Result-oriented IT Program Manager with 25+ yearsof demonstrated industry experience and strong domain expertise in Retail and Hospitality industries.
Skilled business strategist, adept at planning and managing projects while aligning business goals with technology solutions for process improvements and overall gains.
Strong client management skills, leading and implementing multi-thread enterprise transformation programs. Excellent senior leadership communication skills.
Expert in Agile and Waterfall project management frameworks.
Experienced in delivering mission-critical software solutions to the hospitality, insurance, finance, retail marketing and manufacturing industries.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager & Engagement Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2021 - Current
Company Overview: Client: Sunbelt Rentals, Fort Mill, SC Industry: Retail
Directed a portfolio of IT transformation programs with a combined budget of $50M, delivering technology solutions focused on SaaS (Salesforce).
Facilitated partnership with IT teams, discipline partners, and multiple service providers involved in the portfolio and successfully led teams with 100+ members.
Drove Agile Delivery Model, PMO standards and procedures across all IT teams that improved and enabled predictable delivery across all teams.
Responsible for stakeholder management within business and technology and provide reporting built with transparency, clear articulation of challenges and mitigation, and progress of Product Roadmap.
Established a Vendor Management model with a budget of $40M and led governance of the model.
Client: Sunbelt Rentals, Fort Mill, SC Industry: Retail
Program Manager & Engagement Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2021 - 10.2021
Company Overview: Client: Macys, Atlanta, SC Industry: Retail
Manged the integration of Klarna payment model with Macy’s eCommerce program.
Fast tracked the implementation by providing hands on expertise in business validation for the program and thus ensuring a successfully delivery.
Client: Macys, Atlanta, SC Industry: Retail
Program Manager
Marriott International
10.2015 - 05.2021
Company Overview: Client: Marriott International, Bethesda, MD Industry: Hospitality
Provide program management for multiple top-priority, high-visibility projects at Marriott International in the Data, Sales and Revenue Management portfolios.
Responsible for executive leadership reporting and presentation, defining contracts, driving bids and proposals, project team selection, grooming, and mentoring, providing PMO guidance to project teams.
As domain consultant with strong customer management skill, responsible for account growth and active participation in sales drives at account level.
Active participation at the Travel, Transportation, and Hospitality (TTH) unit level on multiple engagements.
Successfully led initiatives in Growth & Transformation, Integration and Cloud Migration, Legacy Modernization.
Block Chain based pilot in CTAC for Travel Agent’s Commission processing.
Starwood Integration in Revenue Management, Sales, Loyalty, and Data Platform.
Company Overview: Client: Marriott International, Bethesda, MD Industry: Hospitality
Provide project management over various top-priority and complex projects as a contractual Program Manager to Marriott International in Sales & Revenue Management department.
Managed budgets up to 1M USD and cross-functional teams of 10 developers, testers, and analysts.
Provide strategic guidance to the client in defining business goals; facilitate requirements grooming; and presentations to the executives.
Provide guidance and mentorship to the team to establish successful project delivery.
Company Overview: Client: Nissan Motors, Terence, CA Industry: Manufacturing
Business Requirements & Analysis, technical designs for enhancing the system, manage project between the team in India and customer based in US, provide technical mentorship to team members.
Use of: VS Cobol II, COBOL 390, Natural, DB2 v8, ADABAS, CICS, JCL, VSAM, MQ Series, COBOL Stored Procedures, Smart Test, TRAX, Omegamon, Platinum, File-Aid, Endevor, Panvalet, CA7 Scheduler, IBM Mainframe.
Client: Nissan Motors, Terence, CA Industry: Manufacturing
Technical Lead
R.S. Software
02.2003 - 08.2003
Company Overview: Client: Scottish Widows, Edinburg, Scotland Industry: Insurance
Requirement analysis, work effort estimation, design application, manage build, and implementation between the team in India and customer in UK.
Company Overview: Client: Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburg, Scotland Industry: Finance
Analysis of business requirements, resolution of production problems, coordination within and outside the team and business users, performance tuning of applications, and providing on-call support for specific applications.
Use of: VS COBOL II, COBOL 390, Easytrieve, DB2 v8, CICS, JCL, VSAM, MQ Series, COBOL Stored Procedures, Xpeditor, Omegamon, Platinum, File-Aid, Strobe, Endevor, Change Management, CA7 Scheduler, IBM Mainframe.
Client: Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburg, Scotland Industry: Finance
Project Manager
Hanover Direct Inc.
01.1999 - 05.2001
Company Overview: Client: Hanover Direct Inc., Hanover, PA Industry: Retail
Analysis of business requirements, coordinate the build and implementation of work between customer and team in India, organize training for the team, perform QA reviews.
Design data migration strategy between legacy accounts, design interfaces between mainframe and non-mainframe platforms for real-time database access/updates, and design ETL routines for the data warehouse applications.
Use of: MF COBOL, Pro
C , C, Shell Script, HTML, DB2, Turbo Image, Oracle 7.3, 8i, MQ Series, Stored Procedures, Super Tool, Qedit, Trax, Visio, PL/SQL Formatter, SQL Loader, Sun Solaris Unix 5.63, HP 3000.
Client: Hanover Direct Inc., Hanover, PA Industry: Retail
Project Manager
VISA
12.1997 - 01.1999
Company Overview: Client: VISA Industry: Finance
Make all mainframe applications Year 2000 compliant.
Use of: VS COBOL II, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Xpeditor, File-Aid, Endevor, CA7 Scheduler, IBM Mainframe.
Client: VISA Industry: Finance
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Calcutta University
Advanced Diploma - Software Application
Tata Infotech
Skills
Client account management
Effective presentation skills
Proposal development
Program Management
Integrated business planning
Vendor management
Agile and Waterfall
ROI analysis
Decision-making
Remote team management
Team leadership
Cross-functional supervision
Team building and mentoring
Domain Expertise
Industry - Retail, Hospitality, Insurance, Finance
System migrations and integrations
Enterprise-wide implementations
Certification
PMP Certificate, PMI
Certified Scrum Master, csm
ITIL Intermediate Certificate in Operational Support and Analysis, CSME
Advanced Diploma in Software Application, tata infotech ltd, India
Assistant Delivery Manager at Tata Consultancy Services, Global Shared ServicesAssistant Delivery Manager at Tata Consultancy Services, Global Shared Services