Ankush Kaila

  • Senior IT Project Manager
  • Newark, NJ
  • Member Since Mar 19, 2023

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                                                        Ankush Kaila                                                         

 

 

Summery

 

Innovative, result-oriented with 15 years of experience in Project Management, System Design, Business Analysis, Development, JAD Sessions, Implementation and Support for Agile, SAFE, Waterfall and Hybrid projects.

 

v  Detail-driven with excellent communication skills and proven success in interfacing with all areas of the organization.

v  Expertise in many project management life cycles including Agile/Scrum project management.

v  Experience in executing large, complex multimillion dollar projects.

v  Expertise in coordinating between global onsite, offshore model process and support in a 24x7 environment.                                                                           

v  Experience in project management process utilizing PMBOK in implementing process improvements and best practices.

v  Strong knowledge of managed claims management process, Knowledge of Medicaid and Medicare Services, Health Assessment Systems , Hl7 Standards, HIPAA ,PPACA(Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), Compliance issues,HL7 Message Validation, ICD 9-10, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records.

v  Expertise in managing financial, Healthcare , communication and cyber security software development projects.

v  Expertise in managing, scheduling, evaluating, project health, dashboard reporting of multiple projects.

v  Extensive experience in managing Java,J2EE  MVC and Service Oriented Architecture projects.

v  Extensive experience of various ATT tools like PRISM,QC, Change request ,share point, process center etc.

v  Expertise in portal projects utilizing the software products like JIRA, Rally Dev, Scrum point, Prism, Project 360, Clear case, Charm-nt, Quality Center, SharePoint , MS-Office, Change Manager, Clear Case etc.

v  Strong Experience in Java, J2EE, MVC architecture web application development and mobile applications projects.

v  Good expertise with the vendor management.

v  Working experience in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE).

 

 

Certifications

 

 Scrum, QA

 
 

 

 

 

v  Agile and scrum methodology certified professional.

v  C++ and Java certifications.

 

Education Summary

   

 

v  Masters of Business Administrations (MBA) in Information Technology and Healthcare with 3.85 GPA, University of Dallas – Graduate School of Management, U.S.A.

v  Masters of Computer Applications (MCA) with 3.6 GPA - National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India.

v  Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) with first division- Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

 

 

 

Skills   Summary

  Functional   

v  Communication- mobile apps, automation for custom quoting of US Domestic Ethernet Access for Plain Old Ethernet Access.  Cyber Security in DTV,Working experience tele communication companies like AT&T and Siemens.

v  Health Care – Clinical Application, Hospital information System , Pharmacy, Life Sciences, ICD9-10, Medication, Claim processing and Rule engine, interop HL7,EDI, X12, Payer Provider transections, 4010, 5010 A835,837 files on X12 format

v  Financials- Soarian financials, Clinical and financials integration, Long range Facility budget projects for department of Education , State of NJ.

v  Project Management Skills:- PMBOK,Agile/Scrum, Kanban, SDLC,ITIL process. RUP, Clear Quest, MS Project, SharePoint, Ms Excel/ Word/Visio, Quality Center, Clarity PPM, MS project Scheduling

 

 

Technical Skills  

Project Management Tools

Microsoft Project, Prism, JIRA, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio,Clarity

Agile Tools

Rally Dev and JIRA

BI/Reporting tools

Datric Agile Date Suite.

Web

SharePoint 2010,

Language

C++, SQL, PL/SQL, SSIS, C#.NET, Java,J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, COBOL, CAML query, ECMA Script

Database

Oracle, SQL Server 2008/2005/2000

Database Tools

Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle

Operating Systems

Windows (9X/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7)

Third Party tools/Systems

Visual Studio. Net, Photoshop, Visual Studio Team Explorer, Visual Age for Java, Visual Source Safe, Nunit, Actuate 7.0, Google Docs

 

                                                

Experience

 

State Department of NJ (DOE)  –Trenton, NJ                                                                                                         Oct 2017 – Present

Sr. IT Project Manager (Agile ,Waterfall)

v  Transitioning Waterfall development projects to agile or Hybrid projects and creating and coaching new processes with in department.

v  Currently managing multiple projects for Department of Education such as Approved private school for students with disabilities and Long range facility plan and project application system projects.

