SUMMARY:

• Ten (10+) Years of professional experience in IT Project Management, with proven track record of successfully implementing and delivering mid - size to large (Enterprise) software applications.
• Highly successful in leading all phases of SDLC process for enterprise systems development: from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling to closing.
• Proven track record in delivering results on time and within budget, utilizing formal software development methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM).
• Extensive project & program management experience and hands-on working on simultaneous projects (short term and multiyear projects of various sizes) and project staffing ranging from five to twenty five team members.
• Highly successfully in implementing custom software development and commercial off the shelf projects (COTS).
• Excellent client-facing, communication, analytical, and management skills with results-oriented collaboration with project stakeholders, program managers, offshore teams and executive management.
• Worked with Product Owners/Product managers on product backlog and release planning. Facilitated sprint and release planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, demos, scrum of scrums (SoS) and retrospectives.
• Proficient in project management methodologies like managing scope, change management, release management, forecasting & tracking project budget, major milestone updates to Sponsors, monitoring and controlling costs, develop and review project plans, track schedules, and deadlines, obtaining necessary formal signoffs, conducting regular project status meetings with project stakeholders and PMO.
• Managed/Implemented IT Infrastructure projects to improve ROI, cost savings and enhance processes.
• Played a key role in vendor management by developing and monitoring contractual agreements and managing vendor relationships.
• Active part of Sales and marketing activities like product design and development, creating statement of work’s (SOW), providing responses to Request for Proposals (RFP’s), demo of products to potential customers through Power Point presentations, system and application prototype demonstrations.
• Experience in project studies that include Root-cause analysis, Feasibility studies, Gap analysis, Impact analysis and Risk Assessment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PM Tools: HP PPM, MS Project 2013, MS Suite 2013 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Visio, MS SharePoint, Google Docs.

Technologies: ALM, Service Request, JIRA, TFS

Java, OBIEE (BI), .NET, WebSphere, Mainframe, Informatica (ETL), Cognos

Database: SQL Server 2012/14, DB2, Oracle, MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Roseville CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Owned the development & management of IT infrastructure project plans, budgets, staffing request, issues and risks, revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Utilized software development methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall (Hybrid)
• Ensured that IT infrastructure project plans are aligned with the requested timelines and goals for deliverables
• Managed projects in line with the defined processes for Risk, Issues, Change & Quality management, and ensures accurate and compliant document management.
• Managed a highly matrixed team to complete deliverable s on time or ahead of schedule.
• Managed vendor relationships to successfully solve complex technical issues resulting in minimal business impact and increased client satisfaction.
• Reviewed assigned deliverables along with the project team to confirm they adhere as per the quality plan before sending it to the Sponsor.
• Managed IT infrastructure project budgets, reporting on actuals, estimates to complete and estimates at completion.
• Coordinated with Sponsor to produce artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog and Sprint Burndown .
• Facilitated the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective meetings.
• Worked directly with the client to deliver solutions that met their business requirements
• Trained and coached development teams to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum.
• Encouraged scrum teams to come up with reusable elements and use agile best practices.
• Protected teams from distractions by removing impediments at all levels that impacted the delivery.

Environment:: HP PPM, ALM, JIRA, COBOL, Java, .Net framework, SQL Server 2014, TFS, MS Project 2013, MS-Visio 2010/13, MS-Office 2010/13, HTML, XML, Active Server Pages, MS SharePoint.

