SUMMARY:

• Innovative IT Project Manager with extensive all - round experience. A unique blend of technical, managerial and business experience in international business. Specialist in systems architecture, design, life-cycle management and project management. Experienced in offshore project management. Solid technical foundation and superior management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Strengths: Project Management, Risk Management, Quality Management, Business Management. Clients and Higher Management Interactions, Agile Management, Systems Design and Architecture, Quality Assurance and System Testing and Debugging.

Management: Project Management, Product Development, Business Development, Customer Relations, Resource Management,, Human Resources Management, Quality Assurance, Systems Management and Systems Architecture. Marketing and Presentation.

Technology: Intranet, Web Technologies, Sharepoint, Networking, VPN, Open Systems, Java, Operating Systems (Unix, Linux, Windows, AOS/VS), Multimedia, CASE tools, Databases.

Processes: SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, RAD, SCRUM, PM Processes / PMLC, PMBOK, ISO 9003.

Applications: Project & Portfolio Management System, Operating Systems, Office Automation, Vendor Management System, Document Management Systems, Multimedia, CASE tools, Quality Assurance.

Tools: MS-VISIO, Microsoft Project, MS Excel, MS-Office Suite, Primavera, OpenWorkbench.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant - Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Requirements analysis
• Solution Architecture analysis
• Cost and Effort estimations
• High level project planning
• Writing project proposals

Consultant - Project Management

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• System availability and performance reporting tool for executives.
• Automatic claims rep assignment and review.
• Electronic Claims Assignment integration.
• 3rd party valuation and damage estimation software integration.
• Survey tool for employee performance feedback.
• Prepared business case proposals for multiple products across multiple phases. Defined deliverable and prepared work packages. Worked closely with the business stake-holders and system owners to manage requirements and acceptance criteria, planning and performance reporting adhering to the company standards and methodologies.
• Planned the projects - WB tasks, time-lines and deliverable milestones, planned resources, prepared budgets for the calculated efforts estimations.
• Created High Level Design and Architecture for the products in conjunction with the system wide architecture.
• Charted out the course for product quality control and final delivery.
• Managed testing teams to carry out planning, scheduling, and coordinate test sessions including integration and validation testing and user acceptance testing. Liaison between the test team and the end system users to establish verification and acceptance criteria and test cases.
• Managed Off Shore development and testing teams.
• Measured various project control metrics thereby improving future estimations with Primavera.

Consultant

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Lead projects in E-Commerce Website Development. Used MS-Project for planning and monitoring these projects.
• Managed the design and implementation of the marketing strategy for various e-commerce clients. As the client engagement lead on multiple accounts, responsible for directing team-based project planning, design and execution of strategic initiatives on behalf of clients.
• Successfully completed a project to re-engineer and automate business process and develop a Vendor Management System. Managed the contract between the client and the vendors, procured project resources, assembled the project team, set the reporting and communications procedures, developed the project scope and functional specifications, set the quality and acceptance standards, monitored and controlled the project progress, developed the risk and cost management plan. Managed the project using CA Clarity PPM.
• Managed development and system testing teams to provide high quality software systems.
• Managed Systems teams to provide virtual test machines environments for accelerated testing according to test plans and the objectives of the project
• Coached development teams to increase design and development level verification and quality thus ensuring reduced test time defects.
• Successfully completed a project to develop a Customer Contact Management System. The system was designed and implemented on Intranet to enhance customer management for the client wherein we used the sales interaction model of one to many for the organization. I Managed the stake holder interest, project resources, project team, set the reporting and communications procedures, developed the project scope and functional specifications, set the quality and acceptance standards, monitored and controlled the project progress, developed the risk and cost management plan. Used MS-Project to plan, schedule and monitor this project.
• Successfully completed and managed a project to establish Intranet and a remotely managed branch office technology operations. Managed the contracts with vendors, procured resources, developed the scope and design specifications. Implemented the inter-network VPN providing data synchronization between main and branch offices. Managed the system for both the offices. Established an internal document management system using Sharepoint.

Project Manager

Confidential, College Park, MD

Responsibilities:

• Provided Project Management and Technical support and analyzed various logistics software for the FAA to consolidate the requirements and propose a comprehensive Maintenance Data Management System. Assessed product and system architecture. Developed project plan for the redesign of the product to improve system quality and response time. Wrote product re-architecture proposal is key deliverable. Used MS-Project for planning and monitoring project in this assignment.
• Provided proposal-writing services to clients. Wrote a proposal for the “Results” contract for the FAA and a GPS based system for the Navy. Wrote a multi-million dollar proposal for a federal government (FAA) contract for delivery of broad spectrum IT services (BITS).
• Provided technical studies, system and software engineering services and risk analysis as required by the FAA surveillance systems engineering product team. Provided general software engineering and programming services, product testing and debugging and system quality checking.
• Wrote a proposal for a manufacturing and sales support system for a manufacturing company. Worked with the client management to develop requirements for lower-cost solutions for current and future platforms. Developed system-sizing methodologies for the existing system.
• Provided Project Management and Technology consulting services to clients.
• Provided full cycle of staff selection services to clients.
• Provided pre-sales technical expertise and marketing support.

Sr. Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Established an Object Oriented Technology group for a large software developer. Streamlined the development processes using SDLC management and introduced Project Management processes to complete 3 software products and successfully complete a project for a European client.
• Implemented quality management processes to achieve ISO 9003 for a large software developer company. Trained the technical staff in the improved processes leading to the .
• Negotiated a contract to develop software tools for a CASE software for a European client. Managed the software development team for developing these tools. Completed the project successfully.
• Provided consulting services for project management, software product development, systems architecture and design, systems testing and quality assurance to various sized companies.
• Provided Program Management Consultancy for turnkey computerization projects.
• Provided expert technical evaluations and staffing service to client’s Human Resources department.
• Provided consultancy to international clients. viz. Digital Equipment Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore; TLO Holland Controls, BV; Metacom BV; Techspan, Inc; Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc. Globe Tech, Inc. and Silverline, Ltd.
• Managed a services outsource department of 400+ software developers for a large company. Provided marketing, skills fulfillment and project management support leading to million+ dollars business.
• Took initiative to recommend and design an extension to an office automation system to Digital Equipment Corporation (now Confidential ) resulting in additional business of 3 projects.
• Managed teams of 50+ people for various projects implementing program for object oriented technology group.
• Provided organizational management for the company viz. recruitment, marketing, project management and customer relations.
• Managed customer support department of 20+ people providing client support in IT installation, problem resolution, data center support, software development and pre-sales benchmarking support.
• Developed and supported CAD systems for integrated circuit design.