Project Lead - SharePoint

Manjula Siripuram

Experience Summary:

An experienced IT professional with 10 + years of experience in

Software Designing, Development, Project Management, People Management

and Process Development / Improvement. Experience in designing,

developing and Implementation of various applications including Web,

Windows and Client/Server Application development using SharePoint,

.NET Framework, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET Technologies.

Over 3 years of project management experience in software

implementation. Handled projects from end to end in Production, Pre-

Production as a Project Manager and served fortune clients like P&G.

Ensured process compliance through training, audit, timely reports

Experience in handling RFP Responses & Statement of Work (SOW)

Preparations.

Executive Reporting, Status Management, Cross Team collaboration and

team building. Managed day to day of operational staff

onshore/offshore and ensuring adherence to standard operational

procedures

Adept at overseeing all facets of project lifecycle, including

initiation and planning; change, risk, and issue management; and

guiding QA teams.

Modeling the functionality for cross-systems as indicated by the user

requirements. Create and maintain artifacts (models, diagrams,

documents) by evaluating needs, clarifying requirements, and analyzing

use cases and dependencies to recommend a course of action.

Extensive Experience in installation, customization& configuration of

web portals built on SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2010,

MOSS 2007, Share point Portal Server 2003, MOSS Central

Administration, Share Point Designer 2007/2010 and MS InfoPath

2003/2007.

> Good Experience in Requirement Gathering, Analysis with UML Diagrams &

Architecture Review.

> Outstanding communication skills. Able to successfully build strong

working relationships with coworkers and clientele, while ensuring

cooperation among company departments.

> Excellent multi-tasker; able to efficiently plan and prioritize

projects.

> Strong technical skills; Technical lead for various customized

SharePoint Portal Solutions for P&G, USA.

Skills & Certifications

> Project Management Tools : Microsoft Project Server 2003, Office 2010

> Application Development: SharePoint 2007/2010/2013, SharePoint

Designer, InfoPath 2013, Visual Studio 2005, .Net 2.0, OOP, SQL,

HTML/CSS, XML, Visual Basic, Java, C, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML 5.

Experience in design, code review and QA

> SDLC, from requirements discovery to deployment & sunset

> Managing distributed matrix teams with on- and off-shore resources

> Involved in the organizations' engineering process group (EPG)

activities

> Coordinator for PMO activities

> Scrum Master Accredited Certification from International Scrum

Institute : Certificate ID : 987***********

> Certified Appraisal Team Member (ATM) for CMMI Dev1.3.

Education:

> Master of Science in Information Systems from Osmania University, 2001-

2003

> Bachelor of Computer Applications from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

1998-2001

Employment History

Currently working as Project Lead at Vertex Computer Systems, India

from June 2006 to till date.

Worked as Software Engineer for Zohl Industries, Malaysia from Feb

2005 to April 2006.

Job Summary

> Vertex Computer Systems, Hyderabad June 2006 - till date

Project Lead

Promoted from Software Engineer to Team Lead and then to Project Lead.

Aleris: LN to SP migration

Client: Aleris, USA

This Project involves migrating a bunch of Lotus Notes Applications to

SharePoint 2013 for Aleris Team. These apps involve user onboarding and

off boarding processes and procedures, asset management, Visitor

/Contractor requests.

Technology: SharePoint 2013, InfoPath 2013

Duration: Jan 2015 - Till date

Role: Technical Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

. Create implementation plan and documentation to be followed by

development staff

. Managed all research, development, and design initiatives

. Involved in Preparing Technical Requirements from Business Requirements

. Ensured smooth operations of the suite of IT applications to Business

Units

. Providing online support to resolve issues related to end-user

connectivity issues. Involved in performing support tasks such as Site

provisioning of team sites, access issues, changing site ownership and

escalations to SharePoint Administrator

. Off-shore On-site development model has been created and closely

coordinated with the off shore team by allocating the modules to the

developers and ensuring the deliverables being delivered on timely basis

. Managing Project Execution to ensure adherence to Schedule, Cost and

Scope

. Tracking Project Milestones and Deliverables

. Analyzing user requirements

Vertex Intranet Portal Client: Vertex

Computer Systems

This portal unifies access to all enterprise information and applications

on the Vertex Intranet. It helps Vertex employees to manage data,

applications and information more easily, and through personalized views.

It also integrates legacy applications. It basically brings Organizational

knowledge to the desktop.

Environment: SharePoint 2013

Period: August 2013 - till date

Role: Technical Lead / Application Support Manager

Key Responsibilities:

. Working closely with all departments in the organization in collecting

business requirements.

. Develop project plan and ensure milestones are met according to schedule.

. Preparing project status reports

. Evaluated, selected, managed third party vendors to provide an

independent HR and PayRoll Suite

. Provided Online Support for the Portal which involves troubleshooting

access issues, site provisioning and documentation.

Staff Sales Event for SK II Brand

Client: P & G, Asia

P&G Asia annually conducts staff sales events where the products are sold

at discounted prices to its employees. P&G's staff sales event platform is

a web-based system to conduct different sales events for its brands SK-II

and Prestige across five countries in Asia for carrying out the sales

events. The site helps to manage events, product catalogs for SKII Brand,

place orders, fulfill orders and collect cheques.

Technology: .Net 4.0, DevEx, SQL Server 2008, Excel VBA, SharePoint 2007.

Duration: September 2014 - January 2015

Role: Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

. Responsible for Creating the Project Management Plan including Project

Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Risk, Communication Management Plans.

. Single point of Contact for collecting and analysing requirements.

. Responsible for Maintaining Client Relationships & Client Management.

. Tracked Project Milestones and Deliverables.

. Effectively managed Project Scope by ensuring any changes to scope are

documented and approved with project Change Request forms.

Health Net Redesign Client: Procter &

Gamble, USA

Health Net is a web-based tool that will automate the process to create and

track the P&G users Health surveys. It is intended to be a central

repository for the medical community within P&G. It contains information

and training details, and provides tools that support the users in their

daily tasks. SharePoint site is used as a document repository with access

controls and the rest of the features are designed in .Net

Technology: .Net 4.0, DevEx, SQL Server 2008, Excel VBA, SharePoint 2007.

Duration: February 2014 - August 2014

Role: Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

. Lead & Managed a team of 12 developers.

. Managed Project Execution to ensure adherence to Schedule, Cost and

Scope.

. Developed project plan including Project objectives, Staffing,

Stakeholder Plan, Risk and Issue Management, Verification & Validation

plan and Communication Plan.

. Tracked Project Milestones and Deliverables.

. Performed Causal Analysis

. Prepared and presented project dashboard presentations for the management

team and provide variance explanations and root causes for deviations to

cost and schedule.

. Analyzing user requirements

. Ensured CMMI Compliance

Global Biotech GSS Client: Procter &

Gamble, USA

P&G Genomics Team conducts studies based on test requests from Beauty and

Pet Care units. The steps in their process are intensive discussions and

collaboration amongst the teams, and are driven by pre-defined milestones.

The current manual process they have is cumbersome and time-consuming. The

initiative of this project is to move towards automation in order to bring

in more efficiency to their processes, and be geared to meet changing

business needs. Some of the Key benefits of the automated solution are -

Consistency in process, Auto reminders, Instant notifications, and

Dashboards.

Environment: SharePoint 2007

Period: December 2012 - July 2013

Role: Technical Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

. Project planning, control, and communication: Created and managed

schedules, risk mitigation, staffing & work plans

. Developed and managed Work Break Down structure.

. Prepared Project Status reports by collecting, analyzing and

summarizing trends and information.

. Analyzing the change requests and co-ordinating the changes required

with the development team

. Designed Complex workflows via SharePoint Designer and defined

information management policies on the lists.

. Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring that all errors

were tracked and reported to development team.

. Documented Business Requirements, Prepared Use Cases and mock-ups

. Ensured CMMI compliance

Retailer Perception Client: Procter &

Gamble, USA

P&G is using a third-party vendor - Advantage Group to capture 'Retail

Perception' data based on preferred manufacturer benchmarking study. In

this study, the Group sends out a survey with questions to various

retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, and Kroger across the globe for P&G and

other manufacturers. Based on the data collected, the Group then generates

certain reports and shares the same with P&G Global team. This team

segregates the reports and shares with 25 individual markets. Every market

stores this information in its own way. The primary objective of this

initiative is to provide a one-stop shop where reports can be easily

grouped and organized by market/team, and made available to authorized P&G

users.

Environment: SharePoint 2007

Period: March 2012 - November 2012

Role: Technical Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

. Project planning, control, and communication: Created and managed

schedules, risk mitigation, staffing & work plans

. Gathering requirements from Business users and training them on

SharePoint Web Applications usability.

. Analyzing the change requests and co-ordinating the changes required

with the development team

. Documented Business Requirements, Prepared Use Cases and mock-ups

. Achieved alignment across departments about a new, user-friendly

navigation scheme by creating mock-ups, identifying stakeholders, and

facilitating review meetings.

Acceleration Zone for Canada and Mexico (AZone)

Client: Procter & Gamble, Canada

Acceleration Zone site provides practical, effective tools to help build

and execute better customer business plans for P&G. It houses solutions and

experts to build the capability and helps the marketing team to tackle the

biggest selling and management challenges and opportunities.

Environment: SharePoint 2007

Period: January 2011 - February 2012

Role: Project Lead

Key Responsibilities:

. Documented client requirements, proposed alternative solutions,

created estimates and schedules, tracked progress, hired & coached

junior developers

. Trained business users on SharePoint Web Applications usability.

. Analyzing the change requests and co-ordinating the changes required

with the development team

. Led product requirement & design reviews, acceptance test planning,

and change management

. Ran weekly meetings, helping to facilitate communication and maximize

productivity

Marketing Net (mNet) 2.0 Client: Procter

& Gamble, USA

Period: August 2009 - December 2010

Roles and Responsibilities: Technical Lead

Used out of the box features and functionality to develop SharePoint

features below:

. Developed a Personalization Wizard which allows the users to add

personalized content on the home page from various resources.

. Integrated other P&G internal site data. Integrated twitter and

YouTube components.

. Developed and maintained customized templates/forms to build web pages

on the fly using HTML, DHMTL, XSL, and JavaScript and web services.

. Prepared custom views and reports for data display and site usage

reports using SharePoint web services and JavaScript. Integrated

Google Analytics in the mNet site for other reports.

. Customized the document upload pages of the document libraries.

Customized Lists and libraries using XSLT in SharePoint Designer.

. Attended regular project meetings with business stakeholders and

helped develop best practices.

Technical Readiness (TRS) Site Client:

Procter & Gamble, USA

The Technical Readiness site maintains and manages key technical

information for the beauty products of P&G.

This technical information helps the technical community to develop,

qualify, and launch new products into the market. This site was designed to

complement the Technical Readiness Roadmap and Technical Readiness

Dashboard.

Environment: SharePoint 2007

Period: September 2008 - July 2009

Role and Responsibilities: Technical Lead

. Customized 6 Sub sites.

. Researched and implemented sophisticated workflow system for document

libraries using SharePoint designer.

. Customization of SharePoint sites

. Created SharePoint support site for users to use as a knowledge base.

. Created documentation and trained administrators and tech support

personnel in SharePoint.

Global Baby Care Site Client: Procter &

Gamble, USA

Baby Care is a one-stop portal for Baby Care GBU. The site seeks to input

competitive product information, technical data, photos, and package claim

details. This data can be further used to access, publish, and update the

data.

Environment: SharePoint 2007

Period: May 2008 - August 2008

Responsibilities

. Migrating contents from P&G's Global Team Spaces to SharePoint 2007 based

on defined mapping.

