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SHANMUGAPRIYA (PRIYA) VAIDHIYANATHAN

Buffalo Grove,IL

Summary

24 years of Technology delivery experience with last 15+ years in technical leadership, program management & portfolio management roles. Involved in variety of business domains primarily in Banking & PBM with technical leadership expertise in Oracle background platforms, reporting tools and various operating systems. Solid analytical, communication, problem solving, critical thinking, and leadership skills. Adept experience in end to end technical solution and delivery management of business applications from initiation to implementation, and post-implementation support management. Experienced portfolio manager with excellent client and project management skills. Action-oriented to communicate effectively with technology, executive and business audiences.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

Principal Project- Program/Portfolio Manager/ Agile Practitioner

Optum -United Health Group
10.2017 - Current
  • 3
  • Technology portfolio & program delivery management role to manage projects within Optum’s technology solutions on application programs, company acquisitions & integrations
  • Cross Application delivery management under Agile Scrum delivery model
  • Planning and coordination of scrum teams
  • Risk Assessment & Mitigation Planning
  • Resource management involving onshore and offshore
  • Change management and approvals
  • Communication management with business and other stakeholders
  • Financial budgeting and forecast (up to $15 MM )
  • Program status reporting and managing of stakeholders communication
  • Release and warranty support
  • Methodologies : SAFe
  • Tools : Clarity PPM Optics, Rally
  • Team Size : Managed Onsite & Offshore Resources (Team Size 20)

Technical Program Manager

GalaxE Solutions
09.2016 - 10.2017
  • Technology program and cross application management role to manage projects within client site
  • Under Optum technology solutions
  • Cross Application Project management under Agile Scrum delivery model
  • Planning and coordination of scrum teams
  • Risk Assessment & Mitigation Planning
  • Resource management involving onshore and offshore
  • Change management and approvals
  • Communication management with business and other stakeholders
  • Financial budgeting and forecast (up to $10 MM )
  • Program status reporting and managing of stakeholders communication
  • Release and warranty support
  • Methodologies : SAFe
  • Tools : Clarity PPM Optics, Rally
  • Team Size : Managed Onsite & Offshore Resources (Team Size 20)

Sears Holding Corporation
10.2012 - 09.2016
  • Technical project/program and application platform management
  • Technology project, program and application management role to manage projects within Home Services from initiation phase to confirm phase related to new development, enhancement, regulatory and compliance projects (PCI)
  • Project/program planning and tracking that includes management of deliverables from different project SDLC cycle
  • BI environment management involving new developments, upgrades, maintenance and support
  • Financial budgeting and forecast (up to $1 M at a time)
  • Methodologies : SDLC Waterfall, Agile Scrum
  • Tools, JIRA, Work Lenz & MPP
  • Team Size : Managed Onsite & Offshore Resources with team size of 5 to 15
  • Database : Greenplum, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server and Teradata
  • Other soft wares & tools : Oracle Golden gate 11.1

delivery manager

06.2011 - 10.2012
  • Performing end-to-end technology, role to manage projects from Initiation phase to Warranty phase related to personal savings applications enhancements, bank projects related to new development, enhancement, end user computing solutions, legacy products migration from vendor platform, regulatory and compliance projects
  • Technology Vendor management through SOW
  • Managed Onsite & Offshore Resources with team size 15 – 20
  • Methodologies & Tool: SDLC Waterfall, Clarity & Microsoft Project Planning

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Inc
02.2006 - 10.2012
  • End to end Technical delivery/

Onsite open client technical delivery lead

03.2007 - 05.2011
  • Technical Analysis, Design, Architecture and Support of open client applications, Data warehousing, & Reporting Applications
  • Program management involving client management for deliveries from Cognizant
  • Project planning and tracking, Cost Estimation and implementation
  • Stakeholder Communication Management (Status Reporting, Metrics)
  • Onsite and offshore team management
  • Methodologies : SDLC Waterfall & ETL
  • Technology : Oracle 10G, 9i PL/SQL, UNIX, Shell Scripting, Perl Scripting, Control-M Job Scheduling, Crystal Reports, Java, MQ-Series
  • Utilities : Sqlloader, Export/Import, BMC Patrol

