SUMMARY

• Highly experienced project manager with over 15 years of project management experience and over 25 years of industry experience.
• PMP certified.
• Certified SCRUM MASTER. Mentor and coached budding scrum masters.
• Managed project teams of 5 to 25 individuals.
• Experience with all phases of projects from conceptualization to delivery and support.
• Experience with AGILE and WATERFALL methodologies.
• Scrum Master experienced in facilitating all scrum ceremonies.
• Experience with MATRIX and PROJECTIZED organizations.
• Experienced in HEALTHCARE, AUTOMOTIVE and FINANCIAL industries.
• Experience delivering BI projects.
• Experience with managing programs and leading project managers.
• Proven track record of successful quality delivery and implementation.
• Managed multi-million dollar projects with an objective of achieving business needs with technology driven solutions.
• Great communicator. Use technological skills along with an understanding of the company's business and business needs to communicate with senior executives and project stakeholders, program owner, steering committee etc.
• Excellent negotiating skills and an ability to bring the team together to collaborate on issues.
• Focused on solving business issues.
• Work independently.
• Adept at handling pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Extensive experience with all development aspects of Oracle 10g.
• Extensive experience in designing Oracle Databases using STAR schema.
• Extensive experience in leading and designing ETL solutions using Informatica and MDM.
• Experience working with Cognos 7 and Cognos 8 professionals.
• Experience working with Microsoft Office products like MS Project, Excel, Word and Microsoft Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

• I worked on two projects mainly: Patient Portal for the State of New York and Direct, which allows providers to send secure messages from their EHR or HISP to other providers on a different EHR or HISP. NYeC is a HISP provider in the state of New York. Use of Direct also allows these providers to receive MU2 incentives from CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services .
• As a project manager was responsible for giving direction and leadership to a few projects that are being rolled out within the State of New York.
• Responsible for validating and clarifying requirements for the vendors.
• Responsible for creating a detailed project plan in consultations with the stakeholders at NYeC and the vendors.
• Responsible for vendor management to ensure that the vendors were keeping to the project plan.
• Responsible for coordinating the UAT with the external stake holders.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Project Manager on a multi-million dollar project in the Healthcare space which touched the functional areas of Membership, Claims and Providers. Have developed SME expertise.
• Project was managed using a hybrid of AGILE and WATERFALL methodologies.
• Managing the delivery of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association mandated innovative health care delivery model Payment Innovations which extends the delivery of local programs to Blue Card hosted members.
• Managing a cross functional team comprised of Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Business users and Developers.
• Was the primary communicator with the program owner, project sponsors and the steering committee by conducting regular status update meetings.
• Accountable for identifying internal and external dependencies.
• Accountable for risk identification and their mitigation including escalation to the program owners and project sponsors if necessary.
• Managing the scope of all the streams while negotiating with the stakeholders.
• Ensuring that the Change Management Plan is followed.
• Designing outside the box solutions for particularly sticky situations.

Technical Environment: ORACLE, Informatica MDM, PL/SQL, TOAD, DB2, Visio, SharePoint

Confidential

Project Manager Customer Leads Management

• Customer Leads are generated in a multitude of ways. The Leads Management System was designed to collect and integrate the leads data with the sales data to analyze the conversion of leads to sales thereby ensuring marketing dollars are targeted to the appropriate channels. This project was budgeted at 0.5 million with a schedule of 7 months.
• Responsible for all project management process groups, from initiation through closing.
• Managed the project using the AGILE methodology.
• Facilitated sprint pre planning, sprint planning, daily stand ups and spring retrospective.
• Used Microsoft Project for scheduling and resource management and Excel for budgeting.
• Responsible for ensuring that the business requirements are properly captured and documented by the Business Analysts.
• Acquired the development team consisting of architects, DBAs and programmers.
• Responsible for communicating project status, risks and mitigation plan to the stakeholders.

• Worked with closely with the data architects to design the data cleansing and data load strategy using MDM principles.
• Worked closely with the BI analysts and business to understand and document BI needs and managed their development and delivery

Technical Environment: ORACLE, Informatica MDM, PL/SQL, TOAD, DB2, Visio, SharePoint, and Cognos.