Project Management

Summary

** ***** ** ******* ** experience with ** years of Project / Program Management expertise

Skilled in Project Management, Client Relationship Management & CMMI Certification Planning

Education & Certification

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics Engineering

Green Belt Certified

Skill Set

Program Management

Driving strategic programs through SDLC including planning, initiation, scoping & budgeting

Managing business outcomes by aligning multiple stakeholders

Prioritize deliverables based on organization’s goal

Methodologies

RUP, Agile-Scrum, Waterfall, Spiral model

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft Office Tools

Excel, Word, Project, Access, Visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Project Server and Outlook (2000/2003/2007/2010)

Rational Suite

Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case, PVCS

Operating Systems

WIN XP Pro, WIN 2000, Windows NT 4.0, MS Exchange 2000/2003, Windows 95, Linux, Unix

Test Tools

Quality Center, Test Director, Win Runner and Load Runner

Professional Experience

Discover Financial Services, Riverwoods, IL March 2017 till date

Managing the Fraud & Risk management program – multiple projects in AML and KYC areas

Role: Program Manager

Currently managing 9 projects – 2(KYC), 7(AML) totaling around $1.2 million

Evaluate and implement project management tools and standards to maximize SDLC governance – leading to 40% time savings in effective project hours billed

Keeping track of KPIs (timeline, budget, quality) to assess the project progress to meet predetermined goals

Constant coordination between Business and Management teams to manage outcomes

Coordinating with the project teams to proactively identify and manage potential issues

Managing cross channel requirements for diverse business and technical teams - Business Strategy, Application Architecture, Payment Services, EPMO, Software Quality Management, Infrastructure Services, Technology Risk, Cybersecurity, Advanced Analytics, Consumer Lending

Drive Change Management initiatives to mature the organization’s Portfolio Management Practices.

Played a key role in managing the projects in AWS environment

Monitoring, tracking and reporting the project status to meet time and quality deadlines

Extensively used JIRA for issue tracking, and project management activities.

For communicating with the team members used jabber and slack.

Environment: Teradata, Clarity, Share point, HP ALM, Visio, Microsoft Suite (Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project).

HCL America Inc. Rockford, IL Nov 2015 – March 2017

Leading project reviews to ensure alignment with organization’s strategic quality plan, while engaging with cross functional teams at client location.

Role: Program Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Project scheduling/planning/tracking for both T&M / FP projects totaling US $ 2.3 million

Managing team adherence to DO178B across all phases of the project

Streamlined Metrics, raising quality alerts and early warnings

Facilitated team to make commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition

Proactively developed and maintained team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 30%

Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.

Developed Governance Models, workflows and approaches to ensure changes are implemented and communicated in time using AGILE methodology

Increased the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%

Track & report project financials, burn reports, status reports, project risks & issues and deadlines

Working with finance to develop cost plan based on Resource plan, allocation and non-labor costs.

Forecast, track and control expenses per the Enterprise Financial Project Management Framework

Created quarterly budget forecast/reforecast, including risk & opportunities

Prepared project plans/implementation plans & provided updates on project status meetings

Managed offshore teams across different geographical regions

Negotiated & prepared purchase order agreements, subcontractors and cost control budgets

Facilitated creation of the Project Charter

As PMO also managed projects in HCL America

Usage of Confluence to define the project road map

Extensively used JIRA for issue tracking, and project management activities.

Environment: Business Objects, Clarity, Visio, DOORS, Microsoft Suite (Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project).

Abbott Laboratories Diagnostic Division, Chicago, IL June 2015 – Nov 2015

Worked on an assignment to review software design documents

Role: Project Lead

Reviewed software design documents

Reviewed Corrective & Preventive Actions (CAPA) document

Development of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and support functional owners.

Environment: Business Objects, JIRA, DOORS, Microsoft Suite (Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project).

Honeywell Technology Solutions, Bangalore, India March 2006 – Jan 2015

Managed software development across multiple projects while ensuring quality compliance. Prepared teams for CMMI certifications and led discussions to get the organization CMMI certified.

Role: Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Handled projects across Surveillance, RADAR, DATALINK including full life cycle & verification

Involved in the project planning, formulation of QE processes and standardizing of metrics

Responsible for audit of each delivery to customer

Developed & monitored business processes necessary to capture and transfer timely and accurate data to be used for reports

Quality process consultation with engineering teams

Guiding the team during root cause analysis which in turn reduced the number of defects in the next cycle.

SOW review, project plan review requirement review, code reviews, test cases reviews

Performed audits for Requirement, Design, Development & Verification phases

Create Quarterly Audits for all my projects (10) to maintain the projects

Hands on experience on MINITAB to analyze the data for requirements, design and defects.

Used process-performance models calibrated with obtained measures of critical attributes to estimate progress towards achieving the project’s quality and process-performance objectives

End to end project tracking with reporting the progress status to all stake holders

Motivated, trained & mentored team for improved team performance by 35%

Review the Work breakdown structure for programs

Involved in SMART goal setting, result tracking, customer interaction, event organization, risk projection/mitigation by proper response

Developing KPI’s and maintaining them for continuous process improvements

Used JIRA for issue tracking and loggin.g

Environment: Clear Case, Clear Quest, DOORS

Robert Bosch, India Ltd, Aug 2004 – Sep 2006

Developed embedded software for large, global automotive clients

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

Requirement Manager of the CDC component

Design and developed the CDC component

Review Leader of the CDC component

In charge of the Process Control for the project

Experience in Integration of the software

Successfully accomplished delivery of some complex functionality from client location in Germany

Environment: Green Hills Compiler, Clear Case, Bugzilla, DOORS

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