SUMMARY:

• I am a seasoned Project Manager with knowledge of Development and Administration in e - Discovery using EDRM model and Oracle with quality of experience in e-Discovery and Database Domain. Well versed with Database Application Development / SQL Query Tuning /PL-SQL Coding / Administration / Designing, e-Discovery Software Consulting, e-Discovery Software Implementation and other aspects of e-Discovery and Database Application management. Project Management and Quality Management Systems experience in managing full life cycle system development and CMMI, based initiatives utilizing industry standard QMS methodologies. I have a challenge-driven personality with a desire to explore aspects of e-Discovery and database application management.
• Provide weekly and monthly status reports on team activities and hours.
• Created weekly and monthly status reports on team activities and hours for the eDP (Clearwell) implementation project at SSA, Litigation Support Contract at FTC
• Create detailed project plans for various initiatives.
• Created detailed project plan for NUIX Implementation project at FTC and created Project Plan along with Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for eDP (Clearwell) implementation project at SSA
• Quickly identify and escalate issues, dependencies, or risks to team goals or project timelines.
• Created risk log, sprint schedule for eDP (Clearwell) implementation project at SSA, schedule adhoc and weekly meetings with COTR and stakeholders to discuss risk and escalated issues to the management ahead of time
• Develop and present project status reports.
• Introduced monthly project status reporting structure at FTC/FEC and created monthly project status report along with weekly status report at SSA
• Work with staff to coordinate and prioritize work.
• Managing multiple teams and have managed team of 20+ key personnel at any given time
• Assist team in meeting deadlines and fulfilling deliverables.
• Created sprint schedule and weekly meeting structure to make sure team is meeting deadlines and fulfilling deliverables for Paper Automation Project at FEC. Created milestones in the Project Plan to meet all the key deliverables at FEC
• Manage projects using methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
• Used Agile methodology for CMMI appraisal projects, as 4 different teams were involved. Used combination of Agile and Waterfall methodology for Implementation project at FTC and SSA. Paper Automation Project at FEC is a pure Agile methodology
• Establish milestones for project related work and provide recommendations to maintain the success of projects and team objectives.
• Created Project Plan with milestones and build an Integrated Master Schedule based on the Project Plan with milestones, created project sign - off, lesson learned, best practices, technical documentation, as-is, to-be diagram to maintain success of the projects.
• Veritas Clearwell (eDP), Relativity, NUIX, Exterro, Concordance, Brainspace, Windows Microsoft Office, Casesoft Suite, MS SharePoint, LAW PreDiscovery, DevOps, Trial Director, Analyst Notebook, MS Visio, MS Project, Zylab, Scaled Agile
• Project Management (Scrum, Agile, Waterfall & Kanban)
• ITIL Project Management (Transition Planning & Support)
• Data Analysis, System Analysis & Business Process Analysis
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Software testing & Database management
• Software As a Service
• Management Tools & Processes Relevant to the PWSs
• Change Management, Staff Management & Vendor Management
• Client Relationship Management
• Business Process Reengineering
• Financial Analysis
• Integration of Business Systems
• Trouble Shooting & Problem Resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining team of 20 members at different bureaus in FTC
• Maintain customer relationships, facilitate client meetings, status meetings
• Provide assistance in formal application and infrastructure assessments and requirement analysis
• Responsible for requirements gathering and analysis for Litigation support software
• Update, trouble shoot and maintain the Litigation support software for FTC
• Provide assistance in project planning, status reporting, documentation, configuration management, software installation, test planning and strategy and test criteria development
• Provide software design and development as well as technical expertise to enhance and to resolve critical problems in several application systems
• Consult with attorneys and client on electronic discovery strategies including collection, processing, review and production of electronically stored information.
• Train users and clients on the use of litigation specific technology and followed EDRM model
• Managed and performed several data migration projects to upgrade Concordance versions and move data from Concordance to Zylab using waterfall methodology
• Process data using LAW PreDiscovery and IPRO eCapture
• Load and maintain data in Concordance, iConect, Exterro and Clearwell
• Manage e-discovery projects and cases including assigning work to electronic data discovery staff
• Setup a Mobile LOA WAR Room for a trial on crucial deadline
