Program Manager, Delivery Manager

Rajeswari Rangarajan +1-925-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY

Seasoned IT professional with over 15 years of experience ranging from software development to testing and support across multiple technologies. Passion for managing large globally distributed teams, experienced in SDLC processes. Strong analytical and interpersonal skills, ability to effectively interface with global clients.

Specialties include: Program Management, Offshore Delivery Management and Executive Reporting, strong understanding of J2EE applications and Databases, Investment Banking

SKILLS

Program Management to develop and test web-based Banking/Trading applications, managing large distributed project teams, Customer interfacing and Reporting, SDLC processes, ODC operations.

Java, J2EE, PL-SQL, Oracle, WebLogic, Hyperion, Informatica, Business Objects, ASP, MS SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Delivery Manager, Wipro Technologies Dec 2002 – Jan 2014

Vendor Consolidation, Capital One

oAs Program Manager, managed and executed successful headcount ramp-up of 500+ as part of global vendor consolidation within timeline committed to client.

oWorked with internal and external recruitment groups, cutting across multiple service lines and technologies to successfully ramp up required skills at US and offshore.

Account delivery management, Barclays

oDelivery Management for projects being executed at offshore (Bangalore, Pune) and onsite Bank locations (US/Singapore/Japan).

oResponsible for project delivery including Application development and maintenance (Sophis), Financial data reporting (Hyperion), Functional and Regression Testing (Front and Middle Office applications), Weblogic server support.

oSupported account growth from a team size of 50 to 200 over 2 years

Schwab Active Investor, Charles Schwab

oTransitioned the Quality Assurance engagement from third party vendor to Wipro through a planned Knowledge Acquisition phase.

oOffshore set up for project and migration to steady state execution model with offshore peak team size of 60.

oManaged offshore Testing services execution in steady state

Corporate Employees Financial Services (CEFS), UBS

oResponsible for managing application development and maintenance of the CEFS platform built on Java/J2EE technologies.

oRequirements understanding, design and development to deliver product for system testing/UAT.

oManaged team of 20 developers in onsite-offshore model.

Restricted Stock Trading System 10b5-1

oDeveloped technical solution and commercial proposal for the restricted stock trading requirements, including requirements elicitation, high-level solutioning and pricing.

Mercury, UBS

oProject Manager for the design and development of the Operational Risk Framework reporting application. Technology – Informatica, Business Objects, Oracle 9i.

oManaged team of 25 developers to deliver the phase-1a application into UAT

Lehman Live Applications, Lehman Brothers

oDevelopment and maintenance of Lehman Live Portal applications for Lehman Brothers, US using J2EE technologies, mainly, Java, JSP, Struts, XML, HTML and JavaScript.

oTechnical project management for a team of 15 team members

Crystal Reports Migration, Lehman Brothers

oTransitioned the Quality Assurance engagement from external vendor to Wipro

oMigrated financial data reports that were previously developed in Actimize to Crystal Reports to enable better user experience and simplifying maintenance of reports

Analyst, Webtek Software Apr 2001 – Sep 2002

Web Test Automation, Qwest

oDesigned and implemented a test automation system for streamlining the testing processes for Qwest Wireless internet web sites

oAs onsite coordinator, led design/development phase of automation suite with a 4-member team.

Scenario Analysis Reporting Tool, Dresdner Bank

oInvolved in development of a job scheduling system using Java, J2EE (JSP, Servlets, JMS) Implementation and post-production support of the application at onsite.

Senior Software Programmer, Planetasia Limited Aug 2000 – Feb 2001

MIS Reporting for B2B Marketplace

oDeveloped a MIS Reporting module for administration purpose of the B2B marketplace for Asispapermarkets.com using J2EE platform.

Development of B2C web-site

oImplemented the dealer locator module for the B2C web-site of Onida.com using ASP, MS-SQL Server.

Associate, Cognizant Technology Solutions Oct 1998 – Jul 2000

Web-based Credit Assurance System

oDesign and development of the web application module to generate quotes and policies through the system.

oAs module lead, led a 6-member development team; responsible for module planning and execution; peer reviews for code and functionality; source control through MS Visual Source Safe

Function Point Analysis Tool

oInvolved in in-house development of project estimation tool using Function Point methodology. Tool was developed using ASP and VB components.

Decimalization of Equities and Options, PCX

oDecimalization of currency across trading applications for Pacific Stock Exchange. Technology – Mainframes, JCL/Cobol

Assistant Manager, ICI Paints Jun 1997 – Oct 1998

Responsible for maintenance of machinery and equipment in the plant

Completed Management training in HR, Operations and Sales functions

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1997

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune, 2008

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