Project Manager

Madhuri Nallamothu Cell: 972-***-****

Email: *******.**********@*****.***

Executive Profile:

Over 10+ years of IT experience as a Project Manager and Lead Business Analyst in the development, implementation and integration strategies within a team oriented environment, utilizing quantitative and qualitative analytical skills in diverse domains like Railways, Media, Health Care, Property Taxes, Banking, Foreclosures and Securities.

Experienced in software development life cycle (SDLC) and involved in all phases of development from user stories, acceptance criteria, development, testing and maintenance.

Experienced in wearing various hats like Release Manager and Scrum Master while working as a Project Manager in the agile arena

Experienced in facilitating Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning sessions, Sprint Review Sessions and Sprint Retrospective sessions with the team

Responsible for working with the team to remove any impediments in the process and help the team in completing the sprint successfully.

Responsible for creating scrum rules for the project and making sure the rules are adhered by the team.

Extensive experience working with the Product Owners in determining the priorities of functions and working on a WBS

Experienced in documenting User Stories along with the Acceptance Criteria, List of Activities, Workflow diagrams, UML diagrams, system documentation and Use Cases as necessary.

Experienced working in Agile, KANBAN and Waterfall methodologies

Experienced in interfacing and communicating with various Cross Functional Teams through analysis, design, development and testing phases of the project.

Strong Analytical, methodical and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying root causes, taking corrective actions to meet short and long-term business, financial and system requirements.

Extensive experience in Client Server, Web-based, Multi Tier applications using technologies like ASP.NET, .NET, WEB SERVICES, SQL, ORACLE, VB, JAVA SCRIPT, Web content management tools like HTML, DHTML, XML, ActiveX.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Scrum Master

TRAININGS:

Project Management Program (PMP)

EDUCATION:

Bachelor Of Science in Business Administration, DeVry University, USA

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications, JNTU, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: BNSF Railways, Fort Worth, Texas Oct 2014 – June 2016

Designation: Project Manager

Project Scope:

BNSF Railways is one of the largest freight railroad networks in North America. BNSF’s extensive network of wayside detectors measures conditions of each passing freight car, in order to identify any undue stresses on the wheels or other equipment and prevent potential equipment failures and derailments. BNSF worked in collaboration with IBM to migrate the detectors from a legacy system to a java based system.

Role & Responsibilities:

Managed the execution and implementation of the different launch phases of SDLC (Agile) for the Detector Analytics project.

Responsible for customer/client satisfaction and also in maintaining high level of communication with all the stakeholders related to the project

Helped in cross-program planning to oversee release dependencies, solve conflicts, defined scope and worked with program management to ensure project objectives were met within the specified time frame.

Responsible for planning, leading, organizing and motivating agile project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality.

Responsible for defining project scope and schedule whilst focusing on regular and timely delivery of projects

Scheduled, documented and led project status meetings to support projects, report project task progress, risks and challenges

Responsible for creating in depth project plans and ensuring that the project is on schedule

Planned release activities via a project plan and ensured that project deliverables were completed per the schedule

Coordinated and facilitated project team meetings including sprint planning, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

Worked and coordinated the release tasks along with our vendors (IBM) to ensure timely completion of release tasks.

Effectively communicated, monitored and tracked upcoming project deliverables and releases to the Business and all the stakeholders

Responsible for holding retrospective meetings after major releases to discuss and document lessons learned and ensured corrective actions were taken for future releases.

Provided on going release and project status to business, senior management and all project stakeholders and made sure the project team has met the project release and project deliverables deadlines

Responsible for creating and maintaining Release Calendar,, Deployment Plans and other Deployment documents

Client: RR Donnelley & Sons, Chicago IL May 2011 – July 2014

Designation: Project Manager

Project Scope:

RR Donnelley is world's premier full service provider of print and related solutions. Its digital asset management tools include Media Compass, a web application which is used to provide print solutions to customers worldwide. Growing customer needs demanded the enhancing of the current application and increasing the overall efficiency and stability of the application.

Role & Responsibilities:

Responsible for managing a matrixed team during the software development cycle over major development projects and initiatives

Established the processes and communications necessary to allow all internal project leaders, managers, senior leadership to work together towards a successful project implementation.

Provided weekly project status reports to internal senior leadership team and vendor executives to track project deliverables and phases.

Partnered with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals; identified and defined necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements.

Responsible for escalating issues, concerns or road blocks to the respective teams and worked on resolving them.

Responsible for working on Change Requests with the Product Owner and the Team.

Responsible for facilitating the Sprint Planning Meeting to review the Product backlog along with the Product Owner and the team and come up with the Sprint Backlog.

Responsible for creating and maintaining the Sprint Backlog and the Status Reports.

Responsible for facilitating the Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Responsible for monitoring sprint burn down and remediate any risks that might arise.

Responsible for tracking the progress of the team and helping the team meet the sprint goals.

Responsible for resolving conflicts that might arise within the team.

Client: United Health Care, Dallas, Texas March 2010 – Sep 2010

Designation: Sr Business Analyst

Project Scope:

United Healthcare Student Resources (UHCSR), a division of United Health Care has approval from United Health Networks for use of the UHC Options PPO Network by Third Party Administrators. This will provide increased savings to UHCSR due to greater network coverage, depth and overall efficiency.

Responsibilities:

Worked with the Business Team to gather and analyze business requirements and created User Stories and Use Cases.

Responsible for creating UML artifacts to help the technical team in understanding the requirements.

Development of overall Test strategies, Test plans for Manual/Automation Testing including definition of test cycles and schedules, creating test data, executing tests interfaces.

