SUMMARY:

• PMP certified Sr. Project Manager with 14 years of project management, business/system analysis, design and development experience.
• Extensive experience in managing full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile/SCRUM, RUP, PMBOK and CMM methodology.
• Proficient in developing large - scale IT budget and project schedules, creating resource plans and cost estimates, and leading the activities of cross-functional team members and third party vendors.
• Managed fixed price and T&M (Time and Material) projects.
• Performed as a ‘Bridge’ between Business and IT. helping IT in prioritization of projects, resources and budget by identifying top business priorities and pain areas from the business owners.
• Excellent managerial skills including delegating and coordinating tasks, and facilitating, problem solving, decision making and meeting project deliverables and client expectations with the highest quality on a timely manner.
• Broad technology experience in Business Intelligence/analytics, web solutions, database design/development and data integration.
• Domain knowledge of Banking/Financial services, Healthcare, Confidential, Insurance, and Consumer Products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project/Program Management: Agile/SCRUM, PMBOK, CMM, Rational Unified Process (RUP), System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Budgeting, Resource Planning, Change Control Management, Risk Management, Vendor evaluation/selection, MS Project, MS Project Server, Share Point, JIRA with Greenhopper, Rally, Primavera, Clarity, PowerSteering

Business Analysis: Process Modeling, User stories, Use Cases, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Gap Analysis, JAD Sessions, Visio, RequisitePro, ClearQuest, ClearCase, Rational Rose, Sybase Power Designer, Top Team

BI/Analytics: Microstrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, MDM, Data warehouse

Database Technologies: Oracle, SQL Server, Data Modeling, ErWin, Informatica, TOAD

Languages: Java, XML, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, UML

ERP: Oracle Financials Release 11i (Implementation and customization), SAP, Lawson

Web & GUI Development: AJAX, JSF, Service Oriented Architecture (SAO), JSP, Servlets, Struts, ASP, PHP, DOM/SAX Parsers, HTML, JavaScript

Components Models: J2EE, EJB (Enterprise Java Bean), Java Beans, Struts

Middleware: IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, Oracle Application Server, TIBCO, Apache, Tomcat, IIS, JDBC, ODBC, MQ Series, Hibernate

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a Sr. Project Manager role reporting to the VP of portfolio management. Managing application development projects in the Business Intelligence/Analytics area using Agile/SCRUM processes.
• In the inception phase, conducted JAD sessions, created scope definition, SOW and release plan.
• Worked with the Enterprise architect for the overall architecture/solution for the project and ensured that it aligns with the long term strategy.
• Created sprint plans and transformed the scope into work packages. Worked with the product owner to groom the product backlog throughout the lifecycle of the project
• Defined clear roles and responsibilities among team members and established a process for work management.
• Tracked the progress of sprints. Monitored sprint burn down and velocity of the scrum teams. Created dashboards for the management to view the sprint progress of all the scrum teams.
• Conducted team scrums, leadership scrums, sprint planning, sprint showcases and sprint retrospectives.
• Proactively managed scope changes, risks, issues and action items throughout the project
• At the program level, interfaced with the owner of the interfacing applications and vendors to establish dependencies (Give Vs. Get) and milestones.
• Identified the stakeholders need and created communication plan to communicate project status/progress, issues, action items and risks
• Conducted sessions on Agile methodology and work management process using JIRA with greenhopper

Project Technologies: Microstrategy, SAP, Oracle 11g, Web services, MS Project, JIRA with greenhopper, Visio

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a Sr. Project Manager role reporting to the Program Management. Lead four SCRUM teams (22 team members) with Agile processes/methodology throughout the project lifecycle.
• Created detailed project plans, resource plans and budget. Contributed in the program planning sessions and Integrated project schedule into the program schedule.
• Conducted sprint planning sessions. Ensured that sprint planning is aligned with the program milestones and deadlines.Created and managed sprint plans that address sprint approaches, deliverables, change management, resource and budget requirements and implementation schedules.
• Monitored the execution and progress of each sprint. Tracked sprint velocities, burn downs and release burn downs and took corrective actions when needed.
• Partenered with the product owner to review and prioritize product backlog
• Prepared and commincated status reports to the management regarding project progress, issues and risks
• Collected business requirements for project backlogs
• Interfaced with business owners to understand their needs and secured appropriate project buy-in/sign-off throughout Life Cycle

Project Technologies: JIRA with greenhopper, MS Project, Share Point, Visio, Oracle 11g, Eclipse, J2EE, XML, Web Services, TIBCO, Linux

Sr. Project Manager / Solution Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed solutions and SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) of business applications/projects in the areas of Core Banking, Risk Management and Compliance.
• Managed and delivered following highly visible projects on time and under budget:
• Integration of Oracle financials (GL and Payables) with the core banking system
• Design and development of a data warehouse, ETL processes and reporting infrastructure for Basel II reporting
• Created scope definition, project plan, WBS, roll out plan, conversion/migration strategy/approach documents. Effectively managed the issues and risks throughout the projects.
• Led analysis of business processes, requirements gathering, development of use cases, data models, and all documentation throughout project lifecycles.
• Liasing between IT and and business owners helping IT in prioritization of projects, resources and budget by identifying top business priorities and pain areas from the business owners.
• Managing vendors and resources (employees, consultants and offshore team members) in the matrix environment.
• Making sure that project management methodology, processes, standards and best practices are being followed in delivery of all projects. Conducting lessons learned exercises at the end of projects and from production issues and continuously refining internal standards, best practices and preventive measures.

Technologies: MS Project, Fiserv, Oracle Financials, RequisitePro, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Visio, Informatica, Oracle 10g, J2EE, Business Object, SharePoint, Oracle UPK (User Productivity Kit)

Project Manager/Sr. BSA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst role reporting to the Executive Director. Followed PMBOK methodology throughout the project lifecycle. Managed a team of 16 members comprising of BA, Developers, user experience designers and testers.
• In the initial stage of the project, met with business owners and senior management to define the scope of the project. Met with stake holders and interfacing system partners to identify high level risks, constraints and inter dependencies in the schedule.
• Conducted JAD sessions with the business users and gathered requirements for the new system.
• Created business process model and business requirements model using Power Designer.
• Led the BA team in developing functional requirements use cases and creating requirements traceability matrix.
• Managed analsysis/creation of the data warehouse and data migration efforts (Data analysis, database design and architecture, data mapping, ETL and reporting).
• Created WBS, resource plan, detailed project plan and milestones. Executed project plan and monitored the progress on a daily basis to identify issues or red flags and take corrective actions immediately.
• Engaged business sponsor and senior management effectively throughought the project and gained their trust and confidence which was very crucial for the success of the project.
• Post production, presented ‘Lessons Learned’ to the audience comprising of PMO and executive directors. It was a very useful feedback for the future technology initiatives and projects.

Project Technologies: Visio, MS Project Server, Sybase Power Designer, Cognos, ETL, Oracle 10g, J2EE, JSF, AJAX, XML, J2EE Design Patterns, Hibernate, LDAP, Web Services.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst role reporting to the Program Manager. Followed CMM guidelines throughout the project life cycle.
• Managed a team of Architect, DBA, user interface specialists, developers and testers.
• Conducted JAD sessions with the business owners and gathered requirements for Stock Purchase Plan Administration, Participant web interface and Customer Service Representative web interface.
• Created business requirements document that included functional specifications, system use cases and Business Objects Reporting Requirements for regulatory compliance, daily reconcilliation and dashboard reporting.
• Drafted the project definition document and prepared project milestones and cost estimates.
• Facilitated technical design sessions with Architects and development team for the integration of the application with Real Time Trading (using Charles River Order Management System), Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Electronic Fund Transfer, Real Time Price Feed, Mainframe and Portal
• Conducted recurring weekly status meetings with the business owners to discuss project status and effectively managed constraints, issues, risks and action items etc.
• Prepared detailed project plan and status reports for the senior management. Communicated effectively with the stake holders.
• Monitored and reviewed defects (from the UAT team) with Business in order to prioritize them for the development team.
• Managed and communicated the delivery schedules of the releases with stakeholders. Prepared implementation plan (‘Go Live’ playbook) and coordinated with network group, DBA and Middleware team during the production move.

Project Technologies: Visio, MS Project, Rational RequisitePro, Business Objects UML, J2EE, Struts, XML, EJB, J2EE Design Patterns, IBM Websphere, WSAD, SQL Server, Rational ClearQuest

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a project manager/business analyst role and was responsible for define, design and deliver phases of the project.
• Managed a team comprising of architects, designer, developer, UI specialists and testers.
• Responsibilites included managing development of the technical solution, estimating effort, defining the in-house development center specifications and applying the Rational Uniffied Process (RUP) methodology.
• Key member of the PMO. Assisted in establishing the company project processes based on Rational Unified Process (RUP), defining document templates to be used on all the projects going forward.
• In the requirements definition phase of the project, led the project team in refining the application scope. Provided leadership in defining the system use-cases, capturing the detailed system requirements and producing high level design documents.
• Managed scope during the project, identified out of scope tasks and presented them to client as required. Used change management procedures and templates to in corporate out of scope items.
• Created and maintained project plans, status reports and minutes of meetings for the management.
• Reviewed test plan and test cases. Tracked defects and assigned them to the development team.
• Prepared presentation and plan for the business users
• Prepared deployment plan for application rollout in UAT and production environments.
• Facilitated meetings to brainstorm on requirements, transforming requirements into technical specifications, application architecture, database design and development efforts
• Managed an offshore team for the production support and delivery of new releases and emergency bug fixes. Coordinated with DBA and architecture group to resolve the issues.

