Project Manager / Tech Lead PMP/JAVA Certified Professional, Proven Management and Technical Expertise

Technically sophisticated and business-savvy management professional with a pioneering career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with 'hands-on' IS and management expertise with 15+ years experience. Extensive experience in managing enterprise IT projects through all phases in project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure. Excel in building and leading high performance & motivated teams to provide solutions that deliver greatest business value and bottom line results. Tackled challenges with tight deadlines and turned around previously unsuccessful projects. Recognized as a driving force within the company for strong integrity, commitment and teamwork, specific skills includes,

• Project Management
• Team Leadership
• Strong technical skills
• Offshore Management Software Development / Management
• Methodology Development
• Productivity Improvement

Professional Experience

Project Lead / Manager, Confidential, Ohio May2004 - Present Leading/managing the teams to develop next generation policy management system for American modern insurance group. Scope of position is expansive and includes departmental direction of full design, development, installation, implementation, support, training, administration and management authority for various Software applications.

Key Projects and Achievements

• Performed project oversight for independent review and analysis on large IT systems integration project with HUON.
• Played solution architect role to design and develop interfaces to various heterogeneous system
• Consulted withbusiness to identify key requirements, defined project scope, developed project plan and schedule, provided leadership to internal teams on project status and daily development issues.
• Applied project management knowledge and expertise to gauge system performance and assess risk. Provided stakeholders with project status and outlook for success, and recommend project improvements.
• Conducted resource planning and budgeting, tracked costs to ensure adherence to budgetary limitations and managed change requests
• Recruit, train, develop and lead technical teams varying in sizes from 2 to 12. Scope of position is expansive and includes departmental direction of full design, development, installation, implementation, support, training, administration and management authority for various subsystems.

Key Projects and Achievements -

• Established Standard guidelines for development process, enforced guidelines in development stage and reviewed time to time.
• Worked with direct reports to suggest on resource allocation based on experience and skills for a particular sub system and task.
• Led to create C-DAL for enterprise for organizational process assets.
• Analyzed and lead a team of 12 to successfully integrate mLP3 with HUON system.
• Recruited employees and contractors mentored on Business and technology
• Facilitated team meeting weekly on the progress of various tiger teams.
• Launched an initiative to promote SOA methodology within the enterprise by exposing core services within the department as reusable services.
• Designed and developed pilot project for conversion from WBI to WPS.

Skills used: WebSphere, WPS (WebSphere Process Server 6.1.2, WID, Java1.4/1.5, ESB, J2EE, Agile, Xp, Scrum, Portal, MQ, WBI, SCA, SOA, JDBC, JCA.

Team Lead/Project Manager, Confidential, IL July 2003- April 2004 Managed a team of 8 professionals, responsible for developing online quoting system by integrating with the legacy mainframe.

Key Projects and Achievements

• Interacted with users and functional experts to identify the business requirements, and worked with all project stakeholders to define requirements and delivery dates, project integration points with other applications and business processes.
• Walk thru on system design with Business analysts/Team members
• Initiated a comprehensive issue tracking process that improved communication and issue resolution for cross functional teams and management
• Managed project with onsite-offshore model of the delivery.
• Designed ETL process and managed conversion to load the data into new system

Skills used: Java, WebSphere, Java1.4/1.5, RAD, Portal, UML, EJB, JCA, J2EE, JSP, JDBC, Struts, JUnit, DB2, SOAP, ODEN, MQ-WBI, Mainframe

Sr. Systems Analyst, Confidential, June1998-June2003 Experience at Rapidigm Inc involved developing critical projects, fostering successful working relationships with all levels of client organizations, leading the end-to-end delivery of high value projects.

Client: Confidential; Ohio Worked on developing and managing day to day billing of mobile phones for Alltel communications. Key Projects and Achievements

• Followed SDLC and recommended solution to reach agreement with stakeholders on system requirements and feasibility.
• Develop project plans and implementation schedules.
• Developed API programs using Java and MQSeries to exchange the information across different platforms by sending and receiving the data based on requirements.
• Designed and Developed Java programs to access database based on business functions.

Client: Confidential, TN GPCEXPRESS is business to business market place for sellers and buyers for exchanging the Products and services online. Key Projects and Achievements

• Collected requirements designed and developed vendor pages.
• Coordinated off-shore resources and assisted from requirements to deliverables on each phase of the project.
• Consulted with Project Manager, offering technical and resource planning expertise to ensure optimal design and implementation of new system

Vendor Payments information, Confidential, OR Designed and developed Vendor information of dept of human resource, State of Oregon. Key Projects and Achievements

• User interaction to acquire the software requirements, enhancements, and modifications.
• Preparing specifications, Designing, Developing, and testing the implement the requirements.
• Coding the programs and Creating required reports to meet the user requirements.
• Designing, developing and implementing the test scenarios and scripts that will specify the process and execute steps or test cases.
• Analysis of test results and generating test status reports.
• Documenting and tracking incidents in development, and testing.

Skills Used: Java, JavaBeans, JSP1.1, EJB, JavaServlets, PVCS, UNIX, IPLANET Enterprise Server 4.1, WSAD, Homesite, and JavaScript HTML, DB2 and CICS.

System Analyst, Confidential, Bangalore July 1994-June1998 The Production Management System was an integrated on-line production management system which contains various application modules from end to end. Key Projects and Achievements

• I was involved in interacting with the customer during the entire cycle of the project and coded programs according to their requirements. Involved in the entire software analysis design for some of the critical programs.

Skills used: IBM Mainframe, DB2, CICS, TSO COBOL-II, COBOL, JCL, XPEDITOR, VSAM, File Aid, COMPAREX

Technical Skills

Languages: J2EE, EJB, JMS, JDBC, JCA, Servlets, JSP, Struts, C++, MVS Application servers: WebSphere, Process Server, WebSphere Commerce Server, Apache Tomcat, Web Logic Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access Development Tools: RAD, WID, WPS, WSAD, WID, SVN, UML VSS, Dream-Weaver, PVCS, Clear case MS Tools: MS Office, Microsoft Project, MS Visio Mainframe: COBOL,DB2 CICS, MQ, HUON (Packaged solution for Insurance) EAI/Integration : WebSphere Process Server/WebSphere Integration Developer6.2, ESB, MQ, JCA, JMS, MDB, JDBC, WBI-ICS, Web Services, SOAP, SOA, SCA Methodologies: Agile, Xp, Scrum

Certifications: PMI certified PMP INS21 by AICPCU Sun certified Java

Education BS in Engineering MS in Engineering

Recent Training:

• Managing Projects
• Global Diversity
• Transition to Leadership
• Object Oriented Analysis & Design

Active member in South West PMI Chapter Frequently contributed to the PMI South West Chapter by providing lectures for training classes.