·         Technical Project Management

·         Business Solution Development

·         eCommerce project implementation

·         Enabling Mobile for in Store Sale.

 

·         Finance and Accounting Knowledge

·         Telecom Domain Knowledge

·         Retail Point of Sale (POS) Knowledge

·         Applications Design and Development

 

 

Domain and Technical Skills

 

Retail Domain              POS (Point of Sale), Mobile and .Com Front End development, Enabling mobile for in store scanning and shopping, PCI compliance, Security and firewall.             

Telecom Domain              Ethernet, LAN, WAN, IPV6, Routing and Switching, CISCO, Juniper and Ciena Routers, Enterprise Services, Data Migration

Finance Domain              Accounting, Billing, Pricing, Depreciation, Write off, Amortization, Data Migration, Credit Scoring, Credit Modeling and Risk Management.

Tools, Processes              Microsoft Project, MS Visio, CA Clarity, Workbench, Sharepoint, HP QC, Rational ReqPro, Rational Composer, Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM), JIRA, Waterfall model, Scrum methodology and Agile project management.

Technologies               Java, SOA, XML, Webservices, Oracle DB, TOAD, SQL, eCommerce Platform – ATG and Endeca, ESBs, Services Workflow.

 

 

Awards and achievements

 

·         AT&T Excellence Award: For extraordinary management of IPAG projects – 2010

·         The Best of IBM Award: For successful delivery of complex Ethernet projects – 2009

·         PM Sharenet Paper Presentation: Paper on Joint Application Development (JAD) - 2007

·         IBM Top Talent: Recognized as IBM top talent from 2007-2010.

·         IBM Customer Dedication Award: Excellent PM work in NILS application - 2006

·         IBM Best Performer Award: For excellent technical and PM work - 2006

·         Six Sigma Project Success: Saving of 0.25 M$ over three years - 2006

·         IBM Bravo Award: For excellent technical work in CRIS application – 2005

 

 

Education and Certification

 

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering: 2001

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) ▪ Roorkee, India

 

 

MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATIONS

·         Project Management Professional (PMP)

·         ITIL Foundation Certification

·         Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

·         Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) Certification

·         Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA)

TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS

·         Oracle Certified Professional, (SCJP 6)

·         IBM SOA Fundamental Certification

·         Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

·         IBM DB2 UDB Fundamental Certification

 

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Walmart ▪ Bentonville, AR, USA

 

Managing multi-million projects for Walmart International and US Markets in POS (Point of Sale) area. Leading cross-functional, multi vendor diverse project teams including business representatives, vendors, engineers, and architects. Managing eCommerce projects and projects for enabling customer devices for shopping.

 

Career Highlights:

·         Managing multiple large projects for new product development to enhance overall in store customer shopping experience.

·         Managing eCommerce projects for Walmart and Asda.com to improve customer online shopping experience. Strong knowledge of ATG and Endeca platforms.

·         Managed eCommerce project to enable a new credit card provider (Laser) for ASDA in UK.

·         Currently managing Scan and Go project for UK where customer mobile will be used for in store shopping. Also managed significant part of US Scan and go project already live in Walmart stores.

·         Extensive knowledge of webservices and Java technologies use to develop scan and go product.

·         Managing multiple government compliance projects and PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) projects.

·         Expertise in creating and managing detailed project plans including schedules, technical and business requirements, cost and resources plan.

·         Expertise in managing agile scrum methodology projects. Thorough knowledge and experience of all scrum processes and methods.

·         Expertise in using PPM tools like MPP, Clarity and Open Work Bench. Providing guidance and mentoring to newer PMs in the team.

·         Expertise on Walmart project management processes and project management methodologies.

·         Expertise in dealing with clients from several countries like UK, Canada, Mexico and Central America. Solid understanding of team dynamics and cultural aspects of handling the team.

·         Expertise in working with business in defining project scope and high level solutions. Have done extensive business analysis work.

·         Expertise in working with senior management including VPs to address project issues and challenges.

·         Strong knowledge of eCommerce technologies like B2B, EDI, SSL and workflow.

·         Highly experienced in communication, presentation and people handling skills.

·         Solid understanding of E2E application flow and overall system knowledge.

·         Led the project initiation and planning processes; Developing Project Charter, Scope, Budget, Resource Plan, Schedule and Governance related processes.

·         Strong expertise in handling high level escalations and working with the team and management to resolve these issues.

 

 

AT&T ▪ Middletown, NJ, USA

 

Managed team of 5 PMs working on projects under IPAG program. As program manager responsible for successful delivery of all projects in IPAG program. Handled large-scale projects, including offshore, onsite, diverse, and virtual teams.

