SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years of experience in the field of Information Systems
• Involved in project implementation in roles ranging from Junior Developer to Senior Technical Project Manager
• Broad exposure to supporting development lifecycle tools including PMBOK, Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with working / managing offshore resources.
• Experience in preparing Project Plans, creating and managing project team and delivery keeping project under budget and delivery schedule.
• Experience in managing project team
• Experience in Planning and executing project plans
• Proficient at identifying and building consensus on winning strategies and the associated goals and action plans.
• Extensive experience in Writing Use Cases, scenarios, Business processes, work flow diagrams and process maps.
• Extensive experience in data profiling and trending of data patterns.
• Extensive experience in formulating Business Case and following up with stakeholders to ensure viability, accuracy and profitability of business case throughout the project lifecycle.
• Experience in writing scalable and high - performance code.
• Experience of communicating with all levels of stakeholders PM, SME’s identifying bottlenecks, scope creep, early identification of issues, mitigation strategies, prioritization of delivery of artifacts.
• Experience in leading teams during multiple phases of project.
• Possess excellent analytical skills coupled with interpersonal and self-organizing skills. Ability to adapt to changing work environment to implement business and process solutions in an efficient manner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tracking Tool: TFS, JIRA

Languages: SQL, HTML, XML,C#, JAVA

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MS-Access, Lotus Notes, SQL

MS - Office Suite: Excel, Visio, Outlook, PowerPoint, Share point

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, Linux

Tools: Business Objects, SPUFFI, Rational tool suite, Team Foundation server, Visual Studio, Share Point services, UNICA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed national, cross functional team to develop and integrate module
• Led Scrum team to develop estimates, plan releases and sprints, track progress during Scrums, identify and resolve issues, review sprint features with product owner and conduct retrospectives
• Definedproject's scope, prepared detailedprojectplans, assigned resources, set timelines, identified critical path and dependencies, and facilitated meetings to accomplish tasks and resolve issues
• Managed project status reporting to stake holders as well as executives

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created project plan for end to end implementation
• Interviewed offshore team members to create project team
• Worked with team to create Epics and Features
• Prioritization of implementation working with business stakeholders
• Created delivery cadence for sprints
• Managed Grooming and prioritization of backlog
• Created and presented weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for executives.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed functional and technical specification created by team
• Point of contact for technical and business teams
• Involved with developers for design decisions made for the implementation
• Conducted daily stand up and by weekly retrospective meetings
• Management of backlog
• Conducted weekly meetings for story grooming
• Conducted End of sprint meetings with business owners

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing code for Filenet P8 enhancements written in JAVA
• Involved in creating schema for EDM ICN implementation
• Involved in reviewing data mappings and business logic
• Conducted weekly meetings for User story grooming
• Prioritization of user stories and back log
• Involved in communicating with several levels of business stakeholders
• Involved in design decisions made by architecture team for the solution.
• Responsible for assigning projects to team members
• Responsible for bi-monthly reporting of EDM program to Executives

Confidential

Development Manager (Tax Manager)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in implementation code for calculation flows models integration
• Managed process of continuous Integration of code to production
• Management of Sprint burndown
• Involved in backlog prioritization and user stories grooming
• Conducted daily Scrum meetings with Offshore Development team
• Involved in identifying and escalating dependencies, roadblocks for integration decisions for module into Portal
• First level support for NOL module
• Managed team of onshore and offshore developers
• Involved in creating SOW, business case and RTF’s
• Responsible for on time and within budget delivery of project

Confidential

Senior Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created tools for data quality matrix using SQL Server
• Involved in creating reports for Americas region using SSRS
• Involved in writing stored procedures for manipulating data
• Involved in reviewing ETL process for all the regions using Informatica
• Interacting with end users and facilitating meetings with data issues and fixing strategies
• Involved in corporate wide presentation for Data governance implementation benefits and single source of truth concept
• Interaction with Executives and other stakeholders regarding requirements elicitation and documentation of MDM implementation
• Involved in documenting process improvements required for Data Governance
• Point of contact for Data Governance related questions for Americas region
• Team Lead for Americas region

Confidential, Schaumburg IL

Senior System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in coding reviewing mappings for data warehouse
• Involved in writing reporting queries for customers using SQL server
• Involved in creating mapping document, Data Flow diagram and ERD
• Involved in writing test cases, scenarios and test suites using TFS
• Involved in designing ETL process using Informatica
• First level support of business reporting portal (CARE Portal)
• Management of sprint and backlog
• Involved in Grooming of user stories weekly
• Review of Data warehouse processes for adequate throughput and high availability of up to date information for customers.
• Involved in creating reports using SSRS
• Interaction with end users for any problems with reports and resolution proposals
• Interaction with end users for any latency issues faced by users and proposed resolution

Confidential, Libertyville IL

Senior Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in online credit application UI enhancements and business logic definition
• Involved in implementing Fiserv Workflow Manager within the corporation
• Involved in underwriting process reengineering
• Lead team for reporting requirements and delivery.
• Involved in extracting data from local data sources using Informatica and File Aid
• Mapped over 2000 data elements from local data sources to target in AF.
• Involved in creating tool for requirements management using Access.
• Involved in GAP analysis regarding availability of data, infrastructure.
• Involved in creating process maps.
• Involved in writing SQL queries and creating Excel macros for transformation and validation of data elements.
• Involved in financial portfolios data analysis.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Responsible for eliciting and documenting functional and business requirements
• Creation of process maps and gap analysis.
• Heavily involved in design of database schema for data mapping engine.
• Creation of use cases for end to end data conversion process.
• Interaction with Business units for reporting, scope creep, identification of issues and mitigation policies.
• SME for data conversion process and software.
• Coded high efficiency multithreaded modules for data conversion engine.
• Lead team for design, coding and testing.
• Involved in code reviews and profiling.
• Created physical schema of back end database.
• Reports creation using SSRS

Confidential, Northbrook IL

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating Use cases, functional and business requirements, process maps, campaign flow diagrams with time lines and identification of process bottlenecks
• managed two other BA’s.
• Interaction with developers, system analysts, data owners discussing the specifications provided by the business partners and changes in the process.
• Interaction with Marketing Operation team for creating campaign management document.
• Interaction with enterprise data management team for resolving data availability and latency issues.
• Worked closely with PM for project status, risk and change management processes.
• Generation of daily and monthly status reports.
• Improvement to already in use templates for several documents, approval by management.
• Lead test team for UAT and functional test.
• Applied approved methodology changes to marketing department process for quick and efficient retrieval of older campaigns.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Owned component of the product (Data Converter), involved in code changes and updates.
• Helped in enhancing already used processes according to unit requirements.
• Wrote use cases according to the functional requirements.
• Gathered requirements and developed design specifications for the earth quake model for Japan.
• Reverse Engineered requirements for Data Converter.
• Responsible for testing different scenarios for the product.
• Implemented document repository for the team using Team Foundation Server document libraries.
• Implemented Team foundation server for team collaboration, bug tracking, version control and Code profiling.
• Implemented infrastructure for Team foundation server, template changes and Work Item changes.
• Involved in software evaluation (Dev partner) for code profiling and performance issues.

Confidential, IL

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities

• Responsible for writing code in JAVA as per the specifications and requirements Analysis.
• Responsible for gathering requirements and creating functional design specifications and design documents.
• Interaction with business, discussing the specifications provided by the business partners and changes and discrepancies in the application.