SUMMARY

• Certified Project Management Professional with 19 years of Program management/PMO and 12 years of Multi - Project Management experience in roles such as Program Manager/Project Director/Senior PM with a strong combination of Program/Project Management & Technical skills.
• Several years of Banking/ Financials Project/Program Management work experience
• Several years of Insurance (Commercial, Business, Life, Auto & Property & Causality ) work experience .
• Several years of Manufacturing, Industrial, Telecommunications, Big four Consulting & Higher Education work experience
• Several years of Disaster recovery, Risk Management & Business Continuity Project Management experience.
• Technical skills - 6 years in Web based development, 10 years in Mainframe development, 8 years in Client Server environment, 10 years in Data Communications/Networking & Infrastructure
• 10 years experience with major methodologies - PMI, SDLC, Method I, Six Sigma, RUP, and Waterfall, RUP, Agile, Extreme Programming
• Extensive Accounting and Financial applications work experience including all processes & procedures associated with GL, AP, AR…
• Experience building Oracle Financial Data Warehouses, in depth knowledge of Oracle 11i/R12 AP, AR, GL and PO. Strong data modeling and data architecture experience within Oracle Financials and hands on experience working with ETL and BI tools such as Cognos, Microstrategy, Informatica and Business Objects
• Extensive insurance, Banking & Financial work experience.
• 10 years in Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC) and Testing; 6 years in Data warehousing, Data Marts, Data Mining, Data Retrieval
• 12 years in managing Users. Clients and Vendors relations
• 6 years experience in Corporate Training, Mentoring and Traditional class room teaching
• 12 years in Knowledge Management, Quality Management, Communication planning and 10 years of Management Consulting experience including Big 5’s.
• 10 years of IT staff management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies, Processes & Procedures: PMI, Method I, Fusion, RPM Express, CRM, SDM/SPI, Waterfall ISO standard, SDLC PMO, Yourdon, Event Driven Customer/Production/Tech/Help Desk Support procedures, Process Reengineering, Iterative OO, Rational Rose, SEI CMM CMMI, Structured RAD life cycle, QA & QC, EDP Auditing, Feasibility studies, Cost/Benefit Analysis, CPM, PERT, Sampling, Prototyping, Statistical Analysis, Six Sigma, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Disaster recovery & Business Continuity, JD Edwards

Project Management Software: MS Project -Workbench - Timeline, MS Office (Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) Primavera, MS Project Server (2003/2007), Sharepoint (2003/2007), Office Portfolio 2007

OS: OS/MVS, OS 390, DOS, UNIX, AS400, DX10, Windows 2000/NT/98/XP, Windows 3.1, Novell (Netware), Banyan Vines, 3 Com, HP-UX 11i, Linux, Solaris 10, Windows NT

DBMS & related: DB2, IMS, Sybase Oracle, Informix, Natural ADABAS, MS Access, Powerbuilder, FoxPro/Foxbase, Crystal Report Generator, Dbase, Erwin Case tools, Forest & Trees Oracle 8i, 9i and 10g Oracle 11, R12, People tools, Peoplecode,reporting tools (nVision, Crystal, Query, SQR, etc.), Business Objects, Informatica, ETL, First Logic, Data warehousing, Data Integration, Data Mining and Master Data Management

Programming Languages & Related Software: VB, C, C++, Java, Java Scripts, COBOL, CICS, IMS, TSO, ISPF, BAL, COBRA, DOS, OS/MVS, VSAM, ISAM, FORTRAN, ASSEMBLER, PASCAL, RPG, JCL, PL, Basic, RPG, RPG 4, Oracle HR, PeopleSoft

Applications: Banking - Insurance - Financial - Manufacturing Applications - Financial Applications - Accounting Applications - Billing Applications -Inventory Control Applications - Options & Stock Exchange Applications - Payroll Applications - Distribution Systems Applications - Engineering Applications - Human Resources & Personnel Applications, Educational Applications - Marketing Applications - Student Records & Personnel Applications, Health / Life Insurance Applications - Banking Applications

