PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 10 years of Project Management and Business Analyst experience with excellent project management, leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Comprehensive project expertise across Prepaid cards, reloadable cards and Gift cards.
• Extensive Knowledge in Banking Financial domain with understanding in Cards and Payments, Capital Market, Investments. Experienced across Insurance and Health care industries.
• Extensive experience in the development and implementation of Project Management Methodology while working directly with the Project Management Office PMO
• Skilled in the use of Agile SCRUM , Waterfall and Iterative Project Management Methodology
• Experienced in leading the Migration of the Projects from Waterfall to Agile Scrum.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including experience with MS Project, SharePoint and Clarity
• Complete understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle, including business requirement gathering, system development, testing, implementation and post implementation support
• Expertise in Risk management, fraud/compliance, Anti-money laundering, Operations, Supply chain management and Data warehousing.
• Hands-on functional experience in financial planning and analysis, budget management, resource management and procurement through CLARITY, Planview tool.
• Highly skilled to plan/manage small to large-scale projects ranging between 100K to 6 million, long-duration software development projects.
• Experienced in Test plan preparation and execution of Test Ideas list, Test cases and Test Scripts and logging defects using defect tracking tools.
• Excellent execution and documentation skills. Strong sense of Ownership and Responsibility.
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in environment with a mix of onsite-offshore Global Delivery model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Mobility Project Manager

• Managed multiple Mobile application development projects Native iOS , Android, Mobile web iOS and Android including Project Planning, Schedule/Effort Tracking, Delivery Management, Quality and Risk management.
• Managed the Production Support team for Mobile Application, lead them on triage sessions and tracked the incident tickets to closure.
• Lead the Mobile Aggregation team in migration of Waterfall to Agile SCRUM methodologies as an agile coach.
• Managed a team of 15 members and delivered a number of initiatives and projects on time, and within budget.
• Managed the E2E project financials and reported status to the business using Planview.
• Managed sprint planning, estimations, daily scrum, monitoring, tracking, resolve road blockers, conflicts, priorities, shield team, reporting, communication, process check master, retrospective meetings, process improvements.
• Lead the team to Review, analyze client requirements and breaking in to backlog, user stories, subtasks and build acceptance criteria delegate tasks, track progress generate reports.
• Trained the Mobile Aggregation team in JIRA tool and tracked Sprint reports using JIRA.
• Experienced in WellPoint's SSCR / POR One path intake process and lead multiple SSCR / POR projects for Mobile Application team.
• Lead several infrastructure deliveries for Mobile Application projects right from intake submission, Architecture review to successful delivery with needed configurations.
• Managed onboarding tasks of new resources for Mobile Application team.
• Applied project management knowledge and expertise to project performance and risk assessment.
• Designed and presented presentations regarding projects and their requirements to stakeholders and management.
• Host pre-release planning meetings with the development project managers.
• Experienced in mentoring and leading off shore resources to deliver timely high quality deliverables.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager Prepaid /Mobile Applications

• Prepared test data and performed E2E UAT with business stakeholders after the scripts were developed.
• Designed and presented presentations regarding projects and their requirements to stakeholders and management.
• Applied project management knowledge and expertise to project performance and risk assessment.
• Managed a team of 20 members and delivered a number of initiatives and projects on time, and within budget.
• Managed the E2E project financials and reported status to the business using Clarity.
• Played a key leadership role in the design, development and strategic plan of the Companies Global prepaid travel cards, Gift card for different markets.
• Gathered high-level business needs from business stakeholders and lead the team to translate those needs to detailed requirements.
• Responsible for delivering projects on time, on budget and with high quality. Also, to ensure adherence to all AMEX processes such as Method/1, SDLC 2.0 and Solution Architecture reviews i.e. SAR
• Managed multiple software development projects including project definition, planning, execution, risk management, risk mitigation, issues, work estimates, task breakdown, scheduling and resource allocation monitoring and controlling.
• To ensure adherence and compliance of the TDC Technology Due Care , PSR Physical Site Review , VTA Vendor Threat Analysis and SGA Security Gap Analysis for 3rd Party Vendors.
• Experienced in mentoring and leading off shore resources to deliver timely high quality deliverables.
• Motivate project team to overcome barriers and embody a culture to exceed customer expectations.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Worked with clients to better understand their needs and present solutions using structured SDLC approach.
• Lead the team in gathering requirements high-level business needs from business stakeholders and translate those needs to detailed requirements BRD .
• Reviewed project proposals with business stakeholders, management to determine goals, time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project completion, staffing requirements and allotment of resources
• Simultaneously worked on the RFP of their new claim system and implementation of HIPAA 5010 with their existing claim system.
• Modeled business processes with emphasis on workflow driven requirement engineering and identified areas of improvement by automation. Involved in cost and GAP analysis through various project phases.
• Performed user acceptance testing UAT after the scripts were developed.
• Managed a team of 18 members in the design, development and testing phase in both onsite and offshore.
• Prepared and communicated weekly status report to management and team.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Simultaneously worked on the Personal Health Record project, streamlining the Claim Processing System project and was responsible for their delivery.
• Conducted triage meetings and came up with all required documentation throughout different phases of the project abiding by the quality standards of the company and keeping up with the scheduled time frames.
• Managed all the requirements using Rational requisite Pro and created traceability between requirements and various items.
• Coordinated with various teams onsite and offshore and was the point of contact across various teams involved in making the project a success.
• Interacted with business users to analyze impact on the existing system and the changes in the Aetna claim adjudication application.
• Modeled business processes with emphasis on workflow driven requirement engineering and identified areas of improvement by automation. Interacted closely with SMEs to understand and visualize the problem domain. Worked closely with the Business Owner to create UAT strategy, scenarios, and test scripts, based on day-in-the-life scenario. Documented entry/exit criteria, project/product risks and created several other artifacts for product acceptance. Reviewed test cases and defects created by QA team. Assigned resources and coordinated defect resolution. Prepared and communicated daily status report to management and team.

Confidential

Business Analyst / Project Manager

• Managed the State of Georgia's -Crash Analysis Reporting System CARS designed to maintain the crash reports submitted by the Law Enforcement Agencies LEA across Georgia. Conducted weekly meetings for deciding the Policies and Procedures to be followed while constructing new sites. Performed the requirement analysis, impact analysis and documented the requirements using Rational Requisite Pro. Documented the server farm requirements and requirements related to security within Share Point and using Windows Active Directory. Developed project plans, managed project scope and resources. Developed QA Test Plan, test conditions and test cases, as well as assisted with QA team in System Testing using Mercury Test Director. Managed all Test cases, Test plans and Bug tracking using Quality Center. Assisted in on-going process improvement efforts to ensure Test Planning, Execution, and Reporting is effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated. Confidential Programmer Analyst-CSS
• Responsible creating requirements documents, maintaining vision documents, supplementary specification documents, and developing use cases from functional specifications.
• Interacted with developers and testers, discussed the specifications provided by the users and also the changes in the application.
• Developed testing Strategy and test plan documents, documented it for higher levels of managements testing approach.
• Managed all Test cases, Test plans and Bug tracking using Quality Center
• Responsible for the preparation of Impact Analysis documents and Unit test plans.