Project Manager

SAVITHA BASAVARAJU

Phone : 570-***-**** / E-mail: *******.**********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

With my 8 years of Information Technology and Life Science Pharmaceutical industry experience, I am looking for challenging opportunities to use my knowledge & skill in Agile & Scrum project management, Portfolio Resource management and Business Analysis area.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Currently working as a consultant in a global team in the role of Business Analyst / Project portfolio Manager Role at Sanofi Pasteur since 7th Feb 2011.

Worked as a Full time employee in the role of Business Analyst, Change Manager, Release manager, Quality Manager and Senior Application Analyst for SUCCEED (R&D PPRM planisware5) at Novartis Pharma, Development Informatics since April’ 2007 to Jan’2011

Worked as Senior Software Engineer at Accenture, India Delivery Centre for a Pharmaceutical client Bristol Myer Squibb from September’ 2005 till April’ 2007 on a Resource management and Planning tool (RMPM, R&D,OPX2/ Planisware 5).

Worked as a Programmer for Bios InfoTech Pvt. Ltd. from 27th of September’ 2003 till 27th July’ 2005

CORE STRENGTHS

6 years of work experience in OPX2 / Planisware5. Worked on most of the versions of the tool such as R3, R4, Processes, Planisware 5 (P5 SP51, SP5.2, SP5.3) in various roles.

Scrum project software development experience. Scrum Master Accredited Certification from International Scrum Institute. Created scrum project plan, burn down chart; Created and maintained sprint, product backlog using agile tools e.g.: green hopper.

Portfolio analysis for IS functions such as R&D, Industrial Operations, Global Application Platform and Commercial Operations.

Organizing and participating in the PoC workshops for new implementation of latest Planisware 5 native (5.2.3 version) application for Sanofi Pasteur using the concept of Joint Application Development (JAD).

Contributing and leading Brainstorming session for analysis of Project, portfolio, Resource and Timecard modules to change as per the re-organization for 2012 with portfolio managers and steering committee.

Expert in creation of Critical Function list / Business rules / Innovative solutions / workshop material for project, portfolio and resource management process.

Project Co-ordination for all the Releases, Change requests and User Acceptance testing in Planisware with Business/Users/data partners/French global application developers.

Implementation of Qlikview, BI reporting for Planisware 5 in Sanofi Pasteur using Agile development.

Novartis certified BA4DI - Business Analysis. Certified GXP in Novartis. Trained on ICE Project methodology which is the derived from SIX Sigma and others.

Understanding and usage of all standard ITIL processes ( Information Technology Infrastructure Library)

Work experience in Oracle 8i/9i PL/SQL (created around 20 program bodies)

Work experience in Oracle Forms 9i (Created around 10 and modified around 20 Forms) and work experience in Oracle Reports 3.5/6i (development include simple reports, group reports, drill-down reports and matrix reports)

Fluent verbal and written skills in English. Good interpersonal and communication skills

Good leadership, analytical and team management skills.

FUNCTIONAL PROFILE

SANOFI PASTEUR:

• Lead and work with IT functional Portfolio Managers and Project managers for Quarterly portfolio meetings.

• Interact with Portfolio groups, leadership team to identify key data in project, resource portfolio system “Planisware” for KPI reporting to support effective decision making strategic objective.

• Prepare / organize and participate in Planisware latest 5.2.3 POC project for IS business function

• Business Analysis/project management for IS PPRM – AIR , planisware 5 application

• IS Project leader/Project Manager for IS R&D projects

• Good knowledge of AIR SoPs, user guides and process

• Communication with Information Solutions Project leaders and Global resource managers for all requirements clarifications and creation for new process in AIR

• Participation in PM forums and Quarterly Project management meetings

• Business Analysis / design of IS organization BI reporting dashboard using QlikView

• Interaction with QlikView technical team for technical queries on Planisware data and structure

• Design and plan project plan for QlikView reporting for AIR

• Responsible for creation and testing of test case for the projects in IS PPRM

• Creation of BRS, URS and TS with traceability matrix.

• Define and formalize Project baseline process for Project controls activity.

• Create and Monitor Key Project Indicators to actively influence the IT projects to achieve best results.

• Analyze the cost (CAPEX/OPEX) and FTE estimations for next budget year.

