SOMESH RAO
Project / Program Manager
Fairfield,Iowa
Summary
As a Program / Project Manager, I am responsible for leading the overall program to meet the business objectives on Risk, Scope, Time, and Cost through artifacts. Lead the Project Managers to implement the enterprise projects successfully. Manage the requirements closely and prepare healthy schedules by controlling the scope and scope changes. Involve clients, stakeholders, module owners, and development teams to maintain the healthy project implementations for healthy and successful growth through regular, scrum board stand up and status meetings.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Project/Program Manager
MIU
1 2010 - 1 2024
- Strategize, implement, and maintain program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives
- Develop program assessment protocols for evaluation and improvement
- Oversee multiple project teams, ensuring program goals are reached
- Maintain organizational standards, quality, and performance within the allocated budget and time
- Designed and implemented several change adaptability training sessions for users to evaluate performance processes
- Manage the Projects, including development and maintenance of a formalized framework ensuring the appropriate risk management practices
- Monitor EVM systematically to ensure a healthy project cost
- Experienced in managing the clients, stakeholders in the project, project Integrations (Legacy Systems to the latest systems), implement the knowledge area processes to implement projects successfully
- Supervise and help gathering the detailed business requirements and help converting them to the functional requirements for development through complete Software Development Life Cycle
- Communicate with cross functional teams and coordinate to integrate through latest APIs and web services
- Plan Programs as per the requirements and allocate the parts of program to Project Managers for Implementations
- Implement applications through AGILE / RAD methodologies
- Responsible to deliver Project Management Trainings every year twice (total 320 hours/year)
- Tools: PMBOK 10 Knowledge Areas, PMBOK processes, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Kafka, Micro-Services, RESTful API, Angular, Node, Java Script, HTML5, CSS3, JSP, AJAX, Cassandra, MS-SQL, MongoDB, Agile
Senior Project / Program Manager
Media Ring Pvt Ltd
06.2008 - 01.2010
- Responsible for implementing several java projects with Content Management Systems (using FileNet and Oracle) and implementing while ensuring the success of projects in Scrum Environment
- Customized the workflow completely across the enterprise and used security while transferring confidential content across the networks
- Define user stories and create a product backlog, manage, and optimize the backlogs, primary point to identify and gather the product requirements along with the development team
- Define and prioritize user requirements and user stories
- Communicate and review the product features that are developed by agile scrum team
- Collaborate and work closely with various development teams with cross functional teams
- Manage the Program/Project, including development and maintenance of a formalized framework ensuring the appropriate risk management practices
- Key responsibility in communications and Scope Management meets
- Plan, schedule, and monitor overall progress and initiate corrective action, as appropriate, to ensure that program deliverables are produced on time and within budget
- Determine, monitor, and review all program economics to include program costs, operational budgets, forecasts, staffing requirements, program resources, and program risk
- Developed and implemented effective project management processes and methodologies, including agile and waterfall, to ensure project success
- Manage exceptions, slippage, and issues of priority, and initiate extra activities in the program are identified
- Provide regular updates to Steering Committee / Senior Management
- Experienced in RFQ (Request For Quotations), Proposals, Request for Proposals (RFP), tenders and bids.
Program Manager
Optimum Solutions
05.2004 - 05.2008
- 4 years of experience serving several clients in different projects and products
- Managed projects using java frame works and FileNet suite (project cost worth more than $3 mil) for work flow and content management
- While managing products, communicate and review the product features that are developed by agile scrum team
- Collaborate and work closely with various development teams with cross functional teams
- The few clients served are AIG, AMFAM, Mortgage Hub, Juken, and AT&T.
- Part of Planning and Scheduling of enterprise-wide information technology Programs / Projects
- Implement by iterative approach (RUP)
- Managed successfully stake holders
- Identifying different stakeholders, help understand requirements, nailing down the scope and getting approvals (created project backlogs and user stories while managing the product development)
- Vet functional and technical specifications
- Lead the team in the areas of analytical, scope and business process re-engineering as and when required
- Implemented FileNet applications – Workflow, IBM Infosphere (PIM), Digital Asset Management, SlideShare (Content Syndication)
- Helped the teams prepare, manage, maintain scope processes
- Prepare production support plans for complex, mission-critical business systems
- Develop status reports ensuring that key issues are highlighted, communicated and followed-up; Analyze weekly status reports and provide to user groups, assured for completion of project within budget and schedule
- To liaise between the Project Steering Committee, Vendors and Project Management Committee in delivering the project successfully
- Plan the end user trainings, UATs and production support plans
- Involved in the Business Modeling and Integration Activities of the future states
- Plan & track all project activities, resource planning, identifying dependencies and risks, issues tracking, score carding, etc
- Helped established and sat on the Change Control Board
- Provide Solutions, Manage and Implement the multiple web base projects and integration with the legacy systems using the J2EE, JBoss and Mainframes for the clients
- Co-ordinate In-house and offshore teams
- Designed & developed key issue dynamic reports (Std Reports, Scheduled Reports, and ad-hoc Reports)
- Experienced in RFQ (Request For Quotations), Proposals, Request for Proposals (RFP), tenders and bids.
Senior Project Manager
Delteq Pte. Ltd
04.2002 - 04.2004
- DELTEQ is an Internet solutions company that develops sophisticated technology-based systems to enable clients to extend their businesses into the emerging eBusiness market
- Managed several IT clients for Delteq
- Managed and implemented several Web base projects Banking, Commercial and Government business domains
- Project Management, identifying different stakeholders, understand requirements and creating functional and technical specifications
- Managed the Scope and the Change Requests
- Tracked and managed the Issues, Changes, and Risks
- Responsible for the timely delivery of the projects
- Also responsible for Coordinating the Project Management Team and Clients
- Delivery of the IT application systems, from conceptualization to implementation
- Heading the Application systems tenders, Java Applications Development
- Manage and monitor multiple IT projects, Tenders, Pre-sales activities, and the product sales (partners with HP, Autodesk etc.)
- Responsible for WEB base and Client Server projects in Government Sector from conceptualization to implementation
- Developed secured web projects for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 40 centers in several countries
- Environment (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Successfully implemented a major project, integrating Java systems with legacy ASP dot net applications using C#, SQL server and Active Directory tools
- Experienced in RFQ (Request For Quotations), Proposals, Request for Proposals (RFP), tenders and bids.
Project Manager/Team Leader/Senior Software engineer/IT Analyst
NCS - group of Singapore Telecoms
04.1995 - 04.2002
- Started as IT analyst and grown in the company to the Project Manager level
- Responsible for planning, managing and leading C/S and web-based development projects for clients
- Major responsibilities include managing and dealing with the clients, managing and leading the development and maintenance teams
- Lead the team in analysis, design, develop, test and implement the projects
- Important projects are RIMS, DBCS, INLIS
- Lead a team of end user support and operations management
- Other responsibilities include assisting the Senior Managers in Business Solutions, Tenders and prototypes
- Involved in coding and hands on experience for pilot prototypes
- Responsible for requirements gathering, analyzing, planning, specification, scope, and WBS
- Design and prototype a 3-tier web base management system
- Includes inter operating systems accessibility and inter-application messaging facilities
- Lead a team of software engineers working on the system
- Change control and Change Management was critical here as the RIMS was derived from a formal existing system
- The Change Management standards were set to the Company defined standards
- Involved in all the types of testing (unit test, system integration test, UAT
- Prepared test plans, training specifications and training plans for the clients
- Prepared Implementation documentations, Maintenance plans and handover plans.
Sr Software Engineer
GRM international Pte. Ltd
01.1994 - 01.1995
- Responsibilities include analysis, design, develop and implement the client-server application systems for Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for around 400 users
- The system runs on HP UNIX servers under C/C++ platform with ORACLE ERP and database
- The application system has a major component of Admin and Financial modules (integrated with GIS systems, where ESRI products are used for GIS - Arc/Info and Arcview).
Scientist C
Indian Space Research Organization
01.1991 - 01.1993
- Developed an intelligent system to identify the objects of the digital satellite data for around 600 users
- (Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems)
- The system runs on Vax/Vms, Unix and Oracle database
- Satellite digital data models are used in the application systems
- Migrated major legacy application systems from Vax to Unix
- Part of the research and development of the satellite application systems
- Used C++, Pascal, Fortran and Imaging systems with Prolog and Lisp.
Education
M.Tech - Information Technology
Birla Institute
India08.1991
Master of Science - Computer Science
MIU
Fairfield, IA 05.2001 -
MBA - Master of Business Administration
MIU
Fairfield, IA06.2012
Skills
Project Management (PMBOK)Project ImplementationsArchitecture, Design & AnalysisUX / UI DesignReview and Approve Scalable CodeApplication DevelopmentBusiness RequirementsJava FrameworksJavaSpringHibernateMicro ServicesRestfulJava ScriptCSS3HTML5AJAXAngularNodeC#JSPServletsKafkaCassandraEJB 3ASPNetCCMSMQSwingMS SQL ServerFileNet (Workflow and content management systems)Oracle 9iMongoDBCrystal ReportsERP: Oracle 11i, Distribution and Finance (Data conversions, migrations and Reports)Tools: IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans IDE, Rational Rose EE and MS Project, Waterfall, RUP, RAD, Agile Methodology, MS Visio, Authoring use cases, functional specification, design documents, Class diagrams, sequence diagrams, test plans, test casesOther Software: Proflow, Uniface, Autodesk (MapGuide, Envision, Map, ADT, LDDT), ESRI Tools (Arc/Info, ArcView, SDE, ArcGIS, etc), and FileNet applications – Workflow, IBM Infosphere(PIM), Digital Asset Management, SlideShare (Content Syndication)
Flexible and Adaptable
Vendor Sourcing
Team Leadership
Remote Team Management
Resource Management
Product Development
Program Reviews
Status Updates
Risk Analysis and Management
Software Documentation
Budget coordination
Project Lifecycle
Scope Management
Adaptability and Flexibility
Data Collection & Research
Team Development
Budgeting and Resource Management
Interpersonal Skills
Agile Methodologies
Project Coordination
Vendor Selection
Technical Presentations
Multitasking
Cost Estimates & Budgets
Attention to Detail
Problem-solving aptitude
Work Planning and Prioritization
Certification
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Accomplishments
Received twice Difference Quality Award for work excellency in Singapore.
Timeline
Senior Project / Program Manager
Media Ring Pvt Ltd
06.2008 - 01.2010
Program Manager
Optimum Solutions
05.2004 - 05.2008
Senior Project Manager
Delteq Pte. Ltd
04.2002 - 04.2004
Master of Science - Computer Science
MIU
05.2001 -
Project Manager/Team Leader/Senior Software engineer/IT Analyst
NCS - group of Singapore Telecoms
04.1995 - 04.2002
Sr Software Engineer
GRM international Pte. Ltd
01.1994 - 01.1995
Scientist C
Indian Space Research Organization
01.1991 - 01.1993
Project/Program Manager
MIU
1 2010 - 1 2024
M.Tech - Information Technology
Birla Institute
MBA - Master of Business Administration
MIU