Project Manager

Lakshmi Narasaiah Vishvanadhuni – PMP

*************@*******.***

Phone – 717 – 802 – 1104

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Confident, dedicated management professional with 22 years of experience in IT. Program Management, Delivery Management, Stakeholder Satisfaction, People Management and Strategic Insight, including ~8 years in Project Management

Experience leading a team size of 25.

Strong project management, Implementation, analytical and mentoring skills that have resulted in repeated success guiding sizeable, cross-functional teams in the design and launch of leading-edge solutions and best practices

Expertise in concepts of end-to-end project planning and implementation from scope management, to activity sequencing, risk analysis to quality management

Excellent communicator and relationship manager with aptitude for collaborating with internal and vendor executives, directors, and key stakeholders to identify business needs and to develop winning solutions

Experience in complete System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Project Management experience in Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling and Closing.

High-level skills in planning, coordinating and motivating people successfully to complete clearly defined objectives

A highly organized, detail-oriented individual, effective with all levels of management and staff

Experience in Health Care industries, Retail and Government Organizations

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

PM Skills Waterfall Methodology, Project Management plan, Risk management plan, Change management plan, Project Scope Statement, WBS, WBS Dictionary, Activity List, Network Diagrams, Critical path. Estimate resource requirements, develop schedule, Determine Quality standards, Determine Roles and responsibilities. Identify Stake holders, Report on Project Performance, hold meetings, Monitor Stake Holder engagement, perform Quality control, manage resources, gain final acceptance of the project, gather lessons learned and update knowledge base.

Tools &Technologies VB.NET, C#, SQL Server, ASP.NET, Web Services, Crystal and SSRS reports

Other Tools MS-PROJECT, UML artifacts (Use Cases), TFS, EXCEL

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

1992-1993 Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Software Application from Bangalore University (INDIA)

1989 - 1992 Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Osmania University (INDIA)

CERTIFICATIONS:

PMP – Validity - Feb 2017 – Feb 2020

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

Employer: CAI March 2017 – July 2018

Role: Project Manager

Project Title: USAPlants

Client: Product (implemented in16 States)

Project Description: USAPlants application used to manage licenses, certificates, laboratory testing and many other aspects of the plant industry. This application is used by the agriculture departments in many states (current 16 states). The product is customized for each state to meet their needs. This application also supports registration of pesticides; feed, fertilizer, and lime (FFL) producers; soil/plant amendments and other regulated products; as well as licensing for nurseries/dealers, apiaries, seed distributors. It includes a disconnected component that enables field inspectors to use a laptop or tablet PC to collect samples from nurseries and dealers, record data, and synchronize their work with the host repository

Responsibilities:

Leads a team of developers / testers / BA’s / Team Lead’s (total of 25) supporting and maintaining USAPlants

Responsible for work allocation to the resources, maintaining resource availability matrix, and conducting weekly status meetings with the clients and internal team

Works collaboratively with State clients to meet implementation goals, including configuration of USAPlants for specific program requirements and training. Also serves as main point of contact for various states, responsible for ongoing maintenance and enhancements

Performs system analysis, communication management, risk management, stakeholder management, quality management, resource management, time management, cost management, scope management, integration management and project closing

Technologies: MS Project, TFS, Project Online, EXCEL

Employer: ON-3 October 2015 – Feb 2017

Role: Sr. Consultant / Project Coordinator

Projects executed and Clients

Project Title: Love Style Rewards

Project Description: Love Style rewards application identifies Bonton customers who does not use their Bonton rewards card but shop regularly. The system provides rewards based on their purchasing history.

Project Title: TRAPP System

Project Description: This application is like the Clarity (A Project Management Software). This helps the project mangers to create and maintain the projects and the resources to enter the time sheet.

Project Title: Price Change Management System

Project Description: Price Change Management System allows the user to change the price of the items. The price change may be done on individual department, store or all of departments and stores.

Responsibilities:

System Study, Design the Price Change Management System. Work & time estimations

Coordinate between DVP (Division Vice President), development team, end users and testing teams, for planning, scheduling and deployments.

