SUMMARY:

• An independent professional with 16+ years of dependable expertise in Project Management & Business Analysis.
• Having worked across multiple domains like the Retail / Core / Investment Banking, Insurance & Retail Business, I have adopted various methodologies like the Agile, Kanban, Waterfall, RUP etc… in the areas of Project Planning, Analysis & Documentation, Customer Master Data Migrations (MDM), Legacy to Active Conversions, GAP Analysis etc. and successfully executed multiple small & large projects in the roles of a Lead Analyst & Project Manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

O/S: Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Vista & Windows7.

Req. Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Rational Requisite Pro, Topteam, Enterprise Architect, Together Solo, MS Project & MS Visio.

Modeling Tools: JIRA, MS Visio, Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose and QC.

Processes/Technologies: Agile / Sprint, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), JIRA / Confluence, Clear Case, Use Cases, Workflow Management and UML.

Other software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint. Working knowledge thru various projects on Web Dev. Tools like MS - Front Page, Interdev HTML, DHTML, ETL ETL tools like Informatica IDQ, Cognos & Reporting tools like OBIEE.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Malvern, PA

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Scoping the Project and creating complete Projects plans.
• Project planning and creating MMFs, Epics, Features & Stories for the agile process.
• Working with business to gather User Stories & story points and derive Usecases & swimlanes.
• Leading the BSA in breaking down user stories and drafting the GWTs for story completion.
• Setting up the JIRA board and work allocation to onsite and offshore teams.
• Leading daily scrums, impediments and work progress tracking Burn Up & Burn Down charts.
• Time & Work estimation, Contingency Planning, Risk Assessment & Mitigation.
• Sprint / Bucket Planning, scheduling and conducting Project Retrospective.
• Coordinating with the PMO for Project Procurement, Business Resource Assignment.
• Management Reporting and PMO status tracking. Complete ITGPS fulfillment.
• Managing the BA, Development & QA/Testing teams (3 onsite & 8 offshore).
• Coordinating with business for requirement planning, setting up Requirement / JAD Sessions and ensuring timely sign-offs on artifacts.
• Arranging for Test data and QA process and ensuring the final UAT / POAT & certification.

Confidential, Mt.Laurel, NJ

PM & Lead BA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to define the Project Scope and create complete phase wise Projects plans.
• Created detailed Sprint / Iteration plans for NGP in the Agile Methodology.
• Created MMFs, Epics, Features & Stories for the agile process.
• Resource allocation and status tracking for Tier3 & 4 Projects.
• Working with business for User Stories & story points and derive Usecases & swimlanes.
• Daily Sprint Meetings & Plan vs Actual tracking were my responsibility.
• Deliverables included Platform Migration, SLAs & Work Breakdown Structures.
• Team management & mentoring including the Work Breakdown Structuring was my KRA.
• Gathering requirements, generating BRD and FRDs.
• Identifying GAPs in As-Is & To-Be and creating Gap Tracker and related Traceability Matrices.
• Responsible for Master Data Migration Templates and mapping Data Dictionaries.
• Conducting BRD walkthrough's & Bi Weekly Management reporting.
• Facilitating the BA Team meetings and supporting the BAs as needed.

Confidential, Berkeley Heights, NJ

Project Manager & Requirement Lead

Responsibilities:

• Complete Project Planning involving Resource Costing, Time & Duration Planning, Project Phasing (Module breakup & allocation) and Delivery Scheduling.
• Handled entire SAP transaction processing using LSMWs & SQVIs and ensured 98.5% accuracy.
• Liaised with top management and executives to gather business rules & requirements.
• Coordinated with ABAP Architects to get to the right LSMW combinations
• Gathered in-depth business requirements and documented the same.
• Documented detailed Data Dictionaries and conducted ETL Team walkthroughs.
• Created rules & process for reusable transformations and Mapplets to use in multiple mappings. Used Data viewer every step to test the data flow and fix the mappings.
• Created mapping documents with required Transformation logic, Sources & Targets for Facts / Dimensions.
• Designed and Created data cleansing, Writing out the files in the SAP required format giving the validation reports to business and loading the files into SAP.
• Created Process and Training Manuals for New Business Partners.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Lead BA & Track Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential, the financial publication house with flagship products like Wall Street Journal, Barron's etc… was undergoing a major Software Migration Process, where the current legacy application based on Mainframes was being moved into a user friendly, cost effective home-grown solution. I got involved with their third public release where I was required to execute two tracks - (1) The Non-Financial Transactions
• Track (2) The Reporting Track. Handling these tracks end - end was my core responsibility.
• The Non Financial Transactions include Stacked Terms & Sarbox Regulations while the Reporting Track included gathering & analyzing the details of reports spread across 7 departments, creating a Data Repository & Mapping Document.

