SUMMARY:

• A Sr. Professional with a diversified Global experience over 21+ years (15 Years US experience). Includes Experience in managing large/medium/small projects / Product in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including Scope and Requirement gathering, Analysis, Risk Management, Design, Development, Testing, change management and Support.
• 21+ years of experience in Information Technology, with past 4+ years’ increasingly responsible Business analyst management positions.
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) JAD sessions with management, SME , vendors, users and other stakeholders to gather business requirements and translating the same to the development teams
• Exceptional abilities in Project management with the Organizational and supervisory Skills to assure success. Delegates and Monitors work to meet deadlines.
• Skilled in analysis of client systems and process.
• Ability to manage all project phases, from inception through to completion.
• Outstanding motivator and builder of teams. Works well in both team environments and individual assignments.
• Successful in meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions to meet the needs of the customer.
• Facilitate work between business representatives and the organization.
• Ability to bridge the gap between technical and non - technical persons.
• Excellent inter-personal skills, issue resolution skills, Communication skills, presentations, facilitation skills.
• Dedicated and hard working individual with the intercommunications skills to work with all levels of the organization.
• Exceptional abilities in Project management with the Organizational and supervisory Skills to assure success. Delegates and Monitors work to meet deadlines.
• Skilled in analysis of client systems and process.
• Managed Customized Software Development Project developed by in-house software development team (including off-shore team) and third party vendor.
• Worked with all (Water fall / Agile ( Scrum )/ Spiral methodologies.
• Worked with PMO on above to maintain a good transparent status in front of top management. Monthly tracking to ensure that we are within budget, schedule and scope of project. Responsible for time tracking/adjustments across onsite and offshore teams, when ever required.
• Facilitated the user requirement collection process with operating companies.
• Performing Scrum session

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS:

• Project management
• Direct the business requirements and process analyses, needs assessments, and cost/benefits analyses to align information technology solutions with business initiatives.
• Strong Business Analysis
• System analysis expert.
• Extensive Experience Managing Customized Software Development Projects with In-house team and Third Party Vendor.
• Hands on Informatica.
• BI/Data Warehouse - Informatics (ETL) space experience
• Data Mapping .
• Huge experience to document business rules and write technical specification
• Huge Data management system experience(Conversions, Integration, Historical, Migration, Consolidation)
• Experience with Relational Data Bases and Data Marts
• Experience in Oracle pl/sql, SQL
• Strong experience of Project retirement to project/ system Replacement.
• Strong Application implementation experience. (Full Cycle).
• Excellent experience of Product Development.
• Strong experience in Quality Assurance improvement process.
• Studying established process and identify weaknesses and areas of improvement in the Process
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Managing Off-shore/On-site Vendors & business partners/teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong customer service oriented.

TECHNICAL ACUMEN:

ETL Tools: Informatica Power Center 8.x/7.x/6.x, Informatica Power Mart 5.0/4.7, SQL*Loader

HARDWARE: Intel/x86 and Sparc Architectures

OPERATING SYSTEM: Unix SunOS 5.6, AIX, Unix (V), Linux, DEC/OSF, Novell Netware 3.12, Windows 3.11, Windows 95. Dos 6.22

Software/GUI Tools: Forms 5.0/4.5, Reports 6i/6.0/3.0/2.5, FrontPage, Visual Age, VJ++, Developer 2000, Visual Basic 6.0/5.0, Crystal Reports 5.0/4.0, AWT, JFC Swing, Applets, JSP1.1, ActiveX, TOAD, SQL Navigator, SQLJ

BI & Reporting Tools: Business Objects 6.0, Developer 2000, MS Access Reports.

DATABASE: Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2, Teradata, MS Access, MS SQL Server

APPLICATION / SERVERS: IBM Web Server 3.5/3.0, Web Logic 5.01/4.5, JWS 2.0, IIS 4.0, Apache Server Oracle Financials, JDK 1.2/1.1.x, JDBC, Applets, Java Beans, EJB1.1, J2EE, RMI

LANGUAGES: Oracle PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, Java 2.0, Java Script, HTML, C, Fortran, CGI, PERL, XML, HTML, COBOL, Clipper 5.0, FoxPro

TOOLS: /UTILITIES Toad 9,8,7, SQL Navigator, SQL* PLUS, Erwin 4.1, (CA Erwin 7.2.) VSS, PVCS, Oracle designer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews and then convert requirements into technical specifications to the scope of the project.
• Interviewing area experts, asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Work closely with subject matter experts / Business Partners.
• Participate JAD sessions.
• Working collaboratively with the client during the requirements definition stage in an effort to articulate and define requirements.
• Working with cross functional business and technical teams throughout project SDLC phases including; requirements, design, development, testing (integration, regression, UAT) and production turnover.
• My responsibilities included handling various activities of the project like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, documenting the functional or business requirements
• Having got a detailed understanding of the business process as a Process Manager I took the responsibility of identifying new process, finding out gaps in existing process, arranging training modules for new process development and implementation. In this aspect I took the coordination, management of all activities throughout the organization.
• Demonstrated use of standard techniques JAD, (Joint Application Development) interviewing, use case modeling, gap-fit analysis, process definition, requirements management for gathering requirements
• Experience working and completing the entire SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Worked as a User\Customer Advocate and negotiated with user as well as with developers and management staff to resolve any requirement conflict to BRIDGE the gaps between IT and Business Client
• Involved in weekly walkthroughs , inspections and verification meetings with various stakeholders in the project
• Managing team of Vendors off-shore and on-site.
• Escalates risks and issues to Steering Committee as needed
• Performs quality assurance for projects to ensure standards of delivery are met
• Responsible to handle all change requests within Control Management System.
• Reviews and decides upon change requests
• Escalates change requests to Steering Committee as appropriate
• Updates project artifacts based on CR approvals
• Document business rules and write technical specification
• Identifies lessons learned from the projects
• Participated procurement process in conjunction with strategic sourcing
• Manages complex projects, including interaction with clients and other teams
• Ensuring the quality of deliverables by verifying its compliance with standards through conducting periodic audits
• Auditing current processes, reporting non-conformities and corrective actions.
• Used Agile/Spiral Methodology.
• Performing Scrum session

Confidential

Management System BA / DW Manager

Responsibilities:

• Extensively work with business partners for understanding the business requirement.
• Identified, defined and created of data related to artifacts and frameworks associated with architectural principles.
• Excellent capability to vision the relevant data and it flow into business needs and logical/physical data models.
• Provided in-depth technical consultation to ensure development of efficient application systems by utilizing established methodologies and best practices
• Participated in business requirement sessions and translated into technical data requirement.
• Defined the scope of the BI/Data Warehouse and the priorities for the individual parts.
• Managed Customized Software Development Project developed by in-house software development team (including off-shore team) and third party vendor.
• Good hands on Requirements Analysis/Management Business Process
• Worked with cross functional business and technical teams throughout project SDLC phases including; requirements, design, development, testing (integration, regression, UAT) and production turnover.
• Verifying and validating activities, conducting product reviews, inspecting and walkthroughs
• Handled Integration work for Confidential & Wyeth merge.
• Direct development team for legacy system retirement and Replacement of new system.
• Provided in-depth consultation to ensure development of efficient product/ application systems by utilizing established methodologies and best practices
• Overall project execution, including monitoring project schedules, work assignments, budgets, & manpower expenditures.
• Managed third party vendors providing project specific support or software customization. Worked through the vendor's project manager to ensure success of projects.
• Working with Quality Management team to ensure that the project needs are met. Helped integrate all contributing functional areas across teams in planning, execution, control and implementation of the product.
• Ensure proper communication exchanges, schedule adherence and enable provisioning of accurate and up to date responses to customer inquiries and challenges.
• Coordinated development and implementation follow-ups.
• Worked with the release team to plan and execute the releases till the product finished.
• Tactical responsibilities included full management of compliance activities and documentation, product demonstration, training, troubleshooting and management of shared service support groups.
• Accountable for coordinating business and technology resources to overcome challenges and resolving issues.
• Facilitated meetings to achieve specific outcomes.
• Worked with the training department effortlessly to develop training materials
• Worked with on-site and off -shore vendors and business partners.
• Used Agile and Waterfall Methodology.

Confidential

Global Lead ETL/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defined the scope of the BI/DW space and the priorities for the individual parts.
• Responsible for gathering requirements for BI key metrics, reports and analytical subjects.
• Responsible for assisting departments to understand their data/information and the way BI/Data Warehouse work together to supply these needs.
• Ensured the consistency and quality of the data resource.
• Provided technical consulting to users of the various data warehouses and advises users on conflicts and inappropriate data usage.
• Implementation corrected known issues in the legacy processing schemes that has improved overall data accuracy.
• The role entailed management of an existing in-house development team of 8 resources, an establishing a business liaison relationship with key power users and business support managers.
• Provided in-depth technical consultation to ensure development of efficient application systems by utilizing established methodologies and best practices.
• Worked with the release team to plan and execute the releases.
• Water Fall Methodology was used.

Confidential

Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Managing Customized Software Development Project developed by third party vendor resources.
• Managed third party vendors providing project specific support or software customization.
• Evaluated designs and implemented major modifications to existing applications to accommodate changes in user requirements.
• I am the sole key person to work with business partners for the new enhancement requirements and maintain the existing whole system.
• Supported production deployments with Deployment team.
• Used Water fall and Agile Methodology.

Confidential

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in Data Warehouse development working with Data Migration, Data Conversion and Extraction/Transformation/Loading using Informatica.
• Responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the Extension Applications, which was created to support Web Track View of the system.
• Performed performance tuning in the existing Oracle procedures, functions.
• Performed code reviews and bugs fixing during various phases of testing.
• Full Life Cycle (SDLC) was used.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved with system integration Confidential different levels during development and deployment.
• Agile Methodology was used.

Project Lead

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed client engagement services and solution implementations
• Provided business consulting, knowledge expertise in strategic performance management methodologies, process assessment work, and the application of technologies to business.
• Fostered customer loyalty by ensuring that our customers fully utilize the value of our solutions and services.
• Direct the coordination of all implementation tasks involving third party vendors as well as provide consultation to clients on system implementation.
• Manage transition of client from Solutions Implementation to Client Support.
• Manage the development and maintenance of implementation portions of project.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Dealt with transaction of credit cards and kept track of sales information of different banks.
• Developed source / data mappings using Informatica.
• Fine-tuned performance of procedures to meet client requirements.
• Design and develop Human Resources system that gives demographic data/information related to all employees.
• Designed a system that maintains sales, purchase business accounts.
• Developed a financial accounting system including posting of financial transactions and generation of reports such as Cashbook, bankbook, Trial Balance, General Ledger, Balance Sheet & Profit and Loss Statements.
• Maintained Sales Tax registers and Sales Tax Forms.