SUMMARY

• Strategic, Collaborative, Driven & Results Oriented.
• Over 15+ years experience in software technology industry wif 8+ years of project management.
• Deliveries of highly complex multi - million dollar enterprise wide programs & projects.
• Align Business and Technology objectives and goals. Deliver robust technology solutions reducing operating cost and Business risk.
• Manage over 35+ resources including on & off shore, vendor resources.
• Expertise in JAD, RAD, SCRUM and SDLC methodologies.
• Proven track record of close to 100% on time, wifin scope, under budget deliveries.
• TEMPEffective executive level communication managing IT expectations.
• Innovative, customer focused by understanding their brands, platforms and strategies.
• Strong hands-on technical foundation & management in wide range of complex IT Projects in Data Warehouse, and Application Development Efforts in variety of industries including Financial and Insurance.
• Project Management - Resource management, Scope definition & planning, Cost estimation/budgeting, Risk identification/planning, Project execution.
• Process Optimization - Build efficiencies to improve business processes, reduce cycle time and increase quality
• Setting strategic direction, Managing client experience & Cross functional coordination
• Coordinate requirements gathering sessions wif end users, translating business needs into technical specifications, and communicating technical challenges to the business to negotiate alternate solutions when needed.
• Define and manage task allocation, task reporting using Microsoft Project Plan and use JIRA for project and bug tracking.
• Review the risk register and produce a monthly progress report.
• Ensure time lines of project deliverables (Gantt Charts, Project status reports, escalation and internal communication to stakeholders both on status and on the facilitation of project initiatives that may have reached an impasse).
• Liaise wif other internal technical and business leaders to provide expert input in the crafting of technology solutions.
• Organize team on projects via creating templates for: Share Point project repositories, project scope statement, roles & responsibilities, work breakdown structure, communications plan, risk management plan & project approvals.
• Implement Scrum methodology; projects divided into multiple sprints until completion is met.
• Determine and communicate project time lines based on resource availability and desired business delivery dates.
• Report on project status, keeping all stakeholders apprised of status, issues, and scope changes.
• Identify and resolve and, or escalate issues appropriately in a timely fashion.
• Strong documentation and reporting skills
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and problem solving skills
• Extensive experience in managing enterprise IT project life cycle through all phases.
• In-depth noledge and experience in cost management, time management, risk management, and integration management.
• Experience in project oversight and independent validation & verification.
• Proven ability to deliver high quality IT products and services on schedule and on budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: MS Project, Clarity 12 & 13, SharePoint

Database: Teradata 13, Oracle, SYBASE 12.5/15.5,MS SQL 2000,MS Access

Application Development: ETL Informatica 8.6.1/9.x, Crystal Reports 8.0, Java, Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, HTML, XML

Others: Peregrine 5.2 & 6.0, Web Services, JIRA, VSS, CVS, Clear Case, ControlM 6.4/8.0,TOAD, Rapid SQL, .NET, UNIX, Perl

Infrastructure: Unix, Linux & Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program Governance: established and managed program communication at executive level & peers across multiple systems, risk / issue management, resource management, quality assurance, document standards, progress tracking, status reporting.
• Co-ordinate wif 3 Program Manager & 15+ Project Manager for entire BCBS program deliveries.
• Managed data migration and data mart deliverables end to end for different LOB and cross LOB reporting across line of business (MB, CB, BB, WM, Auto, Cards and CCB) wifin Consumer and Community Bank of Confidential . Which included
• Co-ordinate all JAD session for CCB Reporting (150+) across line of business.
• Co-ordinate multiple JAD sessions wif various LOB / cross LOB, finance and risk stakeholders, IT SME’s developers, modelers to collect requirements across line of business.
• Managed data modeling and Data Architecture project deliverables
• Organized and participated in DRB (data architecture review board) for all ICDW Teradata platform DB changes.
• Co-ordinate and organize Report deliveries under a Basel III, Dodd-Frank and CCAR compliant
• Supervise work load and assignment of Data Modelers and Application DBA’s.
• Resource Management: manage, allocate, level over 35+ resources wif multi-culture, on-site, off-site, off-shore

Confidential

Project/Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Technology Project Manager for Managed Account business directed toward strategic business, BAU and other organizational objectives, development initiatives (ETL/JAVA architecture, DB design, development, and implementation).
• Project support for global application across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions
• Plan and execute process optimization.
• Create project plan and milestones.
• Ensure time lines of project deliverables (Gantt Charts, Project status reports etc)
• Setting and agreeing project time scales and deadlines wif Managed Account business users.
• Produce project status report.
• Schedule weekly/monthly meetings wif team and produce meeting minutes.
• Single point of contact for all communications between the technical team and MA business users.
• Managing technical resource to ensure that all milestones are achieved wifin the agreed time frame.
• Ensuring TEMPeffective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables produced.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Ensuring that projects conform to agile methodology.
• Review the technical specification document.
• Assist/create Use, Test and scenario based test cases based on requirements and signing off the test case documents.
• Manage daily SCRUM meeting and get updated on sprints required for monthly release and identify any impediments to progress.
• Manage product backlog, update and maintain user stories, sprint burn-down charts.
• Use JIRA to track software customization, defects and issues via the use of Agile methodology.
• Produce project status reports for global leads, lead and guide the development team and pro-actively manage systems development and resolve day-to-day issues wif emphasis on SDLC.
• Responsible for project management directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
• Coach, mentor and lead personnel wifin a technical team environment.
• Engage QA team for testing and providing sign off on the quality of software developed.
• Provided delivery management to ensure business satisfaction and reference-ability.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Project Lead (Consultant )

Responsibilities:

• Managed client engagement services and solution implementations for AUTOFAC (an information processing solution for property and casualty facultative placement) and Universal Audit Program (tool for Property and Facultative Auditors on field).
• Provided business consulting, noledge expertise in strategic performance management methodologies, process assessment work, and the application of technologies to business.
• Direct the coordination of all implementation tasks as well as provide consultation to clients on system implementation.
• Proactively managed systems development, implementation and risk via the use of SDLC.