SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a senior Program / Project Manager with extensive hands - on experience with managing a technical development team, requirements management, and customer relationship management.
• He is a strong advocate of collaborative management style.
• Shared ownership that results from this management style ensures a closely knit team working towards a common goal with minimum conflicts.
• He possesses problem-solving skills that could be put to use to devise an optimal solution to a given business problem within time and budget constraints. He has received accolades for strategic execution, excellent negotiation, analytical and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PLATFORMS: JAVA, J2EE, MVC SPRING FRAMEWORK, JSF 1.2, JQUERY, UNIX, JAVA SCRIPT, SOA, SQL SERVER, AND TOMCAT.

SOFTWARE METHOD -OLOGIES: WATERFALL, SDLC, RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS, AGILE, CMM ETC.

SOFTWARE TOOLS: DOORS, CLEAR CASE, MS VISIO, RATIONAL SUITE, CLEAR QUEST, DOORS, ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT, SQL, MS OFFICE SUITE, BUSINESS OBJECTS, SERENA RM, JAVA.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: MS OFFICE, MS PROJECT, RALLY, SHARE POINT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Program / Business Analysis Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for initiation through close out of multiple (4-7) concurrent projects for Casefile Repository (CFR), Automated Underwriting Operational Data Store (AUT ODS), Data Mart, Acquisition ODS, Delivery ODS, and Loan Sourcing Data Mart using SDLC 4.0.
• Led the Acquisition Data PMO to successfully deliver Data Warehouse functionality.
• Helped coach 4 SCRUM teams on Agile methodology including transitioning from Waterfall to SCRUM.
• Single point of contact for 9 project governance groups including Project Quality Office, and Enterprise Data Governance.
• Responsible for Requirements of Automated Underwriting ODS, CFR, and DM.
• Facilitated meetings with multiple teams for Implementation activities.
• Engaged with stakeholders of interfacing systems to facilitate impact assessment, and integration testing.
• Facilitated architectural direction meetings for the projects.
• Responsible for overall execution of projects (2-4 concurrent projects) with a team of 30-40 resources with a budget of about $10 Million.
• Co-ordinated with 3 PMOs for release planning, Sprint planning, & interdependencies.
• Instituted a change management process to process changes throughout the lifecycle.
• Led the Production Readiness meetings to facilitate a ‘Go’ from Project Sponsors.
• Responsible for Weekly Status Reports using Rally and Enterprise Project Management site (EPPM).

Confidential

Project / Business Analysis Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of about 15 resources (consisting of developers, automated testers, manual testers, business analysts, and documentation specialists) to a successful delivery of the family of Municipal Advisor forms which consisted of more than 22000 functional requirements using informal agile SDLC (Stand ups, iterations, and sprints).
• Participated in planning sessions with SEC IT department to evaluate options for releases.
• Involved in estimating, planning, scoping, defect triages, defect resolution, and defect close-out.
• Partnered with the Office of Information Technology (Sponsors) to devise/suggest business solutions.
• Managed Project Risks with a published Risk log and prompt follow-up.
• Managed the project closely within the project constraints with daily status meetings and intra-day follow-ups.
• Managed the team with a project plan done using Microsoft Project.
• Managed expectations of senior management and the client on a weekly basis in the form of Weekly Status meetings.
• Collaborated with liaison for Independent Verification and Validation team leading to successful resolution of software issues.
• Led the Development team to deliver a software solution that not only meets the functional requirements, but also cost effective to implement.
• Reported progress of project to the client by way of presentations, and weekly status reports.
• Tracked Issues and ensured follow-up to successfully resolve them.
• Achievement: Successfully salvaged a million dollar investment into Municipal Advisor Forms which was shelved a year prior due to dissatisfaction of the Division.

Freddie Mac

Sr. Management Consultant - Rules Management

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of System analysts, Operational analysts, and UAT Testers to successfully resolve production incidents / issues.
• Contributed to the business requirements discovery of BDMS.
• Participated in UAT testing of the new Business Decision Modeling System.
• Performed System Analysis of BDMS to troubleshoot production issues.
• Used a combination of Access databases and excel macros to discover and troubleshoot data integrity / accuracy issues.
• Involved in data conversion and data mapping of the data from RMM (a rules modeling EUC) to BDMS.

Confidential

Systems Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the change requests corresponding to technical specifications.
• Maintained the accuracy of the technical specifications of committing systems housed in DOORS.
• Extensively worked with DOORS to clean up the technical specifications of the committing family of applications.
• Met with teams of interfacing systems to support Interface Control Documentation effort.
• Authored and documented several Interface Control Documents in DOORS.
• Involved in reviewing the business requirements to understand the impact to systems.

Confidential

Business Analysis Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of Business Analysts in requirements effort of Customer Setup functionality of Portal 1.0, and Automated Customer Setup Project.
• Assisted the Project Manager with identifying, tracking and resolving project issues.
• Assisted with cost estimation, planning, implementation strategies, adoption strategies and conversion plans.
• Worked with the business in defining the refining the functional requirements.
• Authored business rules, supplemental specifications and data specifications for the system.
• Involved in choosing a COTS package for Automated Customer Setup project.
• Participated in data modeling sessions.
• Modeled the AS-IS model for the Individual authentication and authorization model for the current selling system.
• Participated in the modeling of the TO-BE model for the Individual authentication and authorization model for the Customer Setup piece of the Loan Servicing.
• Worked with the business to resolve some critical production issues.