SUMMARY:

• A seasoned project management and systems delivery leader with over 20 years of experience in Information Technology Management.
• Experienced in delivering large and complex systems with quality in domains including healthcare, banking, finance, insurance, and retail.
• Offers versatile experience involving professional consulting, technology solutions and advisory, and business development.
• Led Modernization projects and successfully implemented all changes as part or transformation
• Led various COTS Applications Implementation (Healthcare, Laboratory, Pharma, Banking, and finance)
• Led cloud migration involving 9 mission essential healthcare systems, supporting data and infrastructure for Executive of Health and Human Services of Confidential
• Led successful migration of datacenter operations for Confidential .
• Established a Test Management Office to ensure quality of migration
• Managed transition of enterprise systems supports operations across different vendors and locations for Confidential, CA
• As a Master of Scrum Master, implemented agile practices and successfully managed tasks of multiple vendor teams to develop and implement an end - to-end pharmacy dispensary system for Confidential
• Established a central Test and Quality Assurance Center of Excellence along with its governance and operations for Confidential to ensure security, privacy and HIPAA compliance
• Developed Test Strategy and managed testing and quality assurance and integration of complex auto and life insurance systems developed by multiple vendors for Confidential
• Developed an innovative methodology, QTPM (Quantitative Test Process Methodology) to improve test management efficiency. Established CMMI - Level 4 methodology and assessed ISO- Surveillance
• Defined product development and release lifecycle in support of products in Publishing Media and Trading Systems. Led end-to-end testing lifecycle of Quark Express and Elind Stock Exchange and Brokerage Product
• Assessed Laboratory Management System modernization needs and supported a COTS based acquisition for Confidential of Confidential
• Established best practices for testing and quality assurance and built large testing teams of 60+ staff to deploy to different client environments

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project Management
• Agile / Scrum Master
• Cloud Migrations
• Infrastructure Management
• Agile Methodologies / Sprints / Scrums
• IT Modernizations
• COTS Applications Implementation
• Change Management
• Process and workflow Management
• Systems Delivery
• Datacenter and Infrastructure Management
• Business Consulting
• Product Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: Project Central, Clarity, Mass forge, Jira, Rally and various in - house tools

Test Management & Defect Management: QC, (ALM) Rational Test Manager, Test Link

Test Automation: QTP, Selenium (Java), RFT, Silk Test

Agile Project Management: Rally, Jira

CRM Tools: Microsoft Dynamics 365, Office 365, AWS, Azure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Modernization of Legacy systems
• Cloud Migrations
• Create various agile project plans, including deliverables, activities, timelines, and budgets for modernization
• Create detailed Test Automation Plans
• Collaboratively work with vendors and develop Test Automation strategy and execute
• Responsible for communicating to project stakeholders including leadership team and project teams.
• Develop and maintain technical and project documentation in the areas of RICEFW (Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow, in all applicable modules)
• Work closely with various internal departments to ensure successful completion of projects.
• Create detailed validation parameters for various data sets for migration purpose
• Create various data security parameters for data archiving
• Create detailed WBS for development and testing activities
• Coordinate and review all artifacts for correctness and completeness

Confidential, MA

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create Vision for modernization of Legacy systems
• Create project charter documents:
• RACI, Governance Model, Roadmaps, Timelines, Resources, and Project plans
• Create PMO Processes for entire project
• Requirement Analysis
• Document Existing requirements
• Gap Analysis and finalizing the envisioned system requirements
• Technical Architecture feasibility and finalizing the Environments and technologies
• Develop RFR - Work with Legal for approvals and posting RFR to the market
• Receive response from various vendors
• Evaluate the response against the defined valid acceptance criteria
• Work with legal for contracting for COTS solution implementation
• Define detailed project plans and train the resources
• Develop teams for implementation and execute the project plans
• Prepares and submits project status reports to management
• Schedules and conducts project meetings, to include logistics, agendas and meeting minutes
• Conducts regularly scheduled project status updated meetings.
• Review various technical artifacts for correctness and completeness as per standards
• Interfaces, when appropriate, with all areas affected by the project to include internal subject matter experts, external team etc.
• Acts as liaison for department on enterprise wide projects
• Collaborates well with all levels of personnel within the company and provides exemplary customer service
• Verify and Validate the implementation procedures of Data Security mechanisms to comply with HIPPA, PHI regulations
• Work with external partners and entities in a cross organizational environment including interaction with technical and executive leadership stakeholders
• Vendor management for the identification, procurement initiation and fulfillment of technical tools and solutions to support business and technical objectives
• Developing various project artifacts using tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), MS-Office (Excel, Word, Power Point), MS-Visio
• Create an inventory of all applications and servers to be upgraded
• Identify dependencies, Risks and prepare mitigation plans
• Communicate the upgrade plans to all stake holders
• Procure required infrastructure / VMs
• Create a project plans for applications - Agile plans
• Conduct daily scrum meetings
• Ensure data integration while migrations
• Report the status of all the applications migration to new environment

Confidential

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create detailed Migration plans for all applications
• Create PMO Processes for entire migration initiative
• Create detailed project Road map for all application migrations
• Manage overall delivery - Scope, Schedules, Budget, communication, Risks, dependencies
• Apply Project Management expertise with an understanding of the technology
• Track all the deliverables, milestones, resources
• Create estimations for cloud capacity planning
• Facilitate brainstorm sessions with SMEs (Technical and Functional)
• Technical Architecture feasibility and finalizing the Environments and technologies
• Assure Security compliances are met
• Assess the implications on production environment (s)
• Create environment wise deployment schedules
• Create Decommission plans for legacy applications
• Prepares and submits project status reports to management
• Schedules and conducts project meetings, to include logistics, agendas and meeting minutes
• Conducts regularly scheduled project status updated meetings.
• Review various technical artifacts for correctness and completeness as per standards
• Interfaces, when appropriate, with all areas affected by the project to include internal subject matter experts, external team etc.
• Acts as liaison for department on enterprise wide projects

