Nalini Laveti, PMP

Project Manager

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IT Strategy Mergers and Acquisitions Application Development Architecture

Infrastructure Package Integration

Summary:

Nalini Laveti, PMP Certified Project management consultant with over 22 years of operational excellence in IT and 18 Years of experience in project management, business administration, stakeholder management, Vendor management, process development and program management, application development, data management and requirements management. In addition to extensive technical expertise-other areas of expertise include strong communication, organizational skills, project management skills and team skills, budget and finance, planning and forecasting, estimating, training and development and human resources. Proven ability to help organizations grow and prosper at all levels.

Accomplishments:

Managed several complex projects under OIS PMO for OFC, OWD, OUIO and OIS offices including Migrations, Database upgrades, Cyber Security, infrastructure, Vendor management, enhancements and application development projects from IDEA initiation to closing.

Managed and controlled Tier-1 initiative for PNC bank next generation digital person-to-person(P2P) payment solution application development and enhancement projects with comprised of multiple internal workstream efforts with budget of 4.7M to support Zelle real time payments.

Managed multiple ICDW Data Management, Business Intelligence and Analytics projects for JPMC comprised with 5 different LOB with budget of 4.8 M to support BCBS and AML/KYC initiatives.

Experience in BCBS Risk Reporting, Finance, Banking industry applications development, hedge fund management, Deposit applications, Pricing applications, extensive knowledge of Retail Home Finance, Mortgage Banking, Loan Modification, Loan origination, RMV (Retail Market Value) process, GL (Gain Loss) process, Pre-foreclosure and foreclosure for default loans.

Managed and controlled financial transformation projects to support K2 strategy for Ohio National Financial Services in conjunction with Accounting, Financial and Corporate IT business units.

Managed Enterprise Architecture rollout program which involved 27 BSA’s with budget of 4.5 M to support IT value program for nationwide enterprise ITSC initiative.

Managed and Scheduled program level effort comprised of multiple workstreams of interrelated effort with budget 7.5 M to support Lincoln’s banking strategic intent to grow DC business (401k, 403b, Life Insurance).

Managed a portfolio of projects under the E2E individual program established to provide “Best in Class” online consumer experience for Anthem.

Successfully led application enhancement and development projects from start to finish including project initiation, planning, execution, controlling, closing and managing cost, time, scope, quality, communication and customer satisfaction.

Led project teams in the development and implementation of detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports per PMO standards.

Experience managing complex multi-systems, On/Offshore resource management and Demand management using Clarity/Open workbench scheduling tool.

Experience in agile software development and release management delivering enterprise applications through multiple release cycle.

Experience with ITSM (ITIL) - defect management, incident management, problem management and change management.

Experience on utilizing Software Development Life Cycle methodologies (Waterfall, Agile-Scrum & Extreme Programming, and Hybrid).

Experience with modules of NIKU/Clarity – Project Management, Portfolio Management, and Resource Management, open Workbench, scheduling, administration, reports and MS Project.

Experienced in the project sizing, Finance forecasting, and budgeting using Planview and MS Project extensively for planning.

Education / Certification/ Trainings:

PMP Certified professional and currently pursuing Program Management Certification designation from PMI.

Certified Scrum Master -- with Enterprise Scrum workshop

Certification in Project leadership, Management and Communications.

Certification in IT Risk Management

Certification in Schedule and Cost Control.

Master’s in computer science from Franklin University, Ohio.

Undergone Six-sigma training.

Skill set (Experienced with):

Project Mgmt: Project Life Cycle, CLARITY/NIKU, EPMO, PLANVIEW, Galaxy PPM, ASAP, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server EVM, OCM, Project workbench, Waterfall, Agile- Scrum, xtreme Programming, ITIL, Six Sigma, CMMI, UML.

Areas of Expertise:

Program and Project Management methodologies.

SDLC, Agile Methodology, PM tools, technology deployments and ITIL framework, Vendor management, IT Service management tools and practices.

IT Risk and Quality Management.

Annual and Monthly Financial Tracking and Reporting

Strategic development and IS security Governance.

On/Offshore resource management

Systems Integration and Data Conversion.

Product evaluation and recommendations.

Professional Experience:

State of Ohio, ODJFS Dec 2018 – Till

Sr. IT Program Manager III

Tools and Technologies: Clarity, SDLC, MS- Teams, Visio, BI, Devops, Splunk, Azure, Informatica, Tableau, SSO, Mainframe, JIRA, IOP, Confluence, Service now, SAS, Net, API, ETL, ITIL Framework, Waterfall and Iterative methodologies.

