SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Project Management professional with extensive experiencein all phases of software development. Experienced in diverse industries like Cable (Telecom), Insurance, Healthcare and Pharma. Proven background in managing enterprise wide technical projects, programs to achieve desired business results and product development. Strengths include process oriented approach to project management, and a strong technical foundation. Skills include:
• Custom Software Development
• Project planning and estimation
• Resource Management
• Risk management
• System Migrations/Integrations Communication management
• MS Office Upgrades
• PMO Environment
• Project initiation and Closing Monitoring and Controlling
• Change management
• Requirement Analysis
• Testing/QA/UAT/Rollout
• Delivery management
• Document management
• Release coordination
• Stakeholder management
• Budget preparation
• Configuration Management
• Defect Management
• Project dashboard & status reports
• Familiarity with Unix and Linux
• Datacenter migration
• Data migration

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools: MS Project Server, Office Suites, Visio, Sharepoint

Data Bases: MS SQL Server, Oracle 11g, MS Access, SQL Anywhere, Sybase, DB2

Project Management Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile(XP) and Hybrid

Change and Configuration Management: Sharepoint, Visual Source Safe, SVN

Project Landscape: Product development, COTS, Web Applications, Data Upgrade and Migration, Technology Upgrade

Languages: C/C++, C#, VB6, VBA, VB.Net, Java, Unibasic, Delphi, Basic, Fortran, SAX Basic

Operating Systems: Windows based OSes, UNIX and Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Washington, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing one of the workstreams in a data center migration (lift and shift) program. This is in the Finance industry - moving the Rescap datacenter in Lewisville to Ocwen in Norcross.
• Create project plan, identify requirements, plan and coordinate UAT and cutover, Coordinate with other groups, create product support documentation, create production support documentation

Confidential, Yardley, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented two third party cloud based solutions for Customer Relationship Management and Time Management, roster and territory alignment and HR operations, on a very tight schedule.
• Gathered requirements, conducted gap analysis
• Did release planning, coordination, User Acceptance test coordination
• Coordinated data migration from legacy data warehouse to new application database

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Technical Architect/BA/PM

Responsibilities:

• Developed a proposal for a major enhancement to an online Confidential site, complete with an agile based project plan and cost, resource and time estimates. Proposal was approved. Project put on hold due to budget constraints
• Design an agile based project, requirement gathering, analysis, cost and resource estimation, budget preparation

Confidential, Lansdale, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a harmonized compensation and career framework program for Confidential Research Laboratories, involving remediation of nearly 100 applications as part of an IT merger program.
• This also involved managing a budget of >1M by managing a global team of 15 resources both offshore and on-site.
• This was done in a regulated, GxP compliant environment
• Change management - integration of two different IT systems and business systems
• Worked in a PMO environment with a highly matrixed organization.
• Successfully completed an OS migration project from Windows XP to Windows 7 for laptops and desktops approximately 400 in number for SALAR department.
• Requirement gathering, Estimation, Time phased Budget preparation, Project Planning on Microsoft Project server, Status preparation/presentation to upper management, Verification/validation, Cross functional meeting felicitation
• OS migration, MS Office migration, Plan and coordinate UAT, create test documents

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Project/Program Manager, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led an offshore-onsite distributed team to reverse engineer an old legacy homemade software system
• Generated use case specifications, process diagrams, data flow diagrams, interface diagrams, requirements and design by studying legacy code for the purpose of upgrading the system making buy or make decisions.
• Did business analysis on existing system by interviewing and shadowing users
• Led the effort to train the offshore team in an old near obsolete technology with the help of an onsite trainer.
• Completed a pilot project as a proof of concept for migrating system infrastructure from an old SCO UNIX server to a Redhat Linux system with multiple servers and Virtual Machine architecture to improve availability and reliability.
• Completed the application and data migration as well for the above, in a very tight schedule.
• Defined the following processes and guidelines for the IT team and the fledgling PMO that was being setup
• Organizational change management, Configuration management, SDLC processes, Coding guidelines, release management using SVN
• Defined and implemented production, acceptance, test and work regions using virtual servers
• Worked as part of EPMO, reporting to the director of EPMO
• Responsibilities
• Requirement gathering, business analysis and preparation of use cases, process flows and workflows
• Defining and setting up processes for Configuration management, source code control, change management, release management, Process improvement, Communication management, Status reports/presentation to upper management
• Coodinating data migration from legacy server to new server
• Plan and coordinate testing
• Vendor contract negotiation

Confidential, Chantily, VA

Project Manager/Business Analyst/Offshore coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and supported the software backend system for ISO. This consisted of
• Nearly a dozen applications running on Windows servers, written in VB6, C# .Net, C, Java
• Applications running on Web Servers (C# .Net, Java), Enterprise wide and desktop applications for document management
• 100s of Word and Excel macros running on user desktops ( users at any time)
• Mainframe system with Cobol programs, and Websphere application server
• MSMQ communication protocol
• Various database systems - DB2 (Mainframe), SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, Access
• Reported to the Project Board, which was ISO’s version of PMO
• Developed a hybrid method combining Agile (XP) with ISO’s SDLC (waterfall based).
• Managed a budget of approximately 1M every year
• Managed and coordinated an offshore team which varied from 8 to 15, and on-site team of 10
• Managed an organization wide platform migration from Office 2000 to Office 2003
• Successfully implemented several process/workflow optimization/improvement programs
• Changed the circular creation process from batch processing to on-line, enabling to cut down circular creation and review cycle by one day.
• Successfully reduced the mainframe time occupied by a process from 1-2 hours to less than 5 minutes by changing it from a scripting language to Cobol. This freed up nearly $100K per month from the department budget.
• Implemented advanced diagnostic and error reporting functionality, and reduced server down time.
• Release planning and management, Defect/issue management, Risk management, Quality control, Verification/validation, Document management, Data Migration of unstructured data, Change management, Offshore coordination, Risk analysis and mitigation, Issue management, Cross functional team meetings, Process improvement, UAT, production validation testing, test scripts

Confidential, Quakertown, PA

Project/Product Manager/Business Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Successfully developed and productized a software suite to monitor devices on a cable TV network, with an offshore team of 40.
• Managed a budget of 5-6M,
• Coordinated field deployment for field trial, integration and testing with AM’s field service team
• Defined and implemented product support guidelines, communication protocols, product release process and problem report & resolution process so that the offshore team can support the product from offshore.
• Successfully developed a DOCSIS compliant monitoring system with hardware and embedded software components

Confidential

Project Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects in the role of program manager/head of PMO
• Established the guidelines for the operation of the PMO
• Established resource management and evaluation guidelines
• Program management, Process improvement, Team management, recruiting, performance reviews
• Design reviews, Code reviews, Client communication
• Product development