PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior IT Project Management Consultant: Applications Software Development / RDBMS Development / Enterprise Implementations / Business Process Engineering/ Systems Engineering.
• Experienced project manager, Implementation IT Specialist and Senior Business Analyst offering 15 years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects; Post - Graduate Diploma in Information Technology; Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics & Finance; and 8 years of project management experience.
• Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Custom Software Development Database Design (RDBMS) Systems Engineering System Migrations/Integrations Enterprise wide Implementations Application Development Requirements Analysis ROI Analysis Costing & Budgeting Project Scheduling Testing/QA/Rollout/ Support RFP/RFQ/RFI Cross - Functional Supervision Team Building & Mentoring Client Relations & Presentations Business & IT Planning Vendor Management Requirements Gathering SDLC, Agile, Waterfall Business Process Mapping Use Cases & User Scenarios Change Management User Acceptance Testing(UAT) GAP Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior IT Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Project Management Office (PMO) worked on the above projects implemented at the Confidential . Developed Terms of and Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation.
• Supervised team of Business Analysts, Senior Business Analysts, Solutions Architects and Developers.
• Analyzed corporate business processes to develop customized solutions to reduce costs, increase revenue and maximize profit.
• Collaborated with various vendors and project resources to develop Business Case, Project Plans, Project Schedules and Project Budgets.
• Responsible for gathering the business requirements for Subway Operations involving customer interaction and interfaces within the Confidential subway environment.
• Developed and managed the project plan, including project scope, development/delivery schedule, resource requirements, integration efforts and budgets ensuring successful product implementation
• Performed impact analysis, root analysis documented business and system impacts on the existing data structures and reports due to the new development and communicated to the affected stakeholders.
• Researched, gathered, analyzed and captured some technical requirements and specifications that clarify and extend the business requirements.
• Developed functional and non-functional Requirements documentations
• Completed various other project related documentation including Current State and Concept of Operations documentation, Business Process and Enterprise architecture Design documentation (specifications, screen prototypes, Use cases, system interface specifications, report prototypes, data models, reviewed programming standards.
• Provided support to the quality assurance team for functional, integration, regression and user acceptance testing.
• Prepared other project documents status reports; meeting minutes; risks; issues; decision requests; and change requests

Confidential

Senior IT Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed strategies, prepared business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducted feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives. Created Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) and to select Vendors for the solution delivery.
• Participated in design reviews, regular or ad-hoc architectural reviews, and issue management meetings ensuring correct interpretation of function requirements, and Information Technology strategies
• Worked closely with IT Operations team members and other stakeholders for Business Planning and tracking of project schedule and deliverables.
• Conducted business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for the project.
• Created Data Dictionary as descriptions for the mock-ups screens and wire frames for the development teams.
• Researched existing policies, procedures, methodologies and systems that support the current state and system and identified changes needed to support revised processes.
• Performed Business Process Mapping using Visio BPMN Workflow and Swim Lane process flow drawings.
• Responsible for the change management and overall administration process during the project
• Designed and lead various kinds of technical and user acceptance testing, and quality-assurance activities.
• Successfully collaborated with developers and technical team to perform root cause analysis of all issues.

Environment: Agile, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook), MS SharePoint, MS Visio, .NET, Microsoft Exchange, BPMN 2.

Confidential

IT Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project 3 - Leading and delivering projects for the Credit & Risk Management Technology & Operations group at Confidential .
• Worked closely with the vendors’ and key stakeholders including Senior managers, VPs, Directors to develop the business case, verified and documented functional and non-functional requirements for the solution
• Created MS project schedule to facilitate organized communication and ensured on-time delivery of quality milestones
• Held regular status meetings with cross functional teams to drive task assignments to completion
• Defined project scope baseline and prepared activities WBS and schedule baseline using MS Project
• Lead technical requirement sessions to identify client requirements and conducted detailed analysis of client data
• Performed data migration from Salesforce group edition to enterprise edition
• Setup and administered Salesforce standard business objects including dashboards, leads, opportunities, campaigns, accounts, contacts, opportunities, cases, solutions and reports
• Performed root cause analysis, developed solution options, and influenced the organization to adopt recommended solutions/trade offs
• Setup and administered workflow and data validation criteria within salesforce.com
• Ensured project documents and meeting minutes are complete, current, and stored appropriately
• Responsible for controlling project deliverables, scope & expectations. Tracked actual project hours and percentage completed against budget and to identify project status
• Established organization wide access privileges, role hierarchy and custom sharing rights based on organizational business processes
• Responsible for the change management and overall administration process during the project.
• Authored various documents: Project Charters, Project Plans, URS, FRS, SDS, Validation Plan, Test Scripts, Validation Summary Reports, Materials, UAT, Release to Production Memos, Materials, and User Guides.
• Performed data uploads utilizing both the application import wizard and Apex data loader
• Ensured that test planning, execution, and reporting is effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated
• Prepared other project documents status reports; meeting minutes; risks; issues; decision requests; and change requests

Environment: MS Windows XP/2000, DB2, UML 2.0, MS office, Ms Project 2013, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS SQL Server, PL/SQL, Crystal Reports 2008 SP3, Salesforce CRM, HPQC, Oracle 11g, .NET, UNIX, Mock up Screens, Service Desk Express