Project Manager

Sandhya Buddi

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Somerset, NJ *****

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

Professional Summary

. 6+ years of experience in designing and improving systems, analyzing

and implementing solutions, and driving project timelines to meet

client needs.

. Experienced in leading teams successfully through Requirements

Gathering, Development, Testing, and Deployment phases.

. Strong Knowledge of SDLC methodology and project life cycle.

. Proficient in Business Reengineering, Business and Functional

Analysis, Systems Analysis and Design, Quality Assurance, Gap

Analysis, Impact Analysis, Use Case Analysis and Design.

. Extensive knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD)

using UML, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Requisite Pro, DOORS, and

MS-Visio

. Experience in interacting with business users to identify information

needs and initiating process changes, Requirements gathering, and

authoring Use cases using UML.

. Led training sessions to educate end users on the end product and

mentored team members on various business processes.

. Flexible, innovative and ability to thrive in a fast paced, growth-

oriented and time-critical environment.

. Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, communication,

interpersonal and presentation skills, adept at creating, editing, and

coordinating extensive communication networks (facilitation of joint

application development (JAD) sessions and interviews etc.) and

resolving issues and conflicts.

. Outstanding organizational skills including ability to multitask,

prioritize, and manage increasingly complex issues.

. Strong work ethic and leadership skills. Group and individual based

problem solving and decision making.

Education

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

MBA with concentration in Finance

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

B.S. in Computer Science & Finance

Expertise / Skills

Business Modeling Tools MS Visio, MS Project, Enterprise Suite

Requirements Management

Tools IBM Rational DOORS, Requisite Pro

Database Management Oracle 10g, MS Access, TOAD

Operating Systems Windows 9x/2000/XP, DOS, UNIX, Sun

Solaris

Programming Languages SQL, C++, Perl, HTML, Basic

Web Designing FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop, DreamWeaver

Other Tools MS PowerPoint, MS Publisher, BRAIN,

Mercury Quality Center, Robohelp

Work Experience

ASCAP, NYC, NY

November 06 - Present

Lead Business Analyst / Team Lead

Project Description: ASCAP (American Society of Authors, Composers, and

Publishers) is the largest performing rights organization in US, serving

nearly 400,000 members. ASCAP is involved in licensing works and

distributing royalties to various music artists and Publishing companies

for the public performance of copyrighted works.

Key Accomplishments: Involved in leading the successful delivery of an

enterprise application system (PREP) to allow ASCAP to successfully

migrate from its legacy mainframe systems to continue to perform its core

function of distributing royalty payments to its members in a timely

manner. Also led the successful delivery of a secure web based

application (Member Access), which allows ASCAP members to view and

securely manage their information over the web.

Responsibilities:

. Leading the requirements gathering, development, testing, and

deployment phases of a new enterprise system, PREP (Performing Rights

Enterprise Program).

. Managing project scope to ensure that project timelines and

deliverables are on target.

. Continuously monitoring project status and communicating progress to

senior management and key stakeholders.

. Monitoring employees performance and providing technical and

supervisory leadership to team members.

. Working closely with business users to capture complex business and

system requirements and seeing them through to implementation.

. Leading the development of use case models, creation of use case

documents, scenarios, test scripts, and test cases.

. Liaising with offshore testing team to ensure accurate translation of

business scenarios and system functionality yielding effective testing

efforts.

. Manage the testing efforts and defect review process through various

phases of QA cycles, including smoke testing, assembly testing,

integration testing, and UAT.

. Responsible for reviewing requirements and test artifacts documented

by various team members and providing ongoing feedback and guidance to

other analysts within the team.

. Supporting the transition from mainframe legacy systems to a Java

based application (PREP) and providing ongoing guidance to end users

in the use of the new enterprise application.

