SUMMARY

• I have around 12 years of software development experience with proven expertise in Project Management and Functional / Technical Consulting, working with various retail clients in US and Europe over 3.5 years of client interfacing from onsite locations.
• I am an active PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
• I have good working experience of the PMI PMBOK Knowledge Areas comprising of Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Communication Management, Risk Management, Integration Management, Quality Management, Human Resource Management, and Procurement Management.
• I have strong experience as IT management professional with proven abilities in project management, global resource management and successful project delivery by effectively managing the triple - constraints.
• I have successfully managed and delivered several development, maintenance, re-engineering, reverse engineering projects / programs.
• I have end to end experience on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with thorough understanding of various phases like Inception, Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing, Deploy, and Post Deploy
• I have experience in managing large teams in cross-functional, multi-national, and global resource (onsite/offshore) models
• I am comfortable working in a fast paced environment, leading projects and resources. I can also work well independently.
• I have Functional and Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in Retail business domains (Point of Sale, Merchandizing, ecommerce, Multichannel Integration etc.)
• I have working knowledge of requirement gathering by conducting personal interviews, developing questionnaire, brainstorming, or role playing to get a better understanding of client business processes and creating requirements traceability matrix for tracking the requirements
• I have Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrable verbal and written communication skills to maintain effective work relationships with all levels of project teams, stakeholders and senior executive management team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Clarity, Plan View, Share Point, Other project management tools used internally within the company, MS Sharepoint

Domain Knowledge: Retail

Tools: Eclipse, RSA, VSS, Visio

Technologies: Java/J2EE, HTML, JSP, JavaScript, Struts

Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat web servers, Sunone web server6.1

Application Servers: JBOSS, Websphere, Weblogic, Websphere Commerce Server

Database: Oracle8i/9i/10g, SQL Server, DB2, MS Access

Others: Actuate e-reporting tool, Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Framingham, MA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the project and worked closely with the vendor partners working on the development and testing of the APIs and the consumers for these APIs.
• Responsible for end to end delivery of the project meeting quality requirements.
• Project used Agile Methodology.
• Worked with the business and enterprise architecture group at Confidential in the Requirements Gathering, Requirement Analysis and business/technical analysis for developing an API based mobile ecommerce solution based on their existing dot com site.
• Coordinate the effort to sync up the changes being made in the project with the changes in the mainstream ecommerce platform.
• Work closely with the Confidential business, IT and other Vendor partners to manage the project requirements, change requests and issues.
• Create and update project schedule and resource calendar and also tracked the key milestones in the project.
• Provide consolidated weekly status report to the senior management which would include the current status of project and also the trending information to highlight the key issues, risks and their impact on the project schedule.
• Managed the project consisting of teams working on onshore- offshore model and to ensure all the deliveries are as per the schedule and of high quality and meet customer expectations.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Websphere Commerce, REST Services, SQL

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in the PMO which managed the projects in the HR area
• Managed vendor contracts, on boarding of consulting resources to projects and oversee projects outsourced to vendors like CTS, IBM and other preferred vendors
• Created and updated project schedule and resource calendar for all development projects in the HR area.
• Tracked milestones and acted as a key liaison between technology and business groups.
• Budgeting, Time Tracking and invoicing.
• Provided transparency to senior management on resource utilization, effort spends and budget by publishing reports and dashboards.
• Prepare and review the status reports, monthly senior management governance dashboards & metrics.
• Provided consolidated weekly status report to the senior management which would include the current status of all the projects in the area and also the trending information for each project which helped in highlighting the key issues, risks and impacts for each project.
• Designed official escalation channels and risk mitigation strategies based to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Managed requests for change (Scope / Change Management).
• Set-up team communication, collaboration processes and policies to increase efficiency.
• Worked with the Enterprise architects in identifying enterprise wide SOA based solutions.
• Consulted with client to identify key business requirements and to design solutions to meet the business needs.
• Managed the project consisting of teams working on onshore- offshore model and to ensure all the deliveries are as per the schedule and of high quality and meet customer expectations.
• Involved creating and maintaining Enterprise Data Warehouse for HR data.
• Project used Agile Methodology.

