PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Certified PMP professional with over 10 years of experience in managing projects in Financial, Mortgage and Utility Domains
• Experience on Accounting, Configuration Management including Change Process Management, ERP, CRM, SOX Compliance and Process Reengineering.
• Proven Project Management skills - Project Management and Execution, Resource Management, Budget Management, Cost Estimations, Risk Management and Escalation handling.
• Expertise of Rational Unified Process (RUP) as an iterative SDLC with implementation of all four phases: Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition. Sound knowledge of the Agile/SCRUM and ITIL Methodologies.
• Hands-on Project Management, PMO coordination and execution and delivery of SDLC Methodology using PMI best practices of major initiatives including project planning and tracking, status reporting, periodic reviews/communications and a proactive approach to helping the project team execute their projects and meet their goals.
• Excellent knowledge of PMBOK® processes groups, processes and guidelines.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

Project Manager

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Identify the business and technical evaluation criteria and corresponding weightages by interviewing the Fannie Mae Finance and IT stakeholders for comparing the technologies.
• Managed day to day activities, Dashboards, project plans, resources, budget, forecasting and planning
• Managed multiple teams worked in cross functional and in a Matrix environment
• Identify the cost and timeline considerations for the Finance Data Management and Business Intelligence initiative.
• Oversee the Development of a high level implementation roadmap for the target state architecture and high level guidance on how to structure delivery of the Finance Data Management and Business Intelligence initiative.

Confidential, CA

Project Manager

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Interviewed client for Primavera P6 configuration requirement.
• Identified constraints, assumptions & key stakeholders; created stakeholder register
• Created and managed project management and subsidiary plans, defined scope, Identified risks and kickoff meeting
• Acquired & Managed team, delivered training, quality audit
• Weekly status reports, testing, M&C scope, managed change requests
• Received final acceptance and got signoff on the deliverables, made closure report and documented lesson learned
• Managed upper multiple management reporting on weekly basis and team status updates on daily basis
• Tailored training material for the Primavera P6 dashboard specific to the sub-division of DWR.
• Managed user training (Primavera Expert) for set up and delivery during the whole engagement.
• Multiple DWR divisions optimized their planning process post Primavera configuration and training.

Confidential, CA

Sr. Business Analyst/Project Manager, Project Management Office

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive analysis of Business process deficiencies and recommended improvements.
• Developed and delivered on site and online training to HR and payroll staff of more than 60 County office of education.
• Managed initial POC project got approval on the project and managed the development of the Product under SCRUM methodology
• Managed upper management reporting on weekly basis and team status updates on daily basis
• Managed project plans, sprint burn downs and product backlogs
• Work with cross functional teams including developers, testers, architects and retirement subject matter experts.
• Provided end user support for adoption of best practice processes.
• Improvised reporting with reduced error exception which translated into savings of over $1 million per month.

Confidential, CA

Sr. Business Analyst

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Researched and propose possible business opportunities in the form of RFP’s, RFO’s and RFI’s for bidding purposes.
• Developed leads for possible staff augmentation projects for the company.
• Assisted the Recruiting Manager in finding and screening candidates for multiple positions.
• Lead a team of on shore and offshore analysts and developers and provided support with regard to the business requirements to accomplish the efforts of design and development.
• Gathered requirements and wrote business and system requirement documents for applications such as energy accounting database, loading jobs and combining database and demand bidding program.

Confidential, VA

Sr. Business Analyst Consultant

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Assisted Subject Matter Expert, gathered business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Wrote and implemented business requirements in the development, design and deployment of new system.
• Performed gap analysis and comprehensively revamped all requirements (Use Cases, screens, reports, & interfaces).
• Conducted detailed walkthrough sessions with Subject Matter Experts to get signoffs on the requirement documents.
• Managed all requirement documents and traced them to User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Created and executed SQL queries as per the business rules to generate expected results.
• Created UAT test conditions, scenarios, scripts and expected results for various system functionalities.
• Reviewed system test scripts and expected results for the initial system test build for SIR.
• Participated in SOX control reviews of process flows for various functionalities within SIR.
• Assisted Subject Matter Expert in creating training materials for training over 300 client employees and consultants.
• Conducted walkthroughs to get signoff from stakeholders, with regard to SOX compliance.
• Reported directly to the Director at client site and temporarily substituted as a Subject Mater Expert.

Confidential

Sales Engineer

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Presented the Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion (CFBC) boiler technology and Integrated Gas Combined Cycle (IGCC) technology to prospective clients in the power generation and petrochemical industry.
• Participated in pre-bid conferences, contract negotiations, and work schedule discussions with the clients of various upcoming projects.
• Initiated inquiry from multiple clients for CFBC technology while attending technology conferences nationally.
• Developed excellent negotiation, persuasive, presentation, management and organizational skills.