Candidates About

 

Venu Manchala

SUMMARY

IT Delivery/Sr. Project Manager with strong experience in all phases of Software Life Cycle processes using Waterfall and AGILE/SCRUM methodologies.  Worked in various roles at Private and Public sectors including Federal and state government agencies, pharmaceutical, financial, investment, banking, Life Insurance, Property & Casualty Insurance and telecom sectors.

 

• Serve as a trusted business partner, strategic advisor and thought leader, providing strategic-level thoughts for process improvement and technology investment projects.

·         Strong Managerial skills along with proven technical and analytical skills.

• To look holistically at complex business challenges and proactively make recommendations based on industry knowledge/best practices to improve client business and internal operations.
• Recommend changes to the business process, goals and growth strategy as they pertain to IT and overall operations.
• Lead clients through scoping and initial discovery of new opportunities as well as translate key research findings into actionable business recommendations for project assignments.

·         Presented periodic dashboard reports on the current programs, future opportunities and client issues using a custom built As-One Project management tool.

·         Provided business consulting, knowledge expertise in strategic performance management methodologies, process assessment and the application of technologies to business areas.

• Collaborate with IT Senior Leadership on key enterprise initiatives and decision making points.
• Administrative management and career path for junior members of the Business Solutions team as well as project team members.

·         Provided the recommendations on technology to senior management by gauging the competitors in IT market on various variables like cost, maintenance, quality, easy to use & software limitations.

·         Managed client engagement services and solution implementations by working with local and international offshore teams.

 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases:                            Oracle 7/8/8i/9i/10G, MS Access, DB2, Big Data and MS SQL Server.

Applications/Mid tier:         PL/SQL cartridge for web, Oracle 8i/9iAS Application Server, Oracle web server, Oracle Forms (9i/6i/4.5), Visual Basic, Oracle Designer 9i/6i, Lotus Notes, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle JInitiator, SQL*Loader, FTP tools & Toad

Management Tools:           Microsoft Project Management, PPM, MMS, DMS & As-One

Reporting Tools:                  Oracle Reports (9i/6i/2.5), Cognos (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Analysis studio, Transformer), Business Objects

Version control systems:    Microsoft Visual Source Safe and PVCS (Web Version).

Languages:                           HTML, XML, SAS, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, SQL, T-SQL, C, Java and Pro*C.

Operating Systems:             UNIX, HP UX 11.0, Sun Solaris, Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 and MS DOS

DWH & ETL Tools:            MDM, CDI, DRM, Oracle ETL using PL/SQL, Informatica, Ab Initio, DTS & SSIS

 

EDUCATION:

        Bachelors (B.S) in Electronics Engineering

        Master in Business Administration (MBA) at University of Hartford

CERTIFICATION:

            Innovation and Project Management  

This two-part course focuses on how to manage innovation and projects within and between organizations. About the nature and diffusion of innovation, its competitive impact, how to foster innovation within and across organizations, and the protection of intellectual property. Managing projects, Covers major topic areas in project management, such as strategic overview, project initiation, selection, planning, organizing, control and closeout

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

 

DMV, State of Connecticut                              IT Management                                                                                  9/2016 –  Till Date

DMV Modernization Program - Connecticut Integrated Vehicle And Licensing System (CIVLS).

DMV is upgrading its 50-year-old computer system. CIVLS benefits by customers  centric database, real time transactions, simplified and accurate fiscal reconciliation, document scanning at point of sale, automated inventory management, system-driven compliance checking, simplified end of day branch processing, self service capabilities will reduce the need for customers to travel to branches, real time dealer transactions through CIVLS.

·         Serve as Liaison between IT and Fiscal departments for key application solutions (CIVLS) such as Registration, Customer Support and billing solutions.

·         Partners with IT, Finance, Mod/Reg and other department leaders to align technology solutions with business initiatives.

·         Defines and maintains the Business Application vision and roadmap in alignment with business partners.

·         Ensures corporate technologies comply with IT general controls and best practices.

·         Manage the business application portfolio including the interfaces to process critical business data using Track IT.

·         Enable to manage the effective allocation and deployment of Business Application resources.

·         Oversight of third-party software vendors and systems integrators and other technology partners.

·         Conduct regular cross-functional program meetings with IT and business teams from discovery and design through to post production support.

·         Communicate the status of critical projects with key business(CFO) and IT(Director) stakeholders.

·         Identify and mitigate risks relative to the reliability, availability, security and operation of critical business applications.

