SUMMARY:

• Senior Technology leader with over 15 years of experience including over 10 years in managing technology transformations and programs 
• Established best practices across several projects and transformed development model across two large multi-million dollar projects resulting in compression of schedule and savings in cost by over 10%
• Finalized opportunities to SOW sign-offs with various healthcare clients
• A mentor, a counselor and a Manager, who strongly believes in development of his counselees, mentees and teams

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technology Manager

Responsibilities:

• Process Improvement: Identify gaps, develop mitigation strategies, introduce new opportunities for process improvement across business and technology teams, release and delivery planning, reduce development cycle duration and time to market
• Data Quality Framework: Driving three tracks to establish bank’s Data Quality Framework to help achieve the data quality requirements of its consumers and meet industry regulations

National Release Management Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Steered nation’s top 5 non-profit healthcare provider’s Go-Live Release and Change Management Strategy and its implementation across 78 hospitals nationwide in compliance of ICD-10 managing portfolio of project
• Designed Go-live Command Center operations and its governance model, roadmap and plans at national and regional levels in preparation for go-live

Senior Technology Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led development of ICD-10 readiness technology strategy, trained, provided guidance and direction to leadership and Project Managers in planning, remediation and execution of the strategy for ICD-10 go live. These recommendations were applied as client methodology and implemented across the organization nationwide

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Integrated one of the most complex technology tracks, steered the architecture and development and overall management of the project. Managed over 30+ members in multiple tracks, both on and off shore. Responsible for establishing teams, delivering product, troubleshooting, tracking, issue and risk mitigation and project delivery

Knowledge Transfer and Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and managed the Knowledge Transfer and Program for the client at the closing of a large multi-year project at the delivery of Data Warehouse solution to multiple al agencies integrating with the Governor’s Office of Student for the State of Georgia at the GA S project

Technology Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Initiated as a lead for one of the tracks, but took over multiple tracks at the project, including business design, technical designs, and development coordination with 6 vendors and QA on a R40 million project to build a mobile bank in South Africa. Individual Managed Revenue of over R10 million and was instrumental to an exceptionally successful go live
• Creator and lead for a recognized and successful people development initiative in the Southeast region for past 4 years. The objective of the initiative is to support new and experienced hires to acclimatize with firm culture, provide networking opportunities, fun filled team building activities, mentorship and access to leadership in an informal environment to help them succeed in the firm
• Actively driving recruitment of Experienced Hires in the firm

Technical Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led release and management for the Payments track. Managed a team of 28 including three leads and 25 developers in US and in India. Responsible for troubleshooting, tracking progress, vendor management, coordinating integration efforts across other tracks at the bank, status reporting, risk and issue management

Delivery Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• A $240 million retirement automation project for State of California.
• Instrumental to introduction and implementation of matrix organizational structure across the project resulting in substantial productivity increase.
• Improved design, development and testing processes, which resulted into significant quality improvement and expediting delivery while managing end to end delivery of a complex domain
• Motivated synergies in integration with partner agencies and vendors

Implementation Lead/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As Architect, authored Application Architecture that included architecture, performance, test automation, maintenance routines and security
• As Lead (SOA/Web Services), led team, created program and trained Web Services team

Delivery Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported integration and planning in the merger of Bank of America and LaSalle Bank. Coordinated teams at Charlotte and Chicago office locations by driving requirements, design sessions, preparing work plans and defining activities
• Coordinates project team from inception through completion and execute corporate planning and project management.
• Develops new systems; techniques and procedures for automated planning systems, reporting, issue resolution, risk management and budget tracking.
• Acts as senior representative for Project Management Center of Excellence.
• Reviews plans and schedules of other participating functions for compliance with the master schedule; resolves scheduling and inter-functional conflicts.
• Participates in or leads daily, weekly or monthly meetings. Reviews to track and report project status, identifying deviations or adverse trends. Interfaces with upper management.
• Reviews project business case to ensure accurate costs and internal labor are identified. Ensures approval of business case and present to governing body.
• Mentors, supports and develops associates and processes within the project management area.
• Supports internal department through instructional opportunities