Project Manager Management

Anupam Rajan, PMP®

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Senior Project Manager

Extensive software development and project management experience. This includes 11 years of Product/Project development, management of small and large teams; demonstrated ability to build teams and lead organizations through growth and change. Also has experience on IT infrastructure projects such as Data center co-location and setting up IT infrastructure for manufacturing plant.

For last 5 years, I have been into core project management applying people, process, problem-solving, functional and technical skills to improve individual, team, product, organizational performance and to achieve projects’ and Organizational Goals.

I am a PMP certified professional using project management and analytical skills to ensure timely and quality results. I am an impassioned leader and facilitator who mentors with objective and understands that strong working relationships create great teams and produce exceptional results.

Project Management Strength

Project Management Methodologies: PMI, Agile/SCRUM, waterfall, Strategic planning, SOW, SLA, RFP, RFQ, WBS, cost/Risk breakdown, SDLC, Plan-Do-Check-Act, recruiting, forecasting.

Project/Domain

• Opportunity Identification

• Spend Analyzer

• Network Storage Device Manager

• Website development

• Supply chain domain

• IT infrastructure • e-com quotation web Application

• Web Forum Development

• Testing Project

• Internal and Statutory Financial Audits

• Internal Cloud hosting OS

• Data center, Co-location

Education and Certification

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Honors in Master of Computer Application (MCA)

Bachelor of Science (BSc, Maths)

Work Experience

DANA HOLDING CORPORATION December 10 – June 11

Dana Holding Corporation is a world leader in the supply of driveline products (axles and driveshafts), power technologies (sealing and thermal-management products), and genuine service parts for light and heavy manufacturers.

Achievements and Responsibilities as Senior Project Manager, PMO

• Worked in core project management areas such as cost management, procurement management and risk management in addition to scope, time, quality and communication management.

• Responsible to communication to top level, including C-level and other stakeholders.

• Managed IT infrastructure projects of budget amounting 2.5M USD.

• IT infrastructure projects like IT setup for new location DITC Expansion and Gear plant.

• Managing Data center co-location project with Verizon as data center vendor.

• Communication with multiple suppliers for different IT equipments and tracking the procurement.

• Developed and exhibited negotiation skills during procurement management and vendor management.

• Established and followed PMO processes in India centre. Involved in all PMO meetings communications and initiatives.

EMPTORIS TECHNOLOGIES September 06 – November 2010

Emptoris is a product based organization, built through few acquisitions of Virtusa, Zeborg and ClickCommerce. Emptoris has its all products in supplier, spend and contract management domain. Few of its products are world leader in their domain.

Achievements and Responsibilities as Development Manager

• In last 3 years, managed end to end development of multiple large size projects.

• Managed 10 end to end releases of SPEND ANALYZER (Emptoris Analytics) product in 4 years.

• Managed 5 major end-to-end releases, 25+ people and complete end-to-end release responsibility.

• Demonstrated excellent interaction skills winning relationships with all stakeholders, senior management, clients and suppliers/vendors, service delivery & support, business development, product management for executing onsite/offshore product development.

• Quickly grasped and developed software with valuable suggestions for diverse business domains

• Managed multi-role team (Architects, Developers, Testers, QAs, Business Analysts, UI Designers, Technical authors, Translators, Software Configuration Engineers) including recruitment, mentoring and appraisals.

• Demonstrated excellent requirements analysis, architecture and database design skills with resilient.

• Ensured best practices and tools are used to adhere to standard processes to deliver projects with higher quality standards. Most of the practices were set as examples for organization wide implementation.

• Introduced SCRUM development methodology in my product and advocated it to grow organization wide for all products’ development.

• Worked as first Scrum Master in the organization on pilot of SCRUM, managed release timely and of good quality.

• Designed and built one in-house EmpForum and eLMS projects for all employees of the organization at less than the half of the cost of vendors. eLMS System replaced all manual processes.

• Strategically planned 90:10 knowledge management between onsite and offshore and achieved more than planned in 90 days.

• Actively participated in yearly roadmap planning meeting in Burlington headoffice.

• Introduced new testing approach, new testing tools, planned increasing share of automated test cases. Started use of EMMA for code coverage and JMeter for performance.

• Initiated new project “ARF- Asynchronous Reporting Framework” from requirement gathering, recruitment planning, budget planning and Risk planning.

• Compassionate and motivating leader with excellent verbal and written skills and ability to create focus, add value and provide coaching, direction within a project team. Day to Day management of development tasks with individuals and teams.

• Managed conflicts between people and across teams to deliver the business goals.

• Conducted training on various technical and project management topics and Agile methodology. Also received training on Agile from Thoughtworks in a train the trainer program.

• Always proactive to identify need of a process and facilitated the implementation of processes.

ARRK SOLUTIONS March 06 – August 06

Arrk Solution is a global IT service company, offering a unique approach to deliver and support low risk, high quality IT applications and services.

Team Leader

• Led one web application development, 10 people team for Driver Quotation.

• Driver quotation was application from new Account Lex Vehicle Leasing UK.

• Provided design of architecture, Architectural and Technical coaching to the team members

• Developed plan, schedule and estimates for all project phases.

• Led QA team to manage timely quality release.

• Led Review of architecture approaches, design, DB design, and code.

