Vishal Varma

• Information Technology professional with over 15 years of global experience in project management, program coordination, requirements gathering & analysis, software process improvement and testing in various domains. • Experience in managing the project and leading a team (overseas and onsite). • Experience in managing the project with Third Party Vendors like IBM GBS, Capgemini & Cognizant. • Experience in Project Management of implementation for COTS products (Maximo & SAP). • Experience in different phases of SDLC including requirements gathering, analysis, design, testing, implementation and deployment. • In depth understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) - Waterfall model and the Agile Methodology. Good understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP) • Extensively experienced in gathering, documenting and managing business and functional requirements and designing business process models using, Use Case and Activity diagrams. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. • Experienced in performing GAP analysis to identify the deficiencies of current system and identify requirements for the proposed system • Very strong time management skills in handling multiple projects and deadlines under minimal supervision. • Strong leadership skills and extensive experience in acting as a liaison between the business users at all levels and the IT/development organization to relate expectations, oversee progress, and resolve conflicts. • Experience in vendor management, SOW, Contract, RFP, Charter, and procurement of hardware and software products and services. • PMO skills including project plans, adjust timelines, balance resources, set priorities, monitor risks, negotiations, deliverables, share progress reporting. • Maintaining negotiations, relations and communication with contractors, vendors, service providers, customers, system users and other stake holders. • Organized onsite and offshore coordination for effective virtual team building, task accomplishment. • Led cross team efforts to resolve complex technology issues, track team progress and direct corrective action, mentoring, team building, assigning duties, recommend training, and performance feedback. • Extensive experience in programming with C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, XML, VB. • Excellent knowledge of SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2014, T-SQL/PL-SQL, stored procedures, triggers and Optimizing SQL queries.