SUMMARY:

• Over 18 years of diverse experience in IT Industry has proven and demonstrated abilities in areas of Project Management, Development and Delivery. Successfully managed and integrated the Project Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Risk, Communications, Human Resources and Stakeholder Management processes to meet strategic objectives and obtain greater business value using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Having 8+ years of US onshore experience with a diverse set of clients including Walgreens, BlueCross BlueShield of Michigan, Confidential Insurance Inc, Wal - Mart Stores Inc, BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois, Confidential .
• Strong cross- sectorial industry knowledge in Insurance, Health insurance and Supply chain.
• Excellent Communication skills, Leadership skills and Technical skills.
• Excellent Analytical, Innovative, Decision making, Negotiation and Presentation skills.
• As a Project Manager, successfully managed the Planning, Estimating, Budgeting, Resourcing, Leading, and stabilizing large strategic project transition management and organization change management utilizing the appropriate tools and techniques of PMI.
• Addressed the various needs, concerns, and expectations of the stakeholders in planning, executing and controlling multiple projects and ensured that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget utilizing the MS Project scheduling tool and other tools.
• Managed the changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques, involving all relevant stakeholders and monitored project metrics for any deviations in scope, cost, schedule or quality.
• Identification of process methodologies techniques like Agile, Waterfall, SDM for optimal implementation adhering to the Project Management Office(PMO) policies, procedures, and methodologies.
• As a scrum master, manage to build, prioritize and maintain the product backlog, stories, tasks and track to completion.
• Successfully handled tasks such as Project Assessment, Planning, Estimation, Development and Delivery.
• Involved in developing the Project charter, Strategic plans for projects of high business complexity.
• Extensive knowledge in developing the detailed Project Management Plan, Business Requirements document, Functional Requirements document, Software Requirement Specifications and other plans.
• Strong exposure in interacting with the Solution Architect, Business Analysts and the Clients for translating the Business Requirements into Business Use Cases.
• With a strong technical and management background, worked with different team environments involving matrix organizations, resolved conflicting high-priority requirements and facilitated conflict resolutions to achieve consensus.
• Performed risk management effectively throughout the project life cycle.
• With strong leadership and communication skills, communicated the needs of stakeholders and others effectively to all appropriate levels of the audience both orally and writing.
• Extensive knowledge in healthcare - Claims processing, PPO, HMO, Medicare, Medicaid, HIPPA and ITS
• Ability to gather and analyze facts, draw conclusions, define problems and develop solutions to strategic and operational needs.
• Created and maintained comprehensive project documentation and measured project performance and documented the process using appropriate tools and techniques like MS-Project and MS-Office to monitor and track progress. Also used Jira tool for defect tracking.
• Assisted in improving the project management methodologies, procedures, policies and Implemented process improvements and quality initiatives.
• Resource planning, staffing, assigning tasks, conducting review meetings and mentor team members.
• Communicated daily, weekly and monthly status/metrics summary reporting to management/stakeholders.
• Solid organizational skills and multi-tasking skills. Worked on offshore and onshore model projects.
• Conducted interviews and was part of IBM Interview panel.

T ECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, PL/1, FOCUS, Eztrieve, VB, ReactJS, Java, Spring, Java Script, Jquery

Operating Systems: OS/2, MVS/OS, Z/OS

Utilities: MS-Project, JCL, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, Endevor, File-Aid, File-Mgr, Spuf, Xpeditor, Intertest, Pan-valet, Jira, Docker, Spinnaker, Jenkins,, Kubernetes.