v  Facilitating daily scrum meetings, sprint planning’s, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

v  Managing critical pre-production and post-production’s milestone for waterfall, Agile-Waterfall mix and pure agile projects.

v  Developed 6 month iteration plans with PO and alongside with subject matter experts. Groomed Backlogs every two weeks and  adjusted priorities weekly

v  Working closely with the product owner or business client to produce artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burn down reports.

v  Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional teams.

v  Facilitating to gathered requirements with client to create requirement specs, user stories and tasks.  

v  Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner    stakeholders and higher management.

v  Kicked off project by presenting scope, goals and deliverables in alignment with senior management and client stakeholders.

v  Delegated tasks, responsibilities to appropriate personnel, identified issues and resolved conflicts within project.

v  Providing project management leadership and expertise. Serve as the source of truth on GA commitments and ensure all parties are on the same page regarding objectives and definition of success.

v  Work closely with product management and drive the use case analysis and created the epic level backlog for product management.

v  Ensured risk, issues and project changes are addressed and mitigated.

v  Led the JAD Session effort and conducted workshops with business stakeholders to gather high Level user stories, design specs, Mapping Specs and Test Cases for DOE internal IT projects.

v  Extensive working experience in Agile tools like JIRA, Rally Dev ,TDP-Agile , MS project, MS office, SharePoint

v  Performed root cause analysis for critical client issues and led the development effort, hot fixes for client resolution.

v  Delivering various artifacts such as Project Plan, Project Schedule, Project Charter, Risk and Change Management plans, and team status dashboards.

v  Facilitate and manage change requests and its budgets and approvals using change management plans.

v  Planed budget, finances, true-up’s for scheduled project timelines and milestones using project management tools.

 

 

 

 

AT&T –Philadelphia,PA                                                                                                                                                Aug 2014 – Sep 2017

Lead Project Manager/Sr. Technical Delivery Manager (PMO)

 

 

v  Responsible for software development life cycle (SDLC) for 100+ IT consumer and network applications worth over $6.7 – 11.2 million dollars IT projects.

v  Managing high-profile, fast-paced Cyber Security programs that will span all Consumer & Community communication lines of business. The CCB Cyber Security Program is a multi-year initiative aimed at improving the DTV’s posture on how sensitive data is accessed and protected

v  Oversee Project manager plans for work business unit and cross functional teams

v  Facilitating daily scrum meetings, sprint planning’s, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives adhere to SAFE.

v  Managing critical pre-production and post-production’s milestone for waterfall, Agile-Waterfall mix and pure Agile projects.

v  Working closely with the product owner to produce artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burn down reports.

v  Facilitating Scrum of Scrum for offshore Scrum teams in US states and India.

v  Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional teams.

v  Facilitating to gathered requirements with client to create requirement specs, user stories and tasks.  

v  Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner    stakeholders.

v  Kicked off project by presenting scope, goals and deliverables in alignment with senior management and client stakeholders.

v  Delegated tasks, responsibilities to appropriate personnel, identified issues and resolved conflicts within project.

v  Collaborated with cross functional teams and other internal and external stakeholders to remove impediments.

v  Planed budget, finances, true-up’s for scheduled project timelines and milestones using project management tools.

v  Ensured risk, issues and project changes are addressed and mitigated.

v  Led the JAD Session effort and conducted workshops with business stakeholders to gather high Level user stories, design specs, Mapping Specs and Test Cases for InterLata Services

v  Extensive working experience in Agile tools like JIRA, Rally Dev ,TDP-Agile , Scrum point etc.

v  Performed root cause analysis for critical client issues and led the development effort, hot fixes for client resolution.

v   Facilitate and manage change requests and its budgets and approvals using change request tools.

v  Keeping the team motivated together all the time to ensure successful sprints.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Siemens Healthcare (Healthcare Data Exchange) – Malvern, PA                                                                     May 2012 – Aug 2014

Senior Consultant and Senior Project Manager (Scrum Master)

 

v  Planned and managed multimillion-dollar project, aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.

v  Facilitating daily scrum meetings, sprint planning’s, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

v  Working closely with the product owner to produce artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Burn down reports.

v  Facilitating Scrum of Scrum for offshore Scrum teams in US states and India.

v  Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional teams.

