Ligie John

Over 24 years of progressive experience in project management, business analysis, financial accounting, and software development, analysis in the area of Revenue accounting for aviation and manufacturing industry.

Revenue Accounting: More than 8 years of experience in implementing software solutions to support accounting in the airline industry. Extensive business process modeling, data, and software design for business process operations. Familiarity with industry standards like Earned Value management, and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). Working knowledge of diverse technologies including CA Clarity, Microsoft Project, Visio, Project Server, and Microsoft SharePoint (MOSS and WSS).

Experience in gathering User and Business Requirements, facilitating Joint Application Development sessions (JAD) and Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), interviews, workshops, and requirement elicitation sessions.

George Ventures – Cquensys Client – CWDS (Child Welfare Digital Services) 

Jan 2023 – Till date 

Master Scheduler

• Provide Project management support for major program.
• Work closely with Task Owners and Project Managers to develop and maintain detailed schedules using MS Project
• Integrate multiple schedules into a master project schedule, base line, status, and perform measurement baseline.
• Provide look ahead reports and obtain weekly status from Task owners
• Gather and analyze information to prepare reports on the progress of projects.
• Support the project management team in the planning, tracking, analysis, and reporting of projects, including dashboard maintenance.
• Troubleshoot and monitor potential scheduling problems.
• Facilitate and participate in weekly schedule reviews
• Develop schedules that include project phasing, milestones, and represent critical relationships between program tasks as required to plan, and coordinate all significant program activities.
• Works with the management team to ensure the schedule/program plan is executable.
• Advise management of risks that may affect project and schedules.
• Identify key deliverables and milestones between projects and programs

Client – CMS (Center for Medicaid and Medicare, Security Blvd, MD 

Oct 2019 to Dec 2022 

Master Scheduler 

• Provide Project management support and planning for major and/or strategic programs as assigned.
• Provide analysis and project support to assigned program workload. Analysis includes reviewing scope and schedule performance.
• Develop schedules that include project phasing, milestones, and represent critical relationships between program tasks as required to plan, coordinate all significant program activities.
• Works with management team to ensure the schedule/program plan is executable (cost, schedule and technical requirements are fully integrated) and executing as planned.
• Advise management of risks that may affect project profit, costs, and schedules.
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization.
• Weekly meetings with core team and bi-weekly meetings with stakeholders to effectively manage action items.
• Maintain project charter, signed commitments and other project artifacts by effectively using SharePoint as a document repository.
• Manage scope changes, identify risk issues and changes and update, review and approve.
• Identify key deliverables and milestones between projects and programs.
• Manage project within budget and schedule.

Client - CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Owings Mills, MD 

Feb 2009 to Oct 2019 

Master Scheduler 

• Primarily responsible for building and managing project workplans for multiple initiatives that are delivered to support long range strategic goals.
• Provide input and review for development of schedule, work breakdown structure, estimates and work packages during the different phases of a system development life cycle (SDLC) or project life cycle.
• Facilitate regularly scheduled project meetings for the project team and executive steering committee to update status of the project.
• Drive adherence to plans and processes and take responsibility for achieving key deliverables, hitting target milestones, throughout the full project lifecycle. Inspire the team to work toward a common goal.
• Perform gap analysis and guide the project leads to work on the deficiencies in documentation with respect to project management processes.
• Generate weekly reports with meaningful data to show project status, resource allocation & availability and upcoming key tasks due for delivery.
• Communicate risks to project teams, escalate issues and risks for mitigation. Maintain risks and issues database for the project team.
• Conduct weekly meetings with core team and bi-weekly meetings with stakeholders to effectively manage action items.
• Maintain project charter, signed commitments and other project artifacts by effectively using SharePoint as a document repository.
• Manage scope changes, review time and cost implications. Manage change to preserve business plan commitments; initiate and fully close change requests.
• Facilitate identification of key interdependencies between projects and programs. Assist in smooth communication between team members, team leads and project managers.
• Analyze and discuss the Schedule Performance and Cost Performance Indices on a weekly basis with project and program managers along with other key Earned Value Management indicators.
• Actively interact with financial team to track budget and forecasts.

Amadeus India IT Services 

Sep’07 – Oct’08 

Business Analyst 

• Works with the business and technical teams to define business needs and implement innovative solutions that meet business objectives.
• Partners with manager on defining project direction.
• Creates or provides functional input to project plans for development/ modification of software as per the client request for his company’s financial analysis.
• Manages key projects and project related documentation (test plans, requirements definition, etc.).
• Translates business requirements into functional specifications/technical requirements used for driving technical improvements, enhancements, or creation of new applications.
• Communicates project direction and scope and negotiates with teams to work through constraints and alternatives.
• Design application flow using J2EE design patterns, while adopting the MVC implementation model.
• Understands the various application development methodologies (waterfall, iterative, etc.) and can apply them appropriately depending on the type of project that is led.
• Perform core database design and normalization using the Oracle 9i design tools.
• Develop SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures to implement database business logic.
• Develop forms, server components and interfaces using the J2EE framework technologies and APIs.
• Participates in TSD/CMMI Review and Inspections for assigned TSD/CMMI artifacts.
• Maintains a deep understanding of the business process areas that are supported by me.

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) 
• Orange Belt Certified in Microsoft Project, International Institute of Learning & Microsoft
• Masters in Finance from University of Madras 
• Bachelors in Finance from Sacred Heart College – Tirupattur, University of Madras (1995) 
• Diploma in Computer Applications from Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai.
• Certification in Multimedia and Web design from Image Institute of Multimedia, Chennai