SUMMARY

• I.T. Project Manager over 16.0 years of experience in providing Product Solutions and Project Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling till Closing, under Water fall to Scaled Agile methodology.
• Involve in PI Planning, Features Grooming, Program Backlog Refinement, PI System Demo, Inspect & Adapt, Product/Project Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Resource, Communication, Risks, Procurement, Estimation, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing & Support of systems running in Mainframe, Java and Distributed Technology.
• P layed major roles as Product Owner, Scrum Master, SR. Project Manager, Project Lead, SR. COBOL Developer, Business Analyst and Quality Assurance Specialist.
• 8.0 years of working experience for different Clients in USA. Experienced in executing large application development, support and testing projects in Onsite - Offshore model.
• 9.5 years of Banking & Capital Markets, 2.0 years of Health Care Insurance, 3.5 years of Retail and 1.0 year of Insurance (Life & Annuity) Domain experience.
• Over 5.0 years of Project Management experience, 9.0 years of Product Developments & Production Support experience in Mainframe & Open System technology and 7.0 years of Quality Assurance experience under various technologies.
• Worked in every phase of SDLC & STLC processes (Agile, RAD, DevOps, Water Fall, Method One) and Continuous Delivery Pipeline in large enterprise environment.
• Involved in PI Planning, Product SoS, EPIC Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum etc.
• Performed Unit, System, Integration, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance testing.
• Strong knowledge in Testing methodology and Quality Assurance process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Mainframe, OS/390, Windows, MVS, UNIX.

Languages: COBOL, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, PL/I, Shell Script, Core Java.

Web technologies: XML, HTML5, Web Services (MVC).

Frontend technologies: CICS.

Database: DB2, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 12C, IMS DB, MongoDB.

Proj Management Tools: MS Project Plan, JIRA, Rally.

Other Tools: MS VISIO, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, IBM Rational Clear Quest, IBM Rational Clear Case, MS VSS, IBM-UNIX EMULATION, Changeman, Endeavor, Infoman, TSO, ISPF, CA7 Scheduler, Control-M, File Manager, Connect Direct, Utilities, Fault Analyzer, NDM, Abend-Aid, Toad 9.6, Oracle SQL Developer 3, Query Tool 6.0, MS Share Point, SoapUI, Postman, HP-ALM, HP-QC, Documerge, Tablebase, Test Data Management Tool.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage the overall Agile Portfolio and coordinate large Value Streams.
• Optimizes the flow of the value across the programs.
• Facilitates and coordinates major events like Program Increments and is tasked with establishing common duration of iterations.
• Integrates the teams PI Objectives into common program level set, serving as a communication tool for other groups.
• Understand Value Proposition and support the identification, planning and execution of ARTs.
• Provide technical direction for software development team, including task assignments, system architecture design, and oversight of software development.
• Tracks impediments on the program tier and if necessary, coordinates their escalation.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning or dictating the work.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting on internal/external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
• Supporting Product Owner on maintaining the product backlog, Scrum Master on sprint backlog.
• Contribute to the development of the Software Development Plan and other documentation.
• Assist in establishing, implementing and maintaining the development schedule.
• Identify the proper value-added metrics to track and report progress.
• Interface directly with Customer stakeholders, Product Owners and end-users.
• Analysis and Assess requirements of Business Services for Loyalty Programs.
• Perform Account, Partner, Loyalty Offer, Earn, Rewards Bank, Burn, Fulfillment, Support and Reporting Management for Loyalty Core Programs.
• Prepare and Evaluate Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Schedule Functional Test Execution.
• Perform End to End Test Data Management and Environment Management.
• Coordinating with the Testing Team and Application Team for the Test Data Setup.
• Coordinating with the Application Team for the Environment setup and their Connectivity.
• Conducting kick-off meetings and query resolutions for Personalization/Customer, Delivery/Channel area with Application and QA team.
• Developed best practices and procedures for functional team which spanned various projects.
• Developed and maintained project schedules, tracked and forecasted project costs and resource hours, and managed project risks.
• Negotiated test requirements and test strategies and served as a liaison with clients/customers and other vendors.
• Manage vendor relationships including negotiating and controlling contracts.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Define project scope, objectives, staffing, resources and deliverables.
• Develop project plans that identify key issues, risks, approaches and performance metrics.
• Plan and schedule project timelines, milestones and contingencies.
• Assemble and coordinate multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Manage vendor relationships including negotiating and controlling contracts.
• Track project deliverables and Monitor quality assurance measures.
• Control project variances through root cause analysis and corrections.
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions.
• Manage and control project budgets.
• Develop and present reports on project progress.
• Maintain communication with project stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Evaluate projects and assess results.
• Involved in technical tool design for automating migration from legacy platforms.
• Created tools to reduce manual efforts involved in migration effort.
• Creation of technical design documents and preparation of Business documents.
• Analysis of existing mainframe application and it’s components like JCLs, Copybooks, COBOL programs and Databases (IMS, DB2) that are going to migrate.
• Generation of outputs and results on existing mainframe application for Java and Exstream application for references.
• Development of new JCLs and COBOL programs according to Java standards for migration.
• Generation of outputs and results for newly developed JCLs and Cobol programs for comparison
• Load and unload the Databases and providing test data support to Java team.
• Conducted product details kick-off meeting and query resolutions with Java and Extreme team.
• Preparation of test data to activate various scenarios.
• Managed status, Effort tracking and monthly metrics reporting at the department level including daily, weekly, and monthly reports.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in technical tool design for automating migration from legacy platforms.
• Created tools to reduce manual efforts involved in migration effort.
• Creation of technical design documents and preparation of Business documents.
• Analysis of existing mainframe application and it’s components like JCLs, Copybooks, COBOL programs and Databases (IMS, DB2) that are going to migrate.
• Generation of outputs and results on existing mainframe application for Java and Exstream application for references.
• Development of new JCLs and COBOL programs according to Java standards for migration.
• Generation of outputs and results for newly developed JCLs and Cobol programs for comparison
• Load and unload the Databases and providing test data support to Java team.
• Conducting product details kick-off meeting and query resolutions with Java and Extreme team.
• Preparation of test data to activate various scenarios.
• Manage status, Effort tracking and monthly metrics reporting at the department level including daily, weekly, and monthly reports.