Description
Ankush Anand, PMP
Cell: +1 609-516-1081 s anand.ankush@gmail.com
SENIOR IT PROJECT MANAGER
software development n enterprise implementations
Experienced project professional having 18+ years of rich IT experience specializing in Project / Program delivery of Java / J2EE based large scale enterprise applications.
- PMP credential from PMI; Management certification – SMP from IIM Calcutta, India; Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering; ten+ years of pure project management and eight years of architectural, infrastructure and computer programming experience.
- Specialization: Successful project delivery record of Java/J2EE based large scale enterprise web applications with F500 Companies as Employers and as Clients in a matrix organizational environments with dedicated PMO. Established experience in design and delivery of cost effective, high performance software applications solving complex business problems. Core strengths in ability to understand business workflow of clients and ensuring timely delivery of the appropriate customized solutions. Extensively utilized OO methodology to develop n-tier /distributed environment client server architecture & SaaS implementation: Amazon Web Services (AWS). Global Delivery Model: Onsite-Offshore. ITIL and ITSM.
- Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
- Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
- Value-Added Leadership: Client Relations & Requirements Management, ROI Analysis, Costing & Budgeting, Software Size Estimations, RFP: Proposals Preparation & Presentation, Productivity Maximization – Resource Utilization. CMMI process adherence.
- Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Managed large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
- Verticals: Domain expertise in Inventory, Telecom, Retail, Enterprise Security,Payment Card Processing (PCI), Academics Mangement, Project Management Processes & Project Financials Management.
Skill Set
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| Technical Skills | |
| Enterprise Development | J2EE,EJB,JMS,JNDI,JDBC,Hibernate,JSP,Servlets,Struts,Spring,AJAX, Icefaces, Flex, Bootstrap,JSON, jQuery, AngularJS, Jasper Reports, Maven, Jenkins, Microsoft Visual Studio |
| Business Intelligence | BIRT, Informatica |
| SOA Technology | Web Services, RESTful API, BPM, Active BPEL and AWS |
| Grid Technology | Grid Toolkit, Grid Services, Meta scheduler: Condor |
| XML Technology | XML, DTD, XML Schema, XSLT, SAX and DOM |
| Database
CMS |
Oracle, SQL Server, PrimeBase, MySQL,PostgreSQL, GreenPlum and DB2EveryPlace
Alfresco, DayCQ |
| OO Methodology & tools | UML and Rational Rose |
| Security | SiteMinder |
| Scrum | JIRA/GreenHopper |
| Web/Application/Portal Server | WebLogic, WebSphere, JBOSS and Tomcat |
| Server Operating System | Win 32 platforms : Windows; Linux and Solaris |
| Version Control | VSS, CVS,SVN |
| Incidence Management | Remedy |
| Network Monitoring | Website Pulse, Nagios Enterprise Monitoring, Gomez |
| Software Testing | Selenium, Load Runner, JMeter, HP Quality Center |
Career Progression
- Sqa Concepts Inc (VA, U.S.), IT Project Manager, Dec 2015 to till date
- MKT Softwares (Noida, INDIA), Associate Director, Jan 2013 to Oct 2015
- Hitachi Consulting (Hyderabad, INDIA), Global Delivery Manager, Dec 2011 to Nov 2012
- Ciber Inc (Bangalore, INDIA), Project Manager, Sep 2010 to Dec 2011
- YASH Technologies (Hyderabad, INDIA), Project Manager/Project lead, Dec 2004 to Sep 2010
Core Responsibilities
- End-to-End mangement – large size custom application and/or product development.
- Vendor Management, Stakeholder Engagement & Overall Customer Satisfaction.
- Managing Business Review Meetings & Status Reporting to PMO / Senior / C-level leadership.
- Scope & Requirements Management (as Product Owner and including verification/validation of deliverables/user stories per acceptance criteria), P&L Management & Milestone Reviews
- Schedule Preparation, Review and Tracking
- Resource Utilization, Capacity Planning and Forecasting.
- Metrics for SLA / KPI, monitoring and adherence / compliance.
- Identify, Escalate and Resolve Issues and Risks in a cross-functional team environment
- Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate PMO, Portfolio Management, and Steering Committee leadership
- Responsible for quality delivery(succesful execution of regression test cases) in Test Driven Development aligned as per UAT
- Lead release planning, estimation,capacity planning and backlog grooming / refinement and prioritization
- Scrum coaching:Training team leads to work as scrum master & Mentoring Project Managers
- Reviewing Technical Artifacts: Architecture and Design Docs
- Mentoring team leads on technical issues.
