SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management Professional with experience in IT Program Management/Coordination, Project management, Business Analysis and Quality Assurance for 8+ years.
• Understand the client background and the broad level aspect of the Scope of Work.
• Analyzed Business requirement and identified the risks and assumptions.
• Good exposure to project management process and knowledge areas.
• Instituted Project Management fundamentals that improved all deliverable timelines, documentation, and accuracy of key milestones.
• Involved in Planning, Scheduling, Estimating, Monitoring and Controlling the activities throughout the project.
• Experienced with Program level budgeting and various financial tracking tools.
• In - depth knowledge of Project Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC).
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Managed projects of various sizes.
• Experience working with Cross functional teams, periodically evaluating the functioning of the teams
• Liaison between Technical and Non-technical teams.
• Compiled regular progress reports for management board.
• Experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in developing the contingency plan as and when required.
• Experience in backend testing of the application by executing SQL commands.
• Expertise in Business model tool like MS Project for Project plan development.
• Have knowledge of 21CFR Part 11 Electronic records/Electronic Signatures and Computerized System Validation (CSV) directives.
• Coordinated project management tasks, including timelines, status reporting, and client management.
• Have working knowledge of PMBOK
• Used Quality Center to write Test scripts, track defects and generate reports.
• Have knowledge of Automated Testing methods, using tools like Mercury’s Interactive Win Runner, Test Director, Load Runner and Quick Test Professional.
• Good leadership, analytical, technical and communication (verbal and written) skills.
• Problem solving, self-directed and dedicated with strong analytical skills.
• A strong team player with attention to details, and ability to master new technologies quickly.
• Served as a primary point of contact on the project with internal and external stakeholders.
• Possess strong interpersonal skills necessary to communicate effectively, both orallyand in writing, with all levels of technical and business personnel in a project team environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Web Development Tools: HTML, VB Script

Databases: MS Access, Lotus Notes/Domino, Oracle

Languages: SQL, C

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, MS-DOS

Software Applications: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Power Point, Visio, SharePoint Designer, SharePoint, SAP MM, Ariba Buyer 8.2,Ariba spend management, ERP,SAP BI, Clearquest, Aravo, Planview, Business Object Report, TrackWise, LIMS, Vitalize, PDF-XChange Tools 4.0, PDF-XChange Editor

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, Win Runner, Load Runner, Quick Test Professional.

Business Model Tools: Confidential Project, PPM Tool, FPRT Tool, FCW tool, Resource Demand capture.

Mail Packages: Lotus Notes Mail, Confidential Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Assistant PM/Program Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Vendor management to review vendor invoices, document discrepancies, provide feedback to vendors, accounts payable team and program managers and approve for payment.
• Provided assistance to the Project managers to create Business case, Project Charter, Project Management plan and Stakeholder Register, RACI.
• Participated in Handshake meetings with the Project Managers and work stream leads to identify resources for each project within the program.
• Participated in Stage Gate Reviews with each Project team to update the Gate Questionnaire Report and the Deliverable log used for Stage gate meetings for each phase. Ensure the project artifacts and deliverables are completed, approved and ready for each gate and final decision and approval from Program Sponsors to proceed with agreed actions.
• Participated in ITS Risk Assessment for Program and Projects with Program manager, Projects managers, Architects and Business Analyst to assess the complexity of a project or program and the impact to the firm if failure occurs.
• Created a resource breakdown structure to identify the resources requirements for each project and from a program perspective.
• Liaison between PMO and work streams on the Quarterly budget status and the financial tools used to track the budget.
• Responsible for creating and managing the overall program budget. Assisted the project and program managers in researching and developing high level and detailed budgets for review, presentation and approval by stakeholders.
• Responsible for updating the Program milestones and financials in PROD.
• Generated several financial reports for the PMO Governance and formatted based on requirements using advanced excel.
• Assisted the Project Managers to update the Project status using the FPRT tool.
• Responsible for updating and managing the IT Acceptance Criteria and Tracking tool for various projects within the program (Concept detail, Organizational detail, Financial, Engagement codes).
• Ensure that the RAID, Action log and Lessons learned log are updated on a weekly basis and ready for PMO review.
• Coordinate the Steering group and Stakeholder monthly meetings and distribute meeting minutes.
• Maintain SharePoint libraries and the documents within, to ensure files are located in their respective locations with up-to-date files
• Update Org chart - when new members join the team.
• Used Mind Mapping Tool (2012) to create the WBS which will then be exported to MS project plan.
• Conducted Lessons Learned Sessions with the Stakeholders and update lessons learned log and survey template.
• Created Business case for Red Forest legacy deployment project.
• Monitored/managed the project milestones, completion status, project details using Confidential project server.
• Coordinated with the PRAP support personnel for any procurement request pertaining to Software, Hardware, Maintenance and Supplies.
• Manage/maintain the Global Information Security Contractor report.(Verify contractor extensions, contractors missing from this list)
• Used IT resource Request for resource extensions/updates
• Generate weekly, monthly, annual project portfolio report for PMO Governance.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created a new concept in ACT (Concept ID and Budget assigned)
• Submitted a new project request for creating folders in SharePoint, FPRT and MS project server.
• Created the Business Case and sent for Sponsor approval.
• Created the Project Charter Lite and the Budget.
• Identified and finalized the Stakeholder register.
• Working with the team on creating the decommissioning plan.

