Project Manager

Raveendra Guturi

E-mail: *********.******@*****.***

Mobile: +1-754-***-****

Location: Florida, Plantation, USA.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Overall 11 of experience and currently working as Project Manager and Scrum Master. Managed both traditional and Agile Scrum methodologies. Capable of delivering Informatica, Hyperion, .Net and Pega projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading multiple Scrum teams. Strong management experience in all the phases of life cycle, actively involving in requirement gathering, project plan creation, Project charter and CR creation. Balancing of the constraints of scope, budget, schedule, quality, risks and resources.

As a Scrum Master, successfully delivered 7 project without schedule slippage. Orgniased and facilitated Sprint Planning, the Daily Stand Up, Reviews, Retrospectives, Release Management, including sprint demo of sprint results to the customer. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Facilitated and actively involved in SOS and Evangelized the benefits of scrum to ensure its smooth adoption. Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through user story selection, sizing, capacity of every sprint.

Education

Master of computer science from Nagarjuna Unviersity, India.

Bachelors of Computers from Nagarjuna Univeristy,Inida.

Core Competencies

Very good hands on experience in to Waterfall and Agile Models.

Managed successful HCA Intigration, EDW,picing tool, SDU Intl and ICM Uplifiting projects to an Informatica, .Net and Pega with annual revenue in access of 13 million dollars.

As an instigator, I started as a Project Lead with 3 resources and grew to became a Project Manager for 40 resources within a year.

Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology.

Identification of missing roles/resources and resolution/escalation of same.

Issue/Risk communication/resolution/escalation – removing blockers

Project Planning creation and implementing the plan accordingly.

Created SOW’s/CR’s for SCR, EDW,Pricing, CRM, IT IS and Hyperion projects.

Involved all the PMR’s and Audits for smooth delivery of the project.

Maintained the Weekly status Report for Reviews and Inspections, to ensure smooth delivery.

Status Reporting discussion with business on weekly basis.

Coordinated with business to gather requirements and manage expectations.

I did estimations for all dev projects and got the approval from customer and business as well .

Primary SPOC for HCA process related activities. During my tenure, we didn’t received any NCR or Action items and got many appreciations and awards from ACM team.

I Pro-actively extended my support for other projects by involving in activities like Project start up, Audits, PMRs, PWU and estimations etc..

Documented and delivered around 35-40 required documents and shared with DAF to ensure for quality of project.

Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates.

Coordinated with Business to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story.

Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.

Educated around 50 people on Agile Scrum fundamentals .

In American Express, delivred 4 project successfully with in time without any schedule slippage. In HCA, delivered 3 projects successfully with in time.

Hands on experience into Banking, Auto Finance and Mfg domain.

Sound knowledge on Insurance domain (Auto and fire insurance).

Involving Sizing and costing of the project.

Coordinating with all support teams for smooth delivery.

Track and and communicate team velocity an sprint release progress.

Issue Management/ Risk Management.

Maintained effective relationships with product owners and scrum member.

Provided daily communications, scrum notes, sprint reviews reports, project retrospectives, and regular snapshots of project velocity and budget burnrate..

Daily standup calls, Grooming the user stoires

Sprint Planning, Facilitates show and tell and Sprint retrospective after every sprint.

Manage day to day activities (user stories, tasks, etc.) using agile tools/techniques.

Coordinating with all support teams for smooth delivery.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint release progress.

Extensive Knowledge in Data warehousing and Data mining.

Technical Skills

Skill type Skill name

Agile Project Mgmt tool Rally, Version one

Project Mgmt tool Clarity

Tools Informatica Power Center7.1,8.1,8.6,91 and Endeca

Scheduling tool Control M

Quality Mangament Tool HPQC

Versioning tool TFS

Programing Language SQL/PLSQL

Operating Systems Windows 98/2000/XP, UNIX

Database Oracle 10g,

Certifications & Recognition

Certified Scrum Maser (CSM)

Prince2 certified

Informatica domain certifified

DWH certified

Banking Domain certified

Mfg domain certified and Auto-Fianance domain certified.

