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Smita S Karwade

Calgary,AB

Summary

An accomplished IT Professional with 16+ years of Information Services experience, focused on delivering IT Solutions & Services (EAI) across global business environments. Proven abilities in project planning, tracking, resource management, project on-time delivery, designing complex application integration. Having exposure to the entire Project Life Cycle adhering to the CMM Level 5 quality standards, Experience in Energy and Utility & Manufacturing Domain, Experience of handling and leading multiple assignments efficiently, Self-Starter, a Good Team Player and Motivator with excellent Communication and Client Interfacing Skills.

Experienced with coordinating delivery operations and overseeing team performance. Utilizes leadership skills to motivate teams and ensure project deadlines are met. Track record of effective project management and excellent communication abilities.

Knowledgeable [Desired Position] with solid background in managing delivery teams and ensuring timely project completion. Known for successfully leading cross-functional teams and improving operational efficiency. Demonstrated excellent problem-solving skills and strong communication abilities.

Professional with strong background in leading and optimizing delivery teams, ensuring timely and efficient project execution. Adept at fostering team collaboration and aligning efforts with organizational goals, adaptable to evolving situations and needs. Skilled in logistics management, resource allocation, and stakeholder communication, consistently driving impactful results. Known for reliability, problem-solving abilities, and effective leadership in dynamic environments.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Data Integration Delivery Lead / Sr Delivery An

Suncor Energy
08.2024 - Current
  • Spearheaded recruitment efforts for hiring top talent in delivery roles, ensuring adequate staffing levels during periods of peak demand or employee turnover.
  • Optimized resource allocation by analyzing operational data and adjusting staffing levels according to demand fluctuations.
  • Streamlined inventory management for efficient loading, unloading, and distribution of goods to customers.
  • Improved delivery efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing effective route planning strategies.
  • Supervised delivery staff and general productivity.
  • Managed resources effectively to avoid unnecessary delivery delays.
  • Oversaw delivery portfolio encompassing [Location] with [Number]+ deliveries per week.
  • Coordinated efficient routes and schedules for [Number]-driver team.
  • Engaged customers to discuss business needs and explore opportunities to increase sales.
  • Monitored customer quality metrics and took proactive steps to implement resolutions and restore acceptable levels.
  • Integrated new technologies and best practices to improve [Type] delivery management.
  • Developed strategic growth plans to increase sales and deliveries across [Location].
  • Originated and implemented operational processes and procedures, amplifying productivity.
  • Built working relationships with clients to foster loyalty and encourage repeat business.
  • Collaborated closely with customers to share information about available products and services, increasing utilization and delivery effectiveness.

Confluent Platform Lead / Sr Delivery Analyst

Suncor Energy
07.2021 - 08.2024
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by promptly addressing inquiries and resolving issues.
  • Optimized resource allocation by analyzing route patterns and adjusting staff assignments accordingly.
  • Reduced order processing time with thorough data analysis and workflow optimization.
  • Demonstrated consistent attention to detail when verifying orders against invoices, minimizing errors and ensuring accuracy in billing processes.
  • Collaborated with team members to create efficient schedules that minimized downtime and maximized productivity.
  • Led assessment, estimates, and execution of project deliverables to common backlog and pipeline.
  • Conducted routine audits of delivery routes to ensure compliance with safety regulations and policies.
  • Established performance dashboard and tracking mechanism for deliverables.
  • Assisted in the training of new employees on company procedures, software applications, and delivery protocols.
  • Supported senior company leaders by delivering reports outlining performance to drive process improvements.
  • Built long-term relationships due to prompt and courteous service.

