Feb 2017 – Feb 2024 · 7 yrs

• o Project Manager:
• Work interactively with the stakeholders with all preparatory activities, from project planning and oversight, project scope, objectives, timeline and cost, resource tracking and project updates.
• Create project plan with clear timelines and milestones and ensure no scope-creep.
• Identify and track project risks and issues, providing clear visibility of detailed impacts and mitigations across both IT and Business.
• Engage cross-functional teams to get the resources onboarded to support the initiative.
• Prepare weekly status report including RAG status on Budget, Resources, Quality, Risk; Dependency and present to the leadership team and stakeholders.
• Identify and report any risks and dependencies that can cause a delay to the initiative timelines to senior leadership team and get their consent on the revised project timelines.
• Co-ordinate with external vendors to ensure all the assessments and documents related to the project are provided in a timely manner.
• Release Manager:
• Forward Plan the release windows: maintain release calendar for all Hyperion releases and ensure alignment across stakeholders and vendors
• Maintain a release repository in JIRA and manage key information such as build, release actions and dependencies in the user story to track progress
• Working closely with the developers and the testing teams to understand their requirements and guiding them to follow the standard releases and change procedures.
• Identify, manage and resolve risks that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Participate in CAB (Change Advisory Board) meetings to present the release scope, risks and risk mitigation
• Prepare a set of actionable and targeted release plan - including Implementation, rollback and communication plan for deployment in production environment.
• Conducting Go/No-Go Reviews with Business, Project teams and IT Teams for releases and change implementations.

Jun 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Own the Release Management life cycle which includes planning, scheduling, coordinating
• and managing the deployment for Oracle Hyperion and PeopleSoft applications following Agile
• methodology
• Forward Plan the release windows: maintain release calendar for all Hyperion releases and
• ensure alignment across stakeholders and vendors
• Maintain a release repository in JIRA and manage key information such as build, release
• actions and dependencies in the user story to track progress
• Working closely with the developers and the testing teams to understand their
• requirements and guiding them to follow the standard releases and change procedures.
• Identify, manage and resolve risks that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Participate in CAB (Change Advisory Board) / BRB (Business Review Board) meetings to
• present the release scope, risks and risk mitigation
• Working closely with the Testing team to define the test requirements, phases, schedules,
• tracking and signoff.
• Application and Infrastructure Configuration Management. Reviewing the upgrades, latest
• releases, security risks and patch management.
• Coordinate with various cross functional teams to deployed integrated solution to
• Production environment
• Prepare a set of actionable and targeted release plan - including Implementation, rollback
• and communication plan for deployment in production environment
• Conduct walkthrough of implementation plan with all the teams involved in the release to
• ensure the teams are in consensus with regards to the release scope.
• Conducting Go/No-Go Reviews with Business, Project teams and IT Teams for releases and
• change implementations.
• Experience in Waterfall and AGILE method of release management with a constant focus
• on driving process excellence, simplification and continuous improvement
• Chaired and led Triage calls while transitioning from Project to BAU post Hyperion upgrade
• Scrum Master for the EPM team

May 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs

• Streamlined the change & release management process for Oracle Hyperion & PeopleSoft (Finance and HR) Teams.
• Managed end-to-end change management processes, including planning, approval, implementation, and PIR.
• Created change orders, managed & tracked the status in the change management tool.
• Enforced change control policies and procedures to minimize disruptions and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Conducted walkthrough of implementation plan with all the teams involved in deployment.
• Supported end-to-end incident management processes, including incident detection, logging,
• categorization, prioritization, investigation, and resolution.
• Support Internal/PwC Audit questions for any needed information.
• Supported in implementing problem management processes to proactively address recurring
• incidents and minimize service disruptions.
• Coordinate with cross-functional work teams toward task completion.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 · 6 yrs · India

• Oracle DRM Analyst (Jun 2009 – Jan 2012)
• Analyze and understand the business requirements.
• Prepared the BRD (Solution requirements and design) documents.
• Creation and maintenance of DRM version on monthly basis.
• Created versions, hierarchies, hierarchy groups, nodes, properties, queries and validation.
• Creation of new required hierarchies through script in DRM.
• Supported testing team and user acceptance testing team for new requests.
• Deployed the code from development to test and Prod environments.
• Sr. Process Associate (Jan 2006 – May 2009)
• To undertake sourcing, screening, short-listing of resumes, evaluate for skill matches to fill in requirements (both technical and non-technical profiles) for different positions ranging from entry level to Senior Manager.
• Handled leave management cases for Accenture – US

Jun 2004 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo