Summary:

• Over 9 Years IT Experience in different domains.
• Coordinate and manages project planning and execution for multiple projects.
• Constantly work with stakeholders and project managers to identify and manage project expectations, scope, resources and timelines.
• Work with internal and external customers, vendors, partners etc. to accomplish project objectives and deliverables.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope identify risk and develop contingency plans.
• Work with business owners and stakeholders to create, review and gain approval of scope and plans including measures of success, scope, schedule, costs, risk and issue identification and mitigation. Identify resources staffing requirements.
• Ensure that proposed project solution fits with agreed upon outcomes and deliverables including functional, technical, performance security, scalability, process and total cost of ownership.
• Manage day-to-day details of the project including the plan, schedule, resources, task assignments, scope, budget and risks. Track progress and monitor all development activities to ascertain and control progress.
• Lead the effort using creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs.
• Report schedule, budget and delivery details to business and IT Management. Proactively advise management of interim plans, potential issues, mitigations strategies and implications of requested scope or resource changes.
• Facilitate project meetings. Brief the project team on status reporting, risk identification, issue resolution, feedback and input from the team on project planning and execution.
• Promote adaptive planning in managing for both onshore and offshore teams.
• Define business, product and marketing strategies write requirements and ensure proper documentation work with the team to improve development process
• Comprehensive knowledge about Agile systems and its application in business enterprise work frame
• proficient knowledge in business processing systems and techniques
• Led teams across broad technical, financial 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.
• mitigated risk factors through careful analysis and statistical data. anticipated and managed change effectively in rapid evolving global business environments.
• defined process 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.

Technical Skills:

• Servers: Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Consolidation, Tiered and Virtualized Storage, Automated Provisioning, Rationalization, Infrastructure Cost Reduction, Thin Provisioning.
• Storage: Storage Capacity Planning, Storage Area Network SAN Planning, Network Attached Storage NAS , Partitioning, Rationalization, Architecture, Design, Data Migration, Synchronization Technologies, File Systems.
• Operating Systems and Software : Windows2000/2003/2008 R2 Enterprise Server, Upgrade Planning and Implementation, Linux Opportunity, Wintel Virtualization Architecture and Design, Solaris 8 to 10 Upgrades, AIX 5.3 Virtualization, Clustering and Grid Computing, Linux-on-Mainframe.
• Open Source: Creating Point of View documents, Sizing and Performance Analyses, Selection and Implementation, Platform Design and Selection.
• Databases: Teradata, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, Performance Tuning, Clustering Design, High availability Architectures
• Virtualization: Virtualization Server, Storage, Desktop, Network Reducing Sprawl,
• Data Center: Optimization, Redesign, Consolidation, Co-location.
• Cloud Computing: Types of clouds Infrastructure, Platform, Software, Business , Disposition of Clouds Public, Private, Hybrid, Community and Virtual Private , Cloud Business Models Subscriber, Provider, Broker and Enabler .
• Infrastructure-Based Processes: Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Facilities Management, Performance Tuning, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery.
• Business Intelligence Tools: Business Intelligence 4.0/XI 3.1/ R2/6.5, Web Intelligence, Info View, Crystal Reports XI/10, QaaWS, Import Wizard, Publishing Wizard, Xcelsius 2008, Data Quality, Oracle OBIEE 10g, 11g
• Tools: EPIC CLARITY, HP Load Runner 11.5, ERWIN 4.1/4.0, MS Project, TOAD 6.5 and SQL Navigator 4.1, Lotus Notes, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, Service Now, HP Quality Management, CA Service Desk

Work Experience:

