Candidates About

 

 

 

EDUCATION

·         Master of Computer Applications (MCA) – University Of Madras (India) June 2004 – October 2007

·         Diploma in Computer Engineering from National Institute of Information Technology, 2004

·         Bachelor of Commerce, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India June 1991- October 1994

 

CERTIFICATION AND TRAINING

·         Architecting on AWS (Amazon)

·         AWS Technical Essential Training (Amazon)

·         PMP Certification – June 2015 (#1821738) (Active till June 2021)

·         Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - February 2017 (Active till February 2019)

·         Certified SAFe Agilist (SA) – June 2017 (Active till June 2018)

·         Project Management Training (PMP) from Project Management Academy, CA, June 2015

·         ITIL Foundation Certification, March 2012

·         IBM Project Management training, March 2009

·         IBM Leadership training, March 2010

·         SCJP – Sun Certified Software Professional, 2005

·         MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional, 2004

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

UnitedHealth Group, Optum, Santa Ana, CA                                                  February 2016 – Present

Project Manager, SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:                                                                                             

·         As a Project Manager with UHG OptumRx (Pharmacy) Group, successfully handled execution of medium to large projects involving Application Development, Support and Growth projects achieving key business objectives. Project planning, monitoring, execution and closure using the internal UHG PPRM tool (Planning, Program and Release Management). Extensively used Microsoft Project for maintaining project plans and schedules.

·         Led a Merger project between Catamaran (acquired company) and UHG systems. Handled a cross functional team of 6 and budget of $1MM. Participated in technical working sessions such as requirements definition, functional walkthroughs, technical design reviews, change control sessions and stakeholder meetings. Extensively used SharePoint 2013 platform for managing project artifacts with the team. Expertise with Microsoft Office Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.

 

 

Simplilearn, SFO, CA                                                                                                    July 2015 – Jan 2016

Project Manager                                                            

Responsibilities:

·         Simplilearn provide online classes, classroom training and practice tests for PMP and other technical certification trainings. Provide training to aspiring Project Managers and Project Managers aspiring to be PMP certified.

 

IBM, Bangalore, India                                                                             January 2007 - November 2012

Project Manager / SCRUM Master                                                       November 2009 – November 2012

 

Client: AT&T, Georgia, Atlanta GA

Successfully managed and executed projects under the Ethernet portfolio of their IPAG (Internet Protocol Aggregation Devices) network. One of the key benefits of the IPAG program is to provide CapEx savings by moving the network close to the customer and providing multiple levels of aggregation. The projects involved upgrade of Control Plane Scale feature to scale the control plane to handle forecasted Ethernet service volumes and Service Delivery of the new network.

·         Managed execution of multiple projects simultaneously using Waterfall and SCRUM methodology.

·         Worked with diverse virtual teams; IBM US, IBM Brazil, IBM India Delivery Managers on project schedule tracking, issues, risks, dependencies and deployments. 

·         Managed projects in waterfall and SCRUM methodologies.

 

Responsibilities in Waterfall projects:

Planning:

·         Created and manage project management plan and scope

·         Prepared for and manage project kick-off meetings

·         Worked with teams to get estimates and develop project schedule

·         Developed communication plan

·         Captured all issues, risks and decisions

·         Prepared for and manage key stakeholder meetings with AT&T PM and management executives

·         Managed Test Planning with the different test teams like System, Integration and User Interface Testing

Execution:

·         Drove team to complete tasks/duties within planned cost and schedule.

·         Led project status meetings, communicate and drive completion of upcoming tasks and deadlines

·         Prepared objective weekly status reports

·         Strived to improve cycle time and reduce defect rate.

Monitoring & Controlling:

·         Mitigated risks and issues, with proactive escalation to Management team when required

·         Managed/controlled scope change and external dependencies  

·         Use Earned Value, critical path and other techniques to proactively measure project performance-to-plan

·         Control and co-ordinate system testing, integration testing and manage defects

·         Managed User Acceptance Testing and project release. Ensured strong control on projects for Extended UAT scenarios or late deploys.

·         Managed Quality and SQA audits

Project Closure:

·         Established and maintained all project documentation in its system of record

·         Closed project administratively

 

Responsibilities in SCRUM projects:

·         Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Scrum Meetings, and Retrospective meetings. Collaborated with members of the Business, Test and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.

·         Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.

·         Experience in Process Improvement using LEAN. Reduced the project status reporting effort by 30%.

 

Solution Manager                                                                                    November 2008 - November 2009

Client: ANZ Bank, WellPoint, AMEX Canada                                  

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience with proposal/RFP creation and leading RFP/proposal presentations
• Conducted a Test Assessment for these clients to identify initiatives that could enhance quality, improve cycle time and reduce costs. Provided leadership on proposing a phased Solution Approach to them to bridge the gaps identified during the assessment.

 

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Test Manager                                                                                               January 2007 - November 2008

Client: VISA, San Francisco, Foster City

Test Manager

Managed Test Management for a highly critical project of VISA. Executed and maintained test management processes.

Responsibilities:

·         Automation of regression & smoke testing (reduced manual effort by 30%). Increased the use of test automation to improve testing speed and coverage.

·         Manage test environments and test data to support all functional/UAT testing

·         Offshoring to utilize global capabilities to provide test planning and execution of activities to lower cost. Responsible for resource management across different locations.

·         Quality - provide capabilities to identify defects earlier in the development process and reduce the overall number of product software defects released,

·         Governance - transform testing in multiple business units to a centralized testing organization,

·         Responsible for providing leadership to the offshore test team comprising of 41 members.  Two major releases of the application were successfully handled, and in this period, executed over 28000 test cases, under very tight schedules. In Phase 2, executed about 18000 test cases which were completed in less than 5 months.

·         Provided leadership in the onshore and offshore team’s communication to work in a synchronized fashion. Efforts were individually recognized by the client.

 

Oracle / Iflex Solutions, Bangalore, India                                            January 2006 - December 2006

Test Manager

 

Client: Citibank

Responsibilities:

·         Managed an Anti-Money Laundering application for branches in Brazil, Indonesia and Jakarta. Handled Automation and manual testing for 2 releases. Regression test suite was automated for the application using Rational Functional Tester.

·         Development and Test Management of Mobile App. Implement navigation strategies, use themes and styles, test user interface, send notifications and schedule tasks. – Client Reliance Infocomm.

 

Sapient, Bangalore, India                                                                February 2005 – December 2005

Test Manager

 

Client: Sony Electronics

Responsibilities:

·         Responsibilities included designing Test Plan, allocation of work, status meetings with the team, Defect Reporting and manual testing. Test Management and defect tracking using HP Quality Center.

 

Akzo Nobel, Netherlands                                                                                July 1999 - January 2005

Software Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

·         Designed and coded applications for Akzo Nobel on its eBenchmarking web application. It does an operational and functional comparison of a body shop to others for improving their profitability. Technologies used were SQL Server, ASP, HTML, Java Script, VBScript, and ISS.

 

Caltiger.com, Calcutta, India                                                                          August 1996 - May 1999

Software Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

·         Development and testing of Mobile applications using Java, J2ME & SQL for client Reliance Infocomm. Implemented new features for mobile phone apps. Managed test data to support all functional and UAT testing.

·         Responsibilities were of a Development Engineer and Test Engineer on Caltiger.com ecommerce and ISP applications. Website development using ASP, IIS, JavaScript, VBScript, SQL and XML. Mobile apps development using Java J2ME.