SUMMARY:

• A dedicated and mature senior IT professional with a proven track record spanning over 20 years.
• Expertise in Agile / Scrum, Iterative & Waterfall SDLC models
• Provide overall direction and technical or analytical guidance to cross functional program teams
• Manage relationships and all activities with all required partners (business, program PMO, external vendors/partners) related to program financials (estimate budget, forecasts and actuals).
• Prolific project management experience in State Government Projects, Healthcare (Medicaid) and Affordable Care Act, Insurance, and Banking/Financial Sectors
• Proficient managing projects in .Net and Java environments
• Experienced in Global Team / Virtual Team Coordination
• Experience in practical and applied research, quantitative and qualitative statistical analysis, program analysis, and project coordination and development.
• Experience in conceptualizing strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning
• Perform various analysis activities such as root - cause analysis, risk analysis, business process mapping / flows / analysis, current (as-is)/future state (to-be), cost-benefit analysis, and return on investment analysis.Experiencewiith Mobile Apps for over 3 years
• Experience wiith Mobile Apps for over 3 years
• Strong business acumen with focus on customer delight, quality deliverables, prioritizing multiple tasks,organizing, and team building.
• Hands on experience with multiple projects with different technology, domain, platforms, etc
• Excellent interpersonal strength with highly developed intuitive communication skills.
• Develop/maintain the integratedproject plan in MS Project (2007 and later versions)
• Prepare/Present weekly Executive Decks, Detailed work plans, Schedules, Estimates, Resource plans, and Status reports.
• Assist in the preparation, maintenance and distribution of project documentation, including project plans, schedule, WBS, reports, stakeholder communications, etc.
• Schedule meetings, conference calls and managed related documentation such as meeting notes, agendas, presentations and handouts.
• Conducted meetings with the project managers for program tracking and analysis.
• Ensure adherences to quality standards and reviews program/project deliverables.
• Effectively and accurately communicate project reports for project team and management.
• Address project issues by identifying and selecting a course of action by taking into account the project constraints and objectives in order to enable continued project progress.
• Capture project status and d Confidential by ensuring the population of the project management information system in order to maintain accurate and curresnt project information for the use of stakeholders.
• Accountable for project teams & resources management including the assignment and reconciliation of resources across all work-streams for the program.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframe programming: COBOL,CICS,DB2; MVS/Windows; TSO/ISPF, JCL and tools

Application Development: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, SQL, CSS, HTML Websphere, Webservices; .Net/ASP, C/C#, Visual Basic, AJAX, XML (XSD) Schema, JIRA

Object Oriented Programming: RDBMS (DB2, SQL Server, Oracle 10/11x); PMLC, SDLC, STLC, CMMI, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, RUP.Rally (agile software suite), PMBOK

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Providingoverall project management (strategy and governance), I was responsible for bringing the project status back to normal (Green); familiar with the following healthcare related assets:
• State Medicaid Manual
• Medicaid IT Architecture (MITA)
• Medicaid Enterprise Toolkit (MECT)
• US Code and Code of Federal Regulations concerning Medicaid
• The Confidential t Protection and Affordable Care Act
• Defects Triage (tracking and management), task-based planning, schedule and cost forecasts while bringing the project back to normal status (Green)
• Capture / track program metrics, perform analysis and critical (Sev 1 & 2) defects within control.
• Continually manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk to the relevant stakeholders.

Confidential, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Recommend best solutions based on understanding of business issues
• Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them
• Manage project closure initiatives, such as client satisfaction survey and closure analysis
• Document and archive project QA activities, deliverables, tools and findings for future projects.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed new concepts, methods and techniques; Applied specialized knowledge of discipline/specialty area standards and processes to work

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct technical projects from original concept through final implementation; manage cross functional teams to complete projects within allotted timeline and budget.
• Develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, RFP (Request for Proposal), resource plans, and status reports.
• Participate in creating SOW for vendors, contractors and consultants engaged in projects for the company.
• Conduct project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables.
• Define project scope and objectives. Provide technical and analytical guidance to project team.
• Manage the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
• Ensure project control procedures and policies within a program of related projects.
• Develop and maintain issue logs. Maintain project repositories of documents. Prepare documents for various recurring meetings including minutes, issue logs etc.
• Acted as single point of contact (SPOC) for offshore/core team members, management, business partners and other stakeholders on program, organization and platform issues.