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Sameeta Karekar

Project Analyst
Thane,MH

Summary

Over 14 plus years of extensive experience including in various domains like Banking, Insurance ,Telecom and Corporate in defining and supporting processes for IT Program Management Operations , Financial Management, Change & Risk management , development , testing and overall SDLC lifecycle of the project . Involved in the overall simplification of the project management process in order to execute the Complete lifecycle of the project with ease for the IT Project managers. Hands on Process development, coding, testing, review of full life cycle commercial applications and also unit testing and System testing and knowledge of tools like Plan view, CA Clarity PPM and HP PPM. Worked on the different modules of the Project portfolio management tool of HP PPM, Planview and Clarity modules like Project Management, Portfolio Management, Resource Management, Time Management, Demand Management, Program Management, Finance Management and Access Rights. Dedicated to successful project completion with the ability to work under deadline pressure. Excellent Analytical, Problem solving, communication and Leadership skills. Familiar with entire Software Development Life Cycle Strong skills include hands on PPM tools like Plan view, HP PPM , CA clarity . Self-motivated with excellent communication skills

Overview

4
4
years of post-secondary education
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
Certificates

Work History

Project Analyst

Capgemini
Mumbai, IN-MH
02.2014 - Current
  • Mentation Client Renowned American Retail Bank Environment: Windows Role: PMO Project Co-ordinator Brief description of the project:, (Project Management Office) Support Team is a part of Capital Retail Bank, USA.
  • Along with the team, I support numerous project managers guiding them through the different phases of SDLC.
  • Right from Initiation to Kickoff through Estimation, Scheduling, Funding, construction, up to the final release of the project.
  • Designing the process flows to cater to the PMO process requirements and providing support for these processes’ am solely responsible for handling the Capitalization process which includes handling the financial data of different projects, Creation of financial reports in accordance with the finance team.
  • Responsibilities.
  • Serve as SME for financial tools and advisor to Business / Portfolio Managers - gain deep understanding of financial toolsets and relationships between them - staffing planner, wallets / TFRs, SW capitalization versus depreciation.
  • Develop Technical Specification document based on high level process map acquired from managers/Functional Owners
  • Coordinate with the Finance team, PMO leads , Project Manager to layout, improve the Capitalization process as appropriate for the Organization Capitalization policy.
  • Ownership of the entire Capitalization activity which includes co-ordination with Project Manager to enter the Capitalized cost , Creation/Submission of the Capitalization report to the Finance team on monthly basis.
  • Analysis and requirement gathering of capitalization processes with functional owners.
  • Consolidation of project schedules for the different program portfolios.
  • Managing the project plan in MPP and planview.
  • Defining of the reports required for higher management showcasing the project status, overall health.
  • Co-coordinating with the users for streamlining the functional process, reports as per the Organizational motive.
  • Analysis and validation of deliverables/documents required for various tollgates of all phases of SDLC - Requirements, Design, Construction, Testing, Release and Control for all projects.
  • Facilitate the PREP meeting and the actual Prioritization Sub-Committee Review meetings to ensure the priority projects are allocated funds on time.
  • Shortlisting the projects which need to be estimated.
  • Facilitating the Pre-Estimation Consulting Meetings between all the application teams and the Project teams to ensure all application teams are covered under estimation and scheduling.
  • Facilitate review meetings to ensure the Projects’ Rollout readiness as per the schedule.
  • And facilitate the Change Advisory Board review meetings for the final release of the projects.
  • To design / modify any new process which includes Change Control, Risk , Issues.
  • Providing support the Business/Project Managers for executing the project lifecycle in Planview which includes Initiation, Planning, Execution and Closure of the projects.
  • Co-coordinating with the functional owners in maintaining the project financials and rolling up them to Program projects.
  • Involved in executing PMO office hours for resolving the queries related to project execution for the IT Project managers/Senior leaders.
  • Involved in designing /modification of the process in order to simplify the project execution.
  • Providing automation techniques to ease reporting /process execution time.
  • Involved in creation of Standard operational document , BRD’s for reference to team members.
  • Working with the Program managers and finance team to maintain the project estimation, Actuals Cost, project charters in Planview.
  • Providing support for entering estimates, resource actuals/ forecasts and monthly reconciliation in plan view.
  • Helping the functional owners in defining the timesheet process for FTE in order for Capitalization purpose.
  • Very well versed with project funding process and workflow to create and standardize financials requiring collaboration with business managers, internal COO team, and IT Finance.
  • Track and monitor financials of the project at program and strategy level.
  • Advocated for ways to streamline ongoing projects, prioritizing shorter turnaround times and consistent development quality.
  • Reported project cost analyses to enhance workflow and increase profits.
  • Assessed clients' ongoing projects for potential issues, advising project managers on possible solutions and necessary precautions.
  • Created in-depth reports regarding important project data that was distributed to client on weekly basis.
  • Developed frameworks to streamline project monitoring by [Job title], including intervention protocols and resolution hierarchies.
  • Traveled to off-site meetings, serving as client's primary liaison with customers by providing detailed progress reports.
  • Analyzed transportation logistics, modifying project goals in accordance with transport realities.
  • Tracked ongoing project advancement towards predefined milestones, reducing instances of missed deadlines by [Number]%
  • Presented project analysis findings at [Company] to [Job title].
  • Built lasting and collaborative partnerships with individuals both within and outside of company.
  • Monitored ongoing projects for adherence to prescribed timelines, suggesting operational changes where needed.
  • Generated project health reports for stakeholders and senior personnel, tracking metrics such as [Type] and [Type].
  • Designed quality assurance testing methods for projects in [Type] Industry.
  • Authored status reports for senior executives, detailing overall performance metrics such as [Type], [Type] and [Type].
  • Drafted scheduling protocols for [Type] project, aligning business goals with budgetary concerns and staff availability.

PMO Analyst & Administrator

06.2013 - 01.2014
  • Brief description of the project: The basic objective of this project is to govern the day-to-day project activities pertaining in the Clarity tool which includes Portlets, Reports, Access rights, User Creation , Timesheet, Financial Transactions, Project management, Portfolio Management, Financial management and handling change request related to applications issue.
  • Modules:.
  • Clarity Admin activities.
  • Financial Management.
  • Project Management.
  • Service Request Responsibilities:.
  • Monitoring the scheduled Production Job, reports and processes on daily basis .Incase of failure to take the appropriate measure for its successful run.
  • Handling the support request and resolving it within the SLA time limit.
  • Perform administrative activities which include resolving the invalid transactions, manual running of the jobs.
  • Develop Technical Specification document based on high level process map acquired from managers/Functional Owners.
  • Communicating with the Project managers/PMO for assisting them in the Project management related activity which includes creating Projects, assigning task , adding resources to the project.
  • Communicating with the functional owner for identifying the pain area in any of the module and assisting them in the best possible way.
  • Involved in the Clarity Upgrade having clustered environment for load balancing and BO server upgrade activity which included, technical document preparation for upgrade, performing the upgrade activity, coordinating with the onsite coordinators in resolving the upgrade issue if any, communicating with the Clarity Support team to resolve the issue.
  • Involved in clarity installation with the cluster environment and SQL server as the database along with BO installation and ensuring that the out of box and customized reports are running fine and the different modules of clarity are running as desired.
  • Mentoring the team member to understand the process and the tool functionality.
  • Involved in the prepartion of the Monthy status document to broadcast the staus of the requests(Problem,Incident, Service) ,attend the Monthly call with the functional owner in order to provide the detaisl of the requests, developement work progress, road map for the coming days.
  • Communicating with the users to identify the pain area and assisitng them in resolving the issue.
  • Preparing the automation script for notification changes, sharing different knowledge based articles with the tteam memebrs.
  • Assisting team members in resolving the defects.
  • Mentoring and assisting the team members and helping them in case of any difficulty.
  • Managing the shigt timings of the team mebers.

HP PPM Administrator

HP
08.2011 - 06.2012
  • PPM PMO Client American multinational conglomerate corporation Environment: Windows Role: Production Support and PMO Analyst Brief description of the project: The project is to enhance the existing customer PPM implementation as per the requirements specified by the customer.
  • Configuration of objects, processes, validations, portlets, etc.
  • Were a part of the project.
  • The project also involved gathering requirements for “Incident Management” from the customer and implementation of an e-mail plugin interface for the customer along with configuration of the process.
  • Modules:.
  • Service Request, Portfolio Management Responsible for:.
  • Requirements Gathering and Impact Analysis.
  • Development and configuration of objects, processes, security groups, dashboards, etc.
  • Server maintenance activities.
  • Testing and bug fixing.
  • Documentation – Functional Specifications, Design, User Manual.
  • Deployment of changes to Prod.
  • Environment.
  • Suggesting best practices to customer.
  • Implementation of project, resource and time Management modules.
  • Coordinating the User Acceptance testing.
  • While Support activities Ready to serve was the intensions from Users Perspective spread widely.
  • Developed new Process as ‘Voice of Customer (VOC) which basically used to take care of business users day to day problems faced by them from the Initial phase.

Senior Developer and Production Support Analyst

01.2011 - 07.2011
  • Project: Batch Optimization Client American multinational conglomerate corporation Environment: Windows, Brief description of the project: The project is about the batch process which is the backbone of collections for a US based large conglomerate.
  • Batch system is MF-COBOL / Oracle / UNIX based back-end which processes Billing/Order/Ledger entries/Reporting data and various other feeds for different business systems.
  • These batches are executed from the UNIX scripts scheduled in APPWORX / CRON with minimal Operator intervention.
  • Modules:.
  • Development Responsible for:.
  • Understand Batch process and collect scenarios which cause performance issue.
  • Optimize Modules attach to Daily/Weekly/Monthly Batch taking significant execution time and causing performance issue.
  • Execute shell script in background to have parallel execution of the multiple independent scripts.
  • Split single large run of the module, into multiple smaller run that can run with subset of data in parallel to reduce the overall execution time.
  • Support to the testing team in case of any bugs.
  • Optimizing the scripts related to PLSQL /UNIX inorder to reduce time for running it.
  • Helping the DBA/infrastructure team for setting up the testing environment for unit testing.
  • Helping with the Production release team for making the release smooth on production in case of any issues.