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program / Project Management
• Scope Analysis, design
• People management & delivery management, Requirements
• Test Analysis and Design
• Test Management and delivery
• Test Planning and Test Case Design
• Automation Framework development and deployment
• Test Management office setup

Confidential, Dunwoody, GA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defining Data Governance model
• Wrangling data from multiple sources including sales, customer, and internal databases to create integrated views that can be used to influence business decisions
• Work cross functionally with stakeholders to ensure data-driven answers are provided and recommended
• Data integration, ETL processes and tools
• Established structured QA methods and practices
• Develop technique/algorithms/measurement for research and analysis work
• Lead the development and resolution of critical initiatives to support customer growth and provide critical decision support
• Work with other teams to identify problems in different areas where data mining and statistics can help
• Communicate results; develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, partners and internal clients
• Manage and build out a team of motivated Analysts
• Drive business value, prioritize initiatives to ensure delivery of business value while continuing to build out the team’s core competencies
• Delivering presentations to high level business stakeholders that tell cohesive, logical stories using data
• Strengthen our relationship with other disciplines and departments through effective collaboration
• Take part in recruiting, including reviewing, shaping, and evolving our process, training team members to interview effectively, and proactively engaging candidates
• Lead development of data tools, such as dashboards

Confidential

Portfolio & Delivery Management Manager

Responsibilities:

• Agile Test Project Management
• Work with Confidential Project Stake holders for Release plans
• Implementation of Data Driven methodologies (Quantitative Test Processes)
• COTS applications implementation
• Resource ramp up / ramp down planning
• Develop various work plans
• Coordinating various work groups
• Test plan creation / reviews
• Work order wise test artifacts planning
• Setting Quality Standards all the test deliverables
• Defining various SLAs for all test deliverables
• Review all deliverables for SLA criteria
• Controlling the Test program through Metrics
• Managed the team of 32 (12 Onshore / 20 Offshore)
• Utilized Rational Test Manager/ Dynatrace / Test Link

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Portfolio & Delivery Management Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Scope defining
• Estimations for Agile methodologies
• Test Project Management
• Analyzed the functional specifications
• Review of testing requirements of the project
• Lead and coordinated and implemented Agile Scrum methodologies within all test units to ensure Sprints are delivered efficiently.
• Developed various test user stories and ensured all the user stories are addressed in subsequent sprints
• Managed timelines for every Sprint deliveries, Projects and resources to successful completion.
• Defined SCM Process for Agile Development
• Ramped up Integration teams for all sprints
• Successfully deployed all sprint code in integration environment and carried out integration tests in all sprints
• Managed multivendor teams 25 members from different locations
• Utilized Rally, QC, Selenium

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Meet various organizations to understand the IT Needs in terms of team setup
• Assess the project needs and define team structure
• Develop detailed job description for each role
• Interview and hire the people
• Assess various tools required
• Help setup the PMO Processes for projects to run smooth

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Study of Existing SAP Based Systems
• Analyze the Enhancements
• Estimations
• Processes Definition
• Defined End to End Test Approach for Confidential SAP Systems
• Successfully implanted Mercury products for various clients
• Managing the Testing the test team for successful delivery
• Metrics collection and project controlling
• Utilized ZFS internal tools

Initiative: Established TCoE for SAP Applications

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Visit and portfolio Assessment
• Assessment of Existing processes and Systems
• Transition to offshore
• Establish team at offshore
• Develop detailed requirements (property and causality)
• Develop workflows
• Defining the Test Scope
• Development of Test Strategy and Test plans
• Development of Automation plans
• Review of Test Results
• Metrics collection and project controlling
• Utilized Confidential existing tools and QC

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Program / Project Management
• Work with various client Teams for Release plans
• Define the Program Processes / facilitate and implement the same
• Implementation of Data Driven methodologies (Quantitative Test Processes)
• Resource ramp up / ramp down planning
• Develop various work plans
• Coordinating various work groups
• Test plan creation / reviews
• Data Integration by using ETL/ELT
• Setting Quality Standards all the test deliverables
• Define various metrics for the projects
• Defining various SLAs for all test deliverables
• Review all deliverables for SLA criteria
• Arranging Retrospection and drive the same
• Control the program through metrics and take corrective actions
• Converted T&M to MSM over a period of 6 months to various projects
• Managed 150 plus in peak.
• Utilized QTP, QC
• Developed Quantitative Test Process Methodologies
• Presented Blended estimation methodologies
• Converted T&M model to Managed Services

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Program / Project Management
• Work with various client Teams for Release plans
• Define the Program Processes / facilitate and implement the same
• Implementation of Data Driven methodologies (Quantitative Test Processes)
• Resource ramp up / ramp down planning
• Develop various work plans
• End to End Test Strategy Development
• Development Functional Test Plans
• Development Automation Plans
• Setting up the Various Test Labs
• Driven total UAT Effort.
• Defining the process for each release delivery
• Metrics collection and project controlling
• Tools Utilized: Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Program / Project Management
• Develop Various roadmaps in conjunction with client
• Define Project Defined Test processes
• Test Strategy Development
• Test Plan Reviews
• Review of Automation Plans
• Setting up the Various Test Labs
• Setting up User Acceptance Test Lab
• Provide support for UAT
• Metrics collection and project controlling
• Managed 25-member team
• Tools Utilized: Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner