EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Project Manager and Application Delivery Management with more than 15 years of IT experience.
• Project management experience in Modified Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies.
• Very good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
• Strong background with analysis and application development.
• Experience in Application Development Management, Scheduling of Activities, Estimation, Resource Leveling
• Task Allocation and Tracking, Client Management, Training, Recruitment, Business Development Initiatives, Production support.
• Leadership and team - building skills
• Excellent project methodology and process background
• Experience in leading teams in new development, maintenance, integration, and system testing
• Performed Business planning, consolidation, forecasting, budgeting, dashboards, predictive analytics and reporting
• Excellent written, oral, analytical, problem solving, and interpersonal communication skills
• Conducted training on various topics including COOL:GEN,IBM Mainframes and UNISYS Mainframes at an organization level
• Last 9 years working in US with leading clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• APM(Agile Project Management),Waterfall,SDLC
• MS Office, MS Project, HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Rational DOORS,UML,Sharepoint site
• IBM Mainframes,COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM
• UNISYS 2200 Mainframes, COBOL,ECL,TIP,DPS,SFS,FORMGEN
• Java, Servlets, Oracle, HTML
• COOL:GEN(4.1 & 6.0) and ADVANTAGE:GEN(6.5)
• Oracle,DB2,SQL Server
• Report Composer
• Middleware Tuxedo

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager/Business Analyst/QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepare project governance structure by assigning roles and responsibility to various team members. This includes identification of steering group, project sponsor, stake holders, business analyst etc.
• Preparation of project management plan by defining communication plan, requirement management process, change control process, quality management, resource management, risk management etc.
• Creation of project plan and milestone deliverables
• Project estimation and resource planning
• Receive Scope document from business and develop High Level Business Requirement by working with business analyst
• Conduct JAD session between technology and business community, and develop Detailed business requirement
• Facilitate design review meeting and assist the technology architect to develop Detail Design document
• Conduct weekly status meeting and review design, construction and testing progress.
• Status reporting to all stake holders by conducting monthly steering committee meeting
• Project presentation to senior management team
• Review documents, get sign-off and close different phase of the project
• Post implementation reviews and lessons learned preparation.
• Lead the QA team and perform system testing
• Review and approve test documentation including QA Project Plan, Test Script, RTM and Test summary/results etc

Environment: IBM Mainframes, COBOL, JCL, DB2, J2EE, Oracle, HP Quality Center 10.0, MS Office, MS Project etc

Confidential, Washington DC

Project Manager/Business Analyst/QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creation of project plan and milestone deliverables
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meeting, weekly status meeting with all stake holders,reviews,release planning etc
• Monitor and communicate team velocity and milestone deliverables
• Facilitate removing barriers that impact the team’s ability to meet goals/objectives and ensure cooperation across all roles and functions to prevent barriers from occurring.
• Scheduled Business review meetings provide high level business plans/updates/changes to technical teams and maintain/control project issue logs.
• Work with team, stakeholders and management to identify issues, escalate unresolved issues and communicate to stakeholders.
• Make the milestone deliverables on time within budget
• Lead the QA team and perform system testing
• Authored and managed test documentation including QA Project Plan, Test Script,RTM and Test summary/results

Environment: Ab Initio,Informatica IDQ, Oracle 9.5, IBM Rational DOORS 9.5,HP Quality Center 10.0,MS Office,MS Project

Confidential, Eagan

Project Manager/BA/Senior Analyst/On-site manager

Responsibilities:

• Started here as an onsite coordinator, gradually became application owner for multiple application within flight crew and a project manager.
• Project manager and business analyst for Centry conversion project with 14 people for 7 months.
• Project manager and business analyst for Crew pairing optimization (CPO) conversion project with 7 people for 6 months.
• Project manager and business analyst for Service order system conversion project with 5 people for 6 months.
• Scheduled Business review meetings, provide high level business plans/updates/changes to technical teams and maintain/control project issues logs
• Work with team, stakeholders and management to identify issues, escalate unresolved issues and communicate to stakeholders
• Led the integration work between pre-merger NWA and DELTA crew systems for CENTRY/PENTRY,Hotel Service Orders, Flight Crew Planning, Crew pairing optimization.
• Manage change request, production support, coverage
• Designed and developed many schedule adjustment transactions -One Way Trade, Mutual Trip Trade, Reserve Will Fly requests, Reserve Increase Adjustment etc
• Designed and developed many crew transactions - Vacation Shift, Split lines, Satellite base preference, Vacation processing etc
• Pre Sales Support for Employer - System study and solution design for CENTRY Rewrite, Crew Pairing Optimization(CPO) Rewrite, Hotel Service Order Rewrite

Environment: IBM Mainframes,COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM; Unisys 2200 mainframes, COBOL, TIP, DPS, FORMGEN, SFS, RDMS, Mapper, Tuxedo; Java,J2EE

Confidential

On-site Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Led the knowledge transfer process from customer side
• Transition strategy and Knowledge Acquisition documents preparation.
• Worked at Unisys facility, Roseville, MN as an onsite lead to support MDB, MPS, MRP, WIP and CST modules.
• Requirement analysis, Technical design and development

Environment: Unisys A-Series mainframe, COBOL, DMSII, WFL, CANDE, COMS, and MAPPER.

Confidential

System Analyst/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Air Canada ARTOS project. Environment: IBM Mainframes, MVS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2
• Citibank,Singapore ORBIT project. Environment: IBM Mainframes, Cool:gen 6.0, Report Composer, Windows NT (4.0), MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, and Changeman
• Northwest Airlines WORLDPERKS project. Environment: IBM Mainframes Cool:gen 4.1, Report Composer, Windows NT (4.0), MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, and Changeman
• Hewlett Packard, Singapore Order Management and Reporting system (OMRS). Environment: Windows NT 4.0, Oracle, Java 1.2, Servlet, Swing, and UNIX Shell Script