T-Mobile, Bellevue, WA

June 06 - October 06

Business Analyst

Project Description: Purpose of the RevVis project was to implement Azure

Solutions' Certo application for T-Mobile, one of the largest wireless

providers in the world, with more than 80 million subscribers. Certo

application provides automation and structure for audit and

reconciliation of data in customer billing and provisioning systems to

ensure that customers are configured in the billing systems for the

specific services that are provided to them.

Responsibilities:

. Performed Stakeholder Analysis to identify the key players for project

success.

. Conducted JAD Sessions periodically with Revenue Assurance and Billing

groups to determine User Requirements and Goals, thus converting User

Requirements into Business Requirements and then to Functional

Requirement Specification.

. Facilitated collection of Functional Requirements from system users,

and prepared Business Requirement documents using Rational Requisite

Pro.

. Worked as an Interface between the business users and developers

within the Revenue Assurance team.

. Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical

groupings of essential business processes, business rules, and

information needs, and ensured that critical requirements are not

missed.

. Followed the UML based methods to create Use Case Diagrams, Activity

Diagrams and ER Diagrams.

. Worked with IT and the business unit in identifying risks throughout

the life of the project and provide performances targets and

measurable results through Gap and Impact Analysis.

. Analyzed requirements and system specifications. Involved in the

creation of a test plan for the installation, GUI, functional,

performance and integration testing using Test Director.

CenturyTel, Monroe, LA

Sept 05 -May 06

Business Analyst

Project Description: CenturyTel is one of the largest telecommunications

providers in the nation, serving over 25 states in US. It is included in

the S&P 500 index, and is one of the fastest growing companies,

delivering consumer and business communication solutions. The Payables

project involved the implementation of an invoice management system (Cost

Manager), an invoice management tool to allow automate invoice processing

and validations to identify hidden costs and facilitate revenue recovery.

Responsibilities:

. Performed Stakeholder Analysis to identify the key players for project

success.

. Utilized Bugzilla to maintain and track the stakeholders requested

enhancements and changes.

. Participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with

the right stakeholders

. Defined specifications for Use Cases/diagrams, Conceptual Model, and

various

Behavioral diagrams, and created product documentation,

including user manual, and training materials.

. Facilitated JAD sessions for communicating and managing expectations

with end users of the product.

. Created Use Cases using UML and managed the entire functional

requirements life cycle using

Rational Unified Process, Requisite Pro.

. Created Process Work Flow, Functional Specifications, and responsible

for preparing Software

Requirement Specifications (SRS), Functional Specification

Document (FSD).

. Responsible for creating business flow diagrams (using MS-Visio) and

charts

. Involved in developing a Test Plan and reviewing Test Cases. Extensive

experience with User acceptance testing (UAT), System Testing,

Integration testing and build verification testing.

CenturyTel, Monroe, LA June 05

-Aug 05

Business Analyst

Project Description: The BRAIN project involved capturing existing

processes for the implementation of an auditing tool, BRAIN (Business

Rule Automated Infrastructure), for one of the largest consumer and

business communication service providers in the nation. BRAIN is a visual

data flow modeler that captures business rules. In addition, a customized

web-based user interface was built to provide billing analysts with

instantaneous access to details relating to the discrepancies, the

ability to display high-level reports and cost trends, to achieve greater

financial returns.

Responsibilities:

. Gathered Business Requirements. Interacted with the Users, Designers

and Developers, Project Manager and SME's to get a better

understanding of the Business Processes, and Analyzed and Optimized

the process.

. Prepared Business Requirement Document and then converted business

requirements into Functional Requirements Specification and Technical

Specification

. Identified Use Cases from the requirements. Created UML Diagrams

including Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and ER Diagrams

Morgan Stanley, Edison, NJ June 04

-Apr 05

Analyst

Responsibilities:

. Performed research and development of financial and operations issues

and provided critical business analysis to senior management including

economic modeling, NPV and ROI analysis in support of proposed

technology implementations.

. Executed financial analyses of sub-project equity investments across

various sectors to support senior management in decision making.

. Developed a rapport with clients interested in investment

opportunities in various markets.

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