Employment Summary

• 11 years of experience working as Project Manager and Scrum Master for clients : JP Morgan Chase - Corporate Compliance , American Express , Bank of NY -Mellon , AXA Equitable Insurance and SAP Labs.
• Employed at Tata Consultancy Services US Mar'14 Present , Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp Jul '04 Aug '10 / May '12 Mar'14 and SAP Labs Aug '10 April '12 .
• PMP certified- 2013 , Certified Scrum Master Scrum Alliance 2014 , and PSM from Scrum.org
• Working in United States for over 5 years in Project Management roles.
• Managed large scale Software development, Maintenance, Infrastructure and ERP projects.
• Expert in Scope , Schedule , Budget, Risk, Resource and Quality Management, Team Ramp Up, Billing and Forecasting activities for IT Projects.
• Managed all phases of SDLC including Project Initiation, Requirements gathering, Planning, Execution and Monitoring and control. Possess a thorough understanding of Waterfall and Agile methodologies for project management and software development
• Industry and domain experience in Banking and Financial Services, Insurance and SAP ERP.

Key Areas of Expertise

Major Projects Involved

Confidential

Role : Project Manager

Tools: MS Projects, Powerpoint, SharePoint, JIRA/Greenhopper

Responsibilities in the project:

• Managing scope, schedule, budget and change control process of multi-vendor, cross functional, fast paced projects with multiple UAT and Production release cycles.
• Support day to day project management activities through all phases of software development lifecycle.
• Develop and manage project plan and resource plan
• Manage and mitigate project dependencies, issues, risks and escalation of issues to Senior Management and other stakeholders.
• Extensively used MS Office Project software and PowerPoint, Visio, ALM, JIRA.
• Work closely with client PMO and ensure that the project work is compliant with documented standards, templates, and frameworks.
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, review, and retrospection meetings.
• Develop and manage agile release backlog , Sprint backlog , Story board.
• Created Sprint and Release Burn down charts, Burn up charts, velocity charts and other agile metrics.
• Coordinate with the QA team , business users and performance testing team for UAT cycles.
• Coordinate with Release management team for all the UAT release cycles.
• Creating weekly Status reports , maintaining SharePoint site and operational materials for the initiative.
• Created Client presentations and supported business development managers by gathering relevant information and presenting best practices processes.
• Manages the team's performance on project tasks and makes sure the project is delivered within budget, on schedule and within scope.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through Requirements gathering, task definition.

Confidential

Role : Project Manager

Tools : MS Projects , PowerPoint ,Visio, Rally ,TFS Windows Azure Cloud

Responsibilities in the project:

• Be the single point of contact in providing accurate and timely project status to the rest of the organization.
• Ensure the project work is executed and implemented according to the plan.
• Responsible for assigning tasks to cross functional team members and managing the effective distribution of the workload amongst the team members.
• Responsible for managing and directing all project activities including managing scope, change orders, status reports , risks, defects, as well as regularly track project status and ensures project is within schedule and budget
• Follow both project management methodologies waterfall and Agile as and when required
• Collaborates effectively with senior management and stakeholders.
• Ensures deliverables meet project requirements and reviews deliverables with business stakeholders incorporating their feedback.
• Own the agile process on project team and ensure that the agile process is being completed correctly in accordance with PMO directives.
• Agile coaching, mentoring and sharing of best practices within the portfolio.
• Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs to support the Product Team
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition

Confidential

Role: Consultant Project Manager

Tools : MS Projects , Excel , PowerPoint, SharePoint, Clarity .

Responsibilities in the project:

• Define the deliverables, resource requirements and work plan for the project, and manage development and delivery
• Single point of contact for weekly Control and Compliance status reports and Application security Escalation process.
• Responsible for all aspects of the development/implementation of projects involving cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of a product from the design process through a finished state for users.
• Manage the Application security scanning initiative for EDT Quality and Vulnerability Management program.
• Lead the Build management support for AMEX applications utilizing EDT tools
• Provide hands-on technical expertise/governance on all aspects of implementation.
• Prepared and shared the Statement of Work SOW with the onsite counterpart for client's approval. Responsible for subsequent amendments as and when there are project scope and resource count changes.
• Understand the business directions and trends of the client's domain and provide value-added solutions/suggestions to the client.
• Manage and lead end-to-end Product upgrade and migration process.
• Drive, Conduct and Document periodic team meetings to review project status, identify and mitigate project risks and issues
• Work with Business Analysts/business partners to determine and translate business requirements into technology solutions.
• Manage and track all project activities through all phases of SDLC and ensure quality delivery of all project artifacts
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings

Confidential

Role: Scrum Master

Tools: JIRA, MS Projects, Visio, SAP In-memory Technology, Hana modeling Creation of Attribute Views, Analytic Views, Calculation Views, IMCE Studio.