• Processing documents in LAW and Concordance to create a database for an ongoing case at FTC
• Prepared detailed project plan, Integrated Master Schedule for various projects like legacy data migration, Nuix Implementation, etc.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a Project lead involved in implementing CMMI level-3 quality standards at organizational level and at software projects level
• Complete and thorough business analysis, with development and testing for the entire software life cycle and across multiple platforms including; Web, Client Server, and Legacy
• Project Management duties include: Project progress and milestone tracking, resource management and delegation of tasks, SQM Software Quality Metrics, JAD sessions, issue and
• Developing CMMI-compliant documentation standards, templates (Project Plan, CM Plan, Risk Management plan, PPQA and Project Monitoring & Control etc.) and checklists
• Manage all aspects of software QA department, including hiring, personnel reviews, budgeting, and scheduling. Directly responsible for 3 Test Supervisors, 8 Engineers, 1 Audit Manager, and 2 QA Analyst
• Reporting to Senior Mgmt. on organization projects performances
• Escalated Risk/issues and resolve them as necessary
• Working as SEPG Team lead to draft/maintain and implement Project Plans, Project Monitoring & Control, Quality Assurance Plans, Configuration Management Plans, Software Development Plans, Risk Management Plans, and Test Plans & Procures
• Project Lead for Product and Process Quality Assurance (PPQA)
• Defined the Configuration Management of QA using the SCM principles applied to projects and managed online status of QMS
• Get the processes reviewed by SEPG/Mgmt.
• Trained the staff on the new/enhanced processes
• Conduct CMMI Reviews to validate compliance of project deliverables and processes
• Used Agile methodology for the sprints and smooth execution of CMMI assessment
• Each sprint was divided into milestone and minor projects to coordinate with various teams
• Worked and assigned work to 4 different teams in parallel, Agile methodology using Sprints is the best way for successful completion
• Maintaining team of 10+ members for implementation of eDP (Clearwell)
• Handle cost, schedule, performance and risk across project start-up delivery, and close-out phases
• Provide extensive program development, management and integration support services, decision-support analyses, product development and design, and business planning support
• Consult with attorneys and client on electronic discovery strategies including collection, processing, review and production of electronically stored information.
• Developed deployment plan for Pilot implementation and then phased deployment in Production
• Created project plan, Integrated Master Schedule, sprints schedule, weekly and monthly status reports on team activities and labor hours for end to end eDP Pilot Project and Implementation in Production
• Working on migration project from legacy system to eDP (Clearwell) which includes setting up pristine environment, migrating source, legal hold data and application data, testing and roll out
• Assess end user and application related technical issues or problems, resolve issues and create documentation efficient and effective handling of similar issues in future.
• Draft policies and procedures for effective handling of implementation and migration of data
• Serve as consultant to attorneys and legal teams on all technology related projects in all phases of litigation
• Prepared meeting minutes, track all project action items to completion and effectively communicate project status or risks to end users, teammates and management on a timely basisTrain new team members on processes, procedures and project management responsibilities
• Scheduled weekly meetings and some on the fly meetings helped to maintain success of the deployment and discuss risks with the stake holder
• Managed team of 8+ members for integrating FEC Paper Automation Dashboard with Captricity
• Created Dashboard (tracking system) for Federal Election Commission (FEC) to integrate with Captricity
• SLA was reduced from 45 days to 5 days
• Automated the process and reduced human intervention to the minimum
• Used Agile methodology for the project planning
• Gathered user stories by scheduling sessions and created as-is, to-be architecture for the project
• Introduced weekly meeting minutes templates and structure to keep the track of the project
• Developed Quality Management System to monitor the quality of the deliverable
• Created repository system to store code change and log files

Confidential

Project Manager/System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performing requirement gathering
• Facilitating meetings with the customers to understand their needs
• Design and develop reporting/analytical solution using tools like Business Objects
• Ensure timely delivery of the solution and deploy in production
• Co-ordinate resource allocation within the project scope
• To test software using security tool Fortify 360
• Building development and user acceptance databases and all associated maintenance
• To provide support to Product Development Team