OBJECTIVE

My project management skills are for hire to successfully complete your software development / implementation projects from inception through implementation. I can lead development teams or manage multiple projects depending solely on your organizational needs. Based on my track record, I can assure you to deliver the projects on time and within budget.

SUMMARY

• Highly experienced, talented, dependable and detail oriented project manager with more than 12 years of diverse IT experience, which includes 10 years of managing large scale and multi-million dollar software development / implementation projects.
• Well-experienced and knowledgeable in utilizing RUP, RAD, Agile, Waterfall and SDF methodologies. Successfully completed and delivered numerous projects within the domain of Broker Dealer Operations, Financial Services, Investment Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications, Government and Business Licensing. Possess extensive experience in Insurance industry, which includes Property Casualty, Workers Compensation, Annuities and other lines of business along with in-depth knowledge of Claims handling.
• Possess extensive experience in creating and managing Project Schedules, Resource Management, Risk Management, Change Control Management, and Cost Estimation and Budget Tracking.
• Managed cross-functional teams to analyze, design, develop and implement software solutions.
• Have solid background and understanding of Database technologies, N-Tier and Services Oriented Architectures SOA .
• Highly organized, self-directed and able to manage multiple projects/resources simultaneously. Possess Extensive experience in interfacing with senior management and with clients at all levels.

SKILLS

• Methodologies:
• Agile, RAD, RUP, UML, SDF, Waterfall
• Technologies Databases:
• J2EE, XML, HTML, ASP, JSP, Passport IntRprise, VB, MS SQL Server, TSQL, Oracle, PL/SQL, Sybase, MS Access, MySQL

Tools:

MS Office including Project and Visio, HP project Portfolio Management PPM - previously known as ITG , Starbase, PVCS, Perforce, Bugzilla, NetResults Problem Tracker, LiveLink and eRoom

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Senior Project Manager

• I am responsible for managing multiple projects within the Annuity and Life Insurance area. Under this
• strategic initiative, company has decided to adapt the Service Oriented Architecture SOA and to meet AXA business needs for current and future functionality, company decided to implement CSC Computer Sciences Corporation suite of systems/products. These systems/products support Annuity and Life product development, new business processing, policy administration, and post-issue servicing. Beside CSC systems, AXA has also undertaken internal development initiatives for end to end business support. In addition to the above open systems, for last three years I have also been managing projects in the Mainframe environment.

Major responsibilities include:

• Create and manage necessary artifacts required for governance approval.
• Lead successful delivery of large projects according to measures of scope, time, cost quality.
• Organize and lead project teams through the initiation, planning, execution, control, implementation and closure phases of the project.
• Conduct project estimate workshops with project stakeholders to drive project estimates.
• Create and execute project plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. Negotiate with resource managers to acquire the resources necessary to complete the projects on time and within budget.
• Facilitate business and technical meetings.
• Coordinate and facilitate functional and system testing with QA managers. Coordinate User Acceptance testing with business groups.
• Manage deliverables from all functional teams insuring they meet the defined timeline and quality based on CMMI and SDLC guidelines.
• Actively manage stakeholder expectations.
• Tailor the use of specific project management techniques to each assignment if needed. Report status to senior management on regular basis.
• Manage change requests, issues risks and escalate for resolution when needed.
• Manage third party vendors providing project specific support or software customization including packaged Implementations.

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Project Manager March

In compliance with the SOX and internal/external audit requirement Financial Integrity Process Control FIPC program was initiated for the Claims handling division of Commercial insurance group. Under this program, I was responsible for management of multiple projects from discovery/conception through closure. The goal for FIPC program was to incorporate Controls across numerous claims processing systems for Financial Integrity. In addition to SOX compliance these controls significantly reduced the fraudulent financial activities and improved system performance.