Contribution:

Managed several complex projects under OIS PMO for OFC, OWD, OUIO and OIS offices including Migrations, Database upgrades, infrastructure, enhancements and application development projects from IDEA initiation to closing.

Manage multiple cross functional teams across JFS offices, with management oversight of vendor driven projects, by providing project direction and guidance to project teams to ensure alignment with business requirements and goals.

Managed and planned high profile IOP Cloud data solution project initiative with teams involving Data architects, Data engineers, Business intelligence and Information security teams from Initiation to Close out.

Lead Information systems cyber security Team for Ohio Unemployment Fraud and Detection project which includes SSO, Data breach integration and encryption, Network Traffic analysis and Portal Firewalls.

Highly engaged in vendor management and operations. Managed the vendors and corresponding contracts, performing regular service review meetings and (KPI) reporting as well as day to day service updates, Key experience in vendor SLA’s.

Managed and coordination of contract renewals and prepare RFPs to select new vendors when applicable, support the program areas, BRM’s and DAS managers with defining business cases for renewal / replacement and support the project approval process.

Highly engages in PMO innovation board to Develop PMO strategy, Roadmap and processes.

Liaison between vendor teams and program area business teams accountable to provide acceptable deliverables adhere to project management activities.

Coordinating all project activities with business owners/stakeholders/DAS/Legal and other support technical infrastructure and Application teams within the JFS agency.

Developed detailed project plans with dependencies and Key milestones, critical path analyses, risk assessment and management plans, cost/benefit analyses, staffing plans, and project budgets.

Maintain and Manage Critical Path analysis, ROI, Project Issues, Risks, and Change requests and Decisions.

Worked with SMEs, Architecture teams, program area, Business team to create process documentation for current and future state for Analysis projects and provide the solution and recommendations with estimates.

Developed SOW’s that included solution overview and detailed deliverables on each engaged vendor.

Managed relationships and integration efforts with SACWIS vendor to build and deliver solution to OFC in align with SLA’s.

Developed scheduled and maintained project plans using Clarity PPM tool, prepare weekly project dashboard reports consists of Gantt Milestones and detailed Status report.

Lead all project meetings, ensure alignment and productivity of development teams from various groups, and actively participate in business meetings.

Conduct status meetings and perform risk assessments, tracking action items and provide reporting needed by the Division Leadership.

Assists in release management teams, QA teams by defining test strategy, acceptance criteria, bug fixing and issue resolution.

Provided Weekly status and executive scorecard reports and escalations to Steering committee management.

Professional Experience:

PNC Bank, OH Dec 2016 – Dec 2018

Sr. IT Project Manager III

Tools:, EPM-Clarity, SDLC, IDLC, Agile, MS- Project, Visio, BI, PSPC, Service now, Migration Director, Version one, ETL, MS-office, Waterfall and Iterative methodologies.

Contribution:

Managed Tier-1 Zelle P2P digital initiative product application development and Zelle administrative portal enhancement projects to parity with EWS Zelle and Zelle FI’s.

Manage a 32-person cross functional teams across US and offshore with management oversight of Tier-1 Project with budget of 4.7M and 1 Mid-size infrastructure project with budget of 1.5M.

Developed strategy, Roadmap, processes, resource allocation, budget, guidelines in support of project management team.

Lead and managing complex Data Warehouse and business intelligence projects, from discovery through implementation, with medium-to-large budgets and a sizeable staff.

Liaison between Several Mnemonics workstream application teams and Line of business teams accountable to provide acceptable deliverables adhere to project management activities.

Coordinating all project activities with business owners/stakeholders and other support, technical infrastructure and Application teams for RTP, MBL, WBB, ACH, GL/IDDA, AML, CWM, VW, COR/COS, OLY, MMM, Care center, Digital and retail banking.

Developed detailed project plans with dependencies and Key milestones, critical path analyses, risk assessment and management plans, cost/benefit analyses, staffing plans, and project budgets.

Maintain and Manage Critical Path analysis, ROI, Project Issues, Risks, Change controls and Decisions in Project note book.

Engaged and provided financial forecasting roadmap for Digital wallet book of work.

Developed SOW’s that included solution overview and detailed deliverables on each engaged vendor.

Played an active leading role on providing product feature/functionality feedback to product management and engineering.

Managed relationships and integration efforts with EWS vendor to build and deliver solution to PNC in align with other FI’s network.

