EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Decisive, results - oriented professional offering 15 years of experience in IT industry with last 8 years focused on Business Analysis and Project Management. Seamlessly orchestrate complex development and support projects with budgets over 2 million USD and a team of about 40+ FTE.
• Experienced in working on various types of projects including enterprise-wide development initiatives, maintenance, legacy migration and SLA driven production support projects.
• In-Depth Knowledge of SDLC, milestone and deliverables in each phase of the project.
• Executed multiple projects using Agile SCRUM methodology.
• Interfaced with business and technology partners to ascertain project requirements, tracked them to completion and validated their complete satisfaction.
• Experience in Businessprocess analysis, Requirements gathering, system study, impact analysis, gap/fit analysis, building Proof Of Concepts (POC), wire frames, defining solution framework, process flows, document Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional use cases.
• Expert in various requirement capturing techniques, conduct business reviews, walkthrough sessions, workshops and in depth knowledge of managing the requirement changes using Traceability matrix.
• Keep a check on change control and make sure change management procedures are followed.
• Ensure all the project artifacts are reviewed, versioned, approved and stored in project repository.
• Offer outstanding talent in Project Management skills including planning, scheduling, cost avoidance, estimation, people management, quality management, time management, vendor management, RFP, Statement Of Work (SOW) creation, decision making and status reporting.
• Facilitate SCRUM ceremonies like grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Measured health of the project using various metrics and organized continuous improvement teams using graphical techniques such as control charts, histograms etc., to aid in problem solving.
• Experience of working in multiple technologies - Java-J2EE, .NET, SAP, PLM, BPM and Mainframes.
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve the project objectives.
• Proactive in assessing, managing and mitigating risks.
• Reputation for exceeding corporate objectives while controlling costs and improving efficiencies using lean and six sigma methodologies
• Chaired the System Integration Triage meetings and Support Customer in User Acceptance testing.
• Overall 15 years of IT experience
• 7+ years of experience in Business Requirements gathering and Systems Analysis
• 5+ years of experience in Project Management, Agile SCRUM, Kanban
• 6 years of experience in Java, J2EE, PLM as a Technical Lead
• 3 years of onsite experience working with US and European clients

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Requirements Gathering
• System Analysis
• Agile SCRUM
• Resource Management
• Risk Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Web Technologies
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Business Process Analysis and Modeling
• Project Management
• Change Management
• Budget Planning
• Quality Assurance
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business modeling / Requirements Gathering: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, CaliberJ, JAMA Contour, UML, OOAD

Project Management Tools: MS Project, SharePoint, MS Office(Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Programming Languages: Java, J2EE, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, Cobol, HTML, XML, PL/SQL

Application software: Enovia eMatrix, Planisware, Oracle BPM, Oracle Aqualogic, Quality Center, SVN, PVCS Dimensions, JIRA, Eclipse, NetBeans, VSTF. Remedy

Database: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2

Application Server: WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, WebSphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business System Analyst / Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Act as single Point of Contact for Business Users, Stakeholders, Technical and Quality Assurance teams.
• Analyze the existing R & D process for clinical research functionalities for Antibodies, Small Molecules and Kits used for diagnostics and perform a system study of web-based J2EE application with underlying Oracle database.
• Identified bottlenecks, areas of improvement and depict process improvement areas using MS Visio.
• Built Proof Of Concepts to simulate process improvements and provided demos to Subject Matter Experts for their buying.
• Captured Functional, Non-Functional requirements, define business rules, wireframes, data dictionary, logical data model, document Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional use cases.
• Manage the requirements using JAMA Contour tool and maintain the Traceability Matrix.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Coach, mentor and motivate the leads and development, testing teams, ensure they are heading in right direction while building the application using PLM technologies.
• Continuous backlog tracking, team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and resolve dependencies.
• Executed and maintained project management processes and disciplines in the areas of: scheduling, budgeting, resourcing, monitoring & controlling, quality management, communications management and change management.
• Measure Project health using various metrics at each phase of project.
• Generate weekly/monthly reporting for Senior Management and periodic reviews with Stakeholders.
• Perform Confidential, proactively identify the risks, create mitigation and contingency plans and track them.

Business System Analyst / Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the entire project lifecycle from project definition through implementation and accountable for meeting agreed upon scope, cost, schedule and quality measures.
• Adept at managing stakeholder expectations, requirements, development, testing and deployment using an iterative Agile delivery approach.
• Analyst responsibilities included process examination, system study of existing BPM, J2EE applications, query database using SQL scripts, perform impact analysis of the enhancements, determine operational, economic feasibility and define solution framework.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Work with project team and key stakeholders to devise best practices and continuous improvement of project delivery across the enterprise.
• Anticipated bottlenecks in advance, make tradeoffs and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them.
• Manage business expectations during Data Migration, User acceptance testing and Production cutover.
• Create and Manage Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), User Material, provide user to business and end users.

