Project Manager

Objective

To increase profit margin, productivity and quality within an organization

in a project/product/program management role.

Executive Profile and Skills Summary

. Proven track record of cost savings and productivity gains with over

17 years of experience in Information Technology, Application

development,Project Management and Program Management in financial

services, insurance and manufacturing industry.

. Solutions-oriented Professional IT Consultant who excels at managing

projects, collaborating with project teams, interfacing with clients,

and deploying technology to build successful solutions for clients.

. Extensive financial and insurance services industry experience in the

areas of investment banking, Commercial Banking, Asset Management,

Retail banking, re-insurance and risk management.

. Business acumen to work with all levels of organization with proven

success.

. Extensive experience in managing, training and performance evaluation

of resources at various levels within an organization.

. Solid communicator with exceptional team-building skills, resource

management and training.

. Strong problem-solver with excellent consulting, Organizational and

analytical skills.

Career Experience

Bank of America Charlotte, NC Feb 2012 - Present

Vice President

. Successfully managing several key initiatives in message Request

processor(mRP) system in the area of Middleware Integration and Sales

Technology(MIST).

. Responsible for complex mRP Tier 0 Resiliency Program. Tier 0 is key

strategic multimillion dollar initiative for MIST spanning multiple

years. Expected to add resiliency and bring mRP to Tier 0 status

. Key contributor in driving the program by engaging various service

providers including Bank of America internal teams from Development,

Testing team as well as external vendors.

. Adding value as Technology Project/Program manager and Change manager.

Excelling in project planning, scheduling, scope/Change Control and risk

management

. Acting as the communications conduit to executive sponsors and program

steering committee for status updates

. Demonstrated experience with organizational communications, executive

presentation and leadership skills

Bank of America Charlotte, NC Apr 2009 - Jan

2012

Vice President

. Managed complex Navigator program in the area of Global Client and

Product Information, (GCPI) supporting Investment banking, Commercial

Banking and Risk Management line of business

. Excelled in project planning, scheduling, scope/Change Control and risk

management.

. Responsible for forecasting the budget, gathering actuals and monitoring

the program for variance. Proficient in using PCM web for project budget

and forecasting.

. Responsible for working with business partners from various regions of

investment banking and Commercial Line of Business area from Asia, EMEA

and Americas.

. Provided leadership to Project Managers, Business Analysts, Development

team and testing resources to manage their tasks effectively

. Tasked with the role of Release Manager/Lead for Navigator 1.7 and 2.0

releases. Responsibility included driving each domain towards delivery,

infrastructure coordination, Monitoring SIT, UAT and Prod preparation.

Bank of America Charlotte, NC Oct 2008 - Dec

2008

Technology Manager

. Lead cross-functional teams using Enterprise Change Management and Six

Sigma methodologies.

. Manage resource planning, allocation, and scheduling with resource

managers and vendors.

. Responsible for project planning, scheduling, scope/Change Control, risk

management, and hand off.

. Providing technical direction to the team in the areas of design,

analysis and implementation for Enterprise Risk Technology.

. Prepare and deliver presentations and reports to inform and educate

stakeholders.

Wachovia Securities. Charlotte, NC April 2007 - July

2008

Technology Delivery Manager

. Responsible for building and maintaining key relationships with Line of

Business and technology senior leadership

. Provided project leadership and managed both large and small teams of

resources including DBAs, Developers, Business Analysts, and Test

Analysts.

. Lead cross-functional teams using Enterprise Project Management

Methodologies.

. Manage project budgets from $250 K to $3 MM to a 3% variance from

forecast.

. Responsible for project planning, scheduling, scope/Change Control, risk

management, and hand off.

. Manage resource planning, allocation, and scheduling with resource

managers and vendors.

. Responsible for SDLC deliverables including Requirements, Design, Coding,

Testing and Implementation,

. Maintain communication and coordination with dependent projects in the

portfolios and programs.

. Prepare and deliver presentations and reports to inform and educate

stakeholders.

Accenture. Charlotte, NC June 2004 to March

2007

Bank Of America Management Consultant

. Provided project leadership to both client and Accenture personnel in

successfully delivering key projects for Bank of America.

. Enhanced capabilities and productivity of Accenture personnel to meet and

exceed the organization goals.

. Managed large Web Based applications using Service Oriented Architecture,

COTS and Open source software.

. Successfully led project teams through the complete project lifecycle,

from analysis and design of the solution, to implementation, testing and

delivery of the overall project and architecture

. Manage day to day project risk, issue, change, and action controls for

all aspects of the implementation.

. Lead a project team consisting of Analysts, Q/A, Trainers, Consultants

and Offshore Developers to meet CIO project deliverables and completion

criteria.

. Maintained reporting relationships with project stakeholders including

Senior leadership, team members, peers, and other affected departments to

coordinate efforts across multiple business units

. Identified and eliminated obstacles to technical solution plans to ensure

meeting business goals. Partnered with offshore vendors to integrate

outsourced development and support resources.

Syntel Inc. Sep 1997 to June 2004

Cary, NC

Technology Manager: Client - AIG

Jun 2001 -Jun 2004

. Managed development and implementation of Fusion Loss Processing system

for AIG. This was a major break through for AIG, since this project saved

them an estimated $200,000 per month, since AIG was able to use the

application to have third parties book policies online.

Project Leader: Client - AIG

Sep 1997-Jun 2001

. Designed and developed the TPAIR Application for AIG and

maintained/enhanced the system for the Loss Processing group including

the policy and the claims system. Coordinated with the customer's project

management as the primary point of contact for the project and manage a

team of ten with four onsite and six offsite to meet customer

requirements.

DataMatics Ltd. Dec 1995 to Sep 1997

Mumbai, India

Sr. Programmer Analyst: Client - General Motors

. Designed/developed/tested/implemented the Production Order Management

System(POMS) for General Motors. POMS was designed to handle G.M business

needs for Order tracking, Forecasting and order management .

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

. Hardware: IBM mainframes 3090, Client Servers, PCs

. Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux (Red Hat, Suse)DOS,

Unix (Sun, Solaris, Sun OS, IBM)

. Programming: Java, J2ee(EJB, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JMS, JNDI), Struts,

Spring Framework, Visual Basic,JSR 168 Portlets, Cobol, JCL, XML, HTML,

XSL,

. Databases/Storage: DB2, UDB, SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 8i, Oracle 7.3,

Access, IMS, VSAM

. Software Applications: WSAD 6.x,Visual Age for Java, Eclipse, ANT, JCL,

COTS(Open Source),Portal Servers(Vignette, Liferay, EXO), MS Project,

Data warehousing, IBM WebSphere 6.x, webMethods 6.x, BEA WebLogic, Visio,

UML Tools, Design Patterns, Rational Rose.

EDUCATION

MBA in Finance and Applied Investment Management from University of North

Carolina, Charlotte

B.E in Computer Science,Kuvempu University, India

Certification

. PMI Certified Project Management Professional(PMP).

Work Status: Permanent US Resident

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