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Usha Dhamodharan 

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Resume Headline: Usha D PMP

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Resume of Usha D

 

CAREER PROFILE

Project Manager with over 14 years of IT experience in software industry, with intensive experience in Financial Services, Insurance and Automobile domains.  Proven expertise in managing projects with outstanding planning, execution & monitoring skills to ensure schedule, cost, and quality goals.

 

q       6 years of Project management experience, with ability to drive projects from beginning to successful completion.

q       PMO experience in managing Business Planning & Strategic Alignment, Procurement, Portfolio Prioritization and Selection.

q       PMP Certified.

q       Certified Scrum Product Owner.

q       Certified Scrum Master.

q       10+ years of experience in Financial Services domain - Investment Banking.

q       Excellent communication skills, precise documentation experience, and the leadership ability to work with a large team covering multiple areas and disciplines supporting the IT organization.

q       Strong Knowledge and experience on the phases of Software Development Life Cycle. (SDLC) and various application development Methodologies like Waterfall, Agile and RUP.

q       As a manager, handled each of the human resources disciplines – compensation and benefits, training and development, employee relations and recruitment and selection.

q       Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills.

q       Experienced in handling both production support and development projects.

q       Have handled 24*7 global projects, which involve multi regional and multicultural teams.

q       Prior experience interfacing with cross-functional teams including various partners, vendors, offshore development teams, and internal groups.

q       Very sound technical skills.

q       Proficient in Risk Management (Risk Assessment and Mitigation Skills).

q       Proficient in Contingency Planning.

q       Proven ability to take on multiple assignments.

q       Experience in handling acquisitions and take-overs.

q       Very sound mentoring skills.

q       Adapt and adhere to company standards and culture.

q       Authorized to work in U.S.A (Green-Card holder).

 

EDUCATION

Master of Computer Science (M.Sc.)

Bachelor of Computer Science (B.Sc.)

PMP Certified

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Certified Scrum Master

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Professional

Certified in GPMF (Global Project Management Frameworks)

 

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

 

As a Project Manager, have managed Java, Mainframe, Documentum-Content Management, Pega, Unix, Client Server – Legacy Projects.

 

Software:    Documentum-Content Management, Visual Basic, Power Builder, Core Java

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server

Tools:     MS Project, MS Office, Autosys, Jira, Remedy

Languages: C, Perl

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows

 

Job Title History

 

Organization: Collabera,Apr 2015 – Till Date

Client :New York Life

Designation:  PROJECT MANAGER

 

Organization: ApptivoSep 2013 – Mar 2015

Designation:  PROJECT MANAGER

 

Organization: Computer Sciences CorporationJune 2000 – Feb 2012

Designation: PROJECT MANAGER

 

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

 

New York Life Insurance

 

New York Life Long-Term Care Insurance, is a division of New York Life Insurance Company.

New York Life Long Term Care (NYL-LTC) insurance division provides products such as institutional care, i.e., nursing facilities, or non-institutional care such as home health care, personal care, adult day care, long term home health care, respite care and hospital care.

 

Projects I manage in New York Life:

State roll out VA, NM

LTCi – AARP project Eagle

State roll out CA

CRA-Reserve Automation

ALV-Agent License verification

 

Roles and responsibilities

q       Portfolio Management, Project Management, Vendor Management

q       As part of PMO team, I manage Business Planning & Strategic Alignment, Procurement, Portfolio Prioritization and Selection, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Resource Planning, Steering Committee and Regulatory.

q       As a Project Manager, I am responsible for project management planning and successful execution of the project.

q       Develop project plans, methodologies, schedule and work breakdown structure for projects.

q       Create Project Charters, Project Coster, BRD approvals, Audit process, MPP project plan, Managing the milestones and timelines, Resourcing, RACI, Executive Steering committee meeting, Status meetings, Incident management.

q       Complete responsible for SDLC Phases.

q       Define goals and deliverables in support of business goals and work with senior leadership and stakeholders.

q       Track and Monitor the progress of the project.

q       Responsible for scope management and stakeholder management.

q       Responsible for estimation, planning and execution with specific focus on requirement analysis and design.

 

 

Apptivo – Project Management App

 

As a Project Manager, I was managing Apptivo online Project Management and Time Tracking applications.

 

Apptivo’s mission is to create affordable and easy to use software for small businesses to run their business and help them collaborate with their customers, partners and also compete against large competitors.

 

It handles the workflow of various Project Billing options like Non-Billed project, Flat rate billing, Milestone billing, Time& Expenses

 

This system links customer to Project Management and Invoicing.

This project also manages billing method, priority, status, resources, milestones, tasks, Newsfeed, version control document repository, timesheets with timers, multi level user authorization.

 

Environment: Java, J2EE, SQL Server

 

Roles and responsibilities

q       As a Project Manager, I was responsible for project management planning and successful execution of the project.

q       Develop project plans, methodologies, schedule and work breakdown structure for projects.

q       Complete responsible for SDLC Phases.

q       Define goals and deliverables in support of business goals and work with senior leadership and stakeholders.

q       Track and Monitor the progress of the project.

q       Responsible for scope management and stakeholder management.

q       Responsible for estimation, planning and execution with specific focus on requirement analysis and design 

q       Responsible for the personal development of the team, setting objectives, writing appraisals, 1-1s, Individual Development Plans for direct reports.

 

CSC Client –Chrysler - PentaSAP

 

As a project Manager, managed the PentaSAP project, which was initiated by Chrysler after having alliance with FIAT.

 

The customer objectives for initiating the project are to “Leverage Fiat / Chrysler Automotive Business Synergies, Drive Business Efficiency, Effectiveness, Integration, and Compliance. Improve Business Insight and Decision Making Capabilities. Position Business for Growth and Change. Establish IT as an Enterprise-wide Strategic Enabler.”

 

Project covers the business aspects of Chrysler and FIAT alliance “PentaSAP Program Conversion, PentaSAP Program Change, PentaSAP Data conversion, PentaSAP Reporting”.

 

Environment: Mainframe, Client Server, J2EE, SAP and ESSBASE.

 

Roles and responsibilities

q       As a Project Manager, I was responsible for end to end planning and successful completion of the project.

q       Develop project plans, methodologies, schedule and work breakdown structure for projects.

q       Complete responsible for SDLC Phases.

q       Managed Agile team and played Scrum Master role.

q       Plan and frame, ramp up and ramp down of the teams.

q       Define goals and deliverables in support of business goals and work with senior leadership and stakeholders.

q       Configuration manager for the project.

q       Track and Monitor the progress of the project.

q       Prepared weekly status reports, summary reports for executive management and conducting daily & weekly meetings

q       Responsible for the personal development of the team, setting objectives, writing appraisals, 1-1s, Individual Development Plans for direct reports.

q       In Charge of  Resources Client billing

 

CSC Client –Merrill Lynch - IDS - Integrated Documentation Suite

 

IDS is the high profile and high Visibility project for Merrill.

 

The Integrated Documentation Suite will provide a more robust and flexible framework for documentation processing. IDS will provide a more streamlined and efficient set of processing tools, housed in a single point-of-access application, which can be used by all individuals involved in the Documentation workflow process.

 

Users interact with the system via a web front-end.  The front end of IDS was built by extending Documentum’s web-based client, Webtop.  The front end also utilizes features from the Documentum WDK (Web Development Toolkit) upon which Webtop is built. The front-end also interacts with the faxing/automation and eContent server.

 

Environment:  W2K Advanced Server, BEA Weblogic 7.0 SP3 , Documentum Webtop 5.2.5 with  Jdk131_06 and DFC 5.2.5

Documentum Content Rendition Services 5.2.5, GhostScript 8.14

 

 

As a Project Manager, I was responsible for Production support, maintenance and enhancement activities of the support team.

 

Roles and responsibilities also includes the below

 

q       Ensure that the Service Level Agreement is met with no variance.

q       Manage and develop customer service processes and procedures to ensure consistent customer service, customer satisfaction, and improve operational efficiency.

q       Preparing Project Plan which includes Project Methodologies, Risk Management, Quality Management, Contingency Management, Resource Management, Scheduling and billing aspects as well.

q       Act as a liaison between business team, technology team and end users (traders and marketers)

o in the analysis, design, configuration, testing and maintenance to ensure optimal operational performance.

q       Automation.

q       Implementing the improvement processes.

q       Managed team with waterfall methodology.

q       Responsible for the accurate reporting of metrics, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of all data used in customer service related statistical analyses.

q       Have handled Onsite project Manager role

q       SQA Lead for the entire engagement.

q       Coordinate the Quarterly Audits / IS&P Audits and surprise internal audits and ensuring projects are compliant with all Audit/Regulatory requirements e.g. SOX Certification

q       Root Cause Analysis and publishing the same to the client and associated implement of required changes

q       Status and various reports and conduction meetings with different stakeholders.

 

 

 

CSC Client –Merrill Lynch – FINMAN, BUCS QA, BUCS, TODCARS, TRADESHISTORY

 

Finance Manager system (FinMan) is a financial management system, which facilitates the Derivatives Finance team to generate Profit and Loss (P&L) on a daily basis.

 

The Business Unit Control System (BUCS) has been designed to provide automation of the Business Unit Controller’s function and to providing a common platform for P&L production within a tightly controlled environment.

 

TODCARS is the Treasury Operations Deal Capture and Reconciliation System. TODCARS supports the deal types; payments, preadvices and FX outrights.

 

Trades History is an information repository and reporting tool which is the key reporting system that supports Debt Operations.

 

Environment:Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server

Unix Shell Scripting, Perl,Autosys in Unix Environment

 

As a Project Lead, I was responsible for Production support, maintenance and enhancement activities of the support team.

 

Roles and responsibilities also includes the below

q       Enhancement, Maintenance, Production support, Batch Monitoring, Responding to business Queries.

q       QA activities, Release Check and Signoff.

q       Managing the Release and handling post release issues if any.

q       Automation.

q       Preparing and publishing business status reports, presenting weekly reports and management reports.

 

 

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Current Career Level:

Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)

Date of Availability:

Immediately

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

Permanent resident

 

 

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Company Size:

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-TX-Austin

Relocate:

No

Willingness to travel:

Up to 50% travel

 

Languages:

Languages

Proficiency Level

English

Fluent