• Generate strategic reports for GIS, R&D, IO, GAP, CO, CIO office vaccines groups.

NOVARTIS:

• IT Business Analysis for existing and new data partner in SUCCEED (R&D planisware).

• Educating users and support/development team of SUCCEED SoPs, user guides and process.

• Improve and create Business process within SUCCEED application and support team to work effectively.

• Communication with IT support team and Global Decision support for all Requirements clarifications and creations for new process and Change in SUCCEED.

• Have gained very well knowledge of the history of SUCCEED by managing the Documentation for SUCCEED.

• Good knowledge on Clinical Research Management, Parametric estimations, Project management and Interface with SUCCEED.

• Participation in SUCCEED projects (Portfolio Management and Scenario Planning Three years horizon) is a valuable knowledge and experience in my current role.

BRISTOL MYER SQUIBB:

• IT level 3 analyst for Resource Management and Project Management(OPX2)

• Managed a team of four consultants from Offshore

• Regular Interactions with Client Business Analyst to implement complex business rules through algorithm and templates.

• Communication with IT support team and Client onsite team for all Requirements clarifications and creations for new process and Change requests.

• Author for test case, user requirements and design specifications.

• Training 5 new team members on plansiware / creation of training plan and material.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Successful completion of Scrum Master Accredited Certification Program

Successful completion of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Foundation certification in Jan 2008’.

Novartis - Above and Beyond Award: in April 2008’.

Novartis –Above and Beyond award: in Aug 2008’.

Novartis – Above and Beyond award: in Nov 2009’ for P5 roll out.

Novartis – Above and Beyond award: in Jan 2010’ for RAINBOW.

Novartis – Above and Beyond award: in Nov 2010’ for SUCCEED successful Operational Releases.

Accenture Centre of Excellence (ACE) Award: INSTANT KARMA in May 2006’.

RELEVANT PROJECTS

Title : AIR Management (Project Portfolio and Project Management tool for Information Solutions)

Application Details: AIR is a Portfolio, Project management; Cost management, Time Management and Resource management application used in Sanofi that supports the growing business needs to stream line and centralize project planning and management of data across multiple operating Information solution groups in Pasteur.

Role : IT Portfolio, project manager working in PMO group. Responsibility is same as in functional profile.

Project Responsibilities:

• Interview GIS business partners, organize and run requirements sessions with groups of users.

• Analyze and model relevant business processes, rules and data relationships. Document “as is” process.

• Assist the project team in designing a “to be” process. Demonstrate the impact of procedures and their effect on the organization. Critically review and recommend changes to processes in part or in their entirety.

• Capture a common vocabulary. Develop use cases.

• Determine data flows and sources; identify data conversion or migration needed to support goals and uses in a process.

• Lead authoring of the user requirements document.

• Ensure the business aligns processes (SOPs) with the system functionality requested.

• Design, realize and implement IT solutions, including:

• Devise technical design specifications,

• Support of Data and process modeling,

• Interact with development team to develop GUI’s and prototypes,

• Testing programs using the defined software development environment (e.g. Unit/integration testing)

• Delivery of programs to specification and agreed date.

• Support the implementation of standard software packages, including:

• Understand functional specifications in order to devise technical design specifications,

• Customize standard solution and developing additional functions/objects according to user requirements.

• Write project related documentation such as technical program design, user manual, etc.

• Prepare and execute unit and integration testing in support of projects and identify and document and deviations or errors.

• Work with client management to identify and specify business requirements and processes for development platforms, computing environments, software, hardware, technologies and tools.

Title : US R&D Legacy Records Management

Project Details: The main goal of this project is the elimination of business risks associated with the management of legacy product submission records which currently only exist in paper form. This project is the first phase in a multi-year initiative to image critical records. In addition, this effort aims at developing a method by which these legacy records will be made available to business areas that need information from these files on a regular basis. The implementation of this solution will encompass the installation of a scanning solution in Swiftwater US including specialized software customized to support Regulatory Affair's electronic capture needs.

Project Responsibility:

• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.

• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.

• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.

• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.

• Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.

• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.

• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.

• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.

• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.

• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.

• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.

• Track project milestones and deliverables.

• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.

• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.

• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.

• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.

• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.

• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.

• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.

Title : SUCCEED Operations (Planning tool for Research and Development)

Application Details: SUCCEED is a Project management, Cost management ,Time Management and Resource management tool used in Novartis that supports the growing business needs to stream line and centralize project planning and management of data across multiple operating development franchises in Novartis. It is a main source for cost management and budgeting. In Novartis, SUCCEED is a centralized system which has interface with more than 5 applications like Clinical management system, Finance system, HR system etc. And a source for data warehouse applications to generate Reports for finance using COGNOS reporting.

OPX2 application’s “Time Card” module is used for Time Management in Novartis and is widely used across Novartis Parma Global to fill and track the Time. A Resource Management Module “ SPLANDIT “ for Development IT resource and “Clinical Resource Management” for Clinical Resources are used by the resource managers for Planning their resources for the Development and Clinical activities. Cost Management module of OPX2 is uniquely customized and used for calculating costs. The interface with ClinAdmin for calculating only the External cost is another interface called eTCF.

Project Details: The team supports Succeed as a two different teams – Change management and Incident management. Incident management team manages all the incidents and service requests to resolve the incidents as per the priority & the severity. The change Management team effectively works to develop Request for changes (RFC) to have them released in production as part of Operational Work packages/Bi-Monthly release. The change Management Co-ordinate works effectively with the Change Management team and the Users to complete the User Acceptance test. Release Manager will consolidate all the RFCs to check the impact assessment of the objects which are being released as part of the release.

Project Role & Responsibilities:

My responsibility is blended in SUCCEED Operations

• Business Analyst in Documentation Management; Process Improvement

• Manage all changes from Creation to the sign off. (Change manager)

• Quality Manager for all change requests in SUCCEED.

• Manage Bi monthly and Emergency releases (Release Manager)

Role definition:

• The focus is to understand the business environment of the business area being supported. They facilitate work between business and IT groups to “translate” requirements and enable creation of value added IT solutions.

• Works with client groups (GDS, end users/business) to identify and analyze business requirements and processes to design, develop and implement systems. Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends system design solutions.

• Write specifications to the Change requests by gathering requirements, Update all the documentation, author of Release notes for each Operational Work Package or Mini Projects – BA tasks.

• Define and improve Support and change handover process model.

• Creation of SUCCEED release notes, functional specifications, technical specifications and test case for Unit testing, system testing and User acceptance testing for some changes

• Developed clinical resource management algorithm for CRM and design of interface with ClinAdmin for external costs details.

• Design, build and test Interface ( Daily batch ) ,named formulas / filters , Algorithms, reports, load array reports , OPX2 scripts ,change request, interface, Novartis specific customization, according to the user specifications

• Preparation of training material for the Team during KT period during OPX2 Transition in April 2007’ and during OPX2 Processes transition.

• Maintain and Update all SUCCEED documentation.

• Project planning, resource planning, Capacity planning and Risk assessment

• Business requirement capturing for developing reports and interfaces for PM next project – OPX2 Processes and developing interface using OJS script.

• Quality Check of each module, documents and change Request before the release

• Writing Unit/System/Regression Test Scripts and also coordinating with the Users/ customers to get the UAT done for the releases.

• Managing all the RFC ( Request for Change) life cycle as per the plan

• Impact Analysis is done for the release package and Roll back plan for release

• Communication to the application owner on the expectations of the release, Time required for the release, what services needs to be restarted will be part of release plan – Release manager role

• Releasing all the RFC to production on the release day with all post release activities planned.

Environment :

1. Oracle 10g Database Server on LINUX and UNIX platform

2. OPX2/P5 Client, P5 intranet services, OPX2 Processes, P5 Processes.

Title: SUCCEED Three years planning horizon & Project Portfolio Management ( PFM )

Project Details: SUCCEED new Scenario planning and Book of Work in SUCCEED.

Project Portfolio Management service was enabled for global portfolio managers.

Client: Novartis Development Franchises, Novartis portfolio Managers

Project Details: Scenario Management, a unique module will be enabled in Project Management service for global project managers to perform the scenarios. Simulations of active projects and version creations will enable efficient forecasting in project Management. Book of Work process to define the approval status of the trial will also be discussed with users and incorporated with necessary process.

