Asokakumar Nair PMP

**** ******** *******, **** *****, VA 23060

Cell 804-***-****; Home 804-***-****; abg72f@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

- 18 years of experience in software projects with keen knowledge in

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies.

- Experienced Project management professional, with outstanding project

planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with

ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix

organizational structure.

- PMP and Six Sigma Certified.

- Experienced in conventional and Agile project management

methodologies.

- Experience in various industries like Finance/Banking, Health

Insurance and Telecom.

- Decisive and result-focused professional with good Analytical and

communication skills

- Recognized as the best performer in different projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I Capital One

Release Project Manager

September 2006 - till date

- Key player in successful RegAA project (federal regulations)

implementation for Recoveries and intent IT portfolios.

- Managed critical projects for Tier-A and Tier-B applications,

where high level process standards and audit are in place.

- Managed project in Business application enhancement and IT

Infrastructure.

- Facilitate business and IT iteration planning meetings to

prioritize agile stories to check into the release.

- Create integrated project plan, schedule and integrated

implementation plan at a portfolio level, comprising of multiple

software platforms detailing upstream and down stream

dependencies, risks etc.

- Work closely with program management office in developing

integrated plans and schedules.

- Create and present portfolio level release and project

communication to the project stakeholders including higher

management.

- Facilitate frequent team meeting to identify and remove barriers

and monitor the project status.

- Co-ordinate between development, testing and implementation

teams including external vendors and off-shore teams.

- Draft and execute detailed implementation plans, risk/mitigation

documents.

- Formulate new process standards, properly document the processes

and obtain base line approvals. Conduct and facilitate training

sessions to project teams and IT platforms on process changes

and new standards.

- Conduct regular project meetings/ conduct project and release

plan walkthroughs with IT and business

- Support audit groups to satisfy enterprise and other federal

standards and regulations.

- Oversee process management and educate the team.

As portfolio release project manager, managed several projects at portfolio

level comprising of multiple applications from initiation to closeout.

Implemented effective process management standards that increased

efficiency, improved customer satisfaction and minimized number of

production incidents. Managed changes holistically through the full

software development lifecycle and using standardized, best-in-class tools,

processes and procedures.

II FIRSTHEALTH SERVICES October 2004 -

September 2006

Project Manager

- Managed several cross functional projects of varying size.

- Key player for the Federally mandated NPI ( National Provider Number)

- Negotiate with business customer and IT teams to prioritize the scope

and resource availability.

- Project planning, scheduling, monitoring and resource balancing

- Assign and monitor task for the team.

- Facilitate JAD sessions with the client to baseline requirements.

- Monitor and evaluate integration testing plans and facilitate meetings

with Development and QA to identify Gaps/ risks and come up with a

mitigation strategy.

- Conduct combined system tests with external interfaces.

- Assist the management on creating work scheduling and identifying

various tasks.

First Health support and maintain state Medicaid systems for various

states. First Health receives change requests from state with or without

mandatory rollout dates. Change request may include small changes with

duration of a few weeks up to major projects which span for a year or more.

Project planning and scheduling are done based on the scope of the

project.

III. CSC, USA February 2004 -September 2004

Development Team Lead - CSC Health Care system, State of New York

- Effectively delegate works to the team members and monitor the

progress.

- Create and inspect specifications for program modules for Claims, TPL

and Drug Rebate subsystems of the eMEDNY system.

- Over see coding and testing of Programs in Claims, TPL and Drug Rebate

subsystems.

- Conduct analysis and Design meetings so as to optimize the data

retrieval and program efficiency.

- Conduct and facilitate program, specification and test case

walkthroughs.

- Create and submit regular status report to higher management.

- System documentation and Interface communications.

eMEDNY was a major conversion project of New York Medicaid system. It was

an intensively monitored project due to the mandatory delivery deadline.

Main responsibility of the development lead was to meet the project

development dead line without compromising the quality.

IV. ACS, USA October 2002 -January 2004

Development Manager - ACS Health Care system, State of New Mexico

- Change control management and Scope baseline and control,

Prioritization and work delegation

- Analyze & Design subsystems/ Modules of the MMIS (OmniCaid) system for

the HIPAA remediation project.

- Attend JAD sessions with users and system Architects, conducting code

walkthroughs and support System Testing.