PROJECT PROFILE

Project #1:

Title : World Servie Portal- SDU International

Client : Amex International

Role : ScrumMaster & Agile Project Manager

Technology : Pega .

Agile software Project Mgt tool : Rally

Duration : June 2014 – Dec 2016.

Domain : Banking

Project Description :

In the current process when a Card Member provides an invalid email address during a service call with a CCP, the systems can’t validate if the information is correct. Therefore, the data being entered is subject to typing/misspelling errors or invalid information.

This project will help validating real time if the information being entered is correct. In addition to that as part of this project, we will be making the pre-existing Email bounce back indicator visible on the front-screen of WSP. These indicator will promt the CCP and the card member to change/provide the respective email address.

Responsibilities:

Working as a Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master for this project.

Extensively used “Rally tool” for agile planning.

Worked on SDLC PM tool “Clarity” for Financial and costing of the project.

Collaborated with the scrum team, LSA, Business, architect and product owner to ensure rightness of features and design.

Defined product roadmap and created backlog in conjunction with product owner and key business partners

Developed, managed and tracked project plan to implement requested features.

Performed weekly portfolio review with senior management and provided updates to stakeholders.

Taking care of all financials and costing and Involving sizing and project plan preparation.

Organized and Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, Sprint demo and Retrospective etc.) like servent leader.

Facilitated grooming and planning sessions with team

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

working with the product owner to make sure the product backlog is in good shape and ready for the next sprint.

Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories.

Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.

Project #2:

Title Hyundai Capital America

Period Dec 2011 – June 2014

Client Name Hyundai Capital America

Position Informatica Lead/ Project Manager & Scrum Master

Domain Auto finance

Project

HCA currently uses Daybreak-Retail application and LeasePak-Lease application to service consumer automotive leases and loans. Customer has identified Cassiopae as the Back office application to support the existing Origination, Retail & Lease systems. As part of implementation team, we are developing internal & external integrations interfaces to ensure smooth implementation of new system. We are re-designing the existing EDW & Reporting solution to meet the new systems.

Responsibilities:

Worked not only as Informatica Lead, PM, Scrum Master but also as an ISC, worked as a communication channel between ISM and project team for smooth execution of the project.

Created project plan by using MPP and lead successfully with out any schedule slippage.

Created ISM approved account level risk register.

Involved Internal and External Audits for smooth delivery.

Create addendums and shared with customer for smooth functioning of the project and avoid miscommunications from IDM team.

Involved starting fro requirement gathering to till production support.

Creating the Informatica mappings and mapplets.

Involved performance Tuning.

Created test cases and test scripts and excuted more than 200 test cases.

Support production support and sucessffully delivered project.

Planning and hosting various scrum meetings for sprint/release -scrum/ iteration planning meetings, demos, release planning meetings, retrospectives.

Involving daily calls with Business and Product owners to make product success.

Coordinating with all support teams for smooth delivery.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint release progress.

Issue Management/ Risk Management

Very good hands on experience on Version One for tracking sprint

Facilitate the agile scrum process, build the scrum/ iteration plan, to removing any impediments.

Manage day to day activities -user stories, tasks, using agile tools & techniques through Rally.

Successfully delivered infrastructure, and application development project through the SDLC.

Able to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects/tasks effectively.

Managed day to day project activities, including obtaining signoff on critical project artifacts, functional, user acceptance and performance tests.

Project Description:

Hyundai Capital America (“HCA”) currently processes the costing and pricing of OEM requests using a Microsoft Excel based Pricing Tool. The existing process is manual and time consuming. HCA wants to implement a pricing tool solution that would improve operational efficiency and reduce the time to market. And we need to implement a solution to modernize excel based Pricing Tool to improve the user experience by providing a user friendly, simple to use enterprise application with data validations and pricing rules. The scope of the project would include the following:

• Migrate to an Enterprise Level application from the Microsoft Excel based Pricing Tool to improve operational efficiency

• Ensure compliance with business and data integrity requirements by implementing a data validation process

• Automation of interface integration with all the target Inbound and Outbound applications

Agile Project Manager & Scrum Master

RESPONSIBILITY:

• Project plan cration and involved all the financials

• Sizing and SOW creation.