Responsibilities in the project:

• Agile Coach and Successfully executed the Scrum related activities .Project Planning , Retrospection
• Work with Product Owner to determine and translate business requirements into technology solutions.
• Coordinate with the technical architecture vertical team to develop target business architecture, describing the product and/or service strategy, and the organizational, functional, process, information and geographic aspects of the business environment, based on business principles, goals and strategic drivers.
• Conduct Daily Scrum Meetings to review project status, identify and mitigate project risks and issues
• Manage and track project delivery and ensure quality delivery of all project artifacts.
• Gathered system and business requirements from the analysis and discussions of the stakeholders.
• Created high-level design and designed sequence diagrams, class diagrams for the system.
• Estimated timelines for effective design and implementation schedules.
• Designed and developed Meta Objects for SAP BO.
• Followed Test First Design/Test Driven Development methodology and unit tested all the units with JUnit , AUnits for bug free releases.
• Version controlled the whole system design and development artifacts using Perforce.
• Guided and trained other developers in low level design and development tasks for smooth project development and rollover.
• Helped QA team understand the system and business requirements and for creating the test cases.

Confidential

Role: Project Lead

Technology: J2EE, Eclipse, Spring Framework,JSP, Servlet, JavaScript, Oracle

Responsibilities in the project:

• Management and Co-ordination of project execution and support the architectural design
• Re-designed the poorly performed monolithic systems into multi-tiered, highly distributed, and extremely loosely coupled systems.
• Developed use cases, sequence diagrams and preliminary class diagrams for the enhanced systems.
• Redesigned and implemented system business processes with JAVA, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring DAO architecture for data access JMS for messaging , POJOs as model and JSP, JSTL, Tiles for user interface presentation
• Implemented Spring MVC controllers for different business processes.
• Analyzed the system to create well-designed sub flows based on use cases, which can be applied at different main business flows in the system.
• Version controlled the whole system design and development artifacts using CVS.

Confidential

Role: Project Lead Onshore Project Coordinator

Technology: Java, J2EE, Spring, Struts,Eclipse, Maven, Maestro Build Tool, Continuum, Archiva, SubVersion, Unix, Web Sphere.

Responsibilities in the project:

• Technical leadership to ensure accurate effort estimation and task scheduling
• Responsible for project completion within committed timelines thereby catering to competing business driven interests
• Conduct periodic team meetings to review project status, identify and mitigate project risks and issues
• Peer review of coding activities and technical oversight to ensure conformance with predetermined outage windows
• Verifying whether system is scalable and will meet performance requirements by using American Express Cognizant's performance analyzer tool
• Responsible for quality of software development and testing
• Version control and configuration management processes to ensure accurate migration of applications being continuously enhanced during the migration
• Coordinate application support activity during the 90-day warranty period
• Review and deliver production support handover document to provide information about the functionality of the project to the production support team who support the system after project launch and warranty

Confidential

Role: Senior Developer

Technology: Java, J2EE ,Spring Framework, IBM Websphere, Tomcat, Eclipse, UML, IBM Rational Rose , DeskNet Content Management Tool, and Interwoven Teamsite Content Management, Perl, Pl/Sql, DB2, Spring Framework

Responsibilities in the project:

• Coordinated with Business users and end users to gather system requirements.
• Performed Data Analysis from the Data sources and Requirement Analysis to prepare Functional/Technical Requirement Specifications.
• Involved in production support and enhancement of Content management tools -DeskNet ,Teamsite.
• Travelled to Client site New York-US for analysis and requirement gathering of existing system.
• Provide technical subject matter expert for the platform/applications supported
• Lead software design, development and documentation
• Designed use cases, sequence diagrams and preliminary class diagrams for the system.
• Designed application modules using UML with Rational Rose based on Design Patterns.
• Implemented Spring MVC controllers for different business modules.
• Deployed and administered the application on WAS
• Reviewed and maintained the code developed by other developers.