Summary:

Result oriented professional with 17 years of experience and achievements in Project Management, Business Analysis, Application Development and Maintenance with a strong work ethic and strategic thinking.

• Solid experience in leading and carrying out all phases of full SDLC lifecycle system development, from Initiation, planning, analyzing, designing, building, testing and hand-over
• Led and collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement cost-effective solutions to boost productivity in line with client strategic direction and globalization objectives
• Effective leader who motivates and builds synergistic teams that achieve peak productivity levels
• Act as a coach mentor, and managed resources across onsite and offshore locations
• Strong knowledge of Business and Data Analysis
• Strong Knowledge of SDLC, Waterfall and AGILE methodology Scrum
• Expertise in developing Work Breakdown Structure, Project Schedule, Project status reports
• Proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide productive solution
• Facilitated weekly/monthly status review meetings to keep SME's, stakeholders, executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, resolving issues and conflicts
• Accountable for budget development, cost control, and schedule management
• Exposure to multi cultural work environments working in UK, India and United States
• Experience in Insurance, Banking, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Energy Utilities verticals

Skills:

• Adaptable to emerging technologies and enjoy new challenges
• Exceptional planning and presentation skills with keen abilities in delivery
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with ability to gain the confidence and respect of senior executives
• Proven ability to communicate and work with staff at every level of the organization

Responsibilities:

Confidential

Business Analysis

• Accountable for End to End delivery of Dotcom Modernization project consisting of 400 ASP pages for conversion to Angular JS, managing 55 team members
• Working with Globally distributed teams in an onsite-offshore delivery model.
• Prepared a Resource plan for each Sprint
• Allocated staff and budget resources to meet changing corporate needs
• Work closely with Program Management, Product Management and Engineering to develop project scope
• Working in a hybrid model: part Agile and part Waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures
• Managed scope, cost, schedule and performance objectives
• Applied Risk Management methodologies to assess technology risks and ensures all identified project risks have been mitigated
• Provided guidance and managed cross functional dependencies and help negotiate resolution for conflicts arising out of task priorities
• Facilitated forums/ communication channels and the issuance of reports that reflect the status and health of the projects to the appropriate Management groups
• Provided leadership to formulate strategies and make decisions regarding project execution, team selection, project scope, budget, and performance
• Collaborate with the Product Owner on project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress activities
• Provided TFS training to team members

Confidential

Data Management

• Establishing the project's overall critical path and ensuring that all project phases adhere to the agreed-upon timeline
• Planning major project phases and establishing project success factors with input from team leads and senior team members
• Developing and monitoring project budget
• Manage and deliver SLO based services to the client
• Operational process definitions, improvements and execution
• Monitor and report project status and overall health of project
• To make the project process oriented instead of people oriented
• Define and implement the KT plan and application support process
• Manage resource requests, resource allocation, ramp up/down based on the project needs
• Monitoring execution of all deliverables
• Prioritizing issues for resolution, hold or escalation
• Develop and maintain the Project Risk Tracker

Confidential

BUSINESS ANALYST

• Managed and coordinated project attributes including costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, dependencies and risks
• Plan, control and manage the delivery of projects to meet the agreed business needs
• Responsible for monitoring the project in line with Schedule and Quality
• Conducted regular reviews and reports progress against the spend on the project budget and project plan
• Interaction with Business, SMEs, technical and design teams for arriving at agreed business rules
• Involved in generating and providing weekly executive summary reports by coordinating with various program leads
• Identified and negotiated schedules, milestones and resources required to meet project objectives and success criteria
• Gathering requirements for the changes to the data handling systems
• Adding new data sources, enhancing existing applications, follow ups until the end user reports for actuaries are generated
• Updating the functional and design documents based on the inputs provided by the business team and their reflection in the design by the development/design teams

Confidential

PROJECT MANAGER

• Project Scheduling, Resource Management and Knowledge Management
• Maintained and managed the project change control process and provided detailed reports to Management on a weekly basis
• Ensure that project team members have the knowledge, support, and guidance to complete assigned tasks to the client's specifications
• Provided coaching, mentoring and guidance to project team members
• Coordinated cross-functional project team to ensure clear and accurate communication between team members to deliver the project
• Managed stakeholder expectations and improved the project performance against competing demands on scope, cost, and schedule

Confidential

Sr. TEST ANALYST

• Testing the connectivity and the successful transfer of data between various physical locations such as SOS, GRIT and PUSB countries
• Written JCLs to this effect and worked on CMT, Common Messaging Transport which has MQ Series as its backbone.
• Reviewed, evaluated, base-lined and executed test plans, schedules and budgets
• Involved in preparation of weekly and monthly status reports
• Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans and status reports
• Build credibility, establish rapport and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels

Confidential

TECH LEAD

• Planned, managed and implemented projects from initiation to final operational stage
• Reviewed the progress of the project and effectively manage the change of requirements, dependencies, milestones, risks, issues, and priorities
• Facilitated and lead effective project meetings, managed change and conflict, and developed resource planning estimates to manage project workload and productivity
• Involved in coding and unit testing of new and affected modules.
• Actively participate in the development of new software and also modification and enhancement of on-line programs
• Gather requirements write program specs and interact with users
• Created and presented communications, scope change and status reports to senior executives

Confidential

TECH LEAD

• Managed projects within established scope, schedule, and budget while meeting and exceeding project management standards
• Developed and documented high-level strategies for accomplishing specific project objectives
• Support the definition, implementation and embedding of project management methodologies and governance frameworks
• Coded online and batch programs, designed screens, written program specs from functional specs, debugging code, preparation of User Manual and maintenance of Visual Source Safe