Venkata Talatam, CSM

acy2ke@r.postjobfree.com

713-***-****

Summary:

Ten (10+) Years of professional experience in IT Project Management, with proven track record of successfully implementing and delivering mid-size to large mission critical (Enterprise) applications.

Highly successful in leading all phases of SDLC process for enterprise systems development: from planning, analyzing, designing, developing, testing, implementation, Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration.

Proven track record in delivering results on time and within budget, utilizing formal software development methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile (SCRUM).

Extensive project/program management experience with short term and multiyear projects/program of various sizes ranging from $200K to $10M in budget and project staffing ranging from five to twenty five members.

Highly successfully in implementing custom software development and commercial off the shelf projects (COTS).

Excellent client facing, communication, analytical, and management skills with results-oriented collaboration with project stakeholders, program managers, offshore teams and executive management.

Worked with Product Owners/Product managers on product backlog and release planning. Facilitated sprint and release planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, demos, scrum of scrums (SoS) and retrospectives.

Proficient in project management methodologies like managing scope, change management, release management, forecasting & tracking project budget, milestones, monitoring and controlling costs, develop and review project plans, track schedules, and deadlines, obtaining necessary formal signoffs, conducting regular project status meetings with project stakeholders and PMO.

Well versed in drilling down business requirements, development of Functional Specifications Document (FSD) for software applications and mapping them back to the requirements (Requirements Traceability Matrix - RTM).

Played a key role in sales and marketing activities like product design and development, creating statement of work’s (SOW), providing responses to the Request for Proposals (RFP), demo of products to potential customers through PowerPoint presentations, system demonstrations, and application prototypes.

Proficient using JIRA, TFS, and TAS (bug tracking tool).

Experience in project studies that include Root-cause analysis, Feasibility studies, Gap analysis, Impact analysis and Risk Assessment.

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), by Scrum Alliance – License # 000620716 (Active)

Technical Skills

PM Tools

MS Project 2013, MS Suite 2013 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Visio, MS SharePoint, Google Docs.

Bug Tracker Tools

Technologies

JIRA, TFS

OBIEE (BI), .NET, WebSphere, DW, Mainframe, Informatica (ETL), Cognos, EMR

Database

SQL Server 2012/14, DB2, Oracle, MS Access.

Key Skills -

Methodologies - Agile (Scrum), Waterfall & Rational Unified Process (RUP)

MS Project, Excel (Pivot tables) & Power Point

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Professional Work Experience:

PCC Technology Inc., Los Angeles CA June 11 – Present

Project Manager

PCC Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of Information Technology (IT) Services Company that provides software solutions to State, Local, Federal Governments (public sector) and Fortune 1000 companies. Services include: COTS customization, Enterprise Application development, Outsourcing, eCommerce, eGovernance, eSolutions, System Integration and Strategic Planning.

Projects: (References available for all the below projects upon request)

1.Corporations & Charities System - Secretary of State, State of Washington Oct 2015 – Present Role: Project Manager

Project Description: The main objective of this project is to implement a state-of-the-art Corporations and Charities web application that will encourage online filing and provide transparency of public records maintained by the State division. This includes data migration from the existing system (Oracle) and transforming to SQL server 2014.

Business Stakeholders/Audience: WA Office of the Secretary of State (OSOS), OSOS Corporations & Charities Director, OSOS IT PM, OSOS subject matter experts (SME’s), OSOS Technical supervisor & PCC team

2.Business Filing System - Secretary of State, North Dakota Nov 2014 – Sep 2015

Role: Project Manager

Project Description: The business objective of this project is to ensure that North Dakota Central Indexing System records, files, or registers different types of records used in commerce, such as Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings, Central Notice System (CNS) filings, and agricultural liens with the North Dakota Secretary of State online. With the proposed system, North Dakota Secretary of State (NDSOS) will improve the customer experience and significantly reduce the manual effort associated with all filings. Data migration is part of the project scope where the existing data has been extracted, transformed and mapped to the fiends to the new system (.Net and SQL server).

Business Stakeholders/Audience: ND Secretary of State (SOS), Business Director, SOS IT PM, SOS subject matter experts (SME’s) & PCC team

3.Business Filing System - Secretary of State (SOS), Arkansas Feb 2013 – Oct 2014

Role: Project Manager

Project Description: Arkansas SOS wanted a Business Filings system that is available both online and in-house for the public and SOS staff to efficiently order/process the documents. PCC implemented a solution capable of online receipt and backend processing of Notary Commission and Apostille filings.

Business Stakeholders/Audience: AR Sec. of State (SOS), SOS Business Director, SOS IT PM, SOS subject matter experts (SME’s) & PCC team.

