IT Project Manager
AXA Insurance
Total years of experience :19 years, 11 Months
• Responsible for the projects of Health, Home, PA and Core changes from end-to-end for Retail Offering, Sales & Distribution and Healthcare.
• Ensure IT projects are executed as per PM plans, charter, and compliance with regulatory standards & current legislation by proactively enforcing company’s policy/procedures
• Manage resource availability, allocating a team of technical specialists, identifying & meeting their training and development needs and motivating them towards the achievement of challenging business objectives
• Creation and execution of project work plans, translation of the detailed business requirements into functional specifications to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Mainly focus on WebMed projects and integration between WM and CIRIS (Core Insurance Solution).
• Work closely with the business users to understand their needs and assist them in prioritization and phasing of requirements.
• Maintain strong relationship with vendors and ensures they deliver as per plan and requirements.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Ensure common understanding, quality of deliverables and compliance with business requirements.
• Constantly provide feedback report on progress of the project to all stakeholders.
• Custodian for the overall success of the project as well as the delivery of result.
• Implement PM methodology during projects’ initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closing
• Coordinate and lead the team in developing Project Management Plans, identifying requirements, creating WBS, defining activities, estimating, costing, and scheduling
• Ensure IT projects are executed as per PM plans, charter, and compliance with regulatory standards & current legislation by proactively enforcing company’s policy/procedures
• Prepare timely fashioned reports using Earned Value Analysis, and provide status reports, forecasting & presentations to the senior management and key stakeholders accordingly
• Proactively identify problems and recommend the corrective actions to bring back the project in-control and schedule.
• Manage changes in project scope, identify potential risks and devise contingency plans
• Recommend the use of new IT best practices, technologies, standards and procedures
• Develop IT requirements management plan, specifications, flowcharts, UML models, and prototypes. Perform workflow & process analysis, modeling, documentation, and design reviews
• Implement IT quality management plan. Establish acceptance criteria for requirements. Create quality metrics and checklist. Assure QA environment, test data, review design documentation, and system architecture
• Administer software QA testing. Execute UAT, functional and regression testing. Write test plans and execute test cases. Ensure defects are reported, tracked, and fixed
• Responsible for managing changes to or caused by projects, ensuring appropriate change management procedures are adhered to.
• Manage Incidents process of logging, categorization, prioritization, diagnosis, escalation and resolution. Manage problems by eliminating recurring incidents, analyzing root cause, creating workarounds and maintaining database
• Play an important role in decision-making process with direct impact on business operations, strategy development, client service, and staff motivation.
• Establish goals and deadlines; monitor performances and operations progress.
• In person interaction with the Client for system study, requirements gathering and analysis.
• Designing, Development and Coding
• Lead the team in various phases of application development.
• Implementing & providing all kinds of support for applications & softwares
• Provide a written report to the CEO on monthly basis regarding all aspects of the IT Department.
• Developed and controlled the IT Security Policy.
• Setting up backup/restore and disaster recovery procedures
• Developed Change Management Policy.
• Design and development of the workflow diagrams, System design and creation of algorithms.
• Involve in application development as well as Unit, Integration and System Testing.
• Manage smooth implementation and testing of the application at client’s location.
• Train, mentor, and guide junior professionals to achieve assigned targets independently.
Ozone IT has excellent track record in developing practical business applications, web sites, customized IT solutions, software development, network solutions and IT consultancy
• Lead and manage software development projects, deliver high quality innovative software that meets customer’s expectations
• Prepare system design, impact assessment, interface requirements, estimate development timescale and resource requirements
• Allocate work to development team and supervises them on their assigned tasks. Ensure that teams have appropriate product and technical specifications, direction, and resources to deliver products effectively
• Monitor development progress, review & report project progress, and escalate issues and risks
• Prepare quality System designs and data structures to ensure flexibility, future growth, easy maintenance and support
• Conducts end-user reviews on a regular basis for feedbacks on the system being developed
• Provide leadership & guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development
• Responsible to implement key security policies, guidelines, checklists and procedures for online business models
• Participate in test-case generation, design and code review
• User training and coordination with remote support team for problem resolution/support
• Creating an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort