Candidates About

SUMMARY:

·         Experienced as Project manager and Business Analyst for over 8+ years in the oil & energy, telecommunication and IT Industries worked with diverse Software Development Life Cycles like Agile and Waterfall.

·         Experience in analyzing the processes, finding gaps and working on process improvement in IT operations.

·         Effectively conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with Business users, SME's and Stake holders alike for gathering requirements and analyzing them to identify the real business need and facilitating the development of a customized solution which delivers maximum cost and usability benefit to the client and company.

·         Project Management experience in determining task dependencies, identifying milestones & monitoring critical paths using Gantt Charts, Resource Plans (Schedule & Allocations), and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

·         Excellent Organizational, Communication, Interpersonal and Leadership skills.

·         Experience working with customer / business and project team (Cross Functional), Vendor Management and Operation Management.

·         Proficient in creating documentations like BRD & FRD for cross functional groups by analyzing and translating business requirements into easy to understand way.

·         Proficient in conducting various Scrum meetings and worked as scrum master in different projects.

·         Excellent knowledge of  Data Analysis using SQL Queries, Pivot tables, Vlook up & Macros

EDUCATION:

§  Completed training program for International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) certification examination (BABOK-Ver 2.0)

§  Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from PMI, USA

§  Bachelor of  Engineering in Computers from Mumbai University, India

SKILLS:

EXPERIANCE:

1/2015 to current         Project Manager

                                              Aera Energy LLC - Bakersfield, California

§  Working as project lead in multiple projects for field efficiency team.

§   Planning, scheduling projects in waterfall and agile methodologies.

§   Elicit, analyze and validate requirements with business team. 

§  Work with business team to compare alternatives to find best solution to the requirements.

§   Planning budget, schedule and communication with product owner and tech team.

§   Creating business case, AFE and budget for projects. 

§  Working with purchase team for contracts and software procurement

§   Planning and coordinating UAT and training for users.

§   Working with process team to analyze gaps and find solution to achieve one Aera solution.

§   Creating required project documentation and reports in each project phase.

08/2012 to 11/2014      Business System Analysts

                                                Chevron – Bakersfield, California

§  Conduct various meeting with end users, support personnel to understand process requirements, gaps and opportunities to develop new tools or enhancements.

§  Conduct JAD sessions, interviews with application support team and IRM team to gather requirements.

§  Create flow charts, process requirement documents for new tools to achieve evergreen processes with continuing undisturbed daily operations.

§  Coordinate with technical resources and business users to generate & maintain requirement information documents.

§  Remediate the Application technical IRM requirements by coordinating with support person and information steward.

§  Helping team to define and document roles and responsibilities in process of information protection for applications and tools.

§  Maintain project progress, team task tracker, documentation templates up-to-date on SharePoint site.

§  Conduct trainings, prepare instructions manuals to educate the team about new tools and utilities.

§  Coordinate with support and end users for problem solving and trouble shooting.

§  Aptly learning and implementing chevron compliance requirements for project or applications for business and system requirements documentation, also guide support team to complete the required documentation

§  Participate in weekly review meetings with Application Support lead and IRM coordinators for reporting achievements and gaps.

06/2009 to 01/2011.    Sr. Business Analyst

Spice Digital – Mumbai, India

§  Liaison between IT and business users from all levels to analyze cross-functional processes and elicit requirements

§  Determine user needs, facilitated issue resolution and report project/services status on a daily/weekly basis to management for review.

§  Work with various user groups and application owners for Service contracts, Change requests, service approvals, Service Status tracking for moving on to different environments to ensure smooth process flow.

§  Coordinate with the release management team for tracking and monitoring the service releases.

§  Create Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure the defined functionality was implemented in the applications under development.

§  Assist QA team in the creation of test plans and test cases to perform different levels of testing using HP Quality Center.

§  Track and maintain changes approved thru change control board.

§  Coordinate with integration & implementation team in development and production level.

§  Monitor the Product Owners’ expectations through their involvement and communication throughout the lifecycle of the project; and educated them on the benefits and risks associated with the project.

§  Conduct Business Acceptance Testing and User Acceptance Testing of the final product.

01/2006 to 11/2007.    Business Analyst

Cellebrum – Mumbai, India

§  Functioned as liaison between IT and business users from all levels to analyze cross-functional processes and elicit requirements

§  Draft Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), use cases, process flows, wire frames, and test cases.

§  Participate in scrum meetings to assign & track, task progress and coordinate between the teams with  proper collaboration & communication

§  Maintain burn down chart for tracking progress of the sprint cycle.

§  Work with team to prepare sprint backlog, numbering user stories and schedule timeline.

§  Work closely with development team and business stakeholders on all aspects of the software products, including release and post-production reporting.

§  Synchronize and prioritize relevant defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines

§  Coordinate with testing team, assisted in creating test plans, test cases & performing  (UAT)

11/2004 to 12/2005.    Software Engineer

HCL Info systems– Mumbai, India

§  Gather requirements from users by conducting brainstorming & interview sessions. 

§  Create smaller USER STORIES from EPICS, Prioritized the sprints based on product backlog.

§  Develop use case diagrams, business flow diagrams, so that developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process.

§  Assist scrum Master to conduct daily Standup Meetings in this project.

§  Work as data analyst, used SQL queries, Pivot tables, Crystal Reports for analysis and reporting.

§  Used the Test Director as a repository for all of the UAT testing efforts, defect tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify defect fixes and update defects status.

§  Test and verify highly important defects remediation.