Nirmala Mary, Project Manager

Nirmala Mary

Project Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Location
India
Education
High school or equivalent,
Experience
24 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 6 Months

Project Manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since November 2014

Amgen ARM EDM
Client
Amgen Inc.
Tools & Technology
Documentum
Team Size
25

Delivery manager
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2012 to October 2012
Delivery manager
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2012 to August 2012
Delivery manager at Harris Corporation Tools & technology C and Assembly language
  • United Arab Emirates
  • November 2011 to December 2011
Delivery manager
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2010 to July 2011
Delivery manager at Cognizant technology solutions Tools & technology
  • United Arab Emirates
  • November 2009 to April 2010
Delivery manager
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2009 to October 2009
Project lead
  • United Arab Emirates
  • October 2008 to March 2009
Project lead at Bank of new York
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2007 to October 2008

I was involved in the requirements gathering discussions with regard to this project. I am involved in the review of the UI design and review of the POCs. I am mentoring the team members during the tenure of the project.

Project #8

Title
Corporate services Resource Pool
Client

Project lead
  • United Arab Emirates
  • November 2007 to December 2006
Project lead at Abbo
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 2006 to November 2006

Understanding the Existing Application.
Analyze the requirements of the proposed system.
Co-ordinate with the team and send deliverables to onsite on time and with quality.

Project #11

Title
Head count Tracking System
Client

Project lead
  • June 2006 to November 2006

Coordinating with the Business for gathering the requirement
Understanding the Requirement
Prepared the High level design document.
Mentored the new entrants by taking sessions on JavaScript and on asp.
Performed the role of a technical lead with the s team located in India to execute the requirement.

Senior developer
  • July 2005 to August 2005
Project lead
  • October 2004 to May 2005
Project lead
  • January 2002 to September 2004
Project lead
  • October 2000 to December 2001
Senior Developer
  • February 1999 to December 1999
Senior Developer
  • September 1998 to January 1999
Senior Developer
  • September 1997 to August 1998
Project
  • April 1996 to December 1997

It is a complete hospital management client/server system, with the open database architecture. This consists of various modules like Registration, In-Patient, Out-patient, Accident & Emergency, Pharmacy, Diet & Kitchen, and Report Generation etc. Nirmala was responsible for the coding and the testing of Diet and Report Generation module.

Roles and Responsibilities
Requirements analysis
Involved in designing the GUI for various modules.
Performed the coding and testing.

Organization: - Kals Information system, Bangalore
Project # 20

Project
  • April 1995 to March 1996

This application is used for the design and development of a manpower management and resume processing and tracking application. This is mainly used to match candidates and job orders based on the skill set profile. Extensive and flexible querying was made available.

Roles and Responsibilities
Requirements analysis
Prepared data model using ERWIN.
Involved in designing the GUI using vb.
Performed the coding and testing and did the implementation.

Project
  • December 1994 to March 1995

This application is mainly used to scan and do character recognition. It handled both machine printed matter and hand written matter. The files can be scanned and stored. The characters are recognized and they are exported depending on the source.

Roles and Responsibilities
Requirements analysis
Prepared data model using ERWIN.
Performed the design, coding and testing and did the implementation.

Project
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This is a production support project which involves taking care of administration related tasks of the SharePoint portal of the client which is hosted and accessed by users across various geographies in different time zones across the globe.

Roles and Responsibilities
I was managing the offshore team, taking part in weekly engagement calls, ensure adhering to quality standards, facing internal quality audits & facilitate the closure of the observations.

And coordinating the delivery management and doing time sheet/leave approvals and take care of the RR & updating milestone and submitting invoice.

Also, following it up with AM to get approval for effort estimates & milestone updation.

Project
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This is a production support project which involves taking care of administration related tasks of the SharePoint portal of the client which is hosted and accessed by users across various geographies in different time zones across the globe.

Roles and Responsibilities
I was managing the offshore team, taking part in weekly engagement calls, ensure adhering to quality standards, facing internal quality audits & facilitate the closure of the observations.

And coordinating the delivery management and doing time sheet/leave approvals and take care of the RR & updating milestone and submitting invoice.

Also, following it up with AM to get approval for effort estimates & milestone updation.

Project at BCP
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These are projects which are basically internal applications which cater to the needs of

Client at RLML Enhancements
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Project at IME
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This is a project which is used by the reps and the media in the

Project
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This project comprises of doing NFT for the set of applications which belong to wholesale tower and some in core services. This involves interfacing with various stakeholders & gather non-functional requirements, prepare MTP, DTP, perform test execution, produce a detailed end of test report.

