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Summary

  • Al ays ready and illing tcontribute tproject and organization success using a unique blend of leadership, project/program management, communication and user interaction skills, along ith a commitment and drive tdeliver excellence in projects that support the strategic vision of the organization, ithin scope, budget and timelines Professional Profile
  • Over 15 years of varied experience in the IT industry including Application Development and Project Management.
  • Results driven professional ith Project Management Professional PMP Certification and a Masters Certificate in IT Project Management from George ashington University
  • Experience in managing multi million dollar initiatives, including Business Intelligence, eb Development
  • Building trust and productive relationships ith Management and Peers
  • Excellent communicator, ritten and verbal, capable of communicating ith peers and all levels of management
  • Creative thinker and a analytical problem solver ith proven ability tdelivery projects of varied sizes and budget, under extremely challenging and fast paced environments
  • Energetic leadership and team player skills that leverage the organization's off shore/on shore model
  • Vast experience in managing projects in a matrix environment
  • Collaboration ith business and technology partners tdeliver solutions that align ith organizational goals and grth
  • Extensive track record of delivering projects that meet and even exceed Client expectations

Areas of Expertise

  • Project Methodologies Iterative
  • Defect Management
  • Critical Thinking
  • Risk/Issue Management
  • Project tracking/reporting
  • Capacity Planning
  • Decision making
  • Project communications
  • Process change/improvement
  • Negotiation, persuasion and
  • Development of plans and schedules
  • Process change/improvement
  • Communication
  • Business assessment
  • Needs analysis
  • Cross functional team
  • Scope/requirements definition
  • Tactical/strategic planning
  • building and leadership
  • Analysis of business problems/needs
  • Quality risk
  • Coaching/mentoring

Core Competencies

  • Project Management of various projects, including Business Intelligence, eb based and client server applications
  • Collaborative and proven ability tbuild relationships, ith Technology and Business teams
  • Ability tdeliver high quality projects on time and on budget
  • Strong communication skills ritten and verbal, including providing clear and concise status reports
  • Management of project resources both, on shore and off shore
  • Ability tadapt and deliver in an ever changing and dynamic business environment
  • Providing leadership tensure successful project delivery as ell success and grth of project team
  • Building relationships and trust ith project teams, customers and stakeholders
  • Conducting regular meetings ith senior management and key stakeholders
  • CA Clarity management
  • MS Office, MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, Rally, JIRA Greenhopper
  • Familiarity ith Cognos, ETL, Relational Databases, FTP, NDM
  • Methodologies aterfall, Iterative/Agile

Related Experience

Confidential

Title Role: Sr. Technical Project Manager

  • As a Sr. Technical Project Manager, responsibilities include
  • Project Management of the Data arehouse initiatives
  • Managing multiple concurrent projects, including Regulatory and Compliance Projects
  • orking ith 3rd party vendors tcoordinate delivery of source extracts tthe data arehouse
  • Use of on shore/off shore approach treduce project costs
  • Meeting ith different levels of management tpresent status reports
  • Resource Estimation and allocation
  • Management of scope change, risks and issues
  • Tracking Project Financials tensure projects are being implemented ithin allocated budgets
  • Manage the implementation of report conversion from Business Objects tCognos,
  • Expected annual sustainable savings 200,000
  • Technologies: IBM Datastage, Cognos, DB2,
  • Project Management: CA Clarity,
  • MS Office: ord, Excel, PerPoint
  • Email: Lotus Notes
  • Collaboration: Sametime

Confidential

Title Role: Scrum Master/Sr. Technical Project Manager

  • As a Sr Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master, for the ED SaaS program, responsibilities included
  • Developing the project schedules orking ith the various domain and technical leads
  • Conducting daily stand ups, bi eekly Sprint Planning Sessions, Demo/Retrospective Sessions
  • ork ith members tprovision VDI clients taccess the ED solution
  • Use of Rally and Greenhopper tlog user stories for Sprints tbuild the SaaS solution
  • Meeting ith different levels of management tpresent status reports
  • Resource Estimation and allocation
  • Management of scope change, risks and issues
  • Tracking Project Financials tensure projects are being implemented ithin allocated budgets
  • Defining Project Release Roadmaps
  • Managing a development team of about 15
  • Interact ith the Client's customers tdevelop business and infrastructure requirements
  • Identify business opportunities for Perficient Inc. at the client location, ithin the different business units
  • orking ith client member hospital systems tdevelop user requirements for the arehouse platform
  • orking ith the Infrastructure team tbuild out the development and production environments
  • Scoping out engagement opportunities for Perficient, at the Client location
  • Technologies: IBM Datastage, Cognos, DB2, Netezza, IBM ebSphere
  • Project Management: MS Project, CA Clarity, Rally, GreenHopper
  • MS Office: ord, Excel, PerPoint
  • Email: MS Outlook
  • Collaboration: SharePoint, Lync

