EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Results-driven professional with skills in directing and managing complex application development and support projects through full software life cycle.
• Involved in project planning, estimation, scheduling, requirements gathering, creation and monitoring of work breakdown structures WBS , procurement/sourcing, testing, team management, task allocation and progress reporting for several engagements. Managed projects with annual budgets more than 6M and team sizes between 50-60 resources.
• Developed and managed application development projects in the areas of B2B and B2C technologies including System Analysis and Design, Database Design, Development, Integration Testing, Implementation, User Training and Documentation.
• Experience working in cross-functional matrix environments.
• Almost 10 Years of experience in Waterfall methodology and 2 years experience in Agile.
• Liaison with IT and Business partners to manage project scope and communicate delivery expectations, ensure effective stakeholder management.
• Experience managing 24 7 offshore and onshore teams including multiple vendors.
• Experience managing Web based and Data Warehousing projects.
• Experience with preparing Business Case Statements, performing Cost/Benefit Analysis, manage project financials and resource management.
• Vendor and contract management including documentation of Business Requirements Document BRD , Statement of Work SOW,SOP , responding to Request for Proposals RFP , Request for Quotes RFQ and managing SLA expectations.
• Expertise in MS Office Word, Excel , MS Project, and Visio.
• Administration Expertise in UNIX and WebLogic Application Server.
• Knowledge of Oracle, PL/SQL including stored procedures and triggers and SQL programming, and experience in Database Design.
• Experience in Configuration and Version Management using SharePoint, Visual Source Safe, and PVCS.
• Implemented Single Sign on authentication for GE Intranet Applications Using LDAP, SiteMinder .

SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Confidential

Project Manager: Enterprise PMO

• Develop and manage work breakdown structure WBS of information technology projects
• Develop project plans for information technology projects including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing
• Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope
• Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Develop implementation plans that include analyses such as cost-benefit or return on investment ROI
• Establish and execute a project communication plan

Confidential

Release Manager

• Manage and forecast resource model and capacity planning to meet the Lean demand.
• Track environmental readiness steps
• Track Release content and impacted applications for projects
• Track report project milestone dates and progress to them
• Verify Readiness for release and report on release drops

Confidential

Project Manager: Lean PMO

• Manage and forecast resource model and capacity planning to meet the Lean demand.
• Managed budget and costing.
• Tracked individual project status.
• Devised criteria to prioritize Lean projects.
• Created process to capture benefits out of Lean projects.
• Managed Risks and Issues at PMO level.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Facilitated requirements discussions and JAD sessions across multiple business areas. Led integrated design and delivery, monitored quality assurance and reporting, User Acceptance Testing and implementation.
• Developed capacity model and led a team of 60 people onshore and offshore India, China and Mexico included for the WebMethods 6X upgrade project.
• Developed Cost Model, resource model, tracked project progress and monitored budget.
• Performed sourcing and vendor management including developing high level business requirements for the Vendors, developing vendor selection criteria and reviewing RFPs.
• Established best practices and provided consistent direction using PMI project management methodologies.
• Developed and maintained project plans to track project progress across the SDLC cycle.
• Reported weekly QA status to the management and spiked out any possible risks.
• Worked with the Project test lead and the QA team to track down critical defects and resolve them.
• Reduced overhead costs using Six Sigma methodologies as a Master Black Belt.
• Improved stakeholder communication so that all the impacted teams were involved and timely decisions were taken.
• Managed dependencies across multiple business and IT areas effectively.
• Monitored risks and issues periodically and worked on timely resolution.
• Reported weekly status and metrics to the executive management.
• Worked with the Change Control Board CCB to asses and track scope changes.
• Worked with Enterprise Release Management ERM to review release contents, ensured all testing was completed and the application was ready to be deployed in the release also managed any dependencies with other projects in the release .
• Took the project through the Toll Gate Review process and ensured that the project was successfully gated.
• Reviewed project financials every month end to ensure that the Actuals were in line with the Forecasts. Worked through any variances and addressed the gaps.
• Technical Environment: Informatica, WebMethods.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Developed a resource model that provided continuous, on demand support for all web applications at GE Healthcare Web-farm systems that hosted 300 web applications.
• Developed and maintained project plans to track project progress across requirements, design, development and Quality Assurance.
• Managed the infrastructure and support teams in a highly matrix environment.
• Monitored adherence to SLA formulated action plans and set up daily reports to maintain SLAs.
• Partnered with the Business team and IT stakeholders for adding new applications.
• Integrated the Helpdesk process of newly acquired businesses with the existing GE helpdesk. Set up a standard process to use for new integrations in the future. Established checks and controls to streamline the process and implement lessons learned.
• Trained application leads on the support and transition process.
• Implemented Six Sigma tools and methodologies to streamline the support processes and provided training to team members on Six Sigma and its applications.
• Technical Environment: Clarify.

Confidential

Developer

• Designed and implemented software for mid-size to large web applications using J2EE.
• Involved in System and Database Design.
• Worked to improve design and development turnaround times, mentoring junior developers.
• Performed Unit and System testing while ensuring minimal defects.
• Participated in User Training and kept the project technical documentation updated.
• Technical Environment: Web based technologies.