Summary

• Over 13 years of strong experience with managing large scale systems environments with Waterfall and Agile-driven solutions
• Proven ability to deliver high quality IT products and services with focus on generating maximum ROI for high profile clients including a FORTUNE 5 company
• Experienced in IT project budget development/management, third- party product evaluations, Risk Management, Scope Definition, Requirements Analysis, Integration Management, Software Release Management, Contract and Service Level Agreement SLA Management
• Experienced in implementing new metrics, processes and driving change within large organizations
• Strong technical background in Application development, Database Design, Systems and Information Architecture/User Interfaces, Application Systems Retirement, Data Migration, Data modeling and QA
• Demonstrated expertise in working with and managing diverse, multifunctional, global teams in fast passed strong MATRIX organizations

Core Competencies

Professional Experience

Confidential

ROLE: AGILE PROJECT MANAGER

Key Achievements/Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the role of Project Manager and Scrum master for the Scrum teams in the project
• Lead Sprint planning, Sprint Reviews and Scrum of Scrums SoS for all the teams in the domain
• Coached the teams to be self-organizing and ensured the adherence of all the Scrum concepts and processes
• Ensured project's adherence to Enterprise Agile Life cycle
• Developed automated metrics for Agile/Scrum for Executive Leadership team
• Lead Daily Stand up calls, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective sessions for the project with globally distributed teams
• Managed backlog and stories using Rational Tool Concert RTC
• Develop and generate executive reports for Agile teams performances and work towards performance improvement along with Agile coaches
• Delivered the changes with tight timelines in response to the objections from Department of Labor DOI
• Co-ordinated the Go-live for Aetna with HCR compliance in different states across the country
• Co-ordinated the HCR changes with eVendors eHealth, Norvax and Quotelt
• Responsible for contract negotiations and contract management with 3rd party vendors
• Used PlanView for project management, resource management and cost management tasks

Confidential

ROLE: PROJECT MANAGER Contract

Key Achievements/Responsibilities:

• Led a successful proof of technology effort with a tight deadline. Responsible for scope management with third party vendors and contract facilitation with Cigna's procurement team
• Thorough analysis of tools like HP ALM, Rally and Jira for adapting to new Enterprise standards
• Led successful requirements facilitation and process development for Quality Center Enterprise project
• Responsible for creating Project Plans, Risk Management, Communication and Resource Requirements plans
• Developed and managed resources and annual budget for multiple projects in TCC
• Responsible for coordinating Executive level enterprise reporting across various projects in TCC

Confidential

ROLE: PROJECT MANAGER Contract

Key Achievements/Responsibilities:

• Manage the team responsible for developed state of art plug and play enterprise reporting platform using MS SharePoint 2007, .NET, Business Objects XI, SOA, Weblogic App Server, LDAP and Informatica
• Work in liaison with Business support groups to retire the existing reporting systems in legacy BO, flex and migrate them to ITB application
• Responsible for defining scope, budget, creating Requirements documents, Project schedules using MS Project , Test plans and co-coordinating all Testing and Release Management efforts
• Develop and manage annual budget for multiple projects in excess of US 7 MM
• Collaborate with Enterprise Solutions team, PMO and QA teams to develop project specific guidelines to ensure smooth and efficient execution of project
• Manage the development and maintenance of Pfizer's legacy Global Clinical trials reporting ClinRep system built on APS/VB, sql server. Lead the development effort to integrate clinical data from various systems like Oracle Clinical and external CRO vendors into ClinRep application
• Develop high level data migration strategies to integrate Wyeth data into Pfizer's global data warehouse
• Co-ordinate with Infrastructure team and signed off on all migration and upgrade efforts for moving content across Data Centers. PXED upgrades and BO version upgrades

Confidential

ROLE: PRODUCT MANAGER / IMPLEMENTATION LEAD Contract

Key Achievements / Responsibilities:

• Partnered with GEXPRO and GE's Infrastructure and security teams to set up the required servers, storage filers, Load balancers and reverse proxies servers required for implementing SupportCentral
• Responsible for defining data backup and application monitoring plans, develop bug fix processes, Testing strategies , Training plans and SupportCentral version upgrade plans
• Engaged in Six Sigma Black Belt project to leverage SupportCentral as one-stop solution for all applications
• Liaison with IT security and Network teams to make SupportCentral accessible over the internet
• Spearheaded the migration of issue tracking system from legacy system Clarify to SupportCentral
• Developed data collection methodologies using dataforms application in SupportCentral to provide project ROI metrics to CIO and senior leadership
• Managed the team which monitored the maintained the application using UNIX, ASP/VB, JSP/J2EE, IIS, Oracle, SQL loader, JBOSS

Confidential

ROLE: PROJECT MANAGER / PRODUCT MANAGER / Team Lead Contract

Key Achievements / Responsibilities:

• Contributed to development of patented application features using ASP/VB, Oracle, AJAX, JSP, J2EE, Servlets
• Developed Business process solutions in SupportCentral application for GE business units including NBC, GE Commercial Finance, and GE Healthcare
• Responsible for developing Proof of Concepts POCs , defining scope, requirements and system testing
• Managed project with geographically distributed development project team supporting a fast paced two-week development cycle based on Agile/Scrum methodology
• Managed application standardization and innovation including adherence to Web 2.0 standards, GUI consistency, SOX compliance, single sign-on functionality, and object-oriented OO design
• Received Business Impact award for project's significance to the organization

Confidential

ROLE: PROJECT MANAGER / TEAM LEAD / APPLICATION DEVELOPER Contract

Key Achievements / Responsibilities:

• Led the effort to migrate the application from Microsoft to Java/J2EE platform
• Responsible for creating requirements document, design document, testplans and deployment plans
• Responsible for developing migration strategies to move content from document management systems like Livelink, Documentum, IBM Quickplace to GE Folders
• Oversaw application data modeling, architecture planning and data security model design
• Planed and maintained disaster recovery and business continuity for the application
• Liaison with Infrastructure team to migrate content data from old to new data-centers
• Recognized and awarded for superior performance

Confidential

ROLE: APPLICATION DEVELOPER / PROJECT LEAD / PROJECT MANAGER Contract

Key Achievements/Responsibilities:

• Designed and Developed executive-level reporting applications using ASP/VB, HTML, CSS, SQL server
• Responsible for monitoring Development, Staging and Production servers IIS 4.0 and maintaining development database servers SQL Server
• Earned a rapid succession of promotions, from team member to project leader and then PM
• Led the team as PM to receive best team award for excellence from GE in 2003
• Led the project as Project Leader and faced successful IT audit for the project as part of enterprise level effort to achieve corporate CMMi 5 certification at offshore development center
• Created RFPs, Proposal Bids for new projects and managed Service Level Agreements SLAs