- Analysis and Design of the PBLink & CICS interface of the OmniCaid

Online system.

- Communicating with the team and higher management using MS Outlook

mail and calendar.

- System documentation and Interface communications.

The Project was to make New Mexico Medicaid system HIPAA complaint and had

federally mandated deadline. Scope of the project included, Gap analysis,

Requirement and design, development and testing. Project was completed on

time with minimal production incidents.

V. MSU Software Consultants, USA May 1999 - October 2002

1) Onsite Project Co-coordinator - Telcordia Technologies

2) Team Lead - MCI Telecommunication system

Responsibilities

- Lead a team of Business and programmer analysts in the

Telecommunication provisioning system (SWITCH) which catering service

for 80% telecommunication companies in USA.

- Co-ordinate the projects in a release basis with offshore development

and testing team.

- Communication planning, Risk assessment and Performance monitoring.

- Project task tracking using MS Project.

- Business Process reengineering (BPR) and Reverse Engineering.

- System Support: Analysis, requirements and analysis walkthroughs,

develop tools, maintain and upgrade program modules and testing.

- Release lead: Lead a team of Programmer Analysts in implementing

software releases in Billing enhancement and Billing integration

projects.

- Analysis & Design: Co-ordinate the analysis client requirement,

provide assessment of compatibility with existing system, design

system architecture to meet client's objectives for all projects in

the software release.

- Co-ordinate release execution, communicate with stakeholders about the

status, issues and stats of individual projects within the release,

draft work break down structure and project time -line, co-ordinate

change and add control, release closeout.

- Ensure tight software quality through coordinated testing effort

within the system and external systems.

- Ensure the TQM (Total Quality Management) procedures are followed.

- Evaluate and validate the test results and trends using Control

charts.

- Communicate with team and the management using Lotus Notes (Mail and

Calendar.

- Tracking and updating Project tasks using Lotus Notes.

- Project presentation to the users and other stakeholders using MS

PowerPoint and Excel sheets.

- Production support: Provide On-Call support (rotating schedule) to

existing system during monthly production (Billing) cycle.

Environment: IBM ES-9000, MVS/ESA, UNIX, Windows NT, CICS, DB2, DB2stored

procedures, IMS, VS COBOL II, EZTRIEVE, SYNCSORT, SUPERC,

COMPAREX, PDSMAN, XPEDITOR ENDEAVOR, NDM (Network Data Mover),

PANVALET, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, CA-7, JCL, JCLPREP, SAS,REXX,

TSO/ISPF, Tcl/Tk, MINAH, MS-Project, Lotus Notes, Java Script

VI Integral MicroTek, India Jan '91 to April '99

Senior Analyst Programmer - Saudi French Bank - 4Yr

(Jerrisy Computers)

Involved in the maintenance and up gradation of the World Wide IndoSuez

Global System (WINGS), which is robust Banking Software used by some major

European banks including Saudi French Bank.

Responsibilities: Analysis and Design, Coding and testing and Year 2000

conformity efforts.

Environment: IBM ES-9000, MVS/ESA, CICS, DB2, DATACOM, IMS VS COBOL II,

COBOL 370, SYNCSORT, IDEAL, SUPERC, COMPAREX, XPEDITOR ENDEAVOR, NDM

(Network Data Mover), ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, JCL, TSO/ISPF, PL/1,VISUAL BASIC

and ORACLE.

Analyst Programmer - Kemya Petro Chemicals - 5Yr

Involved in the enhancement of the Global Custody System (GCS), a legacy

system to automate the company's general ledger, payroll, accounts payable,

financial controller etc. Also involved in the conversion of VS COBOL to

COBOL II. The whole project was divided into six phases out of which the

first three phases are to be carried at Microtek and the final phases

including System Testing, Acceptance Testing and Implementation will be

done on-site.

Environment: TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL, COBOL II, MICROFOCUS COBOL CICS, SQL,

PL/1, DB2, VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology - Engineering, University of Kerala, India.

Master of Technology - Engineering, University of Kerala, India.

CIRTIFICATIONS and AFFILIATION

PMP certified.

Member of Project Management Institute (PMI).

Active member of Project Management Institute Richmond chapter.

SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT.

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