SUMMARY:

• “Engineering graduate wif over 20 years of technical program and project management experience wif PMP, SAFe and CSM, has successfully driven agile transformation for organization
• Skilled in using best of scaled agile, agile scrum and Kanban wif conventional project management methodologies and framework”

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Java/J2EE, MS .NET
• C#, Oracle DB and Developers tools
• MS SQL Server, MySQL,
• XML, Hibernate, Spring, Mule ESB, Subversion,
• JIRA (Project Administration, Portfolio
• Structure, Backlog, Agile Boards, Reports and Metrics)
• G - Suite/Google (Sheet, Docs, Slides, Gmail and Groups)
• MS Project, MS Office, Confluence, UML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Program Manager

Confidential, Oakland CA

Responsibilities:

• Program Governance by defining and managing overall program framework including processes, policies, plans, roles, governance principles, authority and responsibilities to increase efficiency and reduce risks to meet strategic goals.
• Program strategy by working wif executive stakeholders and product management to define release deliverables and strategy that aligns wif company’s vision and objectives.
• Program Integration between three different participating projects in program to maintain focus and collaboration towards program objectives.
• Project integration throughout various phases in product release train from initialization, planning, execution, monitoring and closure. This involved distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Cross-Functional integration between product management, engineering, quality, DevOps, documentation, customer support and executive leadership
• Leadership wif acute attention to details, organizational skills, focus on continuous improvement and innovations and owning delivery commitments, also started various program initiatives to assist on success of program.
• Risk and Dependency management by anticipating risks in meeting timelines, communicating them wif stakeholders, developing mitigation plans wif teams and implementing mitigations to reduce or remove impact of risks.
• Communication wif executives stakeholders (SVP, VP, CTO, Sr. Directors etc.) for program level reporting to inform, alert, negotiate to maintain vision and execution of program and drive it to success
• Facilitation of various program ceremonies including program increment workshop, weekly program increment review and scrum of scrum also Scrum level ceremonies including grooming, planning, Sprint Review, daily standups and retrospectives for two of my teams.
• Resource Management including people skills, initiative and timeline alignments across project, hiring and contracts responsibilities, budget and cost management, identifying and escalating resource constraints, conflict resolutions etc.

Agile Program Manager

Confidential, Oakland CA

Responsibilities:

• Project integration throughout various phases in terminal automation product release train from initialization, planning, execution, monitoring and closure. This involved distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Agile Transformation, while serving this role, me has also influenced and led organization wide agile transformation at Navis software division by being one of teh core member for agile transformation.
• Facilitation of Scrum level ceremonies including grooming, planning, Sprint Review, daily standups and retrospectives for three of my teams.
• Cross-Functional integration between product management, engineering, quality, DevOps, documentation, customer support and executive leadership related to terminal automation product.
• Communication management between three participating teams to maintain focus and collaboration towards terminal automation product release deliverables. Also represented my teams in program increment review meetings wif executives.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Oakland CA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitation of Scrum level ceremonies including grooming, planning, Sprint Review, daily standups and retrospectives for three of my team.
• Technical Project Manager/Development Manager, provided technical leadership as development manager while also serving as project manager/scrum master for teh team to manage planning, execution and delivery of product deliverables.
• Hands-on, participated in development activities wif my team for various design and development tasks.
• Technical Project Manager/Development Manager, provided technical leadership as development manager while also serving as project manager for teh team of 6 developers to manage planning, execution and delivery of Edge Manager Product. Worked wif targeted customers and other stakeholders to align deliverables wif customer expectations.
• Hands-on, participated in day to day development activities wif my team for various design and development tasks

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical Project Manager/Project Leader, provided technical leadership as project manager and project leader for teh team of 11 developers to plan, deliver and support BAMT project deliverables including inland EDI and Express gate operation.
• Hands-on, participated in day to day development activities wif my team for various design and development tasks. financial management and store management products, participated in full software development lifecycle for both customers across these two years, these products were developed in Oracle technologies (Database and Developer 2000),
• Project delivery owner, during this role, me took responsibility of requirement gathering, preparing plan and technical design of solution, worked hands on wif team of three developers to design, develop and deliver products while being onsite for long term and achieve successful installation and acceptance.