Roles and Responsibilities
I am involved in managing a big team of offshore and also coordinating between the onsite and offshore team, taking care of resource allocations, ensure adhering to quality standards.

I have also been responsible for doing performance appraisal of my direct reports, tracking projects in c2.0, ensure that schedule and cost, scope are getting tracked.


Project # 5

Title
Issue/Risk module in c2
Client

Project
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This project comprises of developing web pages for the existing risk/issue related modules of the Cognizant 2.0 application, Instead of storing and retrieving data from the database, SharePoint list structures are used...

Roles and Responsibilities
I am involved in the co-ordinating between the development team and testing team. Also, interfaced with the C&DS team and participated on the discussions and enabled the developers to implement the same in the application.

Project
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Customizing Use case estimation template project is for customizing the template which consists of various excel sheets in the same work book which will be used to arrive at an effort estimation and thereby we can arrive at the size of the project. A config sheet is introduced in the excel work book to store the basic - initial setup values and is used across multiple sheets in the excel work book. An execution model is defined by the user and the macro code can do the necessary computation to print the project execution sequence with the effort details phase-wise and activity-wise.VBA is used to write code to implement this logic.

Roles and Responsibilities
I am involved in the brain storming sessions to come up with the ideas to customize the existing use case template.

Project at GEM
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Resource Pool project is an Application Value Maintenance project which involves maintenance, enhancements and development activities for a host of 24 ColdFusion applications like CMT, DTM, PWM

Project
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Tapscan application is developed and being used for several years. The scope of the project involves some defect fixes and enhancements. The code changes were made in the relevant objects in the vb project file, DLLs. The application is tested thoroughly to make sure that the code changes meet the defined functionality of the application

Roles and Responsibilities

I was involved in the requirement analysis, design doc review, code review, of the “Tapscan application”. Able to mentor the new team members during the tenure of the project.

I was leading the team size of five people. I was taking care of the SCM audit and the process audit for the project. I was also involved in the recruitment panel (laterals).

Project at Pfizer
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

The application consists of the global reports which are generated and used for the internal operations of the sales division of

Project at Ramco Systems
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

This application eltsms involves the various operations which would take place from the time the entry level trainee is inducted into the organization till he/she completes the training and gets the scores and provides the course feedback and faculty feedback. This is an intranet.

Roles and Responsibilities
Involved in the requirement analysis, and prepared the functional specifications.
Involved in Code review and Unit Testing
Performed the role of a technical lead and acted as a single point contact for the deliverables.

Organization: -

Project
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This project involves customization of the product hrms with specific requirements from the client for the various modules like reimbursement, time management modules.

Roles and Responsibilities
Requirements analysis
Prepared data model using ERWIN.
Involved in designing the GUI.
Mentored and monitored the team member’s efforts and guided them to do coding and testing.

Project at Systems Task Group
  • United Arab Emirates
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This project is designed to perform the business operations under the themes of web customer, web supplier, web maintenance, web sales office.

Roles and Responsibilities
Performed the role of a technical lead.
Involved in the front end design and also in the preparation of style sheets.
Involved in testing and logging in defects.

Recruitment Management System at PCSI Inc
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Project
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This mainly involves the task of tracking the clients and the candidates. This is also used to have a list of candidates with their specified skill sets and then a list of clients with their specified requirements. This system is developed using web interface with ASP and JavaScript and VBScript.

Roles and Responsibilities
Requirements analysis

Project at InterDev
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This software involves the various operations carried out in GAB Robins originating from the claim made by the customer continued by the various actions taken by the company according to their business policies. Responsible for the design and the development of two modules in this project. Again developed for a browser interface, used ASP with JavaScript and VBScript for developing the Corrective/Preventive Actions and Training modules. This assignment also utilized the Visual

Project
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This project involves the generation of the summary reports and the summary charts. The summary reports are made for the local bills, long distance, 800 inbound bills, and machine and maintenance bills. The UI is designed using VB and the data for the reports is obtained from the views created using the oracle tables.

Roles and Responsibilities
Requirements analysis
Prepared data model using ERWIN.
Involved in designing the GUI for reports using crystal reports.
Performed the coding and testing and did the implementation.

Education

High school or equivalent,
  • at Fatima College, Madurai
  • January 1994
Master's degree, Applications
  • at St. Joseph’s college

Computer

Bachelor's degree, Applications
  • at St. Joseph’s college

Computer

Specialties & Skills

CLIENT/SERVER
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
DELIVERY
DOCUMENTUM
GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
PROGRAMMING
REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS