Project Management

BHASKAR CHOWDHURY, PMP, ITIL

**** ********* **** ***** ********** OH 43110 614-***-****

***********@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/bhaskarchowdhury

GLOBAL IT PORTFOLIO-PROGRAM-PROJECT PROFESSIONAL

TECHNOLOGY INSURANCE FINANCE CONSULTING

COMPETENCIES

Budgets and P&L Administration Customer Service & Satisfaction Training & Development

Business Development Quality Assurance Cross Cultural Collaborations

Strategic & Tactical Planning Revenue & Profit Growth Rational Unified Process

Vendor Sourcing & Negotiations Portfolio Management Applications Development

Resource & Demand Management IT Project / Program Management Systems Integration

RFP & ROI Project Financial Management Technology Needs Assessment

Risks & Issues Management PMO Operations & Management Software Development & Lifecycle

Cross Functional Leadership Leadership & Team Building Six Sigma

Clarity Primavera MS Project MS Visio MS Office Oracle J2EE

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Developed portfolio, program & project management processes within EPMO to support all lines of

business and corporate functions, that created consistency, increased predictability and throughput

for all projects and programs, increasing efficiency and reducing cost by 17% - 22%

Developed a program office to support an $87MM transformational program

With a team of systems architects, developed an alternative architecture to make Nationwide PCI-

DSS (payment card industry - data security standard) compliant that saved over $500K in total

project cost

Delivered $200K in cost savings and accomplished project goals through efficient solution

deployment strategy in a multi-state product rollout

Defined project management job descriptions and skill/development needs for Project Management

career path progression, which brought about consistency in roles and responsibilities across

organization

On a corporate level, helped develop and implement corporate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to

manage and measure high visible strategic IT programs

Implemented data warehouse system using IBM’s Insurance Information Warehouse framework

that enabled corporate marketing to launch successful campaign resulting in 11% growth in

business through cross sell and up sell

Introduced a portfolio governance model and portfolio management tool that enabled organization to

eliminate $10MM annually in project write-offs

Establishing a software development lifecycle, quality assurance process and governance review

reducing the application defect rate by 250%

Led SOX and HIPAA compliance effort, developing policies for technical controls and audit procedures

for environment management

Originated a Business Intelligence (BI) team in challenging times enabling the company to cross-sell

and up-sell products

Led Technology integration and configuration to support business expansion after merger reducing

business cost by 40%

Navigated cultural and language barriers to build consensus throughout executive and internal team

for outsourcing contract; reducing project development cost by 33%

Saved over $300K (28%) annually on payment processing through strategic forecasts and

negotiations for enterprise-level agreement

Developed financial management operating procedure (run book) for projects and IT operations for

all lines of business and corporate functions to ensure timely forecasting and proper management of

IT investments

Established rapport with client resulting a business growth of 500%

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH 2005 – 2009

(A Fortune 100, full-range insurance company with over $157B in assets, specializing in auto, life,

health, term life, and home insurance products)

Director, IT Program Management

Physicians Mutual Insurance Co, Omaha, NE 2004 – 2004

(Multiple Insurance provider for Medical Professionals & life Insurance provider for individuals in all

walks of life)

Program Manager

Mutual of Omaha, Omaha, NE 2002 – 2004

(A Fortune 500 insurance and financial service company, with revenue over $4B, provides insurance

and financial products for individuals, and businesses)

Lead Decision Support Analyst, Business Intelligence (BI)

Aquent/Renaissance Worldwide Inc, Omaha, NE 1996 – 2002

(A major marketing staffing firm with 72 offices in 17 countries and over 13,500 professionals

working at more than 3,000 Fortune 1000 companies)

SR. Consultant

EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & PUBLICATIONS

BS Economics

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application

MBA with MIS emphasis completion in August 2009

Agile Project Management & Next Generation PMO – PMI

Six Sigma for Management- IIL

Rational Unified Process certification- Rational University

Project Management Professional certification- PMI

ITIL v3 certification- EXIN

"Doing the right project - Doing the project right" - PM Boulevard, Sept 4th, 2005

Contributing author of PMI's "Work Breakdown Standards" &

"Project Management Competence Development Framework"

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