SUMMARY

• Certified scrum master and Project manager with exclusive experience in Finance & Banking domain seeking a position that effectively utilizes my experience and expertise in process improvement and project management to drive highly complex and sizeable cross - functional initiatives.
• Equipped with a record of success in product and project management, combined with demonstrated abilities in project coordination, scheduling, cost analysis, quality calculations, and risk analysis.
• Over 12+ years of management and leadership roles and collaborated with various global teams.
• Experience demonstrated the ability to provide leadership that provides positive results even in the most challenging of circumstances.
• Excellent strategist and expert in the articulation of complex projects.
• Execute projects per schedule, budget, quality assurance/control, and stakeholder expectation management.
• Experience in managing API development projects and leading a team of stakeholders, both internal and external, through the project lifecycle and delieverables as swagger api docs.
• Demonstrated ability to apply project management best practices, tools, and techniques to manage and deliver projects on time, within budget, and with high quality.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with both waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies for SDLC implementation.
• Expertise in using project collaboration and management tools such as SharePoint, Jira, MS-Project, and MS Office for documentation and planning.
• Proven ability to identify project gaps, risks, and issues early and establish quick resolutions.
• Experience with commercial banking IT solutions such as payments platforms, core banking systems, credit workflow, and deposits.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Have been deeply involved in planning, scheduling, and controlling activities to fulfill identified objectives applying technical and managerial skills to satisfy project requirements.
• Allocating work amongst team members and providing regular guidance.
• Strategic planning, process development, analysis of key performance metrics per PMO standards
• Liaison between technical and business teams that help improve the business capability
• Detail oriented with strong data collection, analysis, and reporting skills.
• Use of MS tools to streamline project, resource, and portfolio management.
• Experience working in diverse and collaborative environments.
• Monitoring post-project activities to determine project success; develop and recommend areas of improvement.
• Expertise in the latest strategic leadership methodologies through constant learning and practice.
• Reinforcing the project and team management experience are credentials that include Project Management designation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: MS Project, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, and Word, JIRA,Confluence,Swagger, BPM Business Project Management, MS Visio, SDLC, RUP Rational Unified Process Application Programming Interface (API), AGILE, JAD/RAD, SAD Structure Analysis and Design, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Clarity, Documentum, SCRUM, Dashboard.

MS Office: Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint

Bug Tracking: Product Studio, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Kintana, ClearQuest

Remote Login: Adobe Webconnect (Macromedia Breeze), Web-Ex Training Tool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, McLean, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organize, conduct, and facilitate meetings with Review Board to review the issues, follow-up with succinct meeting minutes.
• Perform risk analysis on the issues and assign priorities, severity, probability, and risk to the job.
• Managing API development projects and leading a team of stakeholders through the project lifecycle with internal and external API Integration with the project
• Track the documentation reports such as Test Protocols, Interim Reports, and Final Reports for FDA approval submission.
• Tracking project plan performance to ensure timely delivery of all milestones and objectives.
• Use MS Visio for process documentation, and MS Project for status tracking.
• Track test plans and tasks using project management databases such as MS TFS.
• Develop test scenarios, recruit participants for data collection, and track goals.
• Employ analytical skills to collect, organize, and analyze more than 1 million data points with various filters.
• Establishing and maintaining a high-performing team and serving as the project advocate within the organization.
• Strong delivery experience in the implementation of SAP with SD(Sales and Distribution), MM(Material Management),PP(Production Planning), and QM(Quality Management).
• Acted as the primary point of contact and integration for the project.
• Process complex data sets, perform ad-hoc analysis; determine the logical relationships between variables.
• Monitor and control risks, track risk response, trace identified risks; evaluate risk process effectiveness
• Demonstrate problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict resolution skills.

Environment: Agile, MS TFS, API, control risk, data filters, data collection, Global market requirement, Quality team.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Expert in scoping the project; analyzing the resource demand for a project; and efficiently executing the project from inception to completion
• Work collaboratively with developers, quality engineers, product managers, and usability experts to identify business needs, functional and system requirements
• Assist program manager, senior project manager, and the project team with day-to-day project planning, scheduling, reporting, and coordination tasks
• Leading multiple API development projects, through the project lifecycle with internal and external API Integration within the project
• Actively supported the project management team's effort that includes project plan, scope management, budget management, resource management, time management (activities, scheduling, and task planning), communications, risk, procurement, testing, user training, program/project delivery, transition, maintenance and support management
• Produce and Ensure all documents, including IT/Ops Policies, procedures, and manuals, are as up to date as possible within the electronic filing system and helped the Quality team for ISO certification documents
• Lead diverse project teams, including single and multi-vendor management, coordination, and communication across multiple departments and operational areas
• Strong understanding of software technology, licensing, compliance, and controls to understand and interpret software license agreements and contracts' nuances.
• Involve in interpreting clients' needs and then developing creative concepts and solutions to meet their requirements
• Assist in managing project plans to coordinate dependencies across initiatives and workstreams
• Worked with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of product & documentation requirements
• Develop specialized technical documentation for contingency planning, disaster recovery, system development, and program management
• Manage operational procedures and produces training materials for end-users, including quick reference guides, user guides, and short video tutorials on "how-to guides."
• Management of all expenses in Concur system, including reconciliation, grouping & submission of expense reports
• Provide support for Change end users on any requests, issues, or inquiries related to Change Management

