SUMMARY

• IT professional with accomplished experience as a Project Manager with solid understanding of Business Processes
• Seasoned professional with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills
• Key Strengths includes Project Management, Service Delivery, Business Analysis and Database skills
• Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as requirement gathering and analysis, design, planning, development, testing and maintenance
• Worked on end to end Product Lifecycle, conversant with all the steps in Product Lifecycle Management - PLM/Project Lifecycle from design to service disposal
• Managed the delivery of multiple projects at the same time with teams across locations and involving multiple technologies
• Managed teams that follow the traditional waterfall model of development and also agile methodology (scrum)
• Experience in creating SOW (Statement of Work), estimating & budgeting the cost for the project, Status Reporting to project stakeholders
• Experience in executing large projects with emphasis on quality processes in all phases of software development implementing CMM level 5 methodologies
• Extensively worked on developing and managing projects related to database systems
• Strong experience in eliciting, writing, presenting and Facilitating Business, Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
• Conducted numerous brainstorming sessions, Workshops to discuss the objectives of the project to draft the finer points of the requirements
• Experience in Data Analysis, Understanding AS-IS models and coming up with TO-BE models, maintaining traceability matrices, data dictionaries.
• Used Visio extensively for data modelling and designing databases
• Proficient in resource management and project estimation, creating and tracking Project Plans using MS Project
• Interviewed candidates for hiring into project teams
• Extensive experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle starting from the requirements phase till the implementation support including all types of Quality Assurance activities
• Expertise in implementing industry best practices of Project Management Processes like PMBOK.
• Rich expertise in handling teams across geographical locations in an onsite / offshore engagement model
• Experience in using basic 6-Sigma tools in day to day projects
• Posses knowledge of various process models like CMM, CMMi, ISO and implementing the best practices of these model in day to day operations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Scope & Requirements Management, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, Resource Planning, Vendor Negotiations, Client Relations, Scheduling, Cost Tracking and Reporting, SDLC, Agile, CMMI, Waterfall, Business Analysis.

Management Tools: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office

Internet Technologies: J2EE, JDBC, Hibernate, JSP, Servlets, XML, Apache Tomcat, Eclipse

Programming Languages: Java, COBOL, FOCUS, JCL, Visual Basic

Databases: DB2, VSAM, IMS, Oracle, MS-Access

Productivity Tools: CICS, QMF, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, CA7, SEEC

General tools: File-aid, MQ-Series, FTP, NDM, IDCAMS, SyncSort, Eztrieve, Infoman

Operating Systems: OS/390, Z/OS, MVS/ESA, Microsoft Windows

Database Utilities: QMF, File-AID, SPUFI

Debugging: Dumpmaster, Abend-Aid, Error-assist, Xpeditor

Source Control: ChangeMan, Endevor, Visual Source Safe

Process Models: CMM, CMMi, ISO, 6-sigma basic model

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in Business meeting involving decisions management with the business stakeholders
• Requirements gathering from the business users - both on the data to be captured and also on the final reports to be derived from the data that is captured
• Analyze the production data and respond to user queries on various reports and also provide ad-hoc reports as per the needs.
• Preparing the estimates, schedule, work breakdown structure (WBS) for the team
• Review of the design and test plans
• Worked on agile and waterfall methodologies
• Track the progress of the work and create the status reports to be shared with the management team
• Prepare the Statement of Work and manage Change Requests for the projects
• Plan and co-ordinate with the SA and DBA teams for the installation of the releases into Production environment
• Responsible for mentoring and appraising the team members
• Manage technical meeting leading technical design decisions
• Involve in Transition process and co-ordinate with the support team, Confidential Bank, Fidelity and Third parties for a smooth rollover
• Act as key member for the stakeholders to turn to when decisions involve in analysis and research of existing systems and to provide improvements techniques for future releases
• Act as a process oriented person in managing the project by following the process model defined for the project and enhancements

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Business meeting involving decisions management with the business stakeholders
• Managed technical meeting leading technical design decisions
• First point of contact for the Client managers on this project
• Responsible for ensuring the deliverables are on time, within schedule and with the agreed upon quality parameters
• Managed the onshore resources and worked with the offshore project manager
• Planned and Scheduled the work for the team members
• Status tracking and reported the progress to the management
• Worked with the teams to optimize the processes used in the projects and coming up with initiatives to enhance the functional and technical knowledge of the team
• Prepared the Statement of Work and Change Requests for the projects
• Responsible for taking Client feedback and coming up with action items to improve the performance
• Responsible for mentoring and appraising the team members
• Reviewed and delivered all the documents and the deliverables

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Business meeting involving decisions management with the business stakeholders
• Managed technical meeting leading technical design decisions
• Responsible for ensuring the deliverables are on time, within schedule and with the agreed upon quality parameters
• Managed the onshore resources and worked with the offshore project manager
• Planned and Scheduled the work for the team members
• Status tracking and reported the progress to the management
• Conducted internal and external reviews as well as formal walkthroughs, and participated in status meetings
• Built extensible data acquisition and integration solutions to meet the functional and non-functional requirements of the business
• Acted as key member for the stakeholders to turn to when decisions involve in analysis and research of existing systems and to provide improvements techniques for future releases
• Acted as a process oriented person in managing the project by following the process model defined for the project and enhancements

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed technical meeting leading technical design decisions
• Played an integral part in conducting impact analysis of change requests which included estimation, planning and decision making.
• Performed the PM role in managing the project schedule updating critical paths using the MPP tool
• Responsible for ensuring the deliverables are on time, within schedule and with the agreed upon quality parameters
• Managed the onshore resources and worked with the offshore project manager
• Planned and Scheduled the work for the team members
• Status tracking and reported the progress to the management
• Acted as key member for the stakeholders to turn to when decisions involve in analysis and research of existing systems and to provide improvements techniques for future releases

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in Business meeting involving decisions management with the business stakeholders
• Always played an integral part in conducting impact analysis of change requests which includes estimation, planning and decision making.
• Performed the PM role in managing the project schedule updating critical paths using the MPP tool
• Acted as a process oriented person in managing the project by following the process model defined for the project and enhancements
• Handled 24 *7 production support tasks & activities

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a bridge between the business users and the system specialists in translating the business terms into business requirements
• Created business flows for easy translation of business requirements
• Contributed for scientific estimation techniques in arriving at the project estimates as a Project Manager
• Responsible for ensuring the deliverables are on time, within schedule and with the agreed upon quality parameters
• Planned and Scheduled the work for the team members

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played a part in handling enhancement & bug fix requests for all applications
• Responsible for creating program specifications, coding, unit testing, system testing and implementation activities for assigned projects
• Involved in Analysis and research of existing systems and provided suggestions for enhancement of future releases
• Responsible for ensuring the deliverables are on time, within schedule and with the agreed upon quality parameters
• Status tracking and reported the progress to the management

Confidential 

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Played a part in handling enhancement & bug fix requests for all applications
• Responsible for gathering requirements and supporting testing activities
• Responsible for creating program specifications, coding, unit testing, system testing and implementation activities for assigned projects
• Responsible for ensuring the deliverables are on time, within schedule and with the agreed upon quality parameters
• Status tracking and reported the progress to the management
• Involved in developing acceptance test cases with acceptance criteria as per requirements coordinating with Business Analysts
• Involved in Analysis and research of existing systems and provided suggestions for enhancement of future releases