Business Analyst & Project Manager Resume
SUMMARY:
- IT Project Management / Business Analysis / Product Management
- Enterprising leader & planner with sound technical concepts and 14 + years of strong record of contributions in Software development, Application lifecycle management, streamlining IT operations, invigorating businesses, heightening productivity, systems & procedures
- Competent professional with rich experience in managing complex multiple technical IT projects
- Track record of successfully performing requirement analysis, feasibility analysis, framework/library development, deployments and maintenance using diverse technologies
- Efficient in mapping requirements of clients as well as different stakeholders & converting them into a successful user friendly solutions
- Effective in developing, transitioning & customizing processes in line with specified guidelines
- Effective leader with distinguished capabilities in managing and training multi - functional teams across different time zones to maintain deliverables as per SLA and KPI
- Delivering projects aligning with Waterfall methods & Agile-scrum methods
- Implemented the tools to improve the overall efficiency in operations by 10% & Expertise in avoiding scope creep and Gold Plating.
- Good exposure to end-to-end life cycle implementation of Siebel & Sales Force CRM and Strong understanding of Functional aspects.
- Expertise in creating project management plan, Scope, Time & Cost plans.
- Spearheaded large-scale program management including agile, iterative & waterfall project management, enterprise program governance, risk management and offshore/onshore development models
- Resourceful in ensuring the delivery of quality product releases on schedule using risk analysis and defect containment practices, test automation, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Successfully took measures such as wire frame, sprint wise release to ensure that applications are in line with requirements specified by clients
- Supporting and advocating solution recommendations that align to short- and/or long-term strategic plans and roadmaps
- Transformed the group into a high performing team delivering critical application developments on Telecom and Confidential domains.
- Working with CCB/PMO for defining centralized management structure by reducing duplication and leveraging resources (People or Technology).
- Working closely with CCB/PMO for defining EEF, OPA, Cost, Communications & Stakeholder Management.
- Creating the weekly & Fortnightly Reports for Trouble tickets, Team Utilization & Sharing the same with senior management.
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Product Management
- Process Improvement
- Resource Management
- Delivery Management
- Technology & Strategy Development
- Problem & Risk Mitigation
- Project Governance
- Client Satisfaction
- Business Analysis
KEY SKILLS:
- Communicator
- Motivator
- Problem Solver
- Analytical
- Collaborator
IT SKILLS & TOOLS:
CRM: Siebel 6.x 7.x & 8.x,Pivotal 5.9 & 6.5.2 ( UX & Smart Clients) & MS CRM 2013/2015
Siebel CRM: Configuration,Workflows,EIM,EAI,E-Script and Workflows.
SFDC: Apex,Visual Force Pages,SOAP,REST API,Sales Force SFA,Lightning Components,Apps, Apex Data Loader & SDFC Data Export
Performance Management: MPM, Confidential Performance Management and RTAM
Database: Oracle 10g & MS-SQL
Languages: C, C++, SQL, ASP.Net and C#
Cloud: Sales Force Clouds ( Sales,Services,Marketing & Services), SAAS & PAAS
Project Management: MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS Project Plan and Project Libre
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Business Analyst & Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Communicating with internal/external clients to determine specific requirements and expectations; managing client expectations as an indicator of quality
- Steering the successful rollout of projects including defining scope, setting timelines, analyzing requirements, prioritizing tasks and identifying dependencies as per preset budgets
- Discussion with the business stakeholders to identify scope of the project. Conducting requirement gathering sessions.( AS IS-TO BE)
- Reviewing existing systems, business requirements and facilitating the implementation of new systems/ processes, in line with the overall business goal and objectives
- Writing user stories, Preparing Release, Sprint Planning & Attending Demo’s, Retrospective by working closely with PO.
- Work closely with business and development teams to analyze and develop the best solution design and approach as a hands-on Business Analyst/PO.
- Establishing an effective communication plan with the project team and the customer.
- Establishing a project management governance structure with key performance indicators and setting milestones for the project team.(KPI’s).
- Articulate solution alternatives and employ data-based recommendations and influence decision makers to ensure business outcomes will be achieved
- Working with major modules like lead, Policy Servicing, collection management service request, Account Management, Compensation & Renewal Management
- Lead a team of 12 in Sales Cloud & a team of 4 in salesforce.com to develop and deploy custom apps, reports, dashboards, workflows within Sales Cloud and Salesforce.com applications as per client requirements with quality & timely delivery following the agile methodology.
- Develop visualization, user experience and configuration elements of solution design.
Confidential
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Hire, Mentor, Motivate new & existing employees.
- Review & approve Siebel rollout plan along with deployment, and cutover strategy for smooth rollout across circles.
- Status monitoring of the team by weekly status calls.
- Preparing the high-level design drafts for the upcoming business requirements.
- Giving weekly functional walkthrough’s to HR Team on Productivity, Quality & Timeliness business entities.
- Creating the Project Plan and monitoring the scope, cost and time of the project
- Preparing Statement of work (SOW) based on the initial talks with client.
- Preparing the high-level design drafts for the upcoming business requirements.
- Giving Demo’s and Taking Sign offs for each phase completion.
- Ensuring project plans are created and maintained, deliverables tracked against time and cost, and conducting weekly stand up meetings monitors’ resource utilization.
- Identifying needs and works closely with the customer, application development and analysis team to resolve immediate problems and create higher quality product (new developments).
- Supporting AS IS- TO BE process by suggesting best transforming procedures.
- Planning and conducting client meetings, facilitation sessions, management meetings, etc. to discuss and identify new projects for improving operating performance.
- Identifying needs and works closely with the customer team and the application development and analysis team to solve immediate problems and to create a higher quality product (new developments).
- Lead a team of 12 in Sales Cloud & a team of 4 in salesforce.com to develop and deploy custom apps, reports, dashboards, workflows within Sales Cloud and Salesforce.com applications as per client requirements with quality & timely delivery following the agile methodology.
- Designing of Custom Objects, Custom Tabs, custom fields, role based Page Layouts & Custom Reports
- Experienced in Sandbox Management (Like Refreshing Sandbox, Creating New Sandbox, and Migrating code from one sandbox to the Production systems).
- Created Custom Objects, Junction objects and defined lookup and master-detail relationships on the objects.
- Created various Reports (summary reports, matrix reports, pie charts, dashboards and graphics) and Report Folders to assist managers to better utilize Sales force as a sales tool and configured various Reports for different user profiles based on the organization's need.
- Used Data Loader for insert, update, and bulk import or export of data from Salesforce.com Objects. Used it to read, extract, and load data from comma separated values (CSV) files.
- Managing Siebel Deployment activities, Planning Cutover & Post Cutover handover activities
- Testing the team’s deliverables like inbound out bound web services, Data maps and DVM rules
- Have through knowledge of Pricing Module & Product Configuration of Order Management
- Understand and have implemented Asset Based Ordering (ABO) and asset management
- Implemented and enhanced Siebel CRM Order Management Automation
- Deployed Siebel solution adhering configuration standards and best practices
- Design & implementation of solution for product upgrade/downgrade scenario using Siebel OM framework
