Project Manager Insurance

Summary

Over **+ years of IT experience in various phases of SDLC

such as Requirements gathering and Business Case Analysis,

Design and Construction, Testing, UAT and Implementation

using Scrum/Waterfall methodologies.

Extensively involved in Requirement analysis, Design, Build

activities, Onsite and offshore team management,

Estimation, Planning and Scheduling of Initiatives, Project

Quality Management, Project Planning and execution, Risk

Monitoring and Control, Progress monitoring, Resource

Planning and Conduct quality reviews of design documents

and test plan preparation.

Experienced in interacting with business users and

executives to identify information needs, gather

Requirements, and authoring Business Requirement Documents

(BRD), Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence

Diagrams using UML modeling.

Skilled in translating business objectives into prioritized

functional requirements and recommending feasible solutions

to business problems

Background in finance industry includes experience as a

Technical Project Manager, Business Analyst and Analyst

Programmer.

Familiar with Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing and

Electronic Toll Collection Systems business domains

Experience in designing test strategies, test cases, and

test scripts and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Experience as Software Quality Facilitator (SQA) as well as

Internal Quality Auditor for monitoring the quality

processes

Experience in training and mentoring team members with

product knowledge and business processes

Skilled at learning new concepts quickly, working well

under pressure, and communicating ideas clearly and

effectively

Excellent written and oral communications skills to keep

executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project

status, and resolving issues and conflicts.

Skills

Technical Project Manager

Tools & Utilities Primavera 4.1/5.1, Clarity, MS Office, Erwin

4.1.4

Languages SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Studio .NET, C#, WCF

Data Bases MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, Oracle 8i/9i/10g

Reporting Tableau, Crystal Reports 8.0/9.0

OS/Environment Windows 7/ 2000/XP, Windows 95/98/NT

Version Control ChangeMan DS, TFS, PVCS Version Control Manager

Bug Tracking Clear Quest

ETL Tools SSIS, DTS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

KPMG / TCS, NJ May 2013

- Till date

Technical Project Manager

Project: MDET (Medical Device Excise Tax package for Johnson and Jonson)

This application is an excise tax calculation package used by

pharmaceutical companies to calculate excise tax payable to the government

as part of Obama care initiatives. This project is based on onshore

offshore model.

Responsibilities:

. Co-ordination with Business groups for requirement reviews and signoff

. Work with system developers (Offshore) to resolve questions and

discrepancies in Business Requirement Documents.

. Conduct Design reviews.

. Quality Management

. Project Monitoring and Execution - Conduct Weekly Status Reviews &

Tracking of key Milestones

. Responsibilities include managing technical and business aspects of

the project. Provide technical assessment for development tasks

including estimates to the Project Manager. Subsequent follow up for

delays or issues affecting project timelines.

Guardian Life Insurance Company, NY

APR 2005-May 2013

Technical Project Manager / Business Analyst

Project: Guardian Life Insurance is one of the world's largest insurance

and mutual fund Company providing diversified financial solutions in life

and disability income insurance, retirement services and investment

products for over 100 years.

Some of the major projects executed/being executed successfully are as

below:

. IDB:

The Investments Database application (IDB) is a decision making tool used

by the Investment banking department at Guardian Life. This application

is critical and time sensitive and the Investments department relies on

it for their daily trade decisions, executions and allocations. This

application is written in .NET 4.0 (MVP pattern) with WCF and uses SQL

Server 2008 as the database. The application contains Fixed Income,

Equity, Real Estate, Performance Analytics, Derivatives, Risk Management

and Research modules.

The IDB nightly load process fetches data from CAMRA accounting system.

The IDB system uploads ratings, analytics and prices for securities held

to IDC, Muller and Bloomberg accounting systems. The data is downloaded

from vendors and provided to traders for their daily trading initiatives.

Responsibilities:

. Preparation of Business Requirements Documents and Functional

Requirements Documents defining new systems operations.

. Co-ordination with Business groups for requirement reviews and signoff

. Work with system developers (Offshore) to resolve questions and

discrepancies in Business Requirement Documents.

. Conduct Design reviews.

. Quality Management - Compliance with Guardian Corporate Governance

Matrix

. Project Monitoring and Execution - Conduct Weekly Status Reviews &

Tracking of key Milestones

. The application was rewritten in .NET and the rewrite task was given

to an offshore company. Responsibilities included knowledge transfer,

coordinating tasks, activities, providing technical expertise and

ensuring the project timelines are met.

. Responsibilities include managing technical and business aspects of

the project. Provide technical assessment for development tasks

including estimates to the Project Manager. Subsequent follow up for

delays or issues affecting project timelines.

. Ensuring SDLC guidelines mandated by the corporate office is strictly

followed and documents are updated in Share point.

. Perform UAT testing on IDB quarterly releases and ensuring components

are reliable, consistent and meets quality standards.

. Providing status updates on a regular basis to Project Manager and

SBSO regarding the state of IDB project.

. Ensure functional requirement documents are documented after meeting

with the business analyst. Conduct JAD sessions and impact analysis

for IDB components.

InsureWorx F.K.A (Taliant Software)

Mar 2004-Apr2005

Analyst / Senior Programmer

Project: InsureWorx is a software company which provides customized and

insurance centric solutions to insurance companies.

Some of the major projects executed successfully are as below:

. Full time involvement in the analysis / designing of various modules

in the system with extensive usage of Class libraries

. Designing a proper inheritance hierarchy for user controls in the

application

. Business logic incorporated into user objects and providing methods to

access the same within the application

Purdue Pharmaceuticals L.P

Aug 2003 - Feb 2004

Analyst Programmer

Project: Spectracef Medication Disbursement System and Sales reporting in

COGNOS

Environment: COGNOS (Version 7.1) Impromptu, Oracle 9i, Power Builder 8.0

with PFC

Responsibilities:

o Requirement Analysis and Complete Design and Development

o Coding and Code Reviews

o Test case Preparation

o Unit Testing, and implementation

WORLDCOM ETC Aug 1999 - Jul 2003

System Analyst / Software Programmer

Project : EZPASS solutions for NJTP (New Jersey Turnpike) and GSP

(Garden State Parkway)

Environment: Windows NT 4.0, Oracle 8.0, Power Builder 7.0 with PFC

Responsibilities:

o Requirement Analysis and Complete Design and Development

o Coding and Code Reviews

o Test case Preparation

o Unit Testing, and implementation

The Older Projects will be provided on Request

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