SUMMARY

• Confidential has over eighteen years of experience in Information Technology. He has more than ten years as a Senior Project Manager, Program Manager in Implementation (SDLC) of enterprise - wide projects using, Web, Mobile, Cloud, and Mainframe technologies.
• While working for large IT Consulting and Services providers, he has gained extensive experience in enterprise wide Healthcare, State Government Health and Human Services, Life Sciences, and Insurance projects.
• Demonstrated experience in Design, Development, Testing and implementation of Healthcare, Life Sciences, State Government Health and Human Services Systems, Courts, and Insurance projects.
• Extensive experience in program\project management, Global Delivery (peak team size of 100+), proposal building, business and technical analysis, estimation and planning, design, development, quality management, defect management, scope management, change management, risk management, budgeting, resource planning, staff acquisition, vendor management, and training.
• Experienced in transitioning teams from waterfall to agile project execution methodology.
• Extensive experience in leading development teams on Design and Development of Web, Mobile and Batch applications using SOA, Java/J2EE, Oracle Applications Suite, and IBM Mainframes. Includes experience in Digital Enablement and Digital Transformation Projects using Agile, Waterfall and RUP methodologies.
• Extensive experience in design, construction and management of Master Data Management, BI and Data conversion Projects.
• Solid experience in requirements analysis and gathering - business, functional, non-functional, user, and implementation using tools like Rational Requisite Pro. Experience in preparing business case documents, facilitating JAD sessions, and conducting user trainings.
• Development and implementation CMMI (Level5) - Quality Standards for Software Development in the Organization.
• Extensive experience in Testing Lifecycle Management, including Test Artifacts, Test Data Management, Test automation, Test execution, Defect verification & Defect resolution processes, and Defect metrics reporting. Testing of Client/Server, Web based and OOPS applications, using manual and automation testing tools.
• Engaged in Knowledge Management activities in building business domain, application and technical solution artifacts typically used for training and reference purposes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: MS PROJECT, RATIONAL PORTFOLIO MANAGER (RPM), PLAN VIEW, JIRA, CONFLUENCE, KANBAN

Development Methodologies: AGILE, SCRUM, RUP, SEI-CMMI 5, PMI-PMBOK, WATERFALL, SPIRAL

Programming Languages: JAVA, C, SQL, PL SQL, VS COBOL II, JCL, EASYTRIEVE

RDBMS/DBMS: ORACLE 10i, MS-SQL SERVER 7.0, DB2, UNYSIS RDMS, VSAM & SYBASE

Configuration Management Tools: RATIONAL CLEARCASE, PVCS, PANVALET, VSS.

Testing Tools: RATIONAL TEST SUITE, RATIONAL TEST MANAGER, RATIONAL FUNCTIONAL TESTER, JCOVERAGE, JPROBE, JUNITHP QUALITY CENTER, QTP, SOAP, & WINRUNNER

Other S/W Skills: IBM RAD, RATIONAL REQUISITE PRO, RATIONAL CLEARQUEST, UML, VISIO, DATAPOWER, APIGEE, CODEGENORACLE DEVELOPER SUITE, SAS, CRYSTAL REPORTS, XPEDITER, QMF, J2EE, JSP, HTML, XML, ERWIN, VISIO, SHAREPOINT, MS OFFICE.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Iselin NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Service delivery and management for Enterprise Service area using Agile methodology
• Successfully managed and delivered multiple projects and teams spread across various location in US and offshore involving multiple vendor teams within given budget and timelines
• As Delivery Manager was involved in Requirements, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Responsible for identification of tasks, estimation, developing project plans, tracking, monitoring and reporting of project status to key stakeholders including IT Leadership.
• Facilitated daily and weekly project meetings with all stakeholders and tracking their respective task progress, dependencies and timelines
• Proactively managed risks and issues and reporting to the leadership teams and coordinating meetings among the stake holders for resolution
• Turned around business critical troubled projects by bringing in transparency to the projects, better planning & tracking, improved process with focus on defect prevention and improved coordination between the teams.
• Utilizing company's proprietary we were able to support clients HIPAA and mandates by assessing mappings, processes, view relationships, maintain/add processes, trading partners, applications, EDI links, transaction changes and to maintain these EDI transaction changes.

Confidential, Bridgewater NJ

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Enterprise Transformation function to bring about organizational behavioral change to transform client engagement to an outcome based models
• Responsible for implementing best in class transformation for System Integration and validation framework to enhance delivery excellence
• Monitoring program metrics at practice Level for Key Strategic Initiatives
• Participate in discussions, Solution option identification, recommending alternative solutions, operational models and governance structures
• Active participation in business planning activities for the unit

Confidential, Newark NJ

Onsite Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Benefits Coding, Testing, Healthcare Reforms and Mandates projects with Onsite / Offshore peak team size of sixty members
• Responsible for estimating, capacity planning, work forecast, base lining schedule with Client signoff
• Successfully tracked and managed target SLA conformance
• Tracked project status, pro-actively managed risks, issues and reported it to the key stakeholders as appropriate
• As the owner of Defect Management process, successfully managed the defect management activities to reduce the aging of defects, involving third party coding and testing teams. Facilitated Daily Defect Triage meetings involving all key stakeholders
• Successfully managed the Test Automation process in bringing down the Testing Turnaround Time (TAT) from 15 days to 3 days
• Identified gaps in the existing processes, provided RCAs and took definitive actions to improve them as lessons learned
• Presented weekly/monthly/engagement status reports to the client leadership

Confidential, Little Rock AR 

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Application Test teams including Onsite and Offsite peak teams size of 50 plus members with a budget of approximately 2 Million per year totaling up to 8 Million spread over a five-year time span
• Involved in Requirements Gathering and Design (JAD) Sessions
• Defined and published overall testing strategy and procedures
• Responsible for Estimation of Testing efforts and Resource assignment, management including performance appraisal of team members.
• Involved in Change Management process for items within the production or test environments that are required for testing or release
• Facilitated Defect Review & Tracking meetings for status tracking with key stakeholders
• Published and analyzed testing metrics to identify potential bottlenecks in test execution, defect creation, or defect resolution processes
• Coordinate Unit, UIT, System, Security, Regression, Parallel and UAT testing team activities between Functional, Business & Development teams and oversee test work products by team members.
• Conduct and participate in planning on-going test status meetings among test teams.
• Resolve cross-functional issues between testing teams and ensure they are addressed
• Managed Creation of Test Data and Environments for Unit, System, SIT, and UAT Regions
• Performed testing QA activities including test script traceability, verify regression testing, provide input into Configuration management process, validate exit criteria.
• Responsible for all testing related artifacts and project deliverables.