Summary

IT Project Manager with over 10 years of related IT experience leading IT projects t successful delivery using state of the art technologies as J2EE,.NET, Oracle, SQL and PDM/PLM solutions. Business management professional with a thorough understanding of and background in technical processes, project schedules / timelines and budget estimates for effective and timely delivery.

Key Strengths include:

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Strong business acumen and IT leadership experience with track record of delivering projects on time and on budget.
• Ability t co-ordinate well with both the business and technical teams for successful project delivery.
• PMP certified - in depth knowledge of project management disciplines e.g. PMBOK, Schedule, Scope, Quality, HR, and Communications

Professional Experience

Confidential

IT Project Manager

• As an IT project manager, worked on various IT projects through different phases of lifecycle as initiation, execution, testing phase - working with project sponsor, business users for finalizing the project scope and business requirements working with the development team for development of the product and initiating and coordinating QC and UAT testing for the project t ensure quality delivery of the product.
• Worked on various project deliverables as developing project scope approach, ROI Return on Investment data, preparing and finalizing IT strategic plan, preparing project schedule, project task and financial/budgetary estimates for obtaining project approval from the IT Steering Committee. Was involved in resource management in the project and coordinated with the resource managers for resource negotiation and allocation for the project. Executed on-going PM responsibilities as weekly tacking analysis, tracking issues, monitoring variances and managing scope contingency.
• Conducted project kick-off meeting for project initiation and weekly status meetings t gather project status from the development team, conducted business requirements sessions for gathering business requirements, held meetings with the technical and networking teams for establishing technical environment for the projects.
• Attended Change control meetings for obtaining approval of the project components t be deployed t the Production environment.
• Led and managed project teams consisting of business/technical resources as business analysts, technical architects and developers t ensure successful delivery of the projects

Technical/Project Environment - Clarity for Project Management, MsVisio, MsWord, MsExcel, MsPowerPoint, Cloud, Mobile Technology, Java/J2EE, .NET, SQL, Oracle.

Confidential

Senior Consultant/Project Lead

• Project lead responsibilities for overall application design, development and testing interacting with business users for gathering business requirements t ensure successful delivery of the IT projects.
• Attending defect meetings t represent the application teams t communicate status t the other project teams.
• Initiating change requests for application enhancements attending deployment and change control board meetings t seek approval of change requests.
• Managing and conducting application deploys in the company's quarterly release.
• Technical / Project Environment MsProject, MS Word, MS Excel, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft SharePoint, Clarity, MS PowerPoint, Java/J2EE, XML, Oracle, Java Web services

Confidential

Technical Leader/Manager

• Ensured successful delivery of various enhancements t the Polk business applications Lead Marketing and PolkConnect 2.0 CRM solution which included internationalization of applications for different dealer markets in Italy, France and China. PolkConnect 2.0 and Lead Marketing applications are B2B solutions providing web portal solutions for automotive dealerships and OEMs offering after sales service and area metrics t the local dealers. Interacted with the automotive dealerships and vendor networks for production enhancements and any system related issues.
• Conducted the project implementation through all the project management processes as - initiation, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing.
• Conducted the initiation/kick-off meeting for the project start with the project team and business team member for identification of project scope and deliverables.
• Developing project plans- including details on project time schedule, financial estimates and resource assignments.
• Created WBS for subdividing project work int smaller, more manageable components, defined and sequenced the project related activities.
• Planned quality management by ensuring Quality assurance as part of project implementation and coordinated with the QC team for and quality control activities.
• Documented the scope of the work involved for project enhancements and other project documents as - business and technical requirements.
• Conducted daily scrum meetings agile methodology ensuring team members' progress by coordinating with business users for requirement clarifications, DBAs and architects for elaborating details on technical components.
• Prioritized and scheduled future project work by conducting bi-weekly project meetings with business representatives on updates and enhancements.
• As deployment lead initiated change control process for the business change requests participated in IT meetings obtaining approval for release components documented release items and communicated t business application and support teams of successful deploys.
• Technically supported the application teams t effective resolutions for defects and issues raised. Assisted efforts in the Oracle BI Publisher upgrade effectively handling issues with report migrations.
• Coordinated with business users t thrush out requirements for transfer t IT deliverables coordinated with QC team for testing application enhancements and with DBAs for database component updates for production releases.
• Identified project risks and determined risk responses for risk mitigation by involving end users throughout the project progress and incorporating changes in the project scope as the product is being developed, agreed t and signed business requirements by the clients and stakeholders t minimize scope creep, by ensuring the technical designs and test plans are signed off by the end user in order t ensure that the product is delivered t the client specifications.
• Used Altassian JIRA and Microsoft tools as MsProject, MsExcel for Project and Issue management logging and tracking issues raised t be taken as bug fixes / application enhancements for project team.
• Technical / Project Environment MsProject, Agile/Scrum methodology, JIRA for Project Issue Management, MS Word, MS Excel, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, Java/J2EE,Struts, JSF, XML, Oracle, Oracle BI Publisher reporting

