SUMMARY

• Over 12 years of total IT experience comprising of Mainframe, Big data, Data Warehousing/BI, Data Design, modeling, Aircraft maintenance system, Healthcare Payor, claims, provider, adjudication, third party collection and finance systems, Retail Merchandising, Corporate services Supply Chain,
• Procurement domain skills, Banking and financial domains
• Extensive experience of successfully managing large scale projects performing management functions such as Project planning, Budget Confirmation, Project Estimation, scheduling, organizing, reporting, risk management and tracking processes, ensuring the feasibility of each project
• Good team building, team leading, project planning, troubleshooting, inter - personnel and organizational skills Strong Project Management with excellent exposure to Information Technology applications, processes, development life cycle.
• Proven ability to assess business needs, oversee development and implementation of solutions that include analysis, reporting, and decision-making with expertise in Mainframe systems.
• Experienced in Project Management enhancements and change requests.
• Proficient and Hands on experience in Scala, Spark streaming, Micro strategy, Informatica, Data stage, DB2 and Extensive knowledge on data warehouse, data element definition, ETL concepts and ETL Testing.
• Extensive experience in bug-fixing and handling customer field issues
• Brought the number of issues, down by an average of 17% per customer by designing and delivering an effective training program for the clients
• Proven skills in all phases of PMBOK: managing all the phases, design, development, testing and implementation of projects.
• Project Management experience, Quality Assurance with strong background of SDLC and also involved in difference levels of Testing of Business Applications.
• Prepare program status roll-up on a weekly basis and maintains schedule for overall program.
• Escalate program decisions and barriers needing executive attention as needed. Facilitates communication between program work streams project managers and entire cross-functional team.
• Accountable for ensuring program work streams achieve business outcome and meet schedules.
• Implement portfolio, program and project management best practices, including change management, dependency management, organizational communications, key metrics and dashboards.
• Organize and lead large cross-functional programs and projects ensuring all functional tracks are resourced properly and progressing to meet business timelines.
• Manage program scope, risks, dependencies, and drive issues to resolution.
• Develop strong collaborative relationships with the retail planning, product, training, store strategies, communication and retail leadership teams to ensure successful execution of strategic initiatives.
• Implement and leverage tools to provide visibility in portfolio/program/project status to improve visibility and facilitate decision making at all levels of the organization.
• Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications, Requirements Traceability Matrix across the project, Deliverables using Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodology using OOAD process and modeling tools.
• Have successfully used Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile methods for project deliverables.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to all Stakeholders on a timely basis
• Detail oriented and analytical, experienced in requirements gathering
• Highly motivated and success driven on independent and team assignments
• Involved in business requirements gathering to enable Data Integration across all business groups
• Track record of managing highly effective local, remote offshore team including development and Testing Efforts.
• Solid experience in Change Management process to develop and deploy enterprise applications
• Excellent customer management/resolution, problem solving and debugging skills with good verbal/written communications and presentation skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: JCL, SQL, Cobol, PLI, Assembler, HTML, REXX, XML. Managed Java-J2EE ProjectsHibernate, Shell, Scala, Pig, Hive, HBase

OS: MVS, ES/9000, MS-WINDOWS, WINDOWS-XP, MS DOS, HP-UX, AIX

Databases: Informix, Java, .Net, DB2, IMS/DB, IDMS, Oracle, MS-Access

Version Control: Endeavor, Stash, RMS, Change man

Tools: File-Aid, Abend-AID, Xpeditor, SAR, Strobe, BMC, Git, Maven, Jenkins, CICS, MQ Series, W

Project Management: Agile Scrum, PMI based project management, Waterfall development methodologyPrototyping

Other: Informatica, Data stage, Hadoop, Scala, Spark, MapReduce, Sap, Lotus NotesCommand Editor, File - Net, HP Service Desk, HP Service Manager, FTP, Remedy, CA- 7, Control-M, QMF, SPUFI, DB2Menu, Jira, Service now, HPALM, ER Studio, Project Plan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, AR

Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing a collective annual portfolio of over $4 million; Manage concurrent delivery of more than 2-3 major projects
• People management Over 45 consultants across different geographies
• Project Planning, Team onboarding, Stake holder management
• Established the program management processes and documentation standards
• Contributed in developing the detailed project plan and establishing the monitoring and tracking process
• Resource planning & fulfillment and People Management
• Established the risk management process and conducted periodic risk review meetings
• Setup the onsite-offshore delivery model for the development, data and testing teams
• Worked on preparing monthly & yearly financial forecasts, Steering Committee decks, Status reports and decks for financial governing bodies
• Worked on the responsibilities like updating and reviewing the financial, project delivery artifacts with Project owner, IT Vice President, IT Director and key stakeholders
• Coordinate the tech team during all SDLC phases and track the milestones as per expectations
• Handled multiple teams across the Landscapes and Business areas to accomplish the deliverables
• Published weekly, and monthly project metrics

Technology: Mainframes, Java, ETL, Big data

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Define the Environment Delivery Plan and be responsible for the end to end delivery of the environments.
• Identify potential risks and factorize the mitigation plans for smooth delivery of G2C environments
• Coordinate with PMO and local (US, LATAM and APAC) design teams and help the Interface teams to set up connectivity between the environments
• Extract report from the RTC(Rational Team Concert) for the Infra impacted user stories.
• Arrange discussion with architects and GPD teams. Interact with the business team to understand the gaps and Requirements.
• Chart out the infra requirements and create infra user stories in RTC. Request PCR for approval of the infra sizing.
• Get the BOM, Deployment architecture done by Architect and share with PCR team.
• Co-ordinate with PCR team for the estimation with Confidential technology office and Confidential Infra structure team.
• Manages the agreed scope of project & ensure project meet the quality requirements.
• Manage offshore teams on the business scenarios, design changes, coding and unit testing
• Engage with Testing and deployment teams. Publish weekly report for SDT team.
• Weekly environment dashboard reports and Update weekly Management decks so they can be shared with Confidential senior management
• Provide planning for all future GC environments and ensure all requirements and specifications are collected and given to Americas Environment Management Team

Technology:Mainframe, Web services, Abinitio, Oracle, JVM

Confidential

Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Rolling wave planning and oversee program resources to achieve cost, performance, and quality objectives for large, complex, multi-account programs.
• Manages project planning, tracking and oversight to ensure projects are completed on-schedule and within budget.
• Weekly Status reporting to CIO PM
• Estimation for RFQ
• Engaging the required stakeholders
• Resource allocation and demand fulfillment
• Retain the resource
• Providing correct forecast
• Resource recruitment
• Maintain Operational margin
• Ensure the Quality of deliverables
• Schedule Review meetings with CIO-PM and team
• Engage the ADM team with Testing team
• Conducted training, feedback, and coaching sessions for associates, including documented performance improvement plans for both team and individual level remediation.
• Prepared monthly operations roster.
• Conducted weekly one on one with team members and discussed weekly performance
• Setting up the Governance process
• Create cutover plans and work closely with functional consultants/data owners for identifying each data objects/data fields and collect business rules for data mapping purposes

Technology: Mainframes, Teradata, Data stage

Confidential

Business Analyst and shadow Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the projects using Agile Methodologies
• Organize daily standup meetings
• Track the project deliverable using Microsoft project plan
• Updating the project plan for the approved changes in consultation with project manager
• Worked on the integration of Task card system of United Airlines with continental airways
• Identify the improvement areas in application of request.
• Follow and adhere to united airline’s ticketing management tools for support and maintenance
• Application enhancement using Java and Oracle
• Used HP ALM for Test case management
• Tracked user stories and back log using Microsoft’s Team foundation server
• Conducted training, feedback, and coaching sessions for associates, including documented performance improvement plans for both team and individual level remediation.
• Prepared monthly operations roster.
• Conducted weekly one on one with team members and discussed weekly performance

Technology:.Net, Web services, SQL

Confidential, Missouri

Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the overall application development for E1P2 Mainframe conversion project
• Conversion of File based architecture to DB2 based relation architecture in order to transform the system to keep phase with the upcoming technologies.
• ETL tool used is INFORMATICA
• Analysis of the Requirement and Impact Analysis.
• Conduct Root cause analysis and LAM (Look Ahead meetings)
• Help the pre sales team by giving technical support and case studies.
• Used Jira for work assignment and incident management
• Conducted training, feedback, and coaching sessions for associates, including documented performance improvement plans for both team and individual level remediation.
• Conducted weekly one on one with team members and discussed weekly performance

Confidential

Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of specification and Analysis of the design
• Development and Enhancement and Production support in Mainframe, Java and oracle.
• Coding Business Rules and validation
• Preparing Quality Documents
• Allotment of work to the team member and co-ordination with Client
• Used BMC Remedy for Incident Management.
• Incidents are managed by ITIL foundation’s best practices
• Prepared issue tracker and risk tracker
• Conducted training, feedback, and coaching sessions for associates, including documented performance improvement plans for both team and individual level remediation.
• Prepared monthly operations roster.
• Conducted weekly one on one with team members and discussed weekly performance
• Implemented Lean methodology
• Executed the maintenance in Managed delivery model
• Received Power coder award from the customer

Confidential, MO

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creation and validation of the new Members.
• Preparation of specification and Analysis of the design
• Development and Enhancement using COBOL, DB2 stored procedures.
• Coding Business Rules and validation
• Preparing Quality Documents
• Allotment of work to the team member and co-ordination with Client
• Prepared daily status report
• Test cases execution are managed by Quality center
• Received hive five award from customer

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the automation of electronic meter system for Confidential
• The technology and tool used are Mainframe (COBOL, CICS,IMSDB,DB2,JCL), ESP for Scheduling
• Application development and Test support
• Preparation of low level design
• Preparation of understanding documents of the system
• Review of the Test cases
• Preparing the Rota and leading the Test Support
• Weekly or need based meeting with onsite counterparts
• Conduction Knowledge sharing sessions

Technology:Mainframes, CICS, IMSDB, DB2

Confidential

Production support Technician

Responsibilities:

• Project is on school loan programs
• Production technician
• Production Support
• Make sure the availability of Online for all the Guaranty services system
• Abend Fixes
• Daily call with onsite colleagues
• BMC remedy is used for ticket tracking and monitoring
• Mainframe is used as platform for Jobs