SUMMARY

• 11 years of experience in Project Management and Business Analysis including system analysis in Insurance, Financial Services and Banking domains.
• Bring a proven track record of effectively coaching and leading Agile and Waterfall project teams to deliver projects on - schedule, at-cost and on time.
• Experience in requirements gathering, BRD and FRD documentation, RTM & GAP analysis, documenting Use cases and developing process flows using UML
• Experience in Project Planning, reporting and UAT
• Excel in liaising between business and technical areas to achieve on-time, on-budget and on-spec project completions.
• Experience in developing UI mock ups / prototypes and reengineering the process workflows
• Solid technical foundation with hands-on experience with J2EE, Java, .NET, SQL.
• Experience with Rational Enterprise Suite (RequisitePro, Rational Rose, ClearCase, and ClearQuest) in support of the waterfall, Agile/SCRUM and RUP methodology.
• Experience in writing SQL queries/scripts for data analysis and QA report testing.
• Hands on experience of using SharePoint, MS Office and Visio (UML)
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with demonstrated experience in efficient interaction with customers and senior management.
• Specializing in Enterprise IT implementations.

Core Competencies

• Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Release Management
• Quality Assurance
• Rational Rose/ RUPAgile/ SCRUM
• Budget Management
• SOX Remediation
• Vendor Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose(UML), Visio, Requisite Pro, Top Team, iRise

Methodologies: RUP, Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall

Project Management: MS Project, Clarity, JIRA

Quality Assurance Tools: Team Foundation Server, JIRA, HP Quality Center

Version Control Systems: CVS, PVCS, SVN

Programming Languages: Java/ J2EE, APIs, JavaScript, VBScript, Eclipse

Databases & Reporting Tools: Oracle, SQL Server, Oracle Report Builder, PL/SQL

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pleasanton CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning and scheduling the project timelines and milestones and monitored detailed project plans
• Maintained the project budgets for equipment, resources and vendors
• Actively managed the project risks and impact on the project
• Monitored change requests, the process for approval, and update project plans to reflect approved changes
• Managed all project related documentation such as proposals, progress reports, requirements documentation and presentations
• Responsible to maintain a schedule of governance, peer and QA reviews, ensuring appropriate approvals are received for change orders and stage gate moves
• Maintained a single release schedule for all releases
• Tracked all work efforts across the project to provide resource planning estimates

Confidential, Pleasanton CA

Project Manager/SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results
• Identify Project risks early and mitigated them by providing prudent and timely solutions for risk avoidance
• Delivered the functional/use case specification and RTM documents for OTP Data Archival & Purge requirements and developed wireframes for new functionality development
• Provided SME support to Application Development and Quality Assurance teams to enable implementation of long term scalable solutions for the product
• Worked with IT, and quality assurance teams for the effective development of coding and creation of test plans and scripts and managed the UAT phase to meet the customer needs.
• Led project to identify and execute remediation of SOX deficiencies for Confidential ’s B2B payments platform processing over $180B commercial payments every year.
• Involved engaging Application Development, Infrastructure and the IT Risk teams in review of the issue, brainstorming remediation and bringing issues to closure
• Responsible for managing and tracking the issues in Parking Lot and RAID log items and for delivering the progress report in weekly governance meeting

Confidential, Costa Mesa CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to manage, plan, schedule and execute all stages of enterprise software implementations using Agile/SCRUM SDLC process
• Assesses business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets
• Created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects
• Documented Use cases by analyzing software requirements thoroughly for new and existing application development (EQ Project & Travel Retrofit and Redesign Project).
• Delivered UI prototypes and data mapping requirement documents.
• Worked closely with the Solutions Architect, Product Managers and SMEs to ensure that the use case realizations adhere to tactical and strategic architecture principles and roadmap.
• Partnered with internal and external stakeholders to manage the product requirements, data delivery and migration efforts, UAT, QA and testing efforts including defects triage