MANIKYA RAO

PROFILE SUMMARY

Self motivated IT professional with 11 plus years of experience in managing projects from conception to closure phase. PMP certified and certified Scrum Master; managing projects for more than 5 years. Experience in managing complex business transformations covering Scope management, Issue Management, Release planning, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategy & Business Analysis, Client Engagement and Product & Process implementation.

KEY EXPERTISE

Good experience handling projects using both Waterfall & Agile methodologies.

Domain Exposure: Financial, Banking, SCM, HCM, Energy, Hospitality, Healthcare and telecom etc

Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross functional teams.

Expertise: Project Management, Program Management, Stakeholder Management, PMP, CSM, ITIL, Risk Management, Change Management, Software Development (SDLC) & Agile concepts

Design Process diagrams, Architecture diagrams, Use Cases

Process Change/Improvement/Conflict management/ Change Management

IT Project Management, Product life cycle management, Program management (PMO)

Cross-functional team building and leadership. Coaching & mentoring.

Experience in Agile Coaching with successfully influencing mindset and implementation of Scrum, XP practices, Lean Agile Development with expert level of knowledge in Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, Iterative & Incremental models and continuous improvement practices.

Coaching teams to profound technical Excellency with strong adherence to agile values and principles.

Proficiency in Requirement Gathering, Data Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & Training and hands on experience with industry standard SDLC methodologies – Iterative, Agile (Scrum) and Lean Six Sigma methodology DMAIC.

Expertise in preparing Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD/FRD), User Stories, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Training Documents.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

CignexDATAMATICS: Sep 2014 through till date; Job-Title: Project Manager

NTT DATA:Dec 2009 through Sep 2014; Job-Title: Project Manager; Job Role: Project Manager.

Ascendum Solutions December 2008 through July 2009; Job-Title: Team Lead; Job Role: Team Lead

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd; June 2007 through Nov 2008; Job-Title: Senior Software Engineer; Job Role: Production Support Technical Leader.

Capgemini Aug 2006 through June 2007; Job-Title: Consultant; Job Role: Programmer and Tester

IBM India Private Limited July 2004 through Aug 2006; Job-Title: Software Engineer; Job Role: Programmer and Tester

EDUCATION

MCA – Master of Computer Application from MCRP University,(MP) 2002

BSC- Bachelor of Science from Nagarjuna University,(AP) 1996

CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

CSM-Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance): 25 Mar 15

PMP (PMI) : Project Manager Professional 01-Oct-15

ITIL V3, EXIN

ACP (PMI): Currently pursuing

CORE IT SKILLS

Elements

Particulars

Primary Skills

Java,J2EE

Operating Systems

Windows, Unix/Linux and SunSolairs

Languages

Java, C, C++

IDEs

Eclipse, IntelliJ and NetBeans

Project Management Tools

Microsoft Project Plan, Rally, JIRA and Versionone

Scripting Languages

Shell, PERL

Scheduling tools

Autosys, Keepalive, Nagios

Databases

Oracle (9i, 10g), DB2,PL/SQL, Sybase

Configuration Tools

CVS,SVN and clear case

Servers

Tomcat, Weblogic, WebSphere and JBoss

Web Technologies

HTML, JavaScript and CSS

Documentation and Design

Microsoft® Word, Visio

SCM tools

Ariba Buyer, Maximo

Frame works

Struts, Hibernate, Spring

Client / Server Technologies

Servlets, JSP, EJB,JNDI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (PROJECTS)

CignexDATAMATICS

CIGNEX Datamatics (a subsidiary of Datamatics Global Services Ltd.) is a pure play Open Source Service Provider of enterprise-grade solutions, platforms, products and services with a focus on Systems of Engagement and Insight.

Time Line

Sept 2014 to till date

Client

AON

No.of Reportees

13

Project

Intent of Application is to provide a front-end interface that provides access to Aon Hewitt systems from a single location. Its functionality works so that clients add necessary items on the back end to be later assigned to specified areas of the UPoint interface. Client participants using UPoint will not need to access different Aon Hewitt sites separately, since UPoint will allow them to access everything from a single location. Client teams can customize each client’s UPoint site with the client’s branding, content, and any links to other sites the client specifies. Clients can customize their users’ views of UPoint pages or allow access to different areas based on client-specific eligibility requirements.

