrating with the application, creating DTS package to read from an external database, which transfers data after validation Development Environment: ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL-Server 2000