Executive Summary
• Pravin Chaudhari, B.S, PMP®
• Chantilly, VA 20152
• ********@*****.***
• Experience managing 50+ direct, indirect
resources.
• PMP® certified
Experience in talent management
activities like evaluations, appraisal,
mentoring, training, providing growth
opportunities.
• Provide management expertise to
project managers, vendor managers and
senior staff members.
• Project management experience in
planning, developing, executing and
implementing development projects.
• Experience in financial, ERP, IT federal,
local and state government projects.
• Experience working with Vendor &
procurement management processes.
• Account Director managing IT federal client
account.
• Program Manager responsible for leading
large IT federal projects.
• 17+ years of IT experience in federal
contracting, IT management, IT consulting, IT
operations managed services, cloud services
and software product development lifecycle.
• Provide leadership across matrix organization.
• Good negotiation, leadership, network and
relationship building skills. Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Tech Savvy, drive all new offers, enhancements
and upgrades using latest tools and
technologies.
• Experience writing proposal, business
development work, RFP, RFI, task orders
statements. Fixed price, T&M contracts.
• Experience with CMMI
• Served as an advisor on proposal
evaluation board to evaluate, score, rate
vendor’s response to task order in IT
consulting services, development and
enhancement proposals.
• Experience in various government
compliance policies like FedRAMP,
Cybersecurity, section 508, IPV6.
• Conduct stakeholders meetings, report
milestones to management, client.
• Advocate, expert in agile methodology.
• Technical/application/architectural,
systems engineering experience,
including integration of requirements
management and governance.
• Successfully delivered $100m+ IT projects.
• Executes $10m+ IT projects per annum.
• Experience with program funding, cost
estimation, tracking, and baseline.
• Work with IT capital investment board to
prioritize initiative and allocate project funds.
• Track, mitigate and avoid financial Risk and
contingencies.
• Experience working with acquisition,
requisition.
• Experience working with financial
management division on EVM, budget
variances.
Experience timeline
2015
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2014
Account Director IT Program Manager
Parsetek Inc
Clients- USPTO, federal government agencies
• Account Director responsible for managing portfolio of customers’ accounts, expand existing customer base, identify and develop new business opportunities, generate new business.
• As a program manager consultant responsible for leading large federal program, work with project managers, vendor managers, supporting group managers. Position reports to PMO and CIO Matrix structure.
• Responsible for implement OCIO(Office of Chief Information Officer) strategic goals and initiatives using roadmap set at portfolio level.
• Accountable for successful implementation of projects from initiation to deployment and closing.
• Serves as an advisor on proposal evaluation board to evaluate, score, rate vendor responses to task orders on IT consulting, development and enhancement work.
• Initiate new projects; oversee project execution, delegate responsibility, set expectations to project managers, test managers and other supporting team managers.
• Drive all development, enhancements and upgrades, ensure team, System architect, product delivery, technology are aligned to program goals.
• Work with FRMD (Financial Resource Management Division) to track program cost and estimates, track project risk contingencies, conduct cost/benefit analysis, and report funding issues.
• Work with VMD (Vendor Management division) and procurement division to recommend, advice, negotiate pricing, invoicing, award tasks. Work with Task order managers on task order statements, requisitions (RPF, RFI).
• Evaluate COTS and GOTS products, identify and conduct risk/benefit, pros/cons analysis.
• Use (EPM) enterprise program management system to track all projects health falling under program.
• Track program and project budgets, funds, schedule, effort, requisitions.
• Conduct kickoff meetings, onboarding activities, track progress as per (PoP) period of performance. Ensure vendor mitigate, avoid risks and issues.
• Successfully lead and executed white house initiative. This cloud based search system transformed legacy system into modern “Patent and Trademark assignment” - http://assignment.uspto.gov/ agile development, use of FedRAMP certified cloud infrastructure strategy for faster implementation, aggressive testing and performance strategy resulted in on time go-live.
• CGI Technologies company awards for delivery in excellence.
• Accredited for pioneering 24*7 global delivery model, setting up fully functional onshore and offshore matrix organizational structure.
• Mentor/member at toastmaster club.
• PMP® certification, active member of PMI.
• (B.S) Bachelor’s degree in computer science,1998, Mumbai University, India
• Enterprise Program Management System (EPM), SharePoint, Microsoft project plan, Visio.
• DevOps tools, automation tools, CICM, VMWare, Mobile apps.
• Agile, scrum, sprint, rally, SDLC.
• Fed RAMP, cybersecurity, section 508.
• Cloud computing, AWS (Amazon cloud, web services), Solar Search engine, SaaS (Software as a service).
• Java, J2EE, Oracle, DB2, SQL server Eclipse, XML. 2013
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2006
Sr. Project Manager Sr. Development Manager
CGI Technologies Inc.
Clients- state and local governments
• Responsibilities included expanding business opportunity, encourage existing customer to sign up for upgrading, implementing latest technologies like SaaS (software as services), managed Services, cloud and hosted solutions under common platform.
• Use Technical/application/architectural knowledge, systems engineering and integration experience to fulfill client’s goals, objective and requirements.
• Ensure project management and PMBOK best practices are followed to estimate, create, manage, project plans, outline scope, schedule, quality, cost, resource, critical paths, contingency planning, traceability matrix, risk response strategies, change configuration, integration management.
• Accredited for pioneering 24*7 global delivery model, setting up fully functional onshore and offshore matrix organizational structure.
• Projects executed using agile methodology (release, scrum, sprints and backlogs). Served as scrum master.
• Transformed state and government agencies financial, payroll legacy systems (Los Angeles County, state of Wyoming, Idaho Dept. of transportation) into next generation Advantage ERP solutions.
• Ensure software compliance with federal IT policies across all projects like Fed RAMP, section 508, IPV6, cybersecurity scans, and minimum performance criteria.
• Implemented one of the largest scale IT payroll systems for LA County, processing transaction more than 105k payroll checks in 1 night cycle.
2006
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2000
Technical Project Manager Sr. Project Lead
Prescient InfoTech
Clients- state and local governments
• Served as Technical project manager. Successfully lead several releases, development, upgrades and enhancements.
• Served as scrum master. Executed projects in agile and waterfall methodology.
• Implemented financial and Revenue ERP solutions at state and government agencies like Wisconsin department of revenue, Wake County.
• Lead team of architect, BA, SME, Developers, mentor team members, write, and various financial related modules; develop product using N-tier web based client-server business solution using multi-tier Java, J2EE, oracle, xml.
• Enhance performance through multi-threading, parallel processing. Design and develop web components. 2000
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1998
Senior System Engineer, Choudhury International
• Developed, tested software for Mumbai Stock Exchange using PowerBuilder and Oracle. Software programmer, Clearship InfoTech
• Worked as software programmer for shipping company developing in house projects.