Archana Dharanipragada

Experience

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  Verizon

  Oct 2003 - Apr 2005

  Software Developer

  • Implemented a web application for a major telecom company handling high volumes of data generating consumer bills for its fibre network product.

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  Xterprise

  May 2005 - Feb 2006

  Senior Software Developer

  • Involved in the design, architecture and implementation of a real time asset management system using RFID technology for a start-up company.

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  Chase

  May 2005 - Dec 2005

  Software Engineer

  Worked on implemetation of automated letters and email generation process which needs to be send during differerent stages of loan processing.

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  Prudential Financial

  Apr 2006 - Jul 2006

  Senior Software Developer

  • Extensively developed banking and financial applications involving loan processing governed by specified business rules .

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  Pegasus Solutions

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

  Software Engineer

  • Involved actively as a part of Agile Scrum team in gathering the requirements to integrate them for the windows application and web application.• Defined the tasks and estimated the effort.• Planned and played a key role in the migration from 1.1 versions to 3.5 version of .NET framework.• Designed and developed web pages using 3.5 web controls like List Views.• Customized the web application for the customers by parsing the preferences from the XML file • Maintained a 3-tier .NET solution using VB.NET.• Consumed Web services for payments made by credit cards and checks.• Developed SSO module using TEAV encryption. Show less

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  UnitedHealth Group

  Mar 2010 - Dec 2010

  Senior Developer

  • Led an IT team for a healthcare firm to migrate to latest HIPPA schemas using SOA through BizTalk Orchestrations.

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  Bank of America

  Jan 2011 - Jul 2011

  Senior Software Consultant

  • Responsible for reviewing architecture and code, suggest the applicable architecture changes and coding improvements and find the "pain points" for release management.• Lead the offshore and on-site teams, making sure the suggested tuning techniques are well implemented and review the code approvals for production deployments.

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  ACE Cash Express

  Oct 2011 - Oct 2015

  Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

  Ace Cash Express, Dallas, Texas Financial Services 10/2011 – 10/2015ACE Cash Express, Inc. is a leading financial services provider, specializing in short-term consumer loans, bill pay and prepaid debit card services, focuses on serving consumers seeking alternatives to traditional banking relationships by gaining convenient, immediate access to financial services. • Part of the leadership team responsible for prioritization of new initiatives, enhancements, production issues.• Provided strategic and technical direction during the implementation stages by monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively propose solutions to address them in advance.• Managed the expectations of all stakeholders and helped to ensure all stakeholders agreed with the current scope and road map of the changes being made to the product.• Removed impediments and road blocks encountered. Encouraged and implemented process improvements.• Led the team resolving production issues and promptly escalating those that may impact operations.• Producing the stage/production deployment plan and coordinating devOps activities• Coordinating the lessons learned and propose process improvement plans• Led both development and production support teams of 10-15 professionals so that they are well coordinated and aligned with the product road map. Show less

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  Vantage Benefits Administrators, Inc.

  Nov 2015 - Aug 2017

  Agile Project Management/Development and Operations

  Vantage Benefits, Dallas, TexasHealth Care and Retirement Service 10/2015 – 08/2017Vantage Benefits is a comprehensive solution provider for retirement plan consultation, Third Party Administration, Recordkeeping, Legal Plan Administration, and Named Fiduciary services.• Rolled out several projects across multiple BUs as part of the digital transformation of the firm.• Managed multiple releases, development activities and maintenance of the online one source solution for employee benefits.• Held enterprise level coaching sessions on Agile framework and led the IT development teams in providing effective business solutions following the methodology.• Facilitated internal and external stakeholder sessions, communication channels and their expectations throughout the lifecycle of the projects. Played key role in coordinating enterprise project prioritization. • Acted as gateway for architectural decisions, code reviews and quality management.• Leading teams of 12-15 professionals by mentoring, motivating, training to bring out their best of the capabilities to the team including working on career development, setting educational goals, creating performance improvement plans, and holding monthly one on one meetings with each team member.• Instrumental in laying the processes for software development using TDD, source control, automation of deployments, and tracking operational activities.• Facilitated Scrum activities – Backlog grooming, daily stand up, Sprint planning, Retrospective meetings, Sprint Review meetings with the PO, Stake holders, & the Team.• Point of contact for Conflict management & resolution.• Identified impediments and developing mitigation and refinement plans for processes improvement.• Prepared & maintained Scrum artefacts – Boards, User stories, acceptance and done criteria and Burn down charts Show less

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  One Delta / Quant LegalTech

  Jul 2018 - Jul 2020

  Product Development Specialist

  Quant LegalTech (Previously One Delta Technologies), Bangalore, IndiaLegal Technology Services 08/2018 – PresentQuant LegalTech provides a comprehensive technology solution for all legal and secretarial processes, provides legal advisory by managing statutory, regulatory and custom compliances for companies across various business areas and manages the contract and document life cycles with in multiple legal processes.• Provided vision for SaaS product features that eases the customers day to day functional and operational needs.• Developed trusting relationships with key customers by understanding their business requirements and translate those into product strategy and prioritization. • Performed competitor analysis to developed and refined product roadmap to align with the market trends • Introduced Agile methodology to entire organization and coached the technical and legal teams to adopt scrum/agile ceremonies.• Digitized and developed rules engine for the statutory laws, there by securing the IP of the company that was earlier manually maintained. • Automated customer onboarding process reducing time-to-market by 75% • Involved in continuous evaluation of the latest technologies that can be adapted for the scalability and improvement of the product.• Led efforts for implementation/migration to AWS Cloud architecture using Route 53, SNS, S3, Security, Cloud watch and other services• Implementation direction for developing text search engine using elastic search• Led the entire technology team, of size 15, which includes developers, devops and QA by providing technical direction, mentoring and coaching them to align the vision of the organization to the team. Show less

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  Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US

  Apr 2021 - now

  Technology Product Management

  Building Resilient Products