Client: Horizon BCBS of New Jersey | Client Partner - Capgemini Inc. America• Work with multiple business owners to get status on their tracks' progress and help them remove obstacles• Manage and communicate scope of the project to the team and motivate them to deliver good quality product by removing impediments and obstacles.• Analyze risks, establish contingency plans, and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigation action. Oversee risk activities and closely monitor the issue log.• Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, keeping them informed of project progress and any ongoing issues.• Manage stakeholders up to the level of VP, SVP and CIO. Provide accurate and timely project status and Finance reports.• Worked as Technical Project Manager and monitored Offshore Delivery of multiple project keeping cost and schedule on track.• Reported project margin, productivity and other KPI's to Offshore Delivery Manager.• Working with product Manager and setup meetings for all ceremonies.• Managed offshore resources and worked on contracting for those resources.• Communicate status of projects to all stakeholders in Steering meeting, Level 2 and Level 3 Meetings.• Prioritize critical path activities to successfully complete projects on time.• Improved Project Margin and Productivity by leveraging best practices available within organization and outside.• Manage project finances including monthly forecast and variance analysis.• Tracking Schedule, Cost, Scope and take preventive/corrective actions in case of any variance.

Client: Aetna Inc., Hartford, Connecticut• Created Project Management plan and other relevant plans to track the project's Cost, Schedule and Budget.• Led end to end IT Scrum team for Member Domain in Healthcare Industry.• Delivered approx. 100+ projects/Service requests in 4 year tenure as Scrum Master.• Successfully managed and delivered 10-15 Projects/SR as a IT Project Manager.• Monitor cost and schedule variance and take corrective or preventive action.• Excellent CMMI knowledge with focus on following IT processes.• Outstanding knowledge of America's Health Insurance Industry• Generating project status, matrices and financial reports for Senior Management• Working with senior management to discuss elevated risk and issues.• Participate in L2 and L3 meetings for the domain and organization.• Mentor and provide oversight to other Project Managers.• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings that included Sprint planning and daily scrum meetings, standups, Sprint check-in, review, and retrospective.• Facilitated estimation sessions for Quick Size and release planning.• Transformed projects from Waterfall to an Agile Scrum iterative methodology, working with senior management to remove team impediments on a daily basis and allow the team to deliver Sprint goals and deliverables.

• Started Agile methodology in Mainframe Development projects and delivered many projects in Scrum Agile.• Completed many business critical and complex healthcare projects in Mainframe technology.• Provided requirement analysis, design, tech specs, coding, testing, quality review, and delivery of customer requests using COBOL, JCL, CICS and DB2. • Involved in preparation of Detailed Functional Requirement Document and estimations for the assigned projects. • Involved in preparation of application maintenance and technical documentation for the system. • Develop and code mainframe COBOL and batch applications accessing DB2 database.

• Participated in all requirement discussions and technical design discussions in major projects to fill gaps in the requirements and technical design.• Developed and Unit tested the application with robust test cases covering all of the scenarios. Performed peer reviews of team member's code.• Monitored of Daily, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Jobs. • Involved in creating various Daily, weekly, monthly batch reports using COBOL and JCL. • Analyzed and tuned SQLs for all DB2 application programs.• Provided many business value adds to the end customer.• Writing requirement Document, Program Specification, Complete solution Description, Reviews.

• Gained knowledge for Mainframe technology and worked on US Healthcare application projects.• Prepare and review JCLs, Test plan/Test data, Conduct unit, Interrogation and regression testing.• CICS maps coded using BMS. • Reviews at all the stages of SDLC.• Monitored the first run of jobs after code deployed into Production