PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Rajendra is a multi - skilled IT professional with 15+ years of experience in directing cross functional teams of large/small scale projects/products in various environments.
• Proven record on developing solutions that improve efficiency of IT and Business operations.
• Strong management skills with planning, scheduling, communication, organizational and decision making ability to successfully direct concurrent projects.
• Expert of handling projects with more TEMPthan $25M with 20+ wide-ranging skilled team as Project Manager/ Scrum Master.
• Now looking for an opportunity to work on more challenging projects where he can enhance the skills and halp achieve organizational goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, OneNote and Project)
• Primavera, Quality Center, Test Link, Trac
• MS SharePoint, Lotus Notes, HP Service Manager
• BMC Ticket Tracking, QTP, Load Runner, SoupUI
• Selenium, Java, .Net, Oracle DBMS, MDM(Master Data Management)
• Oracle Applications (R12, PO, CDM), DB2, PL SQL
• COBOL, Service Virtualization, SFDC, SAP-CRM
• Version One, IceSrum, Pointing Poker, Jenkins
• Maven, GitHub, JIRA, Version One, JBehave, Splunk, Eclipse.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Oversee multiple projects across all phases of application development
• Negotiated and maintained stakeholders agreements to achieve project goals
• Assisted Program on creating product road map and release planning
• Collaborate with PMO and Business to identify the processes
• Conduct workshops/brainstorming sessions to gather requirements
• Ensure team following Agile/Safe methodologies for continuous delivery
• Acted as liaison between Business, IT systems, Finance and Operations/Support teams
• Identified and documented risks/issues proactively to avoid delays in project delivery
• Collaborating with cross functional teams for suitable resources allocation
• Coaching/Mentoring the team to transform from waterfall to SAFe/DevOps environments
• Performed qualitative/quantitative analysis to measure the impact from identified risks
• Monitors/Maintains project budget against baselines and prepared forecasts
• Implemented Jenkins Pipeline for integration of E2E application
• Developed status reports, forecasts, project trends and resource plans
• Implemented and maintained best practices for each phase of the project life cycle
• Participated in Release planning/Sprint planning/Reviews/Retrospectives
• Monitor and reports the project/team performance against the committed goals
• Guided/Planned selenium/SoapUI scripting for E2E acceptance testing
• Working closely with key stakeholders and business leadership to prioritize the scope
• Reporting timely status to all user groups via specified communication channels
• Manage and Control of stakeholders to keep up to date on project progress

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, Java, J2EE, Lotus Notes, Selenium, Version One, SoupUI, Splunk, JBehave, Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, Pointing poker, Primavera P6

Scrum Master

Confidential - Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Interface with PMT, PO, and Stakeholders to define the backlog items
• Prepare for and facilitate daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, review, retrospective, