Project Manager Management

ROLES:

Project Manager – * years

Business Analyst – 2 Years

Technical Lead – 5 years

Systems Analyst – 3 Years

TOOLS/METHODS:

Accenture ADM

Agile Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative

MS Project, Office, Visio

Use Cases, User Stories

TECHNOLOGIES:

Java

IBM Web Sphere Portal

IBM ecommerce

Business Objects

Sitecore

SAP BW

SAP CRM

Trillium

Informatica

Siperian

C++, C#.NET, Visua Studio, SQL Server

Cobol, IMS, DB2, CICS

EDUCATION:

MBA, Strategic Mgmt, Carlson School of Mgmt, MN, 2011

MS, Software Engineering, St Thomas University, MN, 2002

Bachelors in Engineering (BE),

Electronics and Instrumentation, India 1995

Work Status:

U.S Citizen

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

IT Project manager with 15 years of IT experience in Chemicals/Services, Retail POS, Retail Supply Chain and Medical instrumentation industries.

SKILLS INVENTORY:

Program/Project planning & management

Estimating, Budgeting & Forecasting

Scope development and management

Communication planning and management

Strategic planning and ROI analysis

Cross functional and cross technology project leadership

Multi-Site and Onshore/Offshore development

Resource planning and management

Facilitation of requirements gathering

Issue management and tracking

Risk management and mitigation strategies

Client relationship management

Vendor negotiation and management

Packaged software evaluation & RFP development

SME for MS Project and PMO practices

Mentoring Peers

PROJECT TYPES:

5 years experience working with external customer facing systems on web based and data warehousing technologies using IBM web Sphere Portal, IBM ecommerce,

Informatica, Siperian, SAP CRM, SAP ERP and SAP BW.

5 years experience working with point of sale systems on client server and web environment using C++, C#.Net, Visual studio and SQL Server

5 years experience working with Freight and Finished goods management systems on the IBM Mainframe using Cobol, CICS, IBM, DB2 and IMS

Training:

Certified Scrum Master

Lean Six Sigma – Yellow, Green belt

IT Project Management

Professional Experience

(March 2007 - Present) – Chemicals/Manufacturing/Services

IT Project Manager

Responsible for managing projects from initiation to closure, Develop top-down & bottom-up estimates, Manage IT relationship with external customers, Risk analysis &

mitigation, Assessment of tools and vendor selection, Configure Accenture methodology to suit project needs, Develop project, work and resource plans, Coordinate

environment and security needs with infrastructure teams, Monitor & control project including weekly time acceptance, Communicate status and financial updates to

executive business sponsors and IT management.

Significant Projects/Programs:

[October 2011 – Current] One Portal Gateway – IT Project Manager – Create a single portal gateway and establish single sign-on for all external customer facing

applications so customers can access cross divisional and cross technology applications using single login. This is a multi release project as part of an ongoing

program. The project is developed using IBM web sphere portal, SQL Server, Symphony WAM for authentication, Sitecore for content management, Business Objects & Micro

Strategy for reporting. Additional responsibilities include managing cross divisional stakeholder expectations, conduct daily scrums, help define customer on boarding

process and define release strategy for portal.

[February 2011 – December 2011] ecommerce Portal – IT Project Manager – Developed a new ecommerce website for food safety related products on IBM ecommerce and IBM

content management platform. The project was a collective effort of internal teams with partnership from an interactive agency and an integration partner. The project

budget was about $2.5M. Additional responsibilities include managing work across virtual teams as well as different technology teams, vendor negotiation, coordinate

environmental set up for ecommerce, conduct daily scrums, define release strategy and manage stakeholder communication

[February 2010 – January 2011] Decommission Site Server – IT Project Manager – Migrate a major internal web application to a newer platform and replace homegrown user

authentication with enterprise standards for supportability. The project was developed using windows 2003 servers, Symphony WAM for AD authentication and SQL server.

The website was redeployed to 4000 internal users. Additional responsibilities include communication and coordination with 10 business teams, UAT coordination with

various business teams; determine release strategy and roll-out schedule, companywide communication and reporting back to stakeholders.

[October 2009 – March 2010] Health Dept Audit Integration – IT Project Manager – Source health department foods safety audits from external vendor (Garrison

Enterprises) and report it back to customers on an Enterprise web portal. The project was developed using Java, IBM Web sphere portal, Business Objects and SQL Server.

[Jan 2009 – September 2009] Customer Top Chain Identification – IT Project Manager – Improve identification of top chain customer records for master data management

from cross divisional data feeds funneled in to a centralized data warehouse. This project used Trillium text matching capability to identify customer concepts,

Siperian to establish unique Site & Points of Usage (POU) relationship, SAP-CRM to build customer hierarchies and SAP-BW for reporting. The project increased the

accuracy of top chain identification from 70 ~ 80% to almost 90 ~ 95 %.

March 2007 – December 2008] Circle the Customer – IT Project Lead – Build a complex, enterprise level SAP-BW data warehouse project designed to deliver cross-

divisional reports via custom Web portals.

Developed a common interface model for Customer, Product, Sales and Service data to extract information from 10 diverse divisional systems and to support business

intelligence initiatives

Defined RICEF objects and facilitated design for Customer Hierarchies, Master Data Management, ODS, SAP-BW info cubes, and BEx reports

Led a team of six Business process analysts

Target Corporation, MN (Dec 1998 – March 2007) – Retail POS

Project Team Lead / Sr. Systems Analyst

Significant Projects

[March 2006 – March 2007] POS Merchandise Locate – IT Project Lead – Managed development of a .NET web application to search merchandise in the store, backroom and

target.com. Responsible for managing work plan, developing time lines, managing requirements, designing user interface, facilitating system/stress testing initiatives

and providing leadership and work direction to onsite/offshore teams.

[May 2004 – March 2006] Food Avenue Common POS Conversion – IT Project Lead – Managed development of a POS application for Food Avenue which co-exists with the

existing front lane POS. Responsible for gathering requirements, participate in JAR/JAD sessions, designing touch screen user interface, facilitating usability

labs/testing initiatives, Issue management and implementation. Prototyped a faster POS by reducing UI refresh rate and implemented the system successfully. The project

budget was estimated at $2M and the application was made available to 4000 registers across 1400 stores.

[July 2003- April 2004] Marshall Field’s POS – Sr. Systems Analyst – Responsible for designing a new restaurant POS and implementing a back room inventory system for

Marshall Field’s restaurants. Involved in the full life cycle of the project including selection of vendor packages; developing estimates, customizing vendor packages

like COMPRIS-POS, CBORD for back end inventory, and designing financial feeds to Lawson Accounts Payable from the CBORD system.

[July 2002 – June 2003] Common Sales Processing Accumulation and Management (Marshall Field’s) – Sr. Systems Analyst - Involved in the analysis, design, and

development of new interfaces to feed sales data to an existing Stock Ledger System.

[Dec 1998 – June 2002] Retail Supply Chain - Systems Analyst (Consulting) - Involved in the full life cycle development of a common freight bill audit and payment

system for Target, Marshall Field’s and Mervyns. Functioned as key resource for gathering requirements, analyzing legacy systems, and developing interfaces for vendor

package (Mile-maker, MC-Auto from Rand-McNally) and participated in SEI inspections and reviews

BI Performance, MN (May 1998 - Dec 1998) – Business Improvement

Systems Analyst (Consulting)

Responsible for evaluating and recommending vendor products that will be used for analyzing applications for Year 2000 effort; resolving environmental issues, setting

up test environment and providing support for the team.

G.E Medical Systems, WI (June 1996 - Mar 1998) – Health care

Offshore Team Lead / Systems Analyst (Consulting - Offshore)

Responsible for managing projects that provided technical support and enhancements for a finished goods management system. Functions include on-site/offshore

coordination, project documentation (SEI-CMM), analysis of enhancement requests, coding, create test plans and resource management.

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