Responsibility

Was responsible for conducting all Scrum related activities, including Release planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospective, and client demos

Certified Scrum Master; experienced in coaching and mentoring team to practice scrum

Helping Product Owner in grooming the Product Backlog and prioritizing the user stories

Helping stakeholders with agile board, reports like burn-down and velocity calculation

Strong stakeholder management with can-do attitude.

Participate in effort estimation and moderate the effort

Removing obstacles and manage risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness

Maintaining relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing, and leveraging metrics to continuously improve the team's efficiency and performance

Liaise between developers/testers and business units; foster quality communication

Provide appropriate oversight on the team's progress to ensure delivery is on time

Coordinate planning and execution to ensure cost, time, and quality goals are met.

Track and report on overall project progress and performance - Weekly project status reporting (including open / close issues & risks).

In addition, also handled some PMO responsibilities like defining Quality Metrics for the clients, making enhancements to the existing templates & contributed in standardizing the templates across all projects

Environment

Lifray,Java,J2EE,Tomcat7.0,Oracle,QUERY,AGILE

NTT DATA

Time Line

Apr 2013 to Sept-2014

Client

choiceADVANTAGE

No.of Reportees

21

Project

Intent of Application is to provide mobile optimized business intelligence dashboard and details to hotel property owners and general managers. Also

Provide mobile optimized workflow for housekeeping supervisors to manage room states and service quality

Responsibility

Played the role of Scrum Master and delivery manager owning end to end responsibility.

Creating project plans, implementation schedules for projects.

Carried out risk analysis, identify risk areas for given project.

Successfully initiated and managed several highly visible sprints.

Supervised and conducted architecture, design activities as well as code reviews.

Exposure of the Agile Software Development Methodology.

Responsible for end-to-end delivery of the sprints.

Environment

Java,J2EE,Tomcat7.0,Struts1.1,MS SQL SERVER Express,HTML5,JQUERY,AGILE

NTT DATA

Time Line

July 2012 to till date

Client

Standard and Poor’s

No.of Reportees

15

Project

RAMP Online: RAMP Online that use a state-of-the-art application with the latest technology based on Service Oriented Architecture concepts and designed to provide flexibility for dynamic Business changes.

Responsibility

Lead the development team of 15 members.

Creating project plans, implementation schedules for projects.

Carried out risk analysis, identify risk areas for given project.

Successfully initiated and managed several highly visible sprints.

Exposure of the Agile Software Development Methodology.

Responsible for end-to-end delivery of the sprints.

Analyze client inputs, attend technical calls with client, conceptualize, design and suggest technical solutions for project.

Environment

WebLogic, Oracle, WebLogic,JDK1.5,XML,EXTJS 4.0,Log4j,Hibernate,Spring,JMS Queue, EL-JSTL

NTT DATA

Time Line

July 2011 to June-2012

Client

Goldman Sachs

No.of Reportees

15

Project

Treasury

TDS (T-Recs, T-Caps) and TBS (PPL and RPL) are key treasury applications for GS which are efficiently funding the firm on short term basis and monitoring the cash movement on or off the firm’s bank accounts

Responsibility

Worked as program manager for the LARA adoption as part of H/W uplift

Designs, develops, and implements processes, systems, technology to enhance the technical support function.

Be responsible for accurate reporting and SLA compliance as deemed appropriate.

Perform Problem Management process to identify issues pro-actively and work with relevant stakeholders in improving overall process performance.

Ability to extract information from data, and provide “root cause”/ “remediation” to improve or fix process and be able to look at “Big” picture is critical.

Translate business requirements into detailed design specification.

Creates and maintains a knowledge base of issues, resolutions, use cases, topologies, tricks and tips, configuration guides, FAQs, and documentation improvement suggestions. Documents all user interaction, manages trends, and reports on staff utilization.

Environment

Java, PERL, SHELL, Sun Solaris, Sybase, DB2, Autosys, Keepalive

NTT DATA

NTT DATA is your Innovation Partner anywhere around the world. Headquartered in Tokyo.

