EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Experienced in Project/Program management in Capital Market Domain with trades and derivatives operations, understanding of Collateral Management, Accounting and settlement
• Experienced in various phases of trade life cycle like Trade Entry System, Stock record, corporate action, Dividends and Trade Settlement
• Managed the projects with the largest one for the budget of 2.75 million with onshore - offshore model in multi-vendor environment
• Project reporting with respect to weekly updates, Steering committee decks, meeting notes, budgeting. Lead and drove Steering committee meetings with senior management.
• Certified Scrum Master with experience in leading both co-located & global teams of diverse sizes.
• Agile Project Management with excellent track record of stakeholder management & experience in portfolio management process.
• Experience in PERT, Networking Techniques, Precedence Diagramming Method and EarnedValueManagement
• Identifying and Interacting with stakeholders as per RASCI/RACI model and refining requirements to be developed/enhanced in a Matrix environment
• Managing RISK/ISSUE using RCA analysis by adapting approach of 5 Why, Fishbone Diagram, Pareto Chart
• Rich experience in Mainframe Development, Implementation, Production Support & Quality Assurance.
• Experienced in Migration Projects such as Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Migration and Broad ridge migration
• Cloud Implementation in AWS technology stack
• Strong communication skills and ability to liaise with business, technical experts and management.
• Primarily in the domains of Investment Banking, Finance, and Insurance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile: CSM, Cloud Practitioner,Oracle certified Autonomous database specialist, Oracle certified Cloud infrastructure 2020 associate, IBM DB2 UDB 700 Certified Professional
• Project Management: Leadership, Cost & Schedule Mgmt, PMO, Metrics Calculation, Waterfall/V - model/Agile process, Conflict Mgmt, Risk Mgmt, Stakeholder Mgmt, Project Integration, CMMi, ITIL
• Management: MS Project, Rally, VersionOne, MS SharePoint, MS Office (Word, Excel, Visio, Powerpoint), BMC Remedy, Service Now & JIRA.
• Tech Experience: Oracle, AWS Cloud, R, Mainframe technologies, DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager of 3+ Projects in Data Management Organization ( total budget ~$500K).
• Ensure correct resource staffing by assigning lead level resources to each work stream.
• Detailed project planning with technical dependencies to ensure smooth delivery of work streams.
• Following up & enabling assigned Leads to provide status reports for technical deliverables.
• Coordinate testing & deployment needs of projects with other Environment managers & Release Managers.
• Communicate escalate delivery blockers/impediments or concerns to the Leadership team.
• Leverage TFS for code promotions & plan Sprints.
• Manage Implementations for all Data Management Program releases Defined and implementing Release Management process involving TFS, BMC SMARTIT & Remedy.
• Managed implementation of BMC Remedy &SMART it involving Installation, migration of in-house tool, & communication campaign for new Change & Release Management process across enterprise.
• Ongoing evaluation of AWS Code Deploy to replace the current release implementation tool
• Ongoing evaluation to implement DEVOPS process after migrating DW to AWS Infrastructure.
• Supported TCS team to present a POV on migrating existing Data Warehouse to Cloud leveraging Informatica Cloud & Amazon S3, Aurora & RedShift.
• Supported SCRUM teams on need basis as SCRUM MASTER as required, also performed role of Agile Coach for small teams to help enable AGILE culture in teams new to AGILE.
• Publish Monthly Release Metrics for Senior Leaders to track the effectiveness of releases.
• Manage Delivery & Client Relationship of 10+ ETL resources Onsite, generating $1.5 M revenue.

Environment/Tool: MS Project, Rally, MS SharePoint, TFS,AWS, Informatica

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Development Project Manager/Scrum Master for Commercial Data Warehouse programs in Agile & Hybrid delivery models. Responsible for project budgets totaling approx. ~$1m USD.
• Lead Project Manager for SMIDDLE Project for, which enabled reporting & analytics for untapped customer base whose exposure was in between Small & Middle Market. The analytics initiative helped The Hartford to tap $40m untapped market & generated $20m premium in the first year.
• Implemented a new complex Data Mart involving 25 new DIM tables & 5 FACT Tables.
• Lead development initiative of Business Objects reports & new Tableau Dashboards.
• Analytical estimates/sizing for migration projects in Commercial LOB. Experienced in ROM, Bottoms UP & PERT estimates.
• Managing effective Stakeholder &communication with the virtual team spread across different geographies.
• Maintaining activities in WBS structure and delivering the tasks on time and within budget and scope
• Responsible maintaining project scope, time, cost, quality, risk& conflict management for projects managed.
• Communicated project s, status & finances on a regular basis via written and verbal means to Senior Management, including the project sponsors who were the CFO, the CIO and the SVP of Underwriting of Small Commercial.
• Organized & facilitated Agile & Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Acted as AGILE Coach for the Portfolio to spread agile awareness & help new teams to adopt AGILE.
• Delivery Manager for ETL/BI teams in Commercial & Personal Auto LOB, managed $ 2.5 M yearly revenue.

Environment/Tool: MSProject, HP-ALM, Rally, Oracle, Informatica, Business Objects

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managing (Responsibility of Key Liaison) vendor & internal stakeholders for CLAIMS portfolio and
• Information Delivery Services - Corporate Financial Reporting
• Coached/Mentored a cross-functional team of 10 resources to deliver a .NET rewrite project to enable Claims Reconciliation applications working in IE11.
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.
• Lead Scrum of Scrum for onsite teams & offshore teams in India.
• Performed weekly portfolio review with Senior Management & provided updates to stakeholders.
• Experienced in using Version 1 & creating standard reports for burndown & velocity tracking.
• Implement employee self-service (benefits) portal in Agile framework.
• Managed ETL QA 8 ETL accounts remotely, supported delivery & onboarding new resources. Oversaw delivery of $2M worth of business apart from billable role.

Confidential, New jersey

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for multiple small mainframe migration Projects (~ each project up to $250K) involving Oracle, Informatica & Business Objects primarily.
• SME for a Critical application Global Stock Record
• Lead the project team for GB Data ware house migration from Oracle 9i to Exadata. Familiar with challenges with software install & downstream impacts due to upgrade.
• Managed a fixed bid project for migration of Informatica from 8.5 to 9.5.
• Involved in project estimations for Group Benefits DW projects along with PMO.
• PPM resource management for all Onsite & offshore resources.
• Managed allocations & Invoicing of 10+ Onsite team & 50 + Offshore team members.
• Directly Manage & performance appraisal of 10 test leads support multiple LOB.

Confidential, New jersey

Project Lead & Senior developer

Responsibilities:

• Plan, develop, and implement the research of new or improved testing methods, processes, tools, and systems. Preparing Low-level design for the various functionalities
• Develop & Test the programs for the re-written functionalities.
• Test the programs written by other team members and also ensure that these programs are in accordance to standards.
• Use IPMS for all project management related quality activities.
• Checking the quality of the software and determining it’s degree of compliance to standards by using the tool ASA
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions on system functionalities to team members
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions on technical topics NATURAL, ADABAS to team members
• Onsite Offshore coordination
• Worked collaboratively and proactively with QA Team, Development teams and others to design and develop effective automation solutions, troubleshoot issues and resolve bugs.
• Manage and oversight all QA/UAT environments, coordinate release schedule with release team.
• PPM resource management for all Onsite & offshore resources.
• Managed allocations & Invoicing of 10+ Onsite team & 50 + Offshore team members.
• Directly Manage & performance appraisal of 10 test leads support multiple LOB.
• ETL QA Delivery Manager for ETL/BI QA teams Group Benefit LOB, managed $ 2.5 M yearly revenue.