SUMMARY:

• Experienced Technical Project Manager offering 14 years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects in Pharmaceutical, Banking and Telecom industries
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project.
• Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Business Strategist: Plan and manage multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Expert in Agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Implementation of technical projects brought in incremental reporting efficiencies by making processes better and smarter: Consolidated Data Repository, Operational Process Transformation & Analytics-led Transformation.
• Experienced in all aspects of SDLC: requirements creation, interface design and prototype creation, software development, database design, SQL queries, testing, user manuals, quick start guides, release notes | Powerpoint training presentations and Visio Diagrams.
• Established team performance expectations and guidelines. Provided input to department managers of respective team members ‘performance level. Analyzed team performance for consistency/quality within established project guidelines. Reviewed and updated company SOP’s related to Project Management Services.
• In addition to project management, also involved extensively in Business Analysis, Data analysis, Business Intelligence, Web (Microsoft Technology), Project management & People management and responsible for defining project objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.

SKILLS:

• Agile development through SCRUM
• Involved in creating all documents (Technical Analysis Document, Business Requirement Document, Business Process Design Document, use case Model document, Use Case Specification Document, System wide requirement document and Technical Design Specifications) Proven strategic thinking skills
• Regulatory reporting (21 CFR Part 11), and compliance (HIPPA and Sarbanes Oxley)
• Managed offshore team of developers
• Maintain Architectural Oversight
• Hire and Manage experienced software developers.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving & decision-making skills
• Excellent verbal, oral & written communication skills. Excellent presentation skills
• Experience in People Management Activities.
• Developing project plans based on the effort estimates reviewed with the development team for the technical tasks identified as part of the technical assessment process.
• Using Project Server to upload project plans and make weekly updates.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with ability to gain confidence & respect of senior executives
• Proven ability to work with all levels of management and most senior of SME’s
• Proven ability to communicate with and work with staff Confidential every level of organization.
• Strong technical (SQL, ETL, BI & Analytics), management and leadership skills
• Knack for finding ways to improve business processes and speed up time to market.
• Experienced in Process Mapping Methodologies and application to business organizations.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Project management: MS Project. Excel, Project Server, PRISM, RALLY

Database: Oracle 10g, MS Access, MS SQL Server

SQL Tools: SQL Plus, SQL Worksheet, SQL Navigator, TOAD

Reporting Tools: Oracle Reports, Cognos, SQR, Crystal and BRIO, SSRS

Datawarehouse: SSIS, Business Objects XIR2, COGNOS 7.3, 8.4, Confidential Datastage Analytics SAS, SPSS, Cognos (Predictive Analytics), MDM

ERP Knowledge: PeopleSoft 7.5 (PeopleTools) and Peoplecode.

Version Control: MS Source Safe.

Issue Tracking: ONYX, Lotus Notes, and Support Magic

Office Tools: MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and MS Access, MS Visio

QA: QTP

Modeling: ERWIN etc.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing high value long term strategic projects that involve new and/or enhancing technology, are highly complex, and require tight coordination and integration with multiple organizations and suppliers.
• Providing overall direction and technical or analytical guidance to project and program teams that typically span multiple organizations and may also include outside suppliers/vendors.
• Leading large cross functional teams to manage programs within allotted timeline and budget.
• Working with external vendors and internal stakeholders to champion program/project(s) across the entire organization. Developing detailed work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
• Leading program meetings and is responsible for program tracking and analysis.
• Ensuring adherences to quality standards and reviews program/project deliverables.
• Managing the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
• Providing technical and analytical guidance to project team.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all the phases of Process Groups starting from project initiation to closure for successful implementation of project. .
• Controlled and monitored project scope, time & cost in managing competing project requirements
• Collected metrics data and reports on project progress and other project specific information to stakeholders,
• Responsible for translating business requirements into technical requirements, proposing solution architecture and screen mockups to meet business requirements,
• Proposed the technology solutions that will help manage study process that improves efficiency, reduce errors and maximize visibility.
• Imaging Reporting Services that facilitates accurate and real-time tracking of trial’s imaging data.
• Managed several global projects covering multiple Therapeutic areas. Participated in and provided leadership for internal process improvement committes.

Confidential

Manager, Analytics

Responsibilities:

• Lead and Built DWBI projects from beginning to end
• Business Requirements Definition Confidential Project Initiation Phase
• Functional & Technical Design & Documentation
• Participated in testing phase during UAT prior to deployment in production
• Participated in Change Management Process
• Managed 10+ direct reports and performing all HR activities including performance reviews, interviewing and hiring activities, mentoring, coaching team members as needed
• Mentored and developed team members overseeing their growth and advancement within organization.
• Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Developed full scale project plans and associated communications documents
• Effectively communicated project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Estimated the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
• Tracked project milestones and deliverables
• Proactively managed changes in project scope, identify potential crisis, divine contingency plans
• Delegated tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
• Client liaison and decision maker for requests impacting supported application
• Involved in Pre sales and POC activities as well.
• Responsibilities included delivery of various Projects in organization
• Key member/contributor of 2.3 million $ project for Healthcare services in US
• Successfully delivered BI Reporting solution to address business challenges that healthcare companies face across therapeutic areas by leveraging existing data to answer their key questions.
• Built extensive experience in Pharma Business across Gen Pharma, Vaccines, Oncology and discretionary Healthcare Products.
• Long term engagement with a large Health Insurance firm to provide Analytics Reporting and Modeling services.
• Implemented internal project involving Cognos based dashboard solution for CIO organization
• Identified business challenges for each project, generated ideas and proposed solutions to address challenges and produce business benefits.
• Provided technical support and consultation for new technologies providing solutions for enhancing the technical architecture..
• Involved in planning, controlling and monitoring and also managing and directing the assigned project resources to best meet project objectives.

Confidential

Team Lead and Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Understanding requirements, Business Process, Analysis & Documentation
• Regular interaction with developers to build Data warehousing project for retail banks.
• Integration Testing prior to implementation
• Participation in Change Management Process in case of requirement change or to handle new requests.
• Managing team of 8 individuals that include development and QA team.
• Escalating and communication of project status
• Interacting with internal Product development team to understand requirements.
• Estimating scope of work, resource planning and effort estimation for projects .
• Development and implementation processes to achieve Sarbanes Oxeley compliance
• Providing weekly and monthly status updates to key stakeholders and senior management of organization.
• Mitigating Project Risk

Confidential

Sr. BSA/Report Developer

Responsibilities:

• I was working as a Sr. Business System Analyst for a Data warehouse Project based on a retail store application.
• Key responsibility was to understand the business user’s requirements for information and communicating them to the rest of the data warehouse team.
• Assisted data modeler to create summary tables and mapping task based on the existing data model that will be used for reporting analysis.
• Lead the identification and documentation of business metrics.
• Review the database models to ascertain requirements are met.

Confidential, Andover, MA

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of internal projects for Sales & Marketing, Finance, departments to support design, manufacture and marketing of modular power components and complete power systems used in communication, data processing, industrial controls, test equipment, medical and defense electronic markets