Project Manager

HIREN JANI

Somerset, New Jersey

732-***-**** *********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Ability to manage project delivery and complete a variety of project activities including contingency planning & risk management, provide cost & resource estimates, maintain customer relationships and propose product enhancements

Experience and fluency with System/Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with emphasis on requirement definition, functional design, testing, and deployment activities

Extensive experience managing on-shore and off-shore project teams using Waterfall/Agile Methodology through all phases of System Development Life Cycle from requirements gathering to implementation

Significant knowledge of business process re-engineering/improvements and industry best practices

Ability to work under pressure with shifting priorities while maintaining focus on client deliverables

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MOODY’S CORPORATION, New York, NY 10/2015 - 03/2016

Project Manager, PMO – Risk and Governance

Project – File Share/SharePoint Access Remediation

This initiative aims to discover, inventory, remediate access and provide governance to file shares and SharePoint sites. It protects Moody’s data assets residing on these shares/sites by implementing periodic process of recertification of each user by shares/sites owners.

Successfully delivered project deliverables to business customers by leading the project team and supporting the IT and Business Executives

Managed the deliverables, processes, and artifacts to ensure adherence to Enterprise Project Governance such as, Portfolio & Resource Management, Planning, Budget, Scheduling, Execution, Development Methodologies, Risk Management, Status Reports, Presentations, Training Plans and Transition to Operations

Worked with vendors and Moody’s cross functional team to create strategic plans for File Share and SharePoint access remediation to meet the SEC (Security & Exchange Commission) timeline

Led project team and guided executives to make decisions in a timely manner to successfully meet delivery deadlines according to project schedule and budget

Created 24/7 global post implementation support model for business to remediate any file share/SharePoint site access issues by new process

Assisted Helpdesk team to create future state support model to handle ongoing post-implementation shares/sites access requests

Created complete project plan for COTS automated solution for FSAR project using RUP (Rational Unified Process) methodology

CAPGEMINI, Raritan, NJ 11/2014 – 08/2015

Project Manager

Client – Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

Project – Clinical Sourcing Metrics 11/2014 – 08/2015

Replacement of clinical performance metrics based on Cognos desktop application by creating data package layer in Oracle and consume data using Spotfire to build advance dashboards through AWS (Amazon Web Services) to avoid redundant deliverables and reviews.

Managed project from beginning to end to ensure consistent and integrated implementation of Business Intelligent (BI) service initiatives across customer business units

HIREN JANI

Somerset, New Jersey

732-***-**** *********@*****.***

Developed and delivered progress reports, proposals, and requirements documentation to project stakeholders and management team

Managed full SDLC application development projects using Waterfall/Agile development methodologies

Collaborated with senior management and functional managers to plan business and technology initiatives

Effectively communicated project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion

Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues

Identified and managed project dependencies and resolved critical impediments to maintain project on schedule

Project – SDDC (Software-defined data center) 02/2015 – 08/2015

SDDC (Software-defined data center) is a service delivery platform built using next-generation cloud technologies designed to operate with higher flexibility. This project significantly help reduce cost by $12 million over a period of 2 years due to automation, self-service operations, policy-based management, high asset utilization, and reduced complexity from standardization.

Developed complete service delivery platforms through Amazon Web Services and integrated with J&J SDLC processes and policies

Closely coordinated activities for information gathering, gap identification on collected attributes in CMDB (Configuration Management Database), and prioritization criteria with each business unit architects

Met with various Technical Application Owners (TAOs) to gather necessary attributes, including cost data, application disposition, and coordinated future plans and updated CMDB

Developed application landscapes and roadmaps for applications that migrated to SDDC

Project – ETL Transformations 12/2014 – 03/2015

Integrate the new CAPA source system – TrackWise (TW) into QABI Database

Led Business Requirements Gathering sessions in the form of questionnaires and business scenarios with the end users, subject matter experts (SME) and the developers

Created detailed project plan using MS Project

Worked with developers to create Source to Target metrics of databases to support migration

Conducted weekly status meetings with internal management team and client leadership team

Environment: MS Project, Waterfall, Agile, SQL Navigator, SharePoint, Microsoft Office (Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio), AWS (Amazon Web Services), Illustrator (Design – Wireframe), Spotfire, Clarity

