SUMMARY:

• PMP & CSM Certified Project Manager with 15 years of experience in Software Development life cycle, Project Management, Resource Planning, Scope Management, Risk management, Vendor Management, Schedule and Cost Management, Change Management process, System Analysis, Design, Programming and customer management..
• Application development using Java, J2EE, Oracle, Crystal Reports and Lotus notes/Domino.
• Domain expertise: Automotive, manufacturing, Storage and Virtualization
• Managed multiple projects with strong project delivery background and P&L responsibilities.
• Managed team size up to 20 as per the requirement of the projects
• Worked collaboratively with Global preferred vendors of Confidential ., in Columbus IN for 6 years to ensure successful delivery of IT systems and services to optimize value for Business and also involved in IT budgeting.
• Responsible for IT delivery for Engine Business Unit, Confidential USA and coordinated with multiple global vendors for the same. Role involved the complete business - IT delivery cycle inclusive of budgeting and cost parameters
• Overall my profile has covered core delivery, business analyst roles across industry domains, IT delivery for business groups and vendor co-ordination

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Techniques: Business Process Modelling (BPM), Full SDLC, Requirements Elicitation & Management, Business Case Development, Workshop Facilitation, UML, RUP, Project Management

Software/Languages: Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, One Note), MS Project, Lotus notes, Oracle Apps 11i, Data warehouse, BOXI reports, Replica Action, LEI Crystal Reports, Rational Rose, PL/I, SQL, Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

• Managed the projects in all aspects of Project development including planning & evaluation of approaches, managing and controlling scope, time and cost.
• Worked with the vendors to monitor and track project risks, issues, budget and schedules. Kept Business sponsors and management advised of project status.
• Managed 20 member team to build and implement storage management testing tools, identifying opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change.
• Developing & presenting oral and written progress reports, mentoring team, establishing processes.
• Primary interface for dealing with timelines, tracking profitability, managing customer expectations.
• Performed moderately complex capacity planning and monitoring in multiple business and information technology functions.
• Conducted email communication with account management, project owners, key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Provided analytical support to various departments used MS-Project to establish work plans, timelines, and managed budgets, analysed workloads and coordinated with internal and external sources by defined requirements towards operational efficiency.
• Also involved in the Virtualization Competency Center which helps develop Standards and procedures to code snippets to test scenarios/cases to what you can, cannot, should and shouldn’t do.

Confidential, Columbus, IN

Sr. Business Analyst/ Project Manager

• Led efforts on Project management, project execution and migration of internal hosted web application environment within dedicated web service group, to improve engine business finance reporting project
• Accountable for the change management processes that ensures developments are effectively embedded.
• Liaison between business and technology to translate tactical and strategic objectives into workable solutions.
• Led business and functional resources in the design of efficient business processes that fully leverage technical solutions being delivered or developed
• Worked collaboratively with Global Preferred Vendors and business teams to ensure the successful development and delivery of IT systems and services to optimize value for the business.
• Worked on Oracle apps solution implementation for Cummins fiancé applications, responsible for data flow from Oracle apps to data warehouse and report to Business intelligence
• Improved software web application quality by 30% continuous process improvements by testing, debugging, static code analysis and code reviews.
• Worked with Supply Chain Leader to understand business processes and IT requirements. IT solution identification, design, development & implementation for Supply Chain business processes.
• Created project proposal & project plans/schedule, resource allocation, managing support activities. Creation of high level design for new development activities, configuration audits
• Promoted and implemented IT Functional Excellence practices for all IT work to ensure compliance with Corporate and EBU Information Technology architecture and security standards
• Analysed existing business processes and provide a comprehensive plan that will conform to new requirements and enhanced system functionalities
• Analysed and designed by creating UML diagrams which includes Use Cases, Data Flow diagrams, ER Diagrams, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA&D) using Rational Rose.
• Gathered requirements and re-engineered the previously manual processes. Authored and delivered user acceptance testing. Validate user requirements with solution.
• Prepared Integration Test Plan for functional team as well as for development team
• Lead all software design sessions, facilitated the business through the definition of their future-state business processes, and led software configuration and end user testing and coordinated user training and software implementation. Projects resulted in increased productivity, reduced cycle time and improved quality and analytics.
• Followed up with the team leads, lead to closure of activities which impacted in a 20% decrease in the Turnaround Time and presented the status in meetings with top management
• Achieved 50% reduction in build generation time through code optimization of over 10,000 lines of code, resulting in improved customizability and quality of deliverables.
• Participated in an exceptional training program in structured analysis and design, full SDLC software development and programming
• Gained valuable experience in software support and software design, development and testing.

Confidential, Columbus, IN

Business Process Analyst

• Provided a technical consultancy on third party vendor applications - The technical solution helped to sunset various HR applications thereby saving 15% of Operations Cost.
• Reduced the 8% of project cost through reduction of project overheads.
• Analysed internal information technology capacity, vendor capabilities, and business processes to suggest improvements, propose automation, and streamline business intelligence and decision processes.
• Prepared various diagram using UML in MS Visio, also Prepare use case and test plan for the system
• Prepared Data dictionaries and Help DBA to create database for the application.
• Extensively involved with Data Warehouse team to create structured Data Model using Oracle (RDBMS)
• Prepared training guides and documentation, conducts/participates in customer reviews and conducted training.

Confidential

Sr. Associate

• Led team of 10 members to develop a new software project to eliminate the paper based system, creation of high level design for new development activities, configuration audits, validated scope with software requirements
• Helped develop project definition document and determined phase wise requirements.
• Formulated and defined system scope and project objectives using IT skills and industry knowledge/requirements.
• Performed extensive business requirement analysis along with Data and Gap Analysis.
• Communicated business directives, goals and needs to the technical team.

Confidential

Sr. Technical Executive

• Helped Pre-Sales team to understand the application from Business point of view
• Designed and developed programming systems making specific determinations about system performance.
• Analyzed, designed, coordinated and supervised the development of software systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems.
• Analyzed system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications for junior programmers.
• Tested new programs to ensure that logic and syntax are correct, and that program results are accurate; assists lower-level programmers with programming assignments.
• Documented code consistently throughout the development process by listing a description of the program, special instructions
• Provided assistance to testers and support personnel as needed to determine system problems.
• Reviewed, to the extent possible, changes in code and the environment that will affect system performance.
• Worked closely with management team in evaluating current systems and making decisions on future development

Confidential

Domino Developer

• Understanding the requirements and analysing the architecture
• Documented High level design, low level designs for workflow applications
• Prepared System documents, test plans, training plans
• Created Prototype to present the business requirements and understanding
• Set up guidelines for System Documentation etc.
• Training the Business users and Application Administrators

Confidential

Project Trainee

Responsibilities:

• Developed and Coded the application based on the requirements
• Understanding the requirements and analysing the architecture
• Prepared System documents, test plans, training plans
• Set up guidelines for System Documentation etc.