PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior Project Manager with 13+ years of experience in Global Leadership and Delivery, E2E Program/Project Management, Vendor Management, SOW - CO, Cost Budgeting, Issue/Conflict Resolution, Delivery Process Implementation, Development/Quality Assurance IT Strategy, Roadmaps and Metrics Management.
• High exposure in SDLC and STLC models such as Waterfall, Agile/Hybrid and Scrum implementation, and has managed large programs with 15+ applications integrated and deployed to production.
• Demonstrated excellent Program, Project and Account management skills across various projects/programs.
• Has managed teams of 60+ members that included a blend of Junior Managers, Leads, Module Leads, Senior and Junior Resources.
• Has successfully delivered 50+ major projects and 60+ enhancements projects.
• Domain experience includes Accidental and Healthcare Insurance, Chip Cards and Security Systems and, Protocol, PeopleSoft HR Data Management, Leave and Time Tracking Systems, PeopleSoft Payroll Systems, Global Business Payments - Cross CCY B2B Money Transfers, Oracle Account Receivable System, Home Loan Banking, Loan Processing and Lending.
• Accountable for Quality releases of the applications, products and their features, improving Test/QA efficiencies by improved-defined Quality Gates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• HP PPM,
• CA PPM,
• Domino,
• Field Glass,
• Version One,
• IPMS,
• MS Project Pro(MPP),
• MS Excel,
• MS Visio,
• Rational Clear Quest,
• MKS,
• Microsoft Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server(VSTS),
• Confluence,
• SharePoint,
• SVN,
• Microsoft SSIS,
• Informatica,
• Data Stage,
• Cognos,
• Crystal,
• QlikView,
• Spotfire BI,
• Selenium,
• HP Quality Center/ALM,
• Test Track Pro,
• Mercury Test Director,
• JIRA,
• Windows,
• Linux,
• UNIX,
• Java,
• .NET,
• XML,
• SQL,
• Oracle 10,
• Db2,
• MS SQL Server,
• MySQL,
• MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

• Performed end to end Program and Project Management.
• Coordinate with team and administer all processes and procedures and ensure compliance to all quality goals and manage all projects.
• Prepare reports for all resource utilization and develop all project estimates and schedules and coordinate with all stakeholders and participate in various meetings
• Manage all communication with business partners and senior management to achieve all project objectives and perform tests on same and manage multiple functional areas.
• Create WBS (Work Break down) for the entire project milestone and track it for closure.
• Work on Resource Onboarding and Offboarding as per the Project need
• Create SOW’S and CO’s with Vendor’s for project and manage budget.
• Perform Cost Budgeting.
• Create/Track E2E Schedule for System, Integration and Data Testing, aligning with Development Team Deliverables.
• Release Planning, Interface and communicate with Program Managers (PMO), Dev Managers, IT OPS, Infra Support and CM Team.
• Participate in Go - No Go Release decisions and take Ownership on Sign offs.
• Created the overall strategy for all projects for each Releases.
• Review designs, Data Mapping and Architecture with Software Architects.
• As a VSTS Admin create/maintain Users and Projects in VSTS.
• Create Dashboards, Setup Releases, User Stories, and Tasks for the Projects in VSTS based on Agile Methodology.
• Involved in planning, setting up environments to conduct E2E SIT, Data Migration, Parallel and Data Warehouse Testing.
• First point of escalation on any Functional issues in Prod reported by Business.
• Conduct Defect Triage across workstreams between multiple Vendors and Cross Functional Teams.
• Report and track issues/defects identified throughout the sprint/release cycles and coordinate defect resolution and provide QA metrics reports during/after the test lifecycle
• Work with Business Analyst for Demoing the Applications to the core Business users.
• Work with Business users and Business Analysts to come up with overall UAT Strategy.
• Create and update Stakeholders with overall progress across workstreams using Weekly and Monthly Dashboards.
• Have lead Automation projects - automating BMS Functionalities using Selenium Test Data Driven Framework.
• Work on Onsite-Offshore Model and manage on/off shore cross functional Teams for the Activities and project Delivery.
• Led the effort for Estimation, Planning, Resource Planning, Test Data Management, Test Execution, Metrics preparation and Test Closure documents.
• Assisting and implementing process improvements.
• Work with the various application teams to gather and review schedules and monitor testing progress.

