AIG provides Life Insurance and Auto Insurance through large network. This work was for Consumer Market Survey IT group. Primary function was to communicate with Regulatory Control Group for the Audits being conducted. Based on each audit requirement our group contacts 30+ different systems to collect the data required. Later steps are review from Business group and required filtering of data.

Over all development methodology is Waterfall and Agile combined.

Responsibilities

• Lead the IT teams at Audit and Reinsurance groups.
• Facilitating the communication with all stakeholders viz., senior management, Project Managers and technical teams of the program. Lead the status and risk meetings by setting the agenda.
• Planning, Creating and Maintaining the schedule
• Providing the Daily and Weekly status reports focusing basically on the accomplishments, upcoming tasks, KPIs and Milestones, risks and issues.
• Providing and conducting the Presentation workshops. Over last few months these workshops are over web-ex.
• Managing the change controls, Risks and Issues and project documentation.
• Vendor Management

Resource Management

This company provides services for training and develop software solutions. These are basically sub contracts for govt departments. Applications are basically Order Processing and Inventory Applications.

Over all development, methodology is Waterfall and Agile combined. Though this period, I managed 2 projects, viz., with IT Audit group and Reinsurance group.

Responsibilities are

• Manage the Projects in Agile manner
• Coordinate the Trainings
• Facilitating the Requirement Analysis, Design and Development
• Manage the Testing

Conduct the status review meetings and status reporting

This was a large ‘Technical Migration’ Program in progress for 8+ years. 100+ applications are migrated from Legacy systems to Contemporary .Net Applications with large no of enhancements. Managed the effort 125,000 person hours program.

These applications cove Policy Administration, Premium Generation, Reconciliation, Regulatory, Data Analysis & Integration, Property & Causality, ACH (Payment) functionalities and Dev-apps for Cloud Teams . User Interfaces are going through wide change to accommodate and utilize the features of new enterprise wide environment in terms of data restructure and to fulfil the new requirement of the Users across the nation. Enhancements also include bundling the new interfaces on mobile devices like tablets, smart phones with active interaction with Cloud team. This mainly included UI from Legacy applications to J2EE and Visual C++.

Over all development methodology is Waterfall. Implementation methodology is more of Iterative. Few states are grouped together on the business need basis. Program Management is more of Agile. Implementation is do divided in to Auto and Special Line (SL) coverages. Auto covers only four wheelers, SL covers Motor Cycle, Boats, RVS, Snow mobile, Travel Trailers and Motor boats etc.

During this period all Auto implementation is completed, and SL is over 50% is complete. Implementation is done block-wise. Each block contains 4 to 6 states.

All Printed forms and documents are covered by a separate group viz. ‘External Communications (EC)’. This group looks across all states for Auto and SL for each state. Normally covers of about 30% functionality for each of the blocks.

Team size: 45 – consists of internal employees and vendors

Responsibilities

• Lead the External Communications (EC) group.
• Facilitating the communication with all stakeholders viz., senior management, Product Managers and technical teams of the program. Lead the status and risk meetings by setting the agenda.
• Planning, Creating and Maintaining the schedule
• Providing the Daily Dashboards and Weekly status reports focusing basically on the accomplishments, upcoming tasks, KPIs and Milestones, risks and issues.
• Managing the change controls, risks and issues and project documentation.
• Vendor Management

Resource Management

There are 2 separate streams. One is Credit Cards applications enhancements and maintenance, Payment Applications, Workstream and financial planning in Dataware house & Business Intelligence (BI) stream. On regular basis small size projects of 1K to 5K hours effort requirements arise. They are normally of 2 months to 4 months duration. Managed 4 to 6 projects concurrently. Managed the projects close to Agile methodology.

Methodology was like Agile. Second stream is Regulatory compliance applications. These projects adhere to SOC, PCI DSS standards. They are also of small to medium sizes. Normally 4 to 6 efforts will be going con-currently. We provided the inputs to De-commissioning projects.

These projects had basic objective of Data Analysis & Integration, ACH (Payment) and Data Segregation and Dev-apps for Cloud teams. It further extended to summarization of data after some age etc.

This is maintenance and enhancement of the Payroll Products, ACH (Payment) processing for the clients. Changes and enhancements basically originate due to changes in the Regulatory Board. These are normally short duration projects of 12 to 16 weeks managed in Agile / Scrum methodology and

Worked through Development, Testing, User Acceptance and Rollouts. Managing the Status Reports, Dashboards on the lines of Kanban, Change controls, Risks and Issues and Project documentation.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating the communication with all stakeholders viz., senior management, Product Managers and technical teams of the program. Lead the status and risk meetings by setting the agenda.
• Maintain the Backlog
• Manage Daily Stand-In Meetings
• Planning, Creating and Maintaining the schedule
• Providing the Daily Dashboards and Weekly status reports focusing basically on the accomplishments, upcoming tasks, KPIs and Milestones, risks and issues.
• Managing the risks and issues and project documentation.
• Resource Management