Project Technologies: Visio, MS Project, J2EE, Struts, JSP, Servlets, EJB, J2EE Design Patterns, Websphere Studio Application Developer, Websphere Application Server, Websphere Portal, Rational Rose, RUP, Rational RequisitePro, UML, VSS, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a project manager/business analyst role reporting to the director for requirements, design and development phases of a large customization in Oracle 11i Financial Applications
• Met with merchandising director and controller to gather requirements. Created process flow diagrams for ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ processes using Visio 2000.
• Worked with developers to build a prototype and did story boarding with the merchandising director, IT director and Controller
• Created program specification for vendor contracts, Rebate Calculation and data load for the wholesaler sales and received rebates
• Managed a team of technical and functional consultants in the design and development of custom forms and reports, data load and conversion programs and integration with Oracle 11i Financial Applications
• Worked closely with DBA during data modeling and designing of custom database using Erwin
• Coordinated with QA team to assure quality and compliance with Oracle hosting standards and processes
• Performed daily scheduling, budgeting and reporting activities
• Led post production support team for the application. Single point of contact for the business owners regarding issues and questions on the application functionality

Project Technologies: Oracle Financial Release 11i, Oracle Developer Suite 9i (Forms 9i, Reports 9i), Oracle 9i, UNIX, TOAD, SQL*Loader, Erwin, MS Project, Visio

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played a project manager/business analyst role reporting to the CTO.
• Met with general manager and key engineers to gather/document requirements.
• Created program specification for vendor integration, security and project management functionality.
• Gone through web technology and tool selection with the CTO.
• Managed a team comprising of designer, tech lead, developers and testers.
• Performed project planning, monitoring, communicating and managing project schedules and resources.
• Drafted test plan and test cases and performed integration testing.
• Managed status reporting and weekly meetings with core and extended teams.

Project Technologies: MS Project, Visio, Power Point, MS Office suite, J2EE, Java, JSP, Servlets, IBM Websphere, Data Modeling with ErWin, Oracle 8i, XML, javascript, HTML, PHP, SQL, ASP, SQL Server, Allair’s Homesite

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager and solution crafter role reporting to the section manager.
• Done System analysis and created process flow diagrams with proposed solutions.
• Managed a team of 12 members for design, constructing a rapid prototype to conceptualize the solution, development, testing and implementation.
• Created and maintained project plan, milestones and delivery schedules.
• Managed issues effectively and performed to meet management expectation in high pressure environment.

Project Technologies: XML, XSLT, XSL, DOM/SAX parsers, Java, Oracle iFS(Internet File System), IBM Websphere Studio, XML Spy, Solaris, Windows 2000

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played tech lead role reporting to project manager
• Evaluated Ariba Buyers to integrate eProcurement functionality.
• Designed and developed front end and back end code with the use of JSP, Servlets, Java Beans and Oracle PL/SQL
• Constructed a prototype user interface that is based on user interface guidelines and the organization’s standard
• Data modeling and designed custom database based on the business and functional requirements

Project Technologies: JSP, Servlets, Java Beans, Java, J2EE, EJB, XML, TOAD, BEA Weblogic, Javascript, Oracle 8i, JBuilder, ErWin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tech lead working with business analyst and reporting to project manager.
• Worked closely with business analyst in transforming the requirements from P&G demand planner, supply planner and account executives from North America and Europe into technical specifications for developers.
• Performed as data architect and responsible for data modeling and database design
• Mapped source system data to data warehouse models using Informatica
• Wrote scripts to extract, transform, clean and move data into data warehouse using oracle PL/SQL, SQL*Loader, Unix batch jobs
• Developed web based front end using Java and Oracle for tracking shipments, orders and invoices
• Designed and developed web based reports using Developer Reports 6.0

Project Technologies:Designer 6.0, Developer 6.0, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, TOAD, Oracle web, Oracle Application Sever, IBM AIX, Java, JDeveloper, Javascript, HTML, Informatica