IT Project Manager

Preeti Tanakatni

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters Graduate in IT Management with over 7 years of software engineering experience and 3 years of project management/co-ordination experience.

• Versatile contributor with a broad skill set that includes project management/co-ordination, business analysis, systems analysis, people management, architecture and development.

• Leader of complex technical projects.

• Full systems development life-cycle (SDLC) expertise.

• Builder of high-performing teams and systems through use of strong teamwork, communication and organizational skills.

• Efficient in working in an onsite/off-shore working model.

• Dedicated, hardworking individual with intercommunication skills to work at all levels of the organization.

• Successful in meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions to meet needs of the customer.

PROFILE/SKILLS

Primary Skills: Project Management/Technology Lead

Project Management Tools: MPP, MS One Note, MS Excel

Operating Systems: Win 9X, Win2000, Win XP

Languages/ Standards: JAVA, JSP, Servlets, Struts framework, J2EE technologies, BPEL, WSDL, C, C++, PL/SQL, Pascal.

Development Tools: JCreator, JBuilder, Eclipse

Middleware: WebServices, Systinet UDDI, IBM UDDI, IBM Orchestration engine, SAP PI 7.0, 7.1

Master Data Products: SAP MDM 5.5, 7.1

Databases: Oracle 8i, 9i

Client / Server Technologies: TomCat 3.3.1, JBoss 3.0.4., Weblogic

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

PROJECT MANAGER/TECH LEAD/SOFTWARE ENGINEER

 As Project Manager /Technical Lead – I have lead 2 complete projects successfully from Initiation till Closure of the project. In the process

o I represented the IT team and worked with business and functional teams for requirement gathering and scoping.

o Worked on Project Plan, Risk and mitigation plans.

o Worked with design team, as a design member and as a lead, for Analysis and Design of the system.

o Monitored and controlled the coding and unit testing phase, there by tracking the schedule of the project.

o Lead the code review process.

o Create and distribute weekly status report to all stakeholders.

o Co-ordinated with Testing, Business and Development teams during Integration and User Acceptance Testing Phases.

o Provided functional training to Support team by preparing training materials and technical presentations.

o Provided Installation instructions to Support and worked through the installation process.

o Supported the application through warranty phase with limited resources.

 As Software Engineer –

o I have extensively worked on Object Oriented Analysis / Design and development of multi-tier & distributed J2EE applications.

o I have worked on proof of concepts for some of the proposed architectural design changes.

o I have trained and mentored new team members into the team.

o I have written technical papers for the organization, about my successful proof of concepts.

SELECTED ACHIVEMENTS

 Process Initiatives –

o Tracking of Requirement Traceability Matrix

o Tracking Inter Asset dependency matrix

o Defect Root Cause Analysis at end of each phase.

o Peer Review Process - As part of core team, I have helped the process of Peer Review being seriously considered by accommodating the review process as part of my project plan, there by making it mandatory.

 Support Initiatives – I took over the functional training process to Support group which till that time was owned by business team. I covered functional and technical training with complete document, there by reducing number of invalid issues being opened by Support.

 Team Bonding – I have been fortunate to enjoy great atmosphere in all my project teams. I am proud to state that I initiated several of the initial team gatherings which fostered the team spirit.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

 Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Science, Vishweshwaraiah Technological University. Sep 2003

 Master in Business Administration – IT Management, Capella University. Nov 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project: Quote to Cash Process Baker Hughes Houston, Tx Jul 09 –Till date

Role: SAP XI/PI Consultant /Technology Lead

Project Description

Major oil major in Houston (USA) wanted to automate their Quote to Cash Process which involved integration of various systems such as SFDC, DocQuest and IBM Maximo. SAP PI 7.1 forms the middleware layer for this project and needs to co exist with the WebMethods integration layer. The project is designed to align to the SOA layer as part of the company’s vision for the project

Roles & Responsibilities

• Effective execution according to project timelines and delegation of tasks to team members

• Responsible for the design and implementations of interface between SAP PI 7.1 and Web Methods Integration Layer

• Responsible for integration between the front end Enterprise Portal and SAP PI Integration Layer

• Integration with Web services on 3rd Party systems

• Involved in Testing Tool Assessment for SAP PI 7.1

• Consultant services to the client for SAP PI Integration needs

Project: SAP MDM Customer Master Jun 08 –July 09

Implementation Baker Hughes Houston, Tx

Role: SAP XI/PI Consultant /Technology Lead

Project Description

Major oil major in Houston (USA) decided to make SAP MDM as their single point of truth across the organization. The first implementation is going on currently with Customer Master Data where data was being outsourced out of ECC system to all other remaining systems across the landscape.