Major responsibilities include:

• Create cost estimates and business cases for assigned projects. Negotiate and finalize contacts with vendors/contractors.
• Create and execute project plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Responsible for financial performance per set standards/guidance.
• Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities.
• Manage scheduling the deliverables and effort allocation across multiple projects. Coordinate and facilitate functional and system testing with QA managers. Coordinate User Acceptance testing with business groups.
• Report project status to upper management on regular basis. Identify, analyze project risks and setup mitigation strategies. Follow change control procedures to avoid scope creep.
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of projects.
• Deliver engaging, informative and well-organized presentations. Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely manner.
• Conduct business and technical meetings.
• Participate in a contributory manner to strategic planning meetings.

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Client: Professional Services - Passport Corporation

Project Manager

• Managed Professional Services department, interfacing with senior management and clients at all levels for numerous projects.
• Supported sales team for pre and post sales activities and managed product implementations on client sites. Developed schedules, risk management plans, change management plans, cost estimates and budgets for Wireless product for Time and Labor management.
• Managed a team of business analysts, developers and testers for development and implementation of a Wireless Time Labor management solution for Peabody Energy.
• Managed all phases of development of a Wireless solution for Creative Building Maintenance CBM of Canada. The product includes web based administrative modules for data maintenance and a wireless application running on PDA to equip their field supervisors and manager to access and update data related to staff administration, equipments, inventories and facilities/locations during their routine inspections of facilities throughout the entire USA and Canada. This wireless solution is developed utilizing Passport's wireless technology and thin-client applet, a J2ME product.
• Conducted analysis and design for the CBM Solution and created functional/technical requirement documents. Significant contribution towards the design and creation of a SQL Server database for CBM.
• Produced User Guides and training documents for numerous wireless products.

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Project Manager

• A Multi-tiered, Web based thin-client application, based on Dearborn's ASP model for Licensing and
• Compliance Management for Insurance and Security Industries. DCM provides Financial Institutions with a central point of entry for firm-wide learning programs and streamlines compliance workflow processes for meeting federal and state requirements SEC and NASD Regulations .
• Lead analysis and design effort, created Use Cases to build Compliance Manager DCM for Dearborn. DCM is an Insurance and Securities industry compliance solution, which provides Financial organizations with a central point of entry for firm-wide learning programs and streamlines compliance workflow processes for meeting federal, state and firm mandated requirements SEC and NASD Regulations . In addition, DCM also offers electronic form preparation for broker dealers and registered reps, providing a seamless interface with the National Association of Securities Dealers NASD , Web CRD and Web EFT for form filing and data uploads and downloads.
• Provided Leadership and direction to project team by understanding business processes, gathering requirements,
• identifying potential usability issues and managing scope.
• Managed a team of Business Analysts, Data Modeler, Developers and QA Testers through all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Played an Instrumental role in developing a Web Service component called 'JAdapter' which enables the DCM application to talk to external systems. This was developed using J2EE and XML Technologies.
• Lead an effort for database conversion from MS SQL Server 2000 to Oracle 9i. Managed relationship with an offshore QA team to deliver excellent quality software. Managed project cost estimation and staffing needs.

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Project Manager

• BHFC provides telecommunications services, cable TV and high-speed Internet access to residential and business customers throughout the South Dakota region.
• Designed and implemented a SQL Server database for BHFC 'inField 'product.
• Managed all phases of development life cycle of a wireless solution / product. 'inField' wireless solution is developed utilizing J2ME and Passport's Wireless technology. The application runs on Tripod Data Systems PDA. The device uses a roaming 802.11 LAN connection, which is relayed back to the data center via radio signal.

