SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of experience in managing several mid to large complex projects from inception to implementation
• Extensive hands - on application of PM Knowledge Areas (Scope, Time, Resource, Risk, Stakeholder) and Process Groups.
• Ability to lead global onsite/offshore teams in both Waterfall and Agile environment.
• Experienced in facilitating sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos.Acted as a liaison to Product owner and technical delivery owner by assisting the scrum team with keeping the backlog groomed.
• Extensive experience in handling tough situations and negotiating solutions that results in overall success
• Extensive experience in defect management and maneuvering show stopper defects to resolution state.
• Manage projects that involved technologies like Informatica, Unix, Maestro, Web services, .NET, OBIEE, CRM, SAP, Web Methods, SOA web services, SQL, Views, Sybase and Teradata.
• Good understanding of technical concepts like ETL, Data ware house, Big Data, SOA services and Business Intelligence applied on web based or client server applications.
• Efficiently managed over 25 resources in a matrix environment and in an onsite/offshore setting while simultaneously managing multiple highly complex projects.
• Extensive hands on experience in creating Financial Reports, extracting data from Clarity and Cloud PPM and pulling SAP reports.
• Facilitated an environment of teamwork and collaboration when dealing with internal/external audiences.
• Self-starter and a team player with excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
• Delivered solutions in high stress environments while working with limited resources.
• Ability to inspire commitment and positive attitude in the team and also recruit, retain and motivate a world class team
• A high-energy manager with the ability to delegate and mentor effectively and also engage as a direct contributor
• Proven leadership record of with outstanding ability to concurrently work on several large and complex projects.
• Proven record of in Project Management Office (PMO), Process Improvement, Client Relationship and Vendor Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Technologies: Project, Advanced PowerPoint, Excel and Word

