Vijay Kerala Varma
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About
• Proactive, customer focused, solutions driven Software Professional with more than 11 years experience in all aspects of SDLC
• Experience in product and project development in web, android and windows desktop applications
• Significant experience in project management on diverse, concurrent, large scale projects utilising project management frameworks, methodologies, tools, principles and practices
• More than 5 years of Agile Project Management, Scrum Master and Coaching experience
• Good technical expertise in unit testing, functional testing, code re-factoring and maintenance of legacy code
• Expertise in working with continuous integration, build automation, rapid deployment, source control, configuration management, change management and defect management
• Extensive experience in budget management, conducting strategic planning, risk management, resource management and overall aspects of stakeholder engagement, including negotiations
• Promotes workplace safety, equity, diversity and participative management practices
• Concentrates on empowering teams to self organize
• Quick learner with strong communication skills, good leadership qualities, exceptional problem solving skills, excellent mentoring abilities and motivational skills
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Servlets, JUnit, Mockito
C#, VB.Net, VB6, Win Forms, WPF, WCF, Infragistics tools and controls
JavaScript, SmartClient OO JavaScript, JSP, Adobe Flex, Action Scripts,
XML, SOAP (Axis) and RESTful Web Services
ANT, Maven, SOAPUI, JMeter, SVN, Mecurial, VSS
Hudson\Jenkins, Cobertura, PMD, ReviewBoard,
IIS, Tomcat, Apache Web Server, JBOSS
Oracle, MS- SQL Server, MySQL
Documentum (DFC), SharePoint, MasterControl, LiveLink and QUMAS
SPECIALITIES
Software Estimation, Risk Management, Global eCTD specifications, Electronic Regulatory Submissions, Regulated Product Submissions (RPS), Retail Trade Promotions, VersionOne, Quality Center, AutoTask, Microsoft Project, Office, Visio
CERTIFICATIONS:
Project Management Professional® certification (PMP® Number 1557046) by PMI
Certified ScrumMaster® certification (CSM® Number 000177335) by ScrumAlliance, Inc.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2002-10-01 - 2003-03-31 - Suncochin (Programmer)
- 2003-04-01 - 2004-04-30 - Armsol Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Programmer)
- 2004-06-02 - 2004-11-21 - Team Infosol (Software Technical Executive)
- 2004-12-06 - 2005-02-28 - Liquent Software India Private Limited (Junior Software Engineer)
- 2005-03-01 - 2006-05-31 - Liquent Software India Private Limited (Software Engineer)
- 2006-06-01 - 2008-03-31 - Liquent Software India Private Limited (Senior Software Engineer)
- 2008-04-01 - 2010-10-31 - Liquent Software India Private Limited (Project Leader)
- 2010-11-01 - 2013-04-09 - Liquent Software India Private Limited (Manager - Engineering)
- 2013-04-15 - 2014-08-26 - SM Netserv Technologies Private Limited (Development Manager)
- 2015-02-24 - 2016-02-12 - Fairfax Media (Software Development Team Lead)