Time Line

Dec 2009 – July 2011

Client

Goldman Sachs

No.of Reportees

6

Project

Service Delivery Project (SDP)/ Human Capital Management (HCM)

The IT applications used by HCM operations in GS and supported by Keane HCM stands for Human Capital Management. It has two main functions.

1) CDE (common data exchange)

2) IMCORE (It has 30 Applications)

Responsibility

Was an active member during requirement and estimation

Analyze client inputs, attend technical calls with client, conceptualize, design and suggest technical solutions for project.

Motivated the team members during crisis and tight deadlines.

Environment

SQR, PERL and SHELL scripting, JAVA, sybase12.5, LINUX, UNIX

Ascendum Solutions India Pvt Ltd

Time Line

Dec 2008- July 2009

Client

VINIMAYA

No.of Reportees

15

Project

VINIMAYA:This Product enables suppliers for e-procurement system. Using Vinimaya Smart Search Catalog, you can search multiple supplier catalogs for items, compare across suppliers for price and availability and store these items in your saved cart or package. You can also shop by providing a list of items you require, by directly visiting the supplier site or by using the search utility to explore the catalogs

Responsibility

Lead the development team of 15 members.

Creating project plans, implementation schedules

Carried out risk analysis, identify risk areas

Environment

Windows XP; Jsp, Struts, Java, Log4J, Oracle, BEA Weblogic 8.1, CVS, Eclipse,

Hibernate And Toad

Accenture Services India Pvt Ltd

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company

Time Line

June2007 – Nov 2008

Client

JP Morgan Chase

Project

GSMS (Global Storage Management System)

GTI-GSMS (Global Technology Infrastructure Global Storage Management System) Storage management deals with onsite and offsite data storage for the purposes of data restoration and historical archiving the goal of storage management is to define, track, and maintain data and data resources in the production IT environment. It is concerned with the operation and maintenance aspects of storage media

Responsibility

Debug and implement time critical fixes. Develop and

Review test plans.

Analyze client inputs, attend technical calls with client,

conceptualize,

Design and suggest technical solutions for project.

Environment

Servlets, Spring, JSP, Tomcat, Oracle, UNIX

Capgemini

Capgemini is headquartered in Paris, France and operates in North and South America, Europe and the Asia Pacific regions.

Time Line

Aug2006 – June-2007

Client

TXU

Project

MAXIMO is asset management system comprising both maintenance and financial supporting applications designed and developed by MRO software (U.S) with component-based architecture using J2EE technology. Maximo team developed and integrated new applications like Clearance, Impact, Permits, WOGEN, M2PX and customized the existing modules like Calibration, PM, Inventory, Work Order and etc in the MAXIMO framework which is suitable for Nuclear Industry equipment maintenance system.

Responsibility

Defect fixing Team and Responsible for delivery of defect fixes and

Enhancements on different modules of Maximo.

Responsible for trouble shooting, analyzing and fixing the defects.

Development and customization which requires development of custom

MBO’s classes, Field level classes, Handlers and configuration Management using MRO Control Center.. Design and Build for optimum performance and resource consumption.

IBM India Private Limited

Time Line

Feb 2006 – Aug 2006

Client

Myrill Lynch

Project Details

Merrill Ariba is a project under Supply Chain Management serving the client Merrill Lynch.

Responsibility

Working with Production Support involving day-to-day

Interactions with clients.

Worked on both the front end and the back end to resolve the issues

IBM India Private Limited

IBM is a global technology and innovation company that stands for progress.

Time Line

July 2004 – Jan 2006

Project Details

IGF Sales Delivery is an IBM initiative to enable real-time financing (credit, pricing and contract) in all routes-to-market with particular focus on process automation and sales productivity.

Responsibility

Requirement Analysis & Elaboration

Unit Process Functional Specification

Code Reviews, Unit & Integration testing

Implementing the changes needed by the new requirements in applications.

Environment

Windows 2000, AIX, Java, Servlets, JSP, WSAD, Web sphere, DB2, XML,

Web Services, JAXB, EJB

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date Of Birth : 1-Aug-1974

Father Name : Eppa Rangaiah

Marital Status : Married.

Hobbies : Sports, Reading books.

Passport No : K1718400.

Known Languages : Telugu, English, Hindi and Kannada

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