Senior Project Manager

Sahil Arora

**** **** ** **** :917-***-****

Edison NJ – 08817 ************@*****.***

Summary of Experience

● Over 12 year’s industry experience.

● Extensive experience in managing enterprise IT project life cycle (SDLC/PDLC) through all phases.

● Proficient in streamlining Business processes by recognizing and avoiding bottlenecks, thereby reducing cycle time and improving efficiency and employee productivity and concurrently employing activity based costing techniques for better cost benefit analysis of the system.

● Excellent knowledge in activity based cost accounting for cost analysis and business process analysis.

● Experienced in project budget analysis, outsourcing strategies, people management and contract management.

● Strong technical background in systems architecture (Microsoft Techs) and database design (Oracle/ SQL SERVER 200x).

● Excellent influence, negotiation and presentation skills (MS PowerPoint)

● Writing proposals, biding projects, and winning contracts.(MS PROJECT & VISIO)

● Proven ability to deliver IT products and services on schedule and under budget.

● Excellent interpersonal skills in communications, client relations, negotiation and vendor management.

CORE COMPETENCIES

● Technical Team Management ● Program Management

● Software Development Life Cycle ● Client Relationship Management

● Application Software Development ● Service Delivery

● Database Management System ● Vendor Management

● 24*7 Production Support ● Metrics and Reporting

Technical Skills

MS Visio (exp 5 years), MS Project 2003 (exp 5 years), MS-Word, MS PowerPoint (exp 12 years)

Internet MS-Visual Studio, MS-Visual Interdev, VB Script, JavaScript, Style sheets, IIS.

Languages: Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, ADO 2.0, COM, Active X

Business knowledge

Regulatory reporting, Criticized Classified, Credit Risk Management, financial accounting.

Professional Experience

CIT GROUP INC, NJ Jun’ 04 – till date

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

● Managed multiple projects end-to-end including project planning and scheduling, budgeting, project monitoring and execution, risk mitigation, team / vendor Coordination, localization and sustained engineering

● Led development of customer/partner readiness strategy and related content for customers in emerging markets

● Managed development budget of up to USD 15 million in a fiscal year

● Performed processes reengineering for development process across geographies to gain maximum efficiencies and reduce development cost

● Managed relationship with vendors, customers, and partners worldwide including contracts and SLA

● Led global team of multiple contingent staff, vendors and FTEs on many projects/programs

● Managed up to 100 member distributed team for different client engagements/learning projects

● Mentored and trained new FTEs in different geographies to be 100% productive and contributed in hiring process

● Created project plans using MS project, detailing projects’ mission using MS PowerPoint, process flow, timelines, requirements and any risks.

● Responsible for project/program communication plan.

Key Accomplishments:

● Achieved 30% reduction in time-to-market, up to 50% reduction in FTE effort, and 10% reduction in direct cost for every project by TVF and process improvement

● Implemented FTE capacity model for effective project allocation for geographically spread workforce

Responsibilities in previous roles

● Documented requirements using tools like RequisitePro, change requests were associated with requirements and connected with Use cases for a full Retrace-ability Matrix.

● Conducted JAD sessions allowing different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other and resolving issues to come to a quicker agreement.

● Using text editor, UML diagrams (State diagrams) based on RUP specifications, documented business workflows, for stakeholder review.

● Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from USER perspective.

● Wrote test cases and test scripts for the User Acceptance testing.

● Managed Oracle Application service delivery team.

● Designed and optimized SQL queries to search for potential -cases- based on criteria against multiple data warehouse sources including hundred million row transaction tables.

● Involved actively with requirements analysis and database design.

● Solution Architecture for multiple projects

Previous Employment History

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, PHILADELPHIA Feb’ 04 –May’ 04

Team Leader / Sr. Business Analyst

● Collaborate with many different business and technical groups to establish the appropriate resource plan and execute on common goals

● Direct or manage large-scale applications projects across multiple product lines, involving significant scope and complexity

● Ensure delivery of projects to the business partner, meeting the approved scope/cost/schedule/quality for the project

MIZUHO CORPORATE BANK, NY Oct’ 02 – Jan’ 04

Business Analyst

● Elicit, organize, communicate, and track requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.

● Become a subject matter expert on business processes and workflows, and existing reports.

● Facilitate meetings with clients to determine and prioritize their business requirements and the impact of these requirements on existing applications and workflows.

● Work with the BI team members and application development team to translate business requirements into a viable solution.

● Develop test plans and facilitate system testing.

AVENTIS PHARMACEUTICAL, NJ Nov’ 01 – Sept ‘02

Lead. VB/ ASP Developer

● Lead team of developers for web portal project

● Responsible for stakeholder communication plan

● Responsible for taking functional requirement through sessions with stakeholders.

DREYFUS MELLON BANK, NY Jan ’01 – Oct ‘01

Team Lead / Sr. Developer / Analyst

● Lead developer for intranet site for document management system for global sites.

● Worked as liason between business unit and tech team

● Assisted Project Manager in PM activities

OzGLOBAL PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA Jan ‘99 – Dec ’00

Sr. Developer

● Developed biggest online bookstore of Australia

● Developed business plans with owner

● Assisted in web administrator activities.

FIRST NET TECHNOLOGIES, INDIA Nov ‘97 – Dec’ 98

Worked as Web developer for all US based clients

Managed modules in web sites

Educational Qualifications

● Post Graduation in Computer Applications. (PGDCA from Kurukshetra University) 2001

● Graduate Diploma in Information Technology (GNIIT from NIIT in 2001)

● Currently in EMBA from Stevens School of Technology – Hoboken, NJ. Class of 2013

Certifications

● PMI training.

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