Project Manager

Saravana Iyappan K, PMP Phone: 610-***-****

Pleasanton, CA. USA

********.*******@*****.***

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

> 8+ years of IT experience in various engagements, focused on Business, IT

Consulting, Software Development, Testing and Electrical Engineering.

> Over 7 years of Project management/onsite coordination and Offshore

Model experience

> 6 years of IBM mainframes development and testing projects experience.

> Experience in Healthcare, Pharma, Retail and banking industry practices.

> PMI Certified Project Management Professional(PMP)

> Executed projects for Fortune 500 companies (Best Buy, Bank of America,

JPMC, and Kaiser) in onsite-offshore model.

> Self-starter, good listener, solid work ethic and a desire to excel

> Provided exceptional contributions to customer service for all customers.

> Problem isolation, analysis and software quality testing

> Involved in various stages of software development life cycle

> Good interpersonal, logical, analytical and problem solving skills

SKILLS

Project Management tools: Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Visio and other

Microsoft office Tools.

Testing tools: HP Quality Center

Mainframe skills: COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, TSO/ISPF, Expeditor, Changeman,

CA-7, Endevor, File-Aid, Spufi, Panvalet, QMF, Syncsort

BI: Cognos

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics from Annamalai

University, Chidambaram, India, 2002

CERTIFICATIONS

> PMI Certified Project Management Professional(PMPR )

> ISEB certified ISTQB Professional

> IBM Certified Database Associate

> Globecon Certified Banking and Financial Services Professional

CAREER PROFILE

TATA Consultancy Services

Role: ICD-10 Project Manager(Data Model conversion and Testing)

Client: Kaiser Permanente, CA (Jan'11 till date)

Description:

The ICD-10 program is an enterprise-wide compliance initiative that impacts

over 100 applications across Kaiser's national and regional portfolios. CMS

has issued a final instruction to implement ICD-10 by October 1, 2013.ICD-

10 be used to code outpatient encounters that occur on or after October 1,

2013.ICD-10 will have significant technical and organizational impacts on

KP

Responsibilities:

. Coordinating with customers to understand the business requirements

. Preparing enterprise level test strategy, test planning, Data

Conversion Strategy

. Preparing Test Environment Matrix, Impacted Application Inventory

. Coordination and Oversight

. Planning and estimation

. Conduct Test Progress assessment meetings with various stakeholders

. Prepare communication plan, Risk and Mitigation plan

. Ensure Offshore and onsite coordination

. Issue resolution and escalation as required

. Publishing Test Metrics and status report

Role: Mainframe Business Analyst

Client: IMS Health, PA (Jan'10 to Dec'10)

Description:

IMS Health is a market research company that supplies the pharmaceutical

industry with sales data and consulting services.IMS collects

pharmaceutical sales and prescription data from markets across the world.

DDD is Drug Distribution Data System which IMS primarily uses to store data

and transform data based on the client requirements. It collects

information from pharmacies and Non-Retail outlets purchase through

wholesalers.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2

Responsibilities:

. Coordinating with customers to understand the business requirements

. Creating strategy to prepare test data

. Test planning and estimation

. Conduct Test Progress assessment meetings with various stakeholders

. Test plan, Test Cases walkthrough with the stakeholders

. Prepare communication plan, Risk and Mitigation plan

. Ensure Offshore and onsite coordination

. Issue resolution and escalation as required

. Publishing Test Metrics and status report

Project Lead

Cigna Healthcare, Hartford (Nov'08 to Dec'09)

Description:

CIGNA Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plans give employers and their

employees the freedom to visit any licensed provider. CIGNA developed this

by targeting the employers at Middle Market, Small Business, and Large

Enterprise levels, and for Individuals. These plans give members referral-

free access to participating providers, out-of-network coverage and

preventive care options. As part of this roadmap CIGNA wishes to address

the current pain areas in the area of information integration across core

medical and specialty plans for leveraging the entire product portfolio for

increasing revenue and reducing overall cost per claims.

CIGNA PPO EDI applications are implemented across Windows NT servers and

Mainframe. Every three months an enhancement to the application is

released. As a result the application needs to be System tested and

Acceptance tested before releasing the upgrade

Mainframe Languages : COBOL, JCL, DB2

Responsibilities:

. Co-ordination with onsite coordinator & customer to understand and

clarify business requirements

. Conduct test plan and test cases walkthrough with stakeholders

. Planning and assigning work to team members

. Conduct Test Progress assessment meetings with various stakeholders

. Ensure IQA, EQA for all deliverables

. Project estimation

. Project management review(PMR) with management and publishing project

health

. Conducting Quality Audits for other relationships

. Ensure Offshore and onsite coordination

. Issue resolution and escalation as required

. Wrote reusable VB tools

. Tracking & reporting work at offshore

. Tracking defects using Quality center

. Coordinate with onsite lead for preparation and publishing of Metrics

and status report

Project Lead

Washington Mutual, Seattle (Aug'07 to Nov'08)

Description:

Washington Mutual has diverse enterprise applications, servicing various

Lines of Business like Retail Banking Consumer Real Estate, Deposits, E-

commerce, Card Solutions and Transaction Services. The project RBT Host

application maintenance is to enhance their retail banking system by adding

new functionality/systems and maintaining their existing application to run

smoothly.

Environment : Z/os, JCL, Hogan, VSAM, CICS

Responsibilities:

. Understanding Business requirements

. Knowledge transition to offshore on the project documents

. Reviewing offshore deliverables 'Design documents' and 'Low Level

Design' documents

. Coding and code review

. Preparing unit test cases

. Review Unit test results

. Documentation of work flow

. Preparing status reports

. Implementation Support

. Preparing knowledge documents for the problems occurred in the

existing system

Mainframe Developer

Bank of America/Best Buy, TCS Chennai delivery centre (Aug'04 to Jul'07)

Description:

The objective of the "KTC as System of record" initiative is to establish

the 'Know the Customer' (KTC) system of Bank of America to be the "single

system of record" for customer information. This is to be accomplished by

retiring the legacy systems that currently own the customer information and

building the functionality of these legacy systems in KTC. The legacy

systems to be retired are

. Global Party System Index (GPSI)

. Customer On-Line Information Network (COIN) and

. Bank Online Service System (BOSS)

Mainframe Languages : COBOL, JCL, DB2

Tools : File-Aid, Expediter, Changeman

Responsibilities:

. Detailed study of the functionality of the KTC system

. Arrive at an architectural plan for providing enhanced customer data

and function in the KTC environment available to existing legacy

systems and channels

. Preparing 'Design documents' and 'Low Level Design' documents

. Coding and code review

. Preparing unit test cases

. Unit Testing and debugging

. Documentation of work flow

. Preparing status reports

. Implementation Support

. Preparing knowledge documents for the problems occurred in the

existing system.

TRAINING

Area Location

Project Management TCS, Seattle

Project Lead Training TCS, Chennai

Auditor's TCS, Chennai

Business Intelligence TCS, Chennai

Associate to Consultant program TCS, Chennai

HOGAN (CSC Banking Software) Washington Mutual, Seattle

German Language TCS, Chennai

IBM Mainframe training Maples ESM,Chennai

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