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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
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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
