SUMMARY:

• Over a decade of experience, managing and participating in entire System Development Life Cycle from analysis, designing, developing, customizing, testing, implementing and supporting various business applications in wide variety of industries.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by Project Management Institute.
• Experienced in managing software development and infrastructure consolidation projects, including project planning, budget estimation incorporating costs from various components, defining milestones, dependencies, resources allocation, managing vendor procurements and ensured a successful project implementation from concept to production.
• Experienced in business analysis driving requirements gathering, evaluating business requests to determine technical feasibility, working with software engineers, data analysts and systems owners to define alternatives and recommend optimal solutions, define specific application enhancements and document project requirements.
• Experienced in business process automation, process improvement and workflow design.
• Efficiently coordinated with onsite and offshore team for delegation of tasks.
• Possess excellent analytical, problem solving skills, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels, in leadership as well as team player role.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: ALPHA Server, VAX Server, Mainframe, PC

Operating Systems: Open VMS, VMS, UNIX, Windows NT/XP/ 7, DOS

Prog. Languages: COBOL, C, DCL, SAS, JAVA, VB, .NET, Basic

Database: Oracle DB, Oracle RDB, VAX RDB, DB2, Teradata, MS - Access, SQL ServerRMS Files.

Software/Tools: Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office, Project server, VisioPlanview, UML, BizTalk, Talend, QMF, SQL Assistant, Oracle Forms, Oracle Report Writer, Crystal Reports Visual Test, VMS User and System utilities, CMS Debugger, Dec FMS, Dec FORMS, FTP, CDD, Datatrieve, ACMS, DMQ SAS/Base, SAS/Macros, SAS/Stat, SAS/SQL, SAS/Access, SAS/Graphs SAS/Proc Report, SAS interface to Oracle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential - Lisle, IL

Responsibilities:

• Planned and coordinated the development and implementation efforts for 3 Software Development projects simultaneously for client’s warehouse management system.
• Developed project plan and implemented successfully, including budget control, tasks creation, resource planning, define project deliverable & milestones.
• Performed analysis and negotiation of project scope, budget and schedule.
• Assisted in vendor negotiations. Contracted and managed external vendor services.
• Coordinated with various business users, SME’s, engineering and development teams, based local and international, for new launched and changes required in projects.
• Identified & monitored project risks. Defined risk mitigations steps in risk register.
• Coordinated testing efforts with quality assurance.
• Managed changes to the project using proper change request process and approvals.
• Organized project team meetings and weekly stake-holders status meetings. Communicated project status reports and information regarding the project initiatives to appropriate parties.

Project Manager

Confidential - Wayne, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, coordination and organization of the development and implementation activities for 3 Software Development projects.
• Developed project plan and implemented successfully, including budget control, tasks creation, resource planning, define project deliverable & milestones.
• Performed analysis and negotiation of project scope, budget and schedule, and management of the vendor contract.
• Interacted and coordinated with business user, SME’s, development team, external vendor team for delegation of tasks.
• Identified & monitored project risks. Defined risk mitigations steps in risk register.
• Managed changes to the project using proper change request process and approvals.
• Provided leadership via motivating, and mentoring the development team in support of time line and project deliverables.
• Organized project team standup meetings and weekly project owner status meetings, to provide accurate status reporting and information regarding the projects and initiatives.

Project Coordinator

Confidential - Sicklerville, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Planned and coordinated the development and implementation of enhancements to existing application to accommodate new business requirements.
• Defined and achieved client needs through meetings and on-going communications. Engaged in architecture, interpretation of functional requirements, specifications and determining design implication for new system.
• Responsible for project plan creation, execution, create tasks, publish tasks, resource allocation, set milestones & deliverables, client/project team coordination and quality assurance.
• Coordinated project team meetings to track progress and address issues. Communicated weekly status reports to upper management.

Proj. Mgr/Sr. Consultant

Confidential - Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities:

• Customer service-driven consultant in position demanding a broad and deep understanding of business units, their function and interaction, to clients national distribution system.
• Successfully planned and completed following 4 projects -
• Created deliverables including project plan, other sub plans and required project documents.
• Defined task allocation, roles and responsibilities of resources from various teams.
• Monitored work execution while controlling project scope, budget, schedule and risks. Handled the change management activities.
• Managed records of all service vendors for various projects and acted as one point contact.
• Monitored services and tasks allocated to external vendors, ensuring the quality.
• Organized client and project team meetings. Reported and published project status to stakeholders.
• Coordinated implementation reviews and answered queries by SOX auditors.
• Integrated business and end-user objectives in a technically complex and time-sensitive environment.
• Managed team for support on 18 critical and other application systems. This includes providing technical support to client by email/phone, root cause analysis, implementation of long-term fixes, routine maintenance and consulting services.
• Performed quality assurance data analysis, generated tables, listings and generated reports using SAS
• Administered VMS system activities such as managing user accounts and security, perform file transfers using FTP, execute and monitor batch job processing, maintain the job scheduler, conduct tape backups and restore, other checkup routines to ensure the high performance of the system.
• Mentored new team members on technical environment and guided to analyze and resolve support issues.
• Client evaluations note strengths in technical competence, project execution.

Sr. Consultant

Confidential . Cypress, CA

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the development and support efforts between the client and the offshore team.
• Involved in analysis, design, development, implementation, documentation, and evaluation of various projects.
• Worked with production services group to manage smooth running of batch and online processing.

Sr. Programmer-Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in migration from VAX cluster to ALPHA cluster.
• Developed numerous data manipulation and reporting programs in state budget processing for schools funding. Analyzed financial data, generated tables, listings and generated reports using SAS.
• Improved user experience with increased speed on application return times by implementing enhancements to existing system.
• Engaged in design, development, testing and implementation phases of various projects.