Objective

• Results-driven business/technology strategist and leader with extensive operational and management experience as well as PMP to augment a well-rounded career.
• Solid business, management, team-building and technical skills to facilitate the completion of departmental and enterprise-wide projects.
• Strong ability to translate upper management business objectives into technological requirements while maintaining budgetary and time constraints.

Summary

• 17 years of Software Industry experience involving Analysis, Design, Estimation, Execution, Risk management, Scheduling, Testing, Maintenance and Quality Assurance of Application Software on Web Technology/Mobile technology and IBM Mainframe.
• 10 years of experience in managing medium to large-scale projects. Led multi-disciplinary teams of 5 100 personnel.
• Experience in managing Enterprise wide initiatives and Successful delivery of projects involving multiple department and Groups.
• Managed IT application and Business Initiatives development projects from Planning through Implementation.
• Experience in tracking and developing reports covering IT financials, budget and overall performance.
• Experience in Prioritizing programs and projects within the IT portfolio based on changing functional needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies
• Continuously monitor the Process and identified the gaps and direct the team to use agile methodologies.
• Experience in Budget planning using Earned value and different tools based on the organization and tracked and managed the schedule.
• Extensive Experience in Agile, Waterfall and Iterative methodologies.
• Experience in Insurance, Reinsurance, Financials, Banking, Social Media, and Pharmaceutical application.
• Managed projects in Data warehouse projects using ETL. Used Microsoft technologies like SSIS and SSRS.
• Experience working in PMO office and managed and tracked project metrics.
• Experience in Identifying and Managing the risk and made the necessary contingency and Fall back plan.
• Highly Organized and excellent multi-tasking skills. Able to work independently and manage high-profile multiple projects in parallel.
• Experience in Managing Geographically distributed, Offshore development and QA team and established standards, templates, Communication plan, reviews for effectively managing the project. Managed team in different time zones in Europe, Singapore, India and different parts of US.
• Experience in working for CMM Level5 Organization. Expert knowledge in the deployment of processes and tools to support the SEI Capability Maturity Model, Statistical Process Control, and the Project Management Maturity Model, Quality Management, Quality Processes and Tools
• Expert hands-on, working knowledge of Project Management and Systems Development Life Cycle Methodology SDLC , business systems analysis.
• Interacted effectively and professionally with senior staff, client staff and associates coordinating all levels for the successful outcome of the projects.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new environments quickly
• Recognized for effective leadership, client staff project skills development, and interpersonal relations/conflict resolution

Technical Experience

Web Technologies

.NET, ASP, JavaScript, PHP, PERL, VBScript, XML, Java, XSL,HTML, DHTML, J2EE, JSP, IIS, UML, Websphere, Sharepoint, CSS

Mainframe Technologies

COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, SQL, Stored Procedure, MQ, Panvalet, ChangeMan

Client/server

Visual Basic

Database

DB2, IMS, SQL SERVER, ORACLE

Testing Tools

QTP, Xpeditor

Project Management Tools

MS Project, Sales force, Jira, Clarity, Visual Source Safe, SharePoint, PVCS Tracker, Visio, Test Director Quality center , and MS Office, Rally.

Exposure To

SOA Technology, Saas, Documentum, Crystal Reports, RUP, Rational Rose, Rational ClearQuest

Confidential

Project Manager Consultant

• As a Senior manager managing the various initiatives for Corporate department for Endurance.
• Manages a portfolio of project and program management services project analysis, project execution, project delivery for IT involved projects in support of the IT strategy and objectives.
• Working closely with internal customers to create business cases to justify investments.

Responsible for Hiring and Budget maintenance for the corporate department. Drafted corporate road map and managed schedule, scope and budget for the projects. Partner with Business, Development management and Release Managers to accomplish the releases and plan for future releases. Participating in executive and steering committee meeting to present project roadmap and timeline. Involving in Project planning, Tracking and risk management and resource allocation for enterprise wide project initiative. Heavily involved in Audit and regulatory process of the organization. Working closely with technical leads on detailed designs and estimates for all technology initiatives. Involved in team motivation and encouraged team members to take relevant training happening in the organization. Analyzed the critical path for the projects and allocated resources efficiently to make the project successful and managed project budget. Efficiently took part in change management and responsible for estimation and timeline for the release based on the changes. Cross train the team in different projects and products to get a better coverage. Working with Data warehouse team to put together a plan and make the BI and QA team matured in Data warehouse and Reports verification. Implemented agile methodolgy for Couple of key initiatives for better project management. Involved heavily with users and operation team to meet the expectation of the project delivery. Heavily involved in Vendor management and choosing and setting up the offshore team in different geographical location.

Confidential

Title : Senior Manager/Director

As a Senior manager managing Junior managers and Development team for various project initiatives for Gannett NYC. Worked with Sales team, Business analyst to formalize the business needs and requirements. Involved with different level of stakeholders to formalize and tailor the existing process for efficient project delivery methodologies. Coordinate with the release management team and prepared release calendars to track and implement the releases. Involved in Resource forecasting, Project planning, Tracking for various initiatives happening in the organization. Provided demo of the prototype to the stakeholders and negotiated the features to be included in the current build. Established a good relationship to the external clients and vendors to make the project successful. Worked with system engineer to setup the load test environment and managed the QA team to successfully run the load test using Jmeter. Evolved the QA process by frequently analyzing the gaps and made sure no critical or major issues happened in UAT or production. Identified the risk, and tracked and managed the risk periodically and prepared Contingency plan for mitigating the risk. Actively involved in weekly management meeting and provided project status and defect metrics to senior management. Track the budget and Change management. Closely monitor the critical path of the project and took necessary action to keep the project in track. Heavily used Agile and waterfall methodologies based on the client requirement to successful deliver the project. Involved in Hiring and Training the project team.