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Technical Project Manager

• FUSION is a highly secure, and scaleable system to provide Essex's Central back office and it's customers banks back offices with a method of capturing their Fixed Annuity, Variable Annuity and other Insurance/Securities transactions. Commissions that are due to the Agencies and Agents are calculated based on a flexible grid and team structure. Also, the system manages and maintains inventories of Insurance/Securities products as well as it provides transaction tracking and ad-hoc reporting capability. The system is also capable of receiving and processing feeds from National Securities Clearing Corporation NSCC and Pershing Clearing Corporation.
• Managed over three years of analysis, design and development effort to build a multi-tiered enterprise-grade financial application 'FUSION'.
• Managed a team of Business Analysts, Data Modelers, Application Architects, Developers and Testers through all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Conducted detailed analysis, created Use Cases, gathered business requirements and prepared technical design documents for all the modules of the FUSION System.
• Lead an effort to design and implement the logical and physical data models for the FUSION database in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 environment.
• Designed and coded complex components and stored procedures used by all developers to ensure that integrity of business processes was maintained across all modules of the system
• Worked closely with business sponsors to understand their customer's requirements. This included designing a system that was deliverable to the back offices of multiple financial institutions, each with their own set of rules relating to securing highly sensitive financial information, and security protocols for allowing access to third party systems.
• Adapted best practices of RUP methodology from inception through transition of 'FUSION' application and delivered the system on time and within budget.
• Managed project cost estimation and staffing needs.

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Development Manager

• Managed a team of business analysts and software developers through all phases of the software development
• life cycle to build a multi-tiered Telecommunications system. This system is designed to communicate between a web enabled thin client interface and numerous application servers.
• Gathered and assessed user requirements and coordinated an effort to deploy the system for AT T Local Services.
• Designed and developed key components of data and phone line provisioning system for business and residential customer.
• Wrote complex queries and stored procedure in a Sybase environment. Adapted RAD approach throughout the project development life cycle.

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Project Lead

• Lead a business re-engineering, database design, development and deployment effort for a web enabled Pesticide Business Licensing system in an Oracle/Passport 4GL environment.
• Interfaced with users for gathering requirements and identifying business processes. Designed and coded major components of the system.
• Created test cases to facilitate user acceptance test UAT . Facilitated migration of flat file data to an Oracle database.
• Assisted Account Manager on project coordination and management issues.

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Senior Programmer Analyst

• Played an instrumental role in design, development and testing of a multi-tier Global Order Management and Workflow management systems.
• Designed and developed critical components modules of the Order Management system. Implemented OM Modules for AT T and Con Edison Communication unit.
• Assisted Project Manager on project coordination and management issues.

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Programmer Analyst

• Converted and enhanced a financial application 'POINTS' for the Investment Banking Division of Paine Webber using Passport and Oracle V.7. The system is used to maintain customer and banker projects and to track information for all clients and administrative deals, account staffing, revenue generation, and industry grouping. Queries to the centralized database allow users to obtain current information on credits and debits applied to department/client accounts, billing expenses, and staffing activities. Previously, these applications were developed in Passport a 4GL for a Digital VAX/VMS/Oracle platform. They were converted to run on PC/Windows clients and Sun SPARC/Oracle server platforms.
• Designed and developed a report module to fulfill the reporting needs of division.

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Programmer Analyst

• Developed and tested components of an Ambulatory Data System for the United States Department of Defense using Passport 7.05, C, and Informix. The system was deployed on SCO UNIX and Windows 3.1 platforms.
• American Traffic Information, Inc., Staten Island, NY Programmer Analyst - July 1993 August 1995
• Designed and developed a Traffic Monitoring System using PowerBuilder and Oracle, based on specifications of The State of New York, Department of Transportation. Made extensive use of PowerBuilder features such as Window and Menu Inheritance, MDI Frames, Reports and Dynamic Data Exchange.
• Maintained the Traffic Monitoring System developed and customized applications for ATI clients using PowerBuilder with Oracle and Watcom databases processed and analyzed traffic data for The State of New
• York, Department of Transportation, as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
• Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY Assistant Professor 1993-1996, part time
• Taught Fundamentals of Relational Databases, PowerBuilder, Passport and Physics to computer science students.
• Developed a Student Record/Grading System using PowerBuilder.
• Developed a Scheduling Database System for the Learning Center of the Long Island University using PowerBuilder 4.0 and Oracle.

Languages

Language Proficiency

• Arabic Intermediate
• English Fluent
• Urdu Fluent

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