IT PROJECT MANAGER

Results-driven IT Project Manager, leveraging a strong balance between business savvy and technical capabilities. Possess a proven track record of 13 years of experience contributing to the advanced performance, growth and profitability of Health and Human services IT systems. Skillfully align technical resources with corporate goals and financial objectives. Leverage superior problem solving skills to identify and assess organizational technology needs and requirements. Manage the entire development lifecycle, systems and platforms that streamline operations and optimize business processes. Cultivate teams and build and maintain client relationship, providing the subject matter expertise and support needed to meet and exceed both client and firm expectations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Information Technology Management Software Development, Maintenance Support
• People Management Project Management Client Relationship Management
• Strategic Planning Tactical Execution Leadership Team Building Strategy and Innovation Consulting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for project scope, schedule and budget management.
• Manages risks and issues to minimize impacts on the project.
• Ensures project reporting and regular communication to the project leadership team, and client.
• Prepares and reviews project deliverables for the client.
• Manages cross-functional project team of 10 members including developers, SME's and leads.
• Manages project tasks, which include performance planning, guiding and leading teams, executing and controlling the work, and closing out the project.
• Identifies resources needs and staffs team accordingly for new projects and initiatives.
• Coordinates with cross department/bureau teams and also infrastructure teams for the successful implementation of the releases.
• Develop and design project plans, solution and implementation of new systems and processes enhancements.
• Identifies issues, process improvements, and solutions.

Additional Role: iCIS Project Metrics Manager

• Responsible for collecting and analyzing project metrics and implementing changes or improvements.
• Monitoring metrics to maintain process compliance.
• Making sure that the metrics achieves the desired SLO and SLA as per the contract with the client.
• Based on the Key Performance Indicators developing proof of concept and business case to bring process improvement in the project.
• Identifying and disseminating best practices internal external in process management of the Project.
• Key role in implementing CMMI compliance for the project.
• Now contemplating in suggesting improvements in channelizing innovation.
• Identifying opportunities to improve customer and business impact through a process-focused improvement approach.
• Responsible for Quality Assurance improvements in the project.
• Establishes and monitors standards for organization's application quality process.
• Responsible for Release deployment and validations.
• Confidential

Role: Team Lead

Confidential

Client Information System CIS is one of the largest welfare eligibility systems in the country for the Department of Public Welfare of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This system is responsible for the welfare programs of assistance, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP , Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF , and Medicaid programs,

Responsibilites:

• By leveraging relationships with Client, determined the requirements of changes, developed a functional and technical solution suitable to all parties, and carried the change through all the phases of System Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• For defect related issues, facilitated meetings with the client to understand the issue at a functional level and conducted meetings with project leads and analysts to develop the proper technical solution.
• For complex changes, initiated and led Joint Application Design JAD sessions walking through both functional and technical changes with members of the State. Assessed team resources and evaluated them on a monthly basis.
• Identified, Managed and Mitigated project risks.
• Managed and supervised a team of 5 developers comprised of subcontractors and client staff.
• Served as the point-of-contact with the client for all system related questions and issues.

Confidential

Role: Application Developer 2003-2007

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze/Fix Production data issues.
• Develop/modify programs.
• Perform Unit Testing / QA Process.
• Complete Unit Test Checklists.
• Update system documentation
• Conduct impact analysis.
• Request program migrations.
• Testing in the development and Integration environments.
• Preparing Defect Management reports for the programs.
• Involved in creating test plans, test scenarios and testing.

Confidential

Trans Software Solutions service offering includes wide breadth of services across the entire Information technology spectrum.

Role: Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the client specified requirements.
• Developing new programs for enhancement and modifying the existing programs as per the Customer's requirement.
• Investigation of issues.
• Quality assurance.
• Documentation For usage by the maintenance programmers.
• Unit and string testing of the coded programs.

Confidential

Founder Director

A Mechanical Engineering, Fabrication, erection and construction company.

Achievements:

• One of the founding partners.
• Increased the turnover from Rs 10 lac to 100 lac.
• Changed the company from a Mechanical Engineering Contractor to one which can undertake big turnkey projects.

Confidential

Area Manger

Permaweld has been vertically focused since 1988 on comprehensive maintenance solutions for Industry. This is provided through specialized services like identification of energy losses through leak detection, providing lubrication consultancy for critical equipment such as HT motors, regular condition monitoring and predictive maintenance services and SUPPORTED BY THE SUPPLY of our research based maintenance products

Achievements:

• Changed the company from a product selling firm to a maintenance service and consultancy firm.
• Gave presentations and conducted seminars to the senior management of both public and private sector industries in South India.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

• Technical Environment: Unisys 2200,DMS,RDMS,Windows XP/SCO Unix, COBOL,UCOB, ACOB,CDML,TIP, ECL, ULTRAEDIT, IPF, DMS2200, IBM S/390 FORMGEN, CMS, DPS, JAVA ASP.NET, AJAX, VB.NET, ADO.NET, JavaScript, VBScript, XML .NET Oracle 10g
• Software / Products: COBOL 85, MICRO FOCUS COBOL COBOL II, COBOL 370, ACOB, UCOB, DPS, TIP, ECL, JCL, CICS, DB2,IPF,FSED, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, SQL, PL/SQL, C, HTML JAVA
• Development Tools / Languages: MS Office 2007/Visio 2007, ODBC, ADO /ADO.NET/SQL Loader/ MS Visual Source Safe
• Hardware / Operating Systems: Unisys 2200, IBM S/390, MVS/ESA, OS/390, UNIX, LINUX, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP and DOS
• Middleware / Databases: OPEN TI, DMS 2200,RDMS, Oracle, DB2, and MS Access
• General Tools: MS-Word, MS-Excel, EA Outlook and MS Project