Project Management
Resume:
Pradeep Victor
*************@*****.***
SUMMARY - BUSINESS ANALYST
. Seasoned analyst with over 5 years of experience in Banking, Financial
Services and ERP projects.
. Knowledge in the Investment Banking Industry, Loan Origination, Retail
Banking, Asset Wealth Management and Capital Market.
. Proficient in Requirements Gathering, Business Case Development to
Rollout, Production and Maintenance with a solid understanding of
Business Processes based on SDLC.
. Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models,
Iterative Models (RUP - Rational Unified Process) and Agile Programming
Methodology (such as Scrum).
. Proficient in creating UML Diagrams including Use Case diagram, Class
diagram, Sequence diagram &Activity Diagrams using Rational Rose and MS
Visio.
. Experienced in creating Business Context Diagrams, Work Flow Diagrams,
Implementation Checklists and Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM).
. Proficient with tools like Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, MS
Visio and MS Office.
. Organized weekly Project Status and Task Review meetings.
. Created PowerPoint presentations and project updates using MS Project for
management review.
. Experienced in facilitating and coordinating extensive JAD sessions
(Joint Application Development) and interviews, written correspondence,
reports, project status reports, oral presentations, e-mails, etc, to
keep executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status,
discuss application enhancements and resolving issues and conflicts.
. Experienced in performing Gap Analysis, Impact Analysis & Interface
Analysis in order to check the compatibility of the out of box
system/existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
. Experienced in documenting the Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases
for the User Acceptance testing (UAT).
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Senior Executive - Business Solutions
2007- 2009
Polaris Software Lab Limited, Mumbai, India
Roles & Responsibilities
. Worked on different types of projects such as Wealth Management & Web
Portal System; Implementation of Siebel CRM 7.7 and Software Applications
Development (Claims & Contest Management System).
. Documented workflow, dataflow, and process flow by utilizing Visio for
flowcharting and diagramming.
. Conducted Business Analysis and gathered Requirements for Claims
Processing Application to enter claim data into client-specific screens
to meet their business needs with all processing done from a single
database.
. Prepared the Functional Design Document with Use cases and Activity
diagram covering all the business needs.
. Took an active part in creating the Technical Design Document including
Class diagram, assisted the Architect to create the design document from
the FSD making sure that all the use cases are covered.
. Wrote queries and developed reports for various levels of management by
using SQL and Excel.
Projects
MAN Investments London, UK (Cash Management and Automated Payments) - 6
months
The system allowed improved scalability and automates their current
operations to manage greater number of funds (Hedge Funds) through
effective streamlining of Business processes across different functions.
. Documented requirements and work flows to describe present and future
systems and data flows.
. Interacted and coordinated with end users and management to identify
business system needs, Impact Analysis, Evaluation of solutions for
business problems.
. Performed Gap Analysis for new functionality requirements, as well as
prioritized them based on actual business needs so as to align them with
the product release roadmap.
. Responsible for developing requirements for building and automation of
Treasury services, Reconciliation and Redemption & Subscription services.
. Optimized data flows to enhance and automate cash feeds to Cash
optimization engine with GL & Payment system.
. Designed detailed functional solution specifications for logically
grouped requirements.
. Utilized Quality Center for Defect Tracking and maintained defect
repository and followed defect life cycle until it was closed.
. Tested the software using different browsers to study the compatibility.
. Gathered Test Metrics for weekly QA Status Meeting.
ICICI Global Private Banking Group (Wealth Management Solution) - 6 months
The system was developed specifically to support Wealth Management Groups
to provide most valuable advisory services to clients on Fund accounting,
Mutual funds, Asset Projections, Portfolio Rebalancing, Investment
Holdings, Liquidity needs and future goals.
. Played the role of a Use Case Analyst in a RUP environment by eliciting
Business Requirements from business users by conducting various meetings.
. Conducted various interviews and meetings for requirement gathering with
key business users and SMEs at in-house location.
. Maintained and kept track of stakeholders request for system enhancements
and changes.
. Set up formal user group sessions with the corporate sponsor of the
project to regularly apprise them of the development effort and success
against timelines.
