Professional Summary:

• PMP Certified Project Manager PMP Number: 1741450 with 9 years of progressive experience in Information Technology IT sector in Banking and Financial domains.
• An MBA, Finance graduate from Tulane University Top 5 Finance Business School in the US .
• I have almost six years of Project Management experience along with three years of Java developer/BA experience. I also managed global team that included APAC, EMEA and US.
• Proficiency in managing multi-million dollars projects, defining the projects scope, developing project charter, create project management plan and work breakdown structure WBS through decomposition.
• Effectively coordinated with the project stakeholders to facilitate Delphi Technique and Joint Application Design JAD sessions to gather and record the Project Scope Statement, Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM , Risk Breakdown Structure RBS , and Responsibility Assignment Matrix RAM .
• Planned schedule management, resource management, cost management, communication management, along with performing quality assurance, and directing and managing the project work.
• Adept in designing the Measurement plans, metrics, dashboards and scorecards and has the aptitude of providing overall testing status, risk management, resource planning PERT , test environment planning and tracking various SLA's with relevant stakeholders and vendors.
• Monitored and controlled the project Schedule, Scope and Cost through Reserve Analysis to mitigate risk using Probability and Impact Matrix.
• Used Earned value Management, Forecasting and To-complete Performance index TCPI to control cost.
• Excellent Global exposure with different cultures and team. Worked in Italy Bologna , Argentina Buenos Aires , and China Beijing during MBA program.
• Highly knowledgeable in software development life cycle SDLC , scheduling, requirements analysis, project planning, strategic planning, systems analysis and Technical design.
• Prepared project budgets using Critical path method, Schedule compression techniques and Leads and lags.
• Expertise in using Version One to manage agile projects.
• Performed scrum master duties, and facilitate Planning, Grooming, Retro and daily Stand-up sessions.
• Extensive experience in gathering and documenting business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Experience in preparing and managing Issue logs, Risk logs and Stakeholder Register.
• Hands on experience and expertise in conducting SWOT Analysis, feasibility study, and impact analysis to handle change management.
• Managed project assignments and performance tracking for 21 employees across India, China and the US.

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: Project Manager/Scrum Master

Project Description: Confidential is invested 30 million dollar to implement Internet Single Sign On ISSO across its entire platforms. ISSO is the ability for a customer to enter the same username and password to logon to multiple applications within an enterprise. The JAVA/J2EE project needs all the customers from different platforms database Banking, Credit Card, Auto, and 360 to migrate to single platform database OLBR: online banking re-platform . So far, the project helps 4 million customers to migrate to the OLBR database.

Responsibilities:

• Confidential follows Agile and my team gets annual budget. Last year the budget was 2 million dollars and this year the budget is 3.5 million dollars. We have a roadmap for 3 years and I am consistently meeting the milestones that are scheduled in every 2-3 months.
• Coordinated with the Project Stakeholders and Sponsors to prepare Project Scope and Project Charter.
• Facilitated bi-weekly Sprint Planning session to coordinate with multiple teams including Tech Leads, SMEs, Business Analysts, Architects, Development and Testing teams to groom and assign stories from roadmap.
• Responsible for managing assigned information technology projects throughout the system development life cycle including: analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Develop work break down structure WBS , communication and risk plan.
• Coordinated with the key stakeholders to identify the key resources for the successful completion of the project.
• Monitor and Control Risk, Cost, Schedule, Scope and Stakeholder Engagement.
• Monitored process compliance and recommended process improvements resolved project road blocks.
• Controlled project work using agile methodology and ensured projects meet the triple constraints - scope, time and costs.
• Facilitated meetings and document contingency solutions, in case the deliverables are likely to be missed.
• Forecasted and acquired resources for the project and managed their level of effort and activities throughout the project in Version One.
• Prepared and presented weekly status reports, status dashboards, and status presentations for the leadership team and project sponsors.
• Liaison between Business and Technology to smoothly run the project and release schedule for the application.
• Provide and present requirement analysis, prototype setups, functional design, workflow and gap analyses, and data conversion documentation to the client
• Formulated regular and on-demand executive reports on project status, risks and issues, scope, defects and resources for senior management.
• Collect sign-offs from the clients on various completed deliverables
• Prepare, present and update project plan throughout the project life cycle
• Manage project scope, statement of work, work orders and change request to mitigate risk
• Ensure project is on time and on budget by meeting milestone deliverables
• Extensively used Clarity, Version One, Product Vision, SharePoint, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.
• Prepared Lessons Learned documents at the completion of a section of the project.
• The project is based on JAVA/J2EE technology and used Spring framework and RESTful web services.

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

Project Description: This project consists of creating application, which deals with storing personal information of customers using a feature called as Personal Folder Login. This personal folder feature is a way for a customer to use the website more efficiently. It customizes each user interest and lets them use different kind of insurance products/plans.

Responsibilities:

• In Confidential the budget was 1.2 million dollars for two years. The project was completed before schedule and under budget.
• Responsibilities include creating project schedules, project management plans, communication plan, conducting project kick off meetings, creating risk registers, creating status reports, management summary report, sending reports to clients and maintaining communication among team and client.
• Create Project Charter, Project Plan, Risk Register, Stake holder Status Reports
• Prepared project budget estimates at the beginning of the project for stakeholders buy-in and tracked and controlled project budget throughout the project.
• Help tech lead in tasking breakdown and prioritizing profile work item.
• Understanding the functional requirements and prepared a detailed Use Cases and Functional Requirement Documents from the Business Requirements Specifications.
• Directly work with SMEs, Product Owners, Sponsors and Business Analysts.
• Effectively managed change orders by conducting impact analysis on change of scope to identify need for additional funds, level of effort and resources.
• Approve inbound Change order requests
• Responsible for running custom reports including revenue forecast, resource allocation forecast for the executives
• Coordinate with Business and IT leads to get approvals on all project deliverables.
• Followed agile methodology to develop this project that involved Scrum meetings with the end clients.

Confidential

Role: Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

Description: This project of Oracle supports its client to implement and maintain the Siebel CRM Customer Data Hub application with integrations to Loyalty, Campaign Management, and Marketing Analytics suite. The few clients I worked with included Confidential.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a Project to implement the Siebel CRM for more than 45 clients globally on time for two years with the budget of 1.5 million dollars for each year.
• Responsible for working with Technical Lead/Architect, functional analysts and other developers to implement and maintain Siebel CRM.
• Provided technical guidance to business analysts, gather the requirements and convert them into technical specifications/artifacts.
• Identify business objectives and measurable goals, expected schedule, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements and allotment of resources
• Track project milestones and deliverables.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stake holders in a timely manner.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts with in project team.
• Facilitate the completion of impact assessment with the product teams.
• Responsible for ensuring all criteria, standards and SLA's executed correctly.
• Verify that the appropriate backlogs are updated at every state of change request life cycle.
• Ensures project meets requirements and objectives.

Confidential

Role: Developer/Business Analyst

Description: TCS has multiple projects that include both Business to Business B2B and Application to Application A2A integrations using Integration Server and Trading Networks. I acted as a member of the SOA Development Team, deploying reusable assets to the Enterprise Service Bus ESB as our team built an event driven Services Oriented Architecture

Responsibilities/Tools:

• Java Spring Framework, Hibernate, Servlets, JSP, Tag Libraries, HTML, JDK 1.4/1.5, JDBC, JNDI, EJB 3.0, Webservices, AJAX, and JQuery.
• Java/J2EE design patterns including Singleton, Factory, Model View Controller MVC , Data Access Object DAO and Business delegate.
• JUnit for unit testing and Soap UI 3.0 for web service testing.
• SDLC development paradigms used includes Waterfall, Agile SCRUM , and Test-Driven Development.