• Project Manager/Program Manager, around 11 years of versatile experience in the Information Technology space at the top-tier clients in USA and EUROPE for various domains like Manufacturing, Consumer Product Groups, Health care/Pharma services, Banking and Retail industries.

• Experienced with end to end project management including activities like initiating projects, creating project plans, effort estimations, schedules, resource management, project execution, status tracking and reporting, metrics analysis, risks and issues management, project closures etc.
• Managed enterprise wide impact projects with solid record of managing releases/cutovers/migrations with in schedule and budget along with quality.
• Expertise in Infrastructure project management and Enterprise service project management along with Change management process and guidelines
• Experienced in all phases of Application development, Maintenance/Enhancements, Software/Database migrations using Agile methodology and Software Development Life Cycle SDLC
• Experienced in multiple vendor team management internal and external and cross functional team management
• Managed/tracked project financials/budgets for various projects

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

• Managed various projects/workstreams to upgrade infrastructure of TMS/TFS IT system in PMO model Agile/Waterfall
• Developed and managed project plans, finances and project artifacts
• Worked with multiple vendor teams and cross functional teams
• Managed multiple ES infrastructure projects like Weblogic upgrade, Windows uplift, z/OS upgrade, KVM uplift, SAN Storage upgrade, Network monitoring tools upgrade SCOM/Netcool , Autonomy upgrade and provided/managed infrastructure as required for various Application development teams
• Worked on Change management team initiations and implemented pilot phase in ES successfully as value add apart from regular duties
• Managed various projects using tools like CA Clarity, Open Workbench, Microsoft Project Plan, Share point ISSS Remedy System
• Prepared and Managed Project charter, WBS, RACI matrix, Project schedule, Project contracts, Cost tracker, Forecast and Accrual documents
• Prepared/communicated regularly to project teams Two week look-ahead, Weekly status report, Project dashboard, Visual milestone document RAID documents.
• Provided timely updates to IT management on projects status, issues and mitigation steps
• Worked with Enterprise Architects, Application Architects, ES designer teams along with project core team
• Interacted regularly with external vendor teams like Oracle, Microsoft, Google, SADA, EMC on need basis
• Received 5 awards in project management from Toyota management in last 2 yrs. 6 months
• Participated in ITMT meetings and provided presentations with Client National Managers on project/workstream budget/status updates, additional budget requests based on need/future work estimate

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

• Managed projects of Mail order application system Agile and Waterfall
• Worked on infrastructure delivery as required by Application development teams
• Worked with multiple vendor teams and cross functional teams
• Worked on requirement gathering, analysis via discussions/meetings with IT/Business Management
• Managed various projects using tools like Microsoft Project Plan, Share point HP quality center
• Prepared and Managed Project charter, WBS, RACI matrix, Project schedule, Project contracts
• Communicated regularly to project teams/IT mgmt. Weekly status report RAID documents
• Provided timely updates to IT management on projects status, issues and mitigation steps
• Reviewed project deliverables and defect tracking using HP Quality Center
• Conducted defect prevention meetings to minimize the common repetitive errors in system development
• Managed onsite/offshore teams and worked on resource management

PROJECT MANGER

Confidential

• Worked on requirement gathering, analysis via discussions/meetings with IT/Business Management Waterfall methodology
• Worked on infrastructure delivery as required by Application development teams
• Developed and managed project plans, finances and project artifacts
• Worked with multiple vendor teams and cross functional teams
• Supported in writing functional documents for Enrollment letters and follow up processing
• Converted functional requirement into technical requirement
• Assigned the work to the team members and tracked their efforts and deliverables
• Provided timely updates to IT management on projects status, issues and mitigation steps
• Conducted defect prevention meetings to minimize the common repetitive errors in system development
• Participated in regular team meetings and provided resolution for various issues