Environment: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Share point and Office, CIVLS, Track IT

 

Accenture/Coverys, Boston, MA                                                    IT Delivery/Sr. Project Manager                  10/2015 – 8/2016              

Coverys is an innovative medical professional liability insurance and services provider dedicated to helping its policyholders and clients. Coverys has a rich tradition in terms of geographic scope, financial growth and service to healthcare industry. Managed Accenture Client - Coverys Core system replacement program production support and application maintenance of Duck Creek full suite implementation – Policy, Billing and Claims for professional and miscellaneous liability by Application outsourcing (AO) Contract.

·         Delivery Leadership for Software Implementation of projects using PPM and MMS

·         Heavy client interaction with strong project management using Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodolgoies.

·         Managing delivery lines for existing customers along with possibility of expanding product line footprint.

·         Mitigate and problem solve issues for business continuity along with System, User Acceptance and Integrated testing.

·         Oversee PMO initiatives of all projects within developed scopes, timelines, budgets and resource allocation.

·         Participate in annual budget, scope, revenue planning and growth directives for all client projects.

·         Oversee big picture of software development of current and future IT initiatives by Change Orders and SOW’s.

·         Working with CFM on forecasting resources, budgets by maintaining CI (Profit Margin) and submitting invoices.

·         Utilize high level internal resources to drive projects for client.

·         Managing duck creek application component upgrades for Billing, Policy and Claims work streams.

·         Juggling multiple projects based on client priority.

·         Managing large account as the primary point of contact for customer.

·         Ownership of Accenture client and the expansion of product lines of the client they support.

Environment: DMS, MMS, PPM, MS Visio, Duck Creek suite, MS Sql Server, .Net, xml, TFS, MS Project Server/client.

 

Mapfre USA Insurance, Webster, MA                                                          IT Program Manager                       10/2014 – 09/2015            

MAPFRE USA represents a financially sound business. MAPFRE USA partners with a network of more than 4,200 independent agents and brokers located across the United States and offers a large portfolio of personal lines and commercial insurance products and services. MAPFRE U. S.A. a global organization and leading insurer that maintains a presence in over 40 countries around the world.

·         Driving all phases of small to medium projects/programs to successful completion. Duties include development of project schedules, creation and distribution of issues list, escalation management, facilitating cross-functional meetings (e.g. agenda preparation, reports distribution, material gathering and distribution, and communication of decisions/results, etc.), and liaison between internal clients, operational staff, and IT.

·         Drive delivery and scope/schedule/cost while achieving the end goal

·         Managed software development lifecycle, including design, documentation, development, test, implementation, and post-production performance of Cover-All and Tron Web (PAS – Policy Admin Systems) products

·         Responsible for managing acceptance criteria by system, user acceptance and integrated testing throughout the translation of Requirements into design and delivery, as well as ongoing scope containment

·         Risk analysis, schedule analysis, issue management, formal risk and issue logs been tracked and managed by PPM

·         Managed an aggressive schedule in a very dynamic corporate environment.

·         Developed and maintained a detailed resource loaded and leveled schedule using MS Project

·         Lead projects with multiple delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Interactive) and multiple development groups.

·         Making sure to get timely feedback on vendor performance from the client.

·         Attending Leadership and oversight meetings to briefly present the projects status for client executive meetings.

·         Interacted with Business and stake holders on regular basis to make sure the projects are on track.

Environment: MS Project, PPM, Tron Web, Cover-All, SQL Server, IBM’s RTC (Scrum Tool), MS Excel, MS Word & MS Power point

 

Selective Insurance Group, Hartford, CT                                                   IT Portfolio Manager                       10/2013 – 09/2014

Selective Insurance Group, Inc. is a property and casualty (P&C) insurance companies rated “A” (Excellent) and ranked as the 44th largest P&C insurance group in the United States by A.M. Best Co. Offer a broad range of insurance and alternative risk management services. Responsible for portfolio management practices of the overall IT project portfolio for Commercial Lines Enhancements

·         Provide business and IT senior leadership with analysis of in-flight and proposed projects along with Infrastructure initiatives
Work with the Development Managers to understand the resource needs of each project and coordinate resolution of resource conflicts.

·         Continually assess the strategic value of the projects within the portfolio and (re)prioritize resources to drive the best value outcome to the business.

·         Manage consolidated portfolio risks and takes appropriate actions to mitigate, control, and ensure strong governance.

·         Pro-actively managed consolidated portfolio issues, taking action to achieve urgent resolution and escalating promptly and clearly using Clarity.

·         Ten small projects a quarter by setting expectations, change management & execution by coordinating milestones

·         Work with both on-site resources and off-shore suppliers along with selective employees

·         Provide visibility of consolidated portfolio progress against budget and schedule to enable informed executive decisions and actions to be taken.

·         Ensure that benefits are assessed at the start of the portfolio lifecycle, that they are managed during the portfolio lifecycle, and that the realization is monitored.

·         Continually re-balance the consolidated portfolio based on changing functional needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies.

·         Ensure adoption and implementation of project and program management methodology in support of managing the defined portfolio.

·         Perform administrative and other duties of a similar nature or level, as needed.

Environment: MS Project, PPM, MS Visio, Biz Talk, .Net, DB2, Clarity, HP Extreme, MS Excel, MS Word

 

XL Insurance, Hartford, CT                                                                IT Sr. Project Manager                               10/2012 – 09/2013

XL Insurance do risk like no one else. With global capabilities & Local people made the XL Group financial strength to be solid and the scale to be flexible. Managing Enterprise Enablement program multiple streams with global teams in Data Warehouse and business intelligence Space

·         Procurement Management - Procurement planning, contracts planning, authoring solicitations, evaluation, requesting solicitation responses, selecting contractor(s), administering contract(s), and contract(s) closing activities.

·         Strong Change Management experience working with business stake holders

·         Schedule Management - Activity definition and sequencing, resource estimating, duration estimating, schedule development and schedule control activities.

·         Integration Management - Project plan development, project plan execution, and integrated change control activities.

Managed the multiple work streams and projects with onsite and offshore resources concurrently

·         Scope Management - Project initiation, scope planning, scope definition and scope change control activities.

·         Cost Management - Resource planning, cost estimating, budgeting and cost control activities.

·         Human Resources Management - Organizational planning, project team acquisition and staff development activities.

·         Risk Management - Risk management planning, risk identification, risk quantitative and qualitative analysis, response planning, monitoring, and control activities.

·         Quality Management - Quality planning, quality assurance and quality control activities.

·         Communications Management - Communications planning, information distribution, progress and performance reporting and stakeholder communications management activities.

·         Governance: Defining roles and responsibilities and providing oversight

·         Project Management: Planning and administering both Data warehouse and Business Intelligence projects of claims and policy life cycle processing using MS Project and Clarity

·         Financial management: Implementation of specific fiscal practices and controls 

·         Infrastructure: The program office, technology and other factors in the work environment supporting the program effort by delivering highly complex Infrastructure Technology projects

·         Program Planning: Activities that take place at multiple levels with different goals.

o  Possesses a thorough understanding of: Key technical architectures, Operating systems, Host platform software and hardware

o  Implemented MDM Hub Strategic Architecture in conjunction with MDS, CDI and DRM repositories

Environment: MS Project, MS Visio, Clarity MS SQL Server, SSIS, Oracle, MDM, DRM, MDS, CDI & Informatica

 

MiddleOak Insurance, Middletown, CT       Project Manager Enterprise Architecture                  07/2009 - 09/2012

Middleoak is a property and casualty Insurance company with commercial and personal lines of business

·         Involved in overall enterprise governance model that includes corporate governance, IT governance and project governance.

Budget estimates & resource management for cost effective maintenance

·         Managed vendor partner deliverables and executed on agreed upon roadmaps of Data warehouse and Business Intelligence Projects

·         Managed software development lifecycle, including design, documentation, development, test, implementation, and post-production performance

·         Ensured change control process is in place and risk communication/mitigation takes place in timely fashion

·         Managed software development lifecycle, including design, documentation, development, test, implementation, and post-production performance of Cover-All, iNSURITY and Guidewire (PAS – Policy Admin Systems) products.

·         Worked on operational metrics project to surface workflow gaps from quote to policy with Insurity and leveraged to fill those gaps in replacing with Guidewire Policy and Billing Center.

·         Interpreted enterprise solution architecture and business requirements to create application architecture and design using Guidewire UML.

·         Worked directly with business partners to translate business requirements into system requirements for Guidewire Implementation with vendor packages, relational databases, message queues, web services and legacy systems.

·          Implemented Mobile Architecture using IBM Business Intelligence technology

·         Ensured timely and successful delivery of releases based on project schedule and Held project sponsor/owner and project resources, internal and external, accountable to the agreed plan and for timely decision making & prioritization

·         Collaborated with cross-functional teams including marketing, technology, underwriter to successfully execute the claims and policies life cycle projects on IT roadmap

·         Created and maintained key project management artifacts in compliance with internal standards & best practices, including Risks & Issues Logs, Status Reports, Project Plans, Change Control Log, etc.

