SUMMARY:

• Having overall 20+ years of IT experience, which includes 6+ years significant experience in Project Management.
• Accomplished IT project management professional with more than 6 years of success and achievements in exceeding business goals and expectations.
• Specialized expertise in leading IT projects, Application Development, meeting tight deadlines, and proactively identifying the most cost - effective ways to meet project needs and client expectations.
• Effective leader and consensus builder who can manage cross-functional teams as well as external vendors to move projects forward.
• Willing to take on new challenges and lead technical projects that enhance business performance.
• Developed and implemented PMO process.
• Identify collaterals, Prioritize projects and assign resources.
• Present and forecast portfolio cost to leadership.
• 6+ years’ experience in managing people and executing projects in a global multi-cultural matrixed environment, interacting with cross-functional stakeholders, and managing internal (IT & Business) and external (onsite, offshore and 3rd party service providers) teams.
• Led full life-cycle implementations of business modules with on-time delivery and budget of $6.6M.
• Managed day-to-day activities and system support for 40 systems / applications, including staff allocation, workload balancing, resource planning, and project forecasting.
• Proficient in executive status reporting and detailed project status reports
• Experienced in managing projects in multiple business domains including healthcare, banking, financial, annuities, life insurance, securities and manufacturing systems.
• Clarity, Project Interacted with key stakeholders to gather and verify requirements and develop detailed specifications and designs which align to key simplification efforts.
• Experienced in managing risks by developing Risk Mitigation plans, monitoring performance reports, project scope and changes, prioritizing work assignments, identifying budget, utilizing resources, and/or scheduling constraints.
• Agile Methodology (SCRUM & Extreme Programming and Unified Process).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: COBOL, IMS, CICS, JCL, EASYTRIEVE, JAVA,SQL and ABAP

Web Technologies: JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, AND HTML

Scripting Languages: JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, XML, JSP, EJB, J2EE, SERVLETS, WSAD, AND HTML

Markup Languages: HTML

Version Control: PANVALET, Endevor

SDLC: Agile, Waterfall

Reports: Business Objects, BEx

Operating System: Windows7,Windows XP, Windows 2003, Linux, MS-DOS, UNIX, and MVS/ESA

PM Tools: MS Project, ITSM, Clarity, Online (PWA), SharePoint, MS Office 365, DynaTrace, Splunk, Remedy, ServiceNow, HP ALM, MS Project Server, Serena.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, IMS/DB, B-Trive

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Project Manager

• Develop detailed project plan, document requirement and secure sign off from all stakeholders.
• Resource planning, coordination and milestone tracking.
• Cost estimating for new hardware and support activities.
• Application testing in all regions.
• Perform end to end tests on all processes and design all program documents and as per resource requirements and administer all test activities for all phases.
• Develop all test plans and perform troubleshoot on systems and analyze all test resources to resolve issues and manage all communication with senior management to achieve all objectives.
• Develop and share detail communication plan to stakeholders on weekly basis.
• Identify and mitigate risk.
• Driving the project team, assigning tasks to them, monitoring the work and preparing metrics. Develop cutover activities and update project plan.
• Identify and record all issues and open incidents/tasks and work with team to resolve issues.

Environment: PWA,MS Project, Java, HP ALM, Skype for Business, EXCEL, Word, SharePoint

Confidential, Troy, MI

Project Manager

• DR Exchange Failover and Auto BC/DR, Data Center Migration, Wintel Management, DB Planning, Unified comm planning, PWA planning and Portfolio Management.
• Resource planning and create WBS
• Identify and Track Milestones, Deliverables.
• Worked with vendors to identify timelines and deliverables.
• Managed vendors to meet the deadlines and develop quality deliverables, ensure integration and communication across project team and vendors.
• Provide project 4Up status for leadership.
• Drive decisions to ensure the success of projects taking into account timing, risk, functional requirements, and business benefits.

Environment: MS Project, PWA, SharePoint, Skype for Business. EXCEL, Word

Confidential, Pontiac, MI

Project Manager

• Develop QlickView/QlickSense dashboard reports for all HP leased severs for HP customers to determine peak hour, storage and performance of servers for current and future forecasting.
• Responsibilities:
• Identify scope for project development and infrastructure requirements.
• Estimate the cost, secure approval and Develop project charter.
• Identify fire wall engineer, System admin, ADM, Developers, Testers, BA’s and other resource.
• Structures project communications and Conducts project kickoffs.
• Conducts meetings and Tracks and communicates project progress.
• Measures and evaluates project performance.
• Plans and engages project resources.
• Manages project risks and develops risk mitigation strategies.
• Controls all project activities for scheduling, estimating, forecasting, budgeting, monitoring, analyzing, and reporting costs.
• Has overall responsibility for the implementation of a change management process to capture, evaluate, document, approve, implement, and communicate all project changes.

Environment: MS Project, Business for Skype, MS Word, MS Excel, SharePoint

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Project Manager

• Managed 1.2 mil program with multiple projects (WIPS, CMMS, GCP, QPIP15, GSCP, WQ, NPPGVc) applying CPMM methodologies with Agile/SCRUM/Iterative.
• Develop project charter, WBS and worked with all stake holders for project charter signoff.
• Managed project schedule, milestones, resources and tasks using MS Project.
• Develop and manage project cost, budget and financial forecast using ITMS, FRT and clarity tools.
• Managed Finance, schedule, Milestone, Forecast, Actuals, Risks, Issues, accrual and BPR Status using clarity.
• L2 Deck Governance presentation to IT Director, CIO in monthly meetings.
• Creating FRTs for monthly financial actuals and billed amounts.
• Weekly status meeting with team to coach/guide and encourage for open discussion to identify any roadblock that stops reaching the project target on schedule.

Environment: Clarity, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Office, MS Word, MS EXCEL, Exchange, Skype, LYNC.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Project Manager

• Managed all projects with strategic corporate and business process applying combination of methodologies such as Agile/SCRUM/Iterative, Waterfall and RUP.
• Managed the project scope, requirements and deliverables. Document project change requests, lead sessions to understand impacts, and prepare options for leadership review.
• Encouraged team to perform P&L test for all project.

Environment: MS Project, SharePoint, MS Office, RUP,MS Visio

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Consultant - SAP BI/BW

• Led offshore initiative to perform procurement, strategic sourcing, spend analysis, and reporting in a global environment resulting in adding value while establishing processes for offshore development, overseeing the development, reviewing and approving unit testing while managing QA in the test environment.
• Executed Cost/Benefit Analysis & identified alternatives. Provided initial cost estimate for the project and estimated detail project costs after due diligence completed.
• Aware of and comply with the change management work instruction.
• Skilled in producing project deliverables - scope statements, analysis/functional/design documents, development plan, test strategy, and implementation plan.
• Responsible for appropriate staffing, scheduling, timely problem resolution and communications with executives and consultants.
• Monitored team progress and guide team in right directions. Developed strong team building activities such as team meetings and team lunch.

Confidential

Consultant - SAP BI/BW

• Coordinated the system integration test effort between multiple suppliers, identified, touch points, ensured communication flow between project leads and delivered end-to-end system integration testing between multiple project components.
• Managed daily activities, issue resolution and communication across project execution teams in order to deliver projects on-time, on-budget, as-requested by customer.
• Identified critical path decisions, makes recommendations and influences program leaders and business process owners to maximize project payback. planning groups and different fiscal periods.
• Achieved an on time and on budget go live in all projects.
• This improved revenue by 20% for support.
• Created project budgets, plans, and timelines.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Project Lead

• Defined and implemented client billing project; used cases for overall planning, governance, and communications; improved the integrated user interface; created new testing methodologies that were used internationally. Managed global issues and problem resolution, managing results between user community and sustain support environment
• Maintain effective working relationships with IT&PE organization, functional owners, peers, and vendors for implementation of IT projects
• Facilitated joint meetings with business client and stakeholders to define scope of the project and clarify requirements.
• Involved in running various Functional Tests, System Tests, Stress Tests, Regression Tests, and Performance Tests and reviewing the test results using SUPERC, FILE-AID.

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

• Securitize Confidential assets for EMEA, Americas, North America region and manage the securitization process, improving the selection of receivables, monthly processing of account activities, and the preparation of accounting and investor information.
• Extensively wrote code using COBOL II, DB2 and JCL and performed Unit testing of the change requests using Expeditor
• Responsible for production support for day-to-day business transactions.
• Created tickets for user requests and providing information/solution to business users.
• Analyzed, documented, and presented the impact analysis of the problem to user for system enhancements.
• Conducted Code Review, Tech Review for enhancements for co-workers.
• Defined strategies, processes, and next generation tool suite to maintain and simplify IT&PE system inventory