PROJECT MANGER

Confidential

• Developed solutions to the business under the direction of IT Management
• Developed and managed project plans, finances and project artifacts
• Worked with multiple vendor teams and cross functional teams
• Monitored regularly batch for production jobs and advise team to have permanent fix for the frequently getting abends
• Identifying the work priority, assigned tasks to team along with review on deliverables and effort estimate
• Managed various projects using tools like Share point ISSS Remedy System Waterfall
• Created the project plan and sent the weekly status reports to customer along with production support issues report and enhancements updates
• Worked on infrastructure delivery as required by Application development teams Agile process
• Provided timely updates to IT management on projects status, issues and mitigation steps
• Provided class room training related to technology application to the team and new joiners

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

• Interacted with business users to get the business requirements
• Developed and managed project plans, finances and project artifacts
• Worked with multiple vendor teams and cross functional teams
• Managed various projects using tools like CA Clarity, Share point, Lotus notes ISSS Remedy System
• Prepared/communicated regularly to project teamWeekly status report, Project dashboard, RAID documents.
• Provided timely updates to IT management on projects status, issues and mitigation steps
• Managed projects at various stages of SDLC requirements analysis, design, coding, implementation, test data and test case preparation , unit testing, integration testing, support to quality assurance, user acceptance testing and post-implementation support
• Worked on infrastructure delivery as required by Application development teams
• Translated business and functional design needs into technical requirements
• Different FTP setups for mainframe, Windows, LAN and UNIX downstream and upstream feeders

PROJECT LEAD/BUSINESS CONSULTANT

Confidential

• Dual role played as Onsite co-coordinator and as consultant to the 9 different 3M regions 9 different countries in Europe for 3M facilities
• Interacted with SME's and gathered the requirement/knowledge from them
• Good role played as a consultant in understanding the different 3M regions queries/issues and providing timely responses/resolutions/advises. Also as a consultant, distributing fixes/new enhancements to different regions explaining the need priority by understanding their business
• Analyzed and reviewed of business requirements and converted business requirement into functional/technical specification
• Presented the new enhancement to the clients for formal sign off
• Worked with E1m systems mainly with Mainframe JDE interface using ECOS
• Agreed and maintained SLA's based on the issues severity
• Explained the business/functional requirement to offshore team and get the work done by issuing the resolutions for their queries in time
• Reviewed the deliverables received from offshore before sending them for Super user QA testing and before implementing them in the production environment
• Supported SUPER USERS in doing tests in QA environment for the fixes/enhancements worked on
• Primary responsible for AD-Migrate activities in migrating the changes to the production and in distributing the changes to the regions using AD-Build tools
• Worked with CICS, IBM MVS, TSO, SPUFI, QMF, ISPF, VSAM, JCL, File-Aid, Endeavor, PL1, CA-Datacom, CA-Ideal, Data query, Performance tuning and optimization, Ad-Migrate Ad-Build etc
• Worked in the project at various stages of SDLC Waterfall requirements analysis, design, coding, implementation, unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing support post-implementation support

PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Confidential

• Implemented application changes as required, in accordance with Albertson's SDLC policy
• Identifying the impacted elements in the system in phase wise as per the requirements
• Unit tested the changes developed as per the requirement and implementation in the production
• Worked on Integration System testing for the changes developed as part of multiple phases
• Worked on regression testing phase for the changes developed
• Participated in reviewing the developments by the other team members

APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Confidential

• Worked on Application enhancements in the System which involves various stages of SDLC requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, support to quality assurance, implementation post-implementation support
• Interacted with IT management to get the business/technical requirements
• Worked on test data and test case preparation and unit testing, regression testing, test results documentation, review and UAT support along with performance tuning

APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Confidential

• Worked on migration projects, converted PL1 programs to COBOL for 'Account Receivables'
• Developed few programs to support enhancement for 'Credit Utilities'
• Worked on test cases preparation, execution, review, unit testing, bug fixing, test results documentation activities
• Participated in client/team meetings send regular status updates to IT project management