Environment: Confidential Office, Confidential Windows XP, MS SharePoint 10, FCW Tool, FPRT Tool, Resource Demand Capture, PPM tool, Mind Mapping, Confidential Project, Confidential project server 2010, ACT, CLEAR (Capability Led Execution and Results), PDF-XChange Tools 4.0, PDF-XChange Editor.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Sponsors and Stakeholders to create the vision & scope document.
• Conducted the requirement gathering session to determine and gather the requirements.
• Identified the functional, Non-functional and Business requirements.
• Ensured that requirements are within scope of the project.
• Analyzed the Use cases and worked with the technical writer to map requirements to use cases
• Worked with the project manager to create the project charter.
• Participated in the Business Impact assessment to identify the impact on business if the product fails or during business continuity planning.
• Participated in design workshop for the Implementation project.

Environment: Ping Access, Ping Federate, Site Minder, SharePoint, .Net in IIS server, Java

PM Infrastructure Project/Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Identify Orphan servers and decommission them to achieve the biggest cost savings.
• Working with the CI Owners and Application owners to identify a valid application and associate them to the servers.
• Familiar with the Service Asset and Configuration Management process.
• Coordinate various project activities for BMS Diabetes divestiture to AstraZeneca and other smaller projects.
• Liaison between PMO and work streams to get the weekly status report
• Coordinating with the various work stream leads and PMs (IS, Commercial, Other Corp IT services, Marketing, GMS, BFS, HR, R&D and Medical)
• Follow up with the team members on action items and update action logs.
• Participated in the lessons learned session for Doc IT

Environment: Confidential Office, Confidential Windows XP, MS SharePoint, Vitalize, PPM, CMDB

Assistant Project Manager / Program Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing multiple work streams which included developing and managing project schedules, risks, issues and decisions.
• Supported meeting requirements: organize participants, locations, agendas, and minutes
• Responsible for rolling up status report to the PMO
• Tracked project milestones and deliverables for the various work streams
• Tracked and managed issues and risks associated with project deliverables
• Ensure all tactical plans developed are in line with key components of Project strategy
• Set and continually mange project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
• Develop and deliver regular project progress reports including proactive analyses of issues and risks to key deliverables.
• Tracked status against project plan
• Produced the financial report using PPM tool on a monthly basis. Submitted change request using PPM tool for approval.
• Maintained, updated project plan in Confidential project server which was integrated with PPM tool.
• Prepared and updated status reports, milestone summary and project management documents
• Assisted with project status communication
• Assisted with managing the project SharePoint site
• Worked closely with members of client team across functions and key regions to enable cohesive tracking, integration, and real-time coordination of Project activities

Environment: Confidential Office, SAP ECC 6.0, Confidential Windows XP, MS Project 2010, MS SharePoint, PPM tool, TrackWise, Plateau, Ariba, SABA Vitalize

Junior Project Manager/ EPMO Program Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Managing the current phase and funded through phase for all projects once they enter into Opportunity Assessment phase.
• Follow up on the Projects/Programs/Sub Programs to make sure they are within scope, cost and schedule.
• Coordinate and administer standard operations concerning execution of Horizon’s enterprise funded projects.
• Created Funding request and forward for EPMO approval after all artifacts are in Planview and SharePoint.
• Coordinate the development and maintenance of enterprise standard PM processes and templates
• Monitor Funding Gate Reviews using Current Phase Report
• Managing the change request process
• Running the RYG Business Object report displaying the overall status of the portfolio and distributing to the PM community.
• Provided customer support for RYG issues and funding decks.
• Responsible for Bluelist Reporting.
• Participating in Business case validation focusing on key components like Risks, ROI and Success metrics.
• Responsible for reviewing financial decks and providing approval.
• Update QA database after financial review
• Participated in providing documentation for auditing
• Participated in portfolio team meetings on a weekly basis.
• Updated Project plan for IT strategic planning and imported to Planview for schedule tracking
• Participated in reviewing the Initiative definition document with the stakeholders and ensured its alignment with the Business case.

Environment:: Confidential Office, Lotus Notes, SAP BO, Confidential Windows 7, XP, Planview, MS Project, Datamart, MS SharePoint, MS Access.

