SUMMARY

• IT Project/Project Manager/Agile certified Practitioner with over 20+ years of experience in enterprise level Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) starting from requirement analysis, design reviews, test development, end to end testing, production support and maintenance
• Consistent track record of on - time and quality projects delivery for Retail, Manufacturing, Automotive and Pharma clients.
• Managed vendor negotiations, RFP processes, vendor selection and vendor relationship management
• Highly competent in issue and risk identification, owning, mitigating risks, tracking dependencies and milestones, and communication of overall project status
• Experience in effectively budgeting single or multiple large-scale projects concurrently
• Interacted with at all levels in the organization from developers, business analysts, architects to managers, directors, Vice Presidents
• Extensive experience in creating clear and agreed upon project charters, getting complete buy-in from all stakeholders including executive sponsors, Technical owners and vendors
• Able to identify emerging and potential issues and provide solutions that successfully align organizational objectives with business needs.
• Expert in coaching, mentoring team members identifying and bringing the best out of them
• Strong problem-solver who can design solutions and assist developers with issues
• Experience working in various Agile process such as scrum and Kanban
• Acted as Scrum Master with a focus on delivering the product, enabling the teams and its’ members by fostering collaborative work and acting as a servant leader
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint / release progress
• Experience in facilitating JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions and documenting requirements along with Business and Technical teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools used: MS Project, MS Project Server, Visio, MS Office, Service Now, MS Power BI, Share Point, HPALM, Open Voice, Skype Meeting, and WebEx

ERP Package: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1/9.2, PeopleSoft FSCM 7.52, 8SP1, 8SP3, 8.4.2 and 8.8.Ramco e.Apps

Languages: Tools V 8.52/8.54/8.55/8.57 , SQR, PS COBOL, Application Engine, Application Package, Shell Scripts, Visual Basic, XML, HTML, APIs, NET, JAVA, JAVA Servlets, Autosys, QlikSense

Version Tools: ClearCase, STAT, CAPI

Database: ORACLE, DB2, SQL SERVER, Stored Procedures, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows (NT/2000), UNIX (Sun/Solaris/AIX), Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as Project Manager and SME for Confidential ’(FCA) North American Payroll and Timekeeping systems
• Managed multiple T&M and Fixed Price projects including Application development, Infrastructure upgrades, mobility and other platforms.
• Broad experience with data requirements, data modeling concepts, ERP system integration, data warehousing (EDW) and business intelligence/analytics, tools, SOX processes, protocols and practices.
• Led and successfully transitioned Legacy Mainframe Hourly Payroll system to PeopleSoft from a Project team. Hourly Payroll process 55k checks (approx..) every week for US and Canada employees, which involves complex UAW rules.
• As part of multi-year Fiat Chrysler PentaSAP program, responsible in managing the data migration, transformation and coordination of US and Canada Payrolls’ GL and AP interfaces
• Responsible for the scoping, planning and execution of DB2 upgrade from v9.5 to 10.5.
• Led and managed the conversion of Autosys batch jobs to PeopleSoft Process scheduler successfully. This helped to decommission Autosys scheduler.
• Managed the conversion of Benefits and Savings system from Mainframe system to PeopleSoft NA Payroll 9.2
• Identified and implemented process improvements and streamlined processes to increase quality and efficiency and to mitigate risks.
• Suggested and implemented various innovative Tools for Payroll processing efficiency and effectiveness
• Performed the following managerial duties, including budget estimation, Budget forecasting, conducting performance reviews, approving weekly timesheets, performing resource and task allocation and exercising the authority to hire and fire employees from the Project
• Release management in creating and maintaining release schedule for Payroll portfolio
• Created and managed a comprehensive project plan using MS Project; managed workflow through deployment deliverables.

Confidential

Business Analyst/Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in business short-term planning sessions to ensure understanding of business goals, direction and business requirements and provided inputs from an IT systems perspective
• Travelled to New Jersey and St. Louis to gather requirements in the beginning of Upgrade project and then to provide Knowledge Transfer to On-shore support team.
• This is upgrade/re-implementation project of various modules from 8.3, 8.8, and 8.9 to 9.0 release of Peoplesoft. The scope includes of upgrading HRMS, Payroll, GPM, GCP, CRM, Portal and re-implementing Recruiting Solutions. The three instances of HRMS, GCP and GPM are merged into single instance
• Involved in a requirement elicitation and converting business user requirements into functional requirements, developing business process flows for the Pfizer’s HR and North American Payroll systems.
• Led and managed fit-gap analysis to determine implementation approaches
• Design, develop and maintain integration routines between PeopleSoft and non-PeopleSoft applications.
• Performed application upgrades, PeopleTools upgrades, apply Tax Updates and required vendor application maintenance releases
• Oversee deliverables, schedule, and ensure quality of product delivery;
• Serve as a liaison between management teams and clients;
• Assisting preparing project documents like, Project charter, cost estimation and Risk identification
• Setting standards for the team's work and general guidelines for each assignment;
• Planning and managing training of team members;
• Providing functional knowledge to team members.
• Interacting with the client and the onsite coordinator for issues and queries in the project.
• Collaborate with onsite and offshore functional teams in completing technical design

Confidential

Business Analyst / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Support & development for PeopleSoft supply chain management product for releases 7.52, 8SP1, 8SP3, 8.4.2 and 8.8. Involved in analysis, development, and code review and testing for Purchase, Order management, Billing and Inventory modules.
• Managed multiple modules including Application development, Infrastructure upgrades and other activities of SDLC.
• As part of multi-year Fiat Chrysler PentaSAP program, responsible in managing the data migration, transformation and coordination of 100+ legacy applications of Purchasing & Cost Systems to new SAP environment.
• Team Lead of 12 members and responsible for Design, Development, Testing of all deliverables
• Design and Architecture level Contribution as a SME
• Setting standard for Coding and Unit Testing the Main Module.
• Involved in Integrating the different modules.
• Packaging.
• Performance tuning.
• Database servers are Oracle,SQL Server, DB2 and Informix.
• Release management in creating and maintaining release schedule various modules