SUMMARY

• PMP certified Program and Project manager with 25+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• Organized and goal oriented with strong customer focus
• Skilled in building excellent rapport with the clients and team members.
• Delegate and motivate team members to achieve on - time and high-quality project deliverables.
• Lead cross-functional project team effectively to meet organizational strategic objectives
• Manage projects worth millions of dollars, projects with COTS and projects with vendor solutions.
• Have great analytical, problem solving, negotiating and communication skill.
• Strong technical background in system architecture, database design and software development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop retention and disposition strategy for Confidential North America IT managed applications
• Establish project direction, define key results, develop plans, establish goals, and identify critical success factors
• Coordinate to identify data subjects and to define data mapping and retention period
• Produce weekly reporting, manage project issues, risks, and conduct gap analysis
• Construct Enterprise Data Inventory. Plan and implement solution to meet deadlines
• Build and own relationships with management and business partners as appropriate throughout the project cycle.
• Develop ecosystem for the effort needed from current to future state on compliant data disposal

Confidential, Madison, WI

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects in parallel using MS Project with Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodology
• Trained project team and execute projects using innovative way to cut maintenance cost to near zero and enable rapid application development
• Designed and managed multimillion dollar Technology migration and improvement projects by automation and resource optimization to cut down the end-to-end process from months to days
• Applied strong managerial skills toward directing, coordinating and supervising cross-functional team under multiple projects of team size between 5 to 50+
• Managed cloud migration projects, pilot programs and proof of concept projects
• Managed projects with Java, .Net, Mainframe, GIS, Tableau, Oracle, DB2, SQL server and with Cloud services. Developed prototypes.
• Developed Solution Proposal, Application Architect, Data Architect, Data Model, Application Design and Process Design, Project Charter, Risk Plan, Communication Management Plan and Project Plan
• Collaborated with PMO on policies, procedures, standards and guidelines for project management
• Produced status reports, host daily SCRUM meeting, weekly and monthly stakeholder meetings
• Monitored ROI. Managed project schedule, budget, scope and quality. Develop testing strategy.
• Prioritized tasks, gather estimates, define baseline and monitored progress using MS Project
• Defined milestones and deadlines. Used JIRA for Agile, project tasks and defects management.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed business and end users for collecting business requirements
• Developed and executed various small to large projects to automate manual work to cut down maintenance effort each year by 50% and increased the data accuracy, availability and reliability
• Proactively built and maintained strong customer relationships; maintain consistent communication and manage customer needs and expectations by meeting project timelines
• Managed cross functional team of size ranging from 7 to 15
• Architect and designed applications and databases. Developed solution proposal documents.
• Developed and established workflow solutions. Developed Data Model and Process Model.
• Managed and executed Sales State expansion projects for agent master and agent transfers systems.
• Managed and executed annual, quarterly and seasonal New Business campaign projects
• Handled maintenance work for Agent Master, Tax, Agent Transfer and New Business applications
• Involved in planning and conducting procurement on purchasing the vendor product
• Managed and lead projects on integrating internal applications with the vendor product

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, Designed and developed work plan for consolidating applications and data from multiple subsidiary companies due to mergers
• Managed migrating Mainframe applications and data into Oracle, PL SQL and Business Objects
• Developed roadmap, coordinated and managed project tasks with external vendor on developing a new Data Warehouse in Oracle 10g
• Managed cross functional team of size 15

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hired the project team of 12 to establish offshore development center for Confidential in Chennai, India
• Managed and executed large and complex projects with onsite-offshore model
• Managed maintenance work for National Purchase Order Vehicle application
• Coordinated the project tasks between onsite and offshore team

Confidential . Dallas, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Onsite - Offshore model. Hired offshore development team for Confidential, Chennai, India
• Administered the procurement under Fixed Price with Incentive contract
• Managed thick client using IBM Mainframe/VB to thin client using Java/Oracle conversion project
• Gathered and documented business requirements. Developed and executed the project plan
• Developed Application Architect/Design and Data Architect/Design
• Assisted and guided project team from inception to completion of the project
• Managed cross functional team size of 18
• Successful completion of this pilot project yielded additional businesses from Confidential to Confidential

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managed projects for CORE, COMS, NetCOM and NetCAP applications
• Gathered and documented business requirements and Modeled database for a new Data Warehouse system, Integrated Data Delivery (IDD)
• Developed ETL process to collect data from multiple systems and load into the new Data Warehouse
• Developed SAS programs for file management and for record reconciliation
• Involved in Quality Assurance and on-call support

Confidential, Denver, CO

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented business requirements on building applications towards business expansion into Kansas State.
• Designed and modeled database for Customer, Provider, Drugs, Radiology and Billing systems
• Designed and developed applications

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Trained on FOCUS, a 4GL programming language
• Developed Hierarchical FOCUS databases, programs, databases and reports

Confidential, NY

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained Prudential unclaimed fund management applications
• Created and executed test plans and test cases.
• Documented the test result