Onsite

Patni Computers, Inc
03.2005 - 02.2006
  • Development/support lead
  • Assisted in production application support, enhancement of procedures, and the development and improvement of Business Objects reports for the Electronic Payment Domain and Money Transfer System
  • This domain consisted of the applications that made up the electronic payment services area
  • Technology: Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, UNIX, Shell Scripting, Business object 6.1, Mercator 6.7, IBM MQ Utilities : Sqlloader, Export/Import

Technical delivery lead

Hexaware Technologies
10.2003 - 01.2005
  • Served as Technical lead for backend modules and participated in data modeling, design, code walkthrough, testing, and implementation for the Billing Management System (BMS), a charging module of the investment company Alliance Capital
  • Purpose of the project was to maintain charge parameters and calculate charges for customer investments
  • Technology:, UNIX, Shell Scripting, Oracle Reports

Technical delivery lead

Polaris Software Lab
12.1997 - 10.2003
  • Served as Project Lead for the Data Migration Team and was involved in requirements gathering and data mapping
  • Participated in design, code walkthrough, testing, implementation, and performance tuning
  • Project purpose was for implementing a mutual funds system for third party funds
  • Converted existing data in the host system from AS400 to Oracle database through ETL methodology by Custom PL/SQL
  • Utilities : Sqlloader, Export/Import
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Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -

Bishop Heber College
1998

B.S - Industrial Electronics

Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College
1995

Skills

  • OS :
  • Sun Solaris 56, HP-UX 110, Windows NT and 2000
  • RDBMS : Oracle 10g/9i/8i/80
  • Utilities : SQL
  • Loader, Export/Import
  • Tools : ETL, Mercator 67 (Data stage TX), Microsoft Office, Toad
  • Reporting Tools : Business Objects, Crystal Reports
  • Languages : PL/SQL, Pro
  • C, UNIX Shell Programming, Core Java
  • Others : Message Queuing (MQs)
  • Delivery Management Methodologies : SAFe Agile SDLC Waterfall, RUP
  • Delivery Management Tools : Clarity, Work Lenz, Microsoft Project Plan, JIRA, Rally, Aha
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Software Engineering
  • Information Technology Management
  • Business Intelligence Project Management
  • Operating Budget
  • Operational Efficiency
  • Financial Analysis
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Change Management Process
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Vendor Interaction
  • Process Improvement Solutions
  • Cost Control and Reduction
  • Cost Control
  • Presentation Skills
  • Status Updates
  • Pivot Tables Understanding
  • Project Strategy
  • Project Organization
  • Cost Estimates

Accomplishments

  • Achieved [Result] through effectively helping with [Task].
  • Collaborated with team of [Number] in the development of [Project name].
  • Supervised team of [Number] staff members.
  • Documented and resolved [Issue] which led to [Results].
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Achieved [Result] by completing [Task] with accuracy and efficiency.
  • Achieved [Result] by introducing [Software] for [Type] tasks.
  • Resolved product issue through consumer testing.

Certification

PMI – Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) Oracle PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate Rational Unified Process Fundamentals (RUP - Certified )

Affiliations

  • Project Management Institute

Timeline

Principal Project- Program/Portfolio Manager/ Agile Practitioner

Optum -United Health Group
10.2017 - Current

Technical Program Manager

GalaxE Solutions
09.2016 - 10.2017

Sears Holding Corporation
10.2012 - 09.2016

delivery manager

06.2011 - 10.2012

Onsite open client technical delivery lead

03.2007 - 05.2011

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Inc
02.2006 - 10.2012

Onsite

Patni Computers, Inc
03.2005 - 02.2006

Technical delivery lead

Hexaware Technologies
10.2003 - 01.2005

Technical delivery lead

Polaris Software Lab
12.1997 - 10.2003

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -

Bishop Heber College

B.S - Industrial Electronics

Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College

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