Project Manager Management

Arun Arunachalam, PMP

***** **** ****** **** ? Valencia, CA 91355 ? Cell: 310-***-**** ?

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Information Technology Project Manager

Hands-on Project Manager with a passion for managing and delivering

Information Technology projects on-time, within budget and with very high

quality. Extensive experience of managing projects through its entire life

cycle, using different methodologies like traditional Waterfall approach,

Rational Unified Process and Agile development.

Highlights of Expertise:

.13 years of .Vendor Management .Sun certified Java

experience in IT Programmer

.PMI certified PMP .Project Management .J2EE Architect

.Managed $14 M Budget .Budgeting/ Project .Netweaver /SAP

Estimation Landscape

.Big 5 consulting .Resource Management .Technology evangelist

experience

Technical Proficiencies:

.Java/J2EE/JCA .Rational Rose/ .SAP-FS-CD

Requisite Pro

.IBM WAS .Rational XDE .SAP Landscape Design

.Service Oriented .Clear Quest .SAP Net weaver

Architecture

.Struts framework/ MVC .JProbe / Wiley .DB2/Oracle/SQL Server

pattern Introscope

Professional Experience

Project Manager, Farmers Insurance Group, Simi Valley April 2007 - present

EBPP - Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment

EBPP is an online portal to server the billing needs of Farmers customers;

it's built on top of a new SAP FS-CD Billing platform.

. Managed a $14 M budget.

. Opportunity to manage 30 personnel including onsite and offshore

vendors.

. Main liaison between Business and IT.

. Managed dependencies across 10 different teams to successfully deliver

the project.

. Created and managed the entire project plan.

. Reporting of project costs and project financials on a periodic basis.

. Leveraged the processes put in place by the PMO organization.

. Contributed to the technical architecture for the project.

. Managed the project and delivered on-time, on-budget and with good

quality.

. Participated in the change control process to effectively manage scope

creep.

. Used Farmers release methodology.

Project Manager, Farmers Insurance Group, Los Angeles April 2006 - April

2007

EASY Project

EASY is a new revolutionary user interface system for Farmers agents.

. Used agile development methodology and defined the structure for the

same.

. Help define the scope, draft the project charter.

. Worked very closely with the Business partners and other stakeholders.

. Identify and document the risk factors and the appropriate risk

mitigation strategy for the same.

. Detailed WBS and cost estimation / resource loading for the project.

. Managed resources by hiring the right people and empowering them to

lead various deliverables.

. Responsible for tracking the project to the plan with daily and weekly

status reports

IA - New Rating Product / IA - Multi Unit

This is a new product introduction for Farmers Independent Agent channel.

. Involved across the entire project cycle from Initiation to closeout

and transition.

. Detail project planning and resource identification/hiring and

mentoring.

. Managing two major projects simultaneously.

. 20 direct reports with 3 team leads.

. Managed the team to deliver detail design documents, coding and unit

testing components.

. Defect Tracking and management.

. Identify and manage risk.

. Managed successful production implementation and post production

monitoring process.

. Responsible for tracking status reports and providing financial

updates to senior management.

Technical Lead, 21st Century Insurance Group, Woodland Hills, April 2005 -

April 2006

. Worked in model driven architecture using the Chordiant Framework.

. Mentored and managed 5 direct reports.

. Lead the successful implementation of the new states expansion project

at 21st century moving the company into new states including PA. GA

and FL.

. Close business user interaction to management end user expectations.

. Technologies worked on includes XSLT, CSS, Web Sphere Application

Server 5.0, JSP, Core Java, Java Script, EAI - Integration with main

frame systems using JCA, EJB, RMI, Web Services.

Team Lead, Computer Science Corporation, Los Angeles, April 2004 - April

2005

Was responsible for the delivery of functionality / new features for the

entire eAuto application (web based auto policy processing system)

. Lead a team of 6 on-site and 2 off shore developers.

. Estimation of project effort and managing the project thru its entire

life cycle.

. Conducting technical design review sessions.

. Interfacing with business to collect the requirements.

. Perform code reviews and give feed back to developers.

. Mentor junior developers and give technical direction and input as and

when needed.

Senior Consultant, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Phoenix, AZ July 1999 - March

2004

Technical architect and team lead for the "eAgent project" at Farmers

Insurance Group, Los Angeles.

. Managed a 15 member team.

. Hired and mentored junior developers.

. Developed critical architecture related components.

. Provided technical solutions.

. Involved in project closeout and transition activities.

Tech lead for the "GAR" project at Warner Music Group, Burbank, CA

. Provided technical solutions in J2EE area.

. Mentored other junior developers.

. Documented use cases and software code.

. Developed some critical parser components.

Tech lead for the "RX Refill" project at Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

. Designed and developed the MVC architecture.

. Lead a team of developers and managed the technical work plan.

. Interacted with business users and documented the business

requirements using RUP process.

Architect for "Shop Amex" -A Business to Business, Business to Consumer web

based shopping portal

. Contributed to the development of the technical architecture.

. Incorporated the MVC design pattern, Command Bean Framework.

. Used UML and Rational Rose to produce the design artifacts.

. Was involved in developing an attribute engine which was a key

deliverable in the design phase.

Education

Master of Science (MS) in Information Systems Engineering

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Graduation Date: Spring 1999

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering

Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India. Graduation year: 1996

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