SUMMARY:

• Over 12+ years of IT experience in leading professionals, analyzing user’s requirements, modeling the system and ensuring the functionality with client satisfaction as primary focus. Driven by challenges and a desire to be successful in all endeavors. Greatly enjoy navigating all aspects of complex projects.
• Expertise in implementing Data Governance Solutions. Strong Functional and Technical Knowledge of .Net Technologies; Platforms (OS), Languages, Databases, Development Tools; Similar Functional Expertise on Healthcare Industry.
• Have been involved in Initiation, Requirement Analysis & Specification Finalization, Scoping, Planning, Scheduling, and Estimation, Resource Management and Execution Control/Tracking and onsite - offshore model support.
• Adept in Team Management skills like tasking, delegation, monitoring, feedback, skill upgrade, competence management, career planning, motivation & mentoring
• Cohesive Team Player with Fast Learning Curve along with strong analytical, problem solving, innovation, planning, organizational, communication & interpersonal skills
• Received Outstanding Contribution Award from Motorola and Delivery Management & Top Performer Award from Avanade for MD Anderson project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodology: Expertise in leading the projects using Waterfall and Agile methodology.

Tools: JUDE, Snagit, Borland CalibreRM, Confluence wiki, Visio, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston Tx

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintained continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.
• Responsible for presenting changes to Change Control Board and creating CMNF’s. Providing assistance to assure a smooth transition from implementation to application support.
• Responsible and accountable for updating project plan, maintaining RACI, negotiating changes with sponsor, stakeholders and for generating project timelines/milestone plan for each sprint.
• Responsible for managing integration, analysis, design and documentation for many interfaces between applications and the research repository within the MD Anderson (MDA) infrastructure.
• Organized project team delivering value to customer base by providing excellence of service
• Provided recommendations to the user group to optimize their annotation workflow
• Lead the team to establish delivery management process.
• Hosted daily status calls as well as ad hoc meetings as requested to ensure client satisfaction in an ever-changing environment.
• Acted as first point of contact for new requirements, customer training, data conversion, and problem solving. Acted as a liaison between the scrum team and the product owners to ensure consistent and successful sprints.
• Responsible for initiating User Acceptance Testing and providing list of deliverables with detailed requirements.
• Helped the team and development manager to estimate larger items like epics and individual user stories in the backlog.
• Ensured positive customer experience by proactively managing and growing customer relationship

Healthcare Practice Lead/ Sr. Manager

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible to provide guidance and support to establish Sogeti’s healthcare practice in Houston, Texas.
• Developed healthcare business development plan. Lead the market planning sessions with C-level management.
• Acted as a liaison/subject matter expert between healthcare clients and Sogeti’s sales team.
• Developed plan to hire subject matter experts and grow practice at unit level.
• Lead business development initiatives, and worked closely with the team to ensure goals and objectives are being met.
• Lead healthcare pursuits at multiple locations within Texas.

Project Lead/A&P Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives
• Presented periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities and client issues to management and other stakeholders.
• Project management and deployment, including project costing, resource management, and infrastructure planning and configuration. Managed multiple cross-functional, enterprise-level projects.
• Project supervision using the Project Management Methodology (PMM). Includes the use of the Project Insight application for project requests, prioritization, project scheduling, workflow, approvals, time tracking, expense tracking, and portfolio management reports; Project Server for task management, resource allocation and document management; and SharePoint tools for resource requests, approvals, and reporting.
• Managing project tasks for as many as 20 Onsite contract resources, and off-shore resources.
• Successfully completed data migration of multiple tissue banks into TissueStation Research repository (Human Cancer Genetics, Head and Neck, Gynecology, Endocrine neoplasia, Leukemia etc.)
• I was responsible to conduct weekly status meetings and provide feedback to upper management.
• Involved in conducting user group meetings, reviewing, prioritizing and providing strategic solution for the change requests.
• Worked closely with senior management including Institutional Review Board team to implement consent verification process like Protocol Specific consent and Front Door Consent, Revocation.
• Managed resources, deliverables and timeline using MS project.
• Provided solution for multiple institutional research database integration initiatives which includes Multi-Center trial project, Blood tracking project, Apollo ( Adaptive patient-oriented longitudinal learning and optimization), GAP, GEMINI (Genomically Guided Medicine Initiative) etc.
• Successfully integrated Clinical databases (e.g. Plasma cell Dyscrasia, Leukemia (LCDR), Pancreas, Breast etc.) with TissueStation research database.
• Worked with the senior physicians and Institutional Tissue Bank to convert the existing Tissue Banking Application into an Enterprise Application.
• Worked with the EMR Development and Support team documenting clinical workflows and User Requirements and working with the Development and Test teams to build and test requirements. Some of the projects include Tissue Collection and Banking
• Worked with Clinicians, Technicians, Pathologist and Development team to analyze the Data, performed gap analysis of legacy data warehouse objects, designed dashboards , gather requirements and provide solution.
• Successfully mapped TS disease lexicon with ICD-10 disease lexicon.
• Lead end to end SDLC development using agile methodology.
• Creating page layouts, Conceptual Design, High/Low Fidelity Prototyping, simulations using iRise
• Completed documentation such as Scope Statement, Charter, Executive Summary, Project Approval Application, and Monthly Status Reporting to multiple groups, and PowerPoint Presentations to Stakeholders.
• Worked with Accenture India team (on-site - offshore model)

BA/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business Users and SME’s for gathering functional requirements for all the use case implementations.
• Used UML and OOD extensively in developing the use cases. Designed Class diagrams, activity diagrams and sequence diagrams for these modules.
• Involved in writing Technical specifications for many use cases in the Automation modules.
• Resource Planning using MS Project.
• Involved in code and business process reviews for use case implementations done by other team members.
• Developed MIS Reports using SQL and Excel, during UAT and Post Production Support.

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with business users and Subject Matter experts to prepare and update Business Process Requirements (BPR) and Software Requirement Specification (SRS). Created test cases and test scripts.
• Involved in presenting solutions to the senior management team including Directors, marketing executives and medical staff.
• Communicated and interacted on a regular basis with the project manager and development team during different stages of the project
• Involved in Analysis, Design, Integration and Testing of application modules.
• Elaborated use cases and interface definitions in collaboration with Business.
• Wrote SQL statements to manipulate Oracle database tables and to query data.
• Designed Ad-hoc reports to support institution’s and sr. management’s initiates.
• Resource Planning using MS Project.
• Lead the Development team, QA team to help them understand the business flow.
• Performed UAT successfully with the Stakeholders and End users.
• Involved in application workflow design for improving the app performance .

Business Analyst/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with senior management to provide status reports and to plan implantation strategy.
• Designed daily, weekly, monthly reports to compare the productivity and profitability of different departments in the institution.
• Integrated multiple databases to create clinical data repository and Siemens PACS system for radiology with EMR.
• Eliciting requirements, preparing project plans and functional test documents.
• Used Jude/Visio to create class, activity, sequence diagrams.
• Assisted development team in certain modules.
• Involved in pre-launch UAT and Knowledge transfer.

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in documenting RFP. Attended bidding process with the senior management.
• Involved in analyzing the requirements, designing the application.
• Developed use cases, workflow, screen mock-ups, and conversion requirements.
• Prepared business process models; used Visio to create use case diagrams.
• Worked with Database/Development team to create reports, design application and mapping data elements to support data porting.
• Managed the team of data entry operators, helped them understand the business flow to perform data entry efficiently.
• Assigned tasks to the data entry team.
• Responsible to provide status updates to the management.