• Introduced new format and approach unit and integration test case creation.

• Managed defect seepage and worked to reduce defect life.

• Negotiated timelines and efforts required with customer.

• Managed vertical and horizontal communication about project progress.

• Planned resource requirement and drive recruitment for the same.

• Managed Vendor interaction for database support.

PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS LTD March 03 –Feb 06

Patni Computer Systems Ltd. is one of the leading global providers of Information Technology services and business solutions. Patni has one SBU as Japanese Business Unit. Hitachi was one of major customer in JBU.

Group Leader

Worked for Japanese Business Unit

• Participated in the Functional Requirements Gathering sessions with the Business Users and mapping the functional requirements to the system.

• Involved in the System Design sessions to identify the Application and Products Interfaces.

• Defined and Tailored Project Plan, Determining the Project Scope, Identifying the Risks & Contingencies, Estimating the Effort, Planning for Human Resources and Team Organization, Setting the Milestones and Creating Schedule & Baseline.

• Created Project Status report and attended Project’s Status Meetings and updating Senior Management about the project status and Discussing Project health with the Functional Manager and Project Leadership.

• Responsible for Deliverables and Group Reviews to ensure that Hitachi’s Guidelines are followed.

• Preparing the Design Documents for the system and the environment.

• Assisting the team in Integrating and Customizing Vendor Products as per the Business Requirements.

• Mentoring a team of Senior and Mid-level developers on the technical aspects.

• Allocating Tasks to the team members, Monitoring team’s progress and addressing team’s needs and issues.

• Tracking work progress using Issues Log, Preparing the Metrics and reviewing the status with Senior Management, Business Users, Technical Architect and other Stakeholders.

• Prepared and Conducted Training Sessions on Fundamentals of SAN, NAS and Clustered Storage.

• Providing the Defects Metrics to Defect Prevention Team to help them do Root Cause Analysis.

Onsite Engineer/Coordinator (for Hitachi Japan)

Worked in Japan for Hitachi Software Systems.

• Interacted with the Business Clients, Hitachi to gather the Business Requirements and preparing Technical Specification Document.

• Coordinated with Offshore Development Team at Patni, India to discuss & resolve the project related issues.

• Presented Project Demo to the Hitachi team and Group lead.

• Participated in the Project Management meetings to track the progress of project.

• Performed successful negotiation with Hitachi Project Manager for schedule and scope.

• Developed high level design with Hitachi Architect.

• Development onsite development plan.

• Led and Mentored team members and assisting them in resolving the technical issues.

• Held Group Code Reviews to ensure Coding Standards are met.

• Implemented Service Layer API, Implemented J2EE design patterns - Service Locator, Session Facade, Value Object, and Singleton.

• Performed design, code and test case review and ensure the deliveries met the timelines with good quality.

Software Engineer

Mainly worked for Hitachi Software Systems, Japan

• Performed design and implementation of required APIs using Java, XML, C, Shell scripts.

• Done test case creation and review for given project specification.

• Performed test case creation and testing using automated test scripts.

• Done defect fixing for defects found during QA/ internal testing.

• Managed project closure activities in absence of on project lead at the end of project.

• Undergone domain trainings related to SAN and NAS storage management.

www.myindiacards.com

August 99 – April 2000

Website to host wide range of cards containing real pictures, Flash animated cards, Cartoon cards and web graphical cards. Here any person can send ecards online to friends for free.

Web Designer/Programmer

• Worked as a freelance web designer and programmer.

• Involved in development of website using Java/JSP and Html.

• Developed animated eCards using Flash and wrote action scripts for animation.

• Developed eCards using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator.

• Visited various place to capture images for the eCards.

L.B. JHA & Co., Shishir Goel & Associates July 97 – July 99

CA Article

• Performed Internal Audits & Statutory Financial Audits for various clients.

• During audit Verified the compliance of financial records to the government policies.

• Suggested solutions and help customer in resolution in case of non-compliance.

• Understood business functionality of the customer and suggested the improvements for the same.

• Understood the business needs of the client and provide financial solutions to them.

Technology Profile

Software: Microsoft Project, GreenHopper, Balsamiq, Mingle, Office-07, Rational Rose, SVN, SourceSafe5.0, Bugzilla, Jira, wiki, SharePoint, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, NetBeans, Clarity.

Languages and Tools: Java, JSP, DHTML, XML, XPointer, XPath & XLink, JUnit, Struts, Spring, AJAX, web 2.0, J2ee, EJB, ILog, EMMA.

Database: MySql, MS Access, HiRDB, Oracle.

Hardware: Windows, UNIX, Linux, IBM-AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris.

Servers: Java Web Server, Cosminexus Web Server, J2EE, Tomcat, JBoss.

Others: Photoshop 8.0, Flash MX, Dreamweaver.

Training and Seminars

Given: PMI Processes, Agile SCRUM, XLink, XPointer and SAN Technology, Testing Strategies and Approaches.

Attended: Emptoris ELDP and Formula One, PMI Workshop, Six Sigma and Agile SCRUM from Thoughtworks.

Personal Details

Date of Birth: Aug 9th, 1976

Passport: E8511031

Visa: Holding valid US L2 Visa and valid EAD

Marital Status: Married

Interests: Trekking, Sketching

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