Environment: Java/J2EE, Websphere Application Server, JAX WS, JPA, SQL, HTML, Javascript, MS Sharepoint

Confidential, Canton, MA

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in managing the teams which worked on the development projects and enhancement support for the suite of Merchandizing applications used at Confidential .
• Worked with the Business and IT partners to identify new areas of improvement in the business and come up with strategies to implement those.
• Worked with the Business team on Proposals / requirements based on their business needs.
• Held responsibility for assessing current systems, developing and maintaining system requirements, designing business transactions, designing and organize procedures, document and analyze business processes.
• Conducted scoping exercise for the release of solutions in iterative model and obtain stakeholder approval.
• Prepare and review the status reports, monthly senior management governance dashboards & metrics, SOW, proposals and presales.
• Maintained development discipline & establish necessary processes
• Interacted with stakeholders for the various deployment projects, understand their expectations, plan timelines and allocate resources for development and delivery.
• Budgeting, Time Tracking and invoicing.
• Managed requests for change (Scope / Change Management).
• Worked interactively with the various vendor stakeholders to ensure smooth integration between all the different parties involved for application releases.
• Managed the project consisting of teams working on onshore- offshore model and to ensure all the deliveries are as per the schedule and of high quality and meet customer expectations.
• Providing motivation, promoting team harmony, Conduct Performance appraisal and career planning.
• Project involved setting up ETL processes for Master Data Management.
• Project also involved use of Mediabin from Intervowen which was used as the Content Management System for Digital Asset Management.

Environment: Java/J2EE, JBoss, Oracle 10G, SQL, HTML, Javascript

Confidential

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements elicitation and analysis efforts. Conducted discovery workshops with business owners and SMEs to define scope and business/functional requirements on large scale projects around the Point of Sale solution.
• Held responsibility for assessing current systems, developing and maintaining system requirements, designing business transactions, designing and organize procedures, document and analyze business processes
• Conducted Stakeholder Analysis
• Developed Business Process models (As-Is, To-Be) and workflows
• Delivered high-quality artifacts on budget and in-time. Sample work scenarios that involved extensive requirements gathering and analysis -
• Creating detailed business process flows various Point of Sale based solutions
• Worked on the Multichannel Integration solution which involved
• Consolidating the DotCom inventory with the Store Inventory
• Adding a new feature to the ecommerce site to facilitate reserve online pickup at store
• Enabling DotCom site access from the Registers and Kiosks at the stores.
• Worked on enhancements to back-end systems and Inventory management systems
• Worked with business to define and document scope and requirements.
• Managed requests for change (Scope / Change Management).
• Worked with Project Managers to help maintain development discipline & establish necessary processes
• Managed the project consisting of teams working on onshore- offshore model and to ensure all the deliveries are as per the schedule and of high quality and meet customer expectations.
• Prepare and review the status reports, monthly senior management governance dashboards & metrics, SOW, proposals and presales
• Provide infrastructural support, software and track associated licenses
• Budgeting, Time Tracking and invoicing.
• Ensure Production and performances SLA are met.
• Project involved setting up ETL processes for Master Data Management.

Environment: Java, HTML, JSP, JavaScript, Struts, XML, Apache Tomcat web server, Websphere Application Server, Oracle 9i database.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Stakeholder Analysis
• Developed Business Process models (As-Is, To-Be) and workflows
• Worked with business to define and document scope and requirements
• Developed Handover documents for post implementation support and user training documents.
• Involved in Project Management and Project Planning
• Coordination with the various development teams.
• Mentoring team members.
• Application blue printing / Analysis of Requirements
• Estimation
• Preparation of Functional Specifications / Use Cases
• Design and Development of application.
• Testing / Implementation Support.
• Production Support.

Environment: BI Reporting, Oracle 9i.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Programmer Analyst / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Project Management and Project Planning
• Coordination with the various development teams.
• Mentoring team members.
• Application blue printing / Analysis of Requirements
• Estimation
• Preparation of Functional Specifications / Use Cases
• Design and Development of application.
• Project involved setting up ETL processes for Master Data Management.
• Testing / Implementation Support.
• Production Support.
• Project involved creating, maintaining and reporting merchandizing data from Enterprise Data Warehouse for Merchandize and pricing information.

Environment: Java, HTML, JSP, JavaScript, Struts, XML, Apache Tomcat web server, Websphere Application Server, Oracle 9i database.

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designing of applications.
• Preparation of Test Plans.
• Coding for the requirements.
• Testing of the code for functionality and performance and also involved in Performance Tuning. e-reporting

Environment: Java, HTML, JSP, JavaScript, Struts, XML, Apache Tomcat web server, Websphere Application Server, Oracle 8i database.