SUMMARY

• 14 years of versatile experience as a Project Manager, Business Analyst and Quality Assurance Specialist
• 9 years in Commercial Insurance P C, 4 years in Banking and 1 year in Capital Markets.
• Solid experience in leading, designing, developing, deploying and managing IT projects.
• Experienced in Project Coordination, application development, production support and system test.

MANAGERIAL SKILLS

• Experienced in project management methodologies Waterfall/Scrum , planning, scheduling methods, and tools
• Expert in leading enterprise software solution projects
• Experienced in managing, mentoring, and developing team members
• Outstanding interpersonal, collaboration, and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EXPERIENCE

The MSBA part time graduate program

Predictive Analytics for Power outage in NYC.

Working on the data gathering from various sources like Weather data, Census data, Demographic data and Energy load data from 'Con Edison'. Preprocessing the data using SQL, applying combination of statistical techniques in feature selection, creating predictive models and model evaluation. Extensively using RStudio, AzureML, WEKA and Tableau to data mine, analyze, visualize. Created a dashboard of visualization of data points of electrical outage based on zip code for 5 years of historical data.

P C - Commercial Lines Automation

Responsibilities Include:

• Support determination of scope, preparation of Delphi estimation of project activities.
• Following Waterfall, Scrum methodologies throughout the Software life cycle.
• Analysis, formatting of the data to fit the mainframe application.
• Data visualization and presentation to the stakeholders.
• Designed and developed technical spec document.
• Budgeting and Cost Benefit Analysis.
• Earned Value Management using Microsoft Project Server.
• Built and tested the complete integration with vendor thru IMDS web service.
• Quality Planning, monitoring and controlling the quality.
• Acquiring work force, train and manage project team members.
• Project status and performance reporting.
• Risk Planning, identifying and monitoring risks throughout the project.
• Track the schedule and cost of the project thru Project Work Authorization.
• Coordinated with Offshore and Onshore team for implementation and testing.
• Production release game plan and warranty support.
• Coordinate the closure of the project and the knowledge transfer to maintenance team

Confidential

A project with a total budget of 1.9M has been implemented to receive the flood code from the vendor core-Logic, involves data mining and data visualization using R and Tableau. Built using Web Service, WTX, M-Queue and Mainframe.

Project Manager

A non-discretionary project with a total budget of 2.10M has been implemented for the Municipal Tax code service in CLA for various LOBs. This project was to generate the accurate tax code for a given a Trillium cleansed address. The vendor Group-1 sends tax code thru Vendor data stream to OWSM and MQ to Mainframe.

Project Lead

This project used the mainframe COBOL and M-Queue series to list the policy forms on the onset of Quotes on Seibel screen. Lead the integration of various systems, from Seibel to Mainframe policy admin system involving SOA, XSLT, XML and Mainframe copybooks.

Application Lead

Implementation of 1 Million for Fire Public Protection Class re-usable enterprise service. ISO generated address specific Public Protection Class for HIG using TRILLIUM, COBOL, QMF and DB2 Stored Procedure. Integrated the mainframe applications and mid-tier systems, which involved JAVA and Web Logic on a Z-Linux. Worked with business to determine the scope and requirement. Created high level design document. Data mining for various PPC clusters and prepared the proof of concept document. Successfully implemented as Enterprise service.

Business Analyst

This project was to advance the umbrella policies to extend its coverage from 15 million to 25 Million. This was implemented in Mainframe policy admin system. Requirement elicitation thru discussion with business customers and SMEs. Conduction JAD session to get the common understanding and Approval. Prepared High level design document, FSD and worked closely with QA and UAT team and Scenario matrix preparation.

Business Analyst

By this project business customers gets the complete report of transaction history via, quote, Request issue, Pre-Qual edit, failed quote, submitted, MVR, Driver, Underwriter decisions

Prepared Functional Specific Document, Test Plan and traceability matrix, UAT support and test closure document.

Tracked the defect on quality Center, defect triaging, reporting and status update to stakeholders.

Enhancement of the nightly job which sends 9 report file to Information Management team.

Created the new JCLs for the night job, which executes COBOL module and pickups the daily transaction data from the MQueue, process it and sends 9 report files to the IM team by FTP

Test Lead

Lead the system testing efforts of projects, Redemption Funds and Outside funds. Written Test Plan, Test Scenario matrix to SunGard IT service project, for federal law compliance. Tested, verified and validated the data as per SunGard standards and reviewed the test results to management. Defects were tracked using PVCS tracker and Quality Center.

Agility CICA Module Lead

Responsible for the Support, Maintenance and Enhancements activities of the Life health applications of Agility CICA. This application was built in COBOL, Assembler, DB2 and JCL. Tracked the tickets in SMS. Ensured prompt solutions, aligned with SLA.

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan and Scenarios as per FSD.
• Produced Test Approach Documents and developed test scripts and maintained testing standards and procedures.
• Monitored the system testing efforts in off-shore and made sure the application met all functional requirements metrics. Ran series of JCLs to load the customer data to SAP HR systems and validated the data.
• Ensured that all application components have been validated, signed-off and ready to be transitioned.
• Tested the function requirement on the production elevation day.

Senior Developer

• The maintenance of the to-be system in terms of coverage determinants, rate methods, rate tables, rate determinants, etc. has been made to improve the speed to market of rating changes and rate filings for the end user community
• Harvested the Rules from the existing system, formed mid-way design
• Coded the new modules according to the design and technical specs
• Built using the COBOL, CICS, DB2, and JCL
• Created new batch jobs related to Speed-To-Market. Testing of business rules, Codes, PDB Testing
• Database compare of Production and the new system.

Confidential

CBA-HLS

The Confidential supported the input, validation, processing and maintenance of home loans at the Confidential. The Home loan system was composed of an overnight batch component and a daily online system.

Confidential

Participated in design, development of the Viridian system. This system has been built for a single account called Umbrella Account by putting one or more DDs Demand Deposit /HEF Home Equity Facility or VIRIDIAN LINE OF CREDIT account. The system has been built with high usage of COBOL, CICS, VSAM and JCL.