Rajasekhar Sajja

Rajasekhar Sajja

Skills

• IT Consulting 20 years

• IT Project Management 15 years

• Microsoft Office 365/ MS projects 6 Years

• Guidewire Projects experience 5 Years

• Insurance experience 4 years

• Infrastructure projects 10 years

• Application upgrades/integrations 8 years

• Stakeholder Management 10 years

• Agile/Waterfall 5/ 10 years

• Budget size (>500K)/Team size 9 Years

• Project financials / budgeting 9 years

• MS Project / CA Clarity PPM 9 years

Summary

• MBA, PMP and CSM certified Project Manager with experience managing Data Governance, Custom Application Development/Integration, Infrastructure projects , in Insurance, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Logistics and Transportation industries.

• Extensive experience managing Infrastructure projects at Hydro One, WSIB and CPR which included preparing project management plans, project schedules and budget management.

• Extensive experience in Cisco networking equipment (Routers, Firewalls), VOIP, Unified Communications (UC) technologies, Microsoft Teams and Direct Routing capabilities in managing client office Networks and Data center Networks.

• Managed WSIB Network monitoring using tools such as SolarWinds, Dynatrace and Zabbix .

• ServiceNow as an ITSM tool has been used for incidents, requests, and changes. Managed application and infrastructure upgrade projects like Open Text ECM 10 to 12 upgrade, DataStage upgrade project and the ForeScout Network Access Control implementation at WSIB

• Managed projects with an average budget of 6 million at Hydro One, WSIB, CP Rail and British American Tobacco; managed team of 20 resources (Hydro One), 15 resources (WSIB), 22 resources- 2 onsite/22 offshore (British American Tobacco) and 70 resources (CP Rail)

• Solid experience with project delivery using Agile methodology at Hydro One, WSIB & British American Tobacco; used Waterfall methodology at WSIB, CP Rail, CSX Rail and British American Tobacco

• Experience with managing project financials which included budget preparation, tracking financials on a weekly basis

• Solid stakeholder management experience which involved interacting with them on various issues such as risks identification, change management, communication plans at Hydro One, WSIB, CP Rail, British American Tobacco.

• Worked with Jira to track sprints in Scrum based projects at WSIB and British American Tobacco; used Microsoft Project Server at CP Rail for project planning and tracking

education/Certifications

• Bachelor of Engineering - National Institute of Technology Warangal, India - 1996

• MBA – Finance and Systems - ICFAI Business School, India - 2000

• PMP^® Certified from PMI

• CSM^® Certified from Scrum Alliance