Application design and development, unit testing and deployment.

Employer: Mindteck March 2014 – October 2015

Role: Sr. Consultant / Sr. Developer

Project Title: eGrants

Project Description: eGrants Management System. The application allows all the Schools Districts in PA to Grant the allocation amount for each year. The allocation is further divided into various types of grants.

Responsibilities:

Participated in System Study. Responsible for Analysis and Design including technical design and non-technical documents.

Project Maintenance and Support.

Employer: Aerotek Nov 2013 – March 2014

Role: Sr. Developer / Project Lead

Project Title: M.O.M (Manufacturing Order Management)

Client: Johnson Controls – York, PA

Project Description: M.O.M Project captures and provides the details throughout the life cycle of a preparing Air Units (Air condition unit). There are several steps involved right from ordering and receiving materials to the delivery of the completed unit. The application also has a huge number of reports providing summary and details at various steps of the process.

Responsibilities:

Working in the process of migrating SSRS reports from 2005 to 2008. Also working on Crystal reports to SSRS reports migration.

Participated meetings with end user for changes in the reports and for creating the design documents

Employer: TreCom Systems Group Inc. Feb 2010 – Oct 2013

Role: Sr. Consultant / Project Coordinator

Projects executed and Clients

a.Project Title: WIC (WOMEN, INFANTS & CHILDREN)

Client: DOH (Department of Health) (Harrisburg, PA)

Project Description: The Pennsylvania Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) system provides eligible residents with supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education and counseling, and referrals to other health and social services. The program services an average of 245,000 women, infants, and children each month. In Pennsylvania, the WIC program is administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH), which oversees the 24 WIC local agencies and 375 WIC clinics in the Commonwealth.

In Oct 2011 a module “Scheduler” was created in Silverlight 4, which will be integrated with WIC system.

Responsibilities:

System Analysis, Requirement gathering and interaction with Clients and Architect for designing the application.

Participated in database design and modeling for new modules and applications.

a.Project Name: CRPS (Contract Responsibility Program System)

Client: DGS (Department of General Service) (Harrisburg, PA)

Project Description: The application checks for obligations and performance issues when executing CRP Check during the procurement process for any vendor who wants to do business with Commonwealth

The system collects the information on daily basis from L&I UC, L&I SWIF and DOR. The system also checks for Suspensions and Debarments for both Federal and Commonwealth.

The application is developed in Service Oriented Architecture using WEB Services. The WEB services are used to collect information from different departments on daily basis.

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed Web Application

Responsible for database design, data modeling

Employer: A & A IT Solutions Corporation Nov 2009 – Feb 2010

Role: Software Engineer

Projects executed and Clients.

a.Project Name: MAP

Client: Universal Stainless Steel & Alloys (Pittsburgh, PA)

Project Description: This application provides complete process right from the loading scrap to preparing metals.

Responsibilities:

Involved in System Study, designed and developed Windows Application

Responsible for creating an application Prototype for communicating the application using Mobile SDK Smart Device (Pocket PC)

Employer: Prequel Solutions LLC – USA Sep 2005 – Jul 2009

Role: Sr. Project Manager

Projects executed and Clients.

a.Project Name: EPPICC (Education Program Portal and Information Communication Channel)

Client: Department of State – Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA)

Project Description: This application allows Nursing Schools in Pennsylvania to submit their Annual Report every year. It also helps the Nursing Schools to find the Medical Facility to send their students for rotations as part of the course.

Achievements: This application has been selected as the best practice for Nursing Board Association

b.Project Name: Paperless Agenda

Client: Department of State – Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA)

Project Description: This application allows Department of State Boards (27 Boards) to conduct their Board meetings without using paper copy. This allows Department to save tons of papers every month. On an average each board has a paper copy of 2000-4000 pages per copy. The average board member’s strength is 10 people

Achievements: Provided the user with Highlighting and Comments feature (For WEB application). System allows user to write comments anywhere in the document as in paper copy. There is no tool, which supports this feature in WEB application (When this application was designed)

c.Project Name: Prothonotary

Client: Department of State – Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA)

Project Description: This application allows users to see about a particular case. Prothonotary department will upload the case details as the PDF file and general public can see with various search options

d.Project Name: Fetal Deaths

Client: Department of Health – Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA)

Project Description: This application allows Department of Health to maintain the details with fetal deaths and generate a statistical report on various categories.

