Mohammed k. Ansari

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Summary of Professional Qualifications

oStrong 17+ years of cross techno-functional Software Development Management & Delivery experience in managing application, analytical, business support activities. It includes Product Management/Digital Experience/Agile Project Management of small to enterprise projects, SDLC, Business Strategies & Change Management, Process Improvement and Optimization & Client Engagement.

oCertified Safe Agilist (SA Safe 5), significant experience working in the organization leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

oChampions organization's SAFe Agile project management methodology, tools, and techniques.

oStrong experience developing, delivering web/windows application using Microsoft, Java and Database technologies.

o5+ years of strong experience/knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP etc. Ability to ensure the correct use of the scrum process. Responsible to facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings. Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, burndown metrics, velocity etc.

oCollaborates with executives and/or senior directors with defining organizational goals and strategic plans. Communicates appropriately with teams, customers, and peers through all communication channels.

oDefines and leads the execution of the technology CI/CD roadmap and champion DevOps processes and procedures across the area.

oDrives implementation of multiple, highly complex project/program initiatives typically requiring confidentiality and enterprise-level visibility to achieve strategic business goals and operational objectives.

oProvides technical leadership in the plan, design, development, testing, implementation, or maintenance of business solutions. Leads and directs change management, process improvement, or technical support initiatives.

oProvides the technical design and delivered the project for an Insurance client that earned a 2011 Innovation Award from Business Insurance Magazine.

oSuccessfully managed program execution, delivery and resource planning for $6M Program with 100+ team size. Work with Senior leadership & stakeholder for daily development status meetings, and ensures the team stays on track to meet commitments. In addition, work with external vendors (including offshore)

oGood exposure in handling large scale insurance program for multi-country rollout

oExpertise and a thorough knowledge of all the elements of PM(I) discipline, end-to-end from inception, scoping & strategic planning to define project’s charter, work/task breakdown structure with interdependencies & milestones in MS Project, business processes analysis, budgeting & forecasting, risks assessment & mitigation plans, communication plan, change management & impact analysis.

oData Migration Management across the platforms, ETL & Business Intelligence BI, Data Mapping & Analysis, Data Move & Testing. Trained on MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Data Science, Azure & AI/Machine learning.

oManagement of issues/defects & risk management, resolution and mitigation/workaround solutions.

oExtensive experience in Microsoft .Net technology, Oracle with web application, client/server, Azure cloud, desktop application, Business Intelligence integration and SharePoint Server portals.

oStrength in building trust and synergy with leadership, teams, partners and clients to support strategic business objectives across complex environments.

oExcellent analytical/problem-solving abilities coupled with organizational/team facilitation.

oWell versed with SAFe Agile & PMI principles.

Industry Experience

oInsurance, Financial & Banking, Healthcare, eCommerce, and Cloud Computing

Currently Employed: BoFa, Plano Tx (Apr 2017- Current)

Previously Employed: Accenture (Contractor At BoFa) - (Sep 2016-Apr 2017)

strive consulting – (apr 2015 – Jul 2016)

Tech Mahindra – (Oct 2015 – Apr 2016)

Cognizant Technology Solutions – (Sept. 2003- Oct-2015)

Education Qualification: Master of Science in Information Technology (MSc. IT), India

Project/Engagement Experience

ROLE: Dev Prgm Manager (Sept 2016 - Present)

Desktop Application – CC Voice Tech, Anti-Money LAUNDERING, KNOWLEDGE Management, iPrint System

Technology Used: Scrum/SAFe Agile methodologies, Rally/JiRA, Bitbucket, github, C#, .Net 4.x, MVC 4, Winform, Jquery, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Angular js, Java 8, IBM RAD jdk 1.7, SSIS, SQL Server 14, TFS,.

Team Size: 12-14

Responsibilities:

● Responsible for managing and leading the Call Center Voice Tech Desktop application team and serves the LOB requirements, meeting the project deadline. Monitoring project progress and performance.

● Managing project/stakeholders/sponsors. Evaluates project status and resource utilization and implements changes to improve the team's effectiveness.

● Managed a complex Anti-Money Laundering (AML) project, related to regulation and compliance, built an end to end solutions to meet the requirements.

Ensures business requirements are well documented and approved by the POs and biz leads.

● Provides direction and analytical support and directs business plan development to execute initiatives. Advises senior management and provides high level consulting. This position is typically responsible for managing a team of employees engaged in one functional activity.

Monitors and tracks progression of unit goals and objectives.

● Provides formal and informal training and coaching to the team in expected behaviors and activities.

● Automated iPrint applications for generating and distributing the PDFs to the app/test/LOB team as a part of the operation Excellence initiative, saved ~$100k cost/year, awarded with a GDI certificate.

