Project Manager

SUMMARY

Experienced Director with ** years of experience leading all phases of diverse technology projects; MBA and Six Sigma Green Belt credentials.

Business strategist having planned and managed multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, change and risk managements in both Public Sector and Private Sector.

Functional Head with 10 years of experience leading multi-million dollar projects. Led process change, functional road map, JAD and GAP sessions.

Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and key stake holders.

Expert in agile, scrum, and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables within schedule and budget.

19+ years of IT experience in Business Strategies, Process Management, Change Management, Release Management, SWOT analysis

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Major in Finance and Strategic Management May 2005

Kelley of School Business, Indiana University Bloomington, IN

Indiana is among Top 3 public universities in the US, with a top 10 finance program worldwide.

GCS selected Career Captain, leading 38 career coaches for the first year students

Gradated with 3.7 GPA

Led the Toastmaster’s club – a club of impromptu speakers

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), major in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Jun 1997

University College of Engineering, Burla, India

National Scholarship holder

President, Student Association, elected by student body

CERTIFICATION

Scrum Master May 2014

Green Belt (Lean Six Sigma Certification) Nov 2006

Java (Sun Certified Java Programmer) Dec 2000

ACHIEVEMENTS:

1.“Beacon” award for excellent design at KY Workforce Solutions Department

2.“Highflier” award from Best Buy for excellent performance

3.“Above and Beyond” award from NASDAQ for outstanding performance

DOMAIN EXPERTISE

Domain

Where used

# Of Years

Finance/ Insurance

World Bank, Medrad, Ecolab, Best Buy, NASDAQ, Unisys

7years

Healthcare

Medrad

1 year

Retail

McDonalds, Best Buy, Target

4 years

Supply Chain Management

McDonalds, Best Buy, Ecolab, Target

5 years

Public Sector (State Government)

Kentucky, New Mexico, Colorado, Massachusetts

9 years

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

Management and Leadership Skills

Program Director, Program Management, Functional Head, Enterprise Content Management, Process Management, Change Management.

Solutions Architecture

N-tier .Net framework with Oracle DB and Crystal Report. Designed complete document management architecture.

Core Finance skills

Currency risk, DSO and Float, Credit risk, Inflation analysis, Account Payables, Account Receivables, NPV, IRR, Budgeting, Forecasting, Cost management, Market risk and Sensitivity analysis

Stock and derivatives

Fixed Asset pricing, Bond pricing, Options, Futures and Swaps, Portfolio management, and Valuation models like DCF models

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Internet Technologies

HTML, Java Script, XML, JSon, YML

Source control

Visual Source Safe, Visual Studio

Languages

Java Server Pages, Java, Enterprise Java Beans, .2, PL/SQL, C,Pro*C,C++,

UNIX Shell Scripting, C#.Net

Design Tools

MS-Project 2003, MS Visio 2003/2000, PowerPoint 2003

RDBMS

Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server 2000, and MS-Access 2000/97

EXPERIENCE

Program Director, HCL America August 13 - Present

World Bank Nov 2016 – Present

Program Director

International Finance Corporation (IFC) is a for-profit division of World Bank that provides loans to government and non-government entities all over the world. The loan is processed keeping in line with various parameters such as Development Impact, Environment Impact, Value Creation etc. The executive leadership needs a dashboard to skim through the lifecycles of all such under-process monetary instruments. This highly visible project is to make an internal system available for the executive management team to quickly view such programs and have the ability to dig down for deeper details.

Responsibilities:

Directing a portfolio of 3 projects for World Bank in its business critical IFC division.

Lead client contacts, new project initiation, and SOW finalization

Responsible for organizational planning, onsite and offshore resource hiring, planning resource training.

Leading project plan development, project plan execution, and integrated change control activities.

Leading project initiation, do project scope planning, define scope and manage change through CR.

Marshalling continuous communication to stakeholders, do progress and performance reporting and control overall communications planning

Leading risk management planning, risk identification and response planning, monitoring, and control.

Leading functional discussions and ensure process adherence

McDonald's Corporation Aug 2015 –Nov 2016

Senior Program Manager and scrum master

McDonald's Corporation is trying to maintain its position in the fast food market by enhancing user experience by implementing a slew of new projects in Digital user platforms, Mobile applications, and Middleware. All the applications are implemented on the cloud.

Responsibilities:

Resource estimation, duration estimation, schedule development and control activities.

Manage cross-functional and cross-cultural team of 20 developers, BAs, and Managers.

Do project plan development, project plan execution, and integrated change control activities.

