OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging Project Management/Program Management/Systems Consultant role in a dynamic, professional and growing organization

SUMMARY

• 10 years of IT industry experience with nearly 7 years of rich Project Management experience spanning various technology/business domains like ERP SAP , Ecommerce, Web Technologies, Network software
• Project Management experience includes managing multiple concurrent projects, team sizes ranging from 10 to 50 resources, managing onsite-offshore model, and managing high performance project teams
• Strong understanding of business workflow, technology multiple areas , project planning budgeting, estimates, resource planning, change management issues
• Proficient in liaising between business and technical areas, requirements gathering, offshore co-ordination, documenting design, test planning and execution, training strategy, and creating Project Reports for Senior Management SVPs/Directors , PMO of the Program
• Excellent communication interpersonal skills adept in multi-tasking, conflict management and managing stakeholder expectations fantastic team player with strong leadership skills, organizational abilities, detail orientation, clear understanding of fast-changing multi-cultural work environment consisting of virtual teams
• MBA from Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai dual specialization in Finance, and Strategy Leadership conferred in association with Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology with a PMP Certification in good standing and Financial Risk Manager FRM Level I

SKILLS

• Project Management Skills Well versed with all aspects of Project Management including Proposal Building, Scoping, Scheduling, Budgeting, Contract Evaluation, Stakeholder Management, Project Metrics, coordinating Quality Control and Audit Processes, Managing Virtual Teams, Team Building, ensuring Customer Satisfaction, PMI PMBoK Processes, CMM Level 5 Compliance, Request for Proposals/Request for Bids, Vendor Evaluation
• Technical Management Techniques Extensively used the following Software Development Life Cycle SDLC Models Waterfall Model, Iterative Model, Incremental Model / Spiral Model, Big Bang Model, Rapid Application Development Model RAD , Stage Gate Model, Agile Method, Scrum, Extreme Programming XP
• Analytical Tools MS Project, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, VBA Macros, MS Visio, Statistical Analysis, Decision Support System, HP Quality Center HPQC , familiar with SPSS and SAS
• Presentation Skills/Client People Management MS Project/Excel/Word/PowerPoint, MS Visio, Assisting decision makers, Contract negotiation, Handling multiple stakeholders, Presentations to Senior Executives
• Computing SDLC, C, C , OOPS, Java, COBOL, HTML, VBA, SQL, Windows, Linux, Unix, Client/Server architecture, GCC, GDB, Routers, Switch, LAN, WAN, VLAN, VPN, DNS, Putty, Shell Scripts, Valgrind, familiar with SCM tools like Perforce/Subversion/ClearCase, Code Reviewer, Quick Test Professional QTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

• This project is aimed at replacing RenewData Corporation product suite with the Autonomy an HP Company product suite as the regulatory archive
• Multi-vendor engagement 2 vendors apart from UBS AG themselves comprising of over 75 resources
• Multi-million dollar, multi-year program spanning across multiple regions around the globe
• The project constitutes of 2 distinct parts
• migration of the existing data and metadata from the legacy archive to the new archiving solution
• implementing the new archiving solution and enabling live data ingestion into the new solution
• Responsible for the coordinated, concurrent management of multiple related projects directed towards strategic implementation of the archiving and surveillance product suite
• Data Center Readiness Network and VPN Readiness
• Data Migration Readiness
• User Training Plan
• Go-live and Cutover Plan
• Pre-Production Pilot Plan
• Part of the Project PMO working with multiple Project Managers, senior functional leads and several other stakeholders
• Managed multiple time-shared resources shared across regions
• Managed scope, schedule and quality of the vendor deliverables hardware and software packages
• Executed and maintained project management processes and disciplines in multiple project work streams
• project schedule and quality management communications management
• cost management risk / issue management change management
• Report preparation generated weekly reports for Executive Directors/Directors containing both qualitative from the respective Leads, Architects as well as quantitative updates created using the Project Plan schedules
• Created Work Breakdown Structures WBS , assigned tasks to the resources and followed up for completion
• Created all planned/ad-hoc reports on the progress/forecast/budget as required by the senior managers/clients

