Project Manager Management
Resume:
Sanjeev Ohri
O’Fallon, MO- *****
Tel No: 636-***-**** (Res), 410-***-**** (Cell)
Email: ******@*****.***
Status: US Citizen
Experience Summary
Eighteen (18) plus years experience in Analysis, Design, Development, QA and Testing, which
includes ten years experience in Senior Technical Project Delivery & Project Management.
Performed multiple consulting roles and has Diverse experience as a Program Manager, Senior
Project Manager/Leader, Director, Delivery Manager, Senior Test Manager/Lead, Test
Coordinator, Senior Quality Assurance Manager, Senior Consultant, Design and Development
Leader, Lead/Senior Business Analyst, Mentor, Onsite Offshore Manager, Vendor Manager,
Process Analyst, Tester and Programmer.
Worked as a Technical Advisor to Senior Vice Presidents, Department Heads & CIO’s.
Known by peers and management alike as one who possesses strong Leadership skills, the ability to
lead, organize, motivate, and mentor project teams to meet deadlines and enhance product quality.
Several years experience in Analysis, Design and Implementation of Application software using
Object Oriented Methodology (Rumbaugh’s OMT), (OOA/OOD), RUP, iterative development
including UML, JAD, mentoring, process improvement, Business Analysis and developing Use
Cases.
13 Years of Experience in the Consulting Environment with Consulting Responsibilities.
Good Knowledge of Project Methodology, Requirement analysis gathering, Design,
Development, QA, Testing and Implementation.
Strong Leadership skills, Ability to lead, organize, motivate and mentor project teams to meet
deadlines and enhance product quality.
Experience Working with offshore resources and managing Statement of Work utilizing Onsite
& Offshore resources.
Very good knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures and excellent knowledge of Manual
Testing, Automated Testing Tools like Segue’s Silk Test, Mercury’s Quality Center, Test
Director Win Runner & Rational tools.
Skilled in identifying project scope, estimating effort required to establish the schedule, identifying
all the project risks, resource planning and preparing the project plan.
Managed & Build teams of 15 programmers, 50 testers and 4 team leads in an IT environment.
Mentored and managed a team of 30 people (Business/Functional Managers, IT Managers,
Business Analyst, developers, Technical Leads and Architects) in developing Use Cases using
the Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodology and Rational Unified Process (RUP) in an
IT/Java/.Net environment.
Excellent matrix management with virtual teams across different geographies and functions.
Excellent Project Management, Risk Management, Client Relationship Management,
Coordination, Team Building, Collaboration, Delivery Management, Change Management,
Cost Management, Proposal Development, Vendor Management and managing
Onsite/Offshore resources skills. Good knowledge of AGILE & Scrum methodology and Data
warehouse concepts.
Excellent Communication (written/verbal), presentation, facilitation, management,
organizational, result orientation, building strategic working relationship, technical and
analytical, strong critical thinking, interpersonal and leadership skills.
Ability to solve complex problems efficiently and effectively, relying on experience, creativity and
autonomy & Ability to gain credibility to influence decision makers and influencers. Very
Detail Oriented and self-motivated, drives to closure.
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Good knowledge in Commercial applications, Insurance Sector, Claims Sector, Finance Sector,
Securities (Trading), Brokerage Sector, Transportation sector, Retirement Practice, Child Support
Enforcement, Time Management, Content Management & online e-information publishing.
Technical Summary
Languages: Visual Basic, Visual Age for JAVA 3.5, ASP. Net, MF-Cobol, VS-Cobol, Visual
C++ 1.5, MS C, MF-Dialog System, Presentation Manager
Hardware: IBM 3090, ES/9000, PS/2, PC-AT 486 & Pentium
Software: Visual Source Safe, SharePoint, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest,
Rational Rose, PVCS, AAI, Visio, MS Outlook, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint,
Microsoft Excel & Microsoft Project 2000, MS Office, Data warehouse
Technologies: Object Oriented Technologies, RUP Methodologies, Client Server, Distributed
Systems, Web, and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Operating Systems: MS Windows NT/2000/95/98/XP, Vista, MVS/XA, OS/2 Warp and UNIX
Web Tools: FrontPage 2000, HTML, Web Sphere, Java Script, Servlets, EJB, EPF
Composer and Rational Rose
PM Tools: Microsoft Project, Planview, Project Tracker, STAMP
Testing Tools: Segue Silk Test, Test Director, Mercury Quality Center, QTP & Win Runner
Databases: MS Access, DB2 & Database Manager
Communications: CICS, TSO/ISPF
Industries: Commercial sector, Insurance Sector, Claims Sector, Finance Sector, Securities
(Trading), Brokerage Sector, Transportation Sector, Retirement Practice,
Content Management, online E-information publishing, Child Support
Enforcement System & Public Sector
Education & Training
Masters of Computer Application, November 1991
BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
Bachelor of Science, November 1987
Bangalore University, India
Rational Unified Process from Rational Technologies
Visual Age for Java from IBM
Currently working on PMI’s PMP Certification
Professional Experience
Collabera Inc 10/09 - Present
Client: Wells Fargo Advisors, St Louis, MO 10/09 – Present
Project: Multiple Data Warehouse Projects
Role: Senior Project Manager – Enterprise/Brokerage Data Warehouse
Responsibilities:
Responsible for Managing & Leading 7 Merger & Non Merger Data Warehouse and Business
Intelligence projects for merger of Wachovia Securities & Wells Fargo Advisors.
