SUMMARY:

• Over Fifteen+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Project Management, System Solution Design for financial, banking, web - based and insurance institutions.
• Worked with Senior Management to identify strategic goals, objectives, scope, budgets and process for internal and external development.
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Strong communicator, good interpersonal skills, and demonstrated ability in initiative and judgment in managing shifting priorities, risks and competing interests of multiple projects.
• Skilled at interacting directly with clients from problem definition through implementation—demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between the business and consulting tasks.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills - able to work on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Worked in the latest software implementation environments, J2EE and .Net environments with excellent noledge of Database Design, web-based and N-tier architecture applications.
• Extensive experience in analyzing and documenting Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) and System Requirement Specification (SRS).
• Strong experience in creating Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Project Schedules using MS Project and Project Deliverables such as Software Project Charter and Communications Matrix.
• Managed budgets of up to $5 million projects and cross functional teams of up to 25 members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux

Methodologies: RUP, SDLC, SCRUM, Agile, Kanban, Waterfall

Version Control Tools: Rational Clear Case, SVN

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose,MS Visio, Telelogic Doors, Acrobat professional

Technologies: MS FrontPage, Dream weaver, HTML, DHTML, XML, SOAP, Data Power, IBM MQ, REST

Project Management: MS Project, MS Office, Share point, TFS

Programming Languages: PL/SQL, C, C++, Java, VB, UML

Databases: Oracle MS-Access, MySQL, TOAD

Bug Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Quality center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco CA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created project plan using MS Project and WBS
• Outlined Risk elements and critical path
• Created user stories and maintained them using Kanban.
• Conducted Kanban meetings and maintained user stories on TFS.
• Communicated project status and dashboards to higher management.
• Gatheird requirements for Tableau reporting and provided business and data requirements.
• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Managed budget of up to 2.5 million and cross functional teams of up to 15 developers, analysts, QA and DB analysts
• Ensured defect free releases through careful planning, testing and QA efforts.
• Guided teams in development of logic for API and Data flows for improved consistency, recoverability and accessibility of data.
• Partnered with Program Manager to prepare Steering Committee and Operating Committee presentations and agendas

Environment: Microsoft Project, Javascript, Restful APIs, Tableau, Share point, Agile methodology, JSON, StrongLoop, MYSQL, Informatica, Jira

Confidential, San Ramon CA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created Epics, Features and User stories for various projects.
• Planned each sprint cycle with the team
• Conducted Daily stand ups, weekly Review meetings and Retrospective meetings
• Identified key risk elements and dependencies. Implemented risk mitigation strategies.
• Created Dashboards, Reports and Views for business.
• Acted as SME, in various cross functional team meetings.
• Maintained communications/Project documents in Share point.
• Worked closely with business users in defining the road map of the product.
• Provided project status and dashboards to higher management. Escalated the key issues to top management dat requires steering committee attention.
• Achieved seamless migration and integration with no unscheduled downtime within budget.

Environment: Microsoft project, Sales Force, Microsoft Dynamics, QC, Appian, Share point, Agile methodology, Oracle, Jira

Confidential, San Leandro CA

Technical Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird business requirements from the stake holders, created BRDs, and FSDs.
• Worked on different kinds of SWIFT payment processing.
• Estimated Staffing and Budget requirements
• Created Data mapping document for two different XML formats (DSDs).
• Collaborated with Technical team and created XML schemas.
• Created Dash boards, Reports for top management.
• Worked with UI team to create Mockups.
• Owned Data Visualization services project.
• Designed and implemented SQL queries for data analysis
• Acted as SME, facilitated meetings between Development and Business teams.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams in MS Visio
• Maintained communications/Project documents in Share point.
• Worked closely with Testing teams to analyze the defects

Environment: IBM MQ, SOAP, XML, Java script, HTML, JSP, XML spy, Acrobat professional, MS project, Data power, Java, IBM MQ.

Confidential, Mountain View CA

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created Project charter, Schedule and WBS for the projects
• Conducted Initiate, Kick Off and status meetings and sent out Agenda and meeting notes.
• Managed Server Migration project.
• Gathering business requirements from the stake holders.
• Acted as SME in stakeholder meetings.
• Perform Gap Analysis and AS IS analysis and provide strategy to developers to follow.
• Created Annotations and Schemas. Worked closely with the Content team to create XML DCTs and DCRs to be maintained on CMS Teamsite.
• Collaborated with design team in creating visual designs for Responsive Web designs and XML Schemas.
• Schedule meeting with the higher management to make sure dat strategy used is acceptable.
• Gatheird and analyzed the requirements to create a mobile version of Confidential .com website.
• Created Use cases and did UAT testing.
• Involved in Web analytics and Optimization projects including Omniture site catalyst, and Adobe A/B testing.

