SUMMARY

• 15.5 years of experience in IT industry with Project Management and IT experience.
• In depth knowledge of all aspects of Project Management such as scope definition/management, project planning, project schedule development/tracking, risk management, project communication, and stakeholder management.
• Expert in managing different types of projects such as Infrastructure Projects (End - of Life Servers upgrades, O365 Migrations, Windows 7 Migrations, etc), Application Migration (projects such as creating new .com platform and creating a unified Policy Output System), Application Integration (Integrating Service layer with underwriting system), and Maintenance and Enhancements Projects (projects such as Modernized New Business Enhancements).
• Extensive experience managing teams in the onsite-nearshore-offshore model, managing projects across different Technologies and Domain.
• Proficient in software development life cycle (SDLC) involving Waterfall methodology and Agile SCRUM Methodology.
• Experienced with multiple customer environments and project teams
• Involved in Program Management activities such as proposals culminating in multimillion dollar projects, hiring and training staff.
• Built credibility, established rapport, and maintained communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization
• Expert in maintaining Billing, Audit, Project plan, Risk Register/Issues & Other process activities.
• Experienced in effectively prioritizing and executing tasks in a high-pressure environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Skills: Project Initiation, Planning, Effort Estimation, Scheduling, Controlling, Monitoring, Tracking, Development Projects, Management, People Development, Training, Performance Management, Ensure Audit Compliance, Risk Management

Operating Systems: MS Windows- 7, XP & 2000, OS/390, UNIX

Programming Languages: COBOL, JAVA

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server

Special Software: MS Office, MS Visio, CA Clarity, HP PPM, Primavera PPM, MS Project, CICS, JCL, DataStage, Oracle BI, Jobtrac, CHANGE MAN, WBI, MQ Series

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership and managed projects in the expansion and continuous improvement of International Business infrastructure (in Japan, Poland, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Korea etc).
• Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Lead studies and proposals for Prudential International countries' infrastructure enhancements/improvements such as bringing international countries to US Prudential network, Data Center improvements/migrations, creating new international Data Centers etc
• Forecasting, planning and budgeting for next fiscal year
• In charge of implementing process improvements and best practices in the group
• Identified and resolved issues and conflict within the project team
• Identified and managed project dependencies and critical path

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Microsoft, Network, Server teams and Technical Architects to come up with the overall solution for the Exchange 2010 migration across the globe and creating Technical Design documents, Exchange network Topology and Bandwidth requirements.
• Managed the global team in scheduling and installing DAG Server, Riverbed, F5 and network equipment and testing around the globe and in the Enterprise Data Centers.
• Managed the Exchange team to create schedules for mailbox migration for countries in North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa.
• Managed the overall finance for the project. Created and tracked Capital and Expense budget for the project globally.
• Negotiated with various vendors in purchasing server and network equipment in countries around the globe.
• Utilized CA Clarity and Ariba Spend Management for project status updates, time tracking, costs associated with the work and to create Purchase Orders for the resources and equipment.
• Responsible for presenting periodic Dashboard reports on the current progress, future plans, and issues to Director, Senior Management and portfolio meetings.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Business Case, Business Case Summary and Validate Business Case by working closely with BCD team and present it to the Business and Systems leadership for approval.
• Conducted Statement of Work Presentation and Creation of Project Plan and resource planning
• Used Primavera Project Management tool to create work schedules and used it to plan and track the work, people assigned and costs associated with the work
• Involved in Full Cycle implementation using Waterfall and Agile methodology
• Worked with Business and Technical Architects to create the Business Requirements and Technical Design documents for the .com pages and data warehousing.
• Worked closely with the development team/other interface team to insure timely delivery of code and successful Integration/System testing

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leadership of deploying over 5500 Windows 7 machines to all AXA Users
• Responsible for working with various Business and IT groups (around 50 individual groups) and gather the applications list and their requirements for Windows 7 packaging
• Lead the team to analyze and finalize the testing and rollout approach for Third party applications and Home grown (web based and non-web based) applications.
• Worked closely with the technical team to set-up packaging process development and the packaging standards for Win7 and Med-V applications.
• Responsible for development, planning and organizing the IT testing and Pilot testing with all groups and to get the necessary sign-offs
• Responsible for planning and executing the Windows 7 deployment schedule (including Data migration) for all the group and the day 2 support
• Responsible for presenting periodic Dashboard reports on the current progress, future plans, and issues to CTO and AXA Management.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Full Cycle implementation using waterfall methodology
• Managed the team of Business/IT Teams, 3rd Party vendors and Data/Technical Architects to create the Business Requirements, Technical Design documents, Service Interface Control Documents, Data Models and Data Mapping documents.
• Worked closely with the Business, DBAs, IT team to design and develop a new Data warehousing system (DataStage, Oracle BI) for the Life New Business system.
• Worked closely with the development team/other interface team to insure timely delivery of code and successful Integration testing
• Responsible for presenting periodic Dashboard reports on the current progress, future plans, and issues to Upper management.
• Ensured successful and timely completion of project deliverables
• Planned, estimated, budgeted and controlled costs to ensure project is completed within approved budgets
• Conducted risk management planning, identification, analysis and monitoring

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked together with Business and Tech Architects from various systems to create the Business Requirements, Data Mapping documents and Output document formats
• Worked closely with all the stack holders to take care of compliance and state regulatory rules and successfully integrating them in the Policy Output System
• Responsible for presenting periodic Dashboard reports on the current progress, future plans, and issues to Upper management.
• Ensured successful and timely completion of project deliverables
• Planned, estimated, budgeted and controlled costs to ensure project is completed within approved budgets