Test Coordinator/QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirements and prepared Test Analysis documents.
• Participated in the planning and execution of test scripts from procurement to payment
• Created Test scripts based on the requirement for supplier web portal, enhancement/bug fixes and scripts for Quarterly release.
• Coordinating test status with Release management team on a weekly basis.
• Familiar with the change management process which included the integration of clear quest, solution manager, quality center and SharePoint for release changes and heightened support.
• Coordinated with the release management team about the status of a particular change and once the change /requirement is approved by the WRB team the CQC is imported to QC as requirement
• Have functional knowledge of procurement source to pay lifecycle. The Ariba application which generates a purchase requisition and routes it to appropriate personnel for approval. Upon approval the requisition is converted to a Purchase order.
• Tested the integration between Ariba purchasing system, Affiliate system and SAP.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Test for many J&J affiliates
• Participated in Defect Review meetings and status meetings to verify and review various defects
• Logged defects in HP Quality Center and ensured that they are fixed and closed
• Participated in UAT meetings with the affiliates to ensure that the tests created and executed in their system was successfully transitioned over to SAP
• Updated the Integration and UAT data sheets and posted to the portal.
• Built and executed the test scripts in Mercury Quality center.
• Ensured that the test scripts covered all the testing scenarios and are complete end to end for audit purpose.
• Extensively involved in Business Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, and Regression Testing, BI reporting.
• Compiled the test scripts for disaster recovery testing.
• Trained new members in the team over Business and testing process.
• Conducted Regression tests for already reported Bugs to test whether any new fix has been applied or not and also to test whether the fix caused any other problems.
• Worked with the developers in correcting the bugs in the application.
• Used HP Quality Center for managing the scripts and creating reports.
• Communicated the status of the testing phase in the weekly team meetings.

Environment: SAP MM, SAP BI, Ariba Buyer8.2, Ariba Spend management 9r1, Mercury Quality Center, Invoicing and Analysis, HP Quality Center, Oracle, Confidential Office, Outlook 2007, Confidential Windows XP, Vista, Accounts payable Web Portal, Clearquest, Aravo

Junior Project Manager/ Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated reaching consensus on requirements with business and other stakeholders.
• Translated customer requirements into WBS and created the Project Plan using MS Project.
• Developed and executed detailed project plans according to the PMI framework.
• Performed Web content management on the community portal site of Wiley and used HTML to post newsletters, schedule, training materials, important links, announcements and faq’s related to migration on the community portal on a weekly basis
• Had the Project Administrator rights for adding gadgets to the portal and provided access to the internal clients of Wiley.
• Created a Global Migration Timeline using Advanced excel.
• Managed onsite as well as offshore resources throughout daily activities for all phases of the project.
• Organized various meetings and wrote meeting minutes on a frequent basis.
• Kept track of the major milestones and deliverables.
• Periodically evaluated the functioning of the teams.
• Participated in the manual migrations of the machine and users to the new domain (wiley.com) and then moved their necessary files from Notes to Outlook.
• Installed Office 2007 from the network and then configured Outlook to be the default email client for the users.
• Maintained up to date documentation of the projects according to the PMO standards.
• Successfully implemented the project with the team and stakeholders located in different parts of the world
• Participated in weekly and monthly team reviews with Senior Executives as well as the Technical Steering Committee.
• Prepared monthly and weekly status reports and communicated project status to project team, senior management and other audiences regularly.
• Successfully delivered the Technical infrastructure project within the constraints of scope, time and cost.

Environment: Confidential Project 2003, Confidential Exchange 2007, Confidential Excel 2003/2007, Confidential PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook 2007, Lotus Notes 6.5, SQL server, Quest migration software, Confidential Windows XP, HTML

Digitization Project Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Identified major milestones and sequenced the activities to be performed
• Various data related to the map features were collected from various sources.
• Modified the Kolkata map with a few relevant changes as specified.
• Handled various technical aspects like designing drawing using Auto Cad Map.
• Performed digitization of various maps as per the client requirement.
• Converted the digitized maps from raster to vector format.
• Participated in meetings to discuss issues relating to the modification.
• Monitored project progress and made planned revisions as necessary.
• Established and followed a change control process for change in requirements.
• Documents including Plans, Specifications, and Designs were reviewed and archived for future use.
• Provided weekly status reports to the senior management and maintained the documents.
• Got the final sign-off from client that the contract is successfully completed.

Environment: MS-Project, Auto Cad Map, MS Office, VP Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Windows.

Site Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Identified client requirement and created opportunity by initializing the detailed scoping.
• Various measurements of the ground area and road level were given to the Architect, and decision been made whether to proceed with the project.
• Used MS Project to schedule the projects.
• Divided the major deliverables into smaller more manageable components to support development of project activities
• Developed a detailed project plan which covered activities, milestones, duration, manpower in numbers and percentage of effort required from each resource.
• Provided daily status report to the management board about the progress of the project.
• Based on the initially defined quality standard, developed a quality assurance plan which helped the team in evaluating the project performance on a regular basis
• Dependent and independent tasks were sequenced and parallel activities listed for reducing the time frame of the project
• Provided an overall estimate to the individual tasks including manpower and materials requirement and thereby controlled cost changes to the project budget taking into account the extent of risk involved.
• Geotest reports of various soil samples were obtained which helped decide for the safe bearing capacity of the soil and hence determine if the project satisfies the relevant quality standards
• Ensured quality control for specific project results during different phases of the project whether the design requirements are met or not, by strictly adhering to the quality standards as mentioned in the IS code of designs.

Environment: MS Office, MS-Project, Auto Cad, Windows 2000, IS code.