4.Voter Information Center (Web & Mobile App) - Secretary of State, Rhode Island Mar 2014 – Aug 2014 Role: Project Manager

Project Description: Voter Information Center application is a dashboard where State based voters (public) can login into the application using their personal voter details to view a list of features (Vote status, finding polling place, Applications, Candidates contesting and Sample ballots) that helps them during the elections period. Since there is a huge load on the web application, RI SOS wanted a mobile App to divert some of the user load. PCC recommended Amazon cloud (AWS) to host the Application and Database servers.

Business Stakeholders/Audience: RI Sec. of State (SOS), Elections director, IT director, Legal team, SOS subject matter experts and Staff & PCC team.

5.Online Voter Registration (Web and Mobile App), Migration from DB2 to SQL DB

(From State servers to Data center in Atlanta - Secretary of State, Georgia March 2013 – Feb 2014

Role: Project Manager

Project Description: According to the new law (In State of Georgia), citizens can register to vote online without the need of going to one of the Government offices to register their names. The system validates the Driver’s License and Voter registrant details real time and sends the status (Approved/Pending/Declined) to the Centralized Voter Registration database.

Business Stakeholders: Georgia Sec. of the State (SOS), Elections Divisions Director, County Clerks, SOS Chief Information Officer of IT, SOS Legal Advisor, Business Subject Matter Experts, SOS Project Manager, SOS Business Analyst)

6.Financial system (FINSYS) - SaaS

Migration from Access DB to SQL server - Secretary of the State, Connecticut Jan 2012 – Feb 2013

Role: Project Manager

Project Description: State of Connecticut, was granted new funds for migrating the existing Internal Revenue system (MS Access based) into an upgraded Framework. PCC recommended .Net based application with a SQL database. Project consist of the financial application (FINSYS) to be integrated along with the other 3rd party system and display on a new dashboard and consolidate into one single SQL database.

Business Stakeholders: CT Sec. of State (SOS), LEAD director, Legal team, SOS subject matter experts and Staff, PCC – PM and 2 BA’s

7.Elections Reporting Tool - Secretary of the State – New Hampshire June 2011 – Present (Ongoing)

Role: Project Manager

Project Description: State of New Hampshire wanted the public to view the Election results on SOS website as soon as they declare the winners. So they decided to have an Elections Reporting Tool (ERT) application which post the election results online, generates customized public reports, send alerts to county staff and send ballots to overseas voters.

Business Stakeholders: NH SOS, SOS Elections director, SOS staff and PCC Team.

Ongoing Maintenance Projects (Role: Operations Manager):

1.Northeast Utilities – Web Portal – Commercial & Residential – Connecticut

2.Election Night Results (ENR) – Montgomery county, Pennsylvania

3.ElectioNet - Statewide Voter Registration System - Secretary of State – Maine, New Hampshire

4.Campaign Finance Information System – Wisconsin, Maryland and Wayne county (Michigan)

Responsibilities:

Oversee/track all project deliverables and milestones throughout the project life cycle.

Conducted JAD (Joint Application Development)/GAP sessions to gather Business Requirements, analyze and prioritize them.

Lead and manage an offshore/onsite team of sixteen (16) people.

Developed scope document, financial projections and perform Cost/benefit analysis for the project.

Proficient in setting client expectations and reporting frequent project progress to higher management, Steering committees and/or customers.

Prepared project reports that reflect the current project status and compared actuals with the forecasted schedule/cost baselines and show the variance.

Defined project Charter, scope and objectives, coordinated activities of a project team, and identified resources.

Developed hands-on detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.

Experienced in full software implementation life cycle (SDLC): Initiation and Planning, Execution, Monitor & Control, Closing and Post Go-Live Support (Maintenance).

Designed and Implemented web-based applications to address the business requirements.

Worked collaboratively with Sales and Marketing team to support the RFP process and any product functional questions.

Highly proficient in wearing multiple hats and working collaboratively across all cross-functional teams and lead the overall Operations support and business analysis, along with project management.

Provided analysis, understanding and business perspectives on many financial and operational issues.

Followed Software Development process (PMI guidelines) and PMBOK best practices to manage projects with challenging timelines & deliverables.

Used Hybrid methodology (Waterfall and Agile methodology) for streamlining the team’s development activities, and actively involved in validating the requirements and applying it to framework throughout the SDLC.

Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities of business from conceptual to procedural level.

Lead the UI design, requirement and data modeling sessions, supported FRD production and Data Mapping.

Maintained logs throughout the project life cycle which consist of Issues/Action Items/Risks & Decision register.

Prepared bi-weekly project status reports and coordinated work plan between client project manager and business stakeholders.

Responsible for sending Invoices for all milestones of the project and keep track of all Invoices summary.

Conducted UAT (User Acceptance Testing) sessions and trained end users to make sure they are well acquainted with the application. Lead the interaction with testing department to make sure that usability standards are maintained.

Maintained TAS (internal bug tracker) to log all the issues reported by client and used to generate statistical reports as and when necessary.