Web Development related technologies: Java Beans, HTML, XML, RUP Netscape Application server, Biz Talk, Java(JSP/Servlet, JDBC, JNDI,J2EE/EJB), ASP (VBScripts, Perl5,CGIXML/XSLNE framework(SOAP, MSXML), Rational Rose, MS Visual Studio, Mercury WinRunner/LoadRunner, LDAP, Macromedia, Event Driven, RUP, Iteration, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Communication Server, WebSphere tool kits, WebSphere portals, Data warehousing, Data Marts, Data Mining, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Madison, WI

Senior Program / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Address Cleansing project & the PeopleSof upgrade projects thru their entire life cycle
• Created all the project plans including SOW, Business Cases, Charters, Work plans, Communication plans, Risk Management plans
• Done tracking, performance analysis, value added, feasibility studies, Earned value analysis, team building, team motivation
• Created weekly & monthly status reports, dashboard reports, scheduled, facilitated status meetings
• Managed the PeopleSoft Role security activities & the upgrade from 8.9 to 9.0
• Sent Request for Information (RFI), evaluated hardware / software vendors proposals & created a score card system for vendor evaluation
• Was responsible for Program / Project Budgeting & forecasting
• Created Change Management plans & risk management plans
• Participated in the project / program requirement gathering using JAD/RAD sessions & other techniques
• Done fit gap analysis & participated in the design phase
• Created training, communication, test & implementation plans
• Mentored & trained team members on project management & several technical areas
• Participated in the Procurement process

Confidential

Senior Program / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Multi Project Management; Managed projects thru their life cycles from initiation, planning, plans implementation to closing & delivery
• Responsibility of Resourcing, Budgeting, Forecasting, change management, risk management & issue management
• Program & Project Communication Management / Status meetings, status reporting, technical presentations, dashboard reports, & Management summary reports also managed the communication between the different project teams, users, Programs and PMO
• The project team orientation consisted of in house, remote and Global / Offshore
• The twelve projects varied from small, medium to large / complex projects
• Project technical tasks included building /rebuilding servers, data communications, gateways/routers, security scans, commissioning / de commissioning, application development, application installation, testing, MIPS security approval & Operational Readiness Review (OAR/ ORR), IP address assignment/allocation/implementation & load balance
• Created all project plans & documentations, used several utilities, specialized programs/databases & software such as Performa, NSR database, PI tracker, MS Project, epmo, icsr tracker

Confidential

Senior Program / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed program and projects through their entire life cycle: initiation, planning, plans implementation to closing & delivery.
• Created Proposals, and responded to client Request for Information (RFI)
• Worked along with Marketing and Sales Managers on closing deals with clients
• Gave a large number of functional & technical presentations
• Architected solutions that suits the needs & requirements for a large number of client s in different line of business
• Managed the implementations through its entire life cycle from Discovery, Planning, Gap/fit Analysis, Design, Build, test and implement
• Managed the Quality Assurance & testing efforts for the above implementations
• Managed Planning, Plans implementation, & program/Projects tracking, Program/Project Risk, Quality issues.
• Managed the Program/Project Financials (Budgeting & Forecasting)
• Created Program/ Project metrics; communicated Program/Project status to team members, PMO & project stats; created periodical status reports, technical & business presentations
• Worked in a Matrixed organization structure.
• Facilitated status meetings, with project teams, PMO, project sponsors, users & steering committee
• Created all associated Program/Project plans, Statement of work, Business cases, Scope statement, Program/Project charter, work plan (WBS), Quality Plans, implementation plans & risk management plans
• PeopleTools 8.42 to 8.49, PeopleSoft Applications FSCM 8.4/8.8, HCM 8.8/8.9/9, EPM 8.8, CRM 8.9/9
• PeopleSoft Security Administration, PeopleTools Utilities, Configuration Manager, Change Assistant, Change Impact Analyzer, Performance Monitor, Project Migration, Compare Reports
• Maintenance Pack, Tax Updates, Bundles, Patches and POCs
• Provided overall Production and Implementation Support for PeopleSoft Application Integration and Solutions
• Managed & supervised the Installation of PeopleSoft Applications FSCM 8.8, HCM 8.9 & CRM 8.8 on PeopleTools 8.45/46
• Participated in requirement gathering & documentation (RAD & JAD sessions)
• Hands on experience working with team members during the program, project & development life cycle, initiation, requirements, design, coding, testing and implementation
• Mentored / trained a large number of team members on all the different functional areas