SUMMARY:

• 15 Years of experience as Project Manager. Driving Project Management activities, Onsite coordination, Requirements collection, Analysis and Testing of various types of business solutions for Technology and Business projects.
• Rich experience in banking domain expertise in Retail Banking, Core Banking, Online Banking, Risk and regulatory projects.
• Execute and manage business and technology - oriented projects in Retail domain.
• Internal Risk Control, LCR (liquidity coverage ratio), FR2052a, NSFR and FDIC regulation - review and implementation on Deposit systems.
• Manage Project Management activities and process oriented for the execution of Business projects.
• Streamline and standardize the documentation, understand the requirements and identify the deliverables.
• Collaborate with Organization standard to Business groups and aligned them to meet the core objective of the organization.
• Review and maintenance vendor and product management related documents as Statement of Work (SOW), Request for Information (RFI).
• Excellent communication and Interpersonal skills, Observe and learning skill, self-awareness, Problem solving and decision-making skills

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Manage projects across multiple workstreams with high complexity projects
• Initiate Business idea and manage the organization standards to materialize them into project
• Initiate Business project with key documents (Charter, Business Case, Risk Association, substitute plans)
• Identify and build Communication plan with focused group of stakeholders
• Maintain and Execute the implementation Project plan
• Monitor and track scope, goal and deliverables
• Identify and monitor task and activity plan with team
• Communication Management with Stakeholders
• Manage Risk, Issues and mitigation /Decision plans
• Facilitate meetings (face -face, Conf Calls, triage) with various stakeholders
• Anchor the transition from internal Project Management Office (PMO) tools to Organization standard tools
• Review Organization Project Management Office standardization, policies and procedures. Assist other project managers part of team to adhere the policies
• Provide guidelines and be Tool expert Project Management Office team during the transition period
• Review and streamline process with Project Management Office Team across the initiatives to be consistent as Project Management Office group
• Identify Project deliverables and align them Organization standards
• Conduct implementation meetings with stakeholders
• Streamline the documentation and approval process to be consistent across PMO group
• Strategic partner with stakeholder to identify plan, deliverables consistent with Organization standards
• Align the PMO group to consistent with process, documentation and execution methodology.

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Drive the Project plan and the regular management activities such as
• Stakeholder meetings, Business working group meetings, Onshore/Offshore meetings and others.
• Review and present the Federal Regulation to Business
• Resolving dependencies and clarifications by coordinating with IT LOB and Technology teams.
• Reviewed and analyzed the requirements from Project Management and Business partners.
• Create high level Business Requirement documentation
• Analyze the requirements from Business partners
• Coordinate discussions with Business and stake holders
• Provide Ideas to the development team during design discussions to leverage current technology
• Resolving dependencies and clarifications by coordinating with Technology team
• Release Management and Scheduling incorporating prioritized work items by coordinating Achievements:
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of Project schedule. Anticipate and manage change request effectively during development.
• Tracking the progress of Business involvement and UAT.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze the requirements from Project Management and Business partners.
• Responsible for writing Functional specification and walkthrough with business.
• Coordinate discussions with Business and stake holders of the project.
• Coordinate with Development and QA teams by providing clarifications.
• Provide solutions to the development team in implementation.
• Working with Lotus Notes team to get into more involvement for the current lotus notes application by analyzing and gathering requirements, designing, and implementation for the project.
• Working with SharePoint team to understand and provide migration approach
• Interacting and communicating with Lotus notes business users to understand the application.
• Handling "QUEST" third party tool for migration from LN to SharePoint 2013.
• Risk Management and Issue Resolution.
• Escalation and Conflict Management.

Project Manager

Confidential, Tennessee

Software: ARGO LOS Product (C#, ASP.Net, HTML, JavaScript), SQL Server 2008

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple challenging programs that involved diversified teams operating from various locations. Ensured quality implementations of the programs On Time and On Budget.
• Managed and reviewed the Statement of Work (SOW) for the onsite and offshore team coordination.
• Actively involved in review and Request for Information (RFI) on the product and feasibility documents
• Coordinating and Supporting System Testing and UAT.
• Resolving dependencies and clarifications by coordinating with IT LOB and Technology teams.
• Reviewed and analyzed the requirements from Project Management and Business partners.
• Responsible for writing Functional specification and walkthrough with business.
• Coordinate discussions with Business and stake holders of the projects.
• Release Management and Scheduling incorporating prioritized work items by coordinating with IT and LOB Teams.
• Ensuring incremental automation and reduction of rudimentary manual tasks
• Reviewing and supporting in Automation framework strategy in terms of regression.
• Worked in Semi - Agile model and delivered the product in terms of critical schedules.
• Conducting GAP analysis meeting and track the defects.

Onsite Coordinator

Confidential, Tennessee USA

Software: Interpose Mainframe application Java 1.6, Spring MVC, Struts, Web Services, XML, XSLT, LDAP, Web sphere 8.5

Responsibilities:

• Project co-ordination for Offshore development model
• Responsible to collect all the Requirements artifacts and validate them
• Coordinate for Design discussions with Offshore and LOB
• Coordinating and Supporting System Testing and UAT. Plan the SIT, QA and UAT schedules
• Conducting GAP analysis meeting. Validate and verify project deliverables

Project Lead

Confidential, Tennessee

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, assigning, tracking and communication with FTB * Overall responsible for project execution from offshore/onsite.
• Managed and reviewed the Statement of Work (SOW) for the onsite and offshore team coordination.
• Actively involved in review and Request for Information (RFI) on the product and feasibility documents
• Coordinate for Design discussions with BA
• Resolving dependencies and clarifications by coordinating with Client and Technology teams
• Coordinating and Supporting System Testing and UAT
• Coordinate with FTB for environment and infrastructure setup
• Plan the SIT, QA and UAT schedules
• Deployment and production support * Responsible for team management.
• First point of contact for any escalations.
• Validate and verify project deliverables
• Conduct weekly/at required status review meetings with FTB managers to review status, issues, dependencies and risks.

Team Lead

Confidential, Tennessee

Responsibilities:

• Work primarily as a Product expert in Microsoft SQL Reporting Services with Microsoft Support Services at Confidential
• Resolving Reporting Services issues with Migration, performance and design issues
• Resolving Reporting Services Design issues for developers on Standalone environments on Windows 2008
• Experienced with Root Cause analysis for SQL Reporting Services performance.
• Experience with the Kerberos configuration for security implementation and following the Microsoft best practice.
• Resolving Problems regarding setting up Reporting
• Resolving advance configuration of Reporting Services with Network Load Balancer and different topologies.
• Checking SQL Reporting Services configuration based on Best Practices and Implementation
• Involved in all system administration tasks like user account permissions, network configuration. Troubleshooting connectivity issues for local area network for Reports.
• Contact Management: Gathering and managing individual customer information and its associated relationships with individuals.
• Engage other resources including Technical Account Managers and collaborative support teams as appropriate and provide account administration.
• Helped customer to understand the issue and then creating / routing the case to appropriate support team