Vinay Doijode Email & Phone Number

Rosemead, Ca, Us

In a hands-on Project Management role, successfully handled broad responsibilities including:* Defined the project in PPM (Portfolio and Project Management), created artifacts to advance through decision points. Communicated with Project Sponsors and stake holders. * Lead cross functional team consisting Business SMEs, various IT teams to deploy highest quality technology solution. * Developed work effort estimates, SOW, detailed WBS, project plans, and solid skills in performing forecast, actual, and variance budget tracking. Worked extensively with SAP to manage projects, maintenance work and generate reports.* Analyzed requirements, consulted with IT and Business SMEs to define release contents.* Analyzed release notes from vendor, reviewed test plans, testing scripts. Managed QA team activities to run extensive system testing, conducted triage calls, prioritized issues. * Lead team of Business and IT SMEs to define UAT scope, conducted UAT kickoff, resolved issues, monitored progress and reported status.* Responsible to articulate project risks, issues, dependencies and critical path steps and mitigation. Provided project status to Senior Management and escalated issues to appropriate management levels in a timely manner.* Created and communicated business deployment plan, obtained approvals, coordinated implementation activities and supported transition. * Incorporated CAISO regulatory dependencies in to overall planning. Enabled participation in market simulation testing and aligned deployment with CAISO schedule. * Maintained excellent relationship with Vendor. Influenced evolution of software. Helped define contract terms, monitored performance. * Lead documentation of lessons learnt and root cause analysis of issues. Used findings to help vendor quality improvements. * Resolved technical, functional and performance issues for applications deployed on a high availability (HA) platform and developed using Java, WebLogic and Oracle.

Rosemead, Ca

As part of a multi-year program performed following activities: Provided SME support for Energy Trading, Settlements, and Contract Settlement functions of power supply. Analyzed requirements. Consulted with IT, Business and Vendors to identify new solutions and provided recommendation to senior management.  Responsible for scope, schedule and resource to implement new customized vendor application to replace legacy applications.  Documented requirements, use cases, wrote test plans, test scripts and managed testing teams.Key Projects: Lead a team of developers to customize vendor package for finance department’s complex Charge Allocation function. Met aggressive deadlines set by the program and delivered a high quality product. Production support of legacy systems:  Responsible for maintaining legacy applications. Lead a team of developers to maintain several Client Server and Web based applications.  Identified Business Impact Events (BIEs). Communicated status to management, developed improvements to stop recurring events. Identified and implemented fixes to frequently occurring issues. Implemented emergency fixes for critical production issues.

Agoura Hills, Ca

Greater Los Angeles Area

Chennai Area, India