PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of strong Project Management Experience in full life cycle project includes multi technologies and team residing multiple geographical locations.
• 11+ years of strong Technical Experience in enterprise applications using JAVA, Oracle, Message Broker, ORACLE, PL/SQL, CICS, COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2 .Very comfortable in managing, maintaining and enhancing existing applications using relevant application development tools and technologies.
• Exposure to the full cycle of software development life cycle including requirements analysis, program design, development, Unit testing, System Testing, Integrated testing, maintenance and documentation.
• As a Technical Manager, designed and implemented CICS web services and XML, an industry driven project. Helped client resetting vanilla options, when installing Enterprise COBOL compiler at their shop. Very depth in working with Onsite – Offshore model. Extensively interacted with business partners in understanding and base lining the requirements, then coordinate development work with offshore on a day-to-day basis.
• Worked as a Project Manager which included extensive onsite interaction to understand expectations, requirements, formulate solutions, resource and cost estimations and identification of training requirements. Provide guidance to offshore teams.
• A certified Project Management Professional from PMI (Project Management Institute)

SKILL SET:
Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile
Software Engineering processes: SEI CMM Level 5, SLA based work flow
Functional Areas: Requirements Gathering, Process Flows, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Specification gathering, Production Support and maintaining the mission critical systems.
Application Development Tools: DB2 Development Centre, IBM Data Studio
Programming Languages: J2EE, COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, DB2 stored procedures.
Testing / Version Control Tools: IBM Debug, Xpeditor, Changeman, Clearcase
Utilities / Command Languages: ISPF/PDF, NETMAN, QMF, TSO, File-Aid, File-Manager
Other: IBM WebSphere MQ

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,07/2011 – Current
Client: Confidential,
Project: Way Side Message Tester Admin
Project Manager
This project is being developed in the JAVA technologies includes Prime Faces, JAVA and in Oracle. The objective of the project is to provide the facility to view/modify/approve/reject the tests performed on the WIU’s (Wayside Interface Unit). This system should also provide the statistics of each testers performance, scheduling and other data reports/graphs for tester and WIU’s.
This project has total 12 resources spread across offshore, onsite and client.

• Major Technologies included in this project are J2EE, Oracle and a tool developed in C# and .Net.
• Ensure the adherence of the process to the ISO, SEI CMM quality standards.
• Generate weekly, monthly reports business partners and higher Management.
• Contributed to the successful delivery of the first phase of the project phase.
• Maintained the team with very limited buffer.
• Plan, distribute, guide, execute and deliver the designated unit of work within the service level agreements. .
• Helped the team with the experience and domain knowledge.
• High level of client satisfaction and consistent growth in all areas of responsibility.
• Defined and managed strategies to utilize funded bench resources for process improvements and tools enhancement/development in support of the roadmap
• Derived functional requirements and specification using use case methodology.
• Conducted walkthrough sessions with the business and technical teams for business artifacts.
• Reviewed technical approach and design approach to validate conformance with business need.
• Managed the project in agile methodology with different geographic locations.

Confidential,01/2011 – 11/2011
Client: Confidential,
Project: Automatic Waybill processing – phase 2
Project Manager
This project has been developed with one of the new technologies incorporated in CSX Technology. Objective of the project is to eliminate the Waybill suspense and provide the ability to the business partners to create their own business rules. This project implements the web service call from mainframe to a third party system called JRules.
This project also eliminates lot of manual corrections to waybills which will in turn reduce the business partner’s repetitive manual effort. This project also gives the ability to guide the CSX customers to review their incorrect data real time.
This project has total 12 resources spread across offshore, onsite and client.

• Major Technologies included in this project are J2EE, CICS web services, DB2 stored procedures, XML and JRules(third party tool).
• Ensure the adherence of the process to the ISO, SEI CMM quality standards.
• Generate weekly, monthly reports and summary statistics of performance of the module and giving significant inputs to the management.
• Contributed to the successful delivery of the first two phase of the project phase.
• Maintained the team with very limited buffer.
• Plan, distribute, guide, execute and deliver the designated unit of work within the service level agreements. .
• Helped the team with the experience and domain knowledge.
• High level of client satisfaction and consistent growth in all areas of responsibility.
• Defined and managed strategies to utilize funded bench resources for process improvements and tools enhancement/development in support of the roadmap
• Derived functional requirements and specification using use case methodology.
• Conducted walkthrough sessions with the business and technical teams for business artifacts.
• Reviewed technical approach and design approach to validate conformance with business need.
• Reviewed and approved Test Strategy and Test conditions for the project.
• Managed knowledge transfer sessions for the Transition phase. Knowledge transfer to Baseline support teams.
• Implemented the project with in the budget and with in the allocated time lines.
• This project is the model projects to many on coming projects using same technology and approach with in CSX technology.
• Managed the project in agile methodology with different geographic locations.

Client: Confidential,06/2010 - 12/2010
Project: Hours of Services simplification
Project Manager
The objective of the project is to redesign the current HOS system to accommodate new FRA safety rules and regulations.

• Major Technologies included in this project are J2EE, CICS screens and DB2 stored procedures.
• Execute work requests which involve Estimation, Requirement Analysis, resource allocation and planning.
• Provide application and technical support documentation, documentation of process flow and business knowledge to review the deliverables of the team members.
• Communicate with the onsite personnel and users to implement the Work Requests.
• Ensure the adherence of the process to the ISO, SEI CMM quality standards.
• Generate weekly, monthly reports and summary statistics of performance of the module and giving significant inputs to the management.

