CV, Project Manager,Senior Cobal Programmer Looking Globally

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Skills keywords: certified scrum master, mainframe, project management

Short Bio:

I have a total of 10.2 years of IT experience. I am a Mainframe specialist and am currently working as a Project Manager in Cognizant Technology Solutions. I am looking for an overseas position as I have spent most of my career at client locations (Zurich and Brussels). I am a certified Scrum Master and have managed Agile projects.
I am a leader. versatile, dynamic and go-getter person.

Current location:  700099 - Kolkata - India - View on map

Nationality: indian

Preferred Sector of Employment:  IT and Technology, Banking Insurance and Financial Services, General Management

Spoken languages: english, little french, little swiss German

Location I am interested in working: Anywhere

Profile

Project Manager – Life Insurance

• Experienced Project Manager offering 10+ years of success in IT service Delivery and Project Management in Life insurance ; Specialized in maintenance and development projects in Mainframe technologies

• Highly skilled professional having a fast track growth in current organization (Became PM in 8.10 Years)

• Overseas Onsite experience(6+) on different client facing roles in multiple regions for European clients

• Lead 10 – 15 member team, responsible for overall delivery and resourcing for 2 concurrent projects

• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, frequent meeting one on one with clients, able to comfortably converse with all facets in the clients organization.

• Certified SCRUM Master, LOMA (ACS) certifications

• Excellent organizational, analysis and problem solving skills; ability to set up and manage large offshore team ;known for performing under pressure while delivering high quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary target

• Excellence in presiding over lively brainstorming sessions, building consensus, recognizing, accelerating peer’s strengths, delegating the “right” task to the “right person”, and building powerful testing teams that can conquer any obstacles

Skills Summary

Software Development Costing & budgeting Risk & Issue Management

Implementations Estimation Stakeholder Relations

Data Migration Requirement Analysis SLA Definition

Support And Maintenance Project Planning and Scheduling Resource Capacity Planning

Testing/QA/ Project Scoping (SOW) Performance Review

Waterfall & Agile methodologies (Scrum) Hiring & Competency development

Certifications

CCP on Life Insurance
CCP on Life Insurance Administration  – Cognizant Technology Solutions

FTM(First Time Manager) – Cognizant Technology Solutions

FLMI Level-0(LOMA 280) LOMA-Net Organization

Certified Scrum Master – SCRUM Alliance

Career Summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Manager- Projects BIPL Sector-V, Salt, lake City
January, 2005 Till Date  ( 10.2 Years)

Executed multiple software development, implementation and enhancement projects in broad technical disciplines for leading Life Insurance clients including:

MetLife (US) AXA – Winterthur AXA – Belgium

Achievements

• Awarded 4 times Star of the Month award

• Awarded 2 times Rising Star of the quarter award

• Contributed in AXA Belgium project which has won the title for “Best Project” of the Year’13 within Continental Europe Accounts

Representative Projects

AXA Belgium – Mainframe AD and AVM – This project provides Managed Services to the customer in Mainframe and Open technologies.. Currently, there are 4 domains hosted in the mainframe environment – Life and P&C.

Cognizant is providing AD and AVM services to the above mentioned as well as other domains

As a Project Manager, my responsibilities as Project Manager include the following:

• Managing team of 10+ members taking overall ownership – Project Management, Project Schedule, Project Tracking and Team Management

• Drafting SOW’s as per customer need and services required

• Drafting the project plan; negotiating on project schedule wherever required

• Offshore deliverables Management, progress monitoring, review, planning & coordination

• Estimation, Planning, Test Strategy, Requirement gathering

• Onsite Coordination & planning, defect management, Process implementation & status reporting

AXA Winterthur – Mainframe AVM – Cognizant provides AVM services to AXA Winterthur. As a Senior Associate, my responsibilities as Senior Associate include the following:

• Managing Onsite deliverables and client expectations

• Interacting with AXA stakeholders to discuss and decide the project planning and project management.

• Propose value added services to provide business benefits to the customer

• Managing team of 8+ members – Guided the team to prepare Release Strategy, Requirement gathering, Test Design & Execution and Test Metrics, defect management, Process implementation & status reporting

• In addition to project activities, actively participated in other project proposal & estimations for AXA and presenting them with AXA stakeholders.

MetLife US – Cognizant provides AVM services to Metlife.

As a Team member, my responsibilities as Team Member include the following:

• Requirement gathering from Team Lead

• Preparing technical specification and then program specification.

• Implementing the changes as per the specification.

• Thorough testing of the new functionality added to the program in the development region.

• Performing system testing.

• Providing production support

Early Career (2005-2013)
Worked in above mentioned development and maintenance projects with different technologies – COBOL, PL/1, Easytrive, AS 400, REXX Having database experience on various database like VSAM, DB2, IDMS. Worked on configuration Management tools like Changeman, Panvalet, Endevor, Dimension.

Qualifications & Education

Title of the Degree with Branch College/University/Year of Passing

B.E –  Silliguri Institute Of Technology – 2004

I.S.C – ST. James High School – 2000

I.C.S.E – ST. James High School-  1998