Lead project initiation, do project scope planning, scope and change management.

Responsible for resource planning, cost estimation, budgeting.

Led Scrum planning, daily stand ups, task board management, risks mitigation, sprint planning, retrospective planning, and review meeting management Hiring Management –responsible for organizational planning, onsite and offshore resource hiring, planning resource training.

Marshaled continuous communication to stakeholders, do progress and performance reporting and control overall communications planning

WyCAN (WY, CO, AZ, ND state Consortium) August2013 – August 2015

Functional Head, Program Manager

Four states – Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and North Dakota came together in nations first of its kind project to automate each of the four states’ integrated Unemployment Insurance system. It is a $130 MM project to deploy the current company’s flagship UI iGOVERN product and utilize its multi-tenancy application. The project was a cloud implementation for concurrent multi-tenancy access. 0020

Responsibilities:

Functional Head – Was responsible for defining and enforcing overall business processes and execution

Had constant communication link with key stake holders, executive leaderships, and steering committee to make sure the project was on schedule.

Manage cross-functional and cross-cultural team of 20 developers, BAs, and Managers.

Do project plan development, project plan execution, and integrated change control activities.

Led JAD sessions to analyze requirements and create detailed design of the business processes.

Led Gap Analysis. Had point of contact for test management, design defect management, and identifying design defects for the Tax modules

Environment: Java, Oracle, TOAD, MS Project, MS Word, RUP.

Manager, Deloitte Consulting/LH July 08 –August 2013

Delivery Manager/ Business Head

Worked for various State Government clients such as Kentucky Department of Unemployment Insurance, New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, and Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance. All these state departments were modernizing their aging and complex unemployment insurance systems.

Responsibilities:

Led development and delivery of project in time, within budget.

Designed the single intake process, the bedrock of the new implementation initiative

Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules

Worked with senior architects to ensure the design was in congruence with project architecture

Environment: Siebel, Oracle, TOAD, MS Office Suite, RUP, SharePoint.

Manager, MEDRAD, Ecolab and Bestbuy July 05 - July 08

MEDRAD Inc., Pittsburgh, PA July 2005 – July 2008

Financial Systems Manager

MEDRAD Inc. is a market leader in Computed Tomography, Cardio Vascular, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging injectors manufacturing. They have undertaken this huge SAP enhancement project to update their FICO system for easier financial reconciliation, report generation and easy data transport. Ecolab is a Fortune 500 company and a world leader in chemical manufacturing and distribution. It has presence in 170 countries. Managing a seamless finance system within so many countries involving sales, cost of goods sold, credit risk, currency risk, import and export compliance

Responsibilities:

As a Finance subject matter expert myself recommended improvements to the existing system to the users and worked with them to specify the scope of the changes for the developers

Directed and managed the Change Control process for the project as a whole by facilitating group meetings, one-on-one interviews and corresponding through emails with work stream owners to discuss the impact of change request on the project.

Environment: SAP, Windows 2003/XP, MS Visio, Rational Suite, MS Project, MS Office Suite, RUP, Load Runner

Summer Intern, Unisys May 04 - Aug 04

Unisys, MN May 2004-Aug 2004

Summer Intern

Unisys Corporation is the country’s largest backend service provider for various airlines. The various services offered are viz. Ticketing, Load Control, Pricing, Baggage Handling etc.

Responsibilities:

Created an elaborate Project Costing and financial Model for the account manager

Worked with the corporate finance and IT departments to understand how the new automation initiatives would change the competitive landscape for Unisys.

Project Manager, TCS Sep 97 - May 03

NMDOL, Albuquerque, NM Jan 2001 – May 2003

Project Manager

NMDOL is state unemployment insurance provider. The Project was a web-based application, which was developed to meet the on-line insurance requirements of state employees. The application provided on-line information regarding eligibility, premiums and benefit payment for prospective customer after collecting certain essential details.

Responsibilities:

Created resource planning, budgeting, scheduling, critical path mapping, PERT chart for the project

Coordinated with onsite and offshore teams for seamless functional knowledge transfer.

Interacted with various Insurance Plan Business Heads to review finalize the Business Requirements.

Environment: Windows 2000/XP, MS Visio, Load Runner, Test Director, Java/J2EE, Oracle/ DB2

NASDAQ, NY Sep 1997-Dec 2000

Project Lead

NASDAQ is world’s number one technology stock exchange. This project was initiated to analyze the broker dealer application, stock trends, market analysis, derivatives analysis etc.

Responsibilities:

Created resource planning, scheduling, risk assessment for the project

Led web development efforts

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