. Developed custom analysis reports for Financial Advisory based on the
financial analysis carried out.
. Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release
objectives.
. Analyzed the system functionality in relation to impacts of the change
requests and other system modifications.
Canara Retail Banking Group (Credit cards) - 3 months
The main goal of this project was to build an application which would
handle the bank's new credit card (loyalty points based) business based on
the various schemes that were available to the customer.
. Created business process flows, use cases, information modeling, data
mapping and gathering business requirements.
. Performed interaction and coordinated with end users and management to
identify business system needs.
. Performed Impact Analysis, Evaluated solutions for business
problems/bottlenecks.
. Performed Business Impact Analysis of proposed projects, processes and
solutions.
Executive - Sales & Business Analysis
2006 - 2007
HCL Infosystems Limited, Mumbai, India
Projects
Bajaj Auto Finance Ltd. (Loan Management System) - 6 months
. Proactively communicated and collaborated with business leads to analyze
information needs and functional requirements and deliver the artifacts
like Functional Requirement document, Use Cases, Mock -- up Screens, and
Interface designs.
. Defined new loan products, interfaces with other systems and in-house web
applications and regulatory changes.
. Defined the new workflow application environment used to provide business
process management with the additional modules.
. Monitored and assisted in designing and development of Use Cases,
Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using MS Visio.
. Identified, researched, analyzed, defined and documented Business
Processes after doing a Business Process Reengineering and Use Case
Scenarios.
. Performed Gap Analysis by identifying existing technologies, documented
the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
Axis Bank (Integrated Contact Management System) - 4 months
. Interviewed clients & all involved stakeholders towards requirements
efficiency.
. Involved in business process re-engineering and workflow architecture.
. Designed and developed the test plans.
. Developed test cases after analyzing the specifications document.
Executive - Project Management
2005 - 2006
Hurix Systems Private Limited, Chennai, India
Hurix Systems Private Limited is a global eLearning consulting & solutions
company with operations in the United States and India.
Reported to the Regional Head, led a team of 4 to 6 towards planning,
assessment and execution of projects in close association with the clients.
Projects included IT services (Content Management & Performance
Development) to clients based out of US.
. Created project plans to identify key deliverables, interfaced with the
design team to iterate conceptual designs using data modelling
techniques, defined project scope, schedule and milestones that ensured
on time delivery and to budget of projects.
. Monitored project progress, reported against project milestones and
placed corrective action whenever required.
. Reviewed change requests, prepared action plans and collected work
performance information as part of the project execution process.
Developer - Software
2002
IT-GATE Solutions Private Limited, Chennai, India
IT GATE Solutions Private Limited based out of India is a software
application development company with a focus on Infrastructure management
applications.
Designed and developed a Project tracking/Management solution capable of
reporting the efforts, desired and drill down reporting mechanisms
integrating with the customer's intranet site.
EDUCATION
Masters in Business Administration (IT Systems & Marketing)
2005
Symbiosis Deemed University, Pune, India
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication)
2002
Madras University, Chennai, India
SKILLS
. Business Areas: Retail / Corporate Banking (Internet Banking), Financial
Services, Retail and Capital Markets
. Business Skills: Resource Management, Requirements Gathering and
Analysis, Strategic Planning
. Soft Skills: Interviewing, Mentoring and Supervising employees,
Delivering presentations to Clients, Team Management, Brainstorming for
Gathering Business and Functional Requirements
. Web Technologies -- HTML, JavaScript, XML
. Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational suite of
applications (Rose, RequisitePro, Clearcase & Clearquest), Share Point
. Languages: C, C++, SQL, PL/ SQL, Java, J2EE
. Databases: SQL, MS Access, Oracle v 7.x, 8.x, 9x
. Methodologies:-- Rational Unified Process (RUP), USDP (Unified Software
Development Process), SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
. Miscellaneous-- Unified Modeling Language (UML), Lotus Notes,
Dreamweaver, TOAD for Oracle, Adobe Photoshop
VISA STATUS
Authorized to work for any employer in US
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