Project Manager Technical

JAYANTHI PALANI

IT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER - DATA MIGRATION (@CSM @PRINCE2 @IBM EXPERIENCED PM)

**************@*****.*** +1-562-***-**** 11958, Agnes Street, Cerritos, California, USA https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayanthi-palani-68155684/ Visa status: Work permit till 2027, No Sponsorship required Experienced and Certified IT Technical Project Manager with a strong background in data migration platform. Proven track record of successfully leading complex projects from conception to completion, on time and within budget. Skilled in managing diverse teams and stakeholders to achieve project goals and deliver high-quality results. Managed agile projects creating Epics, Features, User story and dashboard reports leveraging Scrum & Kanban approach. Go-getter and follow collaborative approach leveraging my expertise in providing innovative out-of-box approach and solutions. Seasoned PM in driving strategic initiatives across Healthcare, Telecommunications, Travel and Transportation industries. Handled complex projects in both traditional waterfall & agile way. Responsible for planning, executing, and closing projects ensuring milestones and deliverables are completed on time within scope and budget. Proven leadership in problem-solving and communication skills to achieve desired outcomes. Efficient stakeholder engagement, communication, Change management and project governance. Handled delivery team across both onsite and offshore with team of 8-17 members. EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

IBM Oct 2008 - May 2025

Technical Project Manager/Data Migration

IT Project Manager - Jan 2018 till date

Delivery Manager - June 2014 till Dec 2017

Advisory Systems Analyst - Oct 2008 till June 2014 Object win Technology Inc, Atlanta, US Dec 2007 - Jul 2008 Systems Analyst/Onsite Coordinator

Capgemini (Formerly iGATE Global Solutions Ltd) Jun 2004 - Jun 2007 Senior Systems Analyst

Slash Support Pvt Ltd Aug 2003 - May 2004

Application Engineer

Present

SKILLS

Cloud/Agile/Versioning: SharePoint, Box, IBM Redhat Open Shift (PaaS), Jenkins, CI/CD pipeline, GitHub, Log Insight, IBM MQ, Azure DevOps, Trained in AWS glue. Project Management tools: MPP, IPWC, TFS, JIRA, Confluence, IDCP, Monday.com, Trello, Slack. AI: IBM WatsonX Platform, IBM Consulting Adavantage (LLM Granite 3.8, Llama) Microsoft CoPilot, Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI.

Data Modeling: ERWIN

Compliance: DS&P, SOX.

Leadership: Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Risk Management, Team Building. ETL Tools: Informatica V7.1.4, 8, 11, Data Stage

MS tools: MS Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams.

Monitoring Tool: Custom Dashboard

Scheduler Tools: Control-M, Cron, Autosys, Tivoli, Informatica workflow scheduler DB: SQL server 2008/2012/2016/2019/2021, Oracle 9i, Oracle 11i/12g,, SSIS, Teradata OS: Windows 2k,98, XP,10, Unix, Linux

ERP: Oracle Apps R12-AP, AR, GL

Networking: TCP/IP

Data Analytics/Reporting: Business Objects, Power BI MDM: Infosphere, Siperian XI

PROJECTS

Sr. Project Manager May 2022 - May 2025

United Parcel Service - Win 2012 EOSL & SQL 2012/2014 Sunset Migration (Location: Parsippany, NJ) Created project plan to migrate DBs from SQL server 2012/2014 to SQL 2019 spanning over 4800 DBs across winward and Ramapo datacentres seggregated across multiple SDG. Estimated CPU/Cores of exsiting server to new server and provided new architecture design and development plan.

Leveraged IBMs AI paltform WatsonX to create Change Request via bot for DRMS (Database Reporting Management System) tool resulting in 12% efficiency. Received NPS score or 9/10 and 10/10 for 3 consecutive years for 100% completion of project on time with 15% of automation and increased GP revenue.

Created/assisted with fetching multiple reports for internal and external stakeholders. Maintained risk register and risk log and handled escalation procedures. Created Epic, feature, user story and deliver agile way using sprint planning. Automated 15% of process efficiency and change request using DMR (Data Migration Request) tool leveraging SSIS packages.

Maintained RACI and RAID for project creating mitigation plan based on priority and urgency. Ensured quality deliverable with 99.8% SLA and provided with warranty support. Managed complex data migration project with 100% delivery focusing on project scope, quality, cost, change management with in schedule mitigating risks

Liaised with project stakeholders determine priorities creating weekly status report and EVM delivery. Leveraged project management methodologies and best practices fostering continuous improvement and groomed junior resources for band mix delivery.

Managed project budgets of $2M. Led teams times of ambiguity and interpersonal conflicts resolving issues. Participated in Steering Committee meeting, establishing solution in war room meetings during outages and OS package installation which goes beyond the estimated window time. Sr. Project Manager Aug 2019 - Apr 2022

United Parcel Service - OPSYS SDD/RDD, Cloud Migration (Location: Parsippany, NJ) Self-start with proven project management skills driving $2M proect. Skilled in large scale data modernization project migrating mainframe legacy data to modernization to IBM Redhat OpenShift cloud platform.

Leveraged IBM AI WatsonX platform to create user story and automated reports for client needs. Worked on multiple LLM's and assistance to automate WSR reports. Created project plan breaking down tasks, estimation using change request, project tracking ensuring deliverables are on track covering progress along with RYG.

Assisted team with creation of CI/CD pipelines and automated builds/tests with version control. Migration and project expert in agile delivery methods. Facilitated risk assessment, risk handling and mitigation process. Directed end-to-end cloud migration ensuring timely execution of process improvements and technology rollouts using advanced Microsoft tools.

