SUMMARY:

• PMP Certified IT Project Manager, 12 years experience with exceptional credentials managing the entire SDLC, particular expertise in managing project scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk and change in a multi - disciplined organizational environment.
• Highly accomplished in field of analysis and gathering, business process mapping and the development of interactive prototypes.
• Collaborating project work from initiation, planning, monitoring & control to closure.
• Leading project teams and Internal/External stakeholder groups.
• Interviews, facilitated workshops, prototypes, context diagrams.
• Project scope statement preparation, wireframes, diagrams.
• Managing project schedules, schedule baselines, and their processes.
• Leading test planning & communicating using check-off sheet.
• Performing analysis for impact on new strategy.
• Managing project budget, IT procurement & performing Earned value analysis.
• Managing corrective/preventive action, defect repair and their processes.
• Continuously improving and identifying inefficient activities, reducing waste.
• Allocating schedules/budget reserves for uncertain events.
• Managing scope creep, gold plating and stakeholder communications.
• Presentation skills attuned to project goals and stakeholder needs.
• Understanding complex problems and performing root cause analysis.
• Conducting interviews and implementing multi-criterial decision analysis.
• Negotiating mutually acceptable solutions.
• Implementing communication plan, with time and frequency of updates.
• Performing analysis in alignment to organizational strategic objective.
• Financial services/Supporting strategy roll out: Evaluating the Quantitative impact.
• Enterprise Architect CRM: Managing the interactions with current & future customers.
• Leading chartering, planning and execution of project development sessions.
• Scoping the business requirements and developing technical solutions.
• Developing the implementation approach and managing the impact on all business areas.
• Facilitating collection of requirements, analysis, documentation, traceability, RACI, RAM.
• Managing software development, code reviews & audit implementation of approved requests.
• Planning milestones and detailing program across schedule, budget and technical issues.
• Planning and coordinating customer acceptance, VOC, VOB & critical customer requirements.
• Managing procurement of software & hardware, facilitating and tracking of upgrades.
• Configuration identification, verification, audit, status accounting, change control system.
• Leading project control, performing variance analysis, monitoring for baseline deviation.
• Developing project workflow, scope model, simulating, providing feedback to management.
• Implementing Plan-do-check-act cycle and Quality continuous process improvement models.
• Managing and tracking the program risk registry and analyzing for any new threats/opportunities.
• Change management, CCB (Change Control Board), audit implementation of approved requests
• Developing management reports detailing program across schedule, budget and technical issues
• Quality planning for defining quality metric, quality control measurement for performing QA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Tools: Microsoft Project Professional, Primavera and Clarity as part of management.

Software Technologies: C, C++, Java, Matlab, HTML, clear case, clear quest, Oracle.

Quality: CMM Level 5 processes, ISO, Six Sigma.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, IN

Business Analyst/IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing development & deployment of IT projects.
• Lead cross functional teams to analyze and understand the operational impacts for technology change.
• Managed analysis, design of framework for the application collaborating key stakeholders needs.
• Provided strong PDLC management using hybrid (agile/waterfall) development methodology.
• Analyzed prototype and wrote final functional specifications, test case procedures.
• Managed product performance issues, Facilitating data analysis & issuing defect repair.
• Coordinating the service for product warranty, identifying the warrantable updates on software.
• Managed the deployment plan, obtain the customer approval using Check-off sheet.
• Designed and implemented change-control process involving tracking & documentation.
• Managed the software customization in alignment to customer system requirements.
• Documented Project and Product scope, creating WBS, analyzing network diagram & critical path.
• Creating and tracking Performance baselines (Scope baseline, Schedule baseline and cost baseline).
• Identifying project risks, performing qualitative analysis and planning risk triggers & responses.
• Controlling project customer engineering budget and status reports on various measurements.
• Coordinating implementation of global help ticket system, planning & managing communications.
• Leaded a group of 7 contract engineers as part of implementing the system.
• Controlling project customer engineering budget and status reports on various measurements
• Single point of contact for all program related communications with internal/external stake-holders.
• Validating scope with success criteria & obtaining acceptance of customer Initiating closure.

Confidential, Melbourne, FL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed the analysis and implementation of several large IT projects.
• Designed and analyzed web-based adaptable workflow system for use across the business.
• Managed analysis, design of framework for the application collaborating key stakeholders needs.
• Constructed process models including data dictionaries and volume estimates.
• Tested business applications to ensure that all client requirements are incorporated in to the design.
• Developed User stories for the Business unit and prepared BRDs and CCR.
• Provided strong PDLC management using hybrid (agile/waterfall) development methodology.
• Managed product performance issues, Facilitating data analysis & issuing defect repair.
• Coordinating the service for product warranty, identifying the warrantable updates on software.
• Managed the deployment plan, obtain the customer approval using Check-off sheet.
• Designed and implemented change-control process involving tracking & documentation.
• Identified key road blocks and proposed effective solutions for a 50M$ project for 20% of cost savings.
• Managed the software customization in alignment to customer system requirements.
• Responsible for managing development & deployment of GE Trip Optimizer.
• Implemented rolling wave planning and progressively elaborated product scope after approval.
• Designed and Implemented scripts to automate system performance evaluation capabilities.
• Planned, managed & controlled the release of the application systems in to production.
• Managed pilot runs in test environment and asses the benefit realization estimates.
• Demonstrated that the new design complied with the requirements of the safety analysis.
• Conducted root cause analysis, process analysis for potential failures in the system.
• Focus on improving processes, quality control measurements, quality metrics and validated changes.
• Managed project communications with global project staff members towards implementation.
• Lead process improvement, Identifying inefficient activities, reducing the operation cost.
• Managed targets for improved performance by Identifying process boundaries and metrics.

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Acted as the Project Engineer assisting the Confidential PM in managing the design & development.
• Analyzed prototype and wrote final functional specifications, test case procedures.
• Successfully introduced process to prioritize, implement and manage product enhancements.
• Created and managed requirements documentation, prepared test requirements & test cases.
• Automated testing and data analysis using software programming, Developed software Interfaces.
• Performed regression analysis and complied with quality assurance procedure for final delivery.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contributed software engineering expertise in the development of products throughout SDLC.
• Coordinated with teams to develop strategies, to utilize existing infrastructure to provide enhancement.
• Developed, tested, and debugged the code and Designed Interfaces for automated testing.
• Delivered wide range of functional enhancements and performance improvements to applications.
• Conducted software and system monitoring, testing and performed quality assurance.
• Engaged teams in code review sessions to ensure best practices and procedures are implemented.