Confidential

Technical Leader

• Led technical delivery of application modules for Ford's initiatives SOF Single Order Filter a B2C initiative utilized t schedule/reschedule/align vehicle orders for order selection and plant and week assignment within a scheduling time horizon and GOALS Global Ordering and Logistics System a B2B vehicle ordering application that is used by both internal business users and external dealer users for ordering of vehicles.
• Worked on existing project plans for modifications t the project document t incorporate any progressive elaboration for project enhancements used MsProject as documentation tool.
• Represented team in weekly technical application design and architecture review meetings for SOF application, obtaining approvals on new technical project components.
• As Deployment Lead conducted efficient deploys for SOF application and ensured availability of SOF environment.
• Led Deployment and Defect Resolution meetings daily discussing outstanding technical issues and determining production release dates for fixes implemented t test environment.
• Interacted with technical, business and data team leads ensuring defect identification and resolution.
• Led SOF Application Migration t new WebSphere 6 Servers by effective coordination with application development teams.
• Acted as a Security manager / administrator and implemented Ford's role based security system which set up users for various security levels for SOF application.
• Coordinated with business users for UAT enhancements before deploying t Production environment.
• Documented and charted test case scenarios for enhancements, using Microsoft tools.
• Technical/Project Environment Rational Unified Process, Test Driven Development, J2EE, Java 1.3, XML, RSA, Microsoft Visio, MsProject, MsExcel, MsWord, HP Mercury testing tool, Oracle, Oracle mapping tool - Toplink, Struts Framework, IBM WebSphere WAS 6.0, PVCS, UML, J2EE patterns, JUnit testing.

Confidential

Business Systems Leader/Manager

• Tested modules developed including unit, GUI, functional and regression testing. Documented various enhancements developed using MsWord and Microsoft Visio.
• Interacted with business users gathering enhancement requirements translating int IT deliverables.
• Led Teamcenter upgrade from earlier PDM/PLM software t Metaphase and development of various business modules integrating them with Metaphase / Teamcenter environment. Involved in system performance monitoring and administrative tasks.
• Interacted with business users for enhancements t company's intranet and online applications including enhancements t PLM software Teamcenter.
• Provided system enhancements t intranet and online helpdesk application. Handled application design, interacted with end application user for etching out business requirements and coordination for UAT before final release t Production environment.
• As IT team lead participated in identifying IT-Sarbanes Oxley compliance requirements and transferring int deliverables for change control of system enhancements t IT applications.
• Acted in a supervisory capacity and managed a small group of software engineers being responsible for assigning and prioritizing the work involved communications within the team for project statuses and als with the upper management for completion of the projects.
• Estimated activity resources and durations t perform project activities.
• Analyzed activity sequences, durations, resource requirements and schedule constraints t create the project schedule. Estimated costs t determine project budget and establish a cost baseline.
• Identified and documented project roles, responsibilities, required skills and reporting relationship which served as an input t the IT staffing plan.
• Minimized project risks by involving project team members t estimate for the project work they would be involved in in order t create realistic project schedule and budget estimates.

Technical/Project Environment Teamcenter server and thin client environment, MsProject, MsExcel, MsWord, WebLogic 8.1, MVC architecture,Ant, Eclipse, XML, UML, JSP, JavaScript, ASP, Oracle 9i, Perl, HTML, JavaScript, IIS Application server.

Confidential

System Analyst

• Acted as a project lead on various web enhancements and application portals.
• Interacted with project stakeholders for identification of project deliverables.
• Led projects including application design and architecture for internet applications developed: 'Employee Information Management System' 'Student Online registration System' and development of company's website.
• As project lead participated in selecting web technologies and infrastructure, configuring applications and web server for hosting the application.
• Participated in unit, functional and system testing set up User Acceptance testing with business users before releasing modules t production environment. Developed test plans and executed test cases. Performed GUI testing - presentation, web page navigation and visual appearance of web applications.

Environment Java2.0, HTML, JavaScript, JSP, Java Beans, Java servlets, Client side Java applet technology, JDBC, Java Web server, DHTML including CSS , Oracle, WindowsNT

Technical Skills:

• Software Packages: MsWord, MsExcel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Ms Project and Visio
• Web Technologies: Java/J2EE, ASP, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and DHTML including CSS
• Web/Application Server: Java Web Server 2.0, IBM WebSphere 4.0, WebLogic 8.1 and Microsoft IIS.
• Tools: JDK1.2, J2EE, EJBs, JSP, JDBC and Java servlets, Eclipse IDE, Ant, UML, PDM solution -
• Teamcenter 4.0
• Operating Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows98/NT/2000 and Windows 2007.
• Databases: Oracle 10g, MsAccess, PL/SQL and SQL