v  Coordinating custom data validation stored procedures for metadata summarization for the data warehouse tables, for aggregating telephone subscribers switching data, for identifying winning and losing carriers, and for identifying value subscribers

v  Gathered requirements at the client site to create requirement specs, user stories and rules.  

v  Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner    stakeholders.

v  Kicked off project by presenting scope, goals and deliverables in alignment with senior management and client  stakeholders.

v  Extensive working experience in Agile tools like JIRA, Rally Dev ,TDP-Agile , KanBan Board etc.

v  Delegated tasks, responsibilities to appropriate personnel, identified issues and resolved conflicts within project.

v  Collaborated with cross functional teams and other internal and external stakeholders to remove impediments.

v  Planed budget, finances, scheduled project timelines and milestones using project management tools.

v  Ensured risk, issues and project changes are addressed and mitigated.

v  Led the business analysis effort and conducted workshops with business stakeholders to gather high Level user stories, design specs, Mapping Specs and Test Cases for 4010, 5010 A835,837 files on X12 format and ICD9 and ICD10.

v  Defined project scope, identified the business flows and determined whether any current or proposed systems are impacted by the new development efforts

v  Performed root cause analysis for critical client issues and led the development effort, hot fixes for client resolution.

v  Co-ordinated production moves for (Live Date, File frequency, Production Contact Update etc.) And support the payer for 4 weeks post production and turn over the payer communication to batch support.

v  Analysis and Design of existing transaction sets, and modification of these transaction sets to ensure HIPAA compliance

v  Coordinating custom data validation stored procedures for metadata summarization for the data warehouse tables, for aggregating healthcare subscribers switching data.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Siemens Healthcare (Soarian Medsuite)  – Malvern,PA                                                           Sep 2010 – May 2012

Project Manager /  Scrum Master

 

v  Managed the daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective in onsite and offshore teams sitting in India, China and Mexico.

v  Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Did presentations, recommendations and provided regular updates to the Director office.

v  Provided visibility to team impediments/risks and helped eliminate them.

v  Coached and mentored agile team members and provided constructive performance feedback.

v  Trained development teams and management teams to utilize Scrum Methodology within the organization.

v  Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.

v  Exhibited strong modeling and operational analysis skills – demonstrated the ability to plan and implement project plan and translate them into expected business results.

v  Managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms and the merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies.  Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime and delivered by as much as $750K under budget.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Siemens Medical Solutions (Soarian Clinical) – Malvern-PA                                                                                 Jul 2007 – Sep 2010

Senior Business Analyst  (Scrum Master)

 

v  Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.

v  Analyze and design a change management plan and create appropriate business rule documents.

v  Served the complete software developmental process including the user acceptance testing phase

v  Managed multiple concurrent projects implementation of different modules across multiple clients.

v  Map client requirements and analyze technical documents to meaningful requirement specifications, worked for patient access, Hospital setup and Billing Module. Created BRD and Mapping specs.

v  Builders for Patient Access and clinical documentation - assessments, plans of care, discharge instructions, etc. and will ensure that all MU build activity gets completed.

v  Prepared the Requirements Tractability Matrix (RTM) and the Test Plan / Test Cases based on the requirements.

v  Created documentation for all identified data models such as Desktop, Orders, Results and Nursing Modules.

v  Raised bugs, per team/organizational standards.

v  Analyzed and worked on the Production Database server (MS SQL Server).

v  Part of the team for managing the Post-implementation support for the client.

v  Creation of feedback update template for incorporating business feedback and updating requirements.

v  Assisted UI designer in creating mock up screens.

v  Created Surveys for Existing Customers (Health Care Providers) to gather the future expectation of clients like physicians and hospitals.

v  Good experience in charting Business Process Flow and User stories.     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Siemens Information System Ltd - Bangalore-India                                                                                      June 2005 – July 2007

Senior System Engineer  

v  Worked in scrum teams and assisted product owner to estimate the requirements and help to establish release backlog.

v  Gather the specs from clients for enhancement of features and sends those requirements to offshore development team and coordinated the offshore and onsite activities.

v  Provided Analytical support to Siemens Automotive SIMATIC Controllers software supports users over the entire life cycle of the machine or plant

v  Supported all levels of production issues in the Automotive  enterprise, SIMATIC Controllers and IO systems

v  Provide the continuous support to the production systems in various locations in Europe and US.

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