Confidential

Manager Projects

• Performed end to end Program and Project Management.
• SOW, CO, Invoicing, payment tracking and Cost Budgeting between Cognizant - Travelex
• Assisting and implementing process improvements for Travelex -WUBS.
• Conducted assessments and devised strategy for Cost and Quality efficiencies.
• Enhanced customer loyalty by effective partnering with all wings of client Organization - Senior Management, Release Management, PM Community, Infrastructure, Business Analysts, PMO and others
• Streamlined the Project Estimation process.
• Helped WUBS to implement Agile based Delivery Model.
• Led the effort for Estimation, Strategy, Planning, Resource Planning, Test Data Management, Test Execution, Metrics preparation and Test Closure documents.
• Handle releases effectively and lead/manage project deliveries
• Successful delivery of about 30+ Projects & Enhancements every year across multiple releases.
• Release Planning, Interface and communicate with Program Managers (PMO), Dev Managers, IT OPS, Infra Support and CM Team.
• Participate in Go - No Go Release decisions and take Ownership on Sign offs.
• Create consolidated Project Status for each Releases daily and conduct daily Release level standup meetings to discuss on progress and dependencies/action items.
• Created checklists of activities to be performed by DBA’s and Sys Admins to cleanup Test Environments for each Releases to reduce environmental issue downtime.
• Continuous Integration - Designed ‘Shift-Left’ process involving 5 Dev/Test Environments for deploying, finding/fixing of defects early during development, thereby reducing defects leakage to production.
• Coordinate with team and administer all processes and procedures and ensure compliance to all quality goals and manage all projects.
• Prepare reports for all resource utilization and develop all project estimates and schedules and coordinate with all stakeholders and participate in various meetings
• Manage all communication with business partners and senior management to achieve all project objectives and perform tests on same and manage multiple functional areas.
• Create WBS (Work Break down) for the entire project milestone and track it for closure.
• Work on Resource Onboarding and Offboarding as per the Project need
• Conduct Defect Triage across workstreams between multiple Vendors and Cross Functional Teams.
• Report and track issues/defects identified throughout the sprint/release cycles and coordinate defect resolution and provide QA metrics reports during/after the test lifecycle
• Create and update Stakeholders with overall progress across workstreams using Weekly and Monthly Dashboards.
• Work on Onsite-Offshore Model and manage on/off shore cross functional Teams for the Activities and project Delivery.
• Set Yearly Goals and Perform Appraisals for Team members, share feedbacks and recommend for promotions.
• Train and conduct sessions for the Team members and motivate/track certifications.

Confidential

Manager Projects

• Performed end to end Program and Project Management.
• Manage/Lead Project Deliverables with blend of Vendors (TCS, Mindtree, AIGSS-MPHASIS and Confidential Full Time Resources).
• Preparation of monthly/weekly/daily project status reports for HR and Enterprise Risk Management Projects.
• Create/Track End to End Strategy and Schedule for People soft ERP - HRM modules/projects (Employee Master Data Management - Head Counts, Recruitments, Performance and Evaluation, Compensations, Benefits, Payroll, Hierarchy, Time and Labor.
• Track SOW, CO, Billing and Invoices for TCS and outside Vendors.
• Have delivered 20+ Projects and 30+ Enhancements for Peoplesoft and SAP Based.
• Provide Forecast on upcoming projects and Resource requirements for future planning.
• Managed a team of 40+ resources, Tasks scheduling and Cost budgeting
• Track Timesheets for the associates and approvals.
• Bug tracking, reporting and verification and Defect trend analysis using QC
• Work with the various application teams to gather and review schedules and monitor progress and Facilitate meetings of user and technical groups.
• Have received TCS Gems appreciation multiple times and Employer of the Quarter for on-time project delivery and quality.