Revathi Diana Michael
Project Manager IT
Chennai
Summary
Project Manager | Project Management Specialist A dedicated and technically competent professional with over 17 years of rich and extensive experience in the field of IT mainly in project management towards delivering excellence in cross-functional team building and leadership Hands-on experience in handling multiple banking, insurance and infrastructure projects using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies Proficient at managing assigned IT projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope of project Adept at developing, maintaining, and revising proposals for assigned projects including project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, timelines, funding, and staffing Excellent communicator with interpersonal skills, accustomed to working in a team environment with tight schedules, and carries the capability of working efficiently under pressure
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Project Manager IT
Kone Elevators
03.2024 - Current
- Prepare Project Management Plan and Project Plan.
- Prepare the Effort estimation and finalize the Budget of the Project.
- Reviewed the project in every stage of the Project life cycle.
- Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development
- Prepare and manage Project Plans, including timelines, key milestones, budgets and resource requirements, which ensure the successful delivery of the project.
- Identify, negotiate and manage resource requirements within delegated projects
- Define and implement a project Quality Plan and Risk Plan working with senior employees and subject matter experts.
- Manage projects and ensure that key outcomes, contractual requirements, and key deliverables are met.
- Manage the overall plan in conjunction with Senior Managers to ensure work is assigned and completed on time and within budget.
- Effectively plan and manage projects in alignment with the chosen Project Management Methodology and the terms of contract.
Capgemini
05.2022 - 03.2024
- Managed end to end transition proj
- Resource and Stakeholder management
- Project KPI tracking - Forecast Vs Actuals
- Manage project budget and cost allocation
- Handle project risks and issues
- Follows up with assignees to ensure action items are completed on time
- Ensured project success by identifying and minimising risks throughout the project lifecycle so that schedule and budgetary compliance is achieved
- Scheduled and organised the application discovery meetings with App owners and other stakeholders
- Responsible for status update in daily stand-up meetings
- Handled on-boarding and off-boarding process for team and tracked all tickets created during the migration
- Processed and updated status to client
Project Specialist
Bank of America
05.2019 - 03.2022
- Reported to Delivery Lead with team size of 200+ resources in offshore and tracked Agile projects using JIRA
- Managed the strong existing talent pool in each area, contributed to skill development and capability building
- Forging strong relationship with stakeholders and prepared presentations for the executive management (in Weekly/monthly/town halls off-site/leadership meetings
- Responsible for the LOBs forecast, budget management, variance analysis and process financial information for monthly actuals and forecast, across multiple lines of business
- Prepared monthly KPI and helped stakeholders in review the reports
- Managed and facilitated meetings with stakeholders and COOs from multiple LOBs along with presented results of monthly financial budget and forecasting analyses
- Articulated variances and collaborated with stakeholders to produce and execute mitigation plans
- Defined, analysed, simplified and documented business requirements and translated requirements into an actionable work plan to improve upon existing business processes
Assistant Manager (PMO)
Sopra Steria
02.2012 - 03.2019
- Managed 3 (2 Banking and 1 Insurance) Accounts with more than 10-15 projects in each account
- Managed 3 LEAN projects with an aim to provide effort savings
- Managed a team of 6 FTE and ensuring that staff are motivated, monitored and measured in line with company targets and performance standards
- Scope of work analysis.
- Liaise with Client and gather requirements for Transformation projects.
- Assisting Project Managers, Scrum Masters (AGILE Process) and Program Managers in handling daily activities.
- Coordinating project review meeting and scrum meetings.
- Working with development, testing team and track project status.
- Assigning appropriate milestone, tasks, resource level and hours as per the requirement.
- Resource assignment and scheduling on basis of availability.
- Project Budget Control and administration.
- Preparing project Dashboards and Scorecards.
- Managing Project Estimation, Release and Implementation.
- Handling Change control process.
- Preparing and maintaining weekly and monthly project status reports.
- Maintaining fiscal systems for the purpose of recording, forecasting, monitoring and budgeting project expenditure.
- Managing the Supply and Demand of Projects.
- Plan to improve upon existing business processes
Process Lead
Thomson Reuters
06.2007 - 05.2010
- Holding weekly internal and external meetings on progress.
- Complete reporting regarding process.
- Managing staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed timeframes.
- Ensuring effective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables produced.
- Keeping accurate administrative records of expenditure, accounting, costing and billing.
- Producing project definitions to include validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.
- Handling Stakeholders queries.
Education
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) - Project Management
Alagappa University
01-2014
Masters of Computer Applications (MCA) - undefined
Ethiraj College of Women under University of Madras
01-2007
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Computer Science
JBAS College For Women under University of Madras
01-2007
Skills
ITIL ITSM Prince2 PMP Project Management MS Office Automation Application Management Team Management Demand Management Escalation Management Resource Estimation Capability Building Budget Management Variance Analysis Client Relationship Management Stakeholder Management Document Business Requirements Project Documentation Quality Assurance Dashboard Management Risk management Project scheduling Project tracking Project management Agile methodology Scope management Project planning and development Budgeting and forecasting Coaching and mentoring Budget preparation and control Project estimation and bidding Schedule management Project scope analysis Project Tracking Agile Scrum
Certification
Prince 2 Certified
AVAILABILITY
Ready to relocate; Possess no bond with the current employer
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Project Manager IT
Kone Elevators
03.2024 - Current
Capgemini
05.2022 - 03.2024
Project Specialist
Bank of America
05.2019 - 03.2022
Assistant Manager (PMO)
Sopra Steria
02.2012 - 03.2019
Process Lead
Thomson Reuters
06.2007 - 05.2010
Masters of Computer Applications (MCA) - undefined
Ethiraj College of Women under University of Madras
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Computer Science
JBAS College For Women under University of Madras
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) - Project Management
Alagappa University