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered 150+ enhancements spread across 40+ applications without a single escalation.
• Managed the outcome based managed services engagement worth 2 million USD with 40+ resources.
• Build comprehensive expertise on impacted applications while analyzing the business needs and performing the impact analysis.
• Lead, gather, develop, coordinate, and maintained business requirements from initial phase to final implementation, assuring requirements meet quality standards.
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies like grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment; adapted Kanban.
• Worked with Product owner on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown and Release Burndown.
• Measure Project health using various metrics at each phase of project.
• Risk, Actions, Issues and Decision (RAID) logs throughout project lifecycle.
• Published project status with regard to resources, schedule and features (the solution and its quality) that influenced project performance and completion.
• Help the Management on RFPs, new service contracts and Statement of Work (SOW) creation.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed a project of 260,000 GBP with a team of 15 resources.
• Coordinate with Business, Functional and Technical teams in devising the solution framework, business requirements and functional documents.
• Closely work with SAP BI DW teams in preparing the data migration plan.
• Project management activities included - Scheduling, Costing, Resourcing and various other plans like communication plan, plan etc.
• Extend help in converting Business requirements into testable requirements and review the final product.
• Capture Risks and plan the mitigation and contingency.

Business System Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interface with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and provide guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve the project objectives
• Successfully deliver the project containing around 68 requirements with no process deviations.
• Responsible for documenting the Business Requirements Document, providing Solution framework and ensuring the business requirements are converted to testable requirements.
• Provide demos to the business users and capture the early feedback
• Participate in System Integration testing and provide support to User Acceptance Testing
• Plan and Execute project closure activities like conducting postmortem and documenting the learnings etc.

Business System Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Subject Matter Experts to analyze data and process by digging into the J2EE code, define and deliver detailed business requirements for application enhancements and process improvements.
• Design and Document solution architecture framework for Change of Agent process
• Build Proof of Concepts to demonstrate the operational feasibility of the requirements.
• Edited the standard operating procedures (SOPs) and manuals.
• Coordinated with manager and stakeholders to advise of critical issues, provided regular status updates and ensured project deliverables are met in a timely manner.
• Mitigate risks through proactive issue identification and timely escalation.

Techno-Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Discussed with Subject Matter Experts on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) service orchestration and provide guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches in achieve project objectives.
• Discussed and documented various business operations, functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Interacted with Senior Technical Architects on various services J2EE Services, Stored Procedures, WSDL, Message interfaces etc., analyze interdependencies; identify performance, integration, Product Catalog, operational and security needs.
• Translated the requirements to design and provided solution architecture for orchestration of SOA components.
• Build expertise in various processes like Order Management, Point of Sale etc. while analyzing the business needs and performing the impact analysis.
• Coordinated with offshore team to track the deliverable status and take responsibility of delivering on time.
• Coordinated with business users in user acceptance testing and ensured the requirements are met for the final delivery.

Business System Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead, gather, develop, coordinate, and maintained business requirements from initial phase to final implementation, assuring requirements meet FAA standards.
• Define Business Rules, prepare wire-frames and document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Define logical Data Model for the system and coordinate with DBA to translate it to Physical Data model.
• Assist the business, stakeholders with product demonstrations, particularly those technically or functionally in-depth.
• In addition to becoming the overall SME for the work-stream, acted as a Project Manager to get the project implemented on time and within budget.
• Explain the business requirements to developers and ensure they understand the functionality to be built.
• Superior coordination of user acceptance testing of final infrastructure and software development deliverables through iterative evolutions.
• Mitigated risks through proactive issue identification and timely escalation.
• Created bug tracking database and quality assurance systems to organize project assets, reduce time and locate assets.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as hands-on leader for the design, build, testing and deployment of web-based applications using advanced technologies of Java and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).
• Help Manager in providing the effort estimates and lay down the schedule.
• Responsible for optimization of technologically feasible solution out of the Design Options.
• Coordinated and managed User Acceptance Testing with the end users for all changes made to the applications.
• Responsible for providing status the status updates and deciding the Next steps for the team.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and deployed server side components for browser based collaboration software.
• Performed trade studies to benchmark functionalities of legacy system with commercially available PLM software.
• Programming and design challenges included restricting users actions based on their role, uploading and downloading content to exhibitors and attendees, cross-browser compatibility, and scalability & reliability.
• Designed system to meet all current quality standards, including accessibility.