Project Management Tools: Clarity and Cloud PPM

Clarity & Cloud Functional Skills: Project Management, Resource Management, Timesheet Management SharePoint, HP Quality Center 11.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Currently managing $3.5MFinance Projects to integrate Retirement Services division’s financeswith MassMutual Enterprise General Ledger and Treasury.
• Leading a team of 25 resources from different discipline to deliver the project
• Create and manage detailed project calendars and socialize with leadership team and vendor partners.
• Responsible for End to end project estimation, project planning, resourcing and project delivery
• Schedule and lead project team meetings to maintain adherence to project timelines and requirements
• Prepare financial reports and KPIs to monitor project progress
• Preparing weekly reports to apprise status to SLT
• Routinely carry out planning activities including resourcing, budgeting, forecasting and other adhocissues.
• The project involved technical and data integration tools involved tools like Informatica, Teradata, SQL Server and Functional Testing and Integration testing ofETL - InformaticaandData Validation.
• Project involvesInformaticamappings for Data In and Data Out (External feeds), Teradata and OBIEE for reporting.
• Routinely work with designers to deliver project usingETLpatterns likeLoad Lite.
• Managed the entire design and development code delivery and migration through the informatica platform.
• Routinely work with consumers/Enterprise system (SAP) partners to ensure smooth exchange of information occurs.
• Managed Test Data Management (TDM) requirements to create synthetic data in order to QA test the developed application.
• Routinely negotiated with TDM resources to get the TDM requests prioritized.
• Lead Defects Management to track, analyze and prioritize defects, further define appropriate solutions
• Provide direct support and coaching for a Business Readiness communication and Business Readiness plans. Identify requirements and pass to team.
• Accountable for the business to ensure that the solutions delivered by the projects are capable of achieving the benefits defined in the business case working within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Develop a set of actionable and targeted change management plans within environment control for all newly introduced platforms as well as update the legacy controls in support of SOC1 and Financial Statement audits.
• Ensure business unit follows early plan activities.Identify and report on potential risks to delivery as well as take mitigating actions
• Identify risks to readiness - report and remediate as appropriate.Further, input to the development of specific plans and work with program team.
• Managed all the activities associated from understanding the business requirements and system dependencies, supporting testing scenarios to the execution of UAT with business partners.
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology.
• Executed the project during discovery phase, worked with business partners to define scope and created Project Charter.
• Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates.
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story. Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.
• Project involved complex Trades, Pre-balance and Cash Flow Recon OBIEE reportscreating cash accounting feeds for treasury and enterprise systems.
• Project involved several other feeds created inInformaticaand Teradata views. Informatica jobs were created inMaestro and UNIX.
• The project extensively focused for Design components that involved in Extraction, Transformation and Loading of data using Informatica from heterogeneous sources and thereby initiating related data requests to TDM.
• Extensive usage of Dimensional Data Modeling like Star schemas and designing tools like Erwin and Power Designer.
• Work with individual resources to ensure timelines are realistic and requirements are understood
• Successfully delivered IDT project to production and completely moved Confidential ’s trading platform to MassMutual after MassMutual acquired Confidential ’s retirement line of business.
• Project involved moving trading and transaction settlement activities from ‘ Confidential ’ to MassMutual’s trading platform.
• Completed Merger & Acquisition and IT integrations on schedule with minimal impact to the business. Coordinated infrastructure connectivity between companies with no disruption to current infrastructure.
• Project involved extracting complex financial trades from Recordkeeping system usingInformaticaand sending for trading to institutions like NSCC, DTCC and other fund companies and later to perform settlement activities.
• Project design dealt with development of Informatica Mappings and Informatica Workflows.
• Assisted Post M&A to accurately anticipate and manage all IT integration issues including: network, platform, database and application integration, technical support, facilities (new and existing), security, risk management, and data center consolidation.
• Managed extremely time critical project to avoid hefty penalties if not delivered on time.
• Managed $1.8 million budget and worked with IT and business resources to support IT project deliverables along with business readiness and production readiness activities.
• Identified high priority requirements based on sessions, prioritized and developed a prioritized plan of action
• Developed a project plan and solicited approval from Directors / primary stakeholders
• Ensured deliverables are mapped to project plan and clear timelines / delineation of tasks with measurable expectations defined.
• Managed onshore and offshore resources assignments and forecasting.
• Developed and maintained project budget and monitor spend (forecast and actual) vs. budget on a monthly basis
• Worked with business partners and prepared to plan to support go live.
• Develop forum for keeping business leadership informed on project status and budget

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a fast paced small scale growing company to deliver a fixed bid portals project
• Managed the delivery through planning and execution working with an overseas vendor
• Project involved Unix Shell Scripting on different UNIX platforms.
• Managed scope, negotiated change requests, closely monitored defect resolution to ensure successful delivery
• Collaborate with BAs to design and manage a coordinated testing plan to ensure successful launch across vendor network.
• Assess project health, identify key problem areas, focus resources to turn troubled projects around
• Anticipated demand, planned resourcing, recruited, trained and mentored business analysts to help them become successful

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a project manager in Systems and Marketing division
• Implemented a campaign management system and, lead and opportunities management system that supported marketing strategies of UCLAN.
• Worked with a software vendor based in India to deliver the project
• Developed and implemented marketing strategies including online-media with regional & national focus
• Developed annual strategic marketing and communications planning that supports University reputation and awareness, lead generation and nurturing
• Performed recurring reporting & analysis to evaluate the performance of PPC & Email campaigns
• Performed data analysis and created regular reports for senior management
• Developed metrics to evaluate the performance of marketing efforts

Confidential

Project Manager- Quality Management

Responsibilities:

• Managed first-to-market back-office automated solution for review of suspicious Waste water contaminants
• Managed Green Product Promotion Program Development
• Developed and executed marketing programs and general business solutions resulting in increased company exposure and sales
• Worked with senior management to determine key performance indicators & identified areas for marketing to allocate resources
• Developed technical/non-technical marketing collateral and presentations, public relations campaigns, articles and newsletters