• Discussion with business for requirement gathering.

• Helping the team to make the right decesions.

• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.

• Resolved a complex infrastructure issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads within TCS.

• Involved Daily standup calls and Scrum of Scrum meetings.

• Prepared and distributed weekly status report which includes project current Risks, Issues and Action items to customer to give 360-degree view of the project to the customer.

• Resolved a complex infrastructure issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads within Project

Project #3:

Title MFG – BUSOPS

Period Oct2010 - Oct2011

Client Name Dell International

Domain Mainfacturing / Finance

Project Description:

BUSOPS project mainly deals with services data related to Dell products. Incidents, Cases, UDTs and orders facts are built and metrics like OCC, OCI and COD are calculated which are used for reporting purpose by business to analyze the Business operations.

SCDH (Supply Chain Data Hub) is the first point of data integration in DBI systems for all fulfillment/logistics related information. The data will then be loaded into EBI and integrated with additional finance related information to make it more rich and valuable for end users. The order life cycle metrics will be published to end users from EBI.

Responsibilities

Code Reviews and meeting with offshore and onsite

Involved in DBA reviews to get signoff Database objects

Involved meetings with ETL Engineer to get signoff for ETL Objects.

Created mappings and involved in Performance tuning

Actively participated in Pre and post deployment activities

Development of ETL in Informaitca for both Inc. & hist. loads.

Tuning the TD queries to improve load performance.

Perform unit testing and working with business users during UAT.

Developing the control jobs for scheduling the loads.

Deploying the code to Production.

Supporting the loads during stabilization period.

Project #4:

Title : RETROFIT

Role : Technical Leader

Client : CISCO Systems.

Database : Oracle 9i

Language : SQL/ PLSQL and UNIX.

Tools Used : Informatica Power Center 8.6.0

Dollar Universe, Kintana, PVCs and Edit Plus.

Duration : Dec 2006 – November 2011

Project Description:

CISCO has got different subject areas that come under EDW like Bookings, Revenue, Expense, CIBER, PHV, Rebate Engine, and Products etc.

Some of the ETL’s are in rel1 template and some are in rel5 template. Purpose of this project is to convert all the ETL’s to common template and tuning of the workflows which are taking longer time for execution.

Responsibilities

As a developer and Technical Lead, Converting old ETL template used in Informatica to Release-7 common Template.

Performance tuning for the workflows which are taking longer time for execution.

Split Source to Stage ETL and Uprocs into two ETL

Source to Flat file

Flat file to Stage

Removal of hard coding of scripts in the Dollar Universe Uprocs

Add new $U session for Source to Flat File

Addition of new uprocs based on the new requirement of current Releases.

Change workflow as per the naming convention.

Change Connection Names as per naming standard.

Make use of all Release-7 template parameters.

Working with Scheduling tool (DOLLOR UNIVERSE) to add the new uprocs/sessions.

Project 5:

Title Global Currency and Commodity Group (GCCG)

Period Nov 2005 – Dec 2006

Domain Banking

Client Name JPMC through Cognizant

Project :

GCCG is a global currency and Commodities group. Position Server receives feed files from various risk management systems like IRFE, Capital, MUREX, ISIS and SIERRA etc on daily basis. These feed files are flat text files contains data related to measure values. Pre-processing is used to validate, to format the feed file data. After successful pre-processing, these feeds are loaded into staging tables using an ETL tool i.e. Informatica. We are calculating values like prior day, MTD and YTD values in Informatica. Cron job is used to run workflows in Informatica.

Responsibilities

Mainly involved in developing of mappings.

Experience in Development the mappings using needed Transformations in Informatica tool

Cross references the entire mapping and verified all the naming conventions for the transformations are being used in the mapping are corrected or not by using AQUA v1.2.

Create transformation sessions and work flows.

Involved Performance tuning.

Achievements:

Built offshore and onsite team for HCA account and setup ODC for account.

Manage million budget projects and achieved project scheduled goal.

Got On the Spot, Best team and Applause awards from TCS management for good work.

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