Project Manager Management

Summary

Sr. Project Manager, currently working for a IT Services Organization, with

over 12 years of experience in the Information Technology industry.

Expertise encompasses strong personnel, account, project management and

strategic enterprise application architecture experience. Accomplished

leader, capable of motivating a staff to its full potential and proven

ability to communicate complex information clearly to individuals at all

levels. Proficient in delivering EAI solutions using proven integration

methodologies, client server platforms and numerous programming languages.

Possess an exceptional analytical problem-solving ability with excellent

verbal and written communication skills. Responsible for the execution of

client projects in a timely manner, within budget and consistent with the

defined standards of quality. Project involvement encompasses multiple

project phases from estimation, resource planning, project planning and

project control, as well as post-project evaluation with the client sponsor

to assure satisfaction and to identify any process improvements that can be

made for the future.

Strengths

Project Evangelist * Team builder * Effective Leadership * Provide

organization and structure to the team * Problem Solver * Excellent

Customer Facing * Strong Analytical Skills * Thought Leader *

Work Experience

Sony Electronics/Wipro Ltd, San Diego, CA

01/2005 - Present

Senior Project Manager (Partner and Systems Integration)

. Responsible for the Wipro Solution Delivery and Operations Support for

the Partner and Systems Integration (PSI) Group at Sony.

. Responsible for personnel management to ensure employee satisfaction,

and account management to ensure customer satisfaction.

. Defined and implemented project implementation standards that reduced

repeatable work across projects resulting in 40% cost reduction.

Provided the estimation and solution delivery strategy by

collaborating with the enterprise architects to choose the integration

technology platform for implementations leading to the reduction of

time spent during estimations and initial project analysis.

. Managed project plans, project budgets and project scope documents.

. In charge of determining and allocating resource requirements for

short and long-term projects.

. Effectively oriented the project teams to the project approach, tasks,

assignments and milestones.

. Managed the timely delivery of multiple highly-visible projects; a

Warehouse Management System upgrade, Transportation Management

upgrade, an Online Reseller Network, Order Management System

migration, Service Reporting, Order-To-Cash and Order-To-Deliver

process improvement.

. Managed several small, medium and large scale projects in a timely

manner consistent with PMI Principles using proven SDLC methodologies

and Earned Value Management techniques. Extensively used project

planning tools such as MS Project and HP Project Portfolio Management

to accurately capture and report project status, schedule variance,

change management and schedule performance index.

. Responsible for providing quarterly inputs on initiatives to improve

team performance and value-add.

. Responsible for the Sony webMethods Operations Support and ensured

100% SLA adherence.

Trane Inc/Sierra Atlantic Inc, La Crosse, WI 04/2003 -

12/2004

Project Manager (Integration CoE)

. Managed a core team responsible for customer interfacing and

requirement analysis.

. Responsible for managing outsourced projects; managed off-shore & on-

site resources.

. Directly managed a CoE that constituted of off-shore and on-site

resources with a primary goal of evaluating new components and

developing PoC's to assist Trane in decision making.

. Entirely managed the webMethods solution delivery of two key

initiatives at Trane; PeopleSoft CRM upgrade; Integration of an Oracle

Apps Order Management System with PeopleSoft CRM,

. In charge of providing timely project updates to Trane Senior

Management.

. Responsible for resource allocation & planning, conducting reviews for

direct reports.

. Responsible for the delivery of standards based integrations after

reviewing recommendations from the CoE and provide pre-sales support

to the sales organization of Sierra Atlantic.

. Defined methods to improve existing team processes and influenced the

technical direction of the EAI team at Trane.

ESN Technologies, India 02/2001 - 04/2003

Team Lead/Sr. Software Engineer

. Lead Architect for the implementation of a HIPAA based transaction

framework.

. Led the conceptual and strategic creation of a robust, integrated job

hosting web site using ASP. Also responsible for porting the same to a

.NET based solution.

. Architected and successfully delivered multiple solutions for a

Healthcare customer. Worked directly with the business users and

technical analysts to determine root cause and to resolve issues

in the production landscape.

I.T Solutions (Europe) LLC, Edinburgh, Scotland 05/2000

- 12/2000

Analyst

. Led a three person team that built the TPA website for a Government

Owned Insurance Service Provider.

. Designed, Developed and Rolled out the ActiveLinc component from

Unisys across the company to emulate the Linc Mainframe for

business users across the country over the internet.

Techlead Software Engineering, Kingston, Jamaica/Pune, India

01/1998 - 03/2000

Analyst

. Part of the 80 member team to implement the then world's largest web

based product/application - ACORN.

. Designed and delivered the entire back office paperless office suite

of applications in the product.

. Extensively used Visual Basic 5, ASP 1-2, MS Office and built macros

in MS Word, MS Excel.

. Part of a 6 member team that architected and delivered a home

banking solution for NCB, Jamaica.

. Directly responsible for analysis, design, development and testing

of code enhancements for a mainframe based loan processing system at

NCB.

Technology Profile

Software: Microsoft Office 2007, All Microsoft OS, Microsoft Project,

Sharepoint 2007

Hardware: IBM, Dell, HP, Sony, Apple

Software Development: MS .NET, ASP, C++, Visual Basic 3-6, Crystal & SQL

Reporting, MS Access, Oracle 8 - 11i, webMethods Integration Suite, Sybase,

Javascript, HTML/DHTML,XML,SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005

Project Types:

Budgets to $ 1.5 Mn BPR Opportunities Change Management

Banking, Retail, Troubleshooting/Resoluti End-User support

Manufacturing on

Vendor Evaluation Key Account Management Liaison with Business

Supply Chain Management Training Operations Management

Education, Affiliations and Certification

. M.S (Software Systems), 01/2002 - 06/2003

. M.A (Hons), 08/1994 - 12/1998

. Project Management Institute (PMI), 8/2005 - Present

. Project Management Professional (PMP), 09/2005

. webMethods Certified Enterprise Integration Developer, 08/2004

. Microsoft Certified Software Engineer, 06/1998

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