Confidential,Cranston, RI

Sr.Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in three migration projects - The CoLA (Commercial Loans Application), The Student Loans Project and the Auto Loan GAP Project. In CoLA project I worked on Data Mapping & Master Data Management / Migration (MDM) effort, where the key focus was to analyze the legacy Mainframe Commercial Loan Reports & Data used by various departments, identifying the different Data Elements used by these reports and prepare a Data Elements Dictionary to map the same with AFS (Automated Financial Systems).
• We were using OBIEE for their Desktop report generation, where as a front end, the OBIEE desktop interface would be used to generate Ad-hoc / Custom Reports as required by Business.
• In the previous projects, the CFSG was upgrading its current mainframe systems for their Student & Auto Loans teams to move to a more latest and robust technology. I started working with Student Loan first and parallel to this I was also gathering requirements of the Auto Loan Teams for its GAP Analysis. I was responsible to deliver a BRD / FRD on the Student Loan Software and also document the GAP Analysis for the Auto Loans.

Confidential,Boston, MA

Sr.Consultant Analyst

Responsibilities:

• After the buyout of Confidential, by Santander-Spain, there was a huge migration of existing legacy mainframe systems to their new Foreign Banking Platforms. I was involved in their Teller Transaction Project, where the existing Fiserv/Unisys systems were to be replaced by their core Spanish ‘Parthenon Teller Application’.
• The challenge here was to write out the FRDs where I was handling 24 different Teller Processes and had to document the same for the Spanish Development teams to process.

Confidential, Littleton,CO

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• ‘Vision’ is about building a New Internal Application Development involving the automation of Mortgage loan process beginning at the stage of Post Loan Approval thru monitoring the Loan Payment/Security process.
• The system performed all the business functions of the Secured Loan process such as monitoring the regularity of Payments, Allocation of the monthly payments to the desired centers, Alerts for Improper Payment patterns, diverting Profits to appropriate accounting books.
• The project involved modules for Process Validations, Internal Workflow, Setting up Alerts, Division of Funds, Allocation of debentures and Listing Bad debts. I was also involved in UAT & Post Installation User Acceptance Support.

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Cannot display name for NDA) XXX Life operates exclusively in the Insurance market.
• Their core activities include providing financial security to families by insuring their Life and Lifestyle.
• This new project involves new product development to upgrade the existing Policy Underwriting System of their Life Group to the next level S/W Package, which could handle the existing Financial Underwriting process, while encompassing the basic (field level) Medical Underwriting as well. This was a complex process as it involved the details to be picked up from the Application form (Thru OCR/Manual) and deriving conclusions - both Financial as well as Medical, based on the available details, while prompting the necessary personnel to act if decisions are beyond the system understanding.

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• During my tenure with Confidential, I worked on their e-Banking and Small Business Services Modules. E-Banking is primarily the process of enabling clients operate his/her account Completely Online (Without having to reach for a branch).
• This module included Online Bill Payments, Transfers, Online Bank Statements & Check Images, email & Wireless Alerts and Safe web (Online fraud Protection) while The SBS Module involved Cash Management, Wealth Management and Consumer Lending & Loans. In this module I was involved in Wealth Management for a short duration.

Confidential, LA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• TOPA mainly deals with six lines of the Property and Casualty Insurance business - Commercial Auto, Auto Excess Liability, Home Dwelling, Fire Dwelling, Vacant Dwelling and Comprehensive Personal Liability.
• This web application aims at managing and rating the insurance policies for the clients of Confidential . Creation of quotes, policies and calculating premiums for the same are automated in this application.
• In the 2 nd phase CIPAT, the project involved the Claims Initiating & Processing Automation Tool. This involved building an online Web based tool for the Claim Examiner / Adjuster to start his process by logging in the Unique Case Id and then validating his field facts/judgments against the Confidential norms and practices.

Confidential

Lead Analyst - Client Relations

Responsibilities:

• Intense Tech, formerly known as Confidential is into Document Management Systems and focuses primarily on DMS, Workflow and Billing & Printing Solutions. As a lead, I was involved in various Govt& Private projects, involving document Management and also Bill Printing solutions.
• During my tenure of 2 yrs with them, I handled projects like Confidential of India, Confidential, Confidential and Confidential of industries.