Project Manager Management

Francis Dhanaraj, PMP

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PROFILE

A PMP certified TECHNICAL/PROJECT MANAGER with 20+ years of full systems development for

business applications and project management experience. Experience spans a wide spectrum of

industries like Telecommunications, Commercial Banking, Currency/Commodities Trading, Mortgage

Insurance, Engineering, Retail distribution and Health Care. Skills include:

Project initiation/planning/execution/closeout Project and Program management

Resource management (onsite/offshore) Change management

Federal compliance/IT Audit Risk mitigation/remediation

System integration/conversion/retirement Release management/Work flow management

Stakeholder management Budget forecasting

SDLC using waterfall/agile methodologies Testing/Implementation/Production Support

Governance/Risk/Control PMO execution

Project Managements tools Business Continuity planning

Disaster Recovery planning Data warehouse/Business intelligence

Vendor Management POC evaluation and selection

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Radian Guaranty, Philadelphia, PA, USA April 2002 to April 2014

Radian connects Lenders, Home buyers and Investors with a range of private mortgage insurance

products. They had a NIW of 231 million for 2013.

Project Lead/Manager

Managed several key projects with critical business impacts and some with added federal compliance

needs. Used waterfall and agile methodologies in completed the projects. Handled several high priority

projects at same time at different stages on the development life cycle. Handled many huge project with

maximum 9000 man hours. Involved the whole team and stake holders with timely reports and meetings.

All projects involved tight scheduling and release planning with releases every 2 weeks

Selected Accomplishments:

- Completed NPI compliance project within 2 months to keep/continue business with one of our largest

bank customer with 10% portfolio of our total NIW

- Received 'Values in Action' award from the Operations and Analytics section for creating the Data

stores/Datamarts and reports to maintain relationship with Chase and Ocwen Banks/lenders. This helped

the Operations and Analytics to control the risk exposure ('R' of the GRC) and pro-actively manage the

portfolio

- Led 15+ customer specific pricing programs for a year with quick turnaround time of 2 weeks down

from 60 days with a combined 100 million NIW

- Federal/legal compliant HMDA/FCRA projects implemented on-time to meet the stipulated dates and

avoid penalty payments

- Streamlined standard Discount Lender Paid pricing program process flow to achieve 3 week time saving

in implementation

- Lead in ongoing conversion of home grown legacy financial system to .net technology/SQL Server

system

- Contributed to design of Data warehouse system for existing legacy production system and data

conversions and transformations using Oracle/Informatica with data feed to SAS.

- Significantly improved Business user satisfaction for improved interaction for successful completion of

projects

- Contributed in designing business continuity plans and mandatory disaster recovery tests

- Participated in IT and data audits for SOX compliance by working with PWC on both the process flow

of small and big IT changes and reconciliation of data in the data warehouse and production systems. On

this ongoing GRC project is a joint effort with PWC auditors and business users and IT people to

establish the governance of the process as well as controls in place.

Various consulting experience/projects:

PacifiCare, Cypress, CA, USA June 2000-Jan 2002

Technical Consultant

Key contributions in designing software solutions from conceptual stage till database design &

implementation to business critical and Federal mandated projects and projects for new products/plans

development and pricing to stay competitive.

Accenture (Anderson Consulting), Irvine, CA, U.S.A April 1999 – Jan 2000

VMS Technical Consultant

The VMS go-to guy for the Y2K re-certification project. Handled manpower planning, QA/string testing

and Change Management Control. Recipient of their ‘Quality Value Circle’ award.

Avon Corporation, White Plains, NY, U.S.A Oct 1998 – March 1999

Technical Consultant

Designed, developed, and tested their automatic replenishment system in the shipping floor sub-system

implemented in their UK branch.

Caxton Corporation, Plainsboro, NJ, U.S.A April 1998 – Sep 1998

Technical Consultant

Lead the OMR Trading Assistant system 6.2 upgrade in addition to taking care of project monitoring of

other external consultants.

Credit Lyonnais, Manhattan, NY U.S.A March 1997 – March 1998

Principal VMS Consultant

Lead two main projects - client-server FX Trading System and conversion of Loan system from VMS to

AS/400. The System conversion included data mapping of all financial details in both systems. Designed

and delivered unique solution for interfacing and recovering transactions between VMS based back-end

system and windows trading system.

Verizon Wireless, Bedminster, NJ, U.S.A Feb 1996 – March 1997

Technical Consultant

Lead analyst for OLTP server programs interfacing VMS POS and MVS based client database resulting in

larger client base for servicing and billing.

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