SUMMARY:

• An enthusiastic and determined professional with a background in IT consulting and managing different types of projects including web - based projects, Infrastructure, Data warehousing and Data/System Migrations. Managed multicultural teams that were globally distributed. Rich exposure to working with Multinationals across North America, Europe and India. Highly Software Process & Quality Conscious - SEI CMM5. Six Sigma Green Belt and highly Process Conscious individual who firmly believes in Process Automation where-ever possible. Exposure to working in cross-geographical environments
• Have good knowledge of project management software, interfacing with clients, and effectively implementing PMI methodology procedures. Experienced in coordinating, negotiating, and motivating outside vendors and off-shore resources to ensure on-time project delivery.
• Successfully managed multiple concurrent projects between $5M to $25M using industry standards Waterfall, Agile and Scrum project management methodologies working in cross functional organizations globally on full life cycle projects.
• Good experience and exposure in setting up offshore development center and well versed with onshore - offshore development methodology.
• Twenty plus years of IT experience at leading Fortune 500 companies. Received many performance-based s for my projects and s. Successfully managed and delivered projects within agreed timeline, budget and quality. Eight plus years of experience in managing, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing eBusiness application projects.
• Over fifteen years of experience with proven track record as an effective Release Manager for critical software releases, enhancements and upgrades. Over five years of experience in statistical data analysis and data management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Mgmt: - MS Project, Word, Excel, Powerpoint

CASE Tools: -- Rational Rose 2000, Rational Requisite Pro 4.0 and Turbo Analyst

Data Tools: -- SQL*Loader, Import/Export, PL/SQL Developer, Toad, ERwin 9.x, Powercenter 9.x

RDBMS/DBMS: -- Oracle and Sybase SQLAnyWhere, DMS 1100, FoxPro 2.1, DB2, MS Access

Programming Languages: -- JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL

GUI: -- Developer 2000, Power Builder 4.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual J Developer 3.0

Web/Application Server: -- Websphere 8.x, Apache 1.3 & Tomcat 3.1, iPlanet 6.0

Others: -- HP Quality Center, Test Director, SVN, Microsoft VSS, CVS, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Over $10M recovered in missed Billings/Reinsurance. Over $5M in hard savings/cost avoidance.
• Lead teams across technical and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups and/or projects.
• Providing clarity on project scope, transparency on project status, as well as predictable velocity and metrics for project delivery.
• Assessed current state functionality (business and technical), made recommendations for new functionality and to address gaps in support model, data integration processes, and metrics.
• Part of Design Team of globally rationalized data model, meta-data repository, ETL, data extraction layer using ETL, SOA, and data marts.
• Conduct planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an effective transition into production.
• Business strategist; plan and manage MID Size projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to manage MID size project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Develop good working relationships with stakeholders at all levels to build consensus.
• Proven quality assurance, risk management and change management expertise.
• Devised onshore/offshore engagement model. Implemented a standard SDLC process for offshore development. Plan, strategize the improvements to be made by discussing with Client and GDC team.
• Honored with "Best Project ” couple of times, in recognition of outstanding project results.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Custom Software Development: Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for number of clients including iBullHorn, Media Gravity and Caterpiller.
• Database Development: Guided teams in the development of relational database management systems (RDBMS) for clients including Indian Navy.
• System Integration/Migration: A Team member for the study and helping in implementation, large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms and the merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies.Systems Engineering: Led design and rollout of robust, scalable and secure electronic data interchange (EDI), Y2K and point-of-sale (POS) systems for clients including OBES (Ohio Bureau of Employment Services).
• Results: Ensured defect-free releases through careful planning, testing and QA efforts.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Completed System/Business Analyst to implement the Internal ERP system for their Head Office and Plants. I worked on Finance, HR and Export System.
• The technical environment consists of client/server environments. GUI consists of Developer 200 / Powerbuilder and Back end in Oracle.

Confidential

Computer Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Completed on different applications development for Finance and HR for the client Transasia Carpet, Children Books Trust and Dalmia Engg Groups.