Sivakumar Manickam

Around 15 years of experience in IT industry.
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2005
Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously, vendor management, delivery management, resource management
Experience in analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and project management of projects in multiple domains like Life Insurance, automobile, facility management (servicing) and telecom
Experience in IT production support projects which involves incident management, problem management, capacity management, security management, and application management.
Experience in handling fixed bid and T&M projects in a matrix type organization as a vendor Project Manager like FTSI Limited, TELENOR and ANZ Bank.
Experience in effectively managing the stakeholders in matrix type organizations with people working in different geographic locations.
Experience in the usage of MS Project for preparing, monitoring and controlling the project schedule, cost and scope.
Experience in effective usage of the tools such as Microsoft project plan, issue register and risk register for managing project issues and risks.
Experience in the usage of tools such as complexity based time estimation, function point estimation and use case estimation for calculating the software effort.
Having excellent leadership skills and effectively leads team members which delivers on-time with high quality to the customer
Good organizer and assertive communicator & possess strong analytical and communication skills
Experience in preparing the Weekly Status Report and chairing the Weekly Status Review meetings.
Experience in grooming and mentoring project team members.
Process oriented person and involved in setting up process and improvement of the existing process.
Experience in preparing and reviewing System Requirement Specification, High Level Design Document, Low Level Design Document, Technical Architecture Diagram, Unit Test cases, Functional Test cases.
Trained senior software engineers and Associate Mangers of CSC employees on communication management, scope management and schedule management from 2008 to 2012.