PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• An experienced technology and business visionary with hands - on experience in aligning business needs with technology solutions. Projectmanagement experience leading large, complex cross-functional, data driven, improvement projects/programs.
• My exposure includes application software development, infrastructure development, legacy migration, web re-engineering, social media integration, Mergers & Acquisition/Integration experience, COTS product(s) installation/customization projects/programs and compliance and regulatory projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies and Models SDLC: Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall

Applications and Tools: Microsoft Office packages, Microsoft Project v2007/ v2010, Office 365, MS Azure, Innotas PPM, HP Quality Center, Rally (Agile PM tool), Jira Cloud and Confluence (Software project tracking tool), IT Service Management (ITSM) for Incident Tickets and Change management, Dreamweaver Mx 2004, MS Visio, MS Visual Basic 2013, BPWin and ERWin (All Fusion Suite), Rational ClearQuest, Primavera project management, PlanView 2010, Peregrine change management, CA Clarity PPM Project & Resource management, SharePoint 2010, 2013, Ab Initio (Data mapping), IBM Datastage (ETL Data Integration), Informatica Power Center (ETL Data Integration), Business Intelligence (BI) - Cognos, Tableau, Business Objects Suite, BIRT reporting, Identity Access Management/Provisioning (IAM) - LDAP (Sailpoint, Oracle IAM), Oracle Fusion Application, Accenture Mortgage Cadence Lending application and Imaging Center, Oracle Data Relationship Management (eDRM), Oracle Peoplesoft, IBM Enterprise Master Data Management (eMDM), IBM Data Management Hub (RDM), IBM Netezza analytics, Podium (data analysis), Tableu and Direct SQL (data analysis), e-Commerce - Java platform and Liferay portals, IBM Big Insights - Hardware and Software (Apache Hadoop open source appliance), Salesforce cloud data migration

Languages: C++, Java, J2EE, HTML, XML, PHP, Microsoft .Net, Mainframe - COBOL, CICS, Unix Shell Scripting

Databases: MySQL, Oracle 11gR2, Access, Teradata

Network/Integration/Infrastructure: Knowledge of Network Appliances and Network Application Protocols, Implement software patches and application upgrades, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Integration, Web Portals - Liferay, IBM WebSphere application, MSSP (Managed Security Services),Single Sign On (SSO), Content Management - UCM, IBM Enterprise Content Management. Active Directory, Identity and Access Management, Well verse on migration/conversation from one platform to another (Microsoft.Net to Java) and Cloud infrastructure

Banking and Regulatory: 1) AML and Sanction, 2) Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices, 3) Anti Bribery and Corruption, 4) Fair Banking UDAAP, 5) ID Theft: Red Flags Rule (Flash), Privacy and Data Protection

Health Insurance Regulatory Knowledge: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) - PCI based regulation for insurance industry, Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and Model Audit Rule (MAR)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison, MS

Sr. IT Project Manager / Scrum Master (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager / Scrum Master on EMR Oncology software development and business analytics comprise of Business Intelligence. The project is an integration of cloud-based infrastructure technologies and services. The technology utilizes - Amazon web services, Microservices framework (C+, Java and .Net), SQL server database, Angular JS (Web client browser to server), Bootstrap, HTML 5 front end - UI controls and widgets. The Business Intelligence utilizes Tableau tool for reporting.
• Strong Data warehousing skills including ETL and end-user access issues.
• Manage application Information Security (IS) vulnerability assessment and assist with adding additional application security as it needed as per the Info Security consultant advise.
• Knowledgeable about the development and operations side of BI. Involved in BI tool and vendor selection.
• Experienced in multiple software development methodologies like iterative approach.
• Project Manager / Scrum Master on Cloud Microsoft Azure infrastructure platform conversion. The conversion is from Cloud Amazon web services platform to Microsoft Azure platform. Manages the POC to the product implementations. The backlog grooming and planning utilizes Microsoft Visual 2013.
• Establish project management process and procedures for the Project Management Office.
• Lead the development operations for EMR Oncology product and release management.
• Coordinate with Business and Customer(s) on product roadmap and work with Product Owner and SME’s to translate to create user stories and estimates.
• Manage the Agile methodology. Coordinate and manage the project User Stories, Sprint planning which consists of backlog grooming, conduct and facilitate Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings. Facilitate the daily scrum meeting and execution of Epic, User Stories and tasks using Jira Cloud. Confluence tool is use for team collaboration and project artifacts storage.
• Developed Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and assisting with contract development and/or vendor management on the project.
• Work closely with the product owner and QA to establish the acceptance criteria for all user stories and to ensure that all user stories are verified before the end of the sprint.
• Work along with SMEs on the Epic, User stories and sprint backlogs planning and present the status and issues to SME and Line of Business Leaders.
• Manage project risks and issues (remove impediments) and focus on product delivery.
• Manage the agile testing techniques such as: Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Testing and Automated Testing.
• Manage project budgets, schedule and scope, reporting on risk and issues and project status to Business Sponsor on weekly and monthly. Utilize excel sheet to generate manual financial reports to management.
• Managed the project team to turn around the product development and testing from 60% to 100% in two weeks in preparation for the UPMC demo. Ensured we are fully prepared for the first customer product demo and subsequent product releases on target for every sprint.

