Project Manager

ARUNKUMAR SIVAKUMAR

Sherwood, OR · 503-***-****

*******@*****.*** · LinkedIn Profile

Results-oriented IT Professional with 16+ years of experience providing support and leadership while managing the inter-relationship between various departments within highly complex organizational structures. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a mix of business and technical colleagues.

Have solid understanding of project management principles and advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Manage development activities through full SDLC including backlog prioritization, release planning, requirements, development, testing, and documentation.

Roles performed during this tenure include administering source code repositories, configuration of build environment, identifying and executing build process automation, Application Packaging, ALM Consultant, Change & Release manager and Project Manager.

EXPERIENCE

10/20/2014 – TO CURRENT DATE

PROJECT MANAGER / CHANGE & RELEASE MANAGER, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORP

LOCATION: Beaverton, OR

TOOLS: Microsoft Project Professional and online, Microsoft Power BI, Visio, Lucid Chart, Tableau, Alfabet ATLAS, ProcessUnity, Arcadia, ITSM (BMC Remedy 7.6), ServiceNow, Plutora Enterprise Release Management, IBM Rational Team concert (RTC), Quest STAT tool, and PeopleSoft PHIRE tool.

PROJECT MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibilities include project planning (baselines, estimating), define phase deliverables, track milestones/issues/risks

Assign resources and tasks, and manage quality assurance, resolution of issues, evaluate risks and recommend contingency plans

Conduct status review meetings, send out meeting minutes and report status and dashboard for management and leadership

Responsible for project documentation, project schedule, development of standards, change control, and compliance with all policies and procedures

CHANGE & RELEASE MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible in managing change requests (CRQ) from onboarding until closure

Seek business approval to begin work and coordinate between business and development team to collect the SOX artifacts that is required for the change documentation

Create maintenance and project change requests as per release calendar and schedule the releases

Define health checkpoints, creation of implementation plan, roll back plan, scheduling review with the change advisory board team and seek their review and approval

Review all the SOX change requests to verify whether the changes are properly classified and categorized against the SOX rules

Represent the changes in change advisory board control (CAB) meeting to secure change approval

Ensure deployments in PROD is executed as per the implementation plan and the respective change and tasks are closed after successful validation

Collaborate with application development team and business team to guide them the correct approach of change management process in case of high/critical incident bridges that may affect patient care or would impact the financial data

Respond to all the monthly, quarterly, yearly SOX auditing and compliance questions if any of the change requests are flagged as non-compliant or needs additional justification / details to explain the auditors and make sure that the change is fully compliant

5/5/2011 – 10/17/2014

ALM CONSULTANT, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORP

LOCATION: Waukegan, IL

TOOLS: ITSM (BMC Remedy 7.6), PVCS Version Manager, MKS Integrity 2009, HP Quality Center, IBM Rational DOORS, Telelogic Change, Visual Build Professional

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead PVCS to MKS Client conversion where migration of several projects from PVCS to MKS was performed using the build automation tool, Visual Build Professional

Monthly MKS Server restart automation process was programmed using UNIX shell scripts, was included in JIL scripts of Autosys, and was added to the scheduling jobs

Managed Mainframes code deployment requests for Lake County (Chicago) and Franklin County (Columbus)

Code Promotion requests for Mainframe’s code deployment process was automated and migrated into MKS workflow

Triage ITSM (BMC Remedy) queue monitoring/resolution for ALM Services group

MKS Source project creation requests and configuration of mCPS (Code Promotion System) Request configuration, deployment, Target Server Profile and mapping requests along with Configuration of DIET (Defect Incident Enhancement & Tracking) system profile configurations

11/12/2009 – 5/3/2011

CONFIGURATION MANAGER, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INDIA PVT LTD

LOCATION: Chennai, India

TOOLS: Collabnet Subversion, Visual Source Safe, Tortoise SVN, Cruise Control.NET, Visual Build

Professional, InstallShield 2010, Bugzilla, NANT, WinBatch

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Set up the workspace, maintain source code repository and define project folder structures

Create project users in SVN, add patches and handled repository server down issues and fixes

Set up and manage Dev and QA environment for various products

Build management using Cruise control and Visual build pro, execute build and monitor the status

Package from the build team through Install Shield (MSI package) and test in QA environments and create release notes document

9/22/2008 – 11/11/2009

CONFIGURATION AND RELEASE MANAGER, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INDIA PVT LTD

LOCATION: Chennai, India

TOOLS: Micro Focus (Borland) StarTeam, MKS-Implementer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Maintain and administer all the projects in StarTeam (Windows) and Implementer (AS 400) tools for version management

Triage and resolve Remedy helpdesk tickets for Micro Focus Star Team support

Configure the projects in StarTeam and resolve the e-Service Requests

Support the development and QA environments of StarTeam and MKS Implementer and monitor the vendor notifications

Coordinate with client and vendor for patching and upgrading of StarTeam

Involved in knowledge transition, enhancement activities, and maintenance activities and scheduled Jobs support

7/9/2007 – 9/22/2008

J2EE DEVELOPER, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORP

LOCATION: Chennai, India

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for development of core Java and J2EE functional modules, this involved keen interaction with team members and understanding of the requirements and the development of internal PMO (Program Management Office) portal web application

Analysis of the project process documents (System Requirement Specifications)

Developing various modules for the Program Management Office portal that includes information about the project, associate, allocation details and the client appreciation and internal awards using Core Java programming, Struts, iBatis and EJB programming.

Develop Jasper reports in J2EE

EDUCATION

MAY 2007

MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, SRM UNIVERSITY

APRIL 2005

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION, K.L.N. COLLEGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ANNA UNIVERSITY

MAY 2001

12TH, ROTARY LAHARRY MATRICULATION HIGHER SEC SCHOOL

JUNE 1999

10TH, SDA MATRICULATION HIGHER SEC SCHOOL

SKILLS

Project Management

Project Resource Management

Release Management

Change Management

Client Engagement

ACTIVITIES

PMP Certified

Published an article in International Journal of Imaging Science and Engineering (IJISE) on Enhanced QoS Mechanism using Mobile Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks in October 2007.

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.517.760&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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