Application Development Associate Manager

Accenture
01.2021 - 07.2021
  • Employed working knowledge of C++, MCV5 and SQL programming languages.
  • Led the integration of third-party APIs, expanding application functionality and interoperability with other systems.
  • Assessed effectiveness of work deliverables and troubleshot where necessary.
  • Continuously updated professional knowledge through research, attending workshops, conferences, and training sessions that contributed to excellent work outcomes.
  • Managed competing and overlapping assignments, prioritizing based on urgency and remaining flexible as demands evolved.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure timely project delivery and high-quality results.
  • Participated in regular code reviews for maintaining consistent quality standards across the team''s output.
  • Followed products through pipeline across Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models, adapting to fit organizational needs.
  • Identified and resolved critical bugs, significantly improving application stability and reliability.
  • Conducted thorough unit testing to ensure error-free code deployment and optimal performance.
  • Explained project technical risks and benefits during project kick-off.
  • Employed expert programming knowledge in coding solutions to broad-reaching issues with company tech.
  • Resolved system test and validation problems to provide normal program functioning.
  • Contributed to architectural decisions for long-term system scalability and maintainability.
  • Adhered to critical deadlines in software development, troubleshooting and implementation.
  • Implemented best practices in coding standards, ensuring maintainable and scalable applications.
  • Assisted internal clients with software operation, troubleshooting system setup issues and developing software tailored to business needs.
  • Exercised meticulous problem-solving skills with systematic thinking and informed decision making.
  • Designed databases facilitating application development allowing creation, modification and implementation of queries.
  • Enhanced application performance by optimizing code and implementing efficient algorithms.
  • Updated technical documentation, product specifications, and technical training materials.
  • Supervised work of programmers, designers and technicians, assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.
  • Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
  • Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
  • Managed budgets effectively, ensuring optimal financial performance while investing in necessary resources for business growth.
  • Managed budget allocations to prioritize spending on high-impact projects, optimizing resource utilization.
  • Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.

Senior Integration Consultant/Solution Designer

Suncor Energy
05.2016 - 07.2020
  • Design, Develop, test and migrate webMethods interface as per the interface design document.
  • Design, develop Flows for integrating the components like connectors, transformers and scopes written on top of different internal platforms using webMethods for XML to CSV, JSON
  • Design and Develop interfaces to extract data and Meta data from SAP Hana and store it in Azure Data lakes.
  • Develop audit hub connector in webMethods to consume Azure storage REST API in a secure manner.
  • Design and Develop and test web services created for client to connect to secure gateway and exchange confidential data with Suncor in-house applications.
  • Develop Data dictionaries, Canonicals to support Data Analytics project for sites.
  • Helped in design review and taking part in design discussions with stakeholders.
  • Code Review and deployment of interfaces to different environment. Complete Release management.
  • Update/modify the interface design document if requirement changes while development
  • Work with various business teams to understand the business requirements and build the test script for interface testing and End to End testing.
  • Supporting Projects through their life cycle.
  • Help vendors team to understand and familiarize Suncor development standards and get them up to speed.
  • Provide technical assistance to the team as required for resolving issues.
  • Have experience to work on multiple projects at same time.
  • Explore Mulesoft tool by working on a POC to create system, process and experience API using Anypoint Studio.
  • Integrating projects include webMethods with SAP, SAP Hana, Commodity XL (CXL is the commodity trading risk management system), Lend, myHR, Enablon, LVHV, Success factor, Azure data lake, Mobileview, Primavera, IPrism, Point Of Sale, SQL, MySQL Oracle, Share point, and Service Now etc.
  • Other Skills - GitHub, Confluence, JIRA, Agile Methodology.

Integration Consultant (Oracle Fusion 11g)

Shaw Communications Inc.
06.2015 - 04.2016
  • Contracted Oracle Fusion 11g developer with ESI Team
  • Design, develop and testing of OSB services ESI project.
  • Perform deployments from DEV to QA using deployment scripts and tools like Team City and Artifactory.
  • Develop, design and test new integration interface in accordance to project documentation, maintaining careful observation for necessary amendment of test plans, strategy, schedule.
  • Assist testing team for integration testing.
  • Warranty support, production defect analysis and code fix.
  • Self-learned and handled successfully Release management process for OSB project. Contributed with lot of new processes and introduce a standard procedure.
  • Skills Used - Oracle Fusion 11g, SOAP UI, Jira, Team City, Stash, Git, Artifactory, Share Point

Integration Consultant (webMethods)

Suncor Energy
02.2014 - 04.2015
  • Contracted webMethods Developer with the PMO
  • Develop, test and migrate the webMethods interface as per the interface design document.
  • Update/modify the interface design document if requirement changes while development
  • Work with various business teams to understand the business requirements and build the test script for interface testing and End to End testing.
  • Supporting Projects through their life cycle.
  • Provide technical assistance to the team as required for resolving issues.
  • Developed integration for systems which includes SAP, Live Link, and custom applications with web services.