Confidential, Cranston, RI

Sr. IT Program/Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Managed overall planning; budgeting, resource allocation, design, development, project management and vendor management for new client engagements and phases.
• The projects utilized hybrid waterfall and iterative software development methodology.
• Managed resource allocations by conducting stakeholder profile in ALM HP and assigned the resources on the project based on resource role and hour estimates.
• Assisted the Business Stakeholder(s) along with Software Vendor to plan, develop manuals and sessions for the Business Line.
• Developed Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and assisting with contract development and/or vendor management on the project.
• Managed project budgets, project reports on risk and issues, schedules- plan versus actuals, financials- plan versus actuals in PlanView tool and Microsoft Project (MPP) and report to the PMO and Business Sponsor on weekly and monthly.
• Projects used IBM products platform and Oracle 11gR2 database, Operational Data Store (ODS), Virtual Windows Server (Windows, IIS,.Net), PL/SQL, ODBC, CSV files, IBM WebSphere middleware, Java platform and XML web services, Autosys (JIL, Bash, Sqlplus modification), Unix -Linux Shell Scripting, BIRT for BI reporting, Identity Access Management (IAM) - LDAP (Sailpoint Integration), participated in quarterly disaster recovery (DR) exercise and oversee info-sec requirements such as application vulnerability scans completion.
• Managed the application systems Information Security (IS) vulnerability assessment and assisted with adding additional application security as it compliance requirement as per the Info Security consultant advise.
• Implementation of business requirements, gap analysis, and technical specifications using HP ALM tool. Familiar with ITIL concepts to manage IT Change Management and Incident Management using ITSM tool.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

