Summary

• 13+ year of experience in IT industry, ranging from Pre-Sales, Management, design, development, coding testing of Web-based, Client-Server and n-tier Architecture applications
• A seasoned manager with 6+ years of experience in Program Management/ Project Management
• Extensive domain experience in fields ranging from Infrastructure, Legal, Finance, Retail and e-commerce domains
• Proficient knowledge of SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative, Spiral, Agile etc
• Experienced in Pre-Sales activities, such as RFP package creation, RFP Response, Bidding etc
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrating high level of compatibility for team work by using leadership skills
• Extensive experience in Onsite/Offshore execution model

Academic Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electrical Electronics Engineering

Award/ Recognition

Professional Experience

Confidential, Irvindale, California July 2010- Present

Program Management: Client Virtualization 3 (CV3)
Client Virtualization Program is a continuation of the previous Phase 1 and Phase 2 programs addressing additional capabilities and technology to SCEs Citrix Infrastructure required by Business Units.
Following projects are handles with-in CV3 program.
Project 1: Desktop Virtualization
This project covers the introduction and management of desktop virtualization at SCE. The primary areas to be addressed are as follows:

• User Profile Management for virtual desktops
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) access and management for virtual and physical brokered desktops

Project 2: TDM Tools Virtualization
This project will address the needs of SCE Business Units to virtualize their development tools and test environments primarily for Off-shore developer access and use.
Project 3: Virtualization Support
This project will further address the following Virtualization support requirements:

• 24x7 incident support
• Order and request for new application and desktop requests to be virtualized

Responsibilities

• Program Management
• Senior Management interaction and status reporting
• Client interaction for requirement gathering and issue resolution
• Coordination among project teams
• Project tracking and Implementation

Environment: Infrastructure, Citrix, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Program Management: Confidential
Confidential needed a Program Manager to handle their Legal portfolio. Following projects are handled under Legal portfolio -

Project 1: Medicare Compliance Reporting
The objective of this project is to be compliant with Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007. Enhancements are needed in the existing Claims Management System (CMS.NET) to capture the required data elements for reporting to government. SCE is a NGHP (Non Group Health Plans) and must report its Workers Compensation liability claims to government starting second calendar quarter of 2012.

Project 2: eDiscovery
A program has been initiated to implement e-discovery (Electronic Discovery) in SCE. The program has been started to comply with rules and regulations pertaining to the discovery of electronic information in numerous legal jurisdictions including the Federal and California State courts. In order to meet the requirements of these rules, the company must be able to identify, preserve, collect, review, and produce electronic information in a legally defensible manner as specified in the regulations within the required deadlines.
The plan is to implement e-Discovery solution in a phased manner
Phase 1 Phase1 would implement Legal Hold part of EDRM (eDiscovery reference model). Legal hold is the process of placing a lock on any potential material information where it resides on the network and modifies file permissions so the file cannot be moved or deleted except by the Legal Hold Owner.
Phase II Phase II would implement remaining pieces of ERDM (other than Legal Hold)

Target date to complete the eDiscovery program is Oct 2012.

Project 3: WC Fileroom document migration
There are around 900 physical file claims (approximately 1mm pages) stored in law department. These files occupy a lot of real estate for storage and searching any claim record is also cumbersome. A new project has been started to scan all the physical files into searchable format and store them into a secure electronic format.
The scope of the project it to address the following:

• Profile and scanning open claim physical files into Open Text library
• Documents need to be fully searchable
• The scanned document in Open Text library should only be accessible to Workers Compensation team

Project 4: iVOS Re-platform
iVOS application is used in Legal department for the last 2 years to support Workers compensation process in SCE. iVOS software is fundamentally unstable and SCE IT continues to struggle to support the application.
A new project has been started to explore different alternatives to re-platform iVOS system and come up with a recommendation. Later iVOS application would be re-platformed as per the solution approved by senior management.

Project 5: Edison.com CMS Replacement
Edison.com is Edison Internationals external facing website. The website is the primary public facing electronic medium for communicating the corporations profile, news media, investor information, community involvement, and environmental stewardship.
The content management system (CMS) that the website currently uses to manage and render content is outdated, failing and is no longer sufficient to meet client needs. Hence a new project has been started to change the content management system (CMS) and to host the website on an external hosting server

Responsibilities

• Program Management
• Senior Management interaction and status reporting
• Client interaction for requirement gathering and issue resolution
• Coordination among project teams
• Project tracking and Implementation

Environment: .Net, Oracle, Opentext, Adobe DayQ5, Lotus Notes, COTS package

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois Mar 2010- Jun 2010

Project 1: Websphere Decommissioning
JC Whitney is the largest and oldest catalog and internet direct-to-consumer auto parts and accessories retailer in USA. JC Whitney wanted to migrate all their websites from IBM Websphere to a more robust Java ATG platform. A new project was started to migrate all such websites (Carparts.com, Autosears.com) to Java ATG.

Responsibilities

• Project Management
• Client interaction for requirement gathering and issue resolution
• Effort Estimation and resource loading
• Implementation support

Environment: Java/J2EE, ATG, DB2

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois Feb 2008- Mar 2010

Project 1: Replenishment
LHE wanted to develop an application to support their Book/ Magazine replenishment business line. LHEs target was to complete the project before Christmas season 2009. Project was successfully rolled out into production in Nov 2009 and thereafter maintenance phase got started.

Responsibilities

• Project Management
• Client interaction for requirement gathering and issue resolution
• Effort Estimation and resource loading
• Implementation support

Environment: ASP .Net, C#, SQL Server 2005

Program Management Confidential
Confidential required a Program Manager to take care of the increasing no of IT projects. Program Manager was supposed to be single point of contact for LHE IT and he was required to interface with Business departments as IT project owner.

Following projects are handled as part of the program

Project 1: Confidential EVMI (Enterprise VMI)
Confidential is a leading book supplier to the Clubs (BJ, Costco, Sams) in USA. LHE wanted to expand its business to the retails chains (such as Walmart, K-Mart, and Target etc). Business rules to cater to retail chains are very much different as compared to Clubs. Hence a project (Enterprise VMI) was started to enable LHE to expand its business. Following projects were delivered under EVMI suite -

• EVMI 1.0
• EVMI 1.1
• EVMI 1.2

Project 2Confidential Club VMI Stabilization Maintenance
Confidential is a leading book supplier to the Clubs (BJ, Costco, Sams) in USA. To support their existing club business Confidential was using a .Net application based application Club VMI. . The existing Club VMI application was not a stable application. Due to the frequent downtime in the application, Confidentials business was getting impacted. Hence a project was started to stabilize the existing Club VMI application and optimize the code.

Responsibilities

• Program/Account Management
• Coordination and issue resolution
• Project management and Implementation
• Budget preparation and resource planning
• Interfacing between LHE IT and Business senior management

Environment: ASP .Net, C#, SQL Server 2005

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona/New Delhi, India Feb 2005- Feb 2008

Project 1: RPC
RPC project was started as all the functionality required to address Level 1 SOX deficiency was not available through Sungard Intellisuite. Main functionality delivered by RPC project were Reconciliation checklist which has to be filled up at the time of accounts reconciliation.

Responsibilities

• Project Management
• Interaction with Business to understand their processes/requirement.
• Status Reporting to higher management
• Effort estimation
• Implementation

Environment: ASP .Net, C#, SQL Server 2000

Project 2: Rec Gen II
The overall objective of the Rec Gen II project was to redefine the reconciliations process performed across American Express to address the Level 1 SOX deficiency.
American Express selected the IntelliSuite product from SunGard for Reconciliations process. IntelliSuite product has major two components i.e. IntelliMatch and Intellitracs. The IntelliMatch product consists of the matching engine for both automatic and manual matches. The Intellitracs product consists of the Research and Clearance modules, Notification, Escalation and creation of automated Journal entries.
Responsibilities

• Analyze/ Review the technical architecture of the Project.
• Interaction with Business to understand their processes.
• Interaction with Sungard to understand the technical implementation of Intellisuite product.
• Status Reporting
• Leading the Performance testing phase
• Implementation

Environment: Sungard Intellisuite, ASP .Net, C#, SQL Server 2000

Project 3: Campus Migration - Biz T EUC
American Express Mathura Road, New Delhi office was shifting to Gurgaon. A Project Management team was formed in Technology department to take care of the technological aspect of the office move. Four project teams were formed in Technology department
Biz T, EUC, Application Migration IPC Hosting
Applicant was responsible for the Project Management of Biz T EUC workstreams.
Biz T Biz T project was started to migrate the unauthorized applications macros privately maintained by different Amex departments in Mathura Road. The biggest challenge was to migrate the MS Word MS Excel macros written with Extra to PComm as Attachment Extra was not to be available in Gurgaon campus.
EUC (End User Computing) More than 2000 employees were migrating to Gurgaon campus. EUC project was started to migrate all the PCs, laptop, departments shared drives etc to Gurgaon.

Responsibilities

• Project Management
• Requirement analysis effort estimation
• Status Reporting
• Implementation

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, Attachment Extra, PComm

Project 4: Card Incentive System
A standard practice in a Credit Card Companys relationships with corporate clients and business partners is to provide financial incentives. The incentive offering is often times the deciding factor between the various competing Corporate Card Companies. The ability to compete for card customers is becoming increasingly dependent on the American Expresss ability to provide tailored contracts and specialized support to corporate customers.
The support and processing of incentive payments is a function that historically has been performed manually in American Express without much standardization. Hence a project was started in American Express to standardize and automate the process of Card Incentive Settlement.
The current project was divided into 2 parallel sub projects phase 1.a and phase 1.b. While phase 1.a delivered the Profiling functionality (Contract setup related reports), phase 1.b delivered the actual incentive calculation functionality.

Responsibilities

• Leading the technical solution in the project
• Interaction with Business to understand their processes.
• Requirement analysis effort estimation
• Leading the Design Build phase
• Designing on Arrangement (Contract) Incentive Calculation modules.
• Status Reporting
• Implementation

Environment: ASP .Net, C#, SQL Server 2000

Project 5: EIS PMS Enhancement
American Express, India has an intranet based Employee Information system (EIS) that contains the personal data regarding the employees. People Management System (PMS) is one of the applications in finance department that feed in the data to EIS system. American Express decided to provide the employees monthly salary statements Provident fund details in the Employee Information system. An enhancement project was done to make necessary changes in the EIS PMS applications.

Responsibilities

• Project Management
• Requirement analysis effort estimation
• Status Reporting
• Preparing Logical Design Document
• Implementation

Environment: VB .Net, SQL Server 2000

Program Management: AEFA Spinoff American Express decided to spinoff its Financial Advisory department - American Express Financial Advisors Inc (AEFA). A program was started in Technology department to measure the impact of AEFA Spinoff and to manage all the projects required in Technologies to make AEFA SpinOff a success. A program management office was setup in New Delhi office to oversee the AEFA Spinoff activity in Technology.

Responsibilities

• Program Management
• Controlling the scope, cost schedule of all the projects in Technologies
• Coordination between different projects
• Status Reporting

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel

Confidential, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Jan 2003 -Jan 2004

Project 1: Statement Application
Strong Financial Corporation Retirement Plan Services (RPS) division manages the 401(k) assets for various clients/companies. At the starting of every quarter, strong issues the statements for the last quarter containing the details of account transactions for every individual. An application was developed to automate the whole process of creating statements and sending them across.

Responsibilities

• Requirement analysis estimation for statements application
• Coding bugfixing
• Writing Unit Test Cases and System Test Cases
• Code Review
• Providing online support for Statement Application
• Status reporting

Environment: Visual Basic .Net, SQL Server 2000

Project 2: IT Application Enhancement
Strong Financial Corporation Retirement Plan Services (RPS) division manages the 401(k) assets for various clients/companies. Strong RPS uses applications written in Java, Visual Basic, Unix scripting language etc. to support their RPS business activities. The project was to make enhancements in the applications used by RPS division both client facing and back office applications. The project team was also involved in server migrations, data processing and testing etc.

Responsibilities

• Requirement analysis, estimation development for new enhancements
• Production support
• Preparing reports from Sungard-Omniplus
• Status reporting

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, Java, Sybase, UNIX, Crystal Reports, Sungard-Omniplus

Confidential, Noida, India Jul 1998 Dec 2002 Feb 2004 - Jan 2005

Project 1: Ontrack Dental Practice Service Software
Mercer Global required a comprehensive System for Service Delivery to dentists (Ontrack). Ontrack would replace the existing Practice Consultation offered by Mercer Global. The new system will help the practice consultants in better management of their time and will help them to share the information about the clients with remaining divisions. This will help in leveraging and enhancing the current business processes in use by Mercer Mastery into more efficient service.

Responsibilities

• Module Management
• Preparing Logical Design and Detail Design documents
• Coding and Unit testing
• Code review
• Integration testing.

Environment: VB .Net, ASP .Net, XML, SQL Server 2000

Project 2: CTCM Phase II
ADDITIONAL DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF SYSTEMS, Army Headquarters, was interested in development of application software for AUTOMATION OF TRANSIT CAMPS IN NORTHERN COMMAND. TCS was awarded the first phase project by Indian Army to automate Transit Camps. Again TCS was awarded the 2nd phase project as well. Development was done in TCS office in India and implementation was carried out in the 20 different transit camps in the Northern Zone, India.

Responsibilities

• Module Management
• Requirement gathering and documentation
• Designing the database, forms and reports
• Coding and Unit testing
• Implementation

Environment: C++, VB, COM, Oracle 9i

Project 3: Flight Data Acquisition and Analysis System
The Indian Air Force (IAF) needed to milk data from the MIG-29 aircraft FDR (M2T3 Type) after every sortie. The data is pre-processed at the time of milking to check for loss and bad data. Then Go/No Go Analysis is carried out after which the aircraft is cleared for the next sortie depending upon the outcome of the same. The data is further analysed to obtain the health and performance of the Aircraft and its Engine(s) and various other systems and components.
To fulfill the above tasks the IAF requires FDAAS for its various MIG-29 Squadrons. The project was done at TCS office in India. The implementation was carried out in various Indian Air force locations.
Responsibilities

• Requirement gathering and analysis

• Designing the screens and reports.
• Analysis of report output.
• Coding and Unit testing.

Environment: C++, VC++, VB, COM, Oracle 8.0

Project 4: Sabre Airline Reservation Project
SABRE AIRLINE RESERVATION COMPANY, DALLAS was interested in rewriting their codes written in PL1/ ASSEMBLY on IBM MAINFRAME to C, C++, PERL language on UNIX and TIL was awarded the first phase project. The project was done at TCS office in India. The implementation was carried on DALLAS, USA.

Responsibilities

• Requirement gathering and analysis

• Detail Designing
• Coding and Unit testing
• Offshore support

Environment: C++, C, UNIX, PL/I, Assembly Language

Project 5: CTCM Phase I
Additional Directorate General of Systems, Army Headquarters, was interested in development of application software for Automation of Transit Camps in Northern Command. The project was done at TCS office in India. The implementation was carried on Jammu, Srinagar and Chandigarh in India.

Responsibilities

• Requirement gathering and analysis

• Designing the database, forms and reports
• Coding and Unit testing
• Preparing the user manual
• Implementation

Environment: Developer 2000, (Forms 6.0 and Reports 6.0) Oracle 8.0