SUMMARY

• 12+ years of experience in managing several large complex projects from conception to implementation
• Experienced in managing Strategic, Tactical, M&A, Release - Management, ApplicationDevelopment and Defect Management projects to meet the need of the hour.
• Extensive hands on experience in creating Financial Reports, extracting data from Resource Forecasting tools like Clarity and Cloud PPM and pulling financials from SAP reports, creating/maintain project plan in MS Project, PlanView and MS-Excel.
• Well versed in managing variety of projects related to Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Reporting, Data Analytics, SOA/Web Services,DevOps, Web Development and Legacy Application Projects.
• Prepared several Business Cases for Executives and responsible for Financial Analysis, CBA, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and Business Justification.
• Experienced in facilitating sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos. Acted as a liaison to Product owner and technical delivery owner by assisting the scrum team with keeping the backlog groomed.
• Extensive experience in Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile, PMO and Test Management
• Well-versed with working in SharePoint, HP-QC, Service Now, RTC, HP-ALM, JIRA and Rally tools.
• Manage projects that involved technologies like Informatica, Unix, Maestro,.NET, Site Core, HTML, OBIEE, CRM, SAP, Web Methods, web services, SQL, Views, ETL, Sybase and Teradata.
• Well experienced in managing large number of resources in a matrix environment and in an onsite-offshore setting.
• Self-starter and a team player with excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
• A high-energy manager with the ability to delegate and mentor effectively and also engage as a direct contributor
• Ability to lead global onsite/offshore teams in both waterfall and agile/scrum environment
• Ability to negotiate and finding a midway to accomplish objectives.
• Proven leadership record of accomplishment with outstanding ability to work concurrently on several large and complex projects.
• Proven record of accomplishment in Program/Project Management, Process Improvement, Client Relationship and Vendor Management.
• Ability to build exceptionally well working relationships with Executives, Business, IT, Operations, PMO and Vendors

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating delivery of multiple projects that involved integrating and enhancing different applications in an agile environment. In this multi-milliondollarsinitiative, there are several application development teams involving on-shore and off-shore resources from leading development vendors. Leading cross-functional teams involving business, IT, QA and PMO.
• Manage and lead complete requirements analysis for the project with multiple stakeholders (traders, risk management and research analysts)
• Responsible for total end to end program performance, P&L, financial objectives and product upgrades. Manage new proposals, BOEs, schedules, budgets and resource planning.
• Analysis and validation of deliverables/documents required for various tollgates of all phases of SDLC - Requirements, Design, Construction, Testing, Release and Control.
• Direct project personnel, mindfully watching cost and schedule requirements, and ensure program compliance
• Facilitate review meetings to ensure the Projects’ Rollout readiness as per the schedule. And facilitate the Change Advisory Board review meetings for the Production Release of the projects.
• Meet with senior leadership daily to discuss project direction, overall health, costs, risks and developing initiatives. Prepare consolidated program reports to showcasing all the associated projects status.
• Drive process improvement to solve inefficiencies with employee productivity and the multiple IT applications required for completing job duties.

Confidential, Boston, Massachusetts

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Effectively leading project team in a collaborative environment, completing project deliverables per target timelines and requirements
• Coordinates, schedules, assigns project tasks, builds teams and maintains working relationships with functional areas. Developed performance and financial analysis reports which showed the effectiveness of meeting the program commitments.
• Establish strong operating mechanisms which include clear and timely communication with the business leadership team, stakeholdersand lawyers’ needs to prioritize project requests and business changes
• Co-ordinated sessions with State and Federal Offices within Massachusetts and out-of-state.
• Major contributor to the development of all information technology initiatives for the client, including critical path and design projects, budgeting, planning, policies, and workflow prioritization
• Facilitate project meetings and ensure project plans are well defined
• Collaborate with cross-functional resources to ensure project needs are addressed
• Coordinate data validation activities between Business and IT team
• Managing Agile and Waterfall hybrid Methodologies and working through the entire SDLC
• Draft and monitor Risk log, Issues log, Status reports, Resource Plans and other project related activities and strategy documents in collaboration with technology management and the PMO

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Project/Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create, develop, monitor and execute project modules with the Agile framework by tracking all aspects of initiatives, including sub-projects, inter-dependencies, milestones, risks, contingency plans, and project resources.
• Coordinate and drive remediation efforts of regulatory and audit action plans as well as implement strategic initiatives.
• Analyze and review wireframes, leading to development of UX and UI frameworks by the developers for the proof of concept of product.
• Manage co-ordination with Business for consuming and developing appropriate User Stories by prioritizing Backlog.
• Ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes.
• Facilitate business process design as it relates to managing identities and access privileges for cyber security.
• Assist in Product Portfolio planning within the PMO to generate recurring status for the SLT’s.
• Generate and in corporate deliveries within planned Releases by adjusting Sprint durations.
• Managed development & implementation of annual enterprise risk assessment and the organization action plan to address enterprise risks..

Confidential, Enfield, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project scoping, charter preparation, Acquiring project team and project kick off.
• Managed End-to-End project estimation, project planning, and resourcing for project delivery.
• Led project through different phases including Initiation, Planning, Execution (Design, Development and Testing).
• Worked collaboratively with Enterprise BU, RS BU and Vendors to maximize efficiency and reduce work defects by building a trust andcollaborative team environment.
• Facilitated meetings with consumers/Enterprise system (SAP) partners to ensure smooth exchange of information occur.
• Routinely carried out planning activities including resourcing, budgeting, forecasting and other adhoc issues.
• Scheduled and led project team meetings to maintain adherence to project timelines and requirements
• Prepared and distributed weekly reports to apprise status to SLT
• Managed Test Data Management (TDM) requirements to create synthetic data in order to QA test the developed application. Routinely negotiated with TDM resources to get the TDM requests prioritized.
• Led Defects Management to track, analyze and prioritize defects and further define appropriate solutions
• Developed a set of actionable and targeted change management plans within environment control for all newly introduced platforms as well as update the legacy controls in support of SOC1 and Financial Statement audits.
• Managed project risks, issues and report or remediate as appropriate.
• Managed onshore and offshore multi discipline resources including Architects, BAs, Designer, Developers, QAs and prod support. Responsible for approving the invoices and managing expenses.
• Managed all the activities associated from understanding the business requirements and system dependencies, supporting testing scenarios to the execution of UAT with business partners.
• Successfully delivered the Account and Reporting project in production
• Led Requirement, Architecture, Design and Development, Testing and migration phases and delivered the project finally to production.
• Work with individual resources to ensure timelines are realistic and requirements are understood
• Routinely challenged resources on the estimates and held resources accountable for the deliverables.
• Managed Program Financials and Forecasting.
• Documented and communicated the project status to project teams and leadership
• Managed $1.8 million budget and worked with IT and business resources to support IT project deliverables along with business readiness and production readiness activities.
• Successfully delivered IDT project to production and completely moved The Hartford’s trading platform to MassMutual after MassMutual acquired The Hartford’s retirement line of business.
• Identified high priority user stories based on sessions, prioritized and developed a plan of action
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they the client attempted Agile Methodology due to tight schedule constraints.
• Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates.
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story. Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.
• Assisted Post M&A to accurately anticipate and manage all IT integration issues including network, platform, database and application integration, technical support, facilities (new and existing), security, risk management, and data center consolidation.
• Managed onshore and offshore resources assignments and forecasting.
• Worked with business partners and prepared Command Centre plan to support Go-Live.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led complete requirements analysis for the project with multiple stakeholders (traders, risk management and research analysts) in a waterfall environment
• Conducted interviews and JAD sessions with risk managers and research analysts to elicit business needs.
• Gathered requirements from end-users to develop the business requirements document and transformed these requirements into the systems requirement document.
• Managed all the activities associated from understanding the business requirements and system dependencies, creation of testing scenarios to the execution of UAT with business partners.
• Worked with end users to develop UAT test cases and coordinated the activity to identify gaps and overlaps

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a project manager in Systems and Marketing division
• Implemented a campaign management system and, lead and opportunities management system that supported marketing strategies of Confidential .
• Worked with a software vendor based in India to deliver the project
• Developed and implemented marketing strategies including online-media with regional & national focus
• Developed annual strategic marketing and communications planning that supports University reputation and awareness, lead generation and nurturing
• Performed recurring reporting & analysis to evaluate the performance of PPC & Email campaigns
• Developed metrics to evaluate the performance of marketing efforts

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated internal resources and vendors for the flawless execution of projects.
• Ensured portfolio projects are delivered on-time, within scope and budget
• Ensured projects adhered to the standards, best practices and complied with various processes and procedures
• Ensured resource availability and allocations.
• Developed project scope, objectives and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Measured and reported Portfolio, Program and Project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
• Performed risk management to minimize project risks.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed first-to-market back-office automated solution for review of suspicious Waste water contaminants
• Managed Green Product Promotion Program Development
• Developed and executed marketing programs and general business solutions resulting in increased company exposure and sales
• Worked with senior management to determine key performance indicators & identified areas for marketing to allocate resources
• Developed technical/non-technical marketing collateral and presentations, public relations campaigns, articles and newsletters

Confidential

Graduate Engineer-Trainee

Responsibilities:

• Completed induction training and completed training in Requirements Analysis, design and development, preparation of functional specifications and use cases, designing Data Models, creating functional dependencies, ER and Class diagrams, testing and release cycles.
• Performed data analysis and created regular reports for senior management
• Created presentations and proposals for financial clients to increase productivity and process compliance.