PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 15 years of experience in IT industry. Currently performing as Project Manager \Business System Analyst Role.
• Strong knowledge and experience in Project management skills and hands on experience in Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Control and Closing the project.
• Has very good experience in preparing SOW, Project plan, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Resource planning, managing the Project Resource allocations and their release/rotation plan, Creating & updating Project Schedules, Creating and tracking of the Issue Logs.
• Managing and delegating task to team, tracking the project progress and resolving the open issues in project.
• Has very good experience in interacting with Business User to elicit the business requirements.
• Hands - on experience in preparing Project Scope\Specification doc, Reviewing Project deliverables and getting User signoff on the requirements.
• Hands on experience in reviewing deliverables with different stakeholders & receiving signoff from them.
• Has 7 years of domain expertise in Auto Manufacturing, 2 Plus years of domain expertise in Retail Marketing, 2 plus years of domain expertise in Mail Service and 2 year of domain expertise in Core Banking Payment Systems, 1 year of domain expertise in Healthcare and 6 months in Aerospace.
• Has worked extensively in VS COBOL II, DB2, JCL, CICS, SAS, Natural, Adabas technologies & many Mainframe tools.
• Has 8 Plus years of experience managing Team Size of 8 - 10 members. Has 15 years of experience in on-site/offshore model.
• Has Hands on experience in analyzing the requirements, Preparing Technical Specification, Development, Testing and Implementation of business applications under IBM Mainframe environment.
• Has very good problem analysis Skills, I am versatile team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to follow project standards and procedures.
• I played an active role in imparting Applications Knowledge and technical training within the Team and Organization.
• Master of Computer Application from University of Madras, Graduated in March 2001.
• Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, University of Madras, Graduated in April 1998.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Project (MPP), MS Visio, Project Management
• VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, CICS, SAS, Endevor
• Changeman, OPC, Xpeditor, Intertest, VSAM
• SPUFI, QMF, BMC, SDF II, ZEKE, Filemaster
• Telon, Panvalet, Infoman, Fileaid/DB2, Fileaid/IMS
• Data Dictionary, CA7, Natural, Adabas, CSP
• Smartest, Lotus Notes, HP Quality Center, MS SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Huntington Beach, CA

Project Manager \ Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of Project from Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Control and closure.
• Involved in Requirements gathering and review, Design review, UAT, Production implementation monitoring & support.
• Interact with Business Users to elicit the business requirements and document the same.
• Preparing Project Scope document and receive sign-off from Business & IS Managers on Scope.
• Involved in Project estimates and resource planning.
• Prepare project plan and monitor & ensure meeting the milestones. Prepare Work breakdown structure (WBS) and tracking them.
• Involved in User acceptance testing. Functional testing including reviewing test plans, compiling results and supporting users while testing.
• Involved in designing web screens.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Review and approve all the Project deliverables (Requirement Understanding doc, Detailed Design, System test results).
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts.
• Review functional and non-functional test cases document.
• Involved in User acceptance testing and responsible for getting UAT signoff.
• Involved in the Analysis and Design of the system application to identify potential impacts and to come up with a possible solution.
• Providing Business and Technical guidance to team.
• Interact with Development team for speedy resolution of defects and also prioritizing the defects to be worked on so that the amount of time lost between reworks is minimized.
• Clarify the project requirements to project team. Provide the Business knowledge to project team. Review project team deliverables and provide review comments to team.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Project Manager \ Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of Project from Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Control and closure.
• Involved in Project estimates, resource planning and Prepare Statement of Work (SOW).
• Involved in Requirements gathering and review, Design review, UAT, Production implementation monitoring & support.
• Worked with different stakeholders for reviewing the requirements and deliverables.
• Interact with Business Users to elicit the business requirements and document the same.
• Prepare Project Scope document, Project Specification doc \ High level technical specs and responsible for to get sign-off from Business & IT Managers on Scope, HLD.
• Prepare Project plan, monitor & ensure meeting the milestones. Prepare Work breakdown structure (WBS) and tracking them.
• Involved in User acceptance testing. Functional testing including reviewing test plans, compiling results and supporting users while testing.
• Involved in designing web screens.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Review and approve all the Project deliverables (Requirement Understanding doc, Detailed Design, Code, Unit test results, System test results).
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts.
• Predict risks for the project and prepare mitigation plan.
• Follow all quality standards, process compliance for all the projects.
• Recruited and groomed new Associates help them sustain, continue them technically and functionally long term in Account.
• Involved in Project implementation activities and Post implementation activities.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Prepare functional and non-functional test cases document.
• Involved in User acceptance testing and responsible for getting UAT signoff.
• Involved in the Analysis and Design of the system application to identify potential impacts and to come up with a possible solution.
• Providing Business and Technical guidance to team.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts.
• Interact with Development team for speedy resolution of defects and also prioritizing the defects to be worked on so that the amount of time lost between reworks is minimized.
• Clarify the project requirements to project team. Provide the Business knowledge to project team. Review project team deliverables and provide review comments to team.

