Project Manager Management

AVANTIKA DHARMAGADDA

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SUMMARY

5+ yrs experience in requirements planning & management, business process

analysis and design, business process re-engineering, workflow design and

documentation, change control management and project leadership.

2+ yrs experience in project management, performing project planning and

task assignment, milestone identification and tracking, scope management,

time and cost management, resource allocation and communication management,

risk management, quality management and identifying project integrations.

Solutions-oriented professional with proven success designing, implementing

and integrating cost-effective, high performance BPM solutions, to meet

challenging business needs, using technology as an enabler.

Proficient in leading projects and performing product life cycle

management.

Strong interpersonal skills, highly adept at facilitating discussions with

stakeholders, interfacing effectively with senior management, vendors,

staff, peers and users.

Organized, take-charge professional with exceptional follow-through

abilities and detail orientated, able to plan and oversee projects from

cradle to consumption.

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Science, 2004-2006 University of Missouri-

Kansas City, MO

Bachelor's in Computer Science, 2000-2004 Jawaharlal Nehru Tech.

University, India

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Project Management Training, Analog Devices Inc.

Certificate in Applied Business Analysis, Boston University

Savvion Process Automation for v6.8 and v7.5, Progress Software Inc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SR. BUSINESS APPLICATIONS ANALYST/PROJECT MANAGER 03/2007-

Present

ANALOG DEVICES, INC., WILMINGTON, MA

Accountable to large complex ERP applications, to streamline the key New

Product release process by designing application architectures and

improving business processes involved. New and reengineered business

process applications resulted in improved cycle times, decreased time to

market, by 80%., and enhanced functionality. Workflow applications user

base spans company wide (Limerick, Philippines, Greensboro, SanJose &

Boston).

. Proven experience working in a highly matrixed environment.

. Responsible as project manager on numerous complex projects and

consistently exceeded customer expectations. Coordinated activities

from project kickoff through release to production, followed by

support. Ability to concurrently manage multiple projects.

. Experience working with hybrid delivery model. Led and managed

offshore/on-site teams and activities to achieve set goals. Proven

record achieving objectives given situations of triple constraint

of time, cost and resources

. Hands on experience facilitating meetings, gathering status updates

and communicating project progress and recommendations to team

members and senior management.

. Extensive experience with MS Project Professional. Authored project

plans, defined scope, identified deliverables, managed project

timelines and progress, tracked development, testing and release

schedules for on time release.

. Reviewed project deliverables to ensure adherence to quality

standards.

. Skilled in performing feasibility and GAP analysis of AS-IS and TO-

BE systems and recommend improvements.

. Demonstrated skills in interviewing Subject Matter Experts (SME),

business users and cross functional teams, globally, to elicit

requirements. Experience writing project charters, system

requirement documents and translating user requirements to

functional specs.

. Partnered with cross-functional teams to define integrations,

design and implement solutions, and enhancements.

. Strategized implementation of RUP effort throughout Systems

Development Life Cycle. Led to increased turnaround and faster

release cycles.

. Strong knowledge of writing use cases, context, data flow diagrams,

and wireframe mockups in MS VISIO. Effectively analyzed, optimized

and formulated business process workflows.

. Established metrics to measure system performance and project

objectives. Utilized TQM methodologies for process improvement.

. Act as SME of the supported systems both for technical team as well

as business team.

. Architected and coded custom reports to analyze complex data and

further integrate with highly relational data models. Developed

stored procedures, materialized views, data manipulation

procedures, cursors and triggers using PL/SQL, SQLX in Oracle

database.

. Collaborated with QA teams to establish testing strategy and

testing cycles. Generated test plans and test cases. Coordinated

and contributed to performing unit testing, system testing, stress

testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing.

. Expertise in Savvion Business Process Manager Suite. Proficient in

modeling business process workflows in Savvion Process Modeler,

implementing web based BPM applications using Savvion Business

Process Management tool. Designed and developed Business Rules

using a High Level Business Rules Engine Application.

. Worked with the technical teams and business to schedule

application and enhancement deployment.

. Developed extensive training material and conducted user training

at multiple international locations.

. Responsible for production support. Isolated issues and managed

escalations to identify root cause and resolve them to bring them

to closure.

. Highly proficient in communicating with vendor support. Act as a

liaison between vendor teams, technical development team and

business team.

Technologies/Tools: Savvion Business Manager Suite, Java, XML, XPath,

XQuery, C#.NET, Oracle 9i/10g, PL/SQL, SQLX, MS Project Professional, VSS,

MS SharePoint, WebServices.

BUSINESS ANALYST/SOFTWARE ENGINEER

05/2006- 12/2006

GE TRANSPORTATION GLOBAL SIGNALING, BLUESPRINGS, MO

Led initiatives to increase the productivity of AUTOCAD. Streamlined and

automated manual drafting process used for rail signaling, thus improving

design time, reducing man hours by 95% and reducing cost, on repetitive

tasks by 10%.

Single-handedly managed all phases of the project from requirements

gathering, development through user acceptance testing and documentation

development.

Facilitated interviews and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and

conducted follow up review meetings.

Managed, analyzed, and converted business requirements into functional

specifications using Requisite Pro. Produced prototypes, context, sequence,

and activity diagrams using Rational Rose and UML.

Designed and coded applications using VB6, VB.NET and VBA. Developed test

cases and test scenarios to perform extensive unit and system tests.

Assisted in UAT testing. Authored detailed user manuals and responsible for

conducting user training.

Technologies/Tools: MS Project, VB6, VBA, VB.NET, Rational Rose, UML,

Requisite Pro.

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

08/2004 - 04/2006

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY, MO

. Researched and analyzed modeling techniques to model dynamic

Biological processes. Incorporated the features of UML to build a tool

set to model complex biological processes.

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS ANALYST

04/2003- 04/2004 RENAISSANCE INFOTECH - IDEA LABS,

HYDERABAD, INDIA

Delivered a Siebel CRM based strategy that deals with the assignment of the

most qualified doctors to patients in a hospital domain. The application

developed helped improve performance efficiency by 90% and also decrease

time lag in making assignments.

Facilitated requirement workshops, focus groups, interviews with business

owners, doctors and patients to elicit domain specific requirements.

Developed context, activity and use case diagrams to capture requirements.

Authored business requirement documents and functional specifications.

Collaborated with development team to architect the application.

Assisted in data modeling, developed user interface components using JAVA

Swing, server side logic using Servlets and designed Oracle database

components to interface with the UI and business logic.

Created and reviewed test scenarios to perform unit, system and stress

tests. Coordinated UAT testing with QA team.

Technologies/Tools: JAVA Swing, Servlets, PL/SQL, Oracle 8i, JDBC, Apache

Tomcat, VISIO.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Methodologies Agile, RUP, SDLC, Waterfall, Object Oriented Analysis &

Design

BPMN Savvion Business Process Management Suite v6.8, v7.5,

UML

Programming JAVA, JSP, Java Script, VB6, C#.NET, ADO.NET, Visual

Languages Studio 2005, HTML, XML, XPath, XQuery

Operating Windows 9X/2000/NT/XP, Ms-Dos, UNIX, Linux

Systems

RDBMS MS Access, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2005, PL/SQL,

SQLX

Tools Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, MS Project

Professional, MS Office Suite, Visual Source Safe, SVN,

Automated Build Studio, SQL Developer, Oracle

Enterprise Manager, Crystal Reports, MS SharePoint

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