SUMMARY:

• Total 25 years of experience in IT services and financial services industry
• 17 years of Portfolio /program / project management & senior leadership experience across multiple domains such as Banking & capital markets, Brokerage & investment banking, High tech, Insurance, Health care & Communication. Expertise in building PMO organization with best practices in the industry.
• 8 years of technology/ business & strategy consulting in various technologies & infrastructure.
• Extensive experience in Program Management, Project Management methodologies & Proposal creation, Estimation, Program planning, Risk management, portfolio management.
• Expertise in all the budgeting aspects of Portfolio / Program management such as, Budgeting & forecasting, budget planning for the year ahead, Quarterly budget breakdowns & forecasting. Generating all kinds of budget reports, graphs & charts. Also provide reports to senior management to slice & dice there by creating different views of the data for analysis.
• Proven leader in implementing program management processes like scope management, issue management, risk management, schedule management, budget management and quality management.
• Aligning to strategic direction the company is planning to achieve through execution of programs.
• Generating regular reports to provide the value that has been delivered as a part of program execution.
• Extensive experience in implementing robust portfolio / Program processes & best practices for smooth execution of programs.
• As a Part of budget exercise tracking OpEx & CapEx
• Experience in delivering Regulatory compliance solutions related to trade risk, Basel II, Basel III, op risk, information barriers, CCAR, Personal trade compliance & large shareholding reporting.
• Experience in data strategy, data analysis, data quality reporting for regulatory compliance, Expertise in delivering analytical solutions using Hadoop & big data environments in in health care industry.
• Experience in conventional waterfall model, process oriented methodologies like CMMI, Agile,JIRA, Planview, SharePoint.
• Expertise in providing Datawarehousing solutions, ETL BI solutins to global companies.
• Very valuable experience in PPM tools such as CA Clarity OnePPM.
• Extensive experience in providing presentations & reports to senior management & all the stakeholders & Experience in pre - sale presentations, client relationships.
• Expertise in building PMO from ground up using the industry best practices.
• Working closely with Business Development team on various RFQ, RFI’s. Major contribution is with providing technical solution, planning, cost and calculating profitability
• Strong knowledge of the Quality processes and procedure related to SEI-CMMI level 5 standards. Audited for various CMMI level audits

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: ER - Diagram, Data modeling, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, SQL

Analytical Applications: Financial Reporting, Retail banking analytics, balanced score card, OFSA, BI Big data, Hadoop, SAS, Flume & other tools.

IT Architecture: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Integration architecture, RAC migrations & new builds

Testing Products: Mercury Interactive (WinRunner, Load Runner)

ORACLE EBS/Portal: Oracle Applications, PeopleSoft HRMS and financials, Weblogic Portal

Project Management Tools: Waterfall Model, PIMBOK, AIM, Agile, CMMI Level 5, PPM tools

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 2000/XP/NT

Others: MS Word, Excel PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project, C, C++, AWK, SHELL, Data integration& Migration, EMC & SAN solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Currently managing enterprise data & analytics portfolio of about $15M, delivering analytical services to Humana a healthcare company in Louisville KY. Focus is on delivering predictive analytical models in the areas of clinical, provider, pharmacy & digital space using Hadoop, Big data, SaS & other tools. Some of the initiatives include Data lake management, data vault, data ingestion methodologies. All the initiatives align strategically achieving goals of Humana being a large analytical company. Providing presentations about health of program/ portfolio & value delivered to senior management.
• At, managed a large program of data quality services group, delivering platforms to provide offline & online scorecards across all groups & provided analytics support to various groups. The solution was delivered based on CDO office requirements. Managed all aspects of budgeting, forecasting, Risk management, change control management at the program level. Consolidation of all the reports at the program level & present it to senior management such as status reports, budget reports, health of program & value delivered. large program & PMO office to deliver for regulatory compliance in the areas of Information Barriers, Large Shareholding Reporting, Personal Assets, AML & other regulatory compliance. The critical aspect delivery is the regulatory reports in time to avoid hefty fines from regulators, thus saving millions of fees to the bank. Delivered weekly reports to senior management at the program level.
• Managed the vendor engagement of enterprise platform services group (EPS) to provide infrastructure to all application development teams including finance, HR & regulatory compliance. As a program manager, I streamlined the delivery of the services, created robust governance structure, created 24 /7 support plan using onsite and offshore resources & introduced new process. EPS provides global support for building & maintaining environments for various application teams.

Confidential

Outsourcing Advisory Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Technologies Sr program manager Maximized revenue growth by initiating and developing new opportunities with existing and new clients and by working closely with cross functional marketing teams.
• Participated in all aspects of Business development including RFP/RFI response, client presentations & contract negotiations.
• Delivered mail order prescription merge solution using oracle EBS to Aetna mainstream applications & delivered strategic supply & distribution chain solution to Hitachi data systems to streamline their distribution network.
• At business functions that served the customer better at by delivering PeopleSoft & oracle financials solution for Global integration aimed at cost reduction.head
• Recognized and commended by the upper management for consistently realizing DELL’s business goals through efficient management of the
• Services and services group and through development of strategic IT solution. Managed portfolio of $40M to deliver consolidated global solution to integrate all upstream & downstream applications on Dell platform using oracle EBS & resources across the globe.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Project manager, Initiated and identified the business solutions which would enhance the business opportunities in Retail Banking space, which included private banking, card services
• Mortgage & lending services, Treasury Services & general banking. Supported Reduction of OPEX by introducing new processes to enhance the service delivery, remove redundancies & improve team & infrastructure efficiency.