ACCENTURE, Florham Park, NJ 01/2008 – 11/2014

Project Manager

Project – Quantum MDR – Metadata Registry & RIM – Regulatory Information Management

Managed medium to large scale application development projects for clients by utilizing project management lifecycle (Design, Development, Deployment, Testing and Post-Production support)

HIREN JANI

Somerset, New Jersey

732-***-**** *********@*****.***

Organized project specific teams within Accenture to ensure client expectations and project deliverables are met

Led project specific requirements gathering sessions (or design sessions) with clients’ clinical cross-functional team

Utilized Agile and Waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, created detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures

Effectively worked with off-shore developers and database design team on a daily basis to understand work effort and coordinate timeline to create various environments (e.g. Dev, QA and Prod) for projects

Created project plan utilizing Microsoft Project to track deliverables, delivery date(s), budget, resources and dependencies

Facilitated regular status meetings with internal project team and client project team, sponsors and all stakeholders

Actively managed the project timeline and escalated any risk to the project delivery date to senior management and discussed viable solution

Project - Operational Data Warehouse (ODW) – Cloud Implementation

Client - Pfizer

Led functional and design requirements gathering sessions with client functional/technical groups

Established 40 Clinical Trial Process Quality Standards (CTPQS) metrics to support Pfizer’s responsibility of overseeing the clinical trials executed by both Pfizer and Alliance Partners (AP)

Documented Source to Target Matrix (STM) of various databases to support system integration

Worked with onshore/offshore team to coordinate daily system integration/migration activities of transactional and operational data

Project - Business Process Outsource – Electronic Data Capture (EDC)

Client - Merck

Managed the delivery of technical aspects (e.g. SDTM mapping etc.) of EDC trials (Therapeutic Area (TA) of Oncology, Diabetes, Vaccine) using Oracle InForm, Table Trans/Contivo mapping software and Merck’s Standards Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Provided cost/resource estimates for outsourced projects according to Service Level Agreement

Closely worked with client manager to keep track of project timeline

Collaborated with Client technical team, developers, and testers to manage final UAT rounds

Managed data flow issues log and provided Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for critical UAT issues to the management team (Internal & Client)

Managed and solved any cross functional study escalations

Coordinated with off-shore development center on a daily basis to monitor testing progress and ensure the team met planned system testing completion date

Project - Process Optimization Lead/Business Process Re-engineering

Client - Merck

Acted as process SME and led process improvement team to enhance existing processes and overall improvement efforts

Served as a focal point for Operation Excellence improvement effort and developed internal tools to identify process gaps

Identified bottlenecks in development process and facilitated usage of advanced technologies, new tools and enhanced processes

HIREN JANI

Somerset, New Jersey

732-***-**** *********@*****.***

Created and maintained best practices, risk assessment, guidance documents, various job aids for existing and new release processes

Environment: MS Project, Agile/Waterfall, EDC, SQL, JAVA, SharePoint, Microsoft Office (Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio), AWS (Amazon Web Services), Illustrator (Design – Wireframe), .Net, Visual Basic

EDUCATION

MS, Information Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 05/2006

GDIT (Graduate Diploma in Information Technology) Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia 11/2001

MS Project 2010 – Completed advance training course – Mercer County College, NJ 08/2015

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/pub/hiren-jani-sfc-csm/5/65/704

CERTIFICATION

CSM – Certified Scrum Master – SCRUMstudy License # 81661

SFC – Scrum Fundamentals Certified – SCRUMstudy License # 81611

PMP – Project Management Professional – Certified by Capgemini

MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Project Management (Agile/scrum, Waterfall)

RUP – Software Development

Clarity & APPM – Project Management tool

Primavera – Project Tracking tool

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

SAAS (Software-As-A-Service) Platforms

Business Process Re-engineering / Change Management

Operations Excellence (OE) tools (3X3 metrics, Control Charts)

SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats)

CAPA (Corrective Action Preventive Action) / Root Cause Analysis

Good Documentation Practice (GDP)

Good Clinical Practice (GCP)

Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SQL Navigator 5.0 (Basic)

Quantum – CM (Content Management)

Quantum – RIM (Regulatory Information Management) / Viewpoint Publisher

BEPL (Business Process Execution Language)

Microsoft Office (Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio)

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