PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated results - driven PMP, Certified Scrum Master with 9+years of experiencein managing and leading global project teams to deliver complex ITapplication development projects, programsand new product launches.Additional experience in Process Improvement, Business Analysis, Software Quality Assurance & Testing, Configuration Management and Requirements Management.
• 14 years of experience in the IT industry, having worked mostly in the areas of banking, wealth management and insurance.
• Highly effective technical project manager with experience in managing programs / projects with a budget of upto $5M.
• Demonstrated expertise in agile software development and release management, delivering enterprise applications through multiple release cycles.
• Extensive experience in outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills and demonstrated ability to support simultaneous projects in an organization.
• Controlled scope and project plan with formal change control and governance forums. Identified and managed project risks, issues, and mitigation plans.
• Managed resource allocations, worked with resource managers to form project teams. Led global cross-functional teams in a matrix environment. Provided team leadership, mentorship, and motivation.
• Developed financial estimates and projections. Tracked project budget and controlled costs. Managed OPEX and CAPEX costs. Ensured projects were on budget.
• Skilled in coordinating and negotiating with cross functional teams and 3rd party vendors to meet project requirements.
• Leveraged technical, business and project knowledge to effectively communicate with senior leadership team, key stakeholders, and customers.
• Led several proof of concepts (POC) on the Hadoop platform for the use cases like targeted advertising, risk management, fraud and crime Prevention.
• Successfully delivered projects with Big data, ETL, Mainframe, .Net, Java and technologies.
• Actively learning the data science concepts and usecases along with the Amazon Web Services(AWS) cloud technology solution offerings.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management tools: MS project, CA Agile(Rally), JIRA, SharePoint, Visio, HP QC.

Big Data technologies: Hadoop Map Reduce, Spark, Kafka, Pig, Hive, Storm, R.

Database: MangoDB, Oracle, DB2, Ms-Access, Teradata. Visualisation tools Tableau, Excel. Open Source and

ETL tools: Core Java, Python, Informatica, XML, JASON.

Mainframe technologies: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Strobe, File Aid, Xpeditor.

SOA: Actively learning the Amazon Web Services and cloud solution offering.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Managed the multi year release to develop the share class and product conversion applications to implement the fully automated solution to fulfill the department of labor (DOL) regulatory requirements.
• Coordinated with multiple cross functional teams to implement the business rules using Infomatica, .Net, Sharepoint, SQL server stored procedures technologies integrated by IIB.
• Formulated project strategy, objectives, scope, goals, and deliverables collaborating with stakeholders. Planned, coordinated, and established operating procedures for accomplishments of project goals.
• Produced and managed project schedule. Identified and managed project risks, issues, and mitigation plans. Controlled scope and project plan with formal change control and governance forums
• Held workshops with internal subject matter experts (SMEs) and clients to identify future needs based on their feedback.
• Completed the installation of new SCXHand product conversion system, coordinated the transition for the operation teams and it is currently converting the assets more than $6B annually. This resulted in 3 days of turnaround time vs multiple weeks and improved client experience.
• As Project Manager/Agile Coach completed transition from waterfall model to establish Agile Scrum, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (Devops) environment for SCXH software team. The team has delivered more than 4 major and 10 minor releases.
• Utilized Jira tool to implement Continuous Integration supporting 4 scrum teams and delivered more than 60 sprints.
• Led and facilitated scrum ceremonies ensuring servant leadership culture, for release planning, sprint planning, mid-sprint and backlog grooming reviews, daily stand-ups, end-of-the sprint reviews and demos, and sprint retrospectives.
• Maintained a list of waivers for DoD at the end of sprints and ensured they are closed in a timely manner.
• Actively participated in the architecture / design reviews and expedited the buy-in from product team.
• Coordinated with external vendors to scope and implement the related technology changes.

Environment: MS-Project, MS Excel, JIRA, XML, HTML, KSH, PL/SQL, Oracle, UNIX, Windows, .Net, IIB, Informatica, COBOL, JCL, DB2, ChangeMan, SharePoint, SSRS, Java Web Services.

Project Manager

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with 25+ cross functional teams to deliver the cross functional requirements to launch the new certificate products .
• Formulated project strategy, objectives, scope, goals, and deliverables collaborating with stakeholders. Planned, coordinated, and established operating procedures for accomplishments of project goals.
• Held workshops with internal subject matter experts (SMEs) and clients to understand / scope the detailed product features.
• Produced and managed project schedule. Identified and managed project risks, issues, and mitigation plans. Controlled scope and project plan with formal change control and governance forums
• Successfully completed several POCs and Implemented the complete solution for targeted advertising on the Hadoop platform and this resulted in ~ $500 million across the products systems.
• Actively participated in the architecture / design reviews and expedited the buy-in from product team.
• As Project Manager/ Scrum master, completed transition from waterfall model to establish Agile Scrum, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (Devops) environment for certificates team. The team has delivered 3 major and 5 minor releases.
• Utilized Jira tool to implement Continuous Integration supporting 4 scrum teams and delivered more than 40 sprints.
• Completed the new products launch on time and transitioned to the BAU / Ops teams on time.

Environment: MS-Project, MS Excel, JIRA, XML, HTML, PL/SQL, Oracle, UNIX, Windows, Java Script, HTML, Java Web Services. Hadoop, Kafka, Storm, Pig, Hive, HBase, MangoDB

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with client business partners& SMEs to gather / clarify requirements and expectations.
• Developed WBS, cost estimates, detailed project plan, SOWs.
• Collaborated with development teams to plan project sprint and resolve conflicts.
• Actively participated in architecture review and performed detailed design reviews.
• Lead the development and implementation of related release management strategies.
• Managed the Resources, Risk, Scope, Cost, Schedule, Change and Quality.
• Led and facilitated scrum ceremonies ensuring servant leadership culture, for release planning, sprint planning, mid-sprint and backlog grooming reviews, daily stand-ups, end-of-the sprint reviews and demos, and sprint retrospectives.
• Led the project team, coordinatedcrossfunctional team activities and facilitated work sessions as needed.
• Facilitated status meetings and publish status reports to project stakeholders.

Environment: MS-Project, MS Excel, JIRA, XML, HTML, KSH, PL/SQL, Oracle, UNIX, Windows, .Net, IIB, Informatica, COBOL, JCL, DB2, ChangeMan, SharePoint, CICS Web Services.

Associate (Business System Analyst/ Project Lead)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed impact analysis and documented“AS-IS“ and “TO-BE“ state of the system functions.
• Interviewed business users from multiple countries to understand the country specific data requirements.
• Analyzed the data requirements and how to integrate the data from various APAC countries.
• Prepared ROM estimates for the ETL process to load the cleansed data into the centralized warehouse.
• Developed high level ETL design based on the user requirements and data cleansing requirements.
• Provided inputs to prepare the Rough Order Magnitude (ROM) estimate.
• Communicated status reports to the Senior leadership.

Environment: MS-Project, MS Excel, PL/SQL, Oracle, Teradata, UNIX, Windows, Java, COBOL, JCL, DB2, ChangeMan.

IT Analyst (Developer /Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with the onsite team to gather requirements for enhancement requirements.
• Performed coding, unit testing of the components with high complexity
• Reviewed design documents, test plans, code, and test results for QA compliance and standards.
• Directed and monitored the development team to complete the project milestones on time.
• Performed system integration testing, supported the UAT
• Conducted performance analysis of the existing system and implemented process improvements to reduce the annual mainframe CPU cost by 10%.

Environment: MS-Project, MS Excel, UNIX, Windows, Java, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, ChangeMan.