Confidential

Title Role: Program Manager

  • As an Iteration Manager for the Enterprise Data arehouse 3.0 Program, responsibilities included
  • Developing the project schedules orking ith the various domain and technical leads
  • Managing the project schedules for the different iterations
  • Meeting ith the key stakeholders tgather revie requirements and obtaining sign off
  • Meeting ith different levels of management tpresent status reports
  • Conducted project kick off meetings ith various stakeholders, including management
  • Resource Estimation and allocation
  • Management of scope change, risks and issues
  • Tracking Project Financials tensure projects are being implemented ithin allocated budgets
  • Managing a development team of about 35
  • As a Program Manager for the Data Consolidation Program, responsibilities included
  • Managing a program budget of almost 4 MM
  • Program comprised 5 concurrent orkstreams, including upgrade of Oracle and SQL Server databases
  • Change, Scope, Time Risk and Issue Management
  • Remediation of redundant server and databases in the organization, realizing significant cost savings for the business
  • Tracking Project Financials tensure projects are being implemented ithin allocated budgets
  • orking ith the technical teams tdraft a GTGreen plan for the orkstreams that ere in Yell status
  • Resource Effort Estimation and allocation ttasks in CA Clarity

Confidential

Title Role: Senior Technical Project Manager

  • Responsibilities/Key accomplishments included
  • Managing the global initiative, Customer Data Management CDM , ith implementation scheduled for 1Q 2012
  • Build and implementation of a strategic global solution for the bank, hich is a multi million dollar project
  • Managing 9 concurrent projects/ orkstreams
  • Coordinating project deliverables ith the various engineering teams in different geographical locations
  • Managing the CDM program deliverables tthe overall release timelines and milestones
  • Presenting bi eekly status reports tSenior Management and other stakeholders
  • Change Management, Scope Management, Risk Issue Management, Project Budget Monitoring
  • Resource planning, Forecasting and Budgeting
  • Leveraging the on shore / off shore model
  • Managed the implementation of phase 2 of a flagship Business Intelligence project, approximately 3 eeks ahead of schedule
  • Project had a budget of more than 2 million
  • Over 400 ne elements ere added tthe database
  • Solution resulted in enhanced analytical capabilities for the business tincrease customer retention and grth
  • arehouse solution leveraged for further enhancements and solutions
  • Managed the implementation of a brand ne Business Intelligence solution for HSBC's Insurance business unit, resulting in increased conversion of applications tpolicies
  • Chaired the JAD session tidentify business requirements
  • Delivered a prototype and a production solution ithin the existing budget
  • Provided the business ith the analytical capability tidentify drop in life insurance policies
  • Enhanced analytics solution that helped remediate process gaps and generate greater revenue
  • Success of the project resulted in the business needing a Phase II tadd more features tthe BI solution
  • Reporting solutions developed using Cognos 8.4 Suite of products
  • Resource planning and forecasting
  • Remediation of the HSBC Business Intelligence Environment HBIE Customer Information Management CIM Audit tasks, hich as on the company CIO's balanced scorecard for 2009
  • orked ith Senior Management, in technology, tdraft proposals and cost estimates
  • Revie ed the cost estimates ith senior stakeholders in the business community
  • Disaster Recovery Exercises for Mainframe Applications, data arehousing only, ith noutages tthe business
  • Managed the implementation of a Risk Dashboard Business Intelligence solution for the company's Risk Management team
  • Solution provided the business community ith a standard and unified dashboard solution
  • The pilot solution as deployed ith the KRIs identified as top priority by the business
  • Solution developed has been deemed robust enough tbe leveraged by other entities across the organization
  • Cognos Metric and Report Studileveraged tdeliver dashboards
  • Project success as instrumental in business funding subsequent phases of the project tadd more KRIs
  • Project as implemented on time and budget
  • Resource Planning and Allocation , Project Budget, Risk and Issue Management
  • Appropriate escalation of risks and issues mitigated possible delays tproject
  • Constant and consistent monitoring of the budget ensured appropriate corrective action as taken tprevent budget overruns
  • Risk Based Project Management Methodology RBPM
  • Chaired meetings ith Business Technology management tpresent Project Status/Risks/Issues/Budget updates
  • Conducted user training in the use of Quality Center and Cognos Reports
  • Technologies: IBM Datastage, Cognos, DB2,
  • Project Management: MS Project, CA Clarity
  • MS Office: ord, Excel, PerPoint
  • Email: Lotus Notes