Drove the high-quality completion of software application development and enterprise wide implementation projects for F500 clients including:
| Amtrak
DTCC Sharp Microelectronics Fine Point Technologies |
Xerox
John Deere Cisco |
American Express
AARP Ten UK |
Achievement Highlights:
- Led teams across diverse geographies. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
- Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
- Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
- Honored with Star Performer Award in 2009 in recognition of outstanding project results.
- Custom Software Developments & Enterprise Implementations: Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for dozens of custom solutions. Directed global rollouts of new software and systems for clients including Cisco and DTCC
Results: Delivered industry-leading software that saved clients millions of dollars, shortened processes from weeks to minutes & improved the consistency and accessibility of data. Ensured defect-free releases through careful planning, testing and QA efforts.
Early Career
- Solitar Systems (New Delhi , INDIA), Systems analyst, 2001 to 2004
- CoFuture Ltd (New Delhi , INDIA), Associate Consultant, 1999 to 2001
- Verifone (New Delhi , INDIA), consultant, 1998 to 1999
Worked on application design and development assignments utilizing OO methodology to develop n-tier client server architecture. Did created System design artifacts using modelling tools.
Design and develop server side functionality using Java, EJB, and SQL. Servlet programming and applet programming and the java bean network components
- Robotics (New Delhi, INDIA), network engineer, 1997 to 1998
Did Network Installation(LAN), setting Internet for systems with TCP/IP ,DNS, DHCP. Desktop PC’s assembly and operating systems installation and configuration
Education & Credentials
- BE- Electronics from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, India
- Senior Management Program (SMP) from IIM Calcutta, India.
- PMI-Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), (active PMP)
Others(Certificate of Participation)
- Certified Web Master from World Wide Web Institute,India
- Unified Modeling Language training by ILinc, India
- CMM overview from Quality Assurance Institute ,India
- Microsoft .NET Readiness with Commerce Server from Microsoft Consuting Services, India
Work Experience
| Sqa Concepts Inc Dec ’15 – till date |
| INPENSA Inc, NJ, U.S. : Amtrak, Cisco and DTCC
EBVM (Enterprise Business Value Management) : Solution offers unique core capabilities that can be delivered either independently or as a fully integrated EBVM – COTS offering: PlanIQ Solution implements the best practice approach for PPM towards prioritizing projects and balancing portfolios across the enterprise. It systematically defines ROI, objectively rates projects, and decisively weeds out low priority investments thereby aligning new investments and business-as-usual spend to strategic goals and business priorities. TracIQ Solution is ROI tracking and value realization tool that reports the performance of initiatives that are under way. It focuses beyond the project period to track the expected ROI, revenue growth, cost saves, and business outcomes and to report variance. Tracking Benefits: 1) Rebalance portfolio – Ability to rebalance project portfolios based on value derived. 2 )Shift to high value projects – Shift ongoing run costs from low value projects to high value projects. 3) Drive accountability – Hold key stake holders accountable for delivering value as promised in the business case.4) Deliver value – Present the value of your portfolio to senior executives leveraging on-demand KPI’s and metrics CaseIQ Solution is for capturing investment proposals in the form of business cases. Organizations rely heavily on Excel worksheets and email chains to move cases along the maturity path from inception to approval or rejection. Rationalizing investments is a very critical process that often suffers from poor data quality, inaccurate financial calculations and or a non-existent audit trail. The CaseIQ solution is designed and purpose-built to resolve the pain points of business case development and management. |
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| MKT Softwares, India Jan ’13 – Oct ’15 |
| ESIM is an innovative education software solution for educational institutions – helping institutions in standardizing procedures for better management and delivering education across spatially separated campuses. ESIM facilitates management to have a 360 degree view of entire campus on a single click. ESIM Campus is a comprehensive academic management system for K-12 schools, colleges and universities worldwide. It facilitates institutions from first contact with a prospective student through graduation and alumni relations. |
| Hitachi Consulting, India Dec ’11 – Nov ’12 |
| emnos, Germany – American Express: emnos is a consulting and services business that helps retailers and consumer businesses across the world to grow faster and more profitably by making better commercial decisions. They do by placing customer knowledge at the center of decision making, so that insight becomes an effective tool for increasing revenues and reducing cost. emnos offers a unique combination of specialist consultancy, products and support services that enable its clients to effectively use, and benefit from, customer insight. They help the clients on
