Project Manager

SURESH ARUMUGHAM Chicago

Consultant - Scrum Master Phone # 312-***-**** ********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Nineteen years of total IT experience that includes the current term as Scrum Master at HCSC.

Extensive experience in developing Sprint Mapping to help PO in his Release planning based on Priorities.

Experience in facilitating the Grooming sessions and help development team, BA and PO in coming up with the prioritized and granulized stories for Sprints.

Ability to direct multiple cross-functional teams through IT project life cycles; from business case development to impact assessment; from project inception and conceptual solution to systems deployment and project closure; including requirements, architecture design, systems development and implementation.

Ability to consistently exceed expectations with a rigorous, yet flexible, application of formal project management disciplines to effectively achieve results.

Highly motivated, self-driven and results-oriented professional with exceptional leadership, analytical, problem solving, attention-to-detail, follow-up, multitasking and people skills.

Recognized for mentoring resources and consistently guiding project teams to over-achieve and exceed team/project objectives.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Worked with the team at Blue Cross Blue Shield and helped them improve their Velocity substantially in 3 sprints in time for their major Release.

Successfully led a complex research oriented project at BofA which included accomplishments like introducing a Dynamic Process etc. for the first time in Bank etc.

Successful delivery of an SPT enhancement helped FedEx save substantial cost pricing its customers.

Certificate: Certified Scrum Master (License 541742)

Technical Certifications: Teradata Certified Professional.

Work Status: Green Card.

EDUCATION

B.E. (Madras University, India) - 1993

M.B.A (Union University, Jackson, TN) - 2006

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

From 07/16 to Present as Scrum Master, Consultant at Blue Cross Blue Shield, Chicago, IL.

Work with the team to make continuous improvement and helped them improve their Velocity in short time (3 Sprints) for the major release

Facilitate the Scrum Ceremonies (Daily Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Retro)

Work with PO & BSL to come up with Sprint Mapping for the releases based on Priorities.

Work with BA, Dev and Test teams to do continuous grooming of granulized Stories.

Actively Contribute to the CoP for best Agile Practices as Organization is in the midst of major transformation from Waterfall to Agile.

From 07/14 to 04/15 as Consultant at Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee, WI

From 05/15 to 06/16 as Sr. Project Manager at Infosys @ Chennai, India. Client: LA Care

North Western Mutual: Successfully led a complex and diverse program to identify and document the impacts across the entire Application landscape (400+) of the Org.

Effectively utilized Kanban to report the Everyday progress to the Multiple Stakeholders.

Identified Impediments and took steps to remove. Improved the communication with multiple Stakeholders.

LA Care: Responsible for End-2-End Delivery of multiple Projects valued over $4.5 Million.

Lead a team of around 50+ people at various locations.

Work involved identifying opportunities for Re-engineering, enhancement, etc. and submitting Pro Active Proposals.

Management, tracking and reporting of the overall program.

From 10/09 to 06/14 as Sr. Project Manager in Infosys Technologies Ltd., Charlotte, NC &

Chennai, India

Client: Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

Environment: UNIX, TERADATA V2R12

Led two geographically dispersed teams to deliver several key projects in CDM (Customer Data Mart). Projects were vital in improving the bank's decision capabilities of active and passive Credit Offers.

Represented CDM at multiple JAD sessions involving cross-functional teams.

Responsible for managing end to end deliveries ($3.6 M) of CDM from Offshore.

Mentored and guided other junior members of Infosys in their projects.

From 06/01 to 07/09 as Sr. Programmer Analyst in FedEx Services, Memphis, TN.

Environment: UNIX, TERADATA V2R12, ORACLE 10g, PL/SQL

As an ETL lead, my major achievement was to set up the initial ETL process to support end-to-end pricing solution that helped the field Sales executives, pricing analysts to offer pricing solutions to FedEx customers.

My other achievement was to lead and manage an outsourced vendor and completed a project successfully to convert daily extracts process in Ab Initio.

Successful delivery of an enhancement in SPT helped FedEx save huge cost when pricing its customers. Worked with PM to come up with milestones for this major project to split fuel cost into fixed and variable costs by modifying the costing methodology in SPT application. Developed system requirement, test plan and test cases for the project. Led a three-member team and successfully delivered the project on the planned release date even when there was a demand to shift focus on another critical project during testing phase.

Assumed Project lead role to develop project plan, resource workload, identify critical dependencies, coordinate with external groups to conduct interface discussions for major enhancements like 2-way and 3-way bundle projects.

Apart from main responsibility of ETL process, led development for other supporting Pricing applications like Re-Rate system, an application that helps customer request refunds and CIA application, which is used by Sales AE’s to study the impact of yearly rate changes.

Provided 24X7 production support to all the systems that I was in charge of.

Project Lead for a critical project (alternative feed for a retiring feed) and delivered it successfully without missing deliverable on the other projects already committed. This project required interaction with two different teams. Worked with business to analyze and write requirements based on the existing feed.

Created a new testing process for End-2-End Pricing testing, which improved the testing capabilities for business partners.

Successfully led several Oracle and Teradata upgrades for the Pricing team.

Led and completed several self-initiated IT projects in Pricing to be SOX compliant.

Periodically provided resource estimates (men and hardware) for major enterprise wise projects in SPT and data extract team.

Led several enhancements and provided production support for various other front lines Pricing Applications like SPT, APT, Pioneer, Customer Automation and Rates Online.

From 07/99 to 06/01 as Sr. Data Warehouse Developer in Object Ctalk Inc., PA

Clients: International Paper, Memphis, TN, Lockheed Martin, King of Prussia, PA.

Environments: UNIX, ORACLE 8.x, PL/SQL, PWE 2.02 (Data Stage MVS Edition), SYNC SORT

S/390, JCL, VSAM, DB2 UDB, ER WIN 3.5

Worked in the Wave A implementation of the Human Resources Data Warehouse (HRDW) which provides accurate and consolidated data for enterprise wide HR reporting. Developed an interface, which was responsible for extracting data from SAP and deliver it to Authoria system.

Designed Entities, Attributes and Attribute Definitions, Forward Engineering for User Evaluation Prototype in Data Modeling. Extracted the Data from 21 different sources and transformed it with Business Rules.

From 08/97 to 06/99 as Programmer Analyst in JBA Inc., CA & CEI, PA

Environment: IBM 3090, VS/COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, FILE AID, COMPAREX & ADW 4.1

As a consultant, Performed Development Activities for various Clients such as Universal Studios, Farmers Insurance and New York State Higher Education Services

From 06/93 to 04/97 as Regional Sales Manager, Bull Power Systems Ltd.

Actively managed a dealer network in Tamil Nadu and was responsible for Sales and Marketing of Bull Power products (SMPS, Inverter, etc.). Reported directly to headquarters at Hyderabad. Ranked as a top regional manager in southern region in terms of Sales and Accounts Receivables during my tenure.

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