Project Manager

Location:

San Jose, CA, 95132

Posted:

May 21, 2013

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Resume:

Swarna Rekha PMP

********@*****.***, Mob: 408-***-****

Summary

. Seasoned IT professional with more than 6 years of experience

providing top-notch services in Business Analysis and QA

. Worked closely with various project stakeholders, SMEs, and

cross functional teams to understand and document business

requirements, functional requirements, and design

specifications for new applications along with enhancements

to the existing applications

. Strong focus delivery management, testing methodologies,

extensive technical documentation, training end users and

project management

. Enthusiastic & quick learner, highly motivated, pro-active,

problem solver and independent team player

. Customer centric, committed to deliver in time with quality

in every tasks including personal interaction with peers and

users

CERTIFICATIONS

. PMP Certified from PMI institute (PMI No.: 1606263)

EDUCATION

. Bachelors of Technology in Biotechnology, 2007

. VTU, India

Competencies

. Exceptional analysis skills with an ability to transform the

needs of business into functional/technical requirements

. Adept at preparing business requirements documents (BRD's),

defining project plans, writing system requirements

specifications, and delivering project/status reports.

. Lead and worked with teams to examine and solve business

problems by accurately analysing the needs of clients and

helping them achieve improved quality and value

. Expert in analysing, designing, and reengineering systems

applications and business processes

. Experience in management of requirements throughout the

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

. Have worked with Agile Scrum Methodology, planning of sprints

. Possess reasonable understanding of different relational

databases, writing simple SQL queries, creating tables, and

generating reports

. Familiar with testing tools to design and develop test plans

and test scripts and good at quickly learning technologies

and systems that are organization/project specific

. Good understanding of functional aspects of SAP-ERP with

focus on procurement and logistics

. Experience in new process technology implementation and

training, and conducting system and user acceptance test

. Experienced in Project management activities including

resourcing, finance, operations, administration, co-

ordination and training activities

. Proficient in planning resource requirements, utilization and

staffing

. Participated in Pre sales discussions to understand and

record business requirements

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Functional Analyst

. Developed and prepared functional specifications for

software development

. Researched, analyzed, and documented both internal and

external client requirements for specification and user

interface development

. Acted as a liaison between technical and business units to

ensure requirements are met, and were being met

. Worked with software developers to complete and verify design

. Provided input and estimates towards opportunity assessments

with costing and time

Business Analyst

. Researched and prepared impact assessments on requested

projects

. Gathered requirements from product owners and external

clients to ensure accurate assessment information

. Participated in all stages of requirements gathering and

management, and client acceptance phases, from RFP to

implementation

. Performed gap analysis on products vs. requirements

. Created use cases for quality assurance test team utilization

and client information

. Developed and implemented structured processes for BA,

development, and QA groups

. Provided workflow presentation to various levels of staff,

both project and product areas

. Gathered and presented information to senior staff and

shareholders to allow for a decision on the direction of the

company product and target markets

. Facilitated sessions with external vendors to determine

communication methods and data extraction details

. Created User Acceptance Test cases and plans

. Worked with customers (internal and external) to complete

execution of User Acceptance Testing to ensure successfully

project delivery

Analyst Project Team Management

. Managed group of four functional analysts for project

documentation and deliverables during a large project

. Oversaw document review meetings

. Developed processes and templates for project deliverables

and documents

. Put forward recommendations and performed edits on

specifications

. Assigned tasks to analyst project team members, facilitated

sessions with external vendors to determine communication

methods and data extraction details

Skills

. Requirement management tools : requisite pro, clearquest

. Defect management tools : Quality center, clearquest

. Modelling tools : Visio and UML

. Utilities : MS office suite

. ERP-SAP: Good functional knowledge of MM module

. Familiar with SAP-CRM

Experience

Business/Process Analyst for Hi-Tech, Auto and Aero sub-vertical

HCL Technologies

February 2011 - September 2012

Honda Manufacturing

Greenwich implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 in Honda

manufacturing unit

Responsibilities

. Understand what the business does and how it is done, Gather

and document requirements from project owners and external

clients to ensure accurate assessment information

. Participated in all stages of requirements gathering,

management and client acceptance phases from RFP to

implementation

. Serve as a liaison between functional consultants for

defining the requirements and the development team/QA teams

responsible for implementing them

. Built cohesive and efficient project team with shared

resources from multiple cross-functional teams and sites for

data migration issues from legacy systems

. Worked with Agile/Scrum methodology, involved in setting up

sprint goals and stand-up meetings

. Assist in product backlog and prioritize requirements for

upcoming sprints

. Coordinating with other teams, like ABAP - technical team for

the realization of the technical solution, writing

functional specifications etc.,

. Responsible for maintaining roadmaps and Business Case

Analysis documents

. Confirmed the Change Control Process (DCR's - Design Change

Requests & Requirements Changes)

. Review Change Control for significant scope changes and

communicate needed changes to development team

. Work items are tracked by APSE

. Responsible for developing and maintaining process for

obtaining, analysing and reporting risk information

. Co-ordinate testing efforts with QA

. Involved in analysis of Test Plans and Test cases, detecting

bugs in the system, preparing the Defect reports using Test

Director and interacted with developers for Debugging

. UAT Test case review and responsible for training plan,

validation review and training material creation

. Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and

resolved in a timely manner

. Conducted various sessions, weekly meetings and walkthroughs

with management team, analysts, system staff and developers

to communicate their perspective with each other

. Send Go-Live communications (to respective stakeholders)

. Participate in weekly meetings with management to inform

stakeholders of overall project progress

. Develop PowerPoint presentations for District Manager for

monthly meetings with upper management

. Used tools such as MS-Visio, Excel to define business use

cases, activity diagrams, and sequence and state diagrams

Cessna, KN

Implementation of iMRO to enhance the SAP user interface to

meet industry requirements in areas of maintenance

engineering, planning and operations for Cessna Aircrafts

Responsibilities

. Gathered and documented critical business requirements and

customer requirements (CRD) and sign off, involved in initial

RFP discussions and analysis gathering

. Involved in assessing the impact of iMRO solution to

existing environment and document the changes

. Conducted JAD sessions- weekly meetings and walkthroughs with

the management team, analysts, system staff and developers to

communicate their perspectives with each other.

