Project Management, Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, SDLC

RUCHA DATAR

Irvine, CA • 949-***-**** • ************@*****.*** • LinkedIn URL

SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with 5+ years of development, business analysis and project management experience in implementing software solutions globally for Utilities industry.

Areas of Expertise

Project Management

Agile/Scrum

User Elicitation

Functional Testing

SDLC

Requirements Gathering

Business Systems Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Data Analysis

System Modeling

Process Improvement

User Training

EDUCATION

Project Management Certificate University of California 2015

GPA: 3.97/4.0 Irvine

Bachelor of Technology, Veermata Jijabai Technical Institute 2008

Electronics Engineering Mumbai

Division: First Class

SKILLS

Domain Knowledge Accounts Receivable & Payable, Billing & Invoicing, Inter Company Data Exchange (Utilities)

Project Management Requirements management, Project Planning, Scheduling, Estimation, Risk/Contingency Management and Leadership & People Development Skills

Agile Scrum CSM, Product Backlog Management, Story Point Estimation, Planning Poker, Sprint/Release Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Retrospectives, Burn Down, KANBAN

Languages UML, SQL, SAP ABAP, C, C++, VB6.0

Tools Rally, MS Project, Visio, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, HPQC

Markup Language HTML, XML

Operating Systems Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10

Soft Skills Strong Communication, Highly Analytical, Problem Solving and Decision making capability, Self Starter, Team Player, Leadership

AWARDS

Accenture Celebrates Excellence (ACE)

-Recognized for outstanding delivery excellence and leadership skills from a delivery unit of 90 people.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.

Senior Software Analyst 2011-2013

American Water, USA

Led a team of 5 consultants during system implementation phase for the multi-year Business Transformation project for American Water.

Reported to senior management with updated project schedules along with task tracking and resource planning in MS Project.

Extensively designed and customized client billing system and created defect analysis framework that led to a savings of 100 hours per month.

Multiple project stakeholder engagement to assess and document business requirements.

Configured transactional application system to map business processes for managing customer payment, billing and invoicing cycles, thus reducing estimated development effort by 40%.

Performed extensive SWOT analysis for complex SAP applications along with customer data analysis to identify gaps and propose efficient solutions.

E.ON España (Spain)

Successfully supervised and reviewed 150 testing scenarios within 2 months leading to 15% reduction in implementation defects.

Optimized complex reporting capability by creating custom weekly and monthly status reports leading to effort savings of 80 hours over a period of 4 months.

Software Analyst 2009-2011

Allegheny Power, USA

Engineered creation of 100,000 new customer accounts system to set up receivable and payable channels and billing cycles

Sole responsibility to resolve and track application defects, critical issues and high impact system failures.

Associate Software Analyst 2008-2009

Reliant Energy, USA

Analyzed functional requirements to implement and test code to map user requirements to application system.

Prepared training documentation for development team, test team and end user community.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Website Development for a Bed & Breakfast (Agile/Scrum)

Prioritized product backlog using value point estimation. Used Planning Poker technique to estimate effort of story points.

Performed Sprint planning and tracked project progress with Burn Down chart.

Build a Project plan for a new Community Garden (Waterfall)

Created a detailed project plan with the help of project charter, stakeholder analysis, risk identification and assessment techniques.

Developed a detailed WBS and Gantt chart using MS Project.

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