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Hartford, Ct, Us

Connecticut, United States

Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States

Greater Boston Area

- Manage, drive and deliver strategic projects in a rapid pace environment with at least 30 different lines of businesses and 400 applications. Completed releases so far: Scheduled (300); Off Cycle Application Changes (70); Hotfixes (35)- Acting as a PM/BA by providing detailed technical & product solutions, communicating business requirements for all stakeholders- Prioritizing issues from the field and delivering them as hotfixes for the Clean Harbors’ end users- Conducting daily Scrum meetings and following them up with additional meeting to address impediments- Collaborating with development team to plan project sprints, monitor workflow, make vital decisions, and timeline adjustment as needed.- Working closely with QA to identify test scenarios, test plans and validate business requirements- Maintaining proper documentation such as general project plans, action items, timelines, and meeting / call notes on all projects.- Setting and driving project timelines, ensuring all deliverable are met and completed on time.

Norwalk Ct

- Delivered multi million dollar budget projects with high quality, on time and efficient usage of processes and resources via Agile methodologies - Led, motivated and managed a team across all phases of SDLC in multiple releases on different projects and in all aspects of estimating, planning and resource evaluation.- Controlled the budget for each project and maintaining the agreed levels of expenditure.- Coordinated with customer to gather requirements and manage needs and expectations.- Acted as a Scrum Master with onsite & offshore teams on different time zones via daily scrum meetings - Worked closely with Business solutions team to drive project kick-offs and help define project scope, SOWs, as-is & to-be workflows and project charter.- Provided accurate forecasts, status reports and presentations to members of Executive team (C-level).- Key player in developing practices for maintaining industry regulations and compliance (HIPAA & PCI).- Worked with Infrastructure team to plan/define Amazon EC2 instances and migrate the legacy salesforce.com portals into an improved, robust, high performing and scalable platform.- Inherited a project that was in jeopardy of being lost due to bad testing, however through a series of corrective actions and implementing test automation, delivered the project successfully.- Administered procurement and maintenance of software licenses and tools, P & L statements for vendor invoices and employee expense reports.

Westerly, Ri

- Jointly responsible for managing the “Reporting” product using Agile methodologies for Adult & Pediatric Echocardiography, Cardiac Catheterization/CT, Vascular ultrasound, Nuclear / Stress modalities (3 major releases - over 15,000 man hours per release; 4 service updates and numerous hotfixes; over 150 sites).- Contributed in the creation of functional requirements, development of user stories and use/test cases based on market research and input from customers, clinical, sales and support teams.- Served as a mentor for training Dev/QA teams about Agile processes and implementing them for the product and project releases.- Collaborated with Dev team to plan project sprints, monitor workflow, make vital decisions, and timeline adjustment as needed.- Enhanced the product marketability by globalization (added French Canadian, UK English) and by standardization using HIPAA, DICOM/HL 7 & ACC NCDR/STS registry Support. - Liaison to interconnect Clinical Product Management and Product Engineering teams with the focus to reduce validation/test cycle by 50%.- Extensively involved in clearing out an FDA audit and various CAPA activities by performing immediate preventive actions and corrective actions. (1 major FDA audit and 4 internal audits; 5 CAPAs).- Spearheaded an effort to enhance the product for iOS by managing the Cardio-mobile project.- Collaborated with EPIC systems EMR in an effort to integrate Agfa’s cardiovascular product.

Westerly, Ri

- Managed the developmental and sustaining activities for the Cardiovascular Reporting product and its major components such as Registry Export Tool for STS/NCDR, Data Mining Tool and Inbound/Outbound tools. (Team of 8 engineers; 4 major releases; 20+ service updates, 15+ hotfixes; 100+ quick upgrades).- Introduced a new and innovative process called “Quick Upgrade” and implemented it for upgrading customers to the released service updates & hotfixes (reduced upgrade time from 2 days to 3 hours; increased the number of customers upgraded per month from 3 to 20).= Responsible for identifying and prioritizing tasks from the product backlog for major releases and service updates by working with functional and clinical product managers.- Conducted rigorous quality control inspections to ensure compliance with coding standards, best practices and healthcare industry standards.- Tremendous contribution in Agfa’s Product Globalization effort by adding language support for French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese (Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana).- Involved in design and architecture for the next generation products surrounding the Cardiovascular reporting suite (SNOMED CT, IMPAX Agility Integration and Cardiovascular Platform).

Westerly, Ri

- Designed and developed products & tools for the current and next generation software platform to continuously improve the Results Management (RM) web application.- Implemented features using the .Net Technologies involving WCF/WPF and Web Services.- Written code using C#.Net, VB.Net, Classic ASP, Oracle SQL/PLSQL during the developmental phases for Results Management Suite, Inbound/Outbound, STS/NCDR Export Tools and Data Mining Tool.- Created detailed design documents for the releasable products and validated test cases written by QA.- Coordinated with integration, build and QA teams during the developmental phases of the product development iterations to ensure quality, time and scope.- Selected to participate in company’s yearlong product/project management training program.

Schenectady, Ny

This project deals with migration of older versions of database, forms and reports to newer versions of database, web forms and web reports. Also involves database compliance activity and system design.- Worked on Design & Normalization of all database tables using Entity-Relationship diagrammer.- Converting classic forms and COBOL reports to Web Forms (6i) and Web Reports (6i).

Redmond, Wa

Social Computing Group online laboratory hosts a web site where registered users can participate in an online experiment or a study conducted by the research team. - Created, designed and developed all the web pages for collecting data for the online experiment.- Designed, normalized and created all the database objects using SQL Server..

M.B.A., Business

Pmp Certification Training, Project Management