SUMMARY:

• Seventeen years of experience in Waterfall project management and Agile Methodology (Scrum Frame work, Lean, familiarity with DevOps etc.,) in Insurance and Manufacturing domain.
• Strong understanding and knowledge in areas of Project Management, Business Analysis.
• Managed projects with budgets up to and including $5 million.
• Delivered business Intelligence applications, which were part of data ware house upgrade
• Extensive experience in Onsite/Offshore model along with delivering projects through results based contracts.
• Collaborated with Developers, Business Analysts/Partners for project scope delivery.
• Experience in Host development, frame work modelling and Cognos Reports and
• Transformer cubes building and implementation.
• Experience in service management to manage defect resolution and incident management through tools like HP service manager.
• Experience in delivering project reports and presentations to senior project leadership and Portfolio management.
• Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in a fast - paced, changing environment with rapidly shifting priorities.
• Self-motivated and dependable with experience in delivering projects with in fast paced changing
• Proven success with expertise in the areas of Project Management as outlined in the PMBOK along with cross-functional team building and leadership and coaching/mentoring.
• Member of local PMI chapter community of PMI practitioners.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

BI Tools: Cognos BI10.1x 8.x (Cognos Connection, Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Metric Studio, Event Studio Power Play Transformer,/Data Manager)

Programming Languages: PL/I, COBOL, JCL, SQL, C, SPARK SCALA

OLAP Tools: Cognos Transformer, HADOOP ECO System

ETL Tools: Informatica Power Center 9.1

Web Technologies: Exposure to HTML, JAVA SCRIPT, VB SCRIPT, JAVA, VISUAL STUDIO

Databases: IMS-DB, DB2, MS SQL Server and MS Access.

OLTP: IMS-DC

Tools: & Utilities: EXPEDITOR, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, CHANGEMAN and TRAC

Domain Knowledge: Insurance, Manufacturing

PM Tools: MS Project, Primavera, Clarity

Project Methodologies: Scrum, Agile, Waterfall, Lean, Kanban

Reports: Cognos Reports

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects for Enterprise Compliance and Ethics (ECE) team that involved over 50 team members located on-site, off-site and off-shore with a budget of over $2 million;
• Successfully delivered conversion of two iterations of FINRA regulations and rules in both the operational and analytical space within the first 3 months;
• Successfully managed to build sustainable partnership with various vendors for the delivery of projects while ensuring prudent cost management
• Coached and mentored team members for Agile/Scrum adaptation on projects in the Future State program
• Responsible for Sprint Planning and retrospective, creation and maintenance of Product Backlog (and continuously prioritize with Product Owners), and Sprint Backlog, and reporting metrics to sponsors and program leadership
• Documented, prioritized, and brought resolution to critical risks on projects within DIS in order to ensure compliance with the FDW audit findings by employing a proactive approach.

Environment: Primavera, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Lotus Notes, Share point, IBM DB2, COBOL, JCL, SQL, Cognos, Informatica

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team size of 40 spanned across onsite, offsite and offshore;
• Led projects from inception through roll out including product testing initiatives;
• Conducted Impact analysis of the requirements with all the Stake holders;
• Developed the Project schedule and budget along with the team;
• Held risk analysis and impact analysis meetings;
• Utilized monthly dashboard metric to control costs and present to Portfolio management;
• Request inputs/impacts and risks associated with the change request from different areas;
• Maintains and monitors the dependency forms within the work effort;
• Monitor dependencies and milestones;

Environment: Primavera, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Lotus Notes, Share point, J2EE, JAVA, IBM DB2, COBOL, JCL, SQL, IBM-OPTIM, Trac

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Gather business requirements for the products to be delivered along with Business Analyst;
• Reviewed backlogs with the product owner and team;
• Developed story boards for the deliverables for each sprint;
• Run Daily Standup meetings for scrum team;
• Scheduled sprint timelines;
• Held risk analysis and impact analysis meetings;
• Ensure the project deliverables are meeting the Sprint requirements;
• Monitor dependencies and milestones;
• Participated in the Retrospective meetings;

Environment: Primavera, MS Project, MS Office Suite, Lotus Notes, Share point, Visual Studio, J2EE, JAVA, IBM DB2, COBOL, JCL, SQL, IBM-OPTIM, Trac

Confidential

Service Analyst/Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Incident Coordinator and Problem Coordinator;
• Design and develop effective solutions to meet the requirements and resolve the problems;
• Guide offshore resources to complete the tasks as per the requirements;
• Organize and run Client review meetings and Walk through’ s;
• Review of Code, Test Plan Preparation & Review, Testing and Test results Review;
• Issuance of components to Production Environment using change management;
• Handled service calls, problem tickets, change requests;
• Mentor peers.

Environment: Environment: VB 6.0, IMS DB, IBM DB2, PL/I, JCL, SQL, Lotus Notes, MS Office Suite, HP Service Desk/ Manager.

Confidential

Module Leader

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the client;
• Review of Code, review SQL’s;
• Test Plan Preparation & Review, Unit Testing and Test results Review;
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project;
• Work allocation and monitoring.

Environment: PL/I, COBOL, JCL, SQL, DB2, Lotus Notes, MS Project, MS Office Suite.

Confidential

Team member

Responsibilities:

• Coding & Code Review;
• Preparation of Test Plan & Testing and recording of test results.