Senior Team Member

06.2010 - 11.2010
  • Unix Role:, for Production Support and Development Brief description of the project: The project is basically about the Migration project which does the deployment of the PeopleSoft code from development to UAT environment, maintains the synchronization of UAT and development environment and works on purging cleanups of the environment.
  • Modules:.
  • Support Activity.
  • Development Responsible for:.
  • Migration of Peoplesoft projects from Development to Testing environments.
  • Enhancement of the UNIX script used for log purging and clean up scripts required for housekeeping.
  • Scheduling the purging script and the clean scripts through Crontab scheduler.

Team Member

Renowned British Telecom Company
12.2008 - 05.2010
  • Environment: Unix Role:, Brief description of the project: Avalon is the convergent billing platform for BT Retail, which is used to bill customers for products and services.
  • The system comprises of a convergent billing COTS product Geneva/Infinys interfacing with customer management, accounting and mediation systems.
  • The Projects involves working with various components/interfaces associated with the Billing System.
  • It has been essentially associated with the Payments component which needs to work closely with BAL/Amdocs/Credit Debt Mgmt/Accounting component.
  • Modules:.
  • Geneva (Billing Tool).
  • Toad (Pl-SQL tool).
  • Unix (shell scripting) Responsible for:.
  • Development and enhancement of CreditManagementDebitManagement (CMDM) module of Avalon.
  • Have explored on code coverage and code quality tools which includes bullseye and gcov, DBMS profiler, code expert for C and SQL for SDK.
  • Had done the development work pertaining to Pro C, PL-SQL, and SQL.
  • Had reviewed codes pertaining to PL-SQL,SQL.
  • Handling Calls pertaining to Design and requirement with the user and the Design team.
  • Preparing Low level Design document, Unit Test Plan, Unit Test logs.
  • Documentation on the basis of agile methodology and SDK tools.
  • Testing automation for unit test cases on UTPL-SQL.
  • Working on code quality for SQL, scripts using code expert, c advice tools.
  • Handling of Production support and End to End test support.
  • Handling of Post Production Deployment Issues.
  • Automation of the Deployment process using Unix shell scripting and packaging.
  • Automation of the Unit test cases using PLSQL and Unix shell scripting.

03.2007 - 04.2008
  • Project: SDP Service Domain Processor and CISA (Charging Supply Information and Audit) Client Renowned British Telecom Company Environment: Unix Role: Team Member Brief description of the project: SDP (Service Domain Processor): The system SDP is associated with the live pricing for PSTN calls.
  • It also provides the useful information to its different interfaces.
  • This system is also used to do the Repricing (Recovery) of the old calls.
  • The primary purpose of CISA (Charging Supply Information and Audit) was to supply NCDB (National Charging Database) data to downstream systems.
  • The NCDB data being highly sensitive is kept under tight access control due to sensitivity of some data held.
  • A copy of the public domain data is taken by CISA allowing reports and interfaces to be generated.
  • Many of the CISA applications includes BOC (Basket of Calls) For SDP and Bre Con, CISA interfaces, CISA Website, CISA Recoveries.
  • Modules:.
  • Unix(shell scripting).
  • C/ProC.
  • Toad (Oracle PL-SQL) Responsible for:.
  • Code changes work of interfaces as per the requirement.
  • Doing development work for the same.
  • Had done the enhancement for CISA Website which included the front end and backend changes.
  • Had done a couple of CISA recoveries which included running of various shell scripts, executables and rearranging of the recovery data as per the CISA format, preparing the recovery report as per the requirement.
  • Involved in the testing process for couple of iterations which included preparation of test data and test document.
  • Involved in the review process, defect tracking mechanism as a part of agile implementation.
  • Had done the documentation work in accordance with agile implementation which included documentation related with coding, testing and delivery artifacts( preparation of release note, Config register etc).
  • Version Controlling of the CISA interfaces, BOC using Continuss.
  • Has prepared the auto build script for SDK for CISA end Page 1 of 7.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical

Yeshwantrao Chavan College Of Engineering
01.2002 - 01.2006

Professionals (MBA) - Finance

Indian Institute of Management

Certified Scrum Master - undefined

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Skills

Organization and Time management

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Timeline

Project Analyst

Capgemini
02.2014 - Current

PMO Analyst & Administrator

06.2013 - 01.2014

HP PPM Administrator

HP
08.2011 - 06.2012

Senior Developer and Production Support Analyst

01.2011 - 07.2011

Senior Team Member

06.2010 - 11.2010

Team Member

Renowned British Telecom Company
12.2008 - 05.2010

03.2007 - 04.2008

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical

Yeshwantrao Chavan College Of Engineering
01.2002 - 01.2006

Professionals (MBA) - Finance

Indian Institute of Management

Certified Scrum Master - undefined

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