• Decode what millions of transactions and interactions reveal about customers • Distil customer understanding into strategic recommendations for growing and shaping business over the long term The emnos approach to applied customer knowledge reduces the reliance on guesswork and gives decision-makers the power to make the most profitable choices for their business, at every level. One such product the emnos Analyzer, developed by Hitachi, is a scalable and highly flexible reporting system that is able to answer core business questions, drilling down to individual store and SKU level. New product launches, cross purchases and switching activities on any desired level can be accessed directly by clients in order to speed up and optimize decision processes in marketing, sales and category management. |
| Tools and Technologies: Tomcat, IceFaces 2.0,Flex 4.5.Spring 3.5,Alfresco 2.1,LifeRay 6.0.6,Postgres SQL8.4,GreenPlum 4.0,Oracle 10g,JIRA,Scrum. |
| CIBER Inc Sep ’10 – Dec ’11 |
| AARP, US – AARP DSO (Jan ’11 – Dec ’11): DSO is responsible for Partner for AARP Membership/user base increase goals, Planning and implementing all Web applications of AARP ,Planning and maintenance of Infrastructure for Web applications ,Setting up and maintaining CMS, Designing & producing content for AARP website ,Creating and publishing of expert opinions & articles in various verticals ,Providing platform for community blogs, discussions, forum, communication and Analysis of market competitor and implement improvements. Program Scope has following tracks :1) Testing – Building Manual test cases for .org, Test Automation using Selenium & Production support activities 2) Performance Management- Proactive Monitoring of .org site, Analysis of Performance bottlenecks & Weekly performance reports 3) Production Support 24×7 Incident Management, 24×7 Production support for .org site & Monitoring and Escalating of DSO Web Infrastructure issues/alerts 4) Internet Operations 5) Release Management |
| Xerox Corporation, US – Xerox MSS Redesign (Sep ’10 – Oct ’11): MSS is the main customer service application used by inbound metered representatives in Lewisville, TX call center .Level I support phone representatives handle inbound customer calls. Each call involves a series of steps the inbound representative follows with the customer through the established call flow. The call can be escalated during any step in the process. The Metered Supplies System (MSS) is a key component of the overall process of delivering supplies to US metered customers efficiently and at the lowest cost while still maintaining customer satisfaction. |
| Tools and Technologies: JBoss, Spring, Day CQ 5.3, Google Search Appliance, Website Pulse, Nagios Enterprise Monitoring, Gomez, Struts, EJB, Oracle. |
| YASH Technologies Dec’ 04 – Sep’ 10 |
| YTI, US (Sep’08 – Aug’10): Policy Manager Policy Manager is the master key to CA eTrust SiteMinder® policy environments with single point of access to SiteMinder® environments via a web interface. It offers a very functional policy reporting engine and fine grained access control features, and an integrated user-friendly test tool. It supports Reporting and Professional edition. Reporting edition gives you the view-only access of SiteMinder environment while Professional edition also allows for administration operations, e.g. create, edit and delete the SiteMinder® policy objects.
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| MMA, US – MMA Response Management (April ’08 – May’ 09): MMA Response Management is an implementation of credentials wallet approach which combines the saving of credentials into the LDAP directory with an Identity Manager Logical Attribute, retrieving them with an Active Response, and finally a page which will receive the headers, and create a login request to the application posting the credentials to the application. A Logical Attribute Handler is implemented to retrieve wallet credentials fields in the user profile and encrypt them and store them in a specified user attribute, the LAH also decrypts the attributes and display them to the user when the profile is being viewed. |
| YTI, US – ClaimsPrice (Oct ’07 – May ’08): Pocket PC-CP is an application for claims processing hosted on Pocket PC. It’s geared towards Insurance Claim Adjusters, who check for the claim amount based on certain criteria and recommend the amount to be paid against the claim. The core components of the applications are Categories, Assignments, Tasks and Reports are core components of the application.
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| YTI, US – Web Business Process Modeler (Sep ’06 – Nov ’07): ‘Web Business Process Modeler’ is a web based tool for orchestration of Grid/Web Services and compliant to BPEL Standards. Functional Analysts can directly create/model business process with this tool over the internet. |
| YTI, US – WebNMS (Sep ’06 – Jun ’07): WEBNMS is based on RFC 1695, 1441 to 1452 i.e. SNMP ver 2.0. WebNMS provides features like configuration of Network, monitoring of Network, MIB browser, PING Utility, GUI based display of TCP/IP Statistics and network protocols. The front end was developed with lightweight applets capable of showing the bar charts and graphs. The backend was in the form of Servlets. The servlets query the Network components which are Java beans and the results are shown are passed as parameters to the applets which then display the results. |
| FinePoint Technologies, US – ACM (Dec ’04 – Oct’06): Fine Point ACM is a web based integrated system for Telecom OSS (Operational Support System) automation. ACM framework supports Package Manager, Service Manager, Task Manager, Device Manager and Interface Manager. These modules support an array of user interaction, starting from device interactions to creating services and managing and packaging those services. |
| Tools and Technologies : SiteMinder, Scheduler- Condor, Active BPEL, BPM, Grid Toolkit, Rational Rose, IBM Workplace Client Technology, SOA, Web Services, Hibernate, J2EE (JSP, Web Services, Swings, Signed Applet, XML, XSLT,X-Query),Struts, Jasper, AJAX, BPEL, Hibernate, WebLogic, WebSphere Studio, Oracle10g, MSSQL Server, DB2 Everyplace, Windows, Linux, Tomcat,Cisco VPN client .
