Project Manager Management

SATHEESH KRISHNASWAMY, PMP

Email: acbk0u@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 980-228-

7706

Summary:

PMI certified project management professional with 12+ years of IT

industry experience including 4+ years in managing complex projects for

Fortune 500 corporations across a variety of domains including banking

and financial services, healthcare, insurance and manufacturing.

> Managed medium to large sized projects or projects of moderate to

high criticality with varying scope and conflict with budgetary

responsibilities of up to $5 million.

> Expertise includes program/project management, offshore/onshore

delivery management and client servicing.

> Key responsibilities held are planning, tracking, reporting

(internal and external) project performance (status and progress) on

a periodic basis, evolving risk mitigation and contingency plans and

managing internal and external conflicts.

> Engaged multiple stakeholders internally and externally making

effective use of escalation channels to solve issues.

> Capable of handling end to end delivery of a fixed price and T& M

price models.

> Extensive experience in writing/reviewing SoW for large projects.

> Ability to work with multiple vendors and perform stakeholder

analysis.

> Strong understanding of Software development lifecycle (SDLC) and

Java/J2EE.

> Possess good negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

> Effective communication skills and coordination between globally located

teams.

> Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.

Experience:

Custom Portfolio & Fee Disclosure Application Development for a leading

Insurance customer in USA - Project Manager

. Responsible for overall execution for a large insurance client's

top strategic projects, including project strategy and planning,

resource allocation, and project performance against scope,

schedule, and budget.

. Stakeholder communication, liaise with senior IT executives on

strategy and define business needs to functional requirements.

. Manage project resources from other groups and/or third parties in

a matrix environment.

. Develop and plan communication strategies to ensure status,

activities, accomplishments, issues, and risks are communicated

effectively.

. Manage interdisciplinary teams of designers, business analysts,

and engineers to create successful, innovative solutions to

business issues.

. Effectively manage end-to-end delivery for onshore/offshore teams

across multiple sprints and projects at any given time.

. Key tasks included: project conceptualization, capacity planning,

resource allocation, effective facilitation of key scrum meetings

and burn-down tracking/management.

Life & Health Reinsurance Program for a leading Reinsurance customer in

USA - Project Manager

. Managing the End to End Delivery of Five Projects.

. Creating contract, negotiating with various stakeholders and

obtaining signoff.

. Collect the Detailed Requirements from the stakeholders.

. Create the Work Breakdown Structure and define milestones.

. Review of estimations and prepare Project Management plan.

. Conduct Technical interviews and form the team.

. Plan Procurements in the Projects.

. Execute the work according to the Project Management plan and

measure the performance against the baseline.

. Determine variances and propose corrective actions.

. Effectively manage the change management process.

. Plan and improve Project Profitability and monitor the customer

satisfaction.

. Driving the Innovation in the Program.

. Actively contributed to the various Proposals.

. Effective Cost Management for projects by means of billing,

budgeting, contract amendments, timesheet approvals, etc.

. Quality Management for projects by means of adherence to quality,

approvals of metrics in timely fashion, tracking of NC's to

closure and effective project monitoring, tracking and control.

. Preparing various PMR reports for clients.

. Ensuring and finalizing learning plans for team members.

. Involved in Revenue projection and reporting of revenue to senior

management.

. Conducting Lessons learnt sessions along with the team and

continuously improve on the subsequent releases.

CES-HI Implementation Application Development for a leading Healthcare

customer in USA - Project Manager

. Creating the Project Management Plan.

. Facilitated the Project Kickoff meeting once the approval for the

project plan is obtained from the customer.

. Multiple Stake holder management across regions.

. Tracking down the activities to closure.

. Managed the scope, schedule and budget changes.

. Publishing the metrics to the leadership team.

. Mentored the Innovation Idea champions thereby reducing costs for

the customer yielding high customer satisfaction.

. Responsible for accurate reporting of Revenue Projection for the

project to the Senior Management.

. Escalation Management.

Procurenet Application for a leading Manufacturing Customer in Paris -

Project Manager

. Directing personnel, managing cost, schedules and serving as the

primary customer interface.

. Monitoring project to ensure scope of work, schedule, and budget

are well defined and maintained.

. Developing mechanisms and action plans for monitoring progress,

quality control, intervention, and problem solving.

. Work closely with the clients to develop business requirements,

project plans and delivery schedules

. Technical Architecture design and code reviews.

District Manager Allocation Application for a leading manufacturing

customer in USA - Project Leader

. Lead the project team for successful delivery on time and scope.

. Manage entire SDLC process.

. Design and development of application using Java & J2EE.

Web Cash Movement for a leading banking customer in USA - Project

Leader

. Lead the project team for successful delivery on time and scope.

. Quality Management for projects by means of adherence to quality,

approvals of metrics in timely fashion, tracking of NC's to

closure and effective project monitoring, tracking and control.

. Design and development of application using Java & J2EE.

Education

Masters in Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University

Awards Won

Innovation Idea Champion Award from Cognizant in the year 2012

Skills

Service/Delivery SDLC, AGILE, SCRUM, Iterative, Waterfall

Management

Tools / MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, SharePoint, JIRA,

Technologies Rallydev

Professional Project Management Professional (PMI)

Training/Certifi First Time Manager (Accent )

cations Sun Certified Java Programmer ( Sun Microsystems)

Sun Certified Web Component Developer ( Sun

Microsystems)

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