Open To Work
Suchismita Biswal
Scottsdale,AZ
Summary
Experienced IT professional with 16 years in software development for enterprise mainframe and Java applications within banking and financial services. Leads multi-functional teams and implements agile methodologies. Certified Project Management Professional skilled in project management tools, focusing on planning, implementation, risk management, and process improvement to deliver quality results on time and within budget.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Project Manager
Jenius Bank
Phoenix, USA
05.2024 - Current
- Manage assigned project resources and hold accountable to committed estimates.
- Own the assigned project deliverables and outcomes.
- Updated and tracked project risk register to proactively mitigate potential project impacts.
- Presented weekly updates to leadership on project status.
- Maintaining project Gantt chart and understanding the impact of the risk to the deliverables.
- Own, facilitate, and direct the appropriate project ceremonies.
- Maintain and update project schedules, plans, and/or boards.
- Manage internal compliance programs and understanding the global regulatory environment (AGC Process for approving any system integration for compliance).
- Manage system security using PenTest/AGC/DAST scan/SATS scan/vulnerability management.
- Work in agile methodologies, prioritization, and PI planning.
- Managing software development lifecycle from requirement gathering to delivery using CI/CD.
- Worked in several cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Couchbase.
- Identify project risks, proactively work to prevent the risk event from happening and/or mitigate its impact on the project.
- Maintain project fiscal controls and budgetary process requirements.
- Own all aspects of project communication.
- Operate at subject matter expert level of detail.
- Maintain and manage cross-functional partnerships.
- Communicated with impacted teams to develop plans for UI design.
- Conducted capacity planning to align team resources with project needs.
- Conducting meetings to make sure that the leadership/stakeholders are aware of current progress.
- Managed change control events to ensure smooth implementation process.
- The project aims to create a proprietary platform that will enable the JB in-house consumer to connect multiple account relationships to a single customer (JCID). Ensures that we meet the regulatory needs for a Customer Identification Program in a single source of record. Provide an accurate and complete view of the customer across all lines of business, regardless of channel.
IT Project Manager
Marsh McLennan
Phoenix, Arizona
08.2023 - 05.2024
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver IT project milestones on time.
- Managed project scope, schedule, and resources for multiple initiatives.
- Developed project plans using Agile methodologies and best practices.
- Facilitated stakeholder meetings to define requirements and align project expectations.
- Monitored project risks, identifying issues and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Coordinated vendor partnerships to secure timely delivery of IT solutions.
- Communicated project status updates to executives and stakeholders regularly.
Technical Scrum Master
American Express
Phoenix, USA
12.2022 - 08.2023
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies to enhance team collaboration and project progress.
- Conducted capacity planning to balance team workload and mitigate risk of burnout.
- Own, facilitate, and direct the appropriate project ceremonies.
- Manage assigned project resources and hold accountable to committed estimates.
- Own the assigned project deliverables and outcomes.
- Identify project risks, proactively work to prevent the risk event from happening and/or mitigate its impact on the project.
- Communicated with impacted teams to develop plans for UI design.
- Ensured the implementation process adhered to company standards.
- Followed up with teams on defects raised to ensure deliverables met communicated expectations.
- Maintain and update project schedules, plans, and/or boards.
- Maintain project fiscal controls and budgetary process requirements.
- Own all aspects of project communication.
- Operate at subject matter expert level of detail.
- Maintain and manage cross-functional partnerships.
- Prepared weekly reports for executive board to provide transparency on project status and progress.
- The project aims to manage the Digital banking platform operation team. The team mainly focused on Incident management and code fix in production.
IT Project Manager
Marsh
Phoenix, USA
05.2022 - 12.2022
- Managed project scope, schedule, resources for multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver IT project milestones on time.
- Developed project plans using Agile methodologies and best practices.
- Facilitated stakeholder meetings to gather requirements and align expectations, driving clarity and consensus among project teams.
- Monitored project risks, identifying issues and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Coordinated with vendors for timely delivery of IT solutions, enhancing project execution and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Communicated project status updates to executives and stakeholders regularly.
E2E Test Manager/Scrum Master
American Express
Phoenix, USA
09.2019 - 01.2022
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies to enhance team alignment and deliver project goals.
- Discussing the scope with the product owner and creating user stories.
- Conducting meetings/standups to make sure that the leadership/stakeholders are all aware of the current progress.
- Managed change control events to ensure smooth implementation and adherence to project timelines.
- Followed up with teams to address raised defects and ensure deliverables met communication standards.
- Supported the team during unforeseen issues throughout the project.
- Informed leadership daily about ongoing project events.
- The existing platform is going through technology transformation from the Legacy system (Mainframe) to a distributed system. As a part of the transformation, there is a need to do extensive testing for existing applications.
MF/Java Technical Lead
American Express
Phoenix, USA
03.2015 - 09.2019
- Planned, deployed, and managed the development structure by strictly following the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Provided extensive support to the product owner in managing the backlog, maintained scrum process standards, and identified stakeholders and their conditions of acceptance.
- Initiated and defined scope of all projects through meetings with IT managers, project managers, and stakeholders of American Express.
- Monitored and reviewed project deliverables during various phases of the development life cycle to maintain quality deployment.
- Expertise on batch MQ processing to send output data in an appropriate format to the downstream application.
- Proposed and implemented many re-engineering ideas which resulted in reduced job cost and annual savings to the client.
- Responsible for developing logic and codes for creating a payment file which reads data from real-time sources and batch sources as well as eliminates duplicate payment for any customer.
Mainframe Developer
American Express
Phoenix, USA
01.2013 - 03.2015
- Contributed to technical workflow discussions and documentation, mapping documents, and data modeling design to improve project clarity.
- Participated in analysis, design, development, and testing phases for the implementation of new features.
- Analyzed the requirements and designed class diagrams, sequence diagrams using UML and prepared high level technical documents.
- Implementing server side functionalities using java, servlets, Hibernate and developing business logic in Java using the J2EE API.
- Developed solutions to accelerate business turnaround time by identifying risks and enhancing acceptability rate.
- Analytical SQL and to write Complex SQL using Joins, Cursor and exception handling.
- Work closely with the business team for gathering requirements for Risk Analysis.
- Worked on business process management to identify real time business rules.
- Worked on BRE business logic and written coding using java.
- Implemented Struts MVC framework.
- Effectively collaborate with other engineers, architects, managers and product managers to solve complex problems spanning multiple projects.
- Participated in full SDLC life cycle, including requirements gathering, high-level design, detailed design, data design, coding, testing, and creation of functional documentation.
- Created Action Forms and Action classes for the modules.
- Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Changeman, Stored procedures, IBM utilities.
Mainframe Developer (MF Technical Lead)
American Express
India
06.2009 - 12.2012
- Led application team of 8 members, overseeing project deliverables and team collaboration.
- Worked extensively in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2 technologies.
- Actively participated in client meetings and deliverable meetings.
- Conducted End-to-End testing until the client provided sign-off.
- Handled the estimations and identifying the requirements that will fall under Minor enhancement / Major enhancement.
- Coordinated with Quality team and business team for getting sign-off on all the functionalities before implementing into production.
- Taken care of the critical Postproduction defects/issues and resolved all the issues.
- Environment & Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, JSON, CICS, XML Parsing, DB2, STROBE, SORT, ICETOOL, CA7, Change man, ENDEV.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering
Institute of Technical Education and Research
INDIA01-2009
Skills
- Project management
- Risk management
- Agile methodologies
- Development lifecycle
- Cloud platforms
- Stakeholder engagement
- Resource allocation
- Compliance management
- Budget management
- Communication skills
- Problem solving
- Leadership capabilities
- Team collaboration
- Conflict resolution
- Sprint planning
- Schedule management
- Cross-function collaboration
- DevOps principles
- Technical leadership
- Product roadmapping
- Project leadership
- Technical troubleshooting
- Agile project management
- Team coordination
- Modern programming languages
- SQL
- PLSQL
- Scripting languages
- Database management systems
- Mainframe technologies
- JDBC
- JSON
- Web services
- HTML
- JAVA
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Intellij
- Eclipse
- MS Office
- GIT
- Changeman
- Easytrieve
- DB2 DB
- MQ services
- Automation tools
- Microservices architecture
- Native
- Stored procedure
- Version control systems
- Remote access tools
- File transfer
- API testing tools
- Postman
- Code quality tools
- Continuous integration
- Jenkins
- Data Studio
- SQL developer
- Confluence
- Rally Agile tool
- Ignite
- Oracle
- Postgres
- MemSQL
- Mongo DB
- Data modeling
- Object-oriented design
- Software architecture
- AWS/Lambda
- S3
- Lambda deployment
- Financial technologies
- Insurance
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Excel
- Jira
- Visual communication tools
- Cost control
Certifications Awards
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), active
- Project Management Professional (PMP), active
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workWork Type
Full TimeSalary Range
$115000/yr - $200000/yrTimeline
Technical Project Manager
Jenius Bank
05.2024 - Current
IT Project Manager
Marsh McLennan
08.2023 - 05.2024
Technical Scrum Master
American Express
12.2022 - 08.2023
IT Project Manager
Marsh
05.2022 - 12.2022
E2E Test Manager/Scrum Master
American Express
09.2019 - 01.2022
MF/Java Technical Lead
American Express
03.2015 - 09.2019
Mainframe Developer
American Express
01.2013 - 03.2015
Mainframe Developer (MF Technical Lead)
American Express
06.2009 - 12.2012
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering
Institute of Technical Education and Research