CONFIDENTIAL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with business owners and stakeholders to create, review and gain approval of scope and plans including measures of success, scope, schedule, costs, risk and issue identification and mitigation. Identify resources staffing requirements.
• Ensure that proposed project solution fits with agreed upon outcomes and deliverables including functional, technical, performance security, scalability, process and total cost of ownership.
• Manage day-to-day details of the project including the plan, schedule, resources, task assignments, scope, budget and risks. Track progress and monitor all development activities to ascertain and control progress.
• Lead the effort using creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs.
• Report schedule, budget and delivery details to business and IT Management. Proactively advise management of interim plans, potential issues, mitigations strategies and implications of requested scope or resource changes.
• Facilitate project meetings. Brief the project team on status reporting, risk identification, issue resolution, feedback and input from the team on project planning and execution.
• Enact changes and continuos improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Communicate with other management, engineers, project managers and support specialists on product issues.
• Ensured effective implementation of Agile process by coordinating with various departments and ensured delivery of projects on time.
• Managed multiple projects and assisted in solving issues effectively.
• Developed strategic roadmaps, delivered a comprehensive data strategy, negotiated system functionality for data warehouse, drafted and communicated architectural design and demonstrated process for continual system improvements.
• shared best practices to drive continual improvement and served as the subj matter expert for he enterprise team
• Managed the entire BI Product lifecycle, conceived, designed and let the development of comprehensive dashboards, analytical reports, and supporting infrastructure including conversion, funnel and lifetime value analysis, key performance indicators, and an aggregation strategy replacing third party software.
• participated in decision making process contribution to an increase in customer loyalty by 25 .
• coached junior business intelligence engineers, supervised team of report writers.
• Partnered with executives product managers and analysts to ensure data integrity, resolved data discrepancies and trained stakeholders.
• directed activities and review code of offshore and onsite application developers and served as a advisor to upper management and executives.
• Project management large scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms.

CONFIDENTIAL

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day details of the project including the plan, schedule, resources, task assignments, scope, budget and risks. Track progress and monitor all development activities to ascertain and control progress.
• Lead the effort using creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs.
• Report schedule, budget and delivery details to business and IT Management. Proactively advise management of interim plans, potential issues, mitigations strategies and implications of requested scope or resource changes.
• Facilitate project meetings. Brief the project team on status reporting, risk identification, issue resolution, feedback and input from the team on project planning and execution.
• Worked with the team to upgrade existing version of Business Intelligence tools to the latest version. SAP Business intelligence was upgraded from BI 3.1 to 4.1 and Oracle was upgraded from 10g to 11g
• Managed the project schedule, budget, infrastructure needs of the entire project
• worked with the team on architectural design and ensured tasks were completed on time.
• Co-ordinated with several teams to ensure smooth transition from old version to new version which includes in house training from outside third party vendors.
• shared best practices to drive continual improvement and served as the subject matter expert for the enterprise BI team.
• Established the vision and let the design and development of the dimensional data warehouse and business intelligence system.
• Identification of opportunities for system improvements and the ability to mitigate system issues leading to over 30 reduction in costly customer service calls.
• Managed, mentored, trained and guided junior application developers and DBAs.
• directed activities and review code of offshore and onsite application developers and served as a advisor to upper management and executives.
• Hands on experience working on Business Intelligence 4.1 which includes system configuration, installation
• Worked with he team in all phases of the project
• Cost control, uncovered duplicate, incorrect and or fraudulent claims submitted by medical providers services saving millions of dollars.
• led the development of an automated reporting system designed to track web metrics eliminating the need to manually produce standardized reports, resulting in a reduction of preparation time from 4 plus hours per day to less than 15 minute.

CONFIDENTIAL

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day details of the project including the plan, schedule, resources, task assignments, scope, budget and risks. Track progress and monitor all development activities to ascertain and control progress.
• Lead the effort using creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs.
• Report schedule, budget and delivery details to business and IT Management. Proactively advise management of interim plans, potential issues, mitigations strategies and implications of requested scope or resource changes.
• Facilitate project meetings. Brief the project team on status reporting, risk identification, issue resolution, feedback and input from the team on project planning and execution.
• Initialized prospect acquisition campaigns, participated in customer prospecting, and led sales seminars.
• conducted campaign reporting and analysis, researched and tracked key performance metrics and designed dashboards and reports for clients.
• worked on Data center migration moving from physical servers to virtual servers.
• worked with the team to move all applications supported by the enterprise reporting team from physical servers to virtual servers.
• co-ordinated with several teams ensuring minimal impact to the business by giving attention to critical systems.
• corrected any deviations from project plans.
• implementing an effective system of project governance by using historical data to help anticipate and plan future project work.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Business Intelligence on windows platform.
• Installed, configured, maintained Multi-Clustered SAP Business Intelligence 4.0 plant on 64 bit Windows 2008 server and BO XI3.1 SP5 plant.
• Expertise in SAP Business Intelligence 4.0/XI3.1 installation/configuration/implementation and support in a Windows 2008 environment, SQL Server 2008.
• Clustered SAP Business Intelligence environment with multiple servers in processing and application tier
• Implemented LDAP/AD Configuration on Business Intelligence in windows environment.
• Stress testing using HP Load Runner 11.5, recording the script/scenarios to stress test the environment.

CONFIDENTIAL

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with business owners and stakeholders to create, review and gain approval of scope and plans including measures of success, scope, schedule, costs, risk and issue identification and mitigation. Identify resources staffing requirements.
• Ensure that proposed project solution fits with agreed upon outcomes and deliverables including functional, technical, performance security, scalability, process and total cost of ownership.
• Manage day-to-day details of the project including the plan, schedule, resources, task assignments, scope, budget and risks. Track progress and monitor all development activities to ascertain and control progress.
• Lead the effort using creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs.
• Report schedule, budget and delivery details to business and IT Management. Proactively advise management of interim plans, potential issues, mitigations strategies and implications of requested scope or resource changes.
• Facilitate project meetings. Brief the project team on status reporting, risk identification, issue resolution, feedback and input from the team on project planning and execution.
• Manage complex software development, architecture and integration projects.
• Guiding Agile project teams to achieve a high level of performance.
• Mentoring less experienced team members. Managing project deliverables
• Providing leadership and direction to project staff
• managing a combination of internal, consultant and vendor resources to complete projects
• Made sure that each team member is fully engaged in a project and is making a meaningful contribution to the team.
• Working with an Agile, Scrum methodology to ensure delivery of high quality work with every monthly iteration.
• Facilitation daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review and spring retrospective.
• Facilitation scrum of scrum for offshore scrum teams.
• managing projects in both Agile and waterfall development environments
• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and eliminate them.
• encouraging the team for self organization to boos the efficiency and coordination.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

CONFIDENTIAL

Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Project Manager and Business Analyst to understand the requirements and modifying universe, report specifications.
• Implemented LDAP/AD Configuration on Business Intelligence in windows environment.
• Stress testing using HP Load Runner 11.5, recording the script/scenarios to stress test the environment.
• Created users/groups and set privileges using Central Management Console CCM and security implemented.
• Created Batch files and scheduled them to back up Filestore FRS .
• Maintained a large size users/groups security Administration. Created additional CMS s on each server.
• Enabled/Disabled servers in Central Configuration Manager CCM and Central Management Console CMC .
• Created Server groups, Nodes, SIA server Intelligent Agents for efficient management of Business Intelligence. Added services and configured the servers to improve the performance.
• Upgraded the Business Intelligence XI 3.1 SP3 to Business Intelligence XI3.1 SP5.
• Resolved technical and logical issues in the business Intelligence application.
• Defined standards for installing, maintaining business Intelligence and documented onboarding/promotion process for Applications.
• Modified, tested and maintained universes.
• Extensively used multiple data providers for building reports.
• Created cascading prompts at the universe level. These cascading prompts were used within full client and thin client reports to narrow down the selection parameters.
• Built Custom Hierarchies in universe to facilitate drill down in the Webi reports.
• Created and maintained Business Intelligence Web Intelligence reports.
• Analyzed the reports using Slice and Dice, and Drill Down.
• Performed data validation by creating adhoc reports.
• Created different types of reports, like Master/Detail, Cross Tab and Charts for trend analysis .
• Documented the deviations from the original specifications.
• Enhanced the reports by providing event-handling features.
• Optimized the usage of user Intelligence, conditions and universe level filters.
• As a Supervisor created Users and Groups.
• Published the Business Intelligence reports to Webi.

Experience in writing test cases and test scripts to validate the queries.