Integration Consultant (Tibco)

Groundswell Group
11.2013 - 02.2014
  • Project - Cenovus Energy
  • Worked as an Integration Consultant (Tibco) in a team of 5 people for a big corporation Cenovus Energy, a Canadian Oil Company.
  • Self-trained in brand new TIBCO integration platform to serve as subject matter expert in application support team; developed integration piece for project designer to integrate Cenovus’ financial applications with Open Invoice and Live Link systems.
  • Collaborated with project designer to clarify details of integration, identify unstated or requirement gaps in plans, and to perform development, enhancement, testing and design of financial integration.
  • Developed and tested web services integrating different business applications.
  • Went through software development life cycle from translating business requirements from functional specification to implementation, to design and testing.
  • Supported Finance related interfaces which were complicated and critical for business.

Advisory IT Specialist (Oracle Fusion 11g)

IBM Canada
04.2012 - 10.2013
  • Client - Enbridge Pipelines Inc.
  • Capturing service requirements and user stories through frequent meetings with business stakeholders and domain experts.
  • Discuss with service consumers how to achieve their requirements using existing service framework patterns.
  • Analyze service requirements, and if necessary provide alternate technical solutions to requirements which cannot be achieved using existing service framework patterns.
  • Prepare service design documents and service contracts (WSDL).
  • Obtain sign-off of design artifacts from service consumers.
  • Communicate service design documents and service contracts to the offshore implementation team leads.
  • Experience in integration testing using SOAP UI. Also support business to perform regression testing.

Integration Specialist - Oracle Fusion 11g

IBM India
03.2011 - 04.2012
  • Help team to understand the new architectural design patterns and framework changes happen at business level.
  • Handled a Team of 12 members.
  • Set the coding standing and guidelines for development.
  • Develop data services and test cases using SOAP UI.
  • Provide technical assistance to the team as required resolving service implementation and unit testing issues.
  • Ensure project goals are met and delivery is with high quality along with the check on team utilization target.
  • Investigate problems and analyze with an impact of change, help team with acquired skills and knowledge for effective delivery of business.
  • Work with the testing team to clarify, triage, and resolve defects in a timely manner.
  • Perform unit testing of ESB component.

Integration Lead (webMethods)

IBM India
08.2008 - 03.2012
  • Project - Scotia Gas Networks (UK) - TMA3 Development
  • Acquire skills and knowledge for effective delivery of business
  • Handled a Team of 10 members Team.
  • Understand and satisfy underlying and future needs of customers.
  • Analyze the requirement and design the new framework.
  • Created and reviewed Technical requirement document and System design document.
  • Helped the senior architect to decide on communication model (Publish/Subscribe or Client /Server)
  • Helped the team to solve the technical issue.
  • Leading development efforts.
  • Provide leadership and guidance to strengthen the current program management structure as well as support the work streams.

Technical Team Lead (webMethods)

IBM - Contract from Synova Innovative Technologies Pvt Ltd
04.2007 - 07.2008
  • Project - Scotia Gas Networks (UK) - Front Office Migration
  • Validate and verify the current state of Application Support Services.
  • Develop the strategies and plans to transition both the short and long term initiatives
  • Setup structures and process to transition and support Application Support Services.
  • Enhanced, Approved and supported webMethods workflows.
  • Diagnosis and provide solutions to resolve critical infrastructure problems, functionality problems and issues directly affecting the April 2007 ‘go live’ date.
  • Provide solutions, strategies and ‘roadmap’ guidance to support SGN’s infrastructure environments for Application Maintenance and Support as well as Development
  • Building L2 and L3 Team
  • Leading L3 team in development effort.

Team Lead/Associate (webMethods)

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune
04.2006 - 03.2007
  • Project - Molson Coors (USA) - webMethods Production Support
  • Analyze and understand the business flow of technical services operations.
  • Analyze and monitor error messages and perform the required action to solve these errors.
  • Understand the complete process of migration of code, tracking, logging and resolving customer issues.
  • Actively involved in conducting various forms of testing of the middle ware with the various applications and perform bug fixing.
  • Implement new processes like Error Handling, Version Control etc.
  • Analyze the requirement and design the new framework, along with helping team to solve technical issues.
  • Preparation of test cases and migration documents for testing and deployment.

Team Lead/Associate (webMethods)

Satyam Computer Services Ltd
01.2004 - 03.2006
  • Project 1 - GE Energy (USA) - PartsERP Upgrade as Integration Team Lead
  • Project is to update/migrate EAI/B2B components to webMethods 6.1 platforms. Current versions of these components were running on webMethods Enterprise Server 5.0 and webMethods B2B 4.6 platform.
  • Project 2 - GE Energy (USA) - NRPS - Oracle 9i Integration as Integration Team Lead
  • NRPS - Oracle 9i is designed for about 21 integration of GE Electric using webMethods 6.1 & JDBC Adapter.
  • Project 3 - GE Energy (USA) - Siebel 7.7 Integrations Migration as Integration Lead
  • The webMethods 6.1 is the media for integrating to/from CMS (in Siebel version 7.7) to/from other downstream Applications. There were 4 Publish Integrations and 11 Subscribe Integrations involved in this application.
  • Project 4 - GE Energy (USA) - CMS & Risk Reporting as Team member
  • This interface is designed to replace the existing data transfer system from three source site CMS, PPB, eRisk to target site RiskEDM, which was being performed by running Stored Procedures in every 8 hours. Developed three integrations, which have made the data transfer online using webMethods Broker and Enterprise Integrator.
  • Project 5 - GE Energy (USA) - CID - GSDW PO Request Reply Integration as Team member
  • This project was migration from webMethods 5.x to 6.x of the Integration that allows the CID (Custom import Database) system to receive the PO details from GSDW (Global Sourcing Data Warehouse) system.
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Coding, Testing & Configuration of the application.
  • Handled a Team of 8 members Team.
  • To understand and get oriented on the full project life cycle for the integration.
  • To communicate different aspects required for the source side which deals with Oracle Application as well as target side which deals with Mainframe flat files with the client side.
  • Product implementation and configuration (Performance tuning, Clustering, Deployment Strategies, Maintenance, Life cycle management etc.)
  • Designed Canonical and utility tools like error handling, audit logging etc.
  • Played an active role in testing the integrations in local and Development Instances.
  • Migrated the code from wM4.x environment to wM6.1 and involved in completion of code development in wM6.1 which includes development of flow services, Siebel Services.
  • Worked on adapters like Siebel, JDBC and JSM
  • Played an active role in testing the integration in local and Development Instances.
  • Preparation of test cases and migration documents for testing and deployment
  • Liaise with business to understand functional requirements, provide estimates, and provide high level and low level solution design.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B'Tech) - Information Technology

All India Council of Technical Education
Pune, Maharashtra
01.2003

Diploma - Computer Engg.

Maharashtra State Board of Technical Engineering
Pune, Maharashtra
01.1999

Skills

  • EAI/ API Management
  • Software Integration
  • Product implementation
  • Client Consultation
  • Scrum and Agile
  • Excellent Verbal & Written Communication
  • Data Integrity Maintenance
  • Team Collaboration
  • Data & Flow Analysis
  • Data Integration
  • SOA Principles
  • Integration Architecture
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project scheduling
  • Delivery management
  • Continuous integration
  • Cross-functional coordination
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Multitasking Abilities

Languages

English
Professional Working

Certification

  • Mulesoft Certified Developer.
  • WebMethods Integration Platform 6.0.1 certified and webMethods 6.5 EAI certified developer.
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certified
  • Scrum Fundamentals Certified
  • API Designer and API Security Architect Certified by API Academy
  • ITIL 4 Certified

Timeline

Sr Data Integration Delivery Lead / Sr Delivery An

Suncor Energy
08.2024 - Current

Confluent Platform Lead / Sr Delivery Analyst

Suncor Energy
07.2021 - 08.2024

Application Development Associate Manager

Accenture
01.2021 - 07.2021

Senior Integration Consultant/Solution Designer

Suncor Energy
05.2016 - 07.2020

Integration Consultant (Oracle Fusion 11g)

Shaw Communications Inc.
06.2015 - 04.2016

Integration Consultant (webMethods)

Suncor Energy
02.2014 - 04.2015

Integration Consultant (Tibco)

Groundswell Group
11.2013 - 02.2014

Advisory IT Specialist (Oracle Fusion 11g)

IBM Canada
04.2012 - 10.2013

Integration Specialist - Oracle Fusion 11g

IBM India
03.2011 - 04.2012

Integration Lead (webMethods)

IBM India
08.2008 - 03.2012

Technical Team Lead (webMethods)

IBM - Contract from Synova Innovative Technologies Pvt Ltd
04.2007 - 07.2008

Team Lead/Associate (webMethods)

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune
04.2006 - 03.2007

Team Lead/Associate (webMethods)

Satyam Computer Services Ltd
01.2004 - 03.2006

Diploma - Computer Engg.

Maharashtra State Board of Technical Engineering

Bachelor of Technology (B'Tech) - Information Technology

All India Council of Technical Education

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