Responsible for project planning of the entire project with the detail estimation and resource
planning for 25 resources using MS Project.
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Managed projects in MainFrame, DB2, Oracle, J2EE, XML, Actuate Reporting, Microstrategy,
Informatica (ETL), SharePoint, Planview, Stamp, Quality Center, Thomson Reuters (Beta) &
Project Tracker environments.
Used Microsoft Project, Planview Management tool, Project Tracker and Enterprise Metrics to track
projects, monitoring & status reporting in Project Huddle, PMO & Deep Dive meetings.
Responsible for creating and managing testing timeline, risks, dashboards of issues, dependencies
and progress.
Worked as a primary IT Project Manager to the business for application development including
SOW, project scope, functional & technical requirements, detailed IT project plans & Milestones.
Directed, managed and assigned all project resources: Architects, Tech Leads, Data Modelers,
Data & Business Analysts, Designers, On/Off Shore Developers & Testers.
Reviewed Test Plans and provided recommendations for improvement.
Lead and Facilitated the Daily Defects & Root Cause Meetings.
Managed multiple & large, cross-divisional high risk projects which were at different risk levels.
Developed appropriate contingency plans and pro-actively identified changes to eliminate future
occurrences.
Delivered project objectives on time within budget constraints by working with IT Tech Leads, Data
& Business Analyst, Application Delivery Managers and PMO.
Managed Project Risk using comprehensive mitigation assessment plans, questionnaires and
enforcing approvals on cross-project and cross CIO initiatives.
Managed Third Party Vendors during development, testing & execution.
Wachovia First Place 05/08 – 03/09
Client: Wachovia, A Wells Fargo Company, St Louis, MO 05/08 – 03/09
Project: I-Deal Syndicate Merger Integration
Role: Senior Project Manager
Responsibilities:
Responsible for Leading & Coordinating the testing effort of Syndicate Merger Integration project
& managing the team.
Responsible for project planning of the entire project with detail estimation and resource
planning for 10 resources using MS Project.
Developed detail Project Plans for Regression & Performance Testing for Releases 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 &
7.6.
Designed and Developed the Release Issues & Script Scorecard Template for all the Releases and
guided the team in using it.
Managed testing activities utilizing onsite and offsite testing resources on several releases.
Lead and Facilitated the Daily Defects Meetings, Created Metrics, Entrance Criteria & Defect
Root Cause report. Responsible for generating Daily Defect Reports thru Mercury Quality
Center and presenting the defects to the Project Managers & Business on a daily basis.
Responsible for managing the documents on SharePoint.
Delivered project objectives on time within the allotted budget.
Managed Risk and developed mitigation plans.
Prepared the detail system testing timeline for the entire deliverable and then translated the timeline
into MS- Project plan.
Managed Third Party Vendors during test planning & execution
Guided the testing team in developing test cases, test scripts and writing testing plans.
Ajilon Consulting 03/07 – 01/08
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Client: MasterCard Worldwide, O’Fallon, MO 03/07 – 01/08
Project: Odysseus (Integrated Processing Solutions)
Role: Senior Project Manager/Program Manager
Responsibilities:
Responsible for leading, coordinating the testing effort of 6 large projects & managing the
team.
Responsible for project planning, budgeting and managing the entire project with detail
estimation and resource planning for 24 testers which included three team leads.
Designed and Developed the Use Case Template, standards with an example and presented to the
development team also created Standards & Templates for PMO.
Worked as an Advisor to different Development & Business teams in developing Use Cases.
Mentored and trained the teams on how to develop Use Cases using the Unified Modeling
Language (UML) methodology and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
Responsible for forecasting the budget per month and tracking adherence to the budget across all
functional areas.
Responsible for developing the Integration test plan/UAT and presenting the test plan.
Delivered project objectives on time within the allotted budget.
Managed testing activities utilizing onsite and offshore testing resources on several projects.
Lead and Facilitated the Daily Defects Meetings, Created Metrics, Entrance Criteria & Defect
Root Cause report. Responsible for generating Daily Defect Reports thru Mercury Quality
Center, QTP and presenting the defects to the Project Managers & Business on a daily basis.
Responsible for conducting more than 15 technical interviews for the project and have been
successful in selecting the right resource for the assignment.
Guided the testing team members in gathering business requirements, developing test cases, test
scripts and writing testing plans.