Confidential

Title : Project Manager/Associate Director

Managed the Business, Development and Quality assurance department for maintenance and major releases happening in the organization. Partner with Product, development team Managers and QA Managers to accomplish the releases and plan for future releases. Also worked with QA Manager and offshore Testing team and assist in establishing a required set of Guidance, Standards, Reviews, Strategic Objectives and Communication plans to improve software quality Assurance, system integration and training. Implemented a process for end-to-end testing with the external partners, which was very successful for our Nov 2007 major release. Involved in the risk management process and communicated the status to the stakeholders in orderly manner. Managed defects using quality center and collected defect metrics. Analyzed root causes for the defects and proposed plan to reduce defects in future releases. Provided Daily/Weekly/Monthly status to the senior management and Stakeholders. Analyzed the critical path for the projects and allocated resources efficiently to make the project successful. Managed UAT schedule. Approved and certified the application developed on Web based and Mainframe technologies before moving to production. Deployed technologies that included J2EE, Java, JSP, Websphere, XML, JavaScript, MQ, Stored procedure, Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM.

Title : Project Manager Consultant

• Lead the client's IT team of 25 members as Project Manager for the Various Maintenance and Enhancement for wealth management portfolio. Prepared annual budget estimates to identify the staffing required supporting the environment. Participated with business teams to establish business priorities and deployed the applications needed to meet the business objectives. Involved in Continuous Process improvement of the Project by Coordinating Software engineering and Technology group. Involved heavily in Risk identification, responsibility assignment, tracking and mitigation process. Monitored the progress of the project closely and evaluated Performance review and Team Training.
• Assist in establishing a required standard set of Frameworks, Guiding Principles, Strategic Objectives and standards of software development, system integration and the infrastructure to support it. Negotiated and prioritized the projects to be included in each release. Documentation of issues, accomplishments, and lessons learned.
• Deployed technologies that included .NET, ASP, C , Websphere, XML, JavaScript, Webservices, SQL Server, COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL.

Title: Project Coordinator/Manager

• Managed a team of 10 people for Insurance Service Office for web mainframe application where the system is designed to check Coverage Lapse and to provide discounts to Insurers. Effectively managed the offshore Testing team and assist in establishing a required set of Guidance, Standards, Reviews, Strategic Objectives and Communication plans to improve efficiently in software quality Assurance, system integration and training. Actively managed the identification and mitigation of risks, and reported consistently back to stakeholders on risk status. Coordinated Functional, End-to-End testing, Regression Testing and User acceptance testing. Documentation of issues, accomplishments, and lessons learned. Reported project performance-to-cost and schedule-to-cost by comparing key project financial metrics with the organization's underlying business strategy.
• Technology environment included Test Director, J2EE, Java, JSP, Websphere, XML, JavaScript, MQ, Stored procedure, Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM.
• Lead a team of 15 people for Insurance Service Office for web mainframe application where the system is designed to verify for Automobile property Loss. Developed goals, objectives, measures, organization design, processes, activities, function and workflow and business model for the selected processes and recommended to senior management.
• Worked with Business analyst and Technical developers to make Business functional to technology. Worked with the Database group for Data Modeling and Database design.
• Responsible for Project plan, Estimation, Tracking and reviews. Managed project issues using test director. Coordinated all levels of SDLC to make the project successful. Planned and Implemented Production Support.
• Deployed technologies that included J2EE, Java, JSP, Websphere, XML, JavaScript, MQ, Stored procedure, Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM.

Title: Team Lead

order entry system. Involved in identifying use cases and Business process flow. Involved in Requirement analysis, Design, Planning, Coding, Testing, Team management and Reviews. Played a significant role in Data modeling using Entity relation, Logical and physical Database design. Played active role in technical architecture of the project. Involved in Performance tuning of the application. Involved in Root cause analysis using fish borne diagram. Project was developed in ASP, HTML, XML, Style sheets, JavaScript, Oracle and IIS Server.

Title: Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software engineer I was involved in Development of Web project for online management for Private banking system from NeST Technologies. Involved in Discussion with business analyst and documenting Functional to Technology document. Involved in Screen Design, Planning, Coding, Testing, Configuration management and Reviews. Used XML DOM to parse data from XML. Project was developed in J2EE, Java, JSP, Websphere, XML, JavaScript, and Oracle.

Title: Software Engineer

As a Senior Software engineer I was involved in Development of Web project in NeST Technologies CMM Level 5 for Online payroll application, Travel Claim and Leave Management system. Involved in Requirement analysis, Screen Design, Planning, Coding, Testing, Team management and Reviews. Developed Components using Visual basic. Project was developed In ASP, Visual Basic, HTML, XML, Style sheets, JavaScript. IIS Server, SQL server, Visual Source Safe, Involved in Training the Team members in IMS Database. Technologies used were COBOL, DB2, CICS, IMS, VSAM, JCL, Xpeditor, File Aid.

Title: Programmer Analyst

As a Programmer analyst I was involved in Development and Maintenance of Mainframe projects in BYT Technologies. I was Involved in requirement analysis, Coding, Test case preparation, Unit and System testing. Technologies used were COBOL, DB2, CICS, IMS, VSAM, JCL, IMS,Xpeditor, File Aid.