SUMMARY

• Accomplished Project Manager/Business Analyst with deep Business, Project Management, and Technical expertise. Strong development background with solid data modeling and PL/SQL expertise
• Deployed Tieto’s Energy Component (EC) instance of combined Production and Transport module for Chevron. Engaged Tieto as the Energy Component vendor. Integrated with EC Field production systems, Cygnet, SAP Openlink Endur and QLS via Microsoft BizTalk integration platform.
• Expert in account management, vendor management, system integration, system design, development, implementation and support
• Influential leader and team player with strong stakeholder relationship skill
• Proven expertise in working with global cross - functional team, and record of successful delivery
• Engaged procurement for multiple Chevron IT initiatives supporting Upstream Business Unit including RFP, Vendor selection, and Statement of Work (SOW) execution. Negotiated 10%+ rate reduction, reduced vendor support cost by 15%+ resulting in half a million dollars plus in savings over baseline budget
• Successfully completed Lean Sigma exercise and identified $4.6MM efficiencies
• Reduced support cost by 1/3rd for VMax in Chevron by consolidating instance across multiple BUs
• Extensively worked in global delivery model with a virtual team; Helped in growing offshore team by 50%
• Exceeded incident backlog target and reduced open process improvement enhancement tickets by 60%+ ( )
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and certified Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I). Master’s degree in computer applications, undergraduate degree in mathematics

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS: SOLARIS, HP-UX, Linux, Guardian, OSS

DBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, SQL/MP, Adabas C/D, DB2

GUI: .Net, Java SDK, JBoss, Power Builder, Oracle Forms

Languages: Oracle PL/SQL, C, C++, Pro*C, Natural, XSL, TACL, Tandem, UNIX Shell Scripts

Tools: MS Project, HP PPM, MS Visio, SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, Microsoft BizTalk, SSRS, MS Excel

Platform: W2K8 R2 Application Virtual Server, W2K8 R2 IIS Virtual Server, Sun 3K Enterprise, Sun CPCI 1500, Compaq Himalaya Server, HP, Mainframe z-Series, AS400 i-Series

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Management Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Implemented project from initiation to implementation on time and schedule using Waterfall and Agile Project Management method
• Understood client business requirements and defined project scope & objectives. Developed and managed realistic project scope, schedule and cost. Actively managed risks and issues
• Orchestrated various Business Unit subject matter experts to develop and communicate the business case, current state and future state, business requirements, business process workflows, use cases, and user acceptance criteria
• Worked with cross-functional team with Architects, Web developers, Business Analysts, QA Testers, vendors and engaged centralized IT infrastructure and long term support teams to define goal, plan, review & deliver
• Analyzed different alternatives against product functionalities, usability, OC, architecture, integration capability, scalability, security, maintenance/support model, and costs. Validated recommended solution through the use of demonstration and proof of concepts (POC)
• Prepared Canonical mapping document to integrate external interfaces
• Developed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), estimated, sequenced activities and scheduled
• Successfully presented project architecture to Chevron Architecture review board
• Successfully completed Project Assurance Review (PAR) to audit the quality of the project
• Defined the support governance model and prepared business continuity and disaster recovery plan. Built support RACI and defined SLA, RTO, RPO by coordinating with all external systems and IT support team
• Established strong stakeholder and business relationships, built and maintain governance model, managed vendors, worked with Risk and IT compliance team to maintain organizational standard
• Documented the project artifacts in the Company SharePoint
• Successfully completed functional testing and used Traceability matrix to ensure all requirements were met
• Led vendors and business users on system testing, performance testing and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Worked with BU field production, QLS Land Management System, SAP PRA and OpenLink Endur to integrate with the solution via BizTalk messaging system
• Used HP PPM for project financials, dashboard reporting, resource utilization & demand forecasting
• Dashboard status reporting to senior management including VP, Supply & Trading and North America Regional Manager on project progress, budget, schedule, scope, risk, issues/conflicts, action items, quality, escalation on obstacles as necessary

Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated meetings with different stakeholders, understood high level scope, funding, governance requirements, documented and convey follow up meetings to create an established process
• Managed multiple simultaneous medium sized projects with combined budget of ~$2MM
• Coordinated with business users, SMEs, project technical team and vendors to make successful delivery
• Captured business objective and requirements to prepare Project Charters and Statement of Work (SOW).
• Coordinated with SMEs to prepare functional specification, master test plan, functional & UAT test cases
• Implemented QA Review Process to capture defects early for Requirements documents, Business Design documents, Technical Design documents, Code/Unit Test Results, Test Plans/Test Cases
• Measured project progress against defined benchmarks and suggest continuous improvements
• Presented periodic Dashboard reports on the project status, issues, Earned Value Analysis (EVA) with other relevant information and follow up with clients to verify satisfaction
• Tracked projects and metrics to ensure the project stays on budget, scope and time
• Tracked, resolved, escalated and exercised RCA on critical issues to minimize project risk factors
• Implemented strong Release and Change Management processes
• Coached, mentored and led personnel within a technical team environment
• Worked in Production support in global delivery model with virtual team; decreased production issues by 12% in year-to-year comparison
• Used Clarify problem tracking tool on incident management processes; tracked and addressed incidents

Systems Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary customer contact point for coordination, established and maintained client relationship, found new Business and led growing offshore team
• Analyzed, designed and developed Data Loader/extract programs in Pro*C for enterprise Supply Chain system.
• Worked closely with client and Involved in data reconciliation, error handling, documentation

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, designed, developed and led template Data loader & extraction programs for developers
• Developed I-Rule files for I-Connector for SAP iDoc using XSL