Project Manager Management

Sonali Nath Jain

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Experienced executive in leading, managing and executing services and projects for large accounts in the

Global Distributed Delivery Model (Onsite-Offshore). Strong analytical leader working with high

performance teams to delivery projects on-time and in-budget. No Sponsorship required.

Core Competencies

Management: IT Project Lifecycle: Value-Added Leadership:

Leadership Strategic Planning Cross-Functional Supervision

Talent Development Costing & Budgeting Client Relations & Presentations

Change Management Project Scheduling Business & IT Planning

Professional Experience

University of North Carolina, Sr. Business Analyst 2012 to Present

Demonstrated strong leadership and business skills to implement projects leading to cost saving for the

university and higher student enrollment.

• Business & IT Planning: Successfully integrating different departments in UNCP with Enterprise

Resource Planning (ERP) system provide by SunGard Banner. Managing end to end

implementation of each of these modules leading to cost saving of $1.2 million.

• Cross-Functional Supervision: Automated process with the Deans from the various colleges to

determined their technology needs and increased department efficiency by making them

paperless office.

• Strategic Planning: Strategically planned and managed relationships with different vendor

applications for successful integration with banner leading to 30% increase in university

enrollment by bringing all data in one place.

IBM, Senior Project Manager 2007-2012

Demonstrated excellent implementation and management skills moved up from team lead to project

manager during short duration of time managing both internal and external client (Citigroup).

• Leadership: Led a 5 to 50 people teams for IBM online shopping e-commerce application, with

offshore and onshore team located in different time zone.

• Costing & Budgeting: Allocated and Managed Budgets worth $1 million for current and future

needs of the project.

• Project Management: Initiated agile and waterfall project management methodology based on

project needs and client expectations. Achieved 40-50% increase in productivity and efficiency

based on project implementation.

• Strategic Planning: Strategically planned risk mitigation process for ecommerce order placed by

IBM Key clients saving losses worth $1.5 million. Designed and lead disaster recovery

implementation for client’s to prevent future challenges related to data management.

• People Management: Responsible for review and feedback session for 20 people quarterly based

on well outlined goals for better team performance.

• Client Relations & Presentations: Drove multiple projects for Citigroup as my client, maintained

an excellent communication and negotiation channels.

• Change Management: Defined quality processes and tools best suited to each project for change

management. Implemented a change management process for auditing IT process within Citi

Global compensation system.

• Awarded for outstanding end to end project delivery and setting up onboarding and change

management processes for Global Compensation System.

IBM, Team Lead 2005-2007

• Managed Software Lifecycle: Supervised more than 100 applications in a shared environment

with my team located across the globe in 24/7 support model with almost no down time.

• Operational Improvements: Technically architected optimization and performance management

for better web result for applications

• Acclaimed to have high client satisfaction and going over and above job responsibility to provide

the best architecture solution as per the best practices in the industry.

Royal Bank of Scotland, System Analyst, 2002-2005

Promoted from System Associate to System Analyst for demonstrating excellent technical skills in

migration of code and successfully migrating from Churchill Insurance to Royal Bank of Scotland during

their merger.

• Quality Improvement: Played a key role in achieving the Capability Maturity Model Integration

(CMMI) certification for RBS, by maintaining high quality documentation, auditing and

implementing change management at each step of software delivery cycle.

• Product Development: Implemented Measurement Database project by integrating data from

EPM (Enterprise Project Management), Test Director (Tracking defect) and Change Request

system for managing change management process.

Education

• Executive (M.B.A) from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2011-

2013

Kenan-Flagler Business School; Concentration: Finance and Strategy

• Master in Marketing (M.B.A) from Institute of Management Technology, India 2002-

2005

IMT Ghaziabad; Concentration: Marketing

• Bachelor of Engineering from V.T.U, India

1998- 2002

Visvesvaraya Technological University: Concentration: Computer Science Engineering

Technical Expertise

Specialized in Microsoft Project, Rational, Share point, Ellucian Banner ERP

Web Technology: Java/J2EE, AJAX, XML, Web Services, Web sphere, Web logic, Dreamweaver

Reporting tools: Crystal Reports, Web focus

Framework: Struts, EAD4J, spring, Hibernate, Agile and SDLC Development

Data bases: Oracle, DB2, SQL

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