Developed Test Cases for Integration and UA Testing.

Created Test Cases and Test Scenarios for manual testing including test cycles and schedules.

Responsible for performing end to end testing of all the Test Scenarios identified.

Responsible for identifying and logging bugs during testing.

Responsible for conducting External and Internal Defect Tracking Meetings across teams to ensure that defects were resolved.

Client: ACS - County of Orange, Santa Ana, CA May 2008 – March 2010

Designation: Lead Business Systems Analyst

Project Scope: The Assessors office in the County of Orange is responsible for determining the value of all taxable property in Orange County for property tax purposes. The Assessors Office used legacy application to run their business processes. In order to increase efficiency, the ATS Re-Engineering project was started to re-engineer the existing business process.

Role & Responsibilities:

Responsible for analyzing the requirements and creating User Stories and Acceptance Criteria based on the discussions with the Product Owner and the Business Team.

Managed all aspects of the project life cycle and worked with team members to oversee all phases of project completion.

Created GUI Specifications and Wireframes using Microsoft Visual Studio to assist the Technical team in understanding the user requirements

Responsible for working on Change Requests with the Product Owner and the Team.

Responsible for facilitating the Sprint Planning Meeting to review the Product backlog along with the Product Owner and the team and come up with the Sprint Backlog.

Responsible for creating and maintaining the Sprint Backlog and the Status Reports.

Responsible for facilitating the Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Responsible for tracking the progress of the team and helping the team meet the sprint goals.

Responsible for resolving conflicts that might arise within the team.

Identified key project stake holders both internally and externally and managed those relationships in support of a comprehensive approach to the project.

Created User Stories, participated in iteration estimation and planning.

Performed Gap analysis to understand the functionality of the current system and helped in system redesigning.

Developed Use Cases to assist the Technical team in developing the Business Functionality and the QA team to develop Test Cases

Client: Countrywide Financials, Simi Valley, CA May 2007 – May 2008

Designation: Sr Business Analyst

Project Scope: Countrywide is a diversified financial services company offering services in banking, real estate, home loans and capital markets. CFC relies on their legacy systems to process their mailroom processes in the foreclosure proceedings. As foreclosures kept growing, it was challenging to keep up the pace for the legacy system. So, CFC decided to team up with Pitney Bowes and expand their printing capabilities. CFC also worked on moving their foreclosure application from PowerBuilder to .NET.

Role & Responsibilities:

Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed, and documented Business Requirements based on the analysis of existing systems.

Performed Systems / Business Analysis of the existing business rules for the documents used in the foreclosure process.

Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.

Worked with Cross functional Teams from all over the US in gathering requirements for Foreclosures.

Used Share Point as a Document Management Platform for all Project Documentation.

Worked in extracting the rules from the Power Builder and stored procedures.

Clarified QA team issues and reviewed test plans and test scripts developed by QA team to make sure that all requirements will be covered in scripts and tested properly.

Created GUI Specifications and Mock ups using Visio to help the users to understand the user interface

Updated the BRD and Functional Specs as per business user feedback and change in functionality of the application.

Extensively used SQL Server using queries to help in the analysis of the business process.

Created various activity, Conceptual models and process flow diagrams to help explain the process to the developers and analyze the project.

Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using UML, Visio.

Performed Gap Analysis and helped in analyzing the resources required for automating the system.

Client: AG Edwards, St. Louis, MO Aug 2006 – April 2007

Designation: Business Analyst

Project Scope: A.G Edwards is a full service brokerage firm with offices nationwide. AGE depended on their Mainframe platforms Bull and Himalaya for their periodical reports. The legacy system had support and maintenance issues. In order to rectify these issues the AIM project was introduced. Aim Reporting is a part of the Aim Project and is involved in moving the legacy reports comprising of COBOL Codes and Mainframe technology to a more strategic platform using Business Objects XI and Crystal Reports according to AGE user’s requirements and standards.

Role & Responsibilities:

Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed, and documented Business Requirements for different departments in AGE such as Trend Analysis, Securities, Online Transfers etc for understanding the business reporting functionality of the legacy system.

Created the TO BE state of the reports after analyzing the AS IS documents for different departments and getting new requirements from the report SME’s and Business Application owners.

Performed GAP analysis, analyzed the current state and future state of the system, worked on developing the current workflows and mapping the requirements. Analyzed the COBOL, SQL codes, data flows and calculations provided by the IT SME to generate the current functionality into the future system.

Discussed status updates with the project manager in identifying the progress and meeting deadlines.

Functioned as the primary liaison between the business users, developers and the data teams throughout the project cycle.

Created the functional design documents for individual reports which included the data selection criteria to help developers pull out the objects from the Universes and prepare the Detail Design of the report.

Documented business and data scripts after understanding the system thoroughly and translating them to the developers helping them incorporate the current system features into the future system.

Responsible for communications between the off-shore development team and onsite Project Team and other related departments.

Followed RUP iterative approach with its various workflows, artifacts and activities which allowed increased understanding of the problem through successive refinements and helped us grow an effective solution over multiple iterations.

Queried database using Business Objects XI and acted as a Liaison between end users and the data team (Business Intelligence Competency Team)

Extensive use of Rational Requisite Pro and Rational Clear Case.

Researched/Analyzed the various steps in the current state analysis of the reports and then wrote the Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document in such a way that the developers could create the reports.

Assisted client in developing content and training materials. Recommended enhancements and identified new business requirements.

Worked with the data team to ensure data mapping and to identify data gaps.

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