DEVENDER VIDHANI

Mobile: 678-***-**** ~ E-Mail: ac10dg@r.postjobfree.com

Work Authorization: Permanent Resident (Green Card) Cover Letter

I am applying for open position in your esteemed organization and I strongly believe that my skills, experience and educational background help me to contribute effectively. During my career span I received various rewards and recognitions for my exceptional work, Quality and team building initiatives.

I respect your time and effort. Looking forward to have opportunity to introduce myself and understand more about open position in your prestigious organization. Key strength that makes me suitable for job opportunity :

Perfect blend of managerial and technical capabilities.

Lead 5 -10 million dollars software development and/or maintenance engagement.

Participated in RFP, Contract Proposal phase and documented SOWs.

Managed projects in Waterfall SDLC (Stage & Gate approach) as well as Agile- Scrum methodology.

Facilitated Scrum-Agile meetings (Daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews & retrospectives).

Ensured delivery of projects in compliance with time, quality and budgetary constraints.

Effectively Collaborated with globally located stakeholders in multi-vendor engagement.

Organized project kick-off meetings to go over project objectives, milestones, work plan, communication plan, success criteria, exit criteria for each gate reviews.

Hands on project management tools such as Clarity, Microsoft Project, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel and Pivoting.

Strong exposure & involvement in Nextgen technologies, Cloud Computing, Big data, Data warehousing, Data visualization.

Technically competent in proposing Architectural design in various technology stakes.

Proactively engaged stakeholders, provided timely, relevant, and transparent weekly project status as well as and facilitated monthly Project Reviews with leadership team.

Served as liaison between leadership team, business analyst, solutions architects, development & testers.

Ability to multi-task, managed competing priorities, meeting deadlines and prioritizes tasks.

Committed & target oriented approach towards assignments. Thank you very much for your time and consideration in advance. Sincerely,

Devender Vidhani

DEVENDER VIDHANI

Mobile: 678-***-**** ~ E-Mail: ac10dg@r.postjobfree.com Work Authorization: Permanent Resident (Green Card) Summary

IT Management professional having 17+ years of experience in managing & delivering Big Data, Data Warehousing, OLTP and CRM project in Banking, Retail, Healthcare and T&H domain for USA, New Zealand and Japan based client partners.

CAREER PROGRESSION

Sr. Manager-Projects Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp Jul 2013 – Jul 2017

Manager-Projects Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp Dec 2009 – Jun 2013

Project Manager Planman Technology India Pvt. Ltd. Dec 2007 – Dec 2009

Associate Project Manager HCL Technologies Ltd. Mar 2003 – Nov 2007

Software Engineer Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. Nov 2000 – Mar 2003

Programmer NIC, India May 1999 – Oct 2000

QUALIFICATIONS

M.B.A. Marketing Yr. 1998

B.E. Computer Science and Engineering Yr. 1996

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Big Data Technologies Big data & Hadoop Fundamentals, Hadoop MapReduce Architecture, Spark, Sqoop, Kafka/Flume, Hive, NOSQL data platforms.

Cloud Computing Salesforce CRM Customization, Implementation & Operational Reporting, Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure. Data Integration Talend, Informatica, Ab-Initio, ODI, MS SSIS/DTS (2008/2005) BI & Analytics Cognos 10.2, OBIEE, Microstrategy, Qlikview, Tableau. Database Oracle 11g/10g/9i, Teradata, Netezza, SQL Server 2008/2005 4GL Oracle Developer 2000, TOAD

Programming Language PLSQL, Java

Other Tools & Techniques

Project Management Microsoft Project, Visio, Office suite, CA Clarity PPM, JIRA, Pivoting

HP- ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)

IBM ClearQuest (change and defect tracking)

Data Modelling Visio, Erwin 4.0, Data Vault

Conf. Management VSS, CVS, Win CVS

STRENGTHS

Perfect blend of managerial and technical skills.

Managed projects using Waterfall SDLC (Stage and Gate approach) as well as Agile Methodology.

Managed multi-million, multi-vendor engagement involving team spread globally.

Ensured delivery of projects in compliance with time, quality and budgetary constraints.

Hands on exposure in Nextgen technologies, Cloud computing.

Hands on exposure in Data Integration and Business Intelligence tools & technologies.

Ability to multi-task manages competing priorities, meeting deadlines and prioritizes tasks

Committed & target oriented approach towards assignments.

Hands on exposure to Nextgen technologies, Cloud computing

Strong exposure to Data Modeling, Metadata Management, Database Capacity planning and configuration.

CERTIFICATIONS & AWARDS

Practitioner & active follower of PMI Project Management processes & Agile-Scrum framework, Stage

& Gate Project Management Methodologies.

Certified Big data Fundamentals, Hadoop Fundamentals awarded by Big data University

Certified Talend Data Integration Developer 6.3.

Certified Bullet Proof Manager; awarded by Crestcom Inc.

Certified Frontline Manager.

Certified Oracle 9i PLSQL Developer Certified Associate (OCA) awarded by Oracle Corporation.

Certificate of Appreciation and Excellence awarded by HCL Technologies Limited.

Certificate of Excellence and Achievement awarded by GERS and Oracle, USA. REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

Client Name Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Orlando, Florida Role Delivery Manager

Project Name sODS Day 1 Downstream Reporting

Duration Oct 2016 – Jul’2017

Tools & Technologies Informatica, OBIEE, Oracle, Erwin Contributions:

Accountable for Project Management planning to ensure deliveries within budget & schedule.

Managed project using Waterfall SDLC (Stage & Gate approach).

Responsible for leading, planning, execution and accomplishing project objectives.

Accountable for monitoring and reconciliation of effort logged against project activities in Clarity.

Monitored and controlled project activities from initiation through delivery and receiving signoff on agreed milestones as per signed Statement of work (SoW).

Estimated effort and finalized onshore offshore resource loading to finalize contract pricing.

Participation in requirement gathering and scoping of data integration & OBIEE reports.

Finalization of change data captures (CDC) and retention policy for system of records.

Manage timely review and acceptance sign-off of milestones deliverables by stakeholders.

Shared weekly project status and presented status during management reviews.

Established change management process to avoid scope creep and ensure approved changes are adjusted in scope baseline.

Client Name Kimberly Clark, Wisconsin

Role Technical Project Manager

Project Name MMM/DMM Analytics Data Store

Duration Jun 2016 – Sep’2016

Tools & Technologies Big Data, Microsoft BI

Contributions:

Accountable for Project Management planning to ensure deliveries within budget & schedule.

Managed project both in Hybrid approach - Waterfall SDLC (Stage & Gate approach).

Discovery of identified 115 data sources MMM/DMM structured & un-structured data sources.

Responsible for documenting scope statement after detailed analysis of MMM/DMM data sources.

Managing onshore & offshore interactions with leadership team, solution architects, BAs

Share Big data Point of value (PoV) and proposed Big data Architecture.

High level data harmonization based on discussion with business SME’s and data agencies.

Defining security classification level for data entity/element.

Build/update logical data model and architectural diagrams.

Defining retention policy associated with the data and its attributes.

Resolved and/or escalated project risks whenever necessary.

Collected and shared weekly project status with stakeholders. Client Name JP Morgan Chase, Columbus, Ohio

Role Technical Project Manager

Project Name Data management strategy; Data Management Council- CB Duration Sep 2013 – Jun 2016

Tools & Technologies Informatica, Teradata, Cognos Report Studio, ALM, JIRA Contributions:

Accountable for Project Management planning to ensure deliveries within budget & schedule.

Managed project both in Waterfall SDLC (Stage & Gate approach) & in Agile methodology.

Facilitated Scrum-Agile meetings (Daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews & retrospectives).

Accountable for monitoring and reconciliation of effort logged against project activities in Clarity.

Monitor team schedules and ensure coordination of activities on the critical path.

Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, Weekly & monthly status reporting (incl. accomplishments, forthcoming goals, risks, issues) with stakeholders.

Acts as a liaison between business SMEs, data modeller, technical analysts, development & QA team and channelized team deliveries appropriately.

Certification of critical data elements (CDEs) scoped as per mandate imposed by Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Maintained Issue logs, Change logs and Risk register for project.

Participated in user acceptance testing and testing of new & existing functionalities.

Established effort estimates and project plan alignment with agreed project timelines.

Ensured quality deliverables adhering to SDLC process with proper documentations.

Mentoring team to ensure successful accomplishment of project objectives. Client Name Firstdata Inc. Memphis, Tennessee

Role Technical Project Manager

Project Name Clientline to Cognos; IRS 1099K Sales Summaries; Symphony IDW Duration Apr 2011 – Sep 2013

Technologies Ab-Intio, UNIX, DB2, Netezza, Cognos 8.4 Contributions:

Managed project using Waterfall SDLC (Stage & Gate approach).

Lead ETL effort to implement common framework to load daily summarized transactions in Netezza (approx. 2.5 billion) sourcing feed from identified seven platforms and automated monthly extraction process based on Merchant request file.

Lead ETL (DI layer for approx. 50 copybook feeds) and BI (42 legacy reports rationalized to 20 Cognos reports) effort and ensured quality deliverables adhering to SDLC process with proper documentations.

Designed and implemented report scheduling proof of concept using Cognos SDK.

Establish project plan and ensure deliveries as per agreed timelines.

Manage day to day interaction with leadership team, multiple vendors and independent contractors.

Lead ETL effort for financial data mart involving mid-sized onsite-offshore team (incl. Customer, Product, Activity and Revenue subject areas) fed from data vault (enterprise level data repository) and MDM for merchant profile reporting.

Lead effort for enterprise solution for Auditing and exception handling.

Channelizing deliverables after close interaction with SAs, BAs, Development and testing team.

Share consolidated weekly status report (incl. accomplishments, risks, issues) with stakeholders.

Maintaining Issue logs, Risk register for project and making sure timely mitigation.

Based on Effort-estimate on-boarding resources to ensure deliveries within budget and timeline.

Ensured quality deliverables adhering to SDLC process with proper documentations.

Mentoring ETL and BI team to ensure the successful accomplishment of project objectives.

Maintaining and tracking Changes, Issue logs, Risk register and ensuring timely resolution.

CR’s and making sure it’s implemented as per prioritizations in various environments. Client Name HealthNet Inc., California

Role Project Manager

Project Name ClaimSphere - HealthCare Solution

Duration Dec’ 2009 – Mar’2010

Technologies Informatica 8.6.0, BO XI R3, Xcelcius 2008, Oracle 10g Contributions:

Managed project using Waterfall SDLC approach (Stage & Gate approach).

Managed various project initiations, planning, monitoring and closure activities.

Mentored team as ETL architect; helped in resolving performance bottlenecks in ADS aggregates load(prime source of dashboard reporting)

Share consolidated weekly status report (incl. accomplishments, risks, issues) with stakeholders.

Interfacing with solution architect, data architect, BA and channelized project deliverables.

Contributed towards project management and quality compliance processes.

PM verification of project deliverables.

Client Name GiveIndia, India

Role Project Manager

Project Name Statistical Analysis and Reporting; Data synchronization (ETL Solution) Duration Dec 2007 – Nov 2009

Technologies Salesforce CRM, MSSQL 2008 (SSIS, SSRS) Contributions:

Handled various project initiation activities like Cost estimation, requirement gathering, defining project scope, planning and designing of overall solution.

Managed project using Waterfall approach (Stage & Gate approach).

Lead ETL & BI effort and ensured quality deliverables adhering to SDLC process with proper documentations.

Mentored as ETL architect helped in resolving performance bottlenecks in aggregation logic.

Architected ETL process flow (maintaining execution log, error log and real time synchronization).

Interfacing with solution architect, data architect, BA and channelized project deliverables.

Share consolidated weekly status report (incl. accomplishments, risks, issues) with stakeholders.

Vital contributions towards performance tuning of Xcelcius dashboard within defined SLA’s.

Contribution towards project management, organizational activities and quality compliance processes.

Managed various project initiations, planning, monitoring and closure activities.

SPOC for the client interactions, proposing logical and functional flow ETL as per reporting needs.

Designed database architecture and data flow for daily/monthly data feeds.

Maintaining Issue logs, Risk register for project and making sure timely mitigation.

Ensured quality deliverables adhering to SDLC process with proper documentations.

PM verification of deliverables; involved in reviewing project documentation, test plans. Client Name Fonterra, New Zealand

Role Associate Project Manager

Project Name Enterprise Management System

Duration Mar 2006 – Nov 2007

Technologies Cognos 7.2, Developer 2000, Oracle 9i PLSQL, ODW 9.2 Contributions:

Responsible for managing onsite/offshore team, maintaining budget and invoicing.

Managed project using Waterfall approach (Stage & Gate approach).

Participated in outsourcing deal, Knowledge transfer and staff management planning.

Responsible for defining scope and finalizing requirements

Responsible for end to end deliveries of projects as per approved project work plan and budget.

Managed project risks and issues proactively; escalated based on need.

Responsible for maintaining projects SLA reports and sharing same with project stakeholders.

Responsible for proposing logical and technical solution; implemented approved solutions.

Responsible for reviewing project documentation for each and every project deliveries.

Allocating project tasks to Onsite/offshore team members to get optimized output.

Implementing defined process & maintaining quality standards.

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