SUMMARY

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with around 10 years diversified IT experience with around 6 years of PMO experience in a Leading Financial organization as a Portfolio Manager managing different lines of business.
• Solid expertise in large - scale program and project management. Seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource management skills with ability to support multiple portfolios.
• Working knowledge of Project Management Methodologies and SDLC Process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Niku6 Workbench, HP PPM, MS-Project, Clarity.

Office Products: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook/Schedule +, Visio

D Confidential bases: ORACLE 9I, ODBC/SQL, MS-ACCESS

Reporting Tool: Business Objects, Brio, Cognos

Programming: GUI Development JAVA, JSP, JAVASCRIPT, Brio, Remedy

Operating Systems: Windows NT and XP

Version Control: Share Point, Win CVS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

SRP PMO Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Steering committee meeting involving Application Managers, Business Users and Finance
• Develop Project Plan, Manage Risks & Issues on Project, Program Level & Initiative Level
• Generate Reports to track the Key Milestones, Risks & Issues out of Business Objects
• Generate Financial Reports to track Technology & Operations Projects on a Monthly basis and generate Dashboard for senior management review
• Benefits tracking on a Quarterly basis

Confidential

PMO Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Steering committee meeting Involving Application Development Managers, Exchanges and Market D Confidential Vendors & OCC.
• Determine the dependencies between Applications impacted by OSI from various Technology Portfolio, Exchanges, and Vendors & OCC.
• Understand and track the Risks & Issues
• Short list the applications to be participating in Scripted Industry Testing.
• Managing the Program and Track the schedules for all applications.
• Extensive Knowledge of Complete SDLC Life cycle, Standards and Deliverables.
• Extensive Knowledge of best practice frameworks such as PMBOK, COBIT, CMMI, ITIL.
• Created a new Governance Model to refine, better improve and enhance the existing SDLC using PMI Standards and Methodologies and best practices from Industry.
• Created standard templates and guidelines to streamline the process.
• Provided SDLC Governance training for project and line managers.
• Managed and supported various portfolios involving different line of business.
• Understand the business needs and aid the project & program managers to complete the projects & programs within schedule & budget.
• Provided risk analysis on the projects and programs based on schedule, financial & issue health.
• Generate various reports for senior management review.
• Created and managed programs involving many number of projects.
• Tracked the projects based on business initiatives.
• Created and maintained the overall plan for the program.
• Worked with project managers on the development of project plans.
• Maintaining the overall program budget and reporting on the budget and actual to date for senior management.
• Manage and track issues and risk and worked to mitigate the risks.
• Managing the cost and schedule of resources from various groups.
• Continuous review of the program status cost and schedule and appraised the stakeholders.
• Support Project Managers in Project Initiation Phase through Completion Phase.
• Trained and coached project managers on Financial Management Aspects of managing a project.
• Oversaw project managers with the project budgeting: Revenue Budgeting and Project Costing.
• Coordinated project work through Implementation ensuring customer satisfaction with strict SDLC standards.
• Worked with management on the development of the project plan.
• Ensured the projects were completed according to plan.
• Ensured that projects remained on schedule and within budget.
• Remained aware of the potential issues and worked to mitigate the risks.
• Kept appropriate stakeholders informed of the project progress.
• Monitored project deliverables and progress through continuous communication with project members.
• Prepared reports on project progress and problems.
• Performed quality reviews of all financial reports and deliverables to the client.
• Established financial and schedule risk management assessment metrics for each project.
• Understood drivers causing budget versus actual variances.
• Performed post mortem profitability analysis and timeline analysis on each project.
• Identified and ware-housed lessons learned for future projects.
• Generate reports for ITG Senior Management, Business & Finance.
• Generate PAR (Project Accounting Report) for ITG Finance & Senior Management Review.
• Generate business unit satisfaction survey report for ITG senior management review on a quarterly basis.
• Generate large project review to include the project status, schedule, cost, issues & risk for Business & ITG Senior Management review.
• Generate portfolio reports on a weekly basis to understand and track the new initiatives for ITG.
• Generate cost to date report on Assets for each portfolio on a yearly basis to determine the cost of ownership for each asset.
• Generate report on project/financial milestones for various lines of business.
• Generate report to track the capitalized projects for Finance.
• Worked on improving project management tools and process.
• Extensively worked in Niku 6.0,Clarity, MS-Project 2002, and HP PPM Tool 7.1 SP3.
• Involved in Vendor Evaluation for selecting a new PM Tool to replace the Niku system.
• Worked on month end closure process in Niku/HP PPM to ITG Finance.
• Gathered and documented requirements from various stakeholders - Finance, Project/Program Managers & PMO.
• Involved in the end to end Implementation of HP PPM 7.1 SP3
• Configured the Workflows - Proposal, Project, Scope change, Asset, Risk & Issue based on the business process.
• Configured Proposal, Project, Asset & Program Forms based on SDLC requirements.
• Created Dashboard and Reports for Portfolio Analysis based on Business Process for Portfolio Manager, Program Manager, Project Manager, Resource Manager, PMO and Time Writer.
• Configured Demand Management, Time Management, Financial Management, Resource Management, Project Management & Deployment Management.
• Extensively worked on Integrating HP PPM Work Plan with MS Project.
• Worked with the Technical team in integrating and testing HP PPM with various interfaces using web services and open interfaces.
• Involved in extensive testing of the tool.
• Provided workarounds/solutions for various issues identified during UAT in version 7.1 SP3.
• Provided End-to-End Product Training for various user groups- Time Writer, Project Manager, Resource Manager, Asset Manager and Program & Portfolio Managers.

Confidential, MI

PROJECT LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Lead team effort in moving the system to production
• Analysis and study of existing requirements
• Collection of requirements and specifications from business users
• Responsible for delivery and team management
• Creation of various extraction procedures using PL/SQL

Confidential - NY

TEAM LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and study of existing requirements
• SQL Scripting according to Business Logic
• Creation of Reports
• Posting Documents on ODS
• Unit Level Testing

Confidential - CA

TEAM LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and study of existing requirements
• Design ETL strategies and mappings
• Monitoring Tivoli Job Scheduler
• Managing User Accounts in Brio