SUMMARY

• Sixteen (16) plus Years of extensive experience in Information Technology (IT) and performed Project Management Activities, Product development management Activities, QA Activities, Development Activities and Production Support Activities
• Have good experience with BCBS of MA as well as various Healthcare providers. Led a large BI and Data warehousing initiative and can understand Project Management and technical aspects of project delivery.
• Have excellent experience in Health Care Plans, Health Care Reform (HCR) and Health Insurance implementation projects. Excellent Analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
• Managed a range of projects from individual projects worth $ 100k - $ 3M with full Project Management cycle.
• Managed 4-5 DW and Analytics projects simultaneously with Healthcare customers.
• Well Organized and hands on project manager. People-oriented and People-manager, be able to easily/quickly build relationships, communication with, and coordination with various stakeholders and cross functional teams to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Led multiple technical teams for the overall SDLC, Coordination, Stakeholder Reporting and integration within scope of IT environment.
• Proven track record of Project Leadership along with Strong Analytical capabilities and knowledge of Business Processes. Able to Plan and execute Technical projects, involving all aspects of information resources, management with great emphasis on software development.
• Able to complete tasks within estimated timeframes, scope and budget constraints. Able to delegate tasks to teams and subordinates.
• Developed and implemented Process Management for IT and Business teams to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget and scope and at High Quality Standards, meeting customer expectations and add value to the company.
• Mentored and trained team members in cross functional teams. Defined and Standardized processes and helped IT staff members and business customers understand benefits of using Association-wide standards.
• Experience in Planning, Organizing and managing available resources to successfully complete the project goals and objectives.
• Experience in Development activities using Java, J2EE, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Data warehousing, ETL Tools, XML and SOA Tools.
• Managed Projects Involving Java Development, .Net Development, Reporting, Infrastructure, Data Warehousing, Portals & Web services.
• Experience in managing complex and enterprise level applications
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously & Onshore-Offshore model projects
• Managing project/product requirements & scope, Change Management process. Experience with CA Clarity tool for Financials management and Budget Forecasting. Experience with QA Activities and QA efforts for SIT, UAT & E2E Test activities.
• Preparing the project plan and tracking activities against the plan.
• Identifying, managing & mitigating Risks. Internal & external stakeholder management. Ability to quickly understand the products & business requirements and provide the solutions to meet the business goals. Worked in Functional, Projectized and Matrix organizations
• Experience in defining and implementing standards & processes. Knowledge in CMM, SDLC & SOX processes Experience in managing Ecommerce, B2B, Financial related projects
• Adherence to Practices, Policies, Procedures, legal requirements and approved methodologies in the Organization. Managing Vendor relationship
• Experience of working with Project Management Office (PMO) & Portfolio Management teams. Demonstrated ability to work with and support cross functional project teams, multi-vendor teams. Excellent skills in Microsoft Project, Excel, Power Point and Word

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project, CA Clarity PPM, Share Point, MS Visio, Niku Project Mgmt & MS Office.

Other Tools: Selenium/Java, Rational Tools, JIRA, Rally Dev Agile Tool, SOAP UI Tool, Quality Center, QTP/UFT, Winrunner, Worksite, UNIX, PVCS/VSS, Clearcase, Documentum, Cognos BI.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, SOLARIS, UNIX, OS X Mountain Lion.

Programming/Scripting Languages: C, C++, C#, ASP, Java, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, Swing/AWT, Struts, Spring Framework, HTML, XML, ERP.

Enterprise Apps: Citrix server, Apache Web server, Open Source frameworks.

Database: Oracle 11g, Oracle XML DB, Informatica ETL, Lotus Notes DB

Web/Application Server: Oracle Application server, Weblogic 6.1, IBM-WAS

QA Tools: HP QC 9.2/10.0, Quick test Pro (QTP), Nunit, Load runner, Clear Quest.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Excellent experience in Health Care Plans, Health Care Reform (HCR) and Health Insurance implementation projects. Excellent Analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
• Managed a range of projects from individual projects worth $ 100k - $ 3M with full Project Management cycle.
• Managed 4-5 DW and Analytics projects simultaneously with Healthcare customers.
• Plan, execute and deliver projects within triple constraints of delivering on Time, within Budget and Scope objectives.
• Project Planning, Project Monitoring and Controlling as well as Closing and Reporting activities. Risk Definition, Management and Mitigation. Budgeting and Resourcing activities. Prepared the schedules and work breakdown structures. Work with CA Clarity tool for Financials management
• Organized and hands on project manager. People-oriented and People-manager, be able to easily/quickly build relationships, communication with, and coordination with various stakeholders and cross functional teams to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Led multiple technical teams for the overall SDLC, Coordination, Stakeholder Reporting and integration within scope of IT environment.
• Proven track record of Project Leadership along with Strong Analytical capabilities and knowledge of Business Processes. Reporting the Status to Project Management Office (PMO)
• Also acted as an Agile Scrum Master in the projects. Ran Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning and Retrospective Meetings.
• Communicate project status to project sponsor, all team members, and other relevant Stakeholders and involved parties
• Collect Metrics Data (Baseline, actual costs, schedule, work in progress, work completed) and report to relevant stakeholders
• Managing and owning all the project documentation including Requirements documents, Design documents, Testing documents, Release documents
• Making sure that all the Signoffs have been taken as per the defined process
• Ensuring that Quality Requirements have been taken care and delivered the Quality Product
• Write and coordinate outside consultant Statement of Works (SOW)
• Ensuring that all the involved teams in the project followed defined Organizational Policy and Compliance Regulations

Confidential, Boston, MA

Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that work performed is with in Scope, consistent with Requirements and delivered on Time and on Budget.
• Managed 4-5 DW and Analytics projects simultaneously with Healthcare customers.
• Well Organized and hands on project manager. People-oriented and People-manager, be able to easily/quickly build relationships, communication with, and coordination with various stakeholders and cross functional teams to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Led multiple technical teams for the overall SDLC, Coordination, Stakeholder Reporting and integration within scope of IT environment.
• Proven track record of Project Leadership along with Strong Analytical capabilities and knowledge of Business Processes. Able to Plan and execute Technical projects, involving all aspects of information resources, management with great emphasis on software development.
• Able to complete tasks within estimated timeframes, scope and budget constraints. Able to delegate tasks to teams and subordinates.
• Developed and implemented Process Management for IT and Business teams to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget and scope and at High Quality Standards, meeting customer expectations and add value to the company.
• Mentored and trained team members in cross functional teams. Performed the Scrum Master role for Agile Projects
• Work with CA Clarity tool for Financials Management. Preparation of Project Plan and Tracking activities as per plan.
• Also acted as an Agile Scrum Master in the projects. Ran Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning and Retrospective Meetings.
• Communicate Project Status to Project Sponsor and all Team members, and other relevant stakeholders and involved parties
• Collected Metrics data (Baseline, Actual costs, schedule, work in progress, work completed) and report to relevant stakeholders
• Planning the deliverables for all phases in SDLC (Waterfall & Agile models).
• Managing and owning all the project documentation including Requirements documents, Design documents, Testing documents, Release documents

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Plan, Execute and Finalize projects within triple constraints of delivering on Time, within Budget and Scope objectives
• Managed 3-4 DW and Analytics projects simultaneously with Healthcare customers.
• Well Organized and hands on project manager. People-oriented and People-manager, be able to easily/quickly build relationships, communication with, and coordination with various stakeholders and cross functional teams to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Led multiple technical teams for the overall SDLC, Coordination, Stakeholder Reporting and integration within scope of IT environment.
• Proven track record of Project Leadership along with Strong Analytical capabilities and knowledge of Business Processes. Able to Plan and execute Technical projects, involving all aspects of information resources, management with great emphasis on software development.
• Able to complete tasks within estimated timeframes, scope and budget constraints. Able to delegate tasks to teams and subordinates.
• Developed and implemented Process Management for IT and Business teams to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget and scope and at High Quality Standards, meeting customer expectations.
• Mentored and trained team members in cross functional teams. Performed the Scrum Master role for Agile Projects
• Work with CA Clarity tool for Financials Management. Preparation of Project Plan and Tracking activities as per plan.
• Also acted as an Agile Scrum Master in the projects. Ran Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning and Retrospective Meetings.
• Communicate Project Status to Project Sponsor and all Team members, and other relevant stakeholders and involved parties
• Collected Metrics data (Baseline, Actual costs, schedule, work in progress, work completed) and report to relevant stakeholders
• Managing and owning all the project documentation including requirements documents, design documents, testing documents, release documents.
• Ensuring that all the involved teams in the project followed defined organizational policy and compliance regulations

Confidential, Louisville KY

QA Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hands on project manager. People-oriented and People-manager, be able to easily/quickly build relationships, communication with, and coordination with various stakeholders and cross functional teams to achieve project goals and objectives.
• Led multiple technical teams for the overall SDLC, Coordination, Stakeholder Reporting and integration within scope of IT environment.
• Proven track record of Project Leadership along with Strong Analytical capabilities and knowledge of Business Processes. Able to Plan and execute Technical projects, involving all aspects of information resources, management with great emphasis on software development.
• Able to complete tasks within estimated timeframes, scope and budget constraints. Able to delegate tasks to teams and subordinates.
• Developed and implemented Process Management for IT and Business teams to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within budget and scope and at High Quality Standards, meeting customer expectations and add value to the company.
• Mentored and trained team members in cross functional teams. Performed the Scrum Master role for Agile Projects
• Work with CA Clarity tool for Financials Management. Preparation of Project Plan and Tracking activities as per plan.
• Coordinating Automation Team Activities. Coordinating Performance Team Activities.
• Conducting Audits to check the compliance with processes and Standards
• Status Report to WKFS Management
• Participating in Weekly Meeting with Project Manager/Product manager
• Tracking schedule against Project Plan and mitigate Risks.
• Defining new processes and coordinate with team for Process Improvement
• Involved in Creation of Final Test Report and presenting to Stakeholders