Testing Tools: HP ALM QC, Putty, UltraEdit, CVS

Environment: IBM Mainframe/ MVS, Tandem, Windows XP/7, MS-Office

RDBMS/DBMS: SQL, DB2, Oracle, Cassandra,

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Manager, managed and lead the Architecture team and the Dev-Ops team for the Microservices and CICD Pipeline projects planning, design, build and deploy starting from initiation to closeout applying extensive skills of project management utilizing a formal project management methodology (PMI).
• Involved in developing the Project Charter and created the Project Management Plan and reviewed with the key stakeholders getting their ownership to the approach.
• Addressed the organizational readiness activities across multiple functional areas involving sponsors, key stakeholders and vendor partners on Planning, Training, Communications and Reporting.
• During project planning, defined the Scope, developed the Schedule, estimated the Budget and base-lined after resolving all the issues/risks/concerns with the requirements with all the relevant stakeholders.
• Build the user stories, prioritize product log, decide the number of sprints, maintain sprint backlog using Jira. Run daily scrum meeting and review meetings in Agile scrum environment.
• Executive liaison between all clients/stakeholders and the Information services internal structure.
• Based on the requirement changes and other impacts, managed the changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs appropriately involving all relevant stakeholders and ensured the technical feasibility and finally delivered the project meeting the customer expectations, on-time, within scope and within budget utilizing the MS-Office Tools.
• Assisted in infrastructure planning and budgetary analysis for current and future software budgets; reviewed license agreements for metric clarity and accountability. Reviewed and tracked new software purchase requests to ensure the product meets business needs.
• With strong leadership and communication skills, communicated the needs of stakeholders and others effectively to all appropriate levels of audience both orally/writing and provided daily, weekly status/metrics summary reports and budget reports.

Environment: ReactJS, Java, Spring, Java Script, Jquery, Apache HTTP, Docker, Spinnaker, Jenkins,, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Oracle.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• During project planning, defined the Scope, developed the Schedule, estimated the Budget and base-lined after resolving all the issues/risks/concerns with the requirements with all the relevant stakeholders.
• Supported the selection, preparation and ongoing needs of the Providers, Healthcare Institutions, Consumers and Patients in identifying the demand and gap between the Providers, Institutes and Patients.
• Managed the changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs appropriately involving all relevant stakeholders and ensured the technical feasibility and meeting the customer expectations, on-time, within scope and within budget utilizing the MS Project and MS-Office Tools.
• Reviewed the detail design which comprises of Use Cases, Object modeling, class diagram and sequence diagram. Monitored and controlled the application development, testing and Implementation.
• Tracking the activities against the detailed project management plan and updated the project plans to include agreed changes. Maintained the completing Project Key Performance Indicators.
• Managed the Procurement, Accounting, Vendor contract negotiation, progress payments, billings and job closeout and also the work performed by consultants.
• Provided daily, weekly status/metrics summary reports to all appropriate levels.
• Developed the organizations in house staff training program, coached, mentored the team members and provided feedback on their performance to management.
• Supported the pre-production load testing with 60 simulated customers.
• Involved in the performance tuning of the application server in Beta environment.
• Developed production (Beta) support processes; transition of developed product into support, tracking/resolution of problems and release management and other Go-live efforts.

Environment: Java, Spring, Hibernate, AngularJS, Java Script, Jquery, MYSQL, Tomcat, Apache HTTP, Eclipse, Oracle, MS Office, MS-Project, Visio

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared project initiation documents - Developed High-level requirements and Project Management Plan.
• After resolving all the issues and variances the Cost and Time estimation were baselined.
• During sprint planning, build the user stories, prioritize and review the acceptance criteria.
• Interacted with Requirement Analysts/ Business Analysts/Users/Developers for collecting requirements.
• Involved in the preparation of the Business Requirements Document, Supplementary Specifications at the project level/at the application level, User Acceptance Scenarios from the project Business users, Impacted systems list in the RTM at every Gate level.
• Analysis of Requirements and Business Rules and Use cases. Review of Regulatory Reports.
• Developed the work break structure (WBS), overall project schedule, budget, number of resources needed during each Sprint/phase using MS Project and Microsoft office and Jira.
• Worked closely with the application tech leads/SME in identifying the risks and issues, replicating and resolving them and conducting review meetings.
• Worked with Service Managers to develop culture of continuous improvement. Develop key Service Metrics and KPIs.
• Having strong leadership and communication skills, communicated the daily and weekly status / metrics summary reports and other reports to all the relevant stakeholders effectively to all appropriate levels of audience both orally/writing on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Management liaison between all the application lead, business management and third party vendors.
• Performed Risk Analysis and performed Functional Testing.
• Facilitate a smooth transfer of the new system and business process ownership from the project team to the business/organizational units.
• Managed the implementation efforts of all the phases where Agile methodology was incorporated adhering to the Project Management Office(PMO) policies, procedures, and methodologies
• Involved in the UAT sign off process which includes getting the required sign off from the appropriate project business areas to promote the changes to production.

Environment: MS-Office, MS-Project, MS-SharePoint, Clarity, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Java Script, JQuery, MYSQL Mainframes, Oracle.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined the complete Testing process applying the Agile Methodology.
• Analysis of Requirements artifacts, Business Rules and Use cases to come up with Test Conditions/Scenarios.
• Providing estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedule with overall project schedule and number of resources needed. Created and maintained the requirements and test case traceability matrix.
• Build and implemented the regression suites for all existing customer and the new customers in CVS.
• Writing SQL queries to pull the loaded data and validate from different databases.
• Maintaining the Test requirements, Test plans, Test cases, Defect tracking, Report Preparation and Reporting issues by using Quality Center.
• Communicated the project status/metric summary reports and other reports to all the relevant stakeholders both orally and writing on a daily, weekly basis.
• Performed Risk Analysis, performed functional testing, conducted sanity testing.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Requirement Analysts and Business Team for collecting the requirements and finalized the Scope and supported in developing the Technical Specification, Technical Design Document (TDD).
• During the project planning, estimated the time and determine the budget, phases for implementation, resource planning and during execution tracked and controlled the project, utilizing the MS Project scheduling tool and MS office.
• Assigning the tasks to team members, conducting review meetings and communicate the daily and weekly status / metric summary reports to management and all the relevant stakeholders both orally and writing.
• Addresses the deployment and business readiness for organizational readiness, end user readiness, end user training, technical readiness, data readiness, interface readiness and critical support
• Assisted in improving the project management methodologies, procedures, policies and implemented process improvements and quality initiatives.
• Involve and oversee the Disaster recovery and Backup Plans. Change Management in line with process Improvements.

Environment: MS-Office, MS-Project, MS-SharePoint, Clarity, Java, J2EE, HTML, DHTML, Mainframe, Oracle Data Warehouse, SQL Server 2000: PL/SQL, WinSQL 7.0, CVS, WinSCP3, Putty, Esci, UltraEdit32, QTP 9.2,.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Business requirement analysis/SME, Effort Estimation.
• Involved in defect triage meetings with all the teams on the project.
• Prepared BRD, TDD and implementation plan.
• Analysis, Design, Development, Testing using DB2, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, Eztrieve, CICS
• Uploaded all development documents, testing documents and defects using Mercury Quality Center.
• Involved in writing SQL queries like Correlated sub-query, Table joins and set operations for Database testing.
• Project tracking and communicating the status reports/metrics to all the relevant stakeholders, both orally and writing on a daily and weekly basis.
• Worked with the Service Delivery Leads by implementing strategies to improve process productivity. Develop and execute solutions to different complex process improvement solutions.

Environment: OS/390 Using COBOL, JCL, DB2, Java, J2EE, MS Office, MS Project, MS SharePoint, Clarity, HP-Quality Center, QTP

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Onsite Coordinator/Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirement Analysis, Effort Estimation, BRD, TDD, Risk Mitigation.
• Prepared Client Presentations
• Analysis, Development and Testing using DB2, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS
• Mapped the Requirements and Test Cases using Traceability Matrix, defect tracking using Quality Center
• Attended defect resolution meetings with the development teams and worked towards bug resolution
• Business Analysis/SME, Project tracking and status reporting to all stake holders.
• Facilitated team meeting between onsite/offshore, BA/Development team and offshore testing team.
• Project Planning, Estimating, Scheduling and Project tracking following the SDM(CMMI) methodology.
• Communicating the status reports / metrics to all the relevant stakeholders, both orally and writing on a daily and weekly basis.

Environment: OS/390-COBOL, JCL, DB2, Quality Center, QTP, MS-Office, MS-Project, SharePoint, and Clarity.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Requirement Analysts/ Business Analysts/Users/Developers for collecting requirements
• Analysis of Maintenance Request
• Analyzed the business requirements and developed the Detail Test Plan and the Test Strategy
• Involved in System testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing and UAT
• Involved in code walkthrough for the applications before going to QA after Unit test.
• Defect tracking, Report Preparation and Reporting issues

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Confidential

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Feasibility study of the project
• Development and unit testing using DB2, JCL, COBOL, VSAM.
• Involved in Integration testing, Prepare test cases and test data

Environment: MVS, JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, Endevor, Fileaid, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Confidential

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Application Study, Development, enhancement and testing using FOCUS, MVS, JCL
• Modified the structure of the reports. Debug the defects, Training the end users

Environment: FOCUS, MVS, JCL, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Confidential

Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Application Study, developed the Trading Engine (coding and testing) using JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2
• Derived the formulas for the synthetic generation of orders
• Prepared the test scripts. Involved in Joint integration testing. Debug defects, Training the Traders

Environment: MVS, JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Confidential

Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Application Study, Analysis, Design, Develop/Enhance application using JCL, VSAM, COBOL, and DB2

Environment: MVS, JCL, VSAM, COBOL, and DB2