Environment: Java script, HTML, JSP, XML spy, Team site- 6.5, Acrobat professional, MS project, Sun Java one server, Apache, Web logic

Confidential, San Francisco CA

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Translated business requirements into technical requirements. Developed detailed Functional specifications and use cases for complex web solutions.
• Prepared Wireframes and Mockups for the business and got their approvals.
• Developed detailed process flow diagrams to capture business requirements using MS Visio. Developed test scenarios and test scripts for UAT and Coordinated UAT with stakeholders.
• Developed Test Strategy for Business UAT testing and manages issues, problems, approaches and resources required. Reviewed Test cases and Test scenarios created by QA.
• Coordinated with external teams to create test strategy and also facilitated meetings as required.
• Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for data analysis, QA testing and report.
• Created and managed project templates, use case templates and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Created a Standard document which will be used as a template for the FSDs prepared in future. This is one of the s in this project.
• Created materials which explained the details of the application.
• Performed AS IS analysis to identify the various existing processes and analyzed theprocess based on end user requirements.

Environment: MS office 2007, HP Quality center, MS Visio, Power Point, Share point, Rational Clear quest, Java Script, Java, Weblogic, J2EE, JSP, Oracle, TIBCO, Qlikview Reporting.

Confidential, San Jose CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird business requirements and created Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Translated business requirements into technical requirements. Developed detailed Functional specifications and use cases for complex web solutions.
• Acted as a SME to facilitate the Project meetings.
• Developed detailed process flow diagrams to capture business requirements using MS Visio.
• Created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams in MS Visio
• Involved in prototyping initial GUI screens using MS Visio.
• Gave Presentations to the Business stakeholders.
• Coordinated with development team in India.
• Worked closely with QA team to prepare Test Scenarios. Developed test scenarios and test scripts for UAT and Coordinated UAT with stakeholders.

Environment: MS office 2007, Rational Req Pro, MS Visio, Power Point

Confidential, Mountain View CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the technical staff and the users (staff and management). Also was responsible for communication between Project Team and other related departments.
• Prepared Business Requirements Document (BRD) and (FSD).
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM)
• Performed GAP analysis to identify the various existing processes and analyzed the process based on end user requirements.
• Worked closely with QA team to facilitate Load test, stress test. Analyzed data and presented the results to business users.
• Helped the project to go through the process cycle and got the required approvals.
• Did gap analysis for the Fire pond and Quote generator, to improve the performance.

Environment: Windows XP, MS office 2007, MS Share point, Remedy change management, oracle 11i, java, MS Excel.

Confidential, Emeryville CA

Business Analyst/Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in business requirements meetings with the business sponsors, end-users and business analysts to gather end-user requirements.
• Performed GAP analysis to identify the various existing processes and analyzed the process based on end user requirements. Used Rational Unified Process for preparing Functional Requirement documents.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Created project plan and updated Wiki with the project status.
• Conducted project meetings to ensure dat project is moving in the direction of requirements and all the approvals are in place.
• Developed business requirements specification documents as well as high-level project charter.

Environment: Windows XP/2000, I planet, Web logic, Oracle, MS Visio, Rational Rose, CSS, HTML, Photoshop, Dream weaver, Telelogic Doors, clear case, team track, Power Point.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted walkthroughs with the different department heads to has a deeper understanding of the requirements
• Analyzed and documented the business requirements and generated reports for the Manager
• Wrote the software development plan and held meetings with the developers and forwarded information and documents to them
• Developed flow diagrams for Business process of the company using Microsoft Visio
• Use Case Modeling using Rational Rose for preparing Functional Requirements documents
• Follow up with the end users and developers for user satisfaction and change management if necessary
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business, operations, and technical groups throughout the project cycle
• Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance testing (UAT).
• Designed Scorecards, developed and maintained performance dashboards to track key metrics.
• Responsible for understanding business logic, developing queries, data extraction, analysis and tabulation using Advanced Excel.
• Used pivot tables, macros, and statistical functions in Excel.

Environment: Java/J2EE/JSP, Struts, HTML, TOMCAT, Rational Rose, Agile iterations, UML, Rational Clear Case, MS Office, and Oracle 9i, Crystal reports