PROFILE:

• 10+ yrs. of IT industry experience (4+ Yrs of Project Mgt in USA & Europe)
• Extensive experience in managing enterprise IT projects in Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM & SAFe 3.0
• Hands on experience in MS Project, Agile Vision, Rally & JIRA
• Experience in managing large scale IT projects in Web Development, eCommerce & Digital Marketing.
• Rich practical experience in various business domains such as HealthCare, Manufacturing, Retain & Securities.
• In - depth noledge and experience in scope, time, cost, quality, Resource, communications, risk & procurement mgt.
• Extensive experience in enterprise application support, maintenance, enhancement, Build to Run & DevOps Model.
• Proven ability to deliver high quality IT products and services wif cross functional distributed teams in Matrix Org.
• Strong technical background in Java/J2EE Architecture/Design.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in communications, client relations and negotiation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Language: Java 1.4, Java 5, Java 6

Web Technologies: J2EE 1.4 ( Servlet 2.4, JSP 2, JSTL, EJB 2.1, Java Mail, JMS, JDBC 3, JAAS, JTA, JAXB, JAX - RPC) Java EE 5 (EJB 3, JPA 1, JAX-WS 2, JSF 1.1/1.2) Java EE 6 ( JSF 2.0) AJAX, XML, cXML(Punchout)

Framework: Struts 1.*, Hibernate 3.2, Spring 2 Modeling & Designing UML, Design Patterns

Application Server: Weblogic 8.1, IBM Websphere AS 6.1, Broadvision 5

Portal Server: Weblogic Portal 8.1

Web Server: IIS 6, IBM Http Server 6.1, iPlanet, Tomcat

IDE: Weblogic Workshop 8.1, JTEST, Eclipse 2.x, 3.x, IBM Rational Application Developer 7.5

Logger, Build Tool: Log4J, Ant 1.6/1.7, IBM Build Forge 2

Version Control: VSS 6, CVS, IBM Clearcase 7

Defect Tracking: IBM ClearQuest 7, Mercury Test Director, HP Quality Center

OS: Windows, Unix, Linux (Open Suse 10.*/11.*)

Database: SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i, IBM DB2 9.*, Teradata 13

Search Engine: FAST ESP 5

Prototype/Wireframe: iRise, JustInMind 4.3

Reporting: SAP Business Object XI 3.1 SP3, Enterprise SDK, Webservices SDK

Monitoring: IBM Tivoli, HP Business Availability Center(BAC) 7.55, CA Wily, ByteWare

Database Tools: Toad, Weblogic Visualizer, DbVisualizer 8, Teradata SQL Assistant 13, SQL Enterprise manager

Security: CA Siteminder SP6 Project Management Skills, Tools & Techniques

SDLC: Waterfall, Agile

Scope Mgt: Interviews, Focus Groups, Facilitated Workshops, Group Decision Making, Group Creativity Questions & Survey, Prototypes, WBS, Decomposition, Inspection, Rolling Wave planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for End-2-End Management and delivery of strategic, cross-functional, highly visible project wifin time, cost, scope, and quality defined boundaries.
• Facilitate to create project scope, requirements definition, and solutions architecture.
• Organizing and facilitating release planning
• Develop a resource plan, which contains buy-in from multiple groups to align appropriate/qualified talent to support program activities to successfully complete teh project.
• Lead teh cross functional distributed multi-vendor project teams(Offshore & Onshore) to assure dat deliverable dates are met.
• Hold project meetings throughout project lifecycle.
• Maintain and communicate project status through confluence and program board meetings.
• Updating agile tracking systems(JIRA) to provide transparency on product & sprint backlogs
• Recommending improvements and assist in changes to best practices
• Assisting wif internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Identifying and removing impediments, preventing distractions dat interfere wif teh ability of teh team to deliver teh sprint/release goal.
• Improving teh productivity of teh teams in any way possible
• Ensures project satisfies all required policy, audit, financial and technology guidelines.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Project Manager Healthcare Program

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for End-2-End Management and delivery of strategic, cross-functional, highly visible project wifin time, cost, scope, and quality defined boundaries in accordance wif life cycle methodologies and disciplines.
• Establish project scope, requirements definition, and solutions architecture to create teh Statement of Work & Lean Project Charter.
• Organizing and facilitating release planning (SAFe)
• Analyze needs and develop customer satisfaction improvements to address customer needs for support, high quality and efficiency to provide quick turnaround and maintain performance.
• Develop a resource plan, which contains buy-in from multiple groups to align appropriate/qualified talent to support program activities to successfully complete teh project.
• Coach and mentor technical and project team members on TEMPeffective project management practices and techniques.
• Perform program completion assessment including customer feedback, lessons learned and financial/performance review.
• Lead teh project team(Offshore & Onshore) to assure dat deliverable dates are met.
• Hold project meetings throughout project lifecycle.
• Manage cross-functional project teams and deliverables for each project throughout project lifecycle.
• Manage complex interaction of multiple technical and business stakeholders dat span multiple businesses, functions and geographies wifin teh company.
• Maintain and communicate project status through use of documentation, schedules, and budget information throughout project lifecycle.
• Tracking and communicating scrum metrics including team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Help teh team to inspect and adapt in order to have teh smoothest development possible.
• Ensuring teh development teams are practicing teh core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Updating agile tracking systems(RALLY) to provide transparency on product & sprint backlogs
• Recommending improvements and assist in changes to best practices
• Assisting wif internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Identifying and removing impediments, preventing distractions dat interfere wif teh ability of teh team to deliver teh sprint/release goal.
• Improving teh productivity of teh teams in any way possible
• Ensures project satisfies all required policy, audit, financial and technology guidelines Skills.

Confidential, Eindhoven, Netherland

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate wif Product Owner and team to conduct Velocity based sprint planning (2 weeks Sprint)
• Serve as teh guardian of teh Scrum process framework and work as servant leader
• Guide and coach distributed team(located in Kolkata, Bangalore & Netherlands) towards achieving release and spring goals
• Use Rally for maintaining product backlog, monitor and track sprint progress
• Protect teh team from outside disturbances
• Help keep track of project progress and do right escalation on time
• Help teh team identifying dependencies, mitigating risks and for meeting sprint commitments
• Help resolving team’s impediments
• Conduct daily scrums & open forums, User story pockering sessions.
• Organize Sprint Demo meeting, Assess Agile Maturity Level in each sprint.
• Organize Sprint Retrospectives to halp Scrum team to improve on teh process and project performance.
• Prepare weekly performance reports and communicate to Wipro and Client.
• Work wif Product Owner for defining “Done”.
• Collaborate wif teh team to create sprint backlog tasks (SBTs)
• Coordinate wif teh team for estimating backlog items & tasks
• Successfully executed 4 sprints wif CSAT rating as 9 and 100% commitment.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate wif Product Owner and team to conduct release planning and capacity based sprint planning (4 weeks Sprint)
• Serve as teh guardian of teh Scrum process framework and work as servant leader
• Guide and coach teh team towards achieving release and spring goals
• Use CA Agile Vision for maintaining product backlog, monitor and track sprint progress
• Use Clarity for timesheet and user story time allocation to team members.
• Protect teh team from outside disturbances
• Help keep track of project progress and do right escalation on time
• Help teh team identifying dependencies, mitigating risks and for meeting sprint commitments
• Help resolving team’s impediments
• Conduct daily scrums & open forums
• Organize Sprint review meeting
• Organize Sprint Retrospectives to halp Scrum team to improve on teh process and project performance.
• Prepare sprint and tasks burn down chart, parking lot diagrams.
• Work wif Product Owner for defining “Done”.
• Collaborate wif teh team to create sprint backlog tasks (SBTs)
• Coordinate wif teh team for estimating backlog items & tasks
• Report performance metrics - Schedule and effort deviation, Distribution of stories, Requirements Volatility, Overall Productivity, Product Stability
• Track & monitor defects in HP Quality Center
• Successfully delivered more than 12 sprints wif high quality(defect density < 2 per 100 test cases and met several critical project client commitments
• One of pillars for account growth from initiation to stability phase

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Techno Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage project using Waterfall life cycle model & PMBOK Processes
• Help developing technical requirements
• Work wif BA & stakeholders to create & define project scope
• Develop UI Prototype using JustInMinder tool
• Coordinate wif Enterprise Architect and Integration Architect for overall HLD
• Develop Java EE user interface detailed design
• Coordinate wif interfacing teams(ETL, webservice, Distrack iSeries, Business Object, Siteminder) for their DD
• Work wif team to develop WBS & WBS Dictionary
• Help team in developing and reviewing project estimates
• Develop UI code framework, logger, Exception handling, service integration, Business Object Integration coordinate wif offshore development team
• Coordinate wif interface team for system integration testing
• Perform risk identification, risk analysis & risk response planning
• Develop time and cost reserves for teh project
• Develop project management plan dat is bought into, approved, realistic & formal
• Develop scope, schedule and cost baseline dat is bought into, approved, realistic & formal
• Manage & control teh project as per project management plan & to performance measurement baseline (PMB)
• Manage stakeholder’s expectation & influences.
• Determine and deliver required levels of quality
• Work wif QA team for performing quality assurance and quality control activities
• Work wif Configuration management and Change Control Board for managing changes to project deliverables
• Coordinate wif QC, performance engineering team & business for functional testing, performance testing & UAT
• Work wif infrastructure team for setting up application/server monitoring using IBM Tivoli, HP BAC & CA WIly
• Report project performance & progress reports to management
• Manage and resolve conflicts
• Monitor & control project performance against teh contract, SOW.
• Develop lesson learned, collect customer satisfaction(CSAT) rating
• Lead and direct project transition to Run team, customer service and EIT Service Center