Confidential

Title Consultant, Business Systems Internet Banking

Role Project Manager

  • Key accomplishments included:
  • ebsite content management using Teamsite and Business Development Environment BDE
  • Business as able tdeploy the eb content on time tthe company's ebsites
  • Infrastructure upgrade for ebSphere Application Servers
  • Involved orking ith the vendors hcommunicated ith HSBC systems
  • Seamless migration ith noutage tbusiness operations
  • Infrastructure upgrade for ebsphere Portal Servers, including content deployment, using Teamsite
  • User training in the use of Teamsite and BDE
  • Managing project resources, timelines, risks and issues
  • Leveraged and managed the off shore team approximately 5 resources resulting in ler project costs
  • orking ith vendors during upgrades tensure minimal tnoutages ttheir business operations
  • Drafted the functional requirements for a key initiative, Managing Projects in Parallel
  • eekly status meetings ith the project teams and publishing eekly monthly status reports
  • Technologies: Java, IBM ebSphere, ebSphere Portal Server
  • Content Management Teamsite, Business Development Environment BDE
  • Project Management: MS Project, CA Clarity
  • MS Office: Excel, ord, PerPoint
  • Email: Lotus Notes

Confidential

Senior Analyst, Business Systems Retail Services

Roles: Application Lead, Project Manager

  • Key accomplishments included:
  • Designed and developed applications using PerBuilder, Java, JavaScript, HTML IBM ebSphere
  • Eliminated non compliant applications, resulting in cost saves and audit remediation for the organization
  • Project implementation saved the organization approximately 1 MM in licenses
  • Remediation of non standard End User Computing EUC applications prevented possible violations
  • Collaborated ith the business users thelp draft test plans, requirement documents and user manuals
  • Familiarity ith IBM 3270 green screens thelp developers debug their applications, including production issues
  • on cash a ards for helping identify critical defects during UAT for a flagship release
  • This resulted in the product being released approximately a month ahead of schedule
  • Enabled the company's private label merchants tprocess their transactions earlier than scheduled
  • Implemented a eb based contract printing system for the company's Persports merchants
  • The above solution helped demise an existing expensive solution
  • Reduced the merchant's aiting time tfinalize a contract and a sale, resulting in greater sales
  • Real time recording of contract data, resulting in quicker sales for the merchant
  • Ler aiting times for the customers
  • orked directly ith the company's external clients tremediate outdated transaction settlement process
  • Cost reduction tthe company by demising outdated transaction settlement systems and hard are
  • Managed the integration of clients' systems and transactions ith the organization's systems
  • User training using ebEx in the use of Teamsite, Quality Center and eb based contract printing system
  • Presenting a demof the contract printing application tsenior management and the external clients
  • Administered user accounts tthe eb based applications using LDAP
  • Managing timelines, risks, issues, changes and budgets for assigned projects
  • Implemented the Direct Check project, resulting in revenues of over 1 mm USD in the 1st 6 months
  • Business recognition for merchant launches
  • On boarding of the merchant systems teither integrate or be fully operational on HSBC systems
  • Participated in testing ith the merchant tensure smooth production implementation
  • Nominated as the team's Clarity Champion
  • Technologies: Java, PerBuilder, FileAid, IBM 3270, ebSphere Application Server, Lotus Notes, LDAP
  • Front End: Visual Age for Java, Eclipse
  • Version Control: Serena, ChangeMan
  • Databases: DB2
  • Middle are: MQ
  • Content Management Teamsite
  • Project Management: MS Project, CA Clarity
  • MS Office: Excel, ord, PerPoint

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