IT Sr. Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded product software version to latest Mortgage Cadence supported version. It is an acquisition and implementation of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software package. It is a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB Bank compliant project which was crucial to be implemented by 1/10/2014. It is a mandatory requirement by Federal.
• It was a 2.8 million dollars Retail Banking initiative to replace the existing legacy system; improve performance and to reduce administration cost. The application runs on .Net platform and integrated with Oracle Fusion middleware and Oracle database.
• Managed the Information Security (IS) of the application assessment and LDAP integration with Accenture Mortgage Cadence. Familiar with ITIL concepts to manage IT Change Management and Incident Management.
• Managed cybersecurity MSSP (Managed Security Services) such as oversee the patch management and upgrades, alerts and firewall, disaster recovery security. Worked closely with InfoSec with security/vulnerability assessments and security audits.
• Established project management process and procedures for the Project Management Office.
• Managed the Reimplementation project of Accenture Mortgage Cadence solution which consists of Enterprise Lending, Loan Fulfilment and Imaging Center (Content Management) workflow initiative which consist of web version 6.7 and implemented the product customization to fit the bank business rules. It is an effort to refresh decision rules and user tasks to align with current operational processes, update data extracts, interfaces and reporting.
• Managed project budgets, project reports on risk and issues, schedules- plan versus actuals, financials- plan versus actuals in Innotas PPM tool and Microsoft Project (MPP) and report to the PMO and Business Sponsor on weekly and monthly.
• Assisted and worked with the Software Consultant and the Business Stakeholder(s) to plan, develop manuals and sessions for the Line of Business.
• Developed Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and assisting with contract development and/or vendor management on the project.
• Managed and worked with stakeholders, vendors, contractor(s)/consultant(s) to ensure successful project delivery.
• Worked on manual excel reporting to analyze and compare the financial budget and vendor / consultant monthly invoices.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Master (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Experienced with SDLC - Agile methodology and utilized Rally tool to manage the project backlogs in monthly Sprint.
• Worked with Product Owner on the user stories and sprint backlogs and present status and issues to Project Owner and Line of Business Leaders.
• Planned the entire Data Warehousing initiatives from requirements gathering, analysis, design, identifying and analyzing the source systems, to data quality, to ETL, and to the end user data access.
• It is a data integration and migration project of Guidewire Policy, Billing and Claims (Financial accounting systems) and Legacy data migration to Property data warehouse. It is an Advance Strategic Property program 40 million dollars initiative and integration of Policy Center, Billing and Claims Guidewire software data into Property Data warehouse.
• Experienced in both strategy and tactical of BI projects.
• Coordinated and managed the project User Stories, SPRINT Planning, and SPRINT Execution Tasks using Rally.
• Managed the downstream data integration project which used Oracle database, Informatica Power Center (Data Integration ETL) and Cognos / Microsoft Business Intelligence tool for reporting.
• Worked closely with InfoSec with security/vulnerability assessments and security audits.
• Utilized the iterative phased approach to create data marts.
• The project utilized Kimball’s data warehousing (Star schema) architecture. Dimensional modeling focuses on ease of end user accessibility and provides a high level of performance to the data warehouse. Experience managing data stewardship / data governance effort.
• Managed project budgets, schedule and scope, reporting on risk and issues and project status to Business Sponsor on weekly and monthly.
• Utilized Clarity PPM and Rally for managing the resources and agile user stories.
• Assisted the Business Stakeholder(s) to plan and develop manuals and sessions for the Line of Business on building ad-hoc manual reports.
• Managed and worked with stakeholders, vendors, contractor(s)/consultant(s) to ensure successful project delivery.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Project Manager / Scrum Master (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Implemented Digital Marketing program strategic, analytic data warehouse for Chase Financial Services; an Enterprise Digital Marketing Analytical Ecosystem that includes, but is not limited to, display advertising, search, email campaign, mobile and social media landscape utilizing the Integrated Consumer Data Warehouse (ICDW) platform.
• ICDW is a Customer-Centric Business Analytics Platform that offers a customer-focused approach to analytic reporting by creating a centralized repository of consumer data (Consumer, Card and Commercial) that arrives from a documented, corporate-wide data model that is transparent and meets regulatory requirements.
• Utilized the iterative phased approach to create data marts and hybrid waterfall and iterative software development methodology.
• Conducted risk workshop to identify, plan, and mitigate those risks.
• Developed the ramp up and the deployment strategy.
• The project utilized Kimball’s data warehousing (Star schema) architecture. Managed the project which used Ab Initio (data mapping), Teradata database, Informatica Power Center (Data Integration ETL), Identity & access management - LDAP, Tableau and Business Objects BI tools. Experience managing data stewardship / data governance projects.
• Worked closely with Cyber/Information Security (IS) consultant with security/vulnerability assessments and security audits. Managed and coordinated the Disaster Recovery assessment and exercise for the project.
• Team up with Architect(s) and articulate for technology solution, components, flow and identifies work for project success.
• Managed and worked with stakeholders, vendors, contractor(s)/consultant(s) to ensure successful project delivery.
• Utilized Clarity PPM and MS Project tools for project management.
• Involved in gaps, open questions, risks, issues and be the ownership for problem-solving and assigned the tasks to appropriate team lead.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Technology Project Manager / Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing $3 million dollars core Columbia Asset Management - E-Commerce public customer facing and secure websites. This is an Investment banking Mergers & Acquisition/Integration initiative. System integration and migration from Confidential to Ameriprise Financials platform.
• Coordinated smooth transition for technically complex system migration of acquisition long-term asset management business of Columbia Management for $1.2 billion from Confidential .
• Managed project budgets, schedule and scope, reporting on risk and issues and project status to Business Sponsor on weekly and monthly. Utilized Clarity PPM and MS Project tools for project management.
• Managed the migration of Columbia Asset Management customers and products data into data warehouse. The project implemented on Oracle database, Informatica Power Center (Data Integration ETL) and Cognos / Microsoft Business Intelligence tool.
• Worked closely with InfoSec with security/vulnerability assessments and security audits. Managed and coordinated the Disaster Recovery assessment and exercise for the project.
• Managed project implementation consists of e-Commerce Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Integration - Java platform, Liferay Web Portals, IBM WebSphere application, Enterprise service bus (Biztalk) and Rules Engine, Single Sign On (SSO), Oracle database integration, ECM Content Management, Unix Shell Scripting and Identity Access Management (IAM) LDAP.
• Integrated new SOA platform - Mutual fund account and secure site access for investors and financial professional site which increased the performance of mutual fund products selling and organization market share investments.
• Team up with Architect(s) and articulate for technology solution, components, flow and identifies work for project success.
• Managed Cybersecurity MSSP/ISP (Managed Security Services) such as oversee the application patch management and upgrades, alerts and firewall security.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Project Analyst/Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented new modules for Actuarial and Licensing and Commissions management system to bring into compliance & regulatory with Model Audit Rule - (Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) based regulation for insurance industry) and (Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). Implemented eCommerce - PCI Compliance & Regulatory effort in order to reduce the business risk and improved efficiency.
• Implemented multiple projects which used data integration between Mainframe - CICS and COBOL system, Service Oriented Architecture - Java platform, IBM content management, Oracle database integration, Linux, PHP and Identity Access Management (IAM) - LDAP.