SUMMARY

• Diligent project manager offering a proven record of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects Prince 2 foundation certified, computer programming and Insurance/Healthcare domain experience.
• Business strategist plan and manage multiple complex projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom - line gains.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies.
• Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management
• Custom Software Development
• Database Design (RDBMS)
• Systems Engineering
• System Migrations/Integrations
• Infrastructure Implementations
• IT Project Lifecycle
• Requirements Analysis
• ROI Analysis
• Costing & Budgeting
• Project Scheduling
• Testing/QA/Rollout/Support
• Value-Added Leadership:
• Cross-Functional Supervision
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Client Relations & Presentations
• Business & IT Planning
• Vendor Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Systems Engineering, Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead workshops and maintain business requirements across the lifecycle of the project.
• Managed project deliveries using both in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Risk assessing the requirements and traceability matrices.
• Coordinating with Business Analyst, Subject Matter experts, Development and testing teams etc to resolve issues and queries.
• Resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas.
• Resource planning to ensure successful completion of the project within budgeted time and cost.
• Interact regularly with existing or potential clients to determine their needs and to develop plans for improving delivery.
• Present oral and written reports defining plans, problems, and resolutions to appropriate levels of management.
• Recognize problems or situations that are new or without clear precedent.
• Evaluated alternatives and solutions using a systematic, multi-step approach.
• Do understand how and when to make a choice how and when to escalate issues to higher levels.
• Analyze the risks and future impact of decisions.

Confidential

Custom Software Developments

Responsibilities:

• Managed permanent and/or adhoc teams to ensure project outcomes are achieved.
• Develop and implement project management plans to ensure the success of the project.
• Manage the delivery of value add, enhancement, industry legislation compliance and software upgrade projects.
• Researching and developing new capabilities and systematically applying learning and knowledge that brings tangible benefit to work
• Experience in performing/interpreting value analysis and preparation of business cases
• Proven ability to successfully manage, motivate and develop teams.

Confidential

Database Developments

Responsibilities:

• Leading project planning sessions and discussions with database administrators/relevant stakeholders.
• Demonstrated proficiency in working with teams across different geographies in developing SQL database system.
• Ensured the security, integrity and availability of confidential data streams.
• Showcased ability to bridge the needs of management and developers in providing quick resolutions during critical production issues with performance related resolutions.
• Developed emergency data storage and retrieval plans.
• Also setting up and demonstrating a functioning Disaster Recovery Plan during exercise to simulate a production failure situation.
• Prepared plans for database expansion by studying requirements advising senior technical management coordinating design and programming.
• Coordinating with internal resources and vendors for the flawless execution of projects.

Confidential

System Integrations/Migrations

Responsibilities:

• Managed transformation and migration of data/functionality from old Confidential to existing Confidential application.
• Looked after the end to end managementinvolved from the proposal/business case development through to operational handover and project closure.
• Exhibited business acumen and strong analytical capability in holistically assessing the project approach and health.
• Provided timely and accurate reporting of project progress and effective management of all project related risks and issues and appropriate escalation as required.
• Engaged, liaised and effectively communicated with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensured budgets are well forecasted, regularly tracked and tightly managed.

Confidential

Infrastructure Implementations

Responsibilities:

• Identify infrastructure goals/gaps and project delivery clearly.
• Collect and present performance information related to infrastructure projects.
• Conduct change throughout project inclusive of schedule, scope and team membership.
• Collaborate effectively with infrastructure associates across entire business units along with management levels.
• Identify prime cause of contention or disagreement plus recommend corrections as necessary.
• Understand high-level technical architecture and be able to facilitate debate and drive decisions on appropriate solutions.
• To ensure that operational workflow requirements are produced to standard in a timely manner.
• To be responsible for the project administration using agile methodologies and the production of project documentation, e.g. project plans.

Confidential, New York

BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Worked on to maximize the efficiency of business processes and policies, both areas which can cut down operational costs.
• Also reported to senior management on identifying areas for improvement, and was involved in the initial planning and designing of business processes.
• As part of my work I coordinated with business users and subject matter experts to come up with the business requirements documents and functional specification document.

Confidential

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Joint Application Design session with various stakeholders including business, architects, developers and Subject Matter Experts.
• Performed the designing, coding, testing by referring to the business requirement document.
• Worked on to create multiple SQL reports for the business teams.

Confidential

Software developer

Responsibilities:

• Completed programming assignments to enhance software applications within mainframe and SQL database environments.
• Prepared design documents, did coding, testing to implement best fit solutions for functioning of Health care provider applications.