Project Manager Management
Resume:
ARAVIND ARTHANARI, MBA PMP CSM
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Burbank, California - 91505
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SUMMARY
IT manager with over 12 years of experience in managing and delivering mid-
size to large software projects for the healthcare and financial industries
using various IT technologies. Well versed in software development and
project management methodologies including Agile/Scrum. Managed onsite and
offshore development teams for more than 5 years. Adept in design,
development, architecture and delivering the final product. Certified scrum
master.
Project/Program Management Mobile Development
Budget Management .net/Java technologies
Client/Vendor Relations RDBMS (Oracle/SQL Server)
Cloud computing Release Management
Project communication Vendor Management
Proficiency in MS Office Test Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pictage Inc, CA
March 2010 - August 2010
Senior Project/Program Manager
Managed large to medium sized projects from start to end using SDLC and
Scrum project methodologies. Successfully delivered Pictage Mobile
implementation using outsourced vendor, Shoot Q Integration, Rangefinder
using cloud computing and adding products like Mounting, Image Disk on time
and budget.
. Established customized process, tools and plan for Pictage project
management office. This process includes requirements, communication,
risk, schedule and release management plans.
. Successfully coached the product and tech team on the scrum process
. Worked with product team to create a project priority list and coached
them to prioritizing projects to accomplish company goals and objectives.
. Managed customer service, product management, system operations, partner
and external vendor relationship for Pictage Technology team.
. Managed project status and release communication for Pictage projects.
. Managed internal and external development and Quality assurance
resources.
. Conducted team building activities to boost morale for technology team
and coached some team members to train other team members.
. Managed risk, issues and decision log for all pictage projects.
Kaiser Permanente Pasadena, CA
Sep 2008 - December 2009
Senior Project Manager
Managed large to medium sized projects from start to end using waterfall
and Agile/Scrum project Methodologies. Major projects include developing
data warehouse application and upgrading Broker commission application.
. Managed IT budget, software resources, vendor relationship, release
management and project status and led the communication with project
sponsors and executives.
. Managed procurement work for acquiring software consultants, software and
hardware for projects.
. Managed business priorities and helped the business customers to
prioritize projects and provide guidance on future projects.
. Managed project plan, risks, issues and key member in decision making.
Specialized Association Services, Irving, TX
June 2008 - Aug 2008
Development Manager/Project Manager
Managed software development team to develop projects using Microsoft .Net
technology and MS SQL Server. Major projects include developing online
application to add membership with provide real time credit card and
electronics signature processing.
. Managed developers, testers and business system analysts during the
period.
. Key role in providing the architectural design and creating the framework
for developing caching framework..
. Managed business priorities and helped the business customers to
prioritize projects and provide guidance on future projects.
. Managed project schedule and resources.
Capital One Finance, Dallas, TX 2001 -
June 2008
Development Manager/Project Manager
Successfully led offshore and onsite project teams to implement common loan
origination systems to consolidate multiple lines of business, eSignature
functionality, integrating credit scoring and customer servicing with loan
origination system, normalizing customer addresses, integrating company's
websites with partner websites, data exchange with partners, integrating
external software products and improving performance of applications.
. Managed Development and test resources to make sure all the resources are
utilized 100% by the project teams.
. Developed Credit scoring system, credit scoring models, electronic
signature implementation using .Net technology.
. Worked on converting website from Cold fusion technology to .Net
technology.
. Key role in resolving conflicts within project teams and clients
including external vendors.
. Involved in decision of recruiting and terminating developers and testers
and conducted behavioral and exit interviews.
. Communicating critical project status updates and roadblocks to business
clients and management team.
. Worked with Senior Management team in formulating the strategy and
roadmap for projects based on company objectives and involved in cost and
resource budgeting for the year.
. Managed project team in architecture, client relations, design, and
development and implementation eSignature functionality in loan
origination website. Integrated two vendor products successfully and
resolved various cross platform issues. The website gives the flexibility
for the Customer to sign their check/contract in the dealership online
and drive their car home same day.
. Manage/Led project team in architecture, client relations, design and
implementation of integrating Auto buying program with loan origination
website. Integrated Java/.net websites and web services. This project
enabled two businesses to cross-sell each others to customers.
. Managed several releases using agile development methodology for over 3
years. Created the software development strategy to utilize onsite and
offshore development teams. This process helped release team efficiently
used offshore teams to deliver projects on time and schedule.
. Led development to team to resolve DLL versioning issue and created
recommendations document. This prevented issues from happening again and
avoid last minute deployment issues.
. Led project team to implement encryption algorithm to maintain security
of system passwords. This project satisfied all architecture standards
for user password and used in passing personal information of customers
across multiple applications and websites.
. Created Release Management plan, production deployment checklist, unit
test and code review standards for development teams.
. Trained new development team with architecture and design overview of
legacy and new applications.
Beechwood Computing, Santa Clara, California
1998 - 2000
Software Engineer
Beechwood Computing Consultant in Cable & Wireless and American Electric
Power client locations. My job duty involves Design, Development and
implementation of client server applications and working with offshore and
onsite project teams.
TECHNOLOGIES
Data warehouse: Informatics, Cognos
Languages: C#, Java, VC++, C, C++, ASP .net, XML, XSL, Object C
RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, ADO .net
Application Tools: Visual Studio, Eclipse, NUnit, JUnit, DATAPOWER,
Amberpoint, Silverlight
Testing Tools: QTP, LoadRunner, Mercury Test Director
Release Management Tools: HP Open View, Remedy
Soft Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, Clarity, Project Server, UML, Agile
Process, JIRA, Confluence,
Methodology: Project Management Methodology, Change Management Process,
Release management
Version Control: Clearcase, MS Visual Source Safe, Star team
Messaging: MSMQ, MQ Series
EDUCATION
MBA, University of Texas, Dallas, TX
Master of Computer Applications, Madurai Kamaraj University, India
CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Certificate in Project Management
Certified Scrum Master
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