Manjunath N Gowda

• Drove innovation initiatives by encouraging cross-functional collaboration and fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
• Fostered strong relationships with stakeholders, effectively communicating progress updates and addressing concerns promptly.
• Reduced project delivery timeframes with rigorous attention to detail and proactive risk mitigation strategies.
• Championed process improvements for increased efficiency, analyzing existing workflows and recommending enhancements.
• Spearheaded strategic planning sessions to align technical objectives with organizational goals and market demands.
• Enhanced product development for streamlined processes through implementation of agile methodologies.

Key Deliverables:

• Design and implementation of secure enterprise solutions which deals with sharing of confidential and top-secret information with external users and partners
• Led technology governance efforts, planning upgrades, hardware refreshes and software updates
• Bridged efforts between internal and external technology personnel, aligning first-party and third-party activities to optimize progress
• Developed long-term policies to support business growth through sustainable expansion and enhancement
• Offered technical leadership to junior personnel and other team leaders, providing expertise on Cyber Security
• Performed detailed assessments of risks to determine constraints and develop mitigation strategies
• Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands
• Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive
• Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems
• Designed and developed fully automated continuous integration system using Git, Jenkins, TeamCity and custom tools developed in NodeJS
• Worked with Sales and Marketing teams to enhance applications to suit their needs
• Design and development of tool to manage records of top-secret content accessed by external users
• Assist upstream and downstream application teams in integration and development of reporting services using SSIS and SSRS
• Development of search microservices using AMQ and Amazon S3.
  Come up with Unit, Regression, Integration and End-to-end test cases during application development and release
• Database optimization using performance analysis tools on MS SQL and MongoDB
• Occasionally assist legal team in extracting complex reports for audit purposes
• Developed log management system to assist support teams in debugging production issues. Enhance modules for performance improvement by effective usage of threads
• Assist support teams on complex issues and in crisis situations.
  Work with WhiteHat testers to ensure all code-paths are tested for vulnerabilities
• Skills: Windows Server 2008, 2012, C# 4.5, C# 5.0, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, JQuery, TeamCity, Amazon S3, AMQ, Mulesoft, Teradata, Git, Lunix, AngularJS, Angular, NodeJS, ExpressJS, MongoDB, MSSQL, Oracle, IntelliJ

Key Deliverables:

• Started my career in Information Security by being part of implementation of two projects for fertilizer giant in Europe
• Developed key module in project that offers subscription and payment features
• Provided technical and functional recommendations based on project requirements. Managed new feature integration into current build with continuous integration software
• Collaborated with project teams to support new or enhanced products.
  Collaborated closely with upper management to drive strategy through development and implementation of new processes
• Mapped processes to holistically examine business flow and identify improvement opportunities
• Evaluated and adopted new technologies to address changing industry needs
• Presented business leaders with cost-benefit and return-on-investment estimations to drive project planning and execution. Developed flowcharts and diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps
• Reviewed performance benchmarks and established metrics for future tracking
• Developed modules to interact with third party secure payment providers to get necessary security credentials for site
• Implemented module to track events and soil conditions using Microsoft Bing maps APIs
• Developed disaster recovery strategy for high-availability environment
• Developed custom dashboard solution using HTML5 features.
  Designed dashboard to show status of soil by using real-time values
• Developed suggestion model to suggest products based on their usage behavior and requirements
• Played role of configuration manager to ensure releases are error-free.
  Developed MS build configurations for deployment of code to all environments
• Skills: Windows Server 2008, 2012, C# 4.5, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Teradata, VSS, MSSQL, Oracle

Key Deliverables:

• Had experience of working on pilot project for a telecom company.
  Collaborated with onsite coordinator for requirement elicitation and development. Developed modules pertaining to their sourcing and procurement
• Designed and developed business layer for their confidential price process mechanism with their external partners
• Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues
• Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for creating well-organized project plans
• Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns
• Tested troubleshooting methods, devised innovative solutions, and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use
• Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications
• Adjusted software parameters to boost performance and incorporate new features
• Suggested improvements to team and project workflow.
  Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions
• Introduced methodologies and best practices to software development division to enhance product definition and application customization
• Developed custom reports using Excel Macros and MS SQL.
  Integrating legacy apps with latest .Net framework-based COM objects to avoid rewriting of application
• Optimization of database stored procedures by implementing indexes and eliminating redundant triggers
• Worked on application performance improvement by utilizing resource management feature being offered by then latest .Net framework
• Deployment of APIs behind security firewall to adhere to security standards
• Used third party UI components on web pages for better data handling and user experience
• Trained users and production support teams on application architecture and use cases
• Skills: Windows Server 2008, C# 2.0, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Teradata, VSS, MSSQL, Oracle

Key Deliverables:

• Coordinated in development of a module for an aviation giant.
  Researched, designed and implemented scalable applications for information identification, extraction, analysis, retrieval and indexing
• Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvement recommendations
• Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving client requirements
• Conducted regression testing, analyzed results and submitted observations to development team
• Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues
• Installed and configured software applications and tested solutions for effectiveness
• Walked clients and internal staff through troubleshooting steps to resolve common software issues
• Consulted with engineering team members to determine system loads and develop improvement plans
• Versed in complete software life cycle from preliminary needs analysis to enterprise-wide deployment and support
• Enhanced legacy application to suit changes in program on client side. Modularize complex application into individual self-sustaining modules
• Enhanced existing product life cycle management tool to fit needs of a new program. Created test scripts for automated testing during each build to reduce lead time between deployments
• Created new KPI reports using Excel objects for audit trail purposes and archival
• Skills: Windows Server 2008, C# 1.1, 2.0, HTML, Visual Basic 6.0, VSS, Oracle, Classic ASP, Excel Objects