● Leads product team in adopting scrum/Agile methodologies via training and coaching.

● Responsible for resolving cross-functional issues at a project level. Managing project evaluation and dissemination activities.

● Managing geographically distributed teams within the US, off-shore development teams (multi-locations) and third-party vendors

● Responsible for following and implementing the agile methodologies; facilitate PI plan for quarterly releases as per EPIC/Features/user stories backlogs using Rally/Jira.

● Running weekly status reports to the project stakeholders/sponsors.

Role: Product Technical Consultant/Manager (Apr 2016 to July 2016); MAG Retail Group: Irving, Tx

Program Type: Agile, Continuous Development & Integration

Technology Used: C#, .Net 4.5, ASP MVC 4, Jquery, Endeca, Windsor Castle, SSIS, SQL Server 12, JIRA, GIThub, Scrum/Agile methodologies.

Motorcycle-Superstore.com, jpcycles.com, MSS & JPC APPs.

Responsibilities:

● Managing multiple eCommerce (projects) websites, improving the user interface, target to provide the world-class digital shopping experience to the users across the US market.

● Responsible for fixing all the issues reported by the marketing teams so products can rank in the Google SEO search, address all the SEO related issues and SEO strategies to help the marketing team to rank the products in search engines mainly Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

● Leads the development of eCommerce projects and programs by collaborating with subject matter experts to develop the project scope.

● Fixing Oracle Endeca related issues to improve the website performance and products portfolio

● Work with the marketing team for running the deals and promotions on the website.

● Involved in detailed technical design, planning and controlling of the project, developing and maintaining a detailed project plan

● Provided solution to top issues reported by the monitoring tools like Track js, relic, and CDN. Working with the customer care team in order to enhance the systems for achieving operational excellence and better customer experience.

Common Service, Openstack extension, orchestration Framework - VZ cloud:

Role: Product Consultant/Manager (Oct 2015 to Apr-2016); Verizon: Irving, Tx

Program Type: DevOps, Scrum/Agile methodologies, Continuous Development & Integration

Technology Used: C#, WCF, AngularJS, NodeJS, OpenStack, SSRS, SSIS, SQL Server 2012, Shell Script, JIRA, GIThub

Responsibilities:

●Involved in detailed technical design, planning and controlling of the project, developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.

●Involved in the offshore/onsite coordination and working groups engaged in project work.

●Mentor and guide technical team on architectural and design artifacts.

●Responsible for ensuring scrum/Agile methodologies being followed in software development.

●Assessing team health, removing impediments. Analyze current the agile process, prioritize area of improvements.

●Capturing and managing project issues/risks and escalating where necessary.

Global Employee Benefits program (GEB): GSvP Global Rollout (GEB), Expat Stability, IBTM Enh, Tech Hardening Release and DelAm implementation

Role: Technical Project Manager (Aug 2013 to Oct 2015); MetLife: Raleigh, NC

Program Type: Integration, Migration & Re-write, Scrum/Agile methodologies

Technology Used: Java, Rest API, AngularJS, Web methods, SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server 2008, Rally, C#, ASP.net

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for managing and leading the project team and meeting the project deadline. Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan. Monitoring project progress and performance. Managing project/stakeholders/sponsors.

●Responsible for resolving cross-functional issues at a project level. Managing project evaluation and dissemination activities. Responsible for following the agile methodologies; create project plan as per user stories/backlogs using Rally.

●Responsible for providing weekly status reports to the project stakeholders/sponsors, sharing Net promoter score (NPS) after receiving the surveys result.

●Responsible for ensuring scrum/Agile methodologies being followed in the software development.

●Assessing team health, removing organizational impediments. Analyze current agile process, prioritize area of improvements and provide the solution to the problem/challenges facing the team.

Technologies Used: FileNet Case Manager Suites, iWidget, Dojo Toolkits, Java, EJB 3.0, Visual Studio 2010, ASP .Net 3.5, C#, SQL Server 2008, DB2, BizTalk Server 2010, Genius UW system (Mainframe), IBM Cognos BI 10.1, SharePoint Server, Informatica 9.1, SSIS, SSRS, RTC, Win7/Win2k8, JIRA.

Applications: Casualty Global Rollout 2013

Role: Technical Project Manager (June 2012 to Jul 2013); ACE Insurance UK: B’lore, India

Program Type: Integration, Migration & Re-platform

Industry: Insurance

Team Size: 60-80

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for the delivery of each stream (CMP, BPI & BI-DW) from offshore. Data Migration Management across the platforms, ETL & Business Intelligence BI, Data Mapping & Analysis, Data Move & Testing.

●Gathering of detailed requirements, assumptions and challenges with stakeholders in order to establish the project deliverable and ensure in scope and out scope requirements.