Confidential, Los Angeles CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the IT teams and supplier resources to ensure infrastructure decommissioning activities were properly planned, managed and executed to achieve cost savings.
• Led development efforts for the infrastructure support staff in areas of Project management, Business Objectives and Program management.
• Implemented IT infrastructure projects such as data center migration which in result produced savings of $ 2 million in IT assets.
• Oversee/track all project deliverables and milestones throughout the project life cycle.
• Conducted JAD (Joint Application Development)/GAP sessions to gather Business Requirements, analyze and prioritize them.
• Lead and manage an offshore/onsite team of sixteen (16) people.
• Developed scope document, financial projections and perform Cost/benefit analysis for the project.
• Proficient in setting client expectations and reporting frequent project progress to higher management, Steering committees and/or customers.
• Prepared project reports that reflect the current project status and compared actuals with the forecasted schedule/cost baselines and show the variance.
• Defined project Charter, scope and objectives, coordinated activities of a project team, and identified resources.
• Developed hands-on detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
• Experienced in full software implementation life cycle (SDLC): Initiation and Planning, Execution, Monitor & Control, Closing and Post Go-Live Support (Maintenance).
• Designed and Implemented web-based applications to address the business requirements.
• Worked collaboratively with Sales and Marketing team to support the RFP process and any product functional questions.
• Highly proficient in wearing multiple hats and working collaboratively across all cross-functional teams and lead the overall Operations support and business analysis, along with project management.
• Provided analysis, understanding and business perspectives on many financial and operational issues.
• Followed Software Development process (PMI guidelines) and PMBOK best practices to manage projects with challenging timelines & deliverables.
• Used Hybrid methodology (Waterfall and Agile methodology) for streamlining the team’s development activities, and actively involved in validating the requirements and applying it to framework throughout the SDLC.
• Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of business from conceptual to procedural level.
• Lead the UI design, requirement and data modeling sessions, supported FRD production and Data Mapping.
• Maintained logs throughout the project life cycle which consist of Issues/Action Items/Risks & Decision register.
• Prepared bi-weekly project status reports and coordinated work plan between client project manager and business stakeholders.
• Responsible for sending Invoices for all deliverables and keep track of their status (Paid/Pending).
• Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) sessions and trained end users to make sure they are well acquainted with the application. Lead the interaction with testing department to make sure that usability standards are maintained.
• Maintained TAS (internal bug tracker) to log all the issues reported by client and used to generate statistical reports as and when necessary.

Environment:: JIRA, Java Scripts, .Net framework, Performance Studio, SQL Server 2008, TFS, MS Project 2010, MS-Visio 2010/13, MS-Office 2010/13, HTML, XML, Active Server Pages, Erwin 7.1, MS SharePoint, Test Director 7.1, Cognos.

Confidential, Hartford CT

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Involved in requirement gathering sessions, which includes interviews, brainstorming and meetings with stakeholders.
• Extensively involved in all phases of the project to make sure that all approved business & functional requirements were met.
• Identified and created all necessary Business Use Cases from requirements, created UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Class Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Involved in the creation and maintenance of the Workflow plans and artifacts.
• Implemented an integrated RUP solution with complete line of traceability for all the artifacts of web development project.
• Maintained and kept track of stakeholders’ requests for enhancements and changes using MS SharePoint.
• Analyzed business logic, User Requirements and test-objectives to develop test plans, test cases, and test case execution using Test Director.
• Performed testing that includes regression, system, end to end, smoke, functional and front end testing.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to make sure that all the user requirements are catered by the application.
• Hands-on experience preparing detailed User Training manuals for applications.

Environment: RUP, Erwin, Microsoft Office suites (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Visio), Mercury Test Director (v8.2 & v9.2), Bugzilla, HTML, Dreamweaver, .Net, Java, SQL Server Reporting Services, COGNOS Reports.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with portfolio analysts and asset managers to finalize the Business Requirements for the application.
• Performed requirement analysis and documented the requirements.
• Produced visual models for the application to create use cases, charts, sequence diagrams, deployment diagrams and activity diagrams.
• Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business process, business rules, information needs and insured that critical requirements are not missed.
• Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about Business user’s requirements.
• Analyzed system requirements, developed detailed Test plan, Test cases, Test scripts for testing the functionality, GUI and security testing.
• Analyzed Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Created mockups/wireframes of key Share Point interface components.
• Performed risk analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.
• Facilitated weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process for the application development.
• Used power point presentations for conducting walkthroughs with the stakeholders.
• Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather change requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.

Environment:: Microsoft Office suites (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Project, Visio), Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case, MS SharePoint 2007,Windows, Microsoft SQL Server (2000 & 2005), UML, Object Oriented Analysis and Design,, SQL, Ab Initio, SQL developer, Quality Center.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate team meetings, create project calendars, develop project reports and worked on administrative duties.
• Facilitate weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the business process for the application development.
• Used power point presentations for conducting walkthrough with teams.
• Conducted meetings with the end users and managers to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications.
• Responsible to take input from the business analysts and project engineers to develop and maintain the detailed schedule.

Environment:: Microsoft Office suites (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Project, Visio), Tracking Tool