Clients: Chubb Insurance(New Jersey),CNO Insurance(Indianapolis)Assisting the business process project management team throughout the project lifecycle to ensure successful completion and delivery of projects to achieve smoother project delivery, within performance constraintsExperience with Managed Services ModelExperience working with the offshore resources and coordinating various management andapplication support activities.Manage small to medium size projects ranging from 2 months to a year including high critical/time sensitive projectsBuild and maintain Client Relationship.Superior analytical, time management and problem-solving skills.Follow a detail oriented, disciplined approach to all assignments.Ability to effectively manage teams at different geographies.Extensively preparing weekly/monthly status reports for clients as Project Manager for various projects across various clientsOversee Designing and developing all system phases, from software selection to system architecture to design/coding of code modules Utilizing profound knowledge and hands-on experience in Customer relationship management to build, develop and grow business relationships and increase clienteleLeadership insight for overall delivery of operational aspects of process. Achieved operational excellence and increased efficiency with leveraging existing resources and maximising their potentialTrain ,mentor & groom teams from various departments as a team leader while participating in the periodic quality process and internal/external reviewsResourcefully improving teamwork and collaboration between the development, test, and clientsEvaluating server software and helping in the decision making process for retooling the application to consolidate technologiesResource management – Recruitment of resources from the pool or lateral hire Experience in Zero Based Approach

Client : Ameriprise Financial~ Resourcefully managing the development, maintenance, and application support, release activities, estimation, resourcing, budgeting, and status reporting of over 20+ applications of technologies like Java, .NET, Drools, ETL, Mainframe, etc. and across business areas such as policy administration, underwriting, policy flow to billing and correspondence~ Leading the development of key milestone with detailed project schedules and project plans identifying project tasks and their interdependencies~ Spearheading data collection across the enterprise to identify applications for Tech Currency Upgrades ~Implementing various value-added improvements and automation that resulted in significant effort and dollar savings for the organization~ Continuous Integration and Continuous delivery~ Formulating a full Knowledge transfer of 40 + application from customer across Technologies while managing the support/enhancement of all these applications posts take over with a $ 3.1 M $ revenue over 18 months and 36 resources~ Improving the software development process at the company to provide more accuracy around promised dates and better definition of features before coding~ Administered all production releases and ensuring application stability and availability while adhering with operational SLA’s & maintaining ticket SLAs~ Handling major upgrade projects such as WAS upgrade, Ameriprise Infrastructure Technology Transformation, NET, and Informix upgrades~ Implementing organizational development processes that improved interactions among external vendors, product development, release engineering, product support, product management, IT, and corporate sales~ Creating new strategic direction for the company with products designed specifically for long-term archive and preservation of digital material

Client : Ameriprise FinancialLocation : MinneapolisInvolved in architecture/performance assessment and recommendations for Financial Account ApplicationTechnical lead for Ameriprise Infrastructure Technology Transformation Program- a large scale migration project involving migration from Vignette content management system to Oracle UCM, Websphere 6.0 to Websphere 7.0 and Vignette application portal to Liferay portalTechnical Lead for AASI Migration project - project scope was to have all the AASI clients and account data to be displayed and stored in Ameriprise systems – including Account positions, balances and security information in the Compliance and Supervision systemsLead and coordinate the development and maintenance activities for the assigned applications and act as a liaison between the IT and Business clients and the off-shore team members.Conduct requirements gathering sessions with the client.Document the changes for the offshore development team in the client approved Requirements Document.Have the business requirements into technical specification and be responible for deliveryIn addition to my deliverables, Oversee the construction and testing of the application enhancements and ensure that the changes made to the application adhere to the technical solutions document.Review the technical specification document developed reviewed with clientsPerform code walk through and participate in the unit and user acceptance testing. Ensure that all the work products are documented as per the processes and procedures set by the client organization’s IT department to comply with the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) rules.This position is a launch pad for the middle management responsibilities.

Client: Ameriprise FinancialLocation : MinneapolisSenior Developer for critical Day 700 Project with the scope of setting up new servers, redeploying the code and entire site Transformation. Responsible for performance tuning of existing batch jobs that resulted in reduced job failures and on time completion of data loads in the data warehouse.Performed code reviews to check standards.Managed offshore team with up to 8 members and reviewed their work and ensured quality delivery to customers.The main learnings were the ability of expectation settings, planning of work coupled with good tracking along with being responsible for my delivery.Interacted with the customers in day-to-day operations and with cross-functional teams.

Client: American Express,Ameriprise FinancialStarted out a fresh graduate in this role. Primarily involves working with the team lead and coding for the requirements. As a part of training, I was trained on Java and I had completed a certification SCJP, SCWCD , OCP Fundamentals .As aprt of my roles & responsibilities , i was involved in fixing bugs and performed enhancements.Was also a Developer in Critical Day 1 project of American Express-Ameripise Financial cut over. Also did unit testing, provided technical support to system testing and user acceptance testing to ensure smooth deployment to production, along with production support.Analyse logs for Production issue identification/Resolution. Responsibilities included JIRA cleanup as well.