SUMMARY

• 16 Plus years of experience in business consulting and project management in the supply chain, manufacturing, retail and insurance industry. Agile SCRUM certified. 10 plus years of Confidential customer facing role experience.
• Provide end - to-end Project Management and solution delivery for various business initiatives within automotive manufacturing business. Delivered SAP Add-on and SAP transformation projects within time and budget.
• Managed and delivered multiple projects using waterfall, iterative and agile Scrum SDLC methodology starting from requirement phase till go-live working with business and IT.
• Worked as Track lead for two complex digital transformation projects to upgrade legacy ERP system to custom java-based ERP system.
• Worked in GAP session planning, functional decomposition, SOW mapping and planning of requirements sessions, requirements gathering along with managing requirement, solution designing and prototyping, Business Process Reengineering, SWOT analysis, Workflow management automation and solution designing.
• Monitoring and controlling project progress and delivery.
• Engage project sponsors and facilitate discussions with stakeholders to make complex decisions. Preparing and presenting written and oral presentations to senior executives on project status, as well as managing other project communications including 1) status reports to stakeholders, business units, vendors, project team and 2) metrics / assumptions on budget, time and risk
• Monitoring the project progress and publishing the information to stake holders. Identifying and mitigating team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
• Perform risk management to minimize program risks
• Create executive Dashboard for senior leadership to assure goals and objectives associated with project charters are met.
• Coordinate program leads that manage the various project teams (development, test and database and reporting) and ensure workflows and handoffs are efficient and effective
• Conducting Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Business Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working with business to understand the requirement and creating project charters
• Managing application development and enhancements for all purchasing business applications within Confidential
• Monitoring the project progress and released the information to stake holders.
• Identifying and mitigating team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.
• Determining the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure for user stories and corresponding activities.
• Transformation and migration of various applications to new SAP platforms.
• Offering industry best supply chain practices during workshops and discussions to come up with the best solutions.
• Work with technical architects and development leads to ensure business processes are followed and are complying to ZF standards.
• Supporting and leading software development team (Developer, Testers and DBA)
• Project planning and helping in release management for all newly developed features.

Confidential

Functional Manager/ Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Managing and prioritizing the product backlogs and leading the product development team
• Conducting GAP/JAD sessions and helping in GAP/JAD conducted by Business Analysts
• Led discussions on the current challenges faced by business users and staff and to provide solutions to overcome the challenges
• Collaborating with the technical leads to devise integration strategy with the existing interfacing systems
• Worked as a Business Solution Architect for the iGOVERN® solution for various Tax and Benefit modules
• Planning of requirements/ GAP sessions
• Conducting user acceptance tests and getting the milestones approved by steering committee
• Managing Business Analyst team and business analysis activities. Grooming up junior BAs
• Preparing project plan for conducting gap sessions
• Working on functional decomposition and mapping of SOW requirements to product features.
• Identifying GAPs and providing solutions to meet the GAPs
• Maintain complete traceability of all requirements and provide status report on a weekly basis.

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst/ Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Leading product development team
• Working as a product owner to map and plan for new enhancements
• Backlog planning and release management based on project milestone dates
• Conducting GAP/JAD sessions for Tax Domain (Employer Registration, Employer Profile Maintenance, Wage Filing, Federal Certifications, Employer self-service (customer portal for more than 500K plus users), Collections, Refunds and Waivers)
• Working with technical architects and development leads to ensure multi-tenancy architecture is followed
• Providing resource knowledge development support within UI domain.
• Managing Business Analyst team and business analysis activities. Grooming up junior BAs
• Preparing project plan for conducting gap sessions
• Working on functional decomposition and mapping of SOW to product features.
• Identifying GAPs and providing solutions to meet the GAPs
• Maintain complete traceability of all requirements and provide status report on a weekly basis.