Confidential

Business Analyst \ Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of Project from Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Control and closure.
• Involved in Project estimates, resource planning and review Statement of Work (SOW).
• Involved in Requirements gathering and review, Design review, UAT, Production implementation monitoring & support.
• Worked with different stakeholders for reviewing the requirements and deliverables.
• Interact with Business Users to elicit the business requirements and document the same.
• Prepare Project Scope document, Project Specification doc \ High level technical specs and responsible for to get sign-off from Business & IT Managers on Scope, HLD.
• Work with Business Managers and Users to understand the scope and come up with Solution Architecture and the Project specification documents.
• Prepare Project specification documents and get requirements signoff from Business Users.
• Prepare High Level design and Detail design documents from PSD.
• Work with the Client Project Manager for the execution of the project.
• Collaborate with offshore Managers to Handle the Projects/Enhancements and provide solutions to Business Area issues/activities.
• Clarify the requirements to Project team.
• Interacting with end users, Project managers, Business support Analyst of various Applications that involves requirement analysis, testing, preparing entry and exit gates.
• Involved in User acceptance testing. Functional testing including reviewing test plans, compiling results and supporting users while testing.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Review and approve all the Project deliverables (Requirement Understanding doc, Detailed Design, Code, Unit test results, System test results).
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Follow all quality standards, process compliance for all the projects.
• Recruited and groomed new Associates help them sustain, continue them technically and functionally long term in Nissan North America Account.
• Handle all the High Severity tickets within SLA’s and Enhancement deliverables.
• Lead the team technically and functionally to fix all the high severity tickets.
• Working with offshore leads to address the Enhancements and BAU issues/activities.
• Recording the User Acceptance test results in HP Quality Center.
• Organizing, leading and documenting meetings with stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Responsible to get the User signoff for project implementation.
• Problem solving for Critical Production bug & Bug fixing for Production issues within defined Service level agreement.
• Interacting with end users, Project managers, Business support Analyst of various Applications that involves requirement analysis, testing, preparing entry and exit gates.
• Preparing Test plan, Test cases, and execute test Scripts.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Involved in Project implementation activities and Post implementation activities.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Communicating regularly to Nissan Delivery Manager to manage the customer expectations and send regular status reports to Nissan Managements.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Project specification documents and get requirements signoff from Business Users.
• Prepare High Level design and Detail design documents from PSD.
• Work with Business Managers and Users to understand the scope and come up with Solution Architecture and the Project specification documents.
• Work with the Client Project Manager for the execution of the project.
• Collaborate with offshore Managers to Handle the Projects/Enhancements and provide solutions to Business Area issues/activities.
• Clarify the requirements to Project team.
• Interacting with end users, Project managers, Business support Analyst of various Applications that involves requirement analysis, testing, preparing entry and exit gates.
• Involved in User acceptance testing. Functional testing including reviewing test plans, compiling results and supporting users while testing.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Review and approve all the Project deliverables (Requirement Understanding doc, Detailed Design, Code, Unit test results, System test results).
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Follow all quality standards, process compliance for all the projects.
• Recruited and groomed new Associates help them sustain, continue them technically and functionally long term in Nissan North America Account.
• Handle all the High Severity tickets within SLA’s and Enhancement deliverables.
• Lead the team technically and functionally to fix all the high severity tickets.
• Working with offshore leads to address the Enhancements and BAU issues/activities.
• Recording the User Acceptance test results in HP Quality Center.
• Organizing, leading and documenting meetings with stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Responsible to get the User signoff for project implementation.
• Problem solving for Critical Production bug & Bug fixing for Production issues within defined Service level agreement.
• Interacting with end users, Project managers, Business support Analyst of various Applications that involves requirement analysis, testing, preparing entry and exit gates.
• Preparing Test plan, Test cases, and execute test Scripts.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Involved in Project implementation activities and Post implementation activities.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Communicating regularly to Nissan Delivery Manager to manage the customer expectations and send regular status reports to Nissan Managements.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in delivery of the project starting from the requirement gathering to production implementation.
• Involved requirement Analysis, Estimation, prepare Requirement understanding and Technical Design document.
• Providing technical guidance to team. Delegating task to team.
• Get periodic progress status updates from team.
• Involved Coding, Unit Testing, UTP Defect logging and tracking.
• Weekly report with Project managers, Business Analyst of various Projects/Applications that involves requirement analysis, development testing, and Implement.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts.
• Manage Project Team to meet within SLA’s (service level agreements) and Project/ Enhancement deliverables.
• Communicating regularly to Nissan Delivery Manager to manage the customer expectations and send regular status reports to Nissan Managements.
• Recruited and groomed new Associates help them sustain, continue them technically and functionally long term in Nissan North America Account.
• Handle all the High Severity tickets within SLA’s and Enhancement deliverables.
• Preparing High Level design and Detail design documents from Software definition Document.
• Lead the team technically and functionally to fix all the high severity tickets.
• Working with offshore leads to address the Enhancements and BAU issues/activities.
• Handling as a Lead for vehicle operations package and primarily focused on critical applications.
• Problem solving for Critical Production bug & Bug fixing for Production issues within defined Service level agreement.
• Interacting with end users, Project managers, Business support Analyst of various Applications that involves requirement analysis, testing, preparing entry and exit gates.
• Preparing Test plan, Test cases, and execute test Scripts.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Communicating regularly to Delivery Manager to manage the customer expectations and send regular status reports to Nissan Managements.
• Assigning tasks to team Leads and track them till closure.
• Interact with customers for requirement Clarification.
• Analysis of the requirement Preparation and review of test cases. Preparation of Application Documentation.
• Involved in Implementation and post implementation activities.

Confidential

Project lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in delivery of the project starting from the requirement gathering to production implementation.
• Involved requirement Analysis, Estimation, prepare Requirement understanding and Technical Design document.
• Providing technical guidance to team. Delegating task to team.
• Get periodic progress status updates from team.
• Involved Coding, Unit Testing, UTP Defect logging and tracking.
• Weekly report with Project managers, Business Analyst of various Projects/Applications that involves requirement analysis, development testing, and Implement.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts.
• Manage Project Team to meet within SLA’s (service level agreements) and Project/ Enhancement deliverables.
• Handle all the High Severity tickets within SLA’s and Enhancement deliverables.
• Preparing High Level design and Detail design documents from Software definition Document.
• Lead the team technically and functionally to fix all the high severity tickets.
• Working with offshore leads to address the Enhancements and BAU issues/activities.
• Handling as a Lead for vehicle operations package and primarily focused on critical applications.
• Problem solving for Critical Production bug & Bug fixing for Production issues within defined Service level agreement.
• Interacting with end users, Project managers, Business support Analyst of various Applications that involves requirement analysis, testing, preparing entry and exit gates.
• Preparing Test plan, Test cases, and execute test Scripts.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Assigning tasks to team Leads and track them till closure.
• Interact with customers for requirement Clarification.
• Analysis of the requirement Preparation and review of test cases. Preparation of Application Documentation.
• Involved in Implementation and post implementation activities.

Confidential

Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved requirement Analysis, Estimation, prepare Requirement understanding and Technical Design document.
• Providing technical guidance to team. Delegating task to team.
• Get periodic progress status updates from team.
• Involved Coding, Unit Testing, UTP Defect logging and tracking.
• Weekly report with Project managers, Business Analyst of various Projects/Applications that involves requirement analysis, development testing, and Implement.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts.
• Manage Project Team to meet within SLA’s (service level agreements) and Project/ Enhancement deliverables.
• Handle all the High Severity tickets within SLA’s and Enhancement deliverables.
• Preparing High Level design and Detail design documents from Software definition Document.
• Lead the team technically and functionally to fix all the high severity tickets.
• Working with offshore leads to address the Enhancements and BAU issues/activities.
• Handling as a Lead for vehicle operations package and primarily focused on critical applications.
• Problem solving for Critical Production bug & Bug fixing for Production issues within defined Service level agreement.
• Interacting with end users, Project managers, Business support Analyst of various Applications that involves requirement analysis, testing, preparing entry and exit gates.
• Preparing Test plan, Test cases, and execute test Scripts.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Assigning tasks to team Leads and track them till closure.
• Interact with customers for requirement Clarification.
• Analysis of the requirement Preparation and review of test cases. Preparation of Application Documentation.
• Involved in Implementation and post implementation activities.