. Developed custom site template for all regional Sites -NA, WE and LA.

Customized left navigator (Quick Launch) to display sub headers for

document libraries.

Supply Chain Learning Network

Client: General Mills, USA

The objective of this Project is to recreate the existing SCLN

functionality and implement it in .NET. The current site is designed with

SharePoint and proved to have problems with usability and expandability.

It has the following main areas: Course Catalog, Course Schedule,

Assessments, My Profile, and Administration Area.

Environment: ASP.NET 3.0, SQL server 2005

Period : December 2007 - April 2008

Role and Responsibilities: Technical Lead

. Developed VB user interface, business logic and data access layers.

. Used Active Directory for authentication and permissions.

. Developed the Course Catalog, Course Schedule modules.

Field Survey Group Client: Procter &

Gamble, USA

FCG site helps field engineers in conducting field survey for the P&G

Pharmaceutical Field Coaching Guide (FCG) group.

Environment: SharePoint 2007

Period: September 2007 - November 2007

Responsibilities

. The survey forms are developed in InfoPath and stored either in

SharePoint Document Library or Oracle database using web service.

Users can fill up the forms when offline and then submit it when they

are reconnected to the network. Designed the XML schema and InfoPath

form.

. Troubleshooting certificate installation.

Hair Care Site Client: Procter & Gamble,

USA

Environment: SharePoint 2007

Period: July 2007 - August 2007

Responsibilities: Design, development and deployment of a customized

solution using Windows SharePoint Services to support three Hair care

brands- Pantene, Head & Shoulders, and Herbal Essences. Branding for the

three hair care brands.

Transport Operations Management Information System (TOMIS)

Client: Marathon Oil, USA

TOMIS is a comprehensive Transportation Schedule Reporting solution

designed to cater the needs of the Transport Operations division of

Marathon Petroleum Company, LLC (Marathon).

Environment : VB.NET, Crystal Reports

Period: May 2006 - November 2006

Role & Responsibilities : Developer

. Designed the System architecture.

. Developed the various modules in the system.

. Developed comprehensive Crystal Reports.

> Zohl Industries, Malaysia Feb 2005 -

April 2006

Software Engineer

FIMS & SMAC (Forecasting Inventory Mgt System) Client:

Telecom Malaysia, Malaysia

This web based application helps to:

Develop customer demand based network expansion using forecasting

techniques and statistical analysis.

Manage and monitor all TM Retail assets comprising of both network

infrastructures as well as minutes volumes that are available, in use, free

to use, faulty and in demand.

Integrate and interact with a vast number of existing software systems

within TM Data Warehouse

Create a fully electronic communication and business process solution.

Provide a multi-dimensional view, which allow TM Retail users to analyze

their customers call minutes usage, call pattern or behavior and volume.

Environment : ASP.NET 1.1, SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports

Role: .Net Developer

Period: October 2005 - April 2006

Responsibilities :

. Involved in the requirements, designing and coding phase of the

project

. Worked on integrating Java classes with .NET using JbImp tool

. Created Web Services for TM Forecasting Techniques

. Generated Complicated Graphs using Crystal Reports and Chart Generator

and also reports for forecasting figures.

Customer Feedback & MIS Client: Celcom,

Malaysia

This System is developed to convert the manual records of customer survey

done by the Celcom mobile service provider, to better serve the customer

needs in future. Basically this project is combination of different forms

like X-Series, X-Pax and several other forms. The project is built to make

the data entry operators to enter the manual data on the form to a

centralized database for security, portability & flexibility to be used to

analyze the growth and performance of the organization. This application

generates different Survey Reports with graphical presentations, which are

generated periodically for the management.

Environment : VB.NET, SQL Server 2000

Period: Feb 2005 - September 2005

Role & Responsibilities : Developer

. Interacting with the user community to know the actual requirements,

changing the requirement as specifications and extending support for

further enhancements.

. Involved in generating Graphs using Crystal Reports.

. Back end maintenance and Query Optimization.

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