SUMMARY:

• Positive, creative, highly motivated IT professional with 20 years of project management and development experience using Agile / Scrum and waterfall development methodology
• Key competencies include: expertise in project & program management, client and vendor management, managing outsourcing, offshore projects/work - streams and virtual teams, project financials and budget, Risk Management,  systems/business analysis, systems migration & integration, system testing/quality assurance, staff development/recruiting, and user training/support
• Project Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management professional (PMP)
• Certification in ITIL V3 Foundation
• Sun Certified Java Programmer
• Analytical and innovative in problem solving, strong team player with good team leading and interpersonal skills
• Very strong experience in insurance and financial industry

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Functional: Finance & Banking, Liquidity Cash management, Basel II, Insurance, Treasury Services

Tools: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, JIRA, TeamForge, HP QualityCenter, ServiceNow, ITRS, Visio, Planview, CA Clarity

Development Methodology: Agile / Scrum Development, Iterative, Waterfall SDLC Process, LEAN Methodology

Languages: Java, J2ee (EJB, Servlet, JSP), Ajax, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML/XSL, PL/SQL, UML, Cobol, JCL, CICS

Application / Web Servers: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere XD(Compute Grid, Object Grid), WebLogic, Tomcat / Apache Web Server,

RDBMS: Oracle, DB2 UDB, MS SQL Server, Sybase,

Design Patterns: J2EE Design Patterns, Model-View-Controller (MVC) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

Operating System: Windows, Solaris, Linux, OS 390 (Mainframe)

POC: Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Sqoop, AWS, Cloud Computing

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed global technology and support organization, which is a leading provider of state of the art IT solutions for Liquidity business
• Managed Program and various projects from start to end - Platform migration, Continuity of Business, Risk & capacity Assessment, Legacy application consolidation and decommission, Application releases, Data center migration, and End of life product upgrades
• Built and managed onsite and offshore team of 15+ engineers and analysts responsible for Development and Service Management functions, Incident & Problem Management, Change & Release Management along with break fix projects
• Developed project plans & presented weekly and monthly project status to steering committees, senior management, key stakeholders, and business users identifying key milestones, project schedule, budget updates, issues, and risks
• Managed global rollout plan for Liquidity / Cash management applications across 55+ countries that allowed business to sweep more than $1.6 trillion/month
• Managed, tracked and controlled program and project budget ($5M), forecast and expenses and achieved 5% savings year over year with LEAN and resource location strategy for past 4 years
• Managed initiative and developed ITRS dashboard for E2E monitoring of business workflows, eliminating manual tasks and monitoring; reduced monitoring alerts from 45,000 to 1,00 alerts/month and saved 3 headcount
• Led initiative to automate release and deployment process using IBM uDeploy and achieved > 40% savings in deployment time
• Created RFI/RFPs to consolidate production support for Global liquidity applications, reviewed vendor SOWs, provided recommendation to senior management for vendor selection. Consolidated multiple (5+) vendors into one strategic vendors
• Developed a 24x7 “follow the sun” Target Operating Model (TOM) with engineers across all regions and reduced support cost 10% annually while handing 25% increase in annual transaction volume
• Implemented automation for Continuity of Business (CoB) and Disaster Recovery Automation plans for franchise critical applications eliminating risks and providing cost saves for the business
• Setup Environment Management Services to provide platform as a service (PaaS) that includes cloud environment and software as a service (SaaS) that allowed reduced time to procure environment for testing
• Closely coordinated efforts with tech partners, Ops, UAT, Product / Business and other stakeholders throughout SDLC phases
• Led initiative to enhance production support processes for problem management, release and deployment process, alerting and monitoring process
• Hands on experience in technology risk assessment of business critical platforms including quarterly risk reviews (RCSA) and documented results for internal and external audits

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed project plans and managed various projects / sprints end to end simultaneously
• Reported weekly and monthly project status to steering committees, senior management, and key stakeholders including business users identifying key milestones, project schedule, budget updates, issues, and risks
• Team composition: Built and managed onsite and offshore team of Business Analyst, developer and testers across multiple locations
• Managed the development of GCE application using Agile and Water fall development methodology using JIRA; coordinated efforts with multiple cross functional applications / groups during complete SDLC life cycle
• Managed and approved various vendors created documents: functional requirement, Use Cases, Design Specifications, and Data Models, Data Migration application Code, Deployment Plans, User Manuals, and Training Materials
• Actively managed and coordinated System Integration testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with all stakeholders for all releases
• Closely coordinated efforts with tech partners, Ops, UAT, Product / Business and other stakeholders throughout SDLC phases
• Led initiative to automate regression and performance / resilience test scripts to reduce testing efforts and timeline
• Led initiatives to enhance Project Management process and assisted in forming documentation standards
• Ensured all projects were compliant with Citi SDLC process using Planview and in house project management tool
• Managed, tracked and controlled program and project budget ($5M), forecast and expenses
• Responsible to secure & manage the Dev, SIT, UAT and Production/Contingency environments
• Managed Risks and Issues with effective remediation plan and escalated effectively as and when required

Environment: Agile Development Methodology, Java (JDK 1.5.2), J2EE (EJB, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JNDI), WebSphere Application Server (6.x), WebSphere XD, Rational Application Developer Studio 6.0, ClearCase, Hibernate, nCache, Oracle 10g, .Net framework 2.0, PL SQL, Solaris, Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, JIRA,

Confidential

Project Leader/ Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented “Agile Development Methodology”; developed and implemented all phases for more than 30 releases / sprints without any issues in production environment
• FIGARO was the first application in Citigroup to be “BASEL II ready” and won a team award for it and we finished the project within the allocated time and budget and with close to zero production issues
• Responsible for Production Readiness & Implementation Planning
• Led initiative to automate security process that identifies new users and sends their access definitions to business approvers and data security team; new enhanced processes were able to resolve client issues proactively
• Automated log and exception monitoring process to improve response time to production issues

Environment: Java (JDK 1.4.2 / 1.3), J2EE (JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JNDI), Struts Framework, WebSphere App. Server (5.x), Rational App. Developer Studio 6.0, WebSphere App. Server Studio 5.1, Merant PVCS, Apache POI, DB2 UDB, DB Views, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, SOA, Agile, Mainframe OS/390, SQL & COBOL Stored Procedures, Windows XP, & Solaris

Confidential

Consultant - Project Leader

• Led the onsite & offshore development teams to successfully deliver the new features using low-cost offshore development model
• Understand & document Bear Stearns’ technical environment, reporting framework, deployment, release process and transferred the knowledge to offshore development team
• Designed and developed front-end using JSP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript & Struts framework, middle-tier using Java & Servlet, business-tier using composite scripts, and various reports using Bear Sterns Reporting framework

Environment: Java (JDK 1.4), J2EE (JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JNDI), Struts Framework, WebLogic Application Server (7.x), Eclipse IDE, ClearCase, PL/SQL, Sybase, DB2, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Windows XP, Linux

Confidential

Consultant - Project Leader/ Senior Java Developer

• Led a team through complete project life cycle activities to ensure successful project delivery
• Participated in requirement gathering discussions and elaborated on the use cases based on business requirements and was responsible for creation of Classes, Class Diagrams, Sequence and Activity diagrams using Rational Rose and UML
• Led a team in developing various documentations for the project such as Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Design Specification Document (DSD), Technical Standards, Test Cases, and Release Documents
• Design & developed front-end using JSP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, middle-tier using Servlet, model-tier using stateless session EJBs, DAOs, DVOs for the data manipulation, database-tier using DB2 stored procedures on mainframe
• Developed reusable formatting and validation utilities / classes in Java, JavaScript and CSS

Environment: Java2, J2EE (EJB, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JNDI), WebSphere Application Server 5.X, WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) 5.X, Struts, JTest, XML,, UML, DB2 UDB, DB2 Connect, Tomcat Web Server, SiteMinder, HTML, CSS, JavaScript Windows NT, HP UX, OS 390

Confidential

Consultant - Software Developer

• Design and developed application using Java, J2ee technologies, SQL SP and Oracle
• Used Java & JSP coding standards and tested Java classes and JSP using JTest testing tool
• Migrated PurchaseSmart from SilverStream Application Server/Designer 2.5 to WebSphere Application Server 3.5, converted SilverStream pages to JSP, AgData and DSO objects to Entity beans, and Servlet business objects to Session beans

Environment: Java2, J2EE (EJB, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JNDI, JTA), UML, RationalRose, WebSphere Application Server 3.5, VisualAge 3.5, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML/XSL, Oracle 8.x, HP Unix, SilverStream Application Server & Designer 2.5, Windows NT

Confidential

Software Analyst

• Responsible for design, development, testing and implementation of various projects using Java, J2ee and mainframe technologies