SUMMARY:

• Part of the core team that launched the Enterprise Architecture Program for NY State
• Successfully developed Technology Assessment Framework for assessing costs, vendors, skills, technology and business needs to rationalize products and aid decision - making
• Successfully Project-managed the implementation program for integration of card data with ERP of Confidential - the largest such ERP integration project in the cards business in India I was also the Lead Business Analyst/Product Manager for this project.
• Lead various strategic technology initiatives and process improvement initiatives such as a bank-wide migration from Vision Plus to Mainframe for commercial cards business
• Launched the Confidential Corporate Card Program for Confidential (Largest issuer of credit cards in India) in Dec 2009
• Launched a new product Corporate Platinum Card, a premium variant of an existing product with value-added features in September 2008
• Was instrumental in launching a co-branded corporate card product with multi-national alliance partner Confidential Ltd, an international business travel payment cards issuer in December 08

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Environment: MS Project, MS Sharepoint, Visio, Enterprise Elements, MS Excel (advanced user skills), MS Powerpoint

Responsibilities:

• Developing comprehensive IT strategies, including IT opportunity assessment, investment portfolio management, information strategy, sourcing strategy, IT systems strategy, IT infrastructure strategy and strategic cost reduction programs
• Translating business capabilities into strategic application and technology roadmaps, including application portfolio assessment and renewal, selection of best in class industry and enterprise solutions
• Developing detailed and actionable business cases and plans that reflect EA best practices
• Managing multi-disciplinary teams to design and implement projects such as Technical Model, Business Model and Application Model
• Creating detailed work breakdown structures for the projects being managed and tracking activities to closure

Confidential

Project Manager

Environment: MS Project, MS Sharepoint, MS Excel (advanced user skills), MS Powerpoint

Responsibilities:

• Managing a multi-disciplinary team comprising of Enterprise Architects, Subject Matter Experts and Solution Architects from eight state organizations and the CTO's organization to define the future-state service catalog
• Developed an assessment framework called Technology Assessment Framework, aimed at assessing cost, vendors, skills, technology and business needs to identify the right set of products to be part of the service catalog
• Managing the work streams that assess the technology investments and products the State owns. These are large cross-functional and inter-departmental work-streams focused on Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Integration projects.
• Managing the scope, schedule and work products for the project and tracking milestones and providing monthly status update to Director, Enterprise Operations and Chief Technology Officer on risks and issues and their mitigation/resolution

Confidential

Business Analyst / Product Manager

Environment: VisionPlus, MasterCard Smart Data Online, Oracle Financials, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project

Responsibilities:

• Conduct discovery sessions with the business stakeholders from ConfidentialDefine the business solution and integration plan
• Perform impact analysis
• Facilitate Joint Application Design sessions to identify customization needs
• Build the functional specification, solution approach document and use cases
• Coordinate with the various technical and business teams
• Conduct user and demos

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst / Project Manager

Environment: VisionPlus, Smart Data Online, Oracle Financials, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project

Responsibilities:

• Define the business solution and integration planFacilitate Joint Application Design sessions to identify customization needs
• Build the functional specification, solution approach document and use cases
• Coordinate with the various technical and business teams
• Conduct user and demos
• Provide post implementation support to client business team

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst / Project Manager

Environment: VisionPlus, Smart Data Online, Oracle Financials, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project

Responsibilities:

• Manage project team and track deliverables against the project plan
• Discovery sessions with the customers
• Understand and document current system of payment processes
• Identify, over several discovery sessions, the various customization needs
• Build the functional specification, solution approach document and use cases
• Produce and monitor detailed implementation plan including roles, responsibilities and milestones and managed project schedule and tasks

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst / Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Represented the business team for migration from VisionPlus to mainframe. Documented detailed requirements for internal IT teams Member of the migration steering committee meetings; provided key inputs to the technical teams Documented features and functionality delivered in the migrated application and conducted user- for the business users on the new mainframe application