·         Assessed the quality of the deliverables, managed progress, risks and problems throughout the project lifecycle and ensured the customers satisfaction

·         Worked with Enterprise Models that depict the entire enterprise and its inter-relationships across various divisions

·         Reference Models that depict recommended & approved technologies which can serve as a template for future projects

Environment: MS SQL Server, Clarity, Guidewire, iNSURITY, Cover-All, SSIS/DTS, Oracle, DB2, Ab Intio, IBM Cognos Framework Manager, Hyperion, MS Project, Transformer, VB

 

Valassis, Windsor, CT                                       DBA   Manager                                                                   06/2008 -  06/2009

Valassis is a software product company focusing the retail business, Worked with VRMS software product supporting valassis customers

Responsibilities

·         Supported 80 Development/QA and 40 Production Databases using Oracle, SQL Server and DB2.

·         Monitored and Maintained DB growth and captured changes for capacity planning

·         Worked with data mining techniques on OLAP and OLTP databases for defining IT goals

·         Worked with Business closely on defining datamarts & Business Intelligence cubes/catalogs

Environment: Oracle 10G, UNIX, MS Windows XP, Sql Server, DB2, MS Excel

 

Pfizer, New London, CT                              Release/Project Manager                                                                     12/2006 - 05/2008

Pfizer is a world known pharmaceutical company, Worked at PGRD (Pfizer Global Research and Development) division

Responsibilities

·         Clinical data analysis and executing the scripts for reconciliation, validation & sampling of data

·         Managed engagements with outside party service providers/vendors

·         Accountable for maintaining versions of medical dictionaries as part of Release Management

·         Managed Scrum Meetings on daily basis.

Environment: Oracle 10G, UNIX, MS Windows XP, Oracle Discoverer, SAS, MS Excel, Oracle Clinical/TMS

 

State Street Bank, Boston, MA                    Sr. Enterprise Architect                                                                       12/2005 – 11/2006

State Street Bank is an Investment and commercial lending management, research and trading & servicing company.

Responsibilities

·         Analyzed actuals, balanced FINAPPS data and worked with FCS/Main Frames as upstream systems and Budgeting (OFA), OFSA as downstream systems

·         Worked with gl_interface (actuals), gl_budget_interface (budget), gl_je_lines, gl_balances, gl_code_combinations

·         And gl_set_of_books

·         Worked with Logical and Physical Database Design of star and snowflake schemas

Environment: Autosys, Oracle Finance Applications, Java, Oracle 10G, Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA), OFSA, UNIX, MS Windows XP, Oracle Discoverer, Actuate, Hyperion Essbase, MS Excel

 

The Hartford, Hartford, CT                                           Project Lead                                                                        08/2004 -  11/2005

Hartford is a Life and P&C insurance company, Worked for both lines of business

·         Automated the print process of marketing department in retirement services for government business plans.

·         Coordinated with print vendor to schedule the autosys jobs using oracle pl/sql procedures

·         Lead the project from initiation phases by working with various departments on leveraging the new solutions.

·         Worked closely with Retirement services Business analysts to successfully execute the project tasks.

·         Resource scheduling, tracking status and guiding on optimization techniques on OLAP and OLTP databases

·         Looked beneath the surface to perceive the true state of projects, anticipate risks, and problems and mitigate them

·         Creative, common-sense approach to problem solving & Proved decision-making capabilities and sound judgment, objectively evaluating pros, cons, trade-offs and alternatives among options

Environment: Oracle, Business Objects, Autosys, UNIX, Windows XP

 

State of Maine, Augusta, ME                          Project Lead                                                                                        10/2003-  07/2004

Worked for OSA, Health & human services of Maine State & Department of Revenue for Mass State

·         Evaluated legacy Data mart and SAS programs used for data loading & data conversion.

·         Demonstrated capability to share thought process behind approaches and decisions

Environment: Oracle, SAS, Oracle Applications, Java, Developer 9i, Oracle Express, Oracle Portal, Cognos, UNIX, Windows XP.

 

US Marine Corps, Washington, DC               Sr. Systems Analyst                                                                           01/2003 – 09/2003

United States Marine Corps Force Management system

·         Responsible for tasks related to data conversion. 

·         Worked on an IV&V project with the US Marine Corps, responsible for reviewing application design work done by large corporations for implementing a force management system.”

·         Trained the team with the business, technical processes and mentored on building modules

Environment: Oracle, SAS, Oracle Applications, Java, Developer 9i, Oracle Express, Oracle Portal, UNIX, Windows XP

Worked with following companies for period                                                                                                                1995 to 2003

·         Ridgefield Bank

·         E-spire

·         FDA (Food and Drug Administration)

·         EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

·         Mentor Graphics

·         Andhra Printers Limited.