 

Career Highlights:

·         Received AT&T Excellence Award for managing complex and demanding IPAG projects through its most challenging phases.

·         Managed team of 5 project managers and ensured that synergies across all the projects in IPAG program are achieved and inter project dependencies are addressed effectively.

·         Managed complex and big projects in range of 2 – 4 M$ for creating new enterprise VPN services. Received Best of IBM Award for managing these challenging projects.

·         Recognized as IBM Top Talent for overall high performance as PM for complex development projects and achieving high customer satisfaction.

·         Worked with users and business requirement leads to define system requirements for ATT metro Ethernet service for LPP application.

·         Managed Java, J2EE, JDBC, SOA, Webservices and XML technologies projects.

·         Managed eCommerce projects for billing application. Solid understanding of eCommerce technologies like EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), Payment Gateway, SSL and Security, B2B and workflow.

·         Partnered with product team to set the overall technical and functional roadmap for the program.

·         Led project life cycle management involving stakeholders from business, sales, IT, and ATT laboratory.

·         Handled multiple data migration project and merger projects due to merger of two companies.

·         Expertise in handling data migration projects created for merging old telecom service to newer platform and application.

·         Expertise in managing scrum based projects. Experience in agile scrum methodologies.

·         Extensive experience with data merger projects. Also new data archiving platform was created.

·         Expertise of program and project management life cycle process, tools and techniques. Solid expertise in projects financial planning and tracking including EV analysis and reporting.

·         Mentored and guided new project managers in the group especially in IP Aggregator (IPAG) program area.

·         Expertise in working with senior management including Directors and VPs to provide status and resolving issues and escalations.

 

 

IGF (IBM Global Financing) ▪ Bangalore, India

 

Managed team of 25 to 30 developers working on multiple projects. Managed five large-scale development releases involving major additions and changes to business functions.  Provided guidance to the team on day to day technical and functional issues.

 

Career Highlights:

·         Received IBM Best Performer Award for the delivery of projects involving complex accounting changes and significant change to overall application flows.

·         Managed Six Sigma Project in green belt role which resulted in saving of 0.25 M$.

·         Received IBM Customer Dedication Award for achieving high customer satisfaction and overall high quality deliverables.

·         Presentation on Joint Application Development (JAD) was selected in top 10 presentations. Presented it in company level PM Sharenet.

·         Led preparation and presentation for SOX (Sarbenes-Oxley) audits of the application.

·         Strong knowledge of finance domain in accounting, billing, depreciation, leasing and loan.

·         Highly experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

·         Expertise in planning and tracking of projects in MPP and RPM (Rational Portfolio Manager).

·         Managed project financial using Earned Value (EV) tool.

·         Managed data migration from older IT system to new implemented application.

·         Highly experienced in dealing with customers and stakeholders from 14 European countries.

·         Used JAD, Brainstorming, Nominal Group Technique and Six thinking hats in six sigma

·         Strong knowledge of finance domain in accounting, billing, depreciation, leasing and loan.

·         Produced comprehensive design for complex accounting and reconciliation projects

 

 

IGF (IBM Global Financing) ▪ Armonk, NY, USA

 

Expertise in design and development of complex PL1 and Java programs. Developed new credit scoring model to replace existing model. Handled design and coding of risk and fraud management modules of CRIS application.

 

Career Highlights:

·         Received IBM Bravo Award for excellent design and coding work.

·         As technical lead mentored and trained many new team members in application technical and functional knowledge.

·         Played the role of onsite coordinator and development team point of contact for clients.

·         Successfully tested the disaster recovery of the application for two consecutive years

·         Responsible for ASCA Certification (Application Systems Control and Auditability) of the application.

·         Thorough understanding of credit scoring, risk management and fraud management.

·         Developed new XML interfaces with upstream and downstream applications.

·         Led data warehousing project from technical side. New data structure and reports were created and archiving procedures were put in place.

·         Worked on data normalization and data model design for this application.

 

 

IGF (IBM Global Financing) ▪ Bangalore, India

 

Solid experience in design and coding of many projects in PL1 and mainframe technologies. Strong knowledge of financing domain, involving lease, loan, accounting, pricing and billing processes.

 

Career Highlights:

·         Performed extensive analysis, design and coding in PL1 involving complex accounting flow and calculations.

·         Developed complex SQL queries and identified options to simplify some existing queries.

·         Worked on and data archiving projects involving provisions of auto-backup and recovery.

·         Thorough understanding of finance domain in accounting, billing, depreciation, leasing and loan

·         Developed complex batch programs used for generating daily and monthly reports.

·         Worked on high priority critical production issues and defects.

·         Trained newer team members on application flow, technology and design.

·         Extensively worked on application integration and consolidation projects.