KIRAN R. BHAT, PMP, CSM
** ********* *****, *. *********, NJ 8816
732-***-**** adu35i@r.postjobfree.com
Energetic and detailed oriented Senior Program Manager with over 20 years of experience in large corporate information services environments encompassing all aspects of systems development lifecycle. Solutions driver who bridges the gap between business and technology with expertise in managing complex programs and multiple concurrent projects. Specialized in managing large offshore and on shore teams in the Healthcare space with a focus on Data Analytics, Finance and Patient centric applications.
Experience
Bristol Myers Squibb, NJ /Consultant, Senior Program Manager
February 2019 – Present
Senior Program Manager concurrently managing delivery of 4-5 key global projects in the Finance IT, Procurement and Audit Analytics spaces over the past 4 years. Managed the planning, execution and delivery with external partners and project managers from Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, CorpTax, Oversight, Tango, Clearwater, Thomson Reuters and internal global partners based out of UK, Mexico, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Philippines, Greece, and India.
-Responsible for a portfolio of projects ranging from 200K to 2MM, to support Analytics for the Global Internal Audit, Compliance, Finance and Tax Reporting for US and European entities
-Responsible for creating and maintaining schedules, financial planning, reconciliation and reporting, and periodic reports for the IT PMO teams.
-Familiar with RFP processes, managing SOWs and executive-level reporting.
-Managed the delivery of multiple integration projects for the Celgene merger. These included CorpTax for Federal and State taxes; Thomson Reuters for VAT in Europe; Greece eBook for tax reporting in Greece, Tango for Global Occupancy planning and the Clearwater Portfolio management suite.
-Managed the integration of the ‘Oversight’ application to support exception and fraud reporting on employee T&E and Financial transactions. This was a year long effort over multiple phases with external and internal development and integration partners to manage compliance with internal standards and rules that apply to fraud and operating procedures.
-Managed the implementation of multiple Data Analytics initiatives in Tableau to support analytics for Internal Audit, Risk, Finance, Procurement, OTC and various other entities to facilitate shorter audit and reporting cycles within the firm.
Johnson & Johnson, NJ /Consultant, Senior Program Manager
November 2016 – December 2018
Senior Program Manager on the Johnson & Johnson OneMD initiative, managing the financials and development of the SCG Data & Analytics application suite.
-Responsible for a portfolio of projects, ranging to $3MM each, to support the Data Analytics and Reporting needs of the OneMD initiative.
-Managed multiple on-shore and off-shore teams, executing SCRUM and Kanban, developing applications in Tableau and Qlik to support the sales, contracting and reporting teams within the J&J medical devices business.
-Ensured products met or exceeded client expectations. Excelled at gathering feedback and requirements; communicating needed changes to development team; and overseeing seamless, high-quality rollouts to on-time and on-budget conclusion.
-Spearheaded innovative approaches to improve productivity by switching between SCRUM and Kanban to meet aggressive delivery timelines.
-Guided the BA, development, UAT and deployment teams to optimize delivery within the mix of Agile and Waterfall frameworks.
-Developed and maintained project SOWs, schedule and financials in Instantis and PMx and supported the generation of all PMO tracking reports.
DaVita Rx, Dallas, TX /Consultant, Client Delivery Project Manager
March 2015 – November 2016
Client Delivery Manager at DaVita Rx, Dallas, supporting the Rx 2.0 Program. Managed cross-functional application teams, infrastructure and vendor teams responsible for delivery of the RedHat Fuse/Fabric based ESB product suite. Responsibilities included estimation, planning, resource ramp-up, QA Test planning, reporting and managing a Red Hat Agile team.
-Managed a SCRUM team of 12 developers, SCRUM Master, Business Analyst and Solution Architects to deliver 20+ Sprints
-Coached vendor and internal teams on SCRUM methodologies to realize significant productivity gains towards the delivery targets.
-Implemented a POC based development effort to minimize rework and reduce turnaround times following product reviews to compensate for availability of product SMEs.
-Developed SOWs, detailed work plans, schedules, resources plans and status reports.
-Conducted multiple workshops with Red Hat architects to define the architecture blueprints and design/development frameworks
-Managed the QA Test Planning, coordinated UAT testing and managed the deployment communication plans.
-Led the integration work stream of project teams in order to develop and implement a solution design compliant with the architecture and standards of the Company
Express Scripts, NJ /Consultant, Client Delivery Manager
March 2008 to March 2015
Senior Technology Project Manager at Express Scripts supporting Coverage Management, eService Delivery and Consumer Web applications. Led multiple on-shore and off-shore teams, of up to 20 multi-vendor resources, delivering large sized projects. Interfaced at the departmental, cross-functional and with senior management to deliver critical projects on ORACLE, PEGA and Web platforms.
-Led a team of 8 senior developers on the Alerting and Recon initiative to support Zero-TAT failures within the CRD OPS and Coverage Review Application. The application was designed on ORACLE and GoldenGate replication. Responsibilities included design, development and deployment.