Covansys, A CSC Company 04/97 - 01/07
Client: UnumProvident; Portland, ME & Chattanooga, TN 01/06 - 01/07
Project: Fast Forward
Role: Program Manager/Senior Manager/Mentor/Lead Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
Responsible for mentoring, collaborating and managing a team of 30 people (Business
Managers, IT Managers, Analyst, developers & architects) for both Admin & Claims Teams.
Responsible for Strategy Planning and Analysis of the deliverables.
Responsible for Leading and Facilitating JAD sessions and deriving the System Use Case list from
Business Use Cases.
Developed the System Use Case template, standards with an example and presented it to the team.
Mentored and trained the teams in developing System Use Cases using the Unified Modeling
Language (UML) methodology and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
Guided and helped the teams in Use Case Realization sessions with respect to Analysis and
Design and helped the teams in sequencing, prioritizing and identifying architecturally significant
use cases.
Client: General Motors Acceptance Corporation Insurance (GMAC); St Louis, MO 02/03 - 12/05
Project: Convergence Insurance Application
Role: Senior Project Manager/Test Manager
Responsibilities:
Responsible for project planning with detail estimation and resource planning for 25 testers.
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Responsible for defining the overall testing strategy and developing the Integration & System
test plan and presented the test plan to an audience more than 40.
Managed testing activities utilizing onsite and offsite testing resources on several projects.
Documented the defects in Test Director, generated reports and presented the defects to the
Development Managers on a daily basis.
Responsible for creating standards & templates for PMO.
Mentored & assigned tasks to the testers. Guided them in gathering business requirements,
developing test cases, test scripts and writing testing plans.
Responsible for conducting more than 24 technical interviews for the project and successful in
selecting the right resource for the assignment.
Developed the traceability matrix to show the mapping of the requirements to test cases.
Responsible for performance appraisals of the testers.
Interviewed candidates in Manual Testing & Automated testing tools i.e. Win Runner, Test
Director, Load Runner & Silk Test.
Responsible for training newly hired testers in the testing methodology.
Client: City of Raleigh; North Carolina 12/02 - 2/03
Project: Time and Attendance System (TAS)
Role: Senior Manager, Lead Business Analyst
Client: Dept of Human Resources Information Systems Center; Baltimore, MD 08/02 - 11/02
Project: Child Support Enforcement System (CSES)
Role: Delivery Manager (Child Support Web Front End)
Client: Gale – Thomson Group; Detroit, MI 05/02 – 08/02
Project: BCRC 2.0, Texas Almanac & Ingenta
Role: Test Manager
Client: Covansys Product Development for State of Michigan 01/02 - 03/02
Project: Java-Clarety (J-Clarety)
Role: QA Test Manager
Client: Commonwealth of Kentucky, Transportation Cabinet 10/99 - 11/01
Project: Kentucky Vehicle Information System (KVIS)
Role: Senior Manager, Lead Senior Business Analyst, Senior Test Lead
Client: W.W. Grainger Inc, IL 04/97 - 09/99
Project: Year 2000 Project
Role: Senior Test Manager, Senior Designer
LEC 04/95 – 03/97
Client: Danish Crown, Vest Jyske, Steff Houlberg, Denmark 08/96 - 03/97
Project: Sales and Debtor Management System
Role: Project Manager/Project Leader
Client: Steff Houlberg, Denmark 04/95 - 08/96
Project: Education Module
Role: Project Manager/Project Leader
BFL Software – A HP Company 10/93 – 03/95
Client: Nomura Research Institute Ltd, Yokohama, Japan 07/94 - 03/95
Project: Management Statistics System
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Role: Designer and Programmer
Client: Fouress Inc, USA 03/94 - 06/94
Project: Tennis Racquet
Role: Designer and Programmer
Client: Fouress Inc, USA 04/94 - 06/94
Project: Electronic Point of Sale
Role: Designer and Programmer
Client: Specialized S/W International, USA 10/93 - 03/95
Project: Tables AS/PC
Role: Designer and Programmer
International Communication Products Engineering, India 12/91 – 10/93
Client: Distributed Databases, USA 05/92 - 10/93
Project: Queryus
Role: Designer and Programmer
Client: International Communication Products Engineering, Germany 02/92 - 04/92
Project: Formfax
Role: Programmer
Client: International Communication Products Engineering, Germany 12/91 - 01/92
Project: Swedish Data File
Role: Programmer
Project Recognitions:
• Received an award from W.W. Grainger Inc, Chicago for excellent contribution to the success of the
project.
• Received excellent client appreciation letters for contribution of work from Commonwealth of
Kentucky, Transportation Cabinet.
• Received excellent client appreciation letter for contribution of work from Sr. Project Manager at
Gale, Detroit.
• Received excellent client appreciation letter from the Vice President for Advice, Direction,
Leadership and assistance on Fast Forward project at UnumProvident, TN.
• Received excellent client appreciation certificate for contribution of work from the President &
CEO of Wachovia Securities.
References: Available upon request.
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