Tools/Technologies MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office Suite especially MS Excel, MS PPT, MS Word , Excel Pivot Tables Data Analysis, VBA Macros and Excel Functions, Waterfall Model, Incremental Model / Spiral Model

Confidential

Project Manager

• Multi-vendor SAP engagement 5 vendors apart from EMC themselves comprising of over 250 resources
• Multi-million dollar program TCS has a fairly large share of this pie

Responsible for the coordinated, concurrent management of multiple related projects directed towards strategic SAP implementation objective

• Part of the Project PMO working with multiple Project Managers and several other stakeholders
• Managed 50 resources peak 20 resources onsite in US, 30 resources offshore in India in these streams:
• SAP Security, SAP Technical Architecture, SAP Basis, SAP Performance Test
• Executed and maintained project management processes and disciplines in multiple project work streams
• project schedule and quality management communications management
• cost management risk / issue management change management
• Report preparation several weekly reports generated for Directors/Senior managers/HPQC Ticket triage meetings containing both qualitative from the respective Leads, Architects as well as quantitative updates created using the Project Plan schedules
• Risk Mitigation Identification, documentation, monitoring and control of risk factors across all the streams
• Project Deliverables reviews Conduct delivery reviews with the stakeholders for ensuring conformation to delivery standards for all design documents and other artifacts
• Dispute Resolution surrounding personnel and time effort Reporting
• Handled concurrent multiple Proof of Concepts POCs during the course of the implementation
• Part of the Change Management Process group and effectively handled change management issues and risks
• Planned and managed the GRC 10.0 Access Control implementation and migration to GRC 10.0 involved interaction with multiple stakeholders PMO, Compliance, Basis, Security and Tech Architects
• Defined and obtained customer buy in for the Security Role Build Process the plan included creating a Security Role Design Document as well as Technical Specifications as artifacts
• Consulted resource managers to identify appropriate resources and facilitated their induction into the team
• Controlled the Project Budget in consultation with the Program Manager
• Managed the Environment Build Process for several Environments in the Landscape the SAP landscape at EMC Corp has 8 Environments SBX, DEV, QAS, TRN, PERF, PROD, DR, QAV
• Created the project plan using MS Project with the help of the Infrastructure and Basis Team leads
• Followed-up and resolved issues at every stage of the process, ensuring on-schedule delivery to program
• Planned, documented and managed the SAP Enhancement Pack EHP upgrades across multiple environments in consultation with the Functional Users, Business Users and the Solution Architects
• Required planning around Functional Test, Cutover and Data Loads schedules co-ordination and interaction with the appropriate teams were required
• Created and managed the schedule and resource planning for several Technical Architecture deliverables
• Architecture Design for the individual Build Environments in the SAP Landscape, Architecture Sizing includes workshops with SAP Consultants , Backup Recovery Strategy, Environment Refresh Strategy, Front End Strategy Federated Portal network was proposed , Output Management Strategy
• Planned, oversaw and delivered the implementations of the following Go-Live critical activities
• Disaster Recovery Test Front End Package Deployment Knowledge Transition
• Runbook/SOP Preparation SAP Identity Management and integration with Courion

Tools/Technologies MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office Suite especially MS Excel, MS PPT, MS Word , strong with Excel Pivot Tables Data Analysis, VBA Macros and Excel Functions, HP Quality center HPQC , Waterfall Model, Incremental Model / Spiral Model, Stage Gate Model

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsible for managing the Web budget of the B-School

• Followed the Buyer Side due diligence process chalking vendor eligibility criteria, short listing eligible vendors, preparing Request for Proposals RFP , conducting bidder conference, evaluating, negotiating and finalizing contract, drawing up requirements, fine tuning design aspects with the vendor, monitoring execution/implementation progress, verification of delivered content, review of vendor claims and authorizing budget and finally closing the development cycle to enter the maintenance/enhancement cycle
• Managed a multitude of stakeholders including the Finance Department, the head of Webcom, various departments and divisions who wanted their presence and exposure in the website, the volunteers who would test and verify the content and functionality of the newly designed website
• Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on SDLC