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Provide requirements & share business domain noledge
• Review requirements wif different business stakeholders
• Assist Business Analyst in creating technical & non-functional requirements
• Create option analysis for defining in-scope functionalities based on teh legacy application usage by teh external users
• Help business management in prioritizing requirements & functionalities
• Provide required application noledge to create better high level estimates
• Provide system integration & legacy application design and infrastructure noledge information to identify pain points and produce better designs
• Assist technical teams in technical issues by clarifying functional/technical requirements
• Plan & execute Build to Run transitions between different external vendor teams
• Plan & execute support transition to service center team
• Communicate wif stakeholders and manage their expectations
• Reporting to management on weekly project status, issues & risks

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate wif Architects for completing Concept Analysis Document (CAD)
• Work wif stakeholders to collect functional & non-functional requirements & defining project scope.
• Work wif team to develop WBS & WBS Dictionary
• Help team in developing and reviewing project estimates
• Coordinate wif offshore development team for development, perform tech reviews.
• Determine and deliver required levels of quality
• Work wif QA & QC team for performing quality assurance and quality control activities
• Work wif Configuration management and Change Control Board for managing changes to project deliverables
• Coordinate wif QC, performance engineering team & business for functional testing, performance testing & UAT
• Report project performance & progress reports to management
• Manage and resolve conflicts
• Develop lesson learned, collect customer satisfaction(CSAT) rating

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Gather functional and technical requirements & define scope.
• Create WBS.
• Prepare estimates.
• Prepare project schedule.
• Create detailed design & technical documents.
• Lead offshore development team for completing teh development work.
• Coordinate wif offshore development team for development and deliverables.
• Co-ordinate wif QC, performance engineering & business team to perform functional testing, load testing & UAT.
• Manage and lead defect tracking, defect resolution.
• Coordinate wif team to build deployment plan.
• Coordinate wif Configuration management team for infrastructure setup, build and deploy to DEV, QA, STG and PROD.
• Work wif Change control board to review and socialize teh change and impact wif other project teams.
• Communicate wif stakeholders and manage their expectations.
• Reporting to management regarding weekly project status, issues & risks.
• Plan & execute Build to run transitions.

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Gather technical requirements & define scope.
• Create WBS.
• Prepare estimates.
• Prepare project schedule.
• Create detailed design & technical documents.
• Lead offshore development team for completing teh development work.
• Coordinate wif offshore development team for development and deliverables.
• Co-ordinate wif QC, performance engineering & business team to perform functional testing, load testing & UAT.
• Manage and lead defect tracking, defect resolution.
• Coordinate wif team to build deployment plan.
• Coordinate wif Configuration management team for infrastructure setup, build and deploy to DEV, QA, STG and PROD.
• Work wif Change control board to review and socialize teh change and impact wif other project teams.
• Communicate wif stakeholders and manage their expectations.
• Reporting to management regarding weekly project status, issues & risks.
• Plan & execute Build to run transitions.

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Collecting requirements, creating scope baseline which includes project scope statement, WBS, WBS Dictionary
• Estimating activity resource requirements, activity duration and cost estimates, creating schedule network diagram
• Performing risk identification, prioritizing risks & developing risk response strategy
• Developing project schedule
• Developing project management plan & gaining formal acceptance of PM plan.
• Executing teh work as per project management plan
• Controlling scope & schedule to baselines & reporting project performance
• Managing changes as per integrated change control (Change Mgt, Configuration Mgt & Change Control Board)
• Holding team building activities, giving recognition & rewards
• Developing lesson learned, Completing customer satisfaction rating
• Completing B2R, closing project, holding celebration for successful project completion

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Collecting requirements, creating scope baseline which includes project scope statement, WBS, WBS Dictionary
• Estimating activity resource requirements, activity duration and cost estimates, creating schedule network diagram
• Performing risk identification, prioritizing risks & developing risk response strategy
• Developing project schedule
• Developing project management plan & gaining formal acceptance of PM plan.
• Executing teh work as per project management plan
• Controlling scope & schedule to baselines & reporting project performance
• Managing changes as per integrated change control (Change Mgt, Configuration Mgt & Change Control Board)
• Holding team building activities, giving recognition & rewards
• Developing lesson learned, Completing customer satisfaction rating
• Completing B2R, closing project, holding celebration for successful project completion

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Technical Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Participate in KAP, Plan & execute initial transition from existing team to new run team.
• Provide tier-2 & tier-3 application support & maintenance for medical cardinal.com application family (a set of 16 applications on multiple technologies).
• Manage and lead minor enhancements.
• Work wif medical business units to collect requirements.
• Prepare estimates.
• Lead offshore development team for completing teh development work as per business requirements.
• Co-ordinate wif QC, performance engineering & business team to perform functional testing, load testing & UAT.
• Manage and lead defect tracking, defect resolution.
• Plan and build deployment plan.
• Worked wif Steering Committee, Change Control Board and Configuration Mgt team to deploy teh changes to different environment like DEV, QA, STG and PROD.
• Prepare and communicate weekly status reports (WSR) to managements.
• Perform impact analysis.
• Lead Service Improvement Plans (SIP).
• Run SRT (service restoration teams) for resolving sev-1 and sev-2 production issues.
• Perform RCA (Root Cause Analysis).
• Meet & improve SLA & OLA on EIT Problem cases, EIT customer request cases & EIT application enhancement requests.