Developed scheduled and maintained project plans using MS Project, prepare weekly project dashboard reports consists of Gantt Milestones and detailed Status report.

Lead all project meetings, ensure alignment and productivity of development teams from various groups, and actively participate in business meetings.

Coordinate with retail release management, BAU, PTO, PTB and Software security Guidance teams in adherence to EPMO guidelines.

Provided Weekly status and executive scorecard reports to C level management.

JPMorgan Chase, OH Feb 2015 – Nov 2016

Sr. IT Project Manager/IS Security Manager

Tools: PPM-Clarity, SDLC, Agile, MS- Project, Visio, BI, Cognos, ETL, Big data, Teradata Data warehouse, MS-office, Waterfall and Iterative methodologies.

Contribution:

Managed and controlled multiple small to complex ICDW Application development projects to support BCBS and AML/KYC initiatives and direct multiple Business Intelligence reporting projects.

Coordinated all IS Security Risk assessment project activities with business owners/stakeholders and other support, technical infrastructure and Application teams for CWM, CCSO, Auto Finance and Mortgage banking.

Manage a 23-person matrixed team dispersed across the US and offshore with management oversight of 2 large, 4 Mid-size projects with budget of 4.8M.

Engaged and provided financial forecasting roadmap for ICDW and reporting projects book of work.

Ensure project schedule is in place and actively managed, including usage of Clarity standard WBS as well as tailoring and active management of detailed project schedule to support needs of the project.

Establish relevant metrics and KPIs to communicate status, demonstrate progress and build awareness of information security program performance.

Liaison between ETL, BI and Business teams accountable to provide acceptable deliverables by applying support PDO project management activities.

Managed all business intelligence reports and provided data solutions from conceptualizations to implementations.

Developed and maintained project plans using MS Project, prepare weekly project note books consists of Gantt Milestones and Status report.

Maintain dependency plan between planned sprints, Coordinate and Resole the impediments. Organizes and facilitates daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each Sprint.

Review of product backlog, Sprint backlog, designs, code, test scripts, and results as needed in addressing delivery Impediments or product quality issues.

Lead all project meetings, ensure alignment and productivity of development teams from various groups, and actively participate in business meetings.

Maintain and Manage Project Issues, Risks, Change controls and Decisions in Project note book.

Coordinate with Cyber Security teams, ITSM release management, MDR, DRB approval teams in adherence to OPT PMO guidelines.

Provided Weekly Milestone reporting, RAG status and executive scorecard reports to C level management.

Ohio National Financial Services, OH Feb 2014 – Jan 2015

Project Manager

Tools: Roadmap, Planview, SDLC, Agile, Visio, JIRA, Cognos, ETL, Financial Data warehouse, MS-office, MS-Excel, Bugzilla, Waterfall and Iterative methodologies.

Contribution:

Plan and direct multiple assessment projects with External vendor EY groups.

Manage the delivery of Application enhancements and software implementation technical projects and initiatives for Accounting, Financials and Corporate IT solutions using Waterfall SDLC Methodology.

Planned the entire data warehousing initiative from requirements gathering, analysis, design identifying and analyzing source systems, to data quality, to ETL, and to the end users data access.

Manage a 27-person matrixed team dispersed across the U.S. with management oversight of 1 large, 6 Mid-size and 3 small projects for Accounting and financial reporting with budget of 2.2 M.

Directed and control data migration RS recordkeeping systems into share point.

Work with the Cyber Security Program Manager to align the project’s governance and reporting with the overall program structure

Engaged and provided roadmap for IT strategic plan for ONFS governance process.

Developed and maintained project schedule, Financials, resource allocations, estimates using Planview, prepare weekly project status reports and maintained program logs from initiation to delivery.

Manage and oversee the execution of financial account reconcilement and Close process.

Responsible for preparing BVS, statements of work (SOW) for vendor management and monitoring invoices.

Develop and review RFI, RFP vendor process and SLA’s for SaaS.

Conducted various assessments and feasibility analysis based on company best practices and PMO standards.

Draft preliminary project scope statements, create project requirements baseline, provide scope management, create work breakdown structure, and develop project resource, cost estimates, and schedules to meet established timelines.

Lead Release management process, ITIL and define project evaluation process as part of Process improvements.

Provided Weekly Milestone reporting, RAG status and executive scorecard reports to C level management.

