Project Manager Management

PRADEEP KRISHNANNAIR

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Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 **********@*****.*** Home: 908-***-****

• SR. TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MANAGER • IT STRATEGY EXECUTIVE A result oriented leader with a proven track record in creating business value through implementation of information technology solutions and business process improvements. Expertise in overseeing technology improvement initiatives and aligning technology services with business goals. Experienced in leading enterprise- wide implementations. Background in consulting and Project Management. Excellent problem-solving and leadership skills. MS in Management Information Systems (MIS), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

• Data Warehousing • Business Intelligence • Predictive Analytics • Solution Development • Agile Scrum • SAFe

• DevOps • Release Management • Change Management • IT Operations • Business Continuity • IT Security

• Vulnerability Assessment & Remediation • Compliance • Business Process Automation • Cost Control

• Strategic Planning • Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President, Citigroup Inc. Warren, NJ (May 2004 to June 2017)

• Delivered enterprise-wide projects such HR Workforce Reporting application with an aggressive and challenging schedule while working with stringent budget constraints.

• Managed and drove priorities for HR Transformation switching from HR Departments to Finance aligned entities for workforce reporting, as SME for business intelligence technology (Oracle Essbase).

• Managed team on complex global projects spanning multiple technologies, and shared technology environments. This includes managing project milestones, communicating / escalating risks and issues with stakeholders, pursuing mitigation strategies and exploring continuous improvement.

• Deployed proven project management methodologies (Agile, Iterative and Waterfall). Developed and delivered integrated project plans and facilitated escalation to keep critical items on track, leveraging experience in Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including key areas such as Requirements Gathering, Technical Design and User Acceptance Testing.

• Managed Continuity of Business (COB) testing, Vulnerability Assessment testing, and Systems load testing for optimal performance, and drove issues remediation in these areas.

• Contributed to annual budget process and managed Project Tracking System work for Projects / Book of Work.

• Experienced PMP certificate holder (PMP # 505185) in good standing from 2008 to 2018. Project Manager / Testing Manager: Non-Employee cross-Platform Integration Services (NExIS)

• Managed Agile (Scrum) development project to replace Non-Employee Management Systems’ PeopleSoft EPM middleware component that is end of vendor service, with a homegrown middleware (NExIS) on Linux cloud using TIBCO for scheduling/messaging, EBX5 for Master Data Management and Java code for applying business rules for data validation. • Project integrates Worker Synchronization and Global Invoice processing functions among SaaS vendor application Fieldglass, HR Global Data Warehouse and Procure 2 Pay applications. • Project leveraged DevOps tools such as SVN for source code repository, Maven and Ant for builds and Jenkins for continuous integration. • Managed hiring / work of offshore/onshore development & testing teams. Project Manager: Workforce Reporting and Campus Recruiting MicroStrategy Dashboard Projects

• Created Engagement Matrix for collaboration between Global Functions Technology Services (GFTS) and Institutional Client Group (ICG). • Managed optimization of HR Technology’s MicroStrategy Shared Technology Environment (STE) for Workforce Reporting and Campus Recruiting Dashboards by sizing STE thru load testing, and calendarizing for seasonality. • Managed conversion of Business Objects XI R3 reports to MicroStrategy versions 10.2 & 10.4. • Performed Proof of Concept for consuming HR Workforce Cube (Essbase) from MicroStrategy. • Met with MicroStrategy CTO and technical team to discuss product limitations vis-à-vis reporting needs. • Attended MicroStrategy Symposium Series covering Industry Solutions, Analytics, Mobility and Security. • Participated in hands-on MicroStrategy workshops on Enterprise Data Discovery, Mobile Productivity Apps, Predictive Analytics with R, and Visualizations with D3. • Managed Security module development for MicroStrategy dashboards integrating Citi’s Employee Entitlement Management System

(EEMS) with Citi Marketplace.

Development Lead / Project Manager – HR Cube Project Designed, developed and delivered HR Cube using Oracle & Essbase for Ad Hoc reporting capability in Workforce Reporting application used by over 4000 HR Managers globally at Citi, partnering with the HR business team to reengineer ad hoc reporting processes, and to eliminate manual processing by implementing automation. Designed and developed model, rules, process and workflow using Oracle Essbase Integration Service, Essbase Application Service, Oracle database, PeopleSoft EPM, Stat and Autosys. Project was rolled out globally to HR Managers on target and within budget. Challenge was to combine 3 separate Cognos cubes (HR, Training, and Performance Rating) into one Essbase Cube, while staying in sync with multiple Business Objects Standard Reports driven from a disparate set of database artifacts. Project Manager – Workforce Reporting Application Upgrade Project Managed Business Objects upgrade project, a tech-mandated project to address end of vendor service on deprecated versions of Business Objects and Oracle Essbase, and to align with company-wide initiative to exit platforms that were being sunset such as Solaris, Weblogic, and IPlanet in favor of AIX, WebSphere and IHS. Project was complicated by the challenges around managing contending priorities of ongoing development projects on Weblogic platform, even as custom built functionality for Weblogic was being retrofitted for WebSphere, with IHS integration replacing SiteMinder for Single Sign-On. Project manager: SSO Integration for Global Data Warehouse & Workforce Reporting with Citi for You Designed, developed and delivered integration of user security information for Global Data Warehouse, Workforce Reporting and Leader Dashboard applications, ensuring a seamless user experience while replacing PeopleSoft Employee Portal with Dot Net platform.

Project Manager - Continuity of Business / Vulnerability Assessments (VA) & Remediation Performed Disaster Recovery tests for Global Data Warehouse and Workforce Reporting applications - a key function for the Data Warehouse, the golden source for over 300 downstream systems. • Managed mandatory application vulnerability assessment requirements for HR Data Warehouse and Workforce Reporting applications in line with Compliance standards.

Consultant / Project Lead in Center of Excellence (COE), Citigroup Installed, configured Hyperion Essbase, PeopleSoft, ETL and NDM (Network Data Mover) systems for Global Data Warehouse (GDW) and Financial Reporting Systems (FRS), following best practices & SDLC methodology. Provided production assurance support to GDW and FRS systems, and drove continuous improvement. Consultant at Texas Instruments (TI)

(Systems Analyst / Project Manager at JAECORP Inc. Dallas, TX – Feb 1999 to Jul 2003) Donned many hats as Systems Analyst, Oracle & Hyperion Developer-DBA, Unix Admin, Operations Support and Project Manager for this boutique consulting firm at Texas Instruments. Education:

• MS in Management Information Systems: University of Texas at Dallas (Aug 1997 - Dec 1998)

• BA & MA in English Language and Literature: University of Kerala, India (Jul 1981 - May 1986)

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