Key Accomplishments:

Championed a process improvement project by implementing a software solution that helped in defining the SDLC process leading to cost savings and business process improvements.

Managed multiple projects & releases with International teams with strong leadership.

Successfully delivered major and minor releases/projects to client satisfaction supporting Agile methodology.

Made critical decisions to support program objectives by evaluating project constraints and organizational strategy.

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, VB, Java Scripts, .Net framework, Performance Studio, SQL Server 2008, TAS, SnagIt, MS Project 2010, MS-Visio 2010/13, MS-Office 2010/13, HTML, XML, Active Server Pages, Erwin 7.1, MS SharePoint, Test Director 7.1, Cognos.

ING Vysya, Hartford CT Aug 09 – May 11

Business Analyst

ING is one of the leading insurance companies. The Modules I worked is to get Online Quotes, choose Right Insurance Options and Avail Various Discounts and Savings available for Life Insurance. The Project was a web based application which was developed to meet the online insurance requirement for customers.

Responsibilities:

Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.

Involved in requirement gathering sessions, which includes interviews, brainstorming and meetings with stakeholders.

Extensively involved in all phases of the project to make sure that all documented functional requirements are met.

Identified and created all necessary Business Use Cases from requirements, created UML Diagrams including Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Class Diagrams using Microsoft Visio.

Involved in the creation and maintenance of the Workflow plans and artifacts.

Implemented an integrated RUP solution with complete line of traceability for all the artifacts of web development project.

Maintained and kept track of stakeholders’ requests for enhancements and changes using MS SharePoint.

Analyzed business logic, User Requirements and test-objectives to develop test plans, test cases, and test case execution using Test Director.

Tested the application manually by executing Test Cases prior to Automation.

Involved in automating test cases using QTP and managed testing team with performance testing using Load Runner.

Performed testing that includes regression, system, end to end, smoke, functional and front end testing.

Participated in Bug-Review meetings with Developers, QA engineers, managers and suggested enhancements to the existed application from business perspectives, provided solutions to existing bugs.

Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to make sure that all the user requirements are catered by the application.

Involved in preparing a simple and detailed User Training manual for the application.

Environment: RUP, Erwin, Microsoft Office suites (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Visio), Mercury Test Director (v8.2 & v9.2), Bugzilla, HTML, Dreamweaver, .Net, Java, SQL Server Reporting Services, COGNOS Reports.

JP Morgan Chase, Wilmington, DE June 08 – July 09

Business Analyst / QA

Chase is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The project is for investment banking division. The project deals with portfolio analysis and portfolio rebalancing based on the impact of the risk on different securities and derivatives. This project involved Business and requirements analysis, modeling, design, System Functional performance and User Acceptance testing (UAT).

Responsibilities:

Interacted with portfolio analysts and asset managers to finalize the Business Requirements for the application.

Performed requirement analysis and documented the requirements.

Produced visual models for the application to create use cases, charts, sequence diagrams, deployment diagrams and activity diagrams.

Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business process, business rules, information needs and insured that critical requirements are not missed.

Closely interacted with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow and keep them updated about Business user’s requirements.

Analyzed system requirements, developed detailed Test plan, Test cases, Test scripts for testing the functionality, GUI and security testing.

Analyzed Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.

Created mockups/wireframes of key Share Point interface components.

Performed risk analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.

Facilitated weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the QA process for the application development.

Used power point presentations for conducting walkthroughs with the stakeholders.

Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather change requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.

Environment:

Microsoft Office suites (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Project, Visio), Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case, MS SharePoint 2007,Windows, Microsoft SQL Server (2000 & 2005), Oracle (8i, 9i & 10g), UML, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, PL/SQL, SQL, IBM Lotus Notes (Same Time), Unix AIX 5.2, Ab Initio, SQL developer, Quality Center (v8.2 & v9.2).

Bechtel Corporation, Houston, TX May 06 – June 08

IT Project Coordinator

Bechtel Corporation (Bechtel Group) is one of the largest Oil & Gas, construction and engineering company, ranking as the 5th-largest privately owned company in the United States. Their diverse portfolio encompasses energy, transportation, communications, mining, oil and gas, and government services.

Responsibilities:

Coordinate team meetings, create project calendars, develop project reports and worked on administrative duties.

Manage travel arrangements and keep track of all expense reports.

Facilitate weekly meetings with the review teams to continuously improve the business process for the application development.

Used power point presentations for conducting walkthrough with teams.

Conducted meetings with the end users and managers to gather the modification requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications.

Responsible to take input from the business analysts and project engineers to develop and maintain the detailed schedule.

Environment: Microsoft Office suites (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Project, Visio), Tracking Tool

Education

Master of Science (Texas Tech University) Lubbock TX

Bachelor of Science (Andhra University, Andhra), India.

Contact this candidate