Project Manager

Project Management Business Analysis Solution Architect Technology Consulting

Career Objective:

A self-motivated achiever with an ability to plan and execute projects by being resourceful, innovative and flexible. I aspire for a challenging position in a professional Organization where I can enhance my skills and strengthen them in conjunction with the Organization’s goals.

Experienced Information Technology professional with 15 + years of successfully leading all phases of diverse technology projects. Managed large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet triple (Quality, Schedule and Budget) constraints.

Execution specialist planned and managed projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.

Excellent communicator, leverages technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with project sponsor and other key stakeholders.

Industry Expertise, Substantial experience in Manufacturing and Automotive Services industry business processes. Worked in multiple process areas of automotive industry i.e, Human Resource, Payroll & Timekeeping, Environmental Health & Safety, Security Applications

Expert project management methodologies, used agile and waterfall methodology to deliver Custom Software Development, System Migrations/Integrations and Enterprise wide Implementations.

Education & Credentials:

PMI-Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), 2016

Bachelors of Engineering (Information Technology), Bharathiar University, India 2004

Award & Recognition

Received CSC’s “Employee of the Quarter Award” in 2012 Q2

Received “Effective OI Generation” award for Job Safety Risk Analysis Project in 2014 Q3

Shining Star and Super Star Awards from CSC Management for Excellence in the delivery

Received multiple Applause and Bravo awards from FCA for valuable contributions in various projects.

Skill Summary:

Business Analysis:

Visual Modeling using HTML /iRise. (Mockups/Wireframe)

Requirements Analysis

Fit Gap Analysis

Traceability Matrix

Requirements Facilitation and Elicitation

Development & Architecture:

Angular, Spring, Progressive Web Application.

Maven, Jenkins, GitHub

JAVA/J2EE, JavaScript, UML

Apache Struts (MVC), AJAX, Hibernate, Spring, JUnit,

MS-Access, Sybase, Oracle, DB2, PL/SQL, SQL

Project Management:

Agile

Client Relations & Presentations

Business & IT Planning

Cost-benefit analysis

ROI Analysis

Project Scheduling and Tracking

Experiences:

V2SOFT, India Jan 2020 – Till date

Senior IT Project Manager – Human Resources, Payroll (FCA US LLC)

Led the requirements gathering of 2019 UAW changes for all the timekeeping and payroll applications. Better understanding of the requirements and an effective way of communicating the requirements (Visual Modeling) with the supplier partner helped us to complete these changes faster and reliable.

Implemented COVID 19 Automated Tracking in CATS application.

Subject Matter Expert in the Workforce Assessment Initiative and core team member representing ICT for US & Canada Timekeeping Applications

Leading the ePAY and HEIS Modernization Project

Leading the HADR Setup for CATS

Leading the Knowledge Transition between the DXC and TCS for FCA’s timekeeping applications

Populus Group, USA Jan 2015 – Dec 2019

Senior IT Project Manager – Human Resources, Payroll (FCA US LLC)

Managed the requirements gathering of 2015 UAW changes for all the timekeeping and payroll applications. Better understanding of the requirements and an effective way of communicating the requirements (Visual Modeling) with the supplier partner helped us to complete these changes faster and reliable.

Led MOPAR Expansion project for HR & Payroll Applications. This was the first Project in our portfolio where all application changes were done under one roof. Having a good knowledge on the application landscape of HR &Payroll helped to validate the supplier partner’s artifacts and coach them to fill their functional and process gaps during the course of the project.

Performed the solution orchestration of HEIS Application that would help the employees to know about the pay shortages which would help us to reduce the pay shortages processing in the off-cycle pay run.

Performed the solution orchestration of Rate Adjustment module which helps the payroll team to enforce valid temporary rate adjustments for hourly employees. This solution was so quick and robust which helped to restrict the overpayments in the rate adjustment process.

Designed an automated approach of flexible holiday configuration for alternate work crew employees. This was a manual effort in the previous year which resulted with pay inaccuracy.

Provided guidance to the payroll business team to perform average shift calculation which helped to achieve the results without making any customization on the peoplesoft payroll.

Involved in a project to automate the Non Skilled Employee Referral process. This was a labor intense manual process. Worked with the business partners to understand the AS-IS Process and came up with an automated To-Be process which helped the business to save more 200 hours of manual work during every referral period.

Implemented an innovative, flexible reporting solution for external systems to access CATS database without compromising the security around PII data.

Helped the BRM to establish the priorities and align the IT priorities as per the business expectation.

Facilitator for the weekly status reporting with the business partners. Using an effective and organized way of communicating the updates on the key initiatives helped to save the time we spent on status meetings (We were able to reduce the status meeting time by 30%)

Provide updates to the senior leadership team on the business and ICT organization on ongoing projects.

Ensuring prompt identification and facilitating resolution of service delivery issues.

Managed and nurtured relationships with business and technology sponsors.

CSC, USA Nov 2012 – Dec 2014

Technical Lead – Human Resources, Payroll (Chrysler LLC)

Successfully delivered fixed price project called “Job Safety Risk Assessment” budget of $150K USD. Involved in all phases of this project. Worked with the Plant EHS Team for requirements elicitation and documenting the requirements, involved in the framework design and managing the budget and schedule of the project as a CSC project manager. This project was completed on time surpassing all the stakeholders’ expectation.

Managed other T&M and fixed price projects budget of $500K USD which helped FCA to meet the business needs on time without compromising on the quality.

Involved in identifying and fixing the major post launch issue on a key project delivered by my team.

Managed and maintained project schedule, cost, resources, documentation and delivery.

Involved in the candidate screening process as part of the CSC Hiring program.

Reliable point of contact in CSC onsite team for any functional /technical guidance.

Prepared project plan, task assignment and resource leveling using MS Project plan.

Coordinated work allocation and status reporting to the senior management.

Worked with application owners and business partners to identify user acceptance criteria.

Coordinated all phases and facets of testing milestone.

Ownership for end to project delivery.

CSC, India Feb 2008 - Nov 2012

Senior Programmer Analyst Lead – Human Resources, Payroll (Chrysler LLC)

Designed, developed and enhanced multi-tier web-based applications by analyzing business and user needs and translating them into technical requirements.

Designed and developed browser independent applications using CSS3 and HTML5.

Designed and developed of hybrid mobile applications using jQuery mobile.

Developed Microsoft SSIS Integration services to migrate data from Sybase to SQL Server.

Designed and developed Restful web services to exchange data between B2B (business to business) applications.

Designed and developed application reports using Cognos, Cognos Reports Studio and JASPER.

Implementation of native Mobile application proof of concept using KONY.

Automated scripts to build and deploy web applications in IBM Websphere Application Server.

Implemented UNIX scripts to monitor and perform data loading process.

Used Serena Dimensions Configuration Management to oversee the resolution of production support issues.

Performed gap analysis of migration projects using WCM tools, and provide technical design solutions.

Performed project planning and scheduling using Microsoft Project Plan

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, India Mar 2005 - Feb 2008

Programmer Analyst - General Electric - Energy Products

Performed Analysis, Design and development

Provided technical expertise to across multiple projects for GE account.

Developed multiple B2B applications .

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