Built dynamic Excel dashboards and pivot reports to track delivery metrics, route efficiency, and cost performance, enabling real-time operational insights and strategic planning. Created forecast and estimation plan with daily tracking mechanism. Orchestrated deployment of Scrum practices.

Prepared project cost and budget analysis using EVM method. Created WBS, Project Scope, Project Charter and gathered detailed requirements. Created project artifacts and maintained dashboard reports for delivery and bug fix. Reported metrics using velocity, burndown charts to clients.

Delivered complex migration project within budget. Incase of change requests created CR maintaining change log. Effective tracking of project progress and ensure that the roadmap is updated regularly to reflect changes in priorities and scope using change request.

Conducted change impact assessments and collaborated with senior leadership. Integrated requirement changes into overall project plan with revised timelines. Created and maintained all necessary project artifacts WSR (Weekly Status Report), EVM (Earned Value Method), Project Charter, RACI and RAID communication matrix. Created high level integration plan for testing team and ensured end to end, regression and penetration testing is completed.

Assisted team to create operations readiness document and maintained documents in sharepoint with versioning. Project Manager Jan 2018 - Jul 2019

United Parcel Service - SQL 2008 EOSL Migration (Location: Parsippany, NJ) Created high level and detailed project plan for SQL server 2008/2012/2014 migration project to latest version of SQL Server considering compatability.

Complex migration spanning across 8 SDG group over 4300+ DBs. Provided analysis report based on premise or virtual setup location. Estimated CPU, cores, DB, estimated service performance and usage.

Migrated data and applications to new on-premise hardware. Provided backup plan and stratergy for huge DB size migration.

Provided plan for parallel data verification testing for SOX and healthcare audited applications. Decommissioned legacy hardware securely with complete clean up. Managed exceptions arising out of vendor constraints. Performed in-place upgrades for SQL Server and Windows OS versions where applicable and conducted side-by-side migrations. Manage the coordination for moving applications to the latest versions of SQL Server and windows OS 2019. Delivery Manager (Data Platforms) Jul 2014 - Dec 2017 AT&T - Global Computing Platform GCP (Location: Atlanta, GA) Responsible to ensure smooth delivery of projects on various programs without issues. Conduct risk review programs for complex project and to come up with mitigation plan. Created datamodel diagram to establish entity relation between tablets using PK-FK and prepared high level design document with tracebility for entire program level data flow. Created mappings, workflows and session for Trinity and Gamma programs involving huge data load Co-ordinated with Application Program team ensuring deliverables are smooth without impacting SLA and BAU achieving functional point targtes across 7 applications. Validated audit trails and log mechansims. Demonstrated ability to motivate and inspire working with cross- functional teams, including IT and third-party vendors without impacting business and applied lean six sigma principles achieving efficiency by 20%.

Managed team of 28 resources spread acorss Gamma and Trinity programs. Advisory Systems Analyst Oct 2008 - Jun 2014

Zoetis (formerly Pfizer) - S4 Operate and Pfizer Animal Health (Location: Newyork) Created design document with traceability matrix. Developed complex mappings involving multiple transformation to load data.

Created workflow sessions and verified errors using data log and entries. Created scripts, autosys jobs to load data. Scheduled daily/weekly and monthly data load. Applied metadata conversions and validated output data. Aligned source and target schemas ensuring data format is corrected and verified data counts. Performed system testing, scheduled migration considering low impact duration. Monitored performance of data job load with errors logs in real time. Ensured rollback procedures are in place with data reconciliation between source and target during final deployment.

Followed coding standards and updated operations readiness document. Prepared documents on Run Book, CCB, Interface Manual Document, Interface Mapping. Led team of 12 resources and worked with clients gathering business requirement changes. Senior Systems Analyst Dec 2007 - Jul 2008

CORDIS, Cox Communications (Alpharetta, GA)

Designed and implemented complex ETL mappings with advanced transformations; executed efficient data loads across environments.

Modified configuration files and managed shell scripts and source files; collaborated with offshore teams to develop new mappings and create detailed design documentation. Proactively resolved production data load issues by conducting root cause analysis and delivering timely, effective solutions.

Led daily and weekly migration activities, including UAT to Production deployments and new development rollouts in the DEV environment using Informatica PowerCenter v7. Acted as liaison with UAT users across multiple applications feeding into the EDW; delivered rapid bug fixes and supported largescale historical data loads by troubleshooting error logs. Updated automation scripts per user requests; created touch files and maintained email distribution lists to ensure accurate notifications.

Optimized workflow load sequences by transitioning from parallel to sequential execution, significantly improving overall load performance.

Managed and resolved service tickets using Remedy, ensuring timely closure and adherence to SLA requirements. Partnered with the DBA team to address database performance issues, including table space expansion, query optimization, index tuning, and outage resolution. Developed Weekly Status Reports (WSRs), outlined data load plans for offshore teams, and provided domain expertise for data validation and correction.

Initiated and led weekly status meetings to communicate recent code deployments, system stability updates, and performance metrics.

EDUCATION

Symbiosis Institute of Business Administration May 2003 - May 2005 Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA) Operations Research St. Peter's Engineering College, [University of Madras] India May 1997 - May 2001 Bachelor of Engineering B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (Distinction) CERTIFICATIONS

Prince2 Certified Practitioner

IBM Certified Advocate Plus Cloud V1/V2IBM Experienced Project Manager IBM Certified Advisory Project Manager

Gen AI Overview for Project Managers from PMI

Data Engineer Specialty (Experienced)

Microsoft Azure AZ900 Fundamentals

Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM)

Certified Scrum Master CSM

IBM Certified Facilitator (Foundation)

IBM Certified License to Lead (First Line Manager) Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified System Engineer

Informatica Certified Developer in Data Warehousing, ETL

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