Project Deliverables:

• BRS

• URS

• FS

• DS

• Test case.

Environment :

1. Oracle 10g Database Server on Unix/Linux Platform

2. Planisware 5

Project Role (Business Analyst) & Responsibilities:

• Interview business partners, organize and run requirements sessions with groups of users.

• Analyze and model relevant business processes, rules and data relationships. Document “as is” process.

• Assist the project team in designing a “to be” process. Demonstrate the impact of procedures and their effect on the organization. Critically review and recommend changes to processes in part or in their entirety.

• Capture a common vocabulary. Develop use cases.

• Determine data flows and sources; identify data conversion or migration needed to support goals and uses in a process.

• Lead authoring of the user requirements document.

• Ensure the business aligns processes (SOPs) with the system functionality requested.

• Design, realize and implement IT solutions, including:

• Devise technical design specifications,

• Support of Data and process modeling,

• Developing GUI’s and prototypes,

• Developing and testing programs using the defined software development environment (e.g. Unit/integration testing)

• Delivery of programs to specification and agreed date.

• Support the implementation of standard software packages, including:

• Understand functional specifications in order to devise technical design specifications,

• Customize standard solution and developing additional functions/objects according to user requirements.

• Write project related documentation such as technical program design, user manual, etc.

• Prepare and execute unit and integration testing in support of projects and identify and document and deviations or errors.

• Work with client management to identify and specify business requirements and processes for development platforms, computing environments, software, hardware, technologies and tools.

Title: SUCCEED P5 Update project

Role: Project Coordinator for P5 Update batch testing

• Planning, coordinating and Execution of P5 Update batch testing which includes multiple change requests released to production

• Write specifications to the Change requests by gathering requirements, Update all the documentation, BA tasks.

Title: RM/PM (Resource Management and Planning Management)

Application Details: PRI Resource and Planning Management is a system that supports the growing business needs to stream line and centralize project planning and management of data across multiple operating business units.

Client: Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS)

Project Details: The OPX2 application is being used for Human Resource management, Non-Human Resource management and Project/Study Timeline Management.

Project Deliverables:

• Report development using Load Arrays & deployment using OPX2

• Level 3 technical support for OPX2

• Interfacing existing application IMPACT with OPX2

• Implementing (Design, Build and test)Algorithms for Resource Allocation

• Training

• Writing Unit/System/Regression Test Scripts

Environment :

3. Oracle 8i Database Server on windows Platform

4. Citrix Client

5. OPX2/R4

Project Role & Responsibilities:

• Design algorithms using Client specifications

• Design Unit and System Test Scripts

• Build Algorithms for testing

• Release tested algorithms and make them Production ready

• Modification of Algorithms upon Client needs

• Development of Reports using Client specifications

• Customization of ad-hoc and standard reports based on Client requests

• Coordination with Client Project Manager and Project Team

• End-user interactions for support and problem resolutions

• Identify, test and fix application specific bugs

• Participate in Client Team meetings to discuss requirements, deliverables, timelines and process modifications

TECHNICAL PROFILE

Operating Systems : Windows NT/2000/2003

RDBMS : Oracle 9i,10g

Development Tools : Developer 2000(Forms 9i& Reports 9i)

Data Base Tools : SQL *Loader, SQL plus, Toad, pl/sql developer

Languages : SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, Lisp

Applications/Tools : OPX2 , R3, R4 , Planisware 5 processes , P5

EDUCATION

Visveswaraiah technological University –Karnataka

Bachelor of Engineering (1999-2003)

First Class with Distinction – 70%

Mahajana’s Pre University College - Mysore

12th standard (1999)

First Class with Distinction- 75%

Nirmala Convent - Mysore

10th Standard (1997)

First Class with Distinction- 79%

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Status : Married

Date of Birth : 27th of August 1981

Sex : Female

Languages known : Kannada, English, Punjabi and Hindi

Nationality : Indian

Work Permit : Valid H1B visa ( USA)

Schegan Visa ( Europe)

DECLARATION

I hereby acknowledge that all the information provided herein is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.

Place : New Jersey, USA

Date : Tuesday, April 24, 2012 (Savitha Basavaraju)

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