Tools/Technologies: MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio, Iterative Model, Spiral Model, PHP, HTML, PL/SQL, Joomla

Confidential

Project Manager

• Ramped up and managed a team of 15 professionals in a client facing role in the Wireless Switch Project
• Handled planning, effort estimation, scheduling and allocation of resources human and physical , monitoring the implementation progress and ensuring very high standards of deliverables in this high visibility project
• Frequent interaction with multiple stakeholders in this exceptionally complex project setting to ensure complete customer satisfaction
• Extraordinary emphasis on the Quality Assurance/Quality Control, Audit Compliance, Code Review process and impact evaluation for change/feature requests to meet the exceptionally high customer acceptance standards
• Planned and coordinated training modules for engineers starting fresh on the new technology including ramping up the new joinees laid down a list of ground rules to facilitate team building and encourage knowledge sharing
• Created Work Breakdown Structures WBS , assigned tasks to the resources and followed up for completion
• Created all planned/ad-hoc reports on the progress/forecast/budget as required by the senior managers/client
• Planned and executed risk mitigation strategies to contain schedule cost variance and resource attrition

Tools/Technologies MS Project, MS Excel, Iterative Model, Incremental Model/Spiral Model, C, C , Linux, HTML, Java, WAN, Wireless Routers, Wireless switches, Wireless Access Points APs

Project Manager

• Handled multiple initiatives for both on-going and strategic company objectives
• Managed requirement gathering, weekly report generation, calculation evaluation of project performance metrics, prioritizing and resolving change requests / defects
• Recruited, trained, guided and managed a 10 member team to develop Intellectual Properties IPs using the Trusted Network Computing TNC platform
• The expertise developed in this project on Open Source Software was showcased to rope in new clients
• Scoping, effort estimation, planning and managing the LLDP IEEE 802.1ab protocol implementation
• Managed allocated budget of over USD 100,000 for the project

Tools/Technologies MS Project, MS Excel, MS Visio, Rapid Application Development Model RAD Model, Incremental Model/Spiral Model, C, C , Linux, HTML, Java

Confidential

• Project Manager and Lead Engineer for the Spanning Tree Protocol module
• Managed a 8 member team and carried out the scoping, effort estimation, scheduling implementation of the Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol MSTP State Machine complete SDLC for the State Machine development
• Provided daily/weekly/on demand updates/reports to the product manager on the project progress and risks
• Interviewing, recruiting and ramping up of new engineers by arranging knowledge sharing / training sessions
• Coordinated the Version Release Planning and the Quality Assurance QA efforts
• Oversaw the execution of multiple enhancement life cycles to fulfill customer requested features
• Followed Rapid Application Development Model RAD Model as the SDLC Model

Tools/Technologies C, C , TCL, Linux, HTML, VC , VLAN, VPN, Rapid Application Development Model RAD Model, Agile Method, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS PPT, Perforce, Code Reviewer

Confidential

• This project was aimed at building/maintaining/enhancing the Ecommerce portal used for product sourcing/logistics by various geographically dispersed divisions of Hutchison Whampoa
• Led a 7 member team to deliver enhancements and new features for the Ecommerce portal
• Followed the Waterfall SDLC Model

Tools/Technologies: Java, Javascript, HTML, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Weblogic 8.1, Waterfall Model

Confidential

Project Engineer

• Worked on developing an efficient algorithm for computing virtual backbone of an Ad-hoc Wireless Network
• Simulated another algorithm by Wu and Li as a benchmark to compare the performance of the new algorithm

Technologies/Tools Sun Solaris, Linux, C, C , GCC, LaTeX, MATLAB, Shell Scripting Bash , Rapid Application Development RAD Model, extreme programming XP