Confidential

Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in delivery of the project starting from the requirement gathering to production implementation.
• Involved requirement Analysis, Estimation, prepare Requirement understanding and Technical Design document.
• Providing technical guidance to team. Delegating task to team.
• Get periodic progress status updates from team.
• Involved Coding, Unit Testing, UTP Defect logging and tracking.
• Weekly report with Project managers, Business Analyst of various Projects/Applications that involves requirement analysis, development testing, and Implement.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Handle all the High Severity tickets within SLA’s and Enhancement deliverables.
• Preparing High Level design and Detail design documents from Software definition Document.
• Lead the team technically and functionally to fix all the high severity tickets.
• Working with offshore leads to address the Enhancements and BAU issues/activities.
• Handling as a Lead for vehicle operations package and primarily focused on critical applications.
• Problem solving for Critical Production bug & Bug fixing for Production issues within defined Service level agreement.
• Interacting with end users, Project managers, Business support Analyst of various Applications that involves requirement analysis, testing, preparing entry and exit gates.
• Preparing Test plan, Test cases, and execute test Scripts.
• Managing day-to-day project activities; Monitoring and tracking progress, and ensuring quality of team deliverables.
• Providing regular feedback to team members on performance versus expectation; Managing issues and resolves conflicts
• Assigning tasks to team Leads and track them till closure.
• Interact with customers for requirement Clarification.
• Analysis of the requirement Preparation and review of test cases. Preparation of Application Documentation.
• Involved in Implementation and post implementation activities.

Confidential

Project Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Analysis, Design and Coding of the system application to identify potential impacts and to come up with a possible solution.
• Involved in Analysis and Prepared Design Document and working on Data Quality Tickets (Production Tickets).
• Involved in Analysis, Design, and Enhancements to the existing programs and testing of old and new Cobol/DB2 CICS programs.
• Involved in writing programs, ad hoc queries, and reports using COBOL.
• Expert in coding SQL for retrieving and manipulating database tables using query management and reporting tools like SPUFI, QMF, FILE-AID/DB2.
• Wrote many DB2 programs involving complex SQL queries with various types of Joins and Cursors processing etc. Process the DB2 Tables using SQL queries in SPUFI and QMF to test the programs.
• Coded/Modified JCL’s using PROCS, SYMBOLIC PARAMETERS and Control Cards for the BATCH Programs. Involved in Copybook changes in COBOL, JCL and other Subroutines.

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Analysis, Design and Coding of the system application to identify potential impacts and to come up with a possible solution.
• Involved in Analysis and Prepared Design Document and working on Data Quality Tickets (Production Tickets).
• Involved in Analysis, Design, and Enhancements to the existing programs and testing of old and new Cobol/DB2 CICS programs.
• Involved in writing programs, ad hoc queries, and reports using COBOL.
• Expert in coding SQL for retrieving and manipulating database tables using query management and reporting tools like SPUFI, QMF, FILE-AID/DB2.
• Wrote many DB2 programs involving complex SQL queries with various types of Joins and Cursors processing etc. Process the DB2 Tables using SQL queries in SPUFI and QMF to test the programs.

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Analysis, Design and Coding of the system application to identify potential impacts and to come up with a possible solution.
• Involved in Analysis and Prepared Design Document and working on Data Quality Tickets (Production Tickets).
• Involved in Analysis, Design, and Enhancements to the existing programs and testing of old and new Cobol/DB2 CICS programs.
• Involved in writing programs, ad hoc queries, and reports using COBOL.
• Expert in coding SQL for retrieving and manipulating database tables using query management and reporting tools like SPUFI, QMF, FILE-AID/DB2.