Summary:

• Project managed the integration of a third party product with Thomson One, the company's flagship product. This enabled the Thomson One product to expand its market share by 3 . Worked with the Business to create a comprehensive Business Requirements Document. Thomson Financial/Agile
• Project managed a major re-architecting of Enterprise System Bus which will have x3 improvement in efficiency. Worked with the Business to produce the Project Concept Document, Feasibility Study and the Business Requirements Document 5MN Interactive Data/Agile .
• redundancy for HA and mutual failover design across data centers for DR/BC. Worked with the Business to produce the Project Concept Document, Feasibility Study and the Business Requirements Document. 5 MN Interactive Data/Onshore-Offshore/Agile .
• Project managed a major enhancement to a commercial product to satisfy the needs of the biggest customer. Worked with the Business to produce the Project Concept Document, Feasibility Study and the Business Requirements Document Interactive Data/Agile
• Turned around and successfully managed the CEO's 1 project Pricing project which provided optimized pricing including promotions like buy 2 get the 3rd free for several thousand items across North America for several hundred stores. Worked with the Business to create a comprehensive Business Requirements Document Albertsons Inc. .

Project Management Skills

• Managed identification of User needs. Elicitation and Documentation of User Requirements. Analysis and Documentation of existing Business Processes. Design, Documentation and Implementation proposed Business Processes.. Ensured utilization of both one-to-one Interview techniques and Group Techniques like Scenario Analysis JAD Sessions.
• Organized a PMO workshop on Agile Adoption.
• Expert level knowledge of RALLY.
• PMBOK, Six Sigma, IEEE, ISO 9001, ISO 12207, Unified Process, Waterfall
• MS Project for single and multiple-project planning - 10 years Agile / XP / SCRUM - 6.5 years Business Engine - PMO Tool - Capital One, with MS Project
• Mercury IT Governance - PMO Tool, Albertsons / Shaw's with MS Project PLANVIEW - PMO Tool - Staples, with MS Project
• CLARITY Formerly NIKU - PMO Tool, Thomson Financial, with MS Project.
• MS SharePoint and MS Project with Resource Pools, MS Project Server 2007 Interactive Data Corporation.
• Pair-wise comparison and other models for multi-criteria prioritization.
• Created Project Concept Document Developed Project Feasibility Report. Developed Business Requirements Documented. Led project requirements workshops with cross-functional teams participating.
• Develop Work Breakdown Structures WBS . Identify resource requirements and later acquire and deploy them. Allocate Work Packages to identified resources including external vendors. Identify Training Needs for project team members. Develop and maintain Project Plan including project schedule.
• Perform Monitoring Controlling activities on a daily basis. Identify, analyze and develop risk response strategies on a continuous basis.
• Conduct regular project team meetings - for both internal and external team members. Prepare project status reports / dash boards for review by Executive Sponsor COO for one project and VP-Products for another and other stake holders on a regular basis. Create User Acceptance Plans - for acceptance of final deliverables by production team and end customer. Ensure UAT for each of the external vendors - where deliverables from them are accepted/signed-off..
• Perform monitoring and controlling activities for these UATs. Ensure smooth transition to production / end client and get final sign-off.
• Hold Project Lessons Learned / Retrospectives Sessions. Mini versions of these were held on a phase end basis as well.
• Inventorying, Scoring, Prioritizing and Balancing Project Portfolio. Creating and Maintaining Project Dashboards for Executive Oversight. Training and Mentoring Business Partners on good Portfolio / Program / Project Management practices.
• Defining, Training and Implementing good PM practices. Training and mentoring

Business partners / Project Managers.

Professional Experience

Sr. Advisor Project/Program Management

Project managed ICD10 mapping tool project, insurance pricing project and setting up and rolling out a DIT Dev/Int Test environment.

Program Manager

Confidential

Worked with two VPs, several Modeling SMEs, Technology and two external vendors.

Project Description:

Provide understanding of Likely Business Value of using SAS High Performance Analytics solution for the EMC Greenplum platform to improve speed, quality and effectiveness of CKSI Analytics Predictive Modeling activities. The idea is to leap-frog to a totally new way of model building and scoring utilizing Best Practice recommendations from SAS on GP/SAS HPA.

Confidential

Project Description

Enable CKSI to institutionalize learning's using the latest knowledge management tools and processes. Centralize insights and learning's from the Measurement, Analysis, Market Research and Competitive Insights functional areas. Enable the CKSI content providers the ability to provide Business Partners their artifacts and learning's in a timely and efficient manner as needed to support key business decisions. Increase CKSI Brand Recognition

Project Management

Confidential

• Project Managed the Campaign Management Integration Platform project of Bank of America. This included the Confidential email campaigns and other channels. The process consisted of bringing in feeds from BofA, loading them to Netezza database with an ETL process. The campaigners run the campaigns in UNICA to generate output files which are sent to Exact Target for sending email campaigns to targeted customers.
• Worked with Bank of America to produce a comprehensive Business Requirements Document. Analyzed data to produce Click-Bounce-Reply Report identifying response patterns. Analyzed Feed and Campaign Run Data to determine Optimum Campaign Run times.
• Thought leader at Lunch Learn sessions on Agile / Scrum adoption.