SUMMARY

• 12+ yrs of experience in Treasury, Reinsurance, Securities, Credit Risk, Finance and Telecommunication
• 9 yrs experience in Project Management experience managing successful delivery of complex, multi - year, multi-million dollar end to end solutions
• Areas of expertise include IT Program/Project management, including analysis of investment alternatives, business case development, SDLC and transition planning
• PMO support including resource allocation, IT governance, management best practices, cross program initiatives, risk/issue assessment and setting up framework and templates for Project Management
• Strong analytical and technical skills with ability to articulate vision, strategy, and deliver a solid achievable plan
• Proven ability to collaboratively lead cross-functional groups toward defining, building and launching successful end to end solutions
• Thorough knowledge of iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Agile, Waterfall, Modified Waterfall, RUP, Lean methodology and DMAIC
• Experience in vendor management (software vendors, data providers, service providers), reviewing RFPs, SOW and processing the same through legal and procurement
• Experience in strategizing Enterprise Architecture, designing road maps and implementation plans for data warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Madison, NJ

Sr. Project Manager

Environment: MS Project, HP PPM, Oracle 11g, Rally

Responsibilities:

• Managed vendor relationships and worked with the vendor in laying out the detailed solution roadmap, high level milestones and estimating the cost of the end to end implementation through each phase
• Built program and delivery governance strategy and framework and standardized use of BOX and SharePoint for sharing project documentation within company and with vendors
• Developed and managed project plan, project budget, RACI, risks/issues, decision logs and other project artifacts
• Developed and presented program dashboard to the steering committee with program metrics on status of each track, high level risks, issues and information about variances against estimated progress, if any

Confidential, Teaneck, NJ

Sr. Project Manager

Environment: MS Project, Informatica PowerCenter, BOXI,Oracle 11g, JIRA, Clarity PPM

Responsibilities:

• Managed implementation of Media solution program for managing ad sales across and billing for Univision
• Worked on deriving project budgets and work estimations to come up with Project forecasts and tracked the variance against the actual budget
• Responsible for creating and maintaining project plans, issues/risks registers, status reports and keeping the senior management updated with these metrics on weekly basis
• Leveraged Burn down charts, Cumulative Flow Diagram report from JIRA to increase transparency and build trust with the stakeholders
• Standardized the use of Project Management tools like Clarity PPM, JIRA, MS Project and SharePoint
• Worked with PMO office and FP&A office to set up Portfolio Management process and framework using Clarity PPM
• Enforced Test Driven Development and performing peer reviews before deploying the code to the integration environment and ensured that scrum team increased their unit test coverage in every sprint
• Extensively used Remedy as change management tool to promote the solution through various validated environments and to meet the compliance/audit requirements
• Coordinated with several support teams, managed release tickets in the implementation phase to successfully deliver solution to production environment

Confidential, Newark NJ

Sr. Project Manager/Agile Coach

Environment: MS Project, SharePoint, Informatica PowerCenter, Business Objects, Rally, HP PPM

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a global data integration program and leading migration effort following Agile Methodology in a highly matrixed environment
• Promoted and provided thought leadership within organization pertaining to process optimization, standardization, and alignment to business needs
• Reviewed Request For Proposals (RFP), Statement Of Work (SOW) and processed the documents through procurement and legal
• Standardized the process of daily automatic builds to ensure continuous integration and delivery
• Facilitated continuous business improvement by planning and monitoring solution enhancements, upgrades / support packs by regularly grooming the Product backlog with Product Owner
• Acted as a Scrum Master removing impediments for the team and mentoring them on Agile methodology
• Facilitated Daily stand ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings and leveraged Agile reports off of Rally Dev to provide status report to the higher management

Confidential, Washington DC

Sr. Project Manager

Environment: MS Visio, MS Project, RallyDev, SharePoint, Weblogic, Oracle 11g, HP PPM

Responsibilities:

• Managed the upgrades of the underlying infrastructure of trading applications to remediate the Technology Risk findings on security aspects of the applications
• Created Service Agreements and Task Orders to procure new state of the art technology products like LightStreamer, Dojo and onboard their professional services
• As a member of PMO, budgeted and forecasted the effort and analyzed reports to track the variances
• Extensively used HP PPM to maintain project/program artifacts, manage approvals from senior management and establish effective communication across project teams
• Negotiated with waterfall centric PMO and agile project team to agree on project artifacts, approval process and review process
• Created project management artifacts like initiation authorization document, project charter, project scope, deliverables traceability matrix and project risk and issue logs, risk mitigation plan and release plan
• Extensively used Rallydev to groom the backlog with the Product Owner, maintain Kanban board, manage user stories, draw project status reports such as burn down chart, burn up chart, cumulative flow diagram report, velocity report
• Enforced Agile best practices such as maintaining the Kanban board on real time basis, grooming the backlog on regular basis, deploying the code to the integrated environment as soon as it was peer reviewed and developing test cases prior to actually writing the code were followed by the team
• Worked with external teams like Process Compliance and Project Quality Office to ensure that the project’s/program’s process and ensuring that the artifacts are compliant with Confidential standards
• Collaborated with the external teams to gather information of the application, software, hardware and other infrastructure to help move the data centers

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, SharePoint, Kalido, SSIS, SSRS, MS SQL Server, Windows 2003

Responsibilities:

• Integrated the Claims processing system into the Re-Insurance data warehouse to report on yearly, monthly and weekly claims processed
• Integrated contracts data from multiple systems into a data warehouse to give out one version of truth
• Managed a team of 25-30 and directed day to-day development activities of developers in a geographically dispersed environment with onsite and offshore locations, and ensured quality solution delivery
• Collaborated with business, product owners and technical team to translate business needs into technical requirements/stories in product backlog
• Managed project plan, project budget, risks/issues and other project deliverables
• Conducted daily Scrums, Sprint planning and Sprint retrospective meetings and managed the story board
• Provided status to business stakeholders on project status, high risk items and forecasted v/s actual budget on bi-weekly basis
• Tracked items closely on project critical path, identified risks, issues and possible mitigations strategies
• Worked with internal data vendors to receive timely data feeds for consumption by reporting engines and regulatory calculations
• Worked with team to install and configure ETL and reporting tools SSIS, SSAS, SSRS in various environments
• Managed the release working with all track leads, external teams, putting required tickets in place and creating release management artifacts

Confidential, CO

Project Manager

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, SharePoint, Kalido, Informatica 8.5.1, Cognos, MS SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Managed cross functional teams to deliver of Business Intelligence and MDM solution in SOA architecture over one year to agreed upon timelines, budgets and client expectations using DMAIC methodology
• Led discussions with the business team and SMEs to understand the business requirements and goals to develop and maintain Enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and Master Data Management (MDM) solution
• Worked with team leads, architects and business SMEs to chalk out the roadmap of the SOA solution in phases and developed plan to meet the phases milestones
• Worked with business and technical SMEs to get estimates of the effort and developed the budget estimate for the end to end solution
• Interfaced and coordinated with different teams managing different tracks of the solution
• Created and presented management briefing decks to discuss progress, high level risks and issues
• Evaluated the tool vendors of Data warehousing/BI/ MDM tools and coordinated the professional services’ implementation efforts on behalf of the Confidential
• Managed Informatica and Initiate professional consulting team to chalk out the overall architecture and to set up the initial configuration of these software tools
• Managed planning & execution of cutover/release, managed deployment plan across multiple teams in the SOA team structure
• Presented to the change control board, the changes that various teams were releasing for that iteration and maintained the approvals on SharePoint and Remedy

Confidential, Washington DC

Delivery Manager

Environment: MS Visio, MS Project, Rational Pro Kalido, Business Objects XI, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL

Responsibilities:

• Led JAD sessions, meetings and interviews with SMEs, senior management and IT teams to track and document business requirements, issues and tasks
• Worked as a lead contact for the business and technical teams to coordinate the development efforts.
• Guided efforts for creation of data dictionaries on an attribute level to give its source/target information, allowable values, data type, physical name, business name, definition, granularity etc
• Directed and worked with data analyst to understand the granularity of data, relationships among different data entities to have consensus on the depth and nature of reporting requirements
• Created migration plan, maintained code baselines and communicated among development, release management and content management teams during every migration
• Worked extensively on project plan and project management deliverables for capturing schedules, key deliverables, issues, resource requirements, risks and mitigation strategies

Confidential, Bothell, WA

Project Manager

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, Requisite Pro, Cognos, Informatica 7.1, Oracle 9i, Autosys

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the GSM conversions as part of PMO office for multiple GSM conversions
• Liaison between the Confidential & Confidential and Cingular’s project team and responsible for improvement in relationship between the two teams
• Worked with team leads to monitor and update the project status, tracked the resource availability, managed risks and risk mitigation plans and created and updated issue logs
• Worked directly with the change control board and managed the change requests using Jack Track, Cingular’s proprietary change request/ticket tracker tool