IT Project Manager

Vijay Ratnam,

PMP, ITIL

Information Technology Project Manager

CONTACT DETAILS

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Email: *******@*****.***, Phone: 248-***-****

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Strong technical background and over 10 years of extensive experience and capabilities in managing IT projects (US$0.5M to US$5M) and implementing technical business solutions for fortune 500 clients in USA and abroad. Served businesses in a wide range of industries; automotive, manufacturing, finance, health care, retail, govt.

CORE COMPETENCIES

* Project Management

* Application development (J2EE, .Net, Mainframes, Domino)

* System integration

* Infrastructure upgrades and deployments

* Business process analysis

* Requirements management

* Enterprise change control and release management

* Operations support

* IT Security

Consistently been successful saving time and money for businesses on large global and enterprise projects, maximizing productivity and efficiency of people, processes and business systems with demonstrated abilities to exceed client expectations and recognized by clients on several key accomplishments.

Demonstrated abilities in building client relationships with excellent cross-functional liaison and collaboration in complex organizations and leading multiple global technical teams to achieve high level of performance.

Strong analytical/problem solving abilities; a vision to see the big picture; a dedication to get things done right.

CAREER SUMMARY AND KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

* Coordinated and managed the upgrade of OnStar IT infrastructure, providing continuous availability of critical OnStar applications & services for 6M subscriber base in North America, without any downtime.

* Directed the development and deployment of large enterprise business systems for General Motors in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, all on time and under tight budget constraints.

* Cost effectively, supervised the development and maintenance of 100+ financial business applications for fortune 500 ‘Mckinsey & Company’ in New York, meeting financial and business objectives of the company.

* Implemented a system for a Nuclear Power plant in Texas, improving the operational efficiency by 45%.

* Led a financial pilot project which exceeded client’s expectations, resulting in new business contracts.

* Developed business solutions for a health care system in Australia and for a large retail chain in England.

* Designed and deployed an integrated system for steel industry, reducing inventory costs by 30%. Recognized.

* Made significant contributions to General Motor’s IT infrastructure and IT support for more than 8 years in Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain, Enterprise Collaboration & Client Engineering areas.

This includes a key role in successful completion of a major restructuring project, completed in 18 months instead of planned 24 months; the success was recognized by GM as well as by an award from Lotus Corp.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

EDS AN HP COMPANY, MICHIGAN, USA

(2006-2009)

Project Manager

* Led and managed technical teams, responsible for configuring new 400+ servers and 20+ business applications in production and other environments of OnStar across two data centers for 6 Million users.

* Coordinated the build, configuration and testing activities by effectively collaborating with technical and testing teams including several cross functional groups, resulting in a release deployed with no downtime.

* Effectively, planned, developed, prioritized, executed and monitored the project plan activities to migrate the business applications, software and services to new database and application servers.

* Directed the implementation of several small projects for GM’s Global Purchasing and Supply Chain organization, enhancing system and data security and other features of its critical 24x7 global web portal.

* Developed effort estimations, project cost and resource requirements and effectively managed the resource utilization, productivity and internal prioritization of tasks to keep the project in scope, on time and under budget while ensuring the timely completion of project milestones and deliverables.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT INC., USA

(2005-2006)

AND TEKSYSTEMS INC., USA

(2004-2005)

Project Manager

* Successfully led the global implementation of a business system in USA, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Europe, China & Korea for GM users, suppliers and joint ventures, available through browser and client.

* Expertly collaborated and coordinated with business users, stakeholders, management, operations, testing and development teams, resulting in a quality solution delivered, all on time and within budget.

* Provided technical assistance, directions and solutions to technical teams for unusual and difficult problems and situations encountered during the project thus maximizing efficiency and productivity.

* Developed the subsidiary project plans for the project to manage Scope, Risk, Schedule, Quality, Communication, Cost, Budget, Staffing, Configuration, reporting procedures and performance.

* Maintained and monitored the project costs and schedule and ensured that deliverables were completed in a timely manner; enforced S/W Configuration management using defined and agreed upon processes/tools.

IGI INFOTECH GLOBAL INC., NEW JERSEY, USA

(2004 -2004)

Senior IT Consultant

* Cost effectively, supervised the development and maintenance of 100+ financial business applications, integrated with ERP system 'Lawson' and 'Oracle', for fortune 500 ‘Mckinsey & Company’ in New York.

EDS, USA

(2002 -2004)

Project Manager

* Directed global technical teams redesign legacy business applications for Product Development of GM.

* Exercised outstanding analytical skills to clarify comprehensive set of business and technical requirements.

* Identified and specified the development strategy, system and data mappings and integration requirements.

* Organized and facilitated product reviews for identifying a suitable solution for the legacy system.

* Evaluated the Supplier’s solutions for assessing the capability of their products against the business needs.

* Played a decisive role in the evaluation and selection of the supplier and interviewed project team.

* Developed and executed the project plan, project schedule, project control and reporting procedures and managed the deliverables and scope changes including global deployments.

MASTECH (LATER KNOWN AS IGATE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT), PITTSBURG, USA

(1997 -2002)

Project Lead and Senior Software Engineer

* Designed, implemented and maintained several enterprise business applications for General Motors.

* Implemented server consolidation, client re-engineering and application integration in North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe, resulting in operational cost reduction and improved business efficiency.

* Recommended, developed and implemented configuration management processes, increasing the efficiency of development and project management in the account.

* Improved the operational efficiency of a Nuclear Power plant in Texas by converting all standalone PC based applications to an integrated electronic workflow environment.

EUROLINK SYSTEMS LTD., DELHI, INDIA

(1996-1997)

Principal Systems Analyst

* Served as Team Leader for the functional testing of financial/accounting software (by Solomon software Inc.). The pilot project resulted in new business contracts as it exceeded expectations.

FUJITSU ICIM LTD., PUNE, INDIA

(1994 -1996)

Consultant

* Expertly evaluated and developed business and technical specifications on-site for a health care system in Australia and for a large nation-wide retail chain in England; Business solutions were developed off-shore.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

Project Management:

MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, Visio, SDP21, GAD/QMS

Hardware/OS/Network:

UNIX, Windows, Storage, SAN, LAN, WAN, VPN, Firewalls, DNS, Virtual IP, LBs

Languages/Databases:

C, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, Lotus Script, Oracle, Ingres, DB2, SQL

Internet/Web:

J2EE, Weblogic, Dot.Net, Mainframe, Domino/Lotus Notes, Collaborative technology

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) (2005)

ITIL Foundations Certified (2006)

Member of Engineering Society of Detroit

EDUCATION: Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering from College of Technology, Pant University, India

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