●Use project management tools, methods and best practices to join project plans that align the project with expectations of stakeholders, and meets business needs.

●Involved in the estimation of coming work that would be utilized as a baseline for resources needs.

●Determines resource expectation, assigning individual tasks and responsibilities to the project team, and developing a schedule to ensure timely completion of the project. Mentor the team members.

●Documents high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints using past data and expert judgment in order to understand project limitations.

●Responsible for defining/managing the project related documents (project definition, test plans, requirements definition, etc.).

Technology Used: .NET 3.5, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2008, SSIS, SSRS, TIBCO, LifeAsia Mainframe.

Applications: CNB Core, CNB IND, CPOS, CNB IN & HK Support

Team Size: 40-50

Industry: Insurance

Role: Technical Project Manager (Dec 2011 to June 2012); ING APAC: B’lore, India

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for execution of project/sub-project/workstream. Documents high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints using past data and expert judgment in order to understand project limitations.

●Gathering of detailed requirements, assumptions and challenges with stakeholders in order to establish the project deliverable and ensure in scope and out scope requirements.

●Involved in the estimation of coming work that would utilize as a baseline for resources needs.

●Determines resource expectation, assigning individual tasks and responsibilities to project team, and developing a schedule to ensure timely completion of the project. Mentor the team members

Project Name: Policy Admin System

Technology Used: .NET 3.5, Telerik Controls, Spring.net, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2008, JIRA.

Project Role: Technical Project Manager (Jun 2011 – Nov 2011); ACE PRS Insurance: Salem, VA

Industry: Insurance

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for resolving the Policy Admin system performance issue before rolling out to all the agencies.

●Perform root cause analysis to determine the Performance and Scalability bottlenecks.

●Resolved top issues before Agency rollout like Server-side performance, white screen issue, dll delay/single dll, cookieless session, 64-bit compilation, Form Authentication sliding expiration, Integration with xPression service using xEditor, SQL finetuning etc.

Technology Used: BizTalk 2009, ESB 2.0 toolkit, MS-Visio, IMS, ColdFusion, VB6, .NET 3.5, ASP.net, C#, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2008, SSIS 2005 and SSRS 2005. RIS IMS Mainframe, JIRA

Project Name: Implementation of Enterprise Service Bus for Claim Component System

Project Role: Technical Integration Manager (Apr 2010 to May 2011); ACE PRS Insurance: Salem, VA

Responsibilities:

●Manage onsite/offshore teams involved in the test-driven software methodoligies

●Facilitate Scrum meetings involving BA teams, Dev team, 3P vendor team daily.

●Conduct daily Scrum stand-up meeting with the team on previous day progress and agenda for today.

●Design initiative for ACORD data model for the ESB for generic implementation.

Technology Used: .NET 2.0, ASP.net, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2005, SSIS 2005 & SSRS 2005.

Project Name: Worldview, MLR & MAX (Insurance)

Project Role: Tech Lead (Jul 2009 to Mar 2010); ACE Insurance NA: Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities:

●To ensure top-quality deliverables (Worldview project) from Cognizant to the client and interacting with the client on a regular basis to discuss day-to-day matters and issues.

●Participate in Project Estimation exercise and forecast resource requirements.

●Involved in preparing project plans and monitor/track the progress of projects/tasks as per the project plan, tracking issues to closure, ensuring that the projects are completed on time and on budget

Technology Used: .NET 2.0, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2005,

Project Name: STADE

Project Role: Tech Lead (Jan 2009 to June 2009); AstraZeneca: Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities:

●To coordinate with the business/operation units to gather the information on the users, determine access permissions, folders & subfolders layout, document storage, project calendar setup & notifications.

●Develop the Project Plan with deliverable milestones and documentation and present to the client for sign-off.

●Based on the information, coordinate with the offshore technical team to implement the design, code and test according to the design.

Technology Used: .NET 2.0, C#, WinForms 2005, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2005, SSIS 2005

Project Name: WWPC and Compliance Reporting

Project Role: Technical Analyst Lead (Sep 2007 to Dec 2008); NetApp: Sunnyvale, CA

Industry: Technology

Responsibilities:

●Gather high-level Business requirements, analyze and identify the problems with the existing system, identify options for future systems that would interact efficiently with SAP-CRM .

●To establish the process and handshake with other teams from DW and Business Intelligent,

●NGS Reporting OPS for inbound and outbound data. Plan and Coordinate workshops for requirements and prototype walkthrough.

Project Name: ELMS- Executive Liability Management System

Project Role: Sr. S/w Developer & Tech Lead (May ‘05 to Sep ‘07); Travelers Insurance: Hartford, CT

Technology Used: .NET Framework v1.1, Win Forms, C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET, XML, Web Services, SQL Server 2K

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