Dharmesh Mehta Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

All Payer Claims Data @ State of Minnesota (Department of Health)✔ Successfully managed and delivered multiphase APCD program using AWS.✔ Created and negotiated contracts, pricing proposals, and professional services which resulted in 50% savings in overall operational cost.Multiple Health projects @ State of Minnesota (Department of Health)✔ Provide strategic leadership, develop and manage detailed project plan, including schedule, budget, scope, staffing plan, risk register and issues log using an Agile software development process.✔ Coach and mentor team in adopting agile software development methodology.Medical Cannabis Registry @ State of Minnesota (Department of Health)✔ Led the requirements discussion and worked with OMC director and business team to define the detail requirements, determine scope of OMC Registry.✔ Successfully lead cross functional team of 10+ resources in delivering all phases of program from initiation till deployment.✔ Worked very closely with CIO (Minnesota department of health) and OMC director to successfully deliver high profile project from start till end without any bad press.Rebranding Avnet.com @ Avnet✔ Lead and drove development team in successfully completing requirement gathering and reusable POC using UI/UX and responsive web design for all viewports (mobile, tablet and desktop).✔ Worked very closely with leadership and presented detailed project plan and approach for successful delivery.Scheduler System Rewrite for FindLaw @ Thomson Reuters✔ Managed and lead scrum team of 9 global resources to deliver fast paced rewrite of Scheduler System in 9 months.✔ Facilitated all scrum ceremonies and lead effective weekly status meeting with key focus on weekly accomplishment, financials, issues, risk and change request.✔ Mentored and coach team members in effective story writing and scrum process.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Medicare Integration Portfolio @ Express Scripts✔ Lead integration and migration of multiple projects/programs as part centralized technology initiative to merge two fortune 100 pharmaceutical companies.✔ Managed multiple projects of $2M+ EGWP (Employee Group Waiver plan) program and managed and lead the program from QA phase till closure.✔ Delivered on-time and under budget successful initiatives involving two fundamentally diverse cross-functional organizations and ever-changing landscape of resources and processes.✔ Worked as oversight PM in Medicare PMO to migrate benefit domain ($8M initiative) onto nationally capable single platform.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Wealth Management Group @ Wells Fargo✔ Successfully delivered multi-release, $1.6M development projects for Wealth Management Group using scrum methodology.✔ Overall responsibility and accountability for all project phases and acted as servant-leader to manage team of 6 senior developers and 3 QA resources to deliver high quality deliverable focusing on test driven development.✔ Maintained transparent backlog status, burn-up and velocity reports for every iteration in Version One.✔ Participated in all release planning and worked as Release Manager for couple of releases.✔ Worked closely with senior leadership in forecasting and managing risk, issues & changes.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Program Manager – Compass @ Express Scripts✔ Championed scrum (agile) methodology and managed team of 15+ global resources to deliver J2EE & SOA based projects.✔ Provided technical oversight to multiple scrum teams and facilitated Scrum of Scrum meeting.Program Manager – Technology Reporting Refresh @ Express Scripts (Canada)✔ Recovered troubled project by identified gaps and pain points and created management action plan.✔ Minimized the financial and reputation damage which resulted in winning more business from client.Solution Architect & Technical Manager – Enterprise Benefit Systems @ Express Scripts✔ Managed multiple simultaneous phases by leading the team of 25+ global resources from requirement analysis till warranty to deliver J2EE and spring based intranet application.✔ Provided architectural and 'big picture' oversight to development team based on POA vision.Program Architect – Client Facing Applications @ Ameriprise Financials✔ Led the technical team of 80+ onsite/offshore resources during spinoff to migrate all client facing applications to new platform.✔ Provided technical leadership to every project team within program and effectively manage architecture life cycle of project parallel to the project’s software development life cycle.✔ Performed periodic architecture assessment and proposed transformation and thought leadership ideas to generate financial saves.Technical Lead - Marketing Technologies @ American Express Financial Advisors✔ Managed team of 4 offshore resources to design and deliver SOA based web service to generated annual save of around $400K.✔ Lead team of 5 offshore resources in consolidating multiple Actuate Reporting instances to generate annual save of $750K.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Technical Lead – Marketing Technologies @ American Express Financial Advisors✔ Decommissioned third party software (eLeads) by consolidating required functionality in newly developed Java based application saving $200K in licensing cost. Sr. Programmer – Insurance Policy Management @ Nationwide Insurance✔ Developed business components of Intranet application for tracking and manage insurance policies using COM, XML, MTS, and IIS on NT server.

Mumbai Area, India

✔ As project lead, managed team of 6 programmers and graphic designers to design and build B2B portal for agricultural products using ASP, MySQL, and IIS server on windows platform.✔ Worked as programmer & senior programmer in developing multiple client server projects using Microsoft technology and relational database.

M.S., E-Business

B.E., Mechanical Engineering

Diploma, Mechanical Engineering