SUMMARY:

• Technical manager/Tech. Lead ( PMI Certified PMP ), Experienced in analyzing complex project objectives, generating project scope documentation.
• Collaboratively managed global team resources to deliver project objectives.
• Able to mitigate and resolve issues, re - establish project momentum throughout all stakeholder tiers including end users, engineers, subject matter experts as well as management in both business and/or operations.
• Relies on extensive technical background to quickly assimilate new information technologies within project scope, and organizational culture to build rapport needed to deliver successfully on projects.
• IT professional with progressive career in the development and management of large scale mainframe applications for Telecommunications, Healthcare, Financial and Leading package delivery Industries.
• 4+ years of IT Project Management
• 2+ years in coordinating onshore and offshore team effort to device a cost effective model
• Requirement gathering, analysis, planning, design, control scope, constantly re-evaluate and co-ordinate project tasks
• PMBOK Project Management Methodology.
• 19+ Years of experience on IBM Mainframe as Sr. Developer, Lead programmer/Analyst and Technical manager.
• Well versed with SDLC including waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Proposals, planning, monitoring and controlling
• Result oriented and self-starter.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Global Team / Virtual Team Coordination Effectively staffing, utilizing and engaging teams of varying size (5-16)
• Interpersonal Conflict Resolution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, Project Management, Team Management, Stakeholder Management, People Management, Product Management, PMO, PMP, Feasibility study, Project Initiation, Project Planning, Project Execution, Project Monitoring, Project Control, Project closure, Change Management, Defect Management, Issue Management, Knowledge Management, Requirements Gathering, Impact Analysis, Problem Solving, Implementation, Production Support, Data Analysis, SLA, Business cases, Performance Tuning, Unit testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Acceptance Testing, SQA, UAT, TDD, BDD, Team Work, Team Player, Technology Lead, Project Manager, Application Developer, Technical Specialist, Consulting, ZOS, MVS, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, CICS, IBM Utilities, BMC, File-AID,SORT, Abend-AID, IEBGENER, XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, OMEGOMON, ESP, Control-M, CA7, SPUFI, QMF, RC UPDATE, AQT, EASYTRIEVE, EXPLAIN, CHANGEMEN, ENDEVOR, AXWAY, NDM, FTP, SFTP, ETL, MS Doc, Excel, MS Visio, MS Project, Data warehouse, HP service Manager, Service Now, Team Track, Sharepoint, File Interfaces, Mainframe, Client server, Finance, Telecommunication, Transportation and Logistics, Healthcare. Payment processing, Billing, EDI, Customer Benefits enrollment, Batch processing.

PROJECT DETAILS:

Confidential, Westlake, TX

Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• Part of the introducing new investment products to the customers by modifying existing processes, designing new reports, and completing the project within the allocated budget and time.
• Create ad-hoc reports to meet the business requests
• As part of the legacy modernization effort, Rewritten several processes and making them table driven which allows cost reduction of $150K for subsequent new product launches.
• On boarding new team members and mentoring them to get acclimated to the team
• Involved in introducing the DevOps model to the team

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Tech Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 5 onsite technical resources and 8 - 10 offshore team members.
• Monitor and control project activities and scope to complete the project within the allocated budget.
• Manage Issues and risks on regular basis and escalate issues to upper management if required.
• Tracking, projections and project status reports on regular basis
• Suggested and Implemented process improvements.
• Work with business owners to gather requirements, define scope, timeline and resources.
• Develop and manage project plans for implementation, resource, quality and delivery strategies.
• Managing 10 - 15 onsite technical resources and an offshore team.
• Monitor and control project activities and scope to complete the project within the allocated budget.
• Tracking, projections and project status reports on regular basis
• Emphasis on reusable components resulting in 20% cost reduction.
• Ability to contribute in technical and functional reviews with extensive technical background.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Tech Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create and submit proposals.
• Converting business requirements to functional specification and provide estimation.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Led production support team for IB, managing day to day production issues and system enhancements. Responsibilities include coordination with onsite and offshore resources.
• Demonstrated quality of product by applying methods of best practices to meet business user expectations
• Coordinated project implementation plans with technical teams and business users
• Interact with management to report project status, issues and solutions for all phases of the project
• Prior responsibilities include heading the IB team releases, transforming business requirements into program specifications. Participate in Design and Code review sessions
• Managed team of 6-8 resources onsite and smaller offshore groups.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Staff Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the impact analysis, design, coding, testing and QA support for Confidential pay now and recurring credit card payment processes.
• Batch programs implemented using DB2 and COBOLII.
• Development and setting up of JCLs for batch program execution using CA7.
• Setting up different NDM processes to send files to vendors.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Sr. IT Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for the project development activities
• Provided end-to-end project management throughout the lifecycle of the project
• Conducted analysis of highly complex business processes, translated business requirements into functional specifications, workflows and project plans to implement effective solutions
• Involved in the Estimation, Design & Development of the Freight Charge Adjustments ( Confidential )
• Evaluate the Remote MQs and create dynamic Local MQs with the MQOPEN API call.
• Mapped data elements from UDB to CDC table elements and CDC table elements to CBL file layout.
• Resource planning and managing the team for IT/UAT phase of the release
• Coordinating with external groups on interface agreements.
• Conducting technical reviews on regular basis to ensure quality while meeting the aggressive deadlines.
• Involved in the setting up the new job stream and modifying existing job streams using ESP in development region.
• In charge of Job scheduling part of the release. Coordinating with Job scheduling group and external group for job dependencies. Analyzing the old process, creating the job flow and coordinating with SMG group for dataset pre-allocation and GDG allocation.
• Involved in the helping the team to promote software using CHANGEMAN tool.
• Involved in the Analysis, Design and Development of the process flow modification
• Mapped database to table elements to sequential/VSAM file layout, DASD estimation.