SUMMARY:

• Experienced in Agile &Waterfall Methodology including roles of a Project Manager, Product Owner and Scrum Master
• Experienced in working with the business teams to create the baseline for the initial set of high level requirements
• Capable of reviewing and Modeling Business Processes, writing detailed requirements and preparing project plans
• Maintaining compliance to financial policies and procedures within an organization, managing scope and scope creep
• Supervising working of project resources and resolving budget and resourcing needs with dependent teams.
• Led diverse project teams from project initiation& planning, requirements, design, construction, testing, rollout and support.
• Exposure to Banking, Lending, Insurance and Financial services domain
• Requirement gathering, elicitation: Experienced in validating the user requirements, performing analysis of those requirements and conveying the high - level requirements to offshore BA team’s / development teams.
• High level of expertise in systems and applications in Insurance and Banking domains to assist business users during UAT’s.
• Hands-on experience in working with the Functional and Graphic design teams in creating wireframes using MS Visio
• Proficient in the sales and bid process, designing CXO level presentations, making the solution pitch, creating Proof of Concept’s, white papers, sales collaterals and responding to RFP’s/ RFI’s, creating SOW’s

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Onshore Project Manager, Shelton, Connecticut

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate with the customer from Confidential standpoint to create the SOW, estimate and bring the deal to closure.
• Work with Design team to ensure interfaces with other applications are not impacted
• Create project plan, WBS, High level timelines including Gantt chart.
• Work with compliance to create the artifact checklist, ensure compliance to artifacts, Manage Change requests and Scope Creep
• Co-ordinate with Release Management, Region Management, Code Move teams to ensure successful deployment
• Closely monitor WBS and Gantt chart, offshore deliverables to ensure milestones are met.
• Co-ordinate with offshore and Onshore team to ensure development is done as per expectations and defects are fixed
• Co-ordinate with Testing team to ensure defects are logged, fixes tested, test cases are run, UAT is done.
• Report status to leadership as well as customer stakeholders, create WSR’s, identify and escalate risks
• Compliance with project budget to tackle effort over burn

Confidential

Offshore Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate with the customer from Confidential standpoint to create the SOW, estimate and bring the deal to closure.
• Work with Design team to ensure interfaces with other applications are not impacted
• Create project plan, WBS, High level timelines including Gantt chart.
• Work with compliance to create the artifact checklist, ensure compliance to artifacts, Manage Change requests and Scope Creep
• Co-ordinate with Release Management, Region Management, Code Move teams to ensure successful deployment
• Closely monitor WBS and Gantt chart, offshore deliverables to ensure milestones are met.
• Co-ordinate with offshore and Onshore team to ensure development is done as per expectations and defects are fixed
• Co-ordinate with Testing team to ensure defects are logged, fixes tested, test cases are run, UAT is done.
• Report status to leadership as well as customer stakeholders, create WSR’s, identify and escalate risks
• Compliance with project budget to tackle effort over burn

Confidential

Bid Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the customer requirements and involve the appropriate solution teams, set up kickoff & Sync-up calls
• Respond to RFI’s / RFP’s, Design CXO Level presentations
• Review estimation and pricing
• Co-ordinate multi-tower and service line bids end-to-end
• Perform other account management activities such as revenue reporting, leadership presentations and market trends intelligence gathering
• Create sales collaterals, write white papers, create capability presentations.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements with the customers
• Documenting requirements in Solution Mapping document, Functional Specification document
• Conveying the requirements to the offshore development team, Monitoring offshore development
• Functional testing of the requirements which includes plotting the repayment schedules, EMI’s, various loan scenarios such as re-schedulement, pre-payment, restructuring
• Implementation of the product onsite, managing risks, cost, schedule
• Being part of the steering committee meetings to ensure adequate co-operation is elicited from the business teams
• Handling UAT and user training

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering by onsite visits
• Conveying the requirements to the offshore development team, Monitoring offshore development
• Exhaustive functional testing of the requirements
• Implementation of the product onsite, Conducting training for the users

Confidential

Pre-Sales Manager

Responsibilities:

• A Confidential system for India’s second largest Confidential
• A Confidential, Management and Collection system for India’s third largest home loan company Confidential ($6 million)
• Analyze the customer requirements and involve the appropriate solution teams, set up kickoff & Sync-up calls
• Respond to RFI’s / RFP’s, Design CXO Level presentations
• Review estimation and pricing, give demonstrations onsite to win deals

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements with the customers
• Documenting requirements in user stories, creating Sprint Backlog, Product Backlog, Feature List
• Working with the graphic design team to create wireframes
• Conveying the requirements to the offshore development team
• Monitoring offshore development, Functional testing of the requirements
• Maintaining requirement traceability, Handling UAT and user training

Confidential

Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements with the customers
• Documenting requirements in user stories, creating Sprint Backlog, Product Backlog, Feature List
• Working with the graphic design team to create wireframes.
• Conveying the requirements to the offshore development team
• Monitoring offshore development, Functional testing of the requirements
• Maintaining requirement traceability

Confidential

Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements with the customers
• Documenting requirements in user stories, creating Sprint Backlog, Product Backlog, Feature List
• Working with the graphic design team to create wireframes.
• Conveying the requirements to the offshore development team
• Monitoring offshore development
• Functional testing of the requirements
• Maintaining requirement traceability