Nationwide Insurance, OH Feb 2013 – Feb 2014

IT Project Manager /Delivery Services

Tools: CLARITY 7.5, SDLC, ESDM, RSA, OCM, Lotus notes, Cognos, MS-office, MS-Excel, Mercury tools – Quality Center Waterfall and Iterative methodologies.

Contribution:

Managed Enterprise Architecture rollout program involved 27 BSA’s with budget of 4.5 M to support IT value program for nationwide enterprise ITSC initiative.

Managed IT Value project with 509,000 budgets, 3500 hours, 6 core team resources.

Responsible for program management of a set of projects across the full SDLC, execution, status reporting and coordination against project plans and delivery commitments.

Direct plan and control 27 BSA teams geographically distributed in support of IT Value Complexity requirements including Meta model updates, analytical reporting, and automaton of loads, SA upgrade, and workspace enablement.

Managed timelines and milestone across all BSA.s, defined issue resolution and risk mitigation plan.

Identify/track/monitor key simplification metrics to help understand and address complexity in apps and infrastructure. Worked with BSA Leaders, Solution architects, System Architects, & BCl's to ensure financials align with Application Suites within EA repository.

Ensure OCM methods are leveraged across Enterprise architecture.

Responsible for preparing statements of work (SOW) for vendor management and monitoring invoices.

Lead all project meetings, ensure alignment and productivity of development teams from various groups, and actively participate in business meetings.

Provided financials oversight and assisted in the development of cost estimates for contract quoting purposes and overall forecasts.

Facilitate advisory council meetings, Architecture modeling, Architectural thinking, and TOGAF trainings.

Update project dashboard and provide management with weekly QUAD status updates.

Lincoln Financial Group, IN June 2010 – Feb 2013

Master Scheduler/ IT Program Manager

Tools: SDLC, Agile, Lincoln PMO, Planview, IT Scorecard, SharePoint, Financial Reporting, MS Access, MS-Project, MS Project Server 2013, MS-office, MS-Excel & Quality Center.

Contribution:

Manage and Maintain Integrated Master project plan for all projects and their schedules to report in the program.

Identify and assists in prioritizing opportunities within the program to achieve the strategic intent that LFG leadership defined for the program.

Overseeing current/future project scheduling activities, provide regular review and analysis to the program/project schedule, and provide alternatives for mitigation to enable the project/program to stay on track.

Coordinated analysis, development, quality assurance, and deployment resources in a matrixed management environment to ensure effective project delivery.

Identify and negotiates schedules, milestones, and resources required to meet program objectives.

Provided Plan view roll-up view of program schedules, through interaction with PM’s and providing guidance to other program and project managers involved in a program.

Measures, tracks, and communicates program schedule conflicts, risks and inter- dependencies.

Identify and forecast scheduling trends, and provide recommendations to mitigate risks to program schedule.

Documents and completes all program management deliverables as required.

At a program level, resolves issues, proactively evaluates program activities, builds contingency plans, executes corrective actions when necessary and implements risk response plans to manage risk as part of large program command team

Develop and Provide weekly project Scorecards, Dashboards / status reports to Program executives, stakeholders and sponsors.

WellPoint, OH

Senior IT Project Manager January 2008–June 2010

Tools: SDLC, EPMM, Planview, IT Scorecard, MS-Project, Scrum, J2EE, XML, DB2, Mainframe, CDW, MS-office, MS-Excel, Quality Center and Clear quest.

Contribution:

Direct multiple e-business Application projects for End-to-End Individual Underwriting program, a Blue-Chip enterprise initiative, with budgets ranging from $1 million to $2 million.

Manage a 35-person matrixed team dispersed across the U.S. with management oversight of two large projects, including VA migration and Reporting, an enterprise-wide web application.

Draft preliminary project scope statements, create project requirements baseline, provide scope management, create work breakdown structure, and develop project resource, cost estimates, and schedules to meet established timelines.

Develop and update project plan, work assignments, and status reporting while ensuring detailed monitoring and control of all project work.

Lead all project meetings, ensure alignment and productivity of development teams from various groups, and actively participate in business meetings.

Identify and mitigate potential risks and resolve emerging issues. Ensure SOX compliance.

Update project scorecards and provide management with weekly RAG status updates.

Highly engaged in project sizing and financials by using FIT to determine capital Vs expenses and overall project forecast.

Responsible in maintaining Project management activities including Project management logs, Project control plan, estimating work efforts and identifying work products and Deliverables.

Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, Ohio March 2000- December 2007 Project Manager- Multiple Projects Including Farm Bureau Implementation, Prosper Project, and Matrix Plus Segmentation.

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