-Managed a team of 10 developers/Analysts to transition the Coverage application from legacy Broad-vision to the PEGA platform. Responsible for the Rules Extraction, validation and support of the migrated application.
-Developed the development, deployment and communication plans to transition a team of 300 users from legacy to the PEGA platform.
- Managed a team of 20 multi-vendor resources to support the application development for the CMWS application. Key deliverables included Med-D remediation, HCR enhancements, Performance Enhancements and real-time Operational Reporting.
-Transitioned a team of 8 resources on the CMWS development team from Brazil to IBM India.
-Managed a team of 20 offshore resources to manage the Production Support teams for the B2C, eSD and CRTS applications. Developed new models and processes to triage tickets and deliver to pre-defined SLAs.
-Managed the transition to the HIPAA D.0 standards for the Distributed Systems team. Worked with senior managers to create budgets and timelines and managed the financials and reports. Delivered the enhancements to the eSD, B2C and CMWS application suites leading a team of 20 developers and analysts.
Citigroup GWM, New York, AVP, April 2007 – March 2008
Senior Technical Project Manager in the Financial Planning Tools Group (FPT) managing a group of 7 on-shore and off-shore developers. Responsibilities included developing budgets, project plans and executing multiple projects within the FPT group. Worked closely with Business Users, Architecture, QA and Infrastructure groups to obtain signoffs at multiple levels.
-Managed the delivery of the re-implemented FPT application using Flex and Java. PM responsibilities included developing L0-L3 estimates, budgets, Project plans and managing both on-shore and off-shore resources. Technical responsibilities included developing Technical Design, Test Plans, Code Reviews and SDLC.
-Managed the deployment of FPT hardware and software for a new DR site. Responsibilities included planning, estimation, application rollout and testing at the new location.
TD Ameritrade, Jersey City, Architect/Senior DB Consultant
Nov 2002 – April 2007
Architect and Lead developer in the Data Services/Architecture group managing 5 developers. Provided strategic architecture and technology direction for the major application re-implementation initiatives within the firm. Responsibilities included steering the application development teams towards the use of WebSphere Server, J2EE technology and SOAP based interfaces for .NET applications. Responsibilities included the development of organizational skill sets by providing training in new technologies, developing frameworks and standards to support the SOA initiatives within the firm.
-SalesForce (SFDC) – Developed APIs in java and PL/SQL to migrate positions/balances and other customer related data to SFDC Web Interface.
-Linked Accounts(LASS) – Developed EJB applications with ORACLE back-end to support a .NET based UI to support Account Management and Maintenance.
-NPC Replacement – Migration of ACH vendor from NPC to CashEdge. Developed EJB/Session beans using Websphere/WSAD 5.1 and Oracle 8i PL/SQL. Migrated historical customer ACH data to the new platform.
-Online Account Opening (OAO) – Re-platformed existing ASP/PB OAO application to Websphere as part of the USA PATRIOT act. Application components were implemented using EJB/Session Beans and PL/SQL.
-RJT Integration – Developed the processes to migrate trading accounts from RJT into the TDW environment. The applications were developed using Syncsort and Fileport to support the daily merge and filtering of account and transaction feeds from ADP.
Sony Music, NYC, Consultant, Aug 2002 – Nov 2002
-Ported the ‘Antology’ application from SQL Server to Oracle 9i to support the development of the Master Index for the Content Management System. The assignment included developing stored procedures, triggers, Java and XML based interfaces to Vignette and Weblogic based applications.
Alliance Capital Management, NYC, AVP, Dec. 1998 – June 2002
System Architect and senior developer within the SPARK Project. SPARK was a significant project with the goals of consolidating legacy accounting applications, implementing a Global Reference database (Client, Account, Securities, Brokers), Performance Measurement, Data Warehouse and Internal and Client Reporting functionality. Responsibilities included managing a team of 10 developers, Product Evaluation and Selection and Architectural/Development updates to the CTO.
-Developed PL/SQL, Java, Shell and C++ components to load market data feeds to the Security Master and Security X-Ref tables of the Eagle PACE application.
-Developed the meta-data repository using SA2001 and implemented the data profiling and data standardization using VALITY/INTEGRITY and DataJunction.
-Developed he Security Composite/Pricing Rules within EAGLE/PACE
-Migrated legacy data from Mainframe/VSAM to the PACE application
-Worked with the Data Admin and Pricing groups to develop requirements (BRDs), and with developers to define Application Development Standards, Programming and QA specifications
-Actively involved in the vendor analysis of several accounting products including DST and EAGLE. The responsibilities included requirements gathering, gap analysis and supporting the prototyping phases of product selection.
-Worked with vendors, NEON and IBM, to create a logical architecture to develop the Enterprise Messaging Bus.
Early Career – Lehman Brothers, Associated Press, AT&T Bell Labs
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering, University of Pune, India
BS Instrumentation and Control