IT Project Manager
Resume:
Sanjay Vallecha
IT Technical Project Manager
Pewaukee, WI
acymew@r.postjobfree.com
Executive Summary
Results-oriented Project Manager, with over 20 years of IT experience working with geographically distributed teams. Effective leader and mentor with ability to motivate teams to deliver project on-time and within specified budget. Consistent in delivering multi-year complex transformation programs with pragmatic approach to planning and delivery. Continuously works on aligning project goals with overall business objectives, anticipating and identifying areas of improvements and gaps, establishing effective working relationships, collaborating with various stakeholders to identify, assess and resolve project issues as well as requirements changes.
Strong software engineering background with vast experience in design and development of projects developed in Microsoft .NET technologies and SQL Server. Proven success in aligning technical skills with business objective and quickly mastering the business knowledge with underneath technology. Working knowledge of project development life cycle with ability to early detection of technical project issues, ability to participate in requirement, architectural design and development sessions to quickly resolve technical issues.
Client and Corporate Experience
Thomson Reuters
November 2015 – November 2016
Technical Project Manager
Thomson Reuters (TR) is currently building out of region (OOR) DR site in Plano, TX as their current primary and secondary data centers are in close proximity. The OOR project is one of the critical and highly visible TR project. As the technical project manager, I was responsible for overall build of the data center. Responsibility included project planning, build project charter, scope management, finalization of architecture and design documents, internal TR (multi-location including US, UK and India) and client team communication and integration, security approvals, SOC compliance, risk/issue management, time management, and status reporting to TR and client stakeholders.
Significant accomplishments include:
● Finalization of architectural, high level, low level, and network design document
● Network connectivity among primary, secondary and OOR sites (mainframe as well as distributed systems)
● Build the network fabric in OOR site
● Hardware setup and configuration in OOR site (Mainframe, AIX and Windows) Page 1 of 4
● Network Management (routing, firewalls, VIPs etc)
● Data Replication (mainframe and distributed)
● Client and vendor management
● Setup and configure client circuits for connectivity to OOR site
● OOR DR validation planning
● Command center setup in OOR site
● Applications install, setup and configuration in OOR site
● Applications validation
● Help Desk support
Capgemini Financial Services Global Business Unit
October 2014 – October 2015
IT Project Manager – Healthcare Legacy Modernization & Transformation Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS) is a provider of health and benefit plan administration to private and government customers. The WPS TRICARE division provides claim administration, customer service, and other related activities for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), serving more than 4.5 million people worldwide. The WPS TRICARE business is processed on a core claims processing system called TriMaCS. WPS has decided to transform the TriMaCS system using a phased approach to the TRiMaCS System Transformation to continually demonstrate business value across WPS’ business objectives. I am working as Capgemini Project Manager, managing transformation work plan, coordination and communication between WPS and Capgemini teams, project financials, resource planning, risk management and Capgemini onshore and offshore teams
● Reviewed and analyzed current state environment (business and IT processes, governance, architecture, and tools) to understand what needed to be changed
● Gathered future state capability requirements (both business and IT) along with priority and urgency for the change to determine what WPS needed to change
● Identified prioritized and sequenced list of initiatives along with the benefits, value drivers, sourcing strategies, effort, cost and timelines
● Identified and engaged key stakeholders to document their goals and expectations to drive the change management plan
● Developed transformation roadmap to describe incremental steps for partitioning and rollout strategy for future state
● Developed business case along with metrics to serve as the base to monitor and measure the value of the transformation program
● Developed Proof of Concepts (POC)/Proof of Technology (POT) using latest Java technologies to demonstrate modern UI, code reusability, legacy code conversion, and security October 2008 – October 2014
IT Project Manager – Auto Insurance Policy Administration Direct accountability for managing states roll out at Progressive Insurance Policy Administration system. Led design, development and rollout of robust, scalable in-house development of .NET based system with multi-location multi-vendor team. Responsibility included project planning, monitoring and control, managing client expectations, staffing, budgeting, management of Capgemini, Progressive and third party vendor resources (IT and business), handling of multi-location multi-vendor team, risk management, team communication and managing product quality.