. Working closely with key stakeholders and IT personnel to

define the objectives, scope, budget, resource needs, and

success criteria associated with the project

. Work items were tracked by APSE

. Responsible for developing and maintaining the processes for

obtaining, analysing and reporting risk information.

. Reviews work for corrections, adherence to standards, and

quality assurance requirements, and for progress in

accordance with schedules

. Track work progress on daily basis and report to customer and

senior management

. Monitor and control the projects to ensure efficient

utilization of resources across different accounts

. Plan and continue Project infrastructure Setup, Maintenance &

improvements

. Manage agendas and meeting recaps in Project Senior

Management Review's, Operation discussions, Escalation

meetings and team meetings

. Co-ordination of overall project quality standards between

the project manager and any internal or external quality

personnel or standards organization

. Send Go-Live communications (to respective stakeholders)

. Managing scope, budgets, schedules, and documentation

EMC, MA

Support implementation of SAP ECC 6.0, in finance, sales and

logistics, CRM, SRM. Global implementation of SAP is in

progress with pilot being functional

Responsibilities

. Analysed and documented Business Requirements and detail

design of the software for a thorough understanding of the

business

. Participate in JAD sessions- periodic meetings and

walkthrough

. Establishing Communication protocol and teaming for offshore

working

. Analyse existing Business units, Business process, System/

Application and there Interfaces with their capability

. Worked closely with key stakeholders and IT personnel to

define the objectives, scope, budget, resource needs, and

success criteria associated with proposed and approved

projects

. Working closely with Quality and other key stakeholders to

define business needs for data migration from oracle systems

. Facilitating communication and alignment across business

functions and department lines for data migration from legacy

systems

. Maintain strict adherence to internal policies and internal

controls within organization

. Facilitating IT governance processes by providing regular

project status updates and tracking spend against approved

budget

. Analysed system requirements and developed Test Plans,

involved in developing Test Scripts for testing

. Design management standards, prepare training programs for

projects and maintain all system protocols according to

required quality

. Used quality centre for defect logging and tracking

. Assists in enforcement of project timelines, deliverables and

facilitate risks, delays and impacts

. Prepare and evaluate development progress reports to ensure

accuracy as per plan and highlight the deviations

. Participate in development of Process metrics and evaluate

all corrective and preventive measures

. Identify the team as per the skillset planned within the

required timeframe, co-ordinate on boarding & Roll off

(Access, Asset allocation, Assignation, etc.)

Celestica, TX

Provided SAP deployment and support, customized Celestica's

SAP Suite in a global delivery model across Asia, North

America and Europe

Responsibilities

. Process financial transactions per schedule- Monthly revenue

forecasting, pre-billing, cost-reports, Invoicing and

operational parameters

. Provide supporting data and reports for various Senior

management & client visit presentations

. Program-level Risks, Issues and Actions, Asset Management

. Co-ordination of overall project quality standards between

the project manager and any internal or external quality

personnel or standards organization

. Co-ordination activities during client meetings, internal

engagement (Client / Axon / Internal)

. Review and help in creating request responses on resourcing

and pricing

. Co-ordination in Visa processing

. Facilitate team interaction activities (Birthday celebration,

Team outing etc.)

. Conduct fresher grooming programs and initiatives within the

sub-vertical

. Create & Publish Sub-vertical Quarterly Newsletter

Software Engineer in JDE practice

Wipro Technologies

January 2007 - January 2011

Cargill Inc, MN

Provided JDE Worldsoft, Oneworld, Non-JDE warehouse and .net development,

Maintenance and Support services to Cargill

Responsibilities

. Conducted Joint application Development (JAD) sessions and

brainstorming sessions with management, SME, vendors, users

and other stakeholders for open and pending issues

. Arranging process validation workshop for creating "As-is"

document and getting sign-off of "To-be" document

. Created Use Case Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams, in MS

Visio.

. Assess and make recommendations to improve the effectiveness

and functionality of information systems usage that include

business processes or workflow

. Preparation of development functional specification

. Created and executed SQL queries to view and update data in

tables

. Created and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix

to map project requirements to test cases and scripts

. Responsible for quality reporting, analysis and auditing of

data

. Mentored user community during the User Acceptance Testing

(UAT) phase and served as a bridge between user community and

testing team to ensure user needs were met during UAT

. Creation of User Training manual

. Participate, track and record release management meetings and

co-ordinate with different teams for on-time delivery

. Participate and report in weekly and monthly problem

management meetings

. Involved in cost, resource estimations for development

activities

. Contract management, add and remove programs following the

change requests and additional projects

. Monthly pre-billing and cost-reports, complex invoicing

process in Wipro; involving various regions- North America/

Brazil/Argentina/Mexico/Malaysia

. Collection and verification of project metrics dashboard

data, Monthly program-level dashboard

. Management for project policies, procedures, templates, and