Vally D'Souza

IT Professional with over 14 years of experience specializing in programming and application support in the Financial Sector. Excels in Software Development, Business Analysis, Solution Design and Project Management. Recognized consistently for performance excellence, hard work and dedication.

PROJECT MANAGER, SENIOR SPECIALIST APP SUPPORT 11/2012 to 12/2021
Credit Information Network Company (Ci-Net) | Kuwait
• Project Management for Ci-Net E-Credit Services Portal
• Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with vendors to manage performance.
• Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
• Reduced expenditures by effectively negotiating vendor and service contracts to drive savings.
• Managed all phases of projects from vendor evaluation, requirement analysis to Go-Live.
• Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before deployments.
• Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss progress, deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
• Creation of Test Plan, testing strategies, resource utilization plan.
• Developed customized applications in Microsoft Visual Studio to support Ci-Net systems e.g SMS Alert Service, Client Application for Ci-Net Live Request web service, File Streamer Application etc.
• Managed corporate website using Liferay CMS.
• Provided on-call support for application systems users (banks and financial institutions) with respect to data analysis of issues raised.
• Conducted user/technical trainings for subscribers and extensive support to subscribers to perform API/web services integrations.

FREELANCE SQL DEVELOPER 09/2012 to 10/2012
MenaITech | Kuwait
• Developed SSRS Reports for HR and Payroll Module
• Proved successful working within tight deadlines

SYSTEM ANALYST, SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER 08/2008 to 12/2011
Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. | Pune, India
• Oversaw installation of software programs to meet requirements.
• Developed flowcharts and diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
• Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.
• Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in C++, domain/product knowledge and working to improve overall team performance.
• Lead and guide programming team to achieve their goal.
• Reviewed code and worked with development teams to correct problems, run test scenarios and prepare for deployment.
• Extensive involvement in developing new features of product and custom tools
• Optimization of Ab-Initio graph used for data analysis and batch processing – ETL
• Root cause analysis of major operational issues
• Installation and setting up of various product components, databases, mail servers on test servers (Windows, Unix)
• Writing SQL scripts, stored procedures and code review team
• Served as Quality Lead for 6 months
• Performance testing, monitor performance of installed product components and check its performance
SOFTWARE ENGINEER 08/2007 to 08/2008
Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. | Pune, India
• Developed simulator in C on UNIX OS for Government Station and Knowledge file lookup
• Compiling PCA simulator on tru64
• Prepare workflow charts and diagrams (UML) to present detailed explanations about input, output and logical operation of sub modules of PCA
• Created Windows client server application using VC++ that would query server application to fetch specified registry key values
ACADEMIC PROJECT 01/2007 to 04/2007
Goa Medicare Devices Pvt. Ltd. | Goa, India
• Developed Medicare Inventory Management and Processing System (MIMPS) that maintains inventory and production process which includes management of stores, purchase, production and logistic information including windows forms, crystal reports, SQL Database and writing manual

Bachelor of Engineering | Computers 06/2007
Goa University, Goa-India
• First class with honors