● Key IT initiative that supported the evolution of large scale migration of Policy administration software to largest state of the art in-house .NET based Policy Administration System in US with program size estimated more than 1 million hours running at the peak of 700 team members located in US and India
● Delivery of Large and Complex blocks (group of states) for Personal Auto as per IT Roadmap (Requirements thru Post Production Warranty)
● Accountable of migrating 11 Auto states with estimated size of approx. 200K hours Page 2 of 4
● Led multi-functional team of more than 110 resources across various locations and different time zones
● Managed more than 15 million dollars in project load
● Developed and maintained Project Schedule and Budgets
● On-time and within budget delivery
● Industrializing and standardizing the state rollouts with measurable performance indicators for Quality, Cost and Schedule
● Supported Incidents and Problem resolution during Warranty period
● Mentored and Coached Project Managers, Business Analysts, Solution Owners, QA Leads to be next layer of leadership
● Conducted and Facilitated Performance reviews for project team members
● Team won two consecutive Enterprise level recognitions (2013 and 2014) in Innovation and Delivery October 2007 – October 2008
Work Stream Leader – Quality Engineering (Tools Design, Development & Support) As work stream leader, managed various aspects of Quality Engineering stream starting from conceptual phase till deployment and maintenance of various QE tools to support testing and reducing the testing efforts. Responsibilities included managing tools design and development, supporting the testing needs of multiple project teams, new tools development, continuously upgrade of existing tools based on user requirements and technologies improvement, maintenance, support at multiple locations and ensuring minimal tool down time.
● Large users base – more than 500 users using these tools
● Various Customer types – used by developers, QA, trainers, Reps etc.
● Proven reduction in testing effort by at least 50%
● Led multi-functional team of 20 resources. Total 1.75 million dollars of revenue generated
● Supported multiple environment types including development, QA, Acceptance, Sandboxes August 2006 – October 2007
Agile Iteration Manager – Auto Insurance Claims
As Iteration manager, involved in iteration planning, story cards management, progress tracking and communication to various team members. Responsibilities included task allocations, tracking tasks completion deadlines, daily standup meetings to discuss task statuses, issues/challenges, risk assessment for tasks not completed on time, weekly status report, and maintaining project dashboard.
● Worked in Agile development methodology and pair programming
● Implemented test driven development
● Managed the development of automated testing process to test features implemented in each iteration
● Supported cross functional Progressive and vendor teams
● Managed a team of Capgemini and Progressive resources throughout the project
● Led team of 10-12 resources with annual revenue of approx. 1 million dollars Johnson Controls Inc.
June 1995 – August 2006
Project/Team Lead – Metasys Scalable Architecture
Worked as team lead to ensure successful design, development and delivery of various components of Metasys building automation system. Responsibilities include requirements gathering and analysis, prototyping, code and database development, integration and system testing, implementation, user training and post deployment support.
● Implementation of Single Signon functionality integrated with more than 25 Metasys applications
● Implementation of business layer functionality to facilitate communication between communication layer as well as User Interface layer for firmware downloads activities
● Implementation of Super application builder to help in testing HVAC system using Excel and Visio automation Page 3 of 4
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● Designed and developed mechanism to localize elements like text strings, status messages, GUI component labels, cultural data like date and currencies, and input methods to meet regional market requirements
● Developed and Integrated smoke control system with existing and new Metasys network Technical Skills
Project Scheduling Tool: M S Project, Primavera
Operating Systems: M SDOS, Windows 7/Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT/95, Unix, DOS Languages: XML, Java, C#.NET, C, C++, COBOL, Pascal, FORTRAN, BASIC, Assembly Language Database programming: S QL Server 2010, MS SQL Server programming/T-SQL/Database creation and maintenance
GUI Tools: V isual Studio .NET 2010/2008/2005, VC 6.0, 5.0, 4.0, 2.0, 1.52, MFC, ActiveX Controls Technologies: . NET Framework 3.0/2.0/1.1, COM/DCOM, ADO, ADO.NET, XML DOM, ASP.NET 2.0, WCF, XML Web Services, HTML, MS Excel Automation, MS Visio Automation, Search Engines, Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP,
.NET Directory Services, DTS
Others: M ultilizer (for Internationalization), Team Foundation Server, HP Quality Center, Remedy Requirements Management: R ational Rose Requisit Pro Analysis and Design Tools: R ational Rose UML, Visio, Enterprise Architect Testing Framework: N Unit
Processes: P ersonal/Team Software Process (PSP/TSP) Software Development Methodologies: W aterfall, Iterative, Agile, Extreme Programming Software Engineering: A pplication architecture design, Quality processes and standards, ISO 9002 processes and standards. Firsthand knowledge of SEI-CMM.
Publications & Presentations
● "Component-based Embedded Database for Mobile Embedded System", Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC 2004) April 5-7, page 534-538, Las Vegas, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press.
● "Toward the Design and Implementation of Embedded Database for Pervasive Computing Applications" accepted for publication in International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PCC'04) June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. World-academy-of-science Press.
● "Wireless Sensor Network Framework Design", in the Proceedings of International Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), Chicago, Illinois, June 2004. Page 4 of 4
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