Environment: Project Planning, API, FRD, BRD, IT/Ops Policies, Quality team.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple Data Warehouse projects and teams in a matrix environment from inception to delivery
• Strong delivery experience in the implementation of Oracle hyperion modules like HFM, Hyperion Planning, FDM .
• Consult and review with executive management and business partners project proposals, presentations, schedule, funding limitations, and staffing
• Drive Sprint planning and estimation
• Organise and facilitate daily stand up/scrum meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Manage changes to the project (scope, budget, schedule, business and technical requirements)
• Perform ongoing review of project status, develop and revise plans, strategy, risk assessment, technical and non-technical scope and objectives.
• Manage multiple projects and teams in direct and matrix environments from inception to delivery. Gather complex project requirements and business cases (JAD).
• Develop and maintain technical and non-technical project documentation.
• Drive Sprint planning and estimation
• Organise and facilitate daily stand-up/scrum meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Managed a maximum of 2 million dollar budgets, developed and revised plans, strategy, risk assessment, technical and non-technical scope and objectives, change management, and performance evaluation.
• Identify project scope, reports, deliverables, milestones, durations, and dependencies in the network diagram via Critical Path Method (CPM).
• Manage teams (10 direct and 20 matrices), projects and outside vendors, communications/negotiation, documentation, Quality Assurance (QA), Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Information (RFI), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure the project progresses on schedule and within the prescribed budget. Use Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to drive out the project detailed to an 8/80 level of granularity.
• Identify and track project issues/risks and follow through with actions to resolve issues and mitigate risks.
• Obtained through customer satisfaction and acceptance testing (UAT), project signoff of completion.
• Arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel. Direct recruitment activities ensuring the timely placement of qualified employees in positions, forecast resources, hire and fire

Environment: Project planning, Flow diagrams, Sprint planning, API, UAT, Analysing Business Requirements, JAD

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage project timelines, tasks, and development efforts with both the internal engineering team and customer teams. Testing coordination to ensure quality is assured.
• Release and Deployment Management of projects
• Identify and effectively communicate project requirements with a diverse group of roles within the customers' organizations, to keep customers on plan and on schedule
• Improve internal processes and systems for more efficient customer interactions
• Define Project Charter, Budget and Project Plan. Responsible for best practices, business requirements, project templates and documents, and risk/issue logs..
• Implemented formal processes and tools to manage projects and increase productivity.
• Led and directed teams of professional consultants and business analysts that achieved maximum billing utilization.
• Provided scheduling support for resource availability, time estimates and reporting to executive management.
• Produced and delivered executive-level presentations that measured project progress.
• Effective utilization of change management process to minimize scope creep, schedules overrun and budget controls
• Slack analysis and initiation of corrective and preventive actions
• Analyzing the requirements, documenting requirements, validating requirements and prioritizing them, and during the design phase coordinating with stakeholders
• Preparing SRS, Project process documents, time estimates, resource and risk management for the projects in the project plan documents
• Directed tech support, developed strategic and tactical plans, drove change management, managed scope and resource constraints.
• Prepared stakeholder project plans, and proposal assessment inputs, created customer implementation plans, managed implementation of customer networks, coordinated hardware delivery, prioritized projects for field engineers, and provided real-time implementation support.
• Responsible for delivering full life cycle SDLC project and production releases
• Working closely with team, stakeholders, and management to identify issues and if required escalate unresolved issues and communicate decisions to stakeholders.

Environment: SDLC, project planning, strategic plans, tactical plans, API, SRS, Risk issues logs, UI interface.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in knowledge transfer sessions.
• Define and manage the deliverables of all teams to meet engagement objectives and budget
• Responsible for defining local configuration requirements and design based on approved business requirements.
• Manage risk, quality, timeline, and budget of the Success Factors implementation
• Facilitated requirements gathering and preparation of localization (fit compliance) workshops and region/country level.
• Manage team onboarding, and logistics issues, coordinate with stakeholders and act as a conduit between project team members, vendors, and stakeholders
• Participated in localization (fit compliance) workshop sessions to provide global systems expertise, and confirm necessary deviations and localization requirements.
• Utilize and apply best practices on projects based on experience and in consultation with experts; appropriately tailored for the client and their culture.
• Provide estimates, SOWs, and other artifacts in support of ongoing client needs and new customer opportunities.
• Communicates effectively with all key stakeholders, Onshore and offshore teams with an appropriate level of detail.
• Create Defect status updates for leadership.
• Support project teams during the development cycle and provide technical/infrastructure support during deployments.
• Troubleshoot / resolve problems reported by project teams.
• Leverage your knowledge of HCM solutions and business processes/operations to build and execute a comprehensive and effective client-side task list and project plan.

Environment: Project planning, SOWs, logistics issues, stakeholders, Risk issues, Budget planning.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered User and Business Requirements through interviews, surveys, prototyping and observing
• Extensively worked with Project Manager to determine the current best practices for requirement gathering
• Performed GAP Analysis to Identify and estimate the scope of the project, design, development
• Conducted weekly meetings with the client to discuss the same
• Created Need Analysis Documents of the requirements gathered through JAD and JRP individual elicitation sessions using MS Word
• Created User Requirement Specifications (URS), Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) documents
• Developed Use Case diagrams, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams and Sequence diagrams using Rational Rose so that developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process
• Designed Context Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio
• Elicited requirements from teams to create Functional Specifications Document
• Conducted Walkthroughs with the Business Stakeholders for the Sign-Off procedure
• Involved in analysis of the technical specifications of the current system and the future state, performed Gap analysis
• Used SQL to query the database for performing data analysis and data modeling using Erwin.
• Adept at mentoring the business stakeholders and technical team on the system functionalities
• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the tables and for validation of data
• Worked with ETL teams in defining the data transformation required for the migration.
• Assisted in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose and Visio.
• Performed requirement analysis, and developed all the use cases and workflows.
• Worked with the QA team to design test plans and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Assist the technical team in understanding and developing the appropriate functionality.

Environment: MS Visio, SQL, SharePoint, UML, Test Director, .Net, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook), Rational Suite (Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest).