SUMMARY

• PMI certified professional (PMP, PMI - ACP) wif more than 14yrs of experience in IT Project Management
• Knowledgeable and experienced in Waterfall and Agile development methods such as Scrum using tools like TFS for sprint planning, writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Created Project Charter and Business Case.
• Tracking planned budget to actual expenditure.
• Coordinated and managed cross functional teams.
• Successfully executed projects in multi-cultural environments and has hands on experience wif on-site and off shore project coordination.
• Proficient in requirements elicitation techniques like JAD sessions interviews and hands on experience in creating BRD’s, User stories and FRD’s.
• Proficient in creating various diagrams like process flows, swim lane in Visio.
• Extensively used SharePoint Portal for managing project documents, meetings, communication, scheduling, and lists for tracking Issues, Tasks and Changes. Created workflows for automating the approval process for Changes.
• Extensive experience in test planning and test case designing.
• Expertise in writing SQL Queries using ORACLE, SQL Server and validating data.
• Developed Project Management documents like Project work plan, Risk Management plan, Communication Management plan, WBS and others.
• Deliver product and services as per defined project scope and goals
• Communicate & Manage stakeholders and sponsor expectation by conducting regular meetings, prepare presentations and delivering project deliverables.
• Managed projects from assessment to implementation in accordance wif project schedule
• Efficient in project metrics reports, scheduling, SLM, and vendor management.
• Involved in product procurement process by sending RFP’s to selected vendors.
• Highly capable of handling the entire project delivery and client engagement responsibilities by collaborating wif business unit and IT staff throughout the project.
• Scope Planning, schedule development, budget and cost control, Risk Analysis
• Strong communications, presentation, analytical and problem solving skills
• Computer skills include: Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, HTML,VB 6,Crystal Reports, Java script, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Madison, WI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developing project artifacts as per project scope
• Resource estimation for the projects
• Managed and delivered multiple projects as per schedule

Confidential, Madison, WI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maximize productivity by setting clear expectations and proactively communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and top management.
• Responsible for setting project direction, employing PMBOK life cycle methodology and Agile methodologies to guide projects from inception to completion, using process improvements along the way to deliver projects on-time
• Manage resource planning and team building.
• Managed multiple projects at one time, including web application wif responsive web design
• Identify risks and develop mitigation plans by discussing wif key stake holders.
• Coordination and managing cross functional teams by building a very good communication plan.
• Discuss wif technical team for resolution of complexities dat arise due to complex application features or procedures.
• Do not hesitate to listen to different teams and rely on their expertise for team success and achiving project goals.
• Successfully launched CTProComply website on time.
• Successfully implemented RA Pricing, PCI Compliance, BFI Checkout projects on time.
• Configuration changes of J D Edwards - One World as needs of the user requirements
• Successfully completed upgradation of SQL Server database from 2003 to 2008 R2 on schedule.
• Developed WBS, Critical Path Method and best practices for software development.
• Extensively used MS Project for planning, scheduling work activities, communicating and managing project work.
• Extensively used SharePoint as document repository, store meeting minutes and automate approvals through workflows.
• Lead prioritization activities to organize work for development teams. Assign responsibilities, monitor and summarize progress of project.
• Managed requirement gathering and test plan preparation.
• Involved in the procurement and implementation of Salesforce.
• Create User Stories, sub tasks and log bugs in TFS.
• Compliance - Ensures applications are on new releases follow legal and regulatory compliance wherever applicable.
• Monitoring project risks, scope creep, potential problems and identify solutions to meet productivity.
• Mentored resources in User Acceptance and handle difficult situations wif ease by motivating team positively through interpersonal skills.
• Validate deliverables against scope baseline.
• Sign off on product for production release.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Liaised wif business and functional owners during risk engineering and high-level review sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines and standards.
• Worked wif EUCLIDES Technologies vendor in the procurement of Service Scheduling Software. Created the RFP document by including the requirements gathered and other background details for the vendor to respond factually.
• Craft and disseminate a clear vision by linking projects to the company’s objectives and results.
• Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects wif respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.
• Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.
• Extensively used Share Point for document repository.
• Guarantee the attainment of key milestones by proactively tracking metrics and project outputs.
• Facilitate the development of a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)
• Synchronize the efforts of major initiatives involving multiple groups and departments.
• Escalate issues and concerns appropriately.
• Consider, prioritize and balance the competing needs of diverse stakeholders
• Manage matrixed resources and related relationships wifin each functional area.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Business Analyst/Testing

Responsibilities:

• UTAS is a mainframe application, converted into .net technology. Worked wif mainframe users to gather requirements and shadowed user on the current process.
• Determined user/business/functional requirements. Created vision, scope, and use case documents; business process models, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and state chart diagrams.
• Performed GAP and Risk analysis of existing system and evaluated benefits of new system.
• Prioritized business and systems problems; analyzed legislation and conducted impact analysis.
• Prepared business process models; used Visio to create use case diagrams.
• Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations; prepared business process models, defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success factors.
• Assisted in process modeling; conducted and participated in JAD sessions wif system users; halped wif design walkthroughs wif stakeholders for base lining architecture.
• Involved in detailing project mission, data process flow diagrams, and timelines.
• Worked wif SQL queries for data manipulations.

Confidential, Kansas City, MI

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated wif users to analyze current processes, then partnered wif developers to design and implement new features dat increased efficiencies by 15 percent
• Prepared flow charts which show wat changes need to be taken
• Interfaced wif business users to prepare and update Business Process Requirements (BPR) and Software System Requirements (SSR). Created test cases and test scripts.
• Conducted risk engineering to derive and execute action plans on time.
• Interfaced wif SMEs to prepare BPR documents for ongoing projects.
• Prioritized business and systems problems; analyzed legislation and conducted impact analysis.
• Prepared business process models; used Visio to create use case diagrams.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted wif developers and users to analyze the user requirements and functional specifications.
• Developed test plans, which include testing overview approach, strategy and complete scope of testing.
• Developed Test Scripts, Test Cases based on requirements and functional specifications.
• Executed the Test Cases to verify actual results to expected results.
• Performed integration testing between different modules of the application under test defects
• Performed thorough Defect Verification after development team resolved or fixed the bugs.
• Performed Manual Test to verify Look and Feel, GUI, Navigation and Code Verification.
• Enhanced the test script using TSL.
• Performed the Regression and Functional Testing using Win Runner through recording.
• Tested the Applications performance creating the scripts, scenarios and executing them.
• Debugging the application and made changes to the values according to Test Cases such as Test condition and Expected results.
• Wrote test scripts to perform regression testing and stress testing. Regression testing is implemented at various phases of the development life cycle.
• Extensively involved in resolving bugs fixes wif Development Team. Generate necessary code fix for the issue ticket and Regression Test in the local Environment.
• Involved in Defect tracking and Reporting using Test director.
• Prepared the documentation for the future use of the application for risk survey reports.
• Coordinated and carried out testing wif Development team and Configuration team for Regression Testing.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Web Forms for Client-Server interaction in VB6.0.
• Involved in database design.
• Visual Source Safe has been used for all the source code maintenance among the whole team members.
• Developed various reports using Crystal Reports for Mail generation and customer feedback information.
• Report Generation using Crystal Reports 8.5.
• Worked on Stored Procedures, Views and Functions required for the reports.
• Layouts of the report.
• Unit testing of the report.
• Creating sub reports and linking it wif main reports.
• Creating wide variety of graphs to display various statistical data