SUMMARY

• Senior IT Project Manager with leading projects successfully and independently upto USD 5 Million.
• Over 20 years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on -
• Strategic analysis of business needs dat translates to technology solutions.
• Expertise in business acquisition, integration and compliance.
• Managing projects dat spread over different cultures and time zones
• Collaborative management experience in all phases of a Project’s life cycle - Initiating, Planning, Execution and Closure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Management / Business competencies:
• Program / Project Management using best practices
• Business Consultancy, Strategic Planning and Facilitation in Global environment
• Vendor Management / External Resource Management
• Team Building and collaboration
• Estimation, Earned Value Project Management (EVM)
• PMBOK Guidelines, Agile Methodologies, Jira, MS Project,
• Technical Competencies:
• Oracle, Success Factors, SAP FI & HCM, HP ALM, COTS Management Plan. LeanKit,
• Business Impact Analysis, Technical Support and Training
• Software Development Life Cycle, Business Process Re-engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Payment Medium Workbench (PMW). PMW is a tool to configure and created payment media sent by organizations to house banks. Teh tool replaces teh classic payment media programs.
• Implementation of SAP Travel Management and its integration to FI for more frequent reimbursement to employee and smooth transaction with Banks using PMW.
• Blueprinting to bring newly acquired consulting Units to Confidential Data’s SAP landscape.
• Integration of SAP with SuccessFactors - EC to feed employees’ info to system
• Review and manage teh Project Scope and deliverables to support teh business goals for these projects.
• Reviewed teh PMW configuration and created test scripts to be handed over to client for testing.
• Work with stakeholders to control teh scope creep, prepared communication plan to share project status, progress on deliverables in a timely manner.
• Risk assessment, quality control and change management. Negotiated with vendor on teh delivery timeline of teh project.
• Controlled teh scope creep, collaborated with teh cross functional team including off-shore development team, solution architect and member firms in various countries to ensure teh deliverables are as per their strategic business goal.
• Prepared test scripts, monitored their execution and prepared reports for issues and their resolutions.
• Also provided valuable functional and technical inputs to influence teh design of application to make it more users friendly and compliant with teh state laws and policies of teh Member Firms.
• Completed teh project closing documents, documented lessons-learned and completed teh project closing document.
• Throughout teh project me ensured dat teh Confidential Global delivery process guidelines are followed and data integrity and security is maintained.
• Got teh training document created and integrated it with their Learning Management System (LMS).

Environment: MS Project, HP - QC, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, SAP T&E, SuccessFactors-EC

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined teh Project Scope, Charter, Goals and deliverables to support teh strategic business goals for these projects respectively.
• Maintained Confidential guidelines for Product Development Life Cycle during TTA development / Deployment.
• Identified teh stakeholders and prepared communication plan to share project status, progress on deliverables in a timely manner.
• Cost estimation and negotiation with vendor on teh delivery timeline of teh project.
• Controlled teh scope creep, collaborated with teh cross functional team including off-shore development team, solution architect and member firms in various countries to ensure teh deliverables are as per their strategic business goal.
• Prepared test scripts, monitored their execution and prepared reports for issues and their resolutions.
• Provided valuable functional and technical inputs to influence teh design of application to make it more users friendly and compliant with teh state laws and policies of teh Member Firms.
• Completed teh project closing documents, documented lessons-learned and completed teh project closing document.
• Designed teh training document to be integrated to teh LMS system for users’ reference and training.
• Throughout teh project me ensured dat teh Confidential delivery process guidelines are followed and data integrity and security is maintained.

Environment: Koni Mobile Platform, MS Project, HP - QC, Visio, SAP, SuccessFactors-LMS, LeanKit, Smartsheet

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Guide teams including teh offshore development members on teh design and deliverables of teh T&E implementation.
• Integrate teh reimbursement process with Bank Communication Module for smooth transactions.
• Prepare test scripts and get them tested internally as well as teh users and educate them about teh process.
• Keep teh users updated in case of any issues and their resolution.
• Collaborate with teh cross functional teams in case of any technical issue and update teh management on developmental progress, issues or risks if any.
• Communicated with teh GM’s project manager and Technical Leads for any scope creep and influenced teh design and development of application to comply with teh business requirements.

Environment:MS Project, HP - QC, Visio, SAP, PeopleSoft, LeanKit

Confidential

TEMPPrincipal BA IS SD&D HR Management

Responsibilities:

• Prepare teh project plan for US roll-out, build team including internal and external resources.
• Task assignment to teh team members, and keep track of system configuration and development works.
• Prepare communication plan to keep teh stakeholders and Management team updated on teh developmental progress, issues and risks involved if any and steps for their mitigation
• Co-ordination with teh global stakeholders, and keep them updated for any challenges or roadblocks besides frequent status updates.
• Identify risks and take appropriate steps for their mitigation.
• Co-ordinate with cross-functional team leads, Design teh template to suite teh US requirements.
• Prepared test scripts, kept track of defects in HPQC and monitored their resolution.
• Insured teh Data validation for go live and post go-live application support along with data security
• Prioritized tasks, Prepared go-live plan and list of cutover activities for deployment of application.
• Feasibility study / Business Impact Analysis of teh implementation of Kronos WC application system in US for all teh Operating Units (OPUs) with teh highlight of annual saving of $ 500K.
• Finalize an application after review of various available vendors and products
• Preparing project initiation documents and maintaining Project Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
• Interacted with internal/external resources and vendor to provide necessary infrastructure and tools in a timely manner, Task Prioritization.
• Maintained teh project tracking and provided status reports to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Insured dat teh BI’s policies for deliverables are followed, data integrity and security processes are maintained and change management processes are maintained during teh project life cycle.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Design teh project plan to execute this process of bringing 400 Amgen employees to BI’s HR system.
• Keep teh stakeholders and team informed on daily basis for all development work, issues and risks. Approached Senior Leadership Team (SLT) them for help whenever their involvement was needed.
• Task prioritization, risk assessment, conflict resolution and compliance to teh policies.
• Design test scripts, and monitoring of defects and issues logged into HP ALM.
• Project completed on time and all new Amgen employees were one boarded successfully on time with 0% payroll error and on-time Benefits enrollments.
• Design a holistic project plan to move 1500 employees to our SAP system.
• Work with HR Business partners to devise a realistic timeline and devise a business process to bring these employees on board.
• Resolved conflicts and issues of information flow between Wyeth and BI.
• Ensured dat teh BI policies and FDA rules are followed during teh process and data integrity and security is followed during teh project lifecycle.
• Ensured dat teh compliance with project deliverables and financial accountings are met.
• All teh legal processes and project specific documents are well maintained and kept with PMO for any auditing and future references.
• Teh project completed in record time with successful onboarding of 1500 new employees, with 0% payroll error & on time Benefits enrollments for them.