Client: Confidential,01/2010 - 12/2010
Project: Automated Waybill Processing
Technical Project Manager
The objective of the project is to migrate all the user interface screens to web based interface with real time validation of the data entered by CSX internal and external customers. This reduces much of the CSX internal customer’s effort in fixing the bad data provided by external customers.

• Major Technologies included in this project are J2EE, CICS web services, DB2 stored procedures, XML and JRules.
• Ensured that the project also eliminates manual corrections to waybills which will in turn reduce the business partner’s repetitive manual effort.
• This project also gives the ability to guide the CSX customers to review their incorrect data real time.
• Managed knowledge transfer sessions for the Transition phase. Knowledge transfer to Baseline support teams.
• Reviewed and approved Test Strategy and Test conditions for the project.
• Contributed to the successful delivery of the first two phases of the project phase.

Client: Confidential,01/2009 - 12/2009
Project: COBOL TO ENTERPRISE COBOL CONVERSION
Project Manager
The objective of the project was initiated to ensure that the latest version of CICS could be installed which would support only the newer versions of COBOL. Programs written with old compiler like OS/VS and Cobol II were upgraded to Enterprise Cobol.

• Managed this project with huge offshore and onsite resource count.
• Effectively managed project with timely deliverables and issues resolution and tracking.
• Designed technical document which was used by the factory team to upgrade programs to Enterprise Cobol. Close to 5000 modules were upgraded.
• Studied the MHTran tool and provided training to the team.
• Interacted with the Vendor (prince software) via Client manager to customize the tool per our requirement.
• Managed huge counts of module changes with ease.
• The streamlined process made possible to move around 150 programs per week to production environment with minimum glitches.

Client: Confidential,02/2008 - 12/2008
Project: COPS to Ship CSX migration
Project Manager
The objective of the project was to migrate all the user interface screens to web based interface with real time validation of the data entered by CSX internal and external customers. This reduces much of the CSX internal customer’s effort in fixing the bad data provided by external customers.

• Major Technologies included in this project are CICS, IMS, socket programs.
• Extensively studied the existing old legacy validations rules and documented the data elements with respective validation rules.
• Involved the architectural strategy and implementation of the new technology.
• Innovative approach to make use of legacy business rules to reduces the rework of rewriting the rules.
• Managed huge counts of module changes with ease. The streamlined process made possible to move all the components minimum glitches.
• Provided technical guidance to the team as and when required.
• Prepared weekly status reports which was shared with the client.

Client: Confidential,07/2007 - 12/2007
Project: EDI upgrade
Technical Lead
The objective of the project was to upgrade the current EDI standards from 4050 to 5050. There are several guideline changes for hazardous and non-hazardous segments in various EDI transmission sets.

• Major Technologies included in this project are CICS and IMS.
• Extensively studied the existing EDI version and documented the data elements with respective to the data elements changed in the new version.
• Involved the architectural strategy and implementation of the new changes.
• Innovative approach to reduce the duplication of effort for each time the EDI upgrade is made.
• Provided technical guidance to the team as and when required.
• Prepared weekly status reports which was shared with the client.

Client: Confidential,01/2007 - 06/2007
Project: Hazmat Regulatory edits.
Technical Lead
The objective of the project was to be in compliance with the Hazmat regulatory needs for hazmat waste and Poisonous inhalation hazard. There are several guideline changes for hazardous and inhalation hazard materials.

• Major Technologies included in this project are CICS and IMS.
• Extensively studied on the new mandatory fields needed on waybill for hazmat shipments and came up with design document.
• Involved in the development, testing, UAT and implementation.
• Prepared weekly status reports which was shared with the client.

Client: Confidential,07/2006 - 12/2006
Project: Canadian Cross Boarder edits
Technical Lead
The objective of the project was to be in compliance with the Canadian Cross Boarder updated fields and restrictions.

• Major Technologies included in this project are CICS, DB2 and IMS.
• Extensively studied on the new mandatory fields needed on waybill for cross boarder movements and came up with design document.
• Involved in the development, testing, UAT and implementation.
• Prepared weekly status reports which was shared with the client.

Client: Confidential,01/2006 - 6/2006
Project: Intermodal Multi Level Stacking (network simplification).
Technical Lead
The objective of the project was to move multi level intermodal container on a flat car.

• Major Technologies included in this project are CICS, DB2 and IMS.
• Involved in the development, testing, UAT and implementation.
• Provided technical guidance to the team as and when required.
• Prepared weekly status reports which was shared with the client.

Client: Confidential,01/2000 – Till Date
Project: CSX MAINTENANCE - AWS/BOL/IRDE/QRate/REN/Car Management
Project Manager

• Major Technologies worked during this time frame are ORACLE PL/SQL, CICS, JCL, IMS, DB2 stored procedures and COBOL.
• Planned, distributed, guided, executed and delivered the designated unit of work within the service level agreements.
• Executed work requests which involves Estimation, Requirement Analysis, Impact Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Documentation.
• Provide the team the experience and domain knowledge.
• Contributed to the overall high level of client satisfaction and consistent growth in all areas of responsibility.
• Defined strategies to utilize funded bench resources for process improvements and tools enhancement/development in support of the roadmap
• Derived functional requirements and specification utilizing use case methodology.
• Conducted walkthrough sessions with the business and technical teams for business artifacts.
• Reviewed technical approach and design approach to validate conformance with business need.
• Managed the project in agile methodology with different geographic locations.
• Ensured timely and accurate status and metrics information provided to all levels including QAG.

EDUCATION:
Master of Computer Applications