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| Solitar Systems |
| Computerized Inventory Control Package (CICP)(Nov’03 – Dec’04): ‘CICP’ – is an inventory management system for Indian government COD:Delhi Cantonment,India. The application covers functional areas like1) Issue, Receive, Audit and Stock taking 2)Provision and Procurement 3) Part Change and Publication 4) Warehousing and Depot A/C 5) Disposal & Salvage 6) Statistical Method Branch 7) Expense Stores Group 8) Return Stores Sub Depot
Responsibilities:1) Create and Validate business requirements.2)Create High level and low level design of Issues, Receives and Audit modules using Rational Rose. 3) Lead the development of the Issues and Receives modules.4) Designed and developed server side functionality using Java, EJB, and SQL. |
| TenUK– UK :TenMAID (Apr’03 – Nov’03): TenMaid Application is used extensively by its Lifestyle Managers to cater to the client requests. This application allows users to view a personalized job request service and process the requests. TenUK staff uses the application to administer and manage the member accounts. |
| Sharp Microelectronics – Germany : eCVAM Customer Satisfaction Program (Aug ’01 – Apr’03): This System helps SHARP Microelectronic Europe (SME), Hamburg, to receive information about their customer base throughout Europe. RVAM Deutschland provides SHARP SME with reports about the individual requirement profiles and actual performance evaluation from approximately 2.000 customers throughout Europe. The data was collected via RVAM’s proprietary eCVAM website. Look & feel and limited functionalities of the eCVAM application have been customized to SHARP SME’s specifications. |
| Environment: J2EE, JSP, JavaScript, WebLogic and SQL Server. |
| CoFuture Ltd |
| SwiftLocums (Mar ’01 – Jul ’01): SwiftLocums Limited, UK is a premier Agency in providing the Health care services to Hospitals and doctors (Locums) and has primarily a job of assigning a locum to a Hospital on the basis of availability. Apart from Job scheduling of a locum they largely focus on Administration, finance, billing and maintaining the track record of Locum. Swift Locums portal is a platform for registered locums (medical practitioners) where they can work for some other hospitals, which are registered, with the portal on part time basis. |
| Opportunity Tracker (Sep ’00 – Feb ‘01): The opportunity tracker is a web-based tool for opening up new opportunity requests and monitoring the existing ones. The opportunity request is created in the system and is then forwarded to the concerned parties; these parties depending on the rights assigned to them can take actions on the opportunity or can forward it to the next phase with approval and/or comments. |
| Generic framework for E-Commerce site (Sep ’99 – Aug ’00): The project is about designing and developing a framework for Portal Sites. The architecture is based on the JSP, EJB model. The framework is designed in a generic way so as to provide reUSbility of the components for making similar sites with minimal coding involved. The site will have the generic features like two level navigation, search and query user registration and maintenance, customized banner display etc. |
| Environment : JDK, JSP, SQL Server 7.0, XML, JSP, JavaScript, SQL Server, Rational Rose 98, WebLogic 5.1, Windows NT,MS-SQL, JSP, JAVA, JDBC. |
| Verifone |
| Upgradation of Verifone’s Omnihost for the acceptance of Smart Cards(Jan ’98 – Aug ’99 ):
This project has been developed for Verifone India limited/Escorts Finance Limited. Omnihost 3.0 is a payment processing system for the acceptance of credit cards. Point Of Sale Terminal located at the merchant location dials to the Omnihost for the transaction approval. Technical abilities of the Omnihost have been upgraded from accepting credit cards to smart cards. (Used as payment mechanism) Personalization module has been added for the personalization of the fresh smart cards. This system included Personalization Module, Reload Module and Reports Module |
| Environment : Oracle-7.3, Forms-4.5, Reports-2.5,and SCO Unix2.5 |
Education
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
- BE- Electronics
- PMP