Project Manager

GEETHA RAJA

**********@*****.*** 602-***-****

Executive Summary

* ***** ** ********** ** gathering and documenting of high-level business requirements and

detailed software requirements specification.

Proficient in converting the requirements into effective business design for large, medium and

small applications.

Expertise in understanding the business needs, defining a creative and useful software

solution to the management, implementing and training the application to the user community.

Extensive experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Joint

Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions and interviews.

Team lead skills encompassing user interviews, coordination with Tech Lead, DBA’s, Developers,

QA/QC Analysts during the design phase.

Extensive experience in analyzing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) by gathering

Business Requirements and Expectations from Subject Matter Experts (SME) and defining

business processes, identifying risks, Feasibility Analysis and Impact analysis.

Experience in performing Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system

infrastructure with the new business requirements.

Adept in system development life cycle (SDLC) development, involved in all phases of

development from requirements gathering, business case development and maintenance,

defining strategic solutions in business needs using different Models and different Agile

Methodologies.

Proficient in preparing Business and System Use Cases and supporting all the documents with

UML Diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow

Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Process Flows (Business and System) using UML modeling tools.

Well versed in project management tool (MS Project) for status reporting, planning and

resource allocation.

Experienced in analysis of complex business problems; prioritizing, translating, organizing and

documenting problem to the technical team.

Skilled in creating Test Approach documents, test plans, test scenarios, test procedures, test

cases, test data. Successfully fixed errors and performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) working

with team members.

Good skills in Technical writing, written end user manuals, installation/maintenance manuals.

Highly motivated and a self starter with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

EDUCATION

Master’s Degree in Business Economics.

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Intraedge Sep2007- Mar 2009

Business Analyst

Worked for a leading investment firm serving the financial needs of corporations, institutions,

governments and high net worth investors worldwide. It deals with variety of services ranging from

Credit Risk Management, Equities, Fixed Income, Global Economics, e-Commerce, Investment Banking,

Ops & Corp Services, Private Client Services and Private Equity. The project that I was working on was

called Portfolio Management System. Portfolio Management System allows the user to get a view of

the comprehensive account summary that shows the portfolio value, cash balance, and securities held in

all of the Ameritrade accounts. Furthermore, it gives detailed information for a particular account, such

as portfolio holdings, realized gains and losses.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for continuous process improvement and for identifying and maintaining a clear and

measurable Development Process that is deployable throughout the enterprise.

Assisted project team in the static prototype development of new information processing

application.

Facilitated collection of requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement

documents that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop

Dynamic/Working prototype and overall system.

Gather Business Requirements, analyze data/workflows. Defined the scope, financial projections

and Cost/benefit analysis. Progressed from Problem Statement to well-documented designs.

Assisted Project Teams in preparing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Software Design

Documents (SDD), User Interface Design, designing of Application Architecture & Database

Modeling.

Worked as an Interface between the users and the different teams involved in the application

development for better understanding of the business and IT processes.

Analyze Business Requirements from Black Box testing perspective. Reviewed Test Strategy and Test

Plans to ensure that test cases reflect user needs for the functional, User Interface, Performance,

Usability and Security requirements.

Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose to create: Use Cases, Activity Diagrams,

Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams.

Involved in generation of test data inputs for both positive and negative data to enhance Recovery/

Failover testing.

Coordinated work plan between project manager and client with Microsoft Project; implemented

and managed migration process & developer fixes; retested fixes; scheduled and tracked progress

for team members of project through completion.

Coordinated and Schedule Project Meetings, Captured and Published Meeting Agenda, Minutes etc.

Establish Incident Reporting and Change Control procedures using ClearQuest.

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Piedmont Federal, Winston Salem Mar2006 – Aug2007

Business Analyst

Worked on an integrated online transaction processing system, which includes online banking and

mortgage loan processing application. Piedmont Federal is a diversified banking, financial and mortgage

company that provides a broad range of financial operations. Their online service allows customers to

carry out a standard banking operations such as bill payment, funds transfer between accounts, and

balance checks. Based on existing forms and new requirement identification, systems were defined and

developed to retrieve existing customer data from legacy systems, capture new data related to

mortgage and then connect to credit history agencies. The project used RUP process as methodology.

The online services provided 4 different sections in all: online banking, online bill pay, online mortgage

loan processing and online brokerage.

Responsibilities

Played an active and lead role in gathering, analyzing, and writing business requirements.

Worked with the Business Team (Branch Managers, Accounts Department, Financial Analysts) to

collect the business reporting, reporting standards, security and service level requirements and

documented them in Business Requirement Document.

Responsible for defining and documenting the scope as part of the requirements gathering task.

Collected and documented the business processes and business rules, translated the Business

and User needs into System requirements.

Created Use Case Models, Analysis Models, Design Models, Implementation Models, Use Case

Diagrams, Behavior Diagrams (sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, activity diagrams)

and Class Diagrams based on UML methodology using MS Visio.

Directed and managed the Change Control process for the project as a whole by facilitating

group meetings, one-on-one interviews and JAD sessions with the Business and IT Team

members.

Gather and document the Impact Assessment on the project, due to change request, from the

work stream owners and the project management team, in terms of man days and project

duration.

Maintained a dashboard on the Project website to keep track of the change request submitted

and categorized them as active, approved, deferred or rejected.

Coordinated with the plan owners to update the project plans with any impact due to a change

request. Verify if the contingency plan will absorb any delay in project due to change request.

Worked with the software architects/developers to ensure that the application conforms to

customer requirements.

Developed the Test Scenarios, test plan, test conditions and test cases to be used in testing

based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge. Tested the

application and reported the bugs to the development team.

Conducted project related presentations and provided reports to the higher management.

Interacted with the Helpdesk team to investigate and resolve production issues.

PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE

Worked as Investment Analyst for 3 years for a leading financial organization.

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