At the same time the organization is looking aligning to the eSOA standards with all services being hosted out of the Enterprise Service Repository.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for the web services design and implementations

• Responsible for defining standards for SAP PI

• Migration of interfaces from SAP XI 3.0 to PI 7.1

• Setting up the Enterprise Service Registry

• Responsible for integration between MDM and ECC

• Member of the Integration Competency Center to align the existing infrastructure towards SOA principles

Project: Integration Competency Center for Syngenta Jan 08 –Jun 08

India

Role: SAP XI/PI Consultant /Technology Lead

Project Description

World leading agri–business company with a vision to move from the Web methods technology to SAP PI technology required our team to analyze their existing landscape and chart out the best methodologies to achieve their vision

Roles & Responsibilities

• Analysis of client landscape to identify integration points

• Responsible for the road map to replace web methods with SAP PI

• Lead the integration demo for SAP PI to the client

• Responsible for documentation and fool proofing of the integration aspects for the client.

• Responsible for coming up with Deployment Strategy, Archival and Deletion Strategy, Release and Change Management

Project: Process Fitness for British Petroleum Mar 07 –Dec 07

India

Role: SAP XI/PI Programmer Analyst /Technology Lead

Project Description

UK Oil Major required our team to bring SAP technology into their diversified landscape and streamline the process at an enterprise wide level.

• Responsible for design of interfaces, creation of technical specification

• Collaboration with various end systems during implementation and testing phases

• Responsible for releases to production and enhancement estimations

Project: HP Provisioner Mar 05 –Mar 07

Houston, Texas & India

Role: Software Engineer

Project Description

HP Provisioner is an application that creates a layer of abstraction of content between the content creators and the content Publishers. Provisioner gathers and homogenizes the content from disparate content data repositories providing a single consistent view to all Publishers. Provisioner provides a user interface for Publishers to select content they wish to subscribe for and helps them receive feeds in the multiple formats.

Provisioner can furnish the Information legacy HP and Compaq products by providing a user interface where one can setup subscriptions and control data feeds. It provides with a one stop shop for all content requirements from multiple data repositories.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for estimation of enhancements, project planning and delegation

• Co-coordinator between development, support and testing teams

• Onsite coordinator of almost a year for requirement gathering and client interaction

• Responsible for 3 major releases and 3-4 enhancement releases

Project: Commercial Card Expense Reporting for Wells Fargo Jun 04 –Dec 04

India

Role: Software Engineer

Project Description

A client logs into the Commercial Electronic Office (CEO) application of Wells Fargo. If the logged in user is subscribed to the CCER application, the user would be able to login to CCER system. The CCER system, which includes java servlets for Interface and business objects, which act as a DAO, are deployed in the Application Server. The client sends a request to the web server (Netscape Iplanet). The Web server forwards this request, to the Web Sphere Application Server. The Business objects do the various business processing. The business objects make a request to the Oracle database to either update information or retrieve information. This response from the Oracle database is processed and sent back to the client.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Worked on the 4.3 Release Modules which included Uploading and processing of information of the users of CCER System through tab delimited files.

• Worked on the point release modules of 4.2, which included creating of templates for Cardholder reports, and email generation for reports.

Project: ReadiOrchestra and ReadiManager for Readiminds Aug 03 –May 04

India

Role: Software Engineer

Project Description

ReadiOrchestra is a Business Process Modeling tool. This tool will be used by Business Analysts to model a business process and corresponding BPEL4WS standard code will be generated. This is then deployed in an engine.

ReadiManager is a dynamic configuration and web services management console. Built-in support for configuring and managing plug-gable component architecture, enables JMS and SOAP monitoring, and facilitates Logging, tracing and licensing

Management of user repositories, configuration of role based authentication & authorization, deployment of components, inspection of deployment descriptor, monitoring and management of web services etc can all be done with ReadiManager that offers consistent and task-centric life-cycle management

Roles & Responsibilities

• Designing of the framework needed to support the orchestration

• Generation of BPEL files to be deployed in the Orchestration Engine

• Integration of the back end framework with the front end Visual Modeler

• Spearheaded the conversion of ReadiManager Version 1.0, which was designed in Swing Interface to ReadiManager 2.0 Web Interface

• Synchronization of private UDDI to public UDDI in Systinet & IBM environments

• Private UDDI search was designed

• Security & alert management modules were designed and successfully implemented

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