Manager Project Management

Passionate and dedicated technology leader, with over 21 years of experience, in Portfolio, Program and Project Management in Banking, Retail and Insurance (Fortune 100 companies). Successful track record, managing multiple programs and projects concurrently in a global environment.

Portfolio, Program & Project Mgmt Team Building & Leadership Bringing Software Agility

Technology Lifecycle Mgmt Talent Management Enterprise-level Major Deployments Solution ROI & Business Cases Relationship Management Package Implementations

Change Management Forecasting & budgeting at investment/portfolio/program/project level

LEADERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS IN ACTION

PROGRAM & PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Led multiyear and multimillion (over $50M) programs end to end. Provided leadership to projects and programs within portfolio ensuring quality delivery within timeline and budget.

Monitored and managed business value throughout programs. Managed communication and relationship with cross functional senior business leaders and stakeholders. Defined and institutionalized program PMO processes, tools and reports. Managed program and project level forecasts and budget throughout the lifecycle.

AGILE TRANSFORMER: Considered as best of the breed, agile practitioner who delivers on business value, quality, time, scope and budget every time. Adept in building agile mindset around teams, cultivating a culture of constantly improving productivity built around collaboration, communication and flexibility. Extensively contributed to enterprise level Scrum processes and practices. Implemented agile at scale, by successfully addressing roadblocks to enterprise adoption.

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: Led major enterprise portfolios. Influenced long-term investment strategies that meet business objectives. Collaborated with customers and internal stakeholders to strategize, define and execute on 3 – 5 year Portfolio roadmaps for long term solution viability through prioritization, budgeting and optimization of resources

TECHNOLOGY & TEAM LEADERSHIP: Excel at leading 200+ member team sizes. Built and led culturally diverse, high-performing, highly agile and successful teams, in matrix environment. Facilitate /champion change with a reputation for leading teams through ambiguity. Known for engaging and inspiring people to work from shared set of goals and values, delivering enterprise initiatives on time, on budget with high quality results.

TALENT MANAGEMENT: Solid reputation for identifying, developing and growing talent to build passionate teams.

VENDOR MANAGEMENT: Successfully negotiated with large vendor contracts, pricing - fixed bids as well as Time & Material in excess of $15M. Seasoned at negotiations and RFI/RFQ/RFP's.

QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS

MSS- Masters in Software Systems, University of St. Thomas, MN

B.Tech. Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

PMP - Project Management Professional from PMI

CSM- Certified Scrum Master

Achievements

Travelers Insurance (The Travelers Indemnity Company)

Envisioned, defined and established Technology Lifecycle Management Portfolio with an annual budget of $30M

Resourced and managed 200+ global team members while qualifying three vendors

Lowered total cost of ownership through technology simplification and consolidation

Upgraded 300+ technologies, remediated 500+ systems and retired 30+ legacy applications, under 24 months

Target Corporation

Successfully implemented ‘Agile Methodology’ in Target’s merchandising portfolio, using new thinking and approaches, to deliver maximum value and quality to the business, with increased efficiency and agility.

Applied matured ‘Agile Philosophy and Principles’ to deliver 40% more scope than originally planned within the timelines and budget by improving velocity and team productivity over releases.

Championed and transformed delivery model from traditional Waterfall to Agile methodology; increased stakeholder satisfaction multi-fold, improved quality, speed of delivery and nearly doubled the capacity of delivery.

VP Award winner for making Scrum/Agile implementation, a success story for Target Corporation.

Further matured, Target India PM Capability, and doubled the capacity, in merchandising space, by strengthening “One Global team” vision, streamlining communication, building trust and nurturing strong relationships between the teams.

Led major package implementation (>$25M) initiative, “Prospace Replacement” program, that, exceeded business value expectations and lowered total cost of ownership through architecture simplification and effective customization governance process.

Instituted enterprise level package implementation framework and package customization governance model.

Implemented concept of Piloting release enhancements to select subset of departments to minimize disruption and guest experience.

Fidelity Information Services

Identified, negotiated and established several vendors such as DMV, SSA, Tri-Bureau, IDINSIGHT, and LPS for strategic initiatives.

Led numerous medium ($1.5Million) to large ($25+Million) initiatives using various SDLC methodologies including Scrum, in legacy and open systems environments.

Migrated legacy core systems to SOA framework and solutions.

Key lead for Mainframe Migration initiatives and saved nearly $600K/year for the company by reducing number of MIPS usage on 3rd party owned Mainframe.

Increased the defect detection in functional testing by 40%, reduced the effort spent on software defects from 25% to a sustained rate of 2%.

Doubled regression suite and halved run time that enabled increased capacity intake for each product release

Led project initiatives for Process Improvement and Process Reengineering that streamlined and optimized a total of 52 processes and operational costs valued at $1.25 million.

Instituted strong Project Management practices that helped company to reduce schedule variance from 35% to less than 10% and cost variance from 50% to 15% for 80% of projects.

Professional Experience

Travelers Indemnity Company, St. Paul, MN, Jun 2014 – Current

Role- Assistant Vice President (2VP) – Infrastructure and Technology Lifecycle Management

Established TLM organization with in Travelers. Responsible for setting vision, strategy and leading the portfolio. Accountable for staffing and directing global teams through the development and delivery of software and hardware sustainability efforts, enabling the organization to achieve an evergreen state of technology stack. Direct report team includes 4 leaders and 15 team members across multiple locations.

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN, Feb 2011 – Jun 2014

Role- Sr. Program Manager

Program leadership and direction in the areas of systems development and overall quality assurance to facilitate and enable growth and business agility for Target. Delivered a 3+ year major enterprise level space planning program, with multiple releases, utilizing both Agile and Traditional methodologies. Implemented advanced Agile practices to bring predictability to delivery and management of interdependencies between Agile and Waterfall based releases, managed cultural change to bring acceptance of agile philosophy on a large scale program.

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN, Apr 2010 – Feb 2011

Role- Senior Project Manager

Successfully implemented multiple releases of Adjacency Automation Program utilizing ‘Scaled’ Scrum Framework. Effectively managed several Scrum teams, across global locations, by providing leadership and guidance to multiple Scrum Masters and their respective teams.

FIS (formerly Fidelity National Information Services), Woodbury, Minnesota, Jun 2008 – April 2010

Role – Data Quality Manager

Business owner and portfolio manager for Fraud Services and Consumer Data Integration Applications, supporting terabytes of data.

Managed annual data quality plan for internal data quality, control and stability.

Responsible for Data Acquisition and Data Studies to support various product lines.

Fidelity National Information Services (formerly eFunds Corporation), Woodbury, Minnesota, Dec 2003 – June 2008

Role – Project Manager & Business Analyst /Technology Project Lead

Single-point accountability for defining and creating a project solution which will ensure realization of the required benefits articulated in the business case.

Key lead for modernization initiatives, to rewrite mainframe based applications to new strategic environment of Unix/Oracle Secure Technology Stack, implementing SOA best practices. Managed AS/400 and Mainframe migration projects.

Fidelity National Information Services, Woodbury, Minnesota, Jun 1998 – Dec 2003

Role - Quality Assurance Lead and Systems Programmer

Provided mentoring and technical leadership to QA Analysts. Defined QA Processes and Procedures. Led QA efforts for large complex projects. Provided QA estimates, and identified resources with appropriate skill sets.

Provided performance reviews to the Quality Assurance team. Assisted Development manager in planning QA Budget.

Sriven Corporate Services Pvt. Ltd., India, Jul 1995 to Jun 1998 - Role- Software Engineer (Mainframe).

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