SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER Experienced project manager having 12 years of total IT experience with 7 years in project management

successfully leading all phases of diverse IT projects.

Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client management and their respective teams. Multilingual; Excellent command on English language, business level Japanese Language Expertise

Areas of ExpertiseProject ManagementProgram ManagementPMORisk Analysis & ResolutionProgress ReportingProject Design StrategyTeam Building

Agile/Scrum practicesSDLCVendor ManagementProcess DevelopmentQuality ControlLeadershipRFP Response

Business AnalysisPre-SalesStrategy & RoadmapClient Relations Management MetricsBudget TrackingStakeholder Management

Career ProgressionCurrently working as senior project manager/ scrum master, leading multi-million dollar projects having cross-functional onshore-offshore teams of up to 20 developers, test teams, tech leads, architects and analysts using agile, traditional project management practices. High level responsibilities include team building & management, client expectation management; project planning, progress reporting, steering committee presentations, minutes of meetings, change control, risk management, delivery management , tracking project metrics & budget management. Also active involvement in knowledge transfer, trainings within PMO, providing guidance and ideas to other project managers within the organization. Have extensive and vast experience in Identity & Access Management domain, lead assignments in requirement gathering, analysis, solution design and consulting on IDM strategy, identifying gaps & defining roadmap and apply best practices during implementation for IDM solutions.

Have lead a central presales team from India office assisting global sales teams based in US, Australia, UK & Middle East. Have extensive experience responding to RFP’s, proposal, bid presentations & client presentations & POC demos.

Other responsibilities included developing IAM strategies, use cases, test and implementation plans; undertake current state assessments of client’s current IAM capabilities; define business and technical requirements for IAM solutions.

Freddie Mac, USChevron, USCo-operative Bank, UK

Oracle, JapanREED Exhibitions, UKICON, Ireland

YBS, UKBalfour Beatty, UKAnsys, US

Achievement Highlights:

Proven track record in completing complex global strategic projects, building relationships, in order to

SPOC for Japan business, lead Oracle Japan relationship and jointly worked with Oracle on their client engagements.

Acknowledgements; Best Leader Award 2011 in the organization, best team for year 2012 for a critical project, acknowledged for excellence in project delivery in UK for year 2013-2014.

High Level Responsibilities included requirement gathering from GE Business Users, Stakeholders, writing functional specifications, active involvement in impact analysis & effort estimation for change requests along with GE Money’s IT Vendor. Was responsible for ensuring smooth transition of business knowledge during vendor switchover.

Single point of contact between Clients Mgmt., Business users and the offsite development team for all new requirements, enhancements and changes in the existing system.

Initial responsibilities included developing and executing detailed test plans, writing and reviewing of test cases for - unit level, functional, integration, module and system level testing.

Key Clients; Shinsei Bank, Japan

Key Products;Cashin

Citibank, USAxis Bank, India

PowerfitTC- Remit

ICICI Bank, IndiaHDFC Bank, India

CashwebQuick Remit

Achievement Highlights: Worked on then Fundtech’s flagship client, Shinsei Bank in Japan as an onsite SPOC/ business analyst

for around 1.5 years.

Was part of ‘A’ team responsible for taking the Powerfit (Zengin Solution) implementation in Shinsei Bank Japan to successful production implementation?

Managed a month long UAT cycle in Shinsei Bank, Japan having business users working under me executing daily parallel runs. Was responsible for reporting daily comparison report with existing production and analyzing and identifying discrepancies in solution/process and ensuring robustness of solution.

Analyzed STP & exceptions and suggested solution design & process improvement which helped reduce manual workload due to STP failures by more than 50%.

Good knowledge of Zengin, Japan’s clearing house, ACH, Wire, CIP, Lock Box, remittances & collections, STP, AML.

Managed & mentored a team of 4 Junior Business Analysts.

Technical Skills

Security Products:Sailpoint Identity IQ, Forgerock, Oracle Identity Manager 10 G, 11G R1/R2, Oracle Access Manager, Enterprise Single Sign On, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Identity Federation, Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager, Oracle Managed Cloud Services.

Operating Systems : Windows XP/NT/2003/10, Linux

Languages : J2EE, PL/SQL

Databases : Oracle9i/11G R1/R2

Tools: MS Projects, MS Excel , Powerpoint, Word, Visio, Basecamp, Salesforce, JIRA, Sugar CRM, EPM, Test Director, Winrunner, Open STA,

Processes PMBok Methodologies, CMMi, Certified ScrumMaster® , Six Sigma

Education

Additional Certifications Introduction to CMMi –SEI by Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute.

Work Authorization