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Vijayinder Wazir

Lake Forest,California

Summary

Results-oriented leader with over 18 years of experience combining deep technical expertise and diverse product management experience. Successfully led consulting, architecture, selling, implementing, estimating, evaluating, and managing multi-million dollar services engagements at high-profile firms such as UnitedHealth Group (Optum), American Express, Union Bank, Deloitte, and public sector clients including the states of CA, Maine, and MA. Proven track record of generating, building, and growing client relationships within Fortune 500 companies to drive profitable business outcomes. Skilled in navigating ambiguous environments and fostering successful partnerships with subject matter experts, engineers, and business teams based on product delivery and customer engagement experience. Knowledgeable [Desired Position] with a history of leading high-performing teams and executing strategic initiatives that drive organizational growth. Successfully directed cross-functional projects resulting in significant process improvements and operational efficiencies. Demonstrated leadership and communication skills in fostering collaborative environments and delivering impactful results.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director, Software Engineering

Optum
01.2014 - Current
  • Overall responsible for managing all the deployments and upgrades in production which resulted in an increase in system performance from 85% availability in 2014 to 99.8% in 2021.
  • Managed and Migrated reporting solution from excel based reporting to AI based reporting solution which resulted in savings of $360,000
  • Chartered with defining and refining strategies to provide an improvement and technical growth road map for portfolio accounts.
  • Worked with AWS vendor and Optum technology team in transitioning of MA HIX server infrastructure from Optum to AWS
  • Participated in continuous discussions with C-level executives for long term project planning, assess risk factors and identify savings opportunities.
  • Overall responsible for development, maintenance, operations (Incident/change management) of MAHIX web portal
  • Identified and created team to solution and build custom operations platform using angularjs and AWS API’s
  • Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
  • Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
  • Established a culture of continuous improvement by fostering open communication channels and empowering employees to voice their ideas.
  • Cultivated a positive work environment that fostered employee engagement, increased retention rates, and boosted overall team morale.
  • Managed budgets effectively to ensure optimal use of resources while maintaining financial stability.
  • Strengthened internal controls by reviewing existing policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Facilitated cross-functional collaboration for improved decision-making processes within the organization.
  • Improved project efficiency with strategic planning, resource allocation, and time management practices.
  • Implemented innovative solutions to solve complex problems, resulting in increased productivity and streamlined operations.
  • Optimized staff performance by designing comprehensive training programs tailored to individual needs.
  • Proactively identified potential risks and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize negative impacts on projects or business operations.
  • Leveraged professional networks and industry knowledge to strengthen client relationships.
  • Spearheaded innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning.
  • Negotiated favorable contracts with vendors for reduced costs and improved service quality.
  • Increased company revenue by streamlining processes and implementing cost-saving measures.
  • Boosted client satisfaction rates through exceptional relationship management and prompt resolution of issues.
  • Spearheaded successful product launches that resulted in increased brand visibility and customer acquisition.
  • Leveraged data analytics insights for informed decision-making in critical areas such as sales forecasting, budgeting, or personnel management.
  • Cultivated high-performance executive team, selecting and mentoring candidates for key leadership roles.
  • Fostered culture of innovation, encouraging development of cutting-edge solutions.
  • Enhanced stakeholder satisfaction with timely and transparent communication strategies.

Project Technical Manager

iGATE
01.2012 - 01.2014
  • Electronic Cash Management is a seam based web application that is used to send billion of dollars of banks money to other banks through wires. The GUI has been built to run on Firefox and IE. Web2 functionality has been added via RichFaces which offers a wealth of components and its own version of Ajax, Seam and Richfaces wrap JSF to make it easy to use. ECM is deployed to JBOSS allowing it to use EJB’s build into JBOSS.
  • ECM supports different type of wires such as Intracompany, Draw, Book, Domestic and International payment. ECM being the main system performs the mammoth load of work with wires and account transfers including transfer templates, transfer reports, account preferences. To prevent fraud, ECM intercepts all the responses from its system of records and send it to a third party tool called Actimize which internally based on different patterns detects a fraud wire before it leaves the bank.
  • Responsible for architecting multiple web-based, front and back-end technical solutions, working closely with creative, project management and information architecture disciplines to validate requirements and help set appropriate deliverable timelines.
  • Managed and provided architectural leadership for a 20-person technical team(Offshore and Onshore) through scoping, design and development of updates to or creation of entirely dynamic and data-driven implementations of multiple Union Bank web based applications
  • Responsible for interviewing and hiring full-time and contract technical resources subsequent to the close of project scoping and estimation.
  • Served as the primary technical liaison between iGate onsite/Offshore and Union Bank business .
  • Responsible for estimation and approval of SOW’s
  • Coordinating with different dependent applications, testing team and business.
  • Providing weekly and Monthly status updates to business and other stake holders.
  • Responsible for managing 24/7 on call support.

Java/J2EE Lead

Pfizer
11.2011 - 03.2012
  • Intelligence storefront is an online gateway to applications within Business Objects. It is a one stop shop for different kinds of reports, utilities and dashboards. It gives user an ability to view all reports that user have access to under one umbrella, schedule multiple reports, giving an ability to managers to assign delegates for dashboard management and many other advanced features . It makes reporting simpler by providing additional features that doesn’t come out of the box within BO
  • Design and developing java based components like crawler, Messages inbox that were integrated into iStore front using.
  • Designed and Developed Delegate Manager module to overcome the sox compliance issue. Front end development was done using struts2, JSP and backend was done using Hibernate3.
  • Ajax and HTML5 were used to avoid the full loading of the page to give user a seamless UI experience.
  • Was involved in database design of the delegate manager application.
  • Writing webservices for Xcelcius dashboard for submitting data into database.
  • Identifying performance bottlenecks in the code.
  • Making sure that all the Pfizer standards are followed during the code development
  • Load testing and making sure that there are no memory leaks and initial target of 700 concurrent users is achieved.
  • Doing POC’s for business to make sure that the intended functionality is achievable like creating offline version of iStorefront.
  • Doing manual code analysis to make sure that no major security vulnerabilities are exposed.

Senior J2EE Developer

Administrative Office of Courts - State of California
10.2010 - 11.2011
  • This project deals with Court Management System. The CCMS-V4 Core application is used by the court personnel for daily operations of the court and complete case lifecycle processing acting as the system of record for the case data. CCMS-V4 Core application is built on top of the CCMS-V3 application that has the processing logic for cases of Civil, Small Claims, Probate and Mental Health case categories. CCMS-V4 Core extends the support to Family Law, Juvenile Dependency and Delinquency, Felony, Misdemeanors and Infractions
  • Identifying framework component issues and re-coding of framework components like BeanUtils, Purify and transformation.
  • Successfully migrated BeanUtils from 1.6 to 1.8.
  • Implemented framework component for transferring files over SFTP and FTP.
  • Handling complex functionality as enhancements on efiling documents screens for Marriage Law, Appeals.
  • Identifying performance bottlenecks in code using tools like yourkit and jProfiler and fixing the code issues.
  • Identifying security bottlenecks using Fortify and fixing those defects.
  • Optimizing JSP code for better page load time.
  • Involved in daily monitoring and analyzing load test results like GC , Heap and method hotspots
  • Provided suggestions on implementing right GC policy and tuning other JVM parameters for better system throughput and response time.
  • Worked on web service (JAX-RPC) framework that is the bridge between the CCMS data Exchange and ISB.
  • Working on Entity Beans and Session Beans for data exchange between CCMS business layer and web services frame work component and error handling component.
  • Configured JMS topics and queues and developed message driven beans
  • Worked on identifying security vulnerabilities using FORTIFY and made necessary code changes to fix those vulnerabilities

Project Lead

Optum
06.2007 - 09.2010
  • The purpose of this project is to create a contact management solution to meet the needs of the new Health Advisor (HA) role. A Health Advisor can be compared to a ‘super user’ with the ability to service almost any Client call need. This project will build a one stop resolution, with an end state to streamline the HA’s processes for accessing multiple applications, while providing a quick and efficient way to utilize a variety of systems and alerts (PHI, security) without repeatedly asking for information the Client has already provided.
  • Design and development of different modules like Provider and Eligibility.
  • Extensively used Hibernate for data persistence.
  • Extensively used Spring web flow for building front end components
  • Extensively used Spring IOC for injecting dependencies at run time.
  • Configured most of the functionalities related to portal i.e. personalization, visitor entitlements, Campaigns, delegated administrators.
  • Handled interportlet communication using Ajax.
  • Design and development of SOAP based webservices using top down approach.
  • Extensively used JUNIT for unit testing my modules.
  • Used JavaScript, CSS to build and modify UI web pages and also used JavaScript for client side validation.
  • Instrumental in finding bottlenecks in code using tools like PMD and doing regular code reviews.
  • Was able to find method/transaction level bottlenecks using tools like Vantage Analyzer and then tuning them to the desired level.
  • Used OS cache for database and JSP caching that helped in performance improvement.
  • Monitoring and performance tuning 12 WebSphere 6.1 servers.
  • Successful in building application maintenance team from scratch and used my expertise to ramp up application from 100 users to 5000 users.
  • Daily review of Test Director/ Quality Center defects with QA team.
  • Creating Disaster Recovery documents and participated in DR testing.
  • Joining Priority1 (1 hour SLA) and Priority2 (4 hour SLA) and resolving the issues within the defined SLA.
  • Daily Application monitoring using Compuware suits of application like Agentless and Vantage analyzer.
  • Development of work orders or change request from Business.

Education

Bachelors in Engineering - Electronics and Telecomm

University of Mumbai
Mumbai

Skills

  • Collaborative partnership development
  • Organizational strategy development
  • Strategic decision-making
  • Effective leader
  • Project execution
  • Java enterprise solutions
  • Decision-making
  • Verbal and written communication

Accomplishments

  • Responsible for setting up the product services/implementation team for MA HIX for the state of MA which contributed $30mn annually to Optum state government solutions
  • ·The high availability of the system helped MA to grow their user base from 230,000 members in 2014 to around 2 million
  • Awarded Medicare director award by state of MA

Training

  • Underwent 15 days Cold Fusion training conducted by vMoksha
  • Underwent 1 month PeopleSoft training conducted by vMoksha
  • Underwent 5 days MQseries training conducted by iGate

Certification

  • Machine Learning: From Data to Decisions Certificate

Timeline

Director, Software Engineering

Optum
01.2014 - Current

Project Technical Manager

iGATE
01.2012 - 01.2014

Java/J2EE Lead

Pfizer
11.2011 - 03.2012

Senior J2EE Developer

Administrative Office of Courts - State of California
10.2010 - 11.2011

Project Lead

Optum
06.2007 - 09.2010

Bachelors in Engineering - Electronics and Telecomm

University of Mumbai

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