This application is a Migration of Main Frame application to .NET applications

Responsibilities:

Responsible for all Project Management Process groups (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing). Followed SDLC in each process groups as required.

Responsible for System Analysis, Resource Management, Creating WBS, Activity List, Identify and monitor Stake Holders engagement. Create Network Diagram, Critical Path, develop Schedule, Reports on Project Performance. Application and Database design, documentation (GSD, DSD, Minutes of Meeting, User Acceptance), Suggestion in creating the User Manual, Coding, Unit testing, Integration Testing, User acceptance test, End user training, demonstration of the application for members of Nursing Board.

Employer: Navayuga Infotech Pvt. Ltd - India May 2004 - Jul 2005

Role: Project Manager

Responsible for Complete Life Cycle of the Project (SDLC) Including, System Analysis, Resource Management, Creating WBS, Activity List, Identify and monitor Stake Holders engagement. Create Network Diagram, Critical Path, develop Schedule, Reports on Project Performance. Perform Quality Control and Audits, Determine Quality Standards, Estimate Resource requirements. Gather final Lessons Learned and Update Knowledge base.

As a CMMI Group member responsible for Change Technology and research and implement new technologies

Lead a team size of 16 developers & testers for development of various projects

Projects executed and Clients.

a.Project: Payroll Management System (PMS)

Client: Ministry of Public Services, Government of Kosovo (Europe)

b.Project: Frequency Management System

Client: Airports Authority of India - Delhi (India)

c.Project: ID Card Management System

Client: NEC Jodhpur

d.Project: Quotation and Inventory Management System

Client: Arizona Technologies - Australia

e.Project: e-Office Management System

Client: Navayuga Infotech Pvt. Ltd

f.Project: E-Mailing System

Client: Navayuga Europe Limited – UK

g.Project: Medical Inventory Management System

Client: Product

Employer: VelCom – Canada Dec 2003 - May 2004

Role: Project Lead

Migrated an PHP application to ASP.NET application

a.Project: Adult Bouncer Web Site

b.Project: Movie Splitter

Employer: C Link Consultancy – Canada Apr 2003 - Nov 2003

Role: Project Lead

a.Project: Inventory Management System

Client: Crown Liquor Stores - Canada

Employer: TD BANK (Financial Group – Finance Vision) – Canada Nov 2002 - Mar 2003

Role: Sr. Developer

a.Project: CFL Management System

Client: TD Bank – Canada

Employer: Veridian Inc – Canada Dec 2001 - Oct 2002

Role: Project Manager

a.Project: Lease Management System

Client: Veridina Inc (Product)

Employer: Datagistics Canada – Canada Aug 2000 - Oct 2001

Role: Integration Lead

a.Project: SSA (Web Security Component)

Client: TD Bank - Canada, American Bank - USA

b.Project: Search Engine

Client: Datagistics Canada Inc – Canada

Employer: Navayuga Infotech Pvt Ltd – India Oct 1999 - June 2000

Role: Team Lead

a.Project: Integrated Hospital Management System

Client: Rainbow Children’s Hospital (Hyderabad)

Employer: Karishma Software Pvt Ltd – India Sept 1997 - Sept 1999

Position / Tile: Sr. Software Engineer / Project Manager

a.Project: Inventory Management and Finance Accounting System

Client: Anuraj & company - Secunderabad

b.Project: Tracking and storing the medical history of the maternity patients

Client: Fernandez Maternity Hospital - Hyderabad

c.Project: Healthcare information system

Client: Ruby Hall Clinic - Pune, CARE Hospital - Hyderabad

Employer: Saaketa Consultant Pvt Ltd (India) Jun 1994 - Sept 1997

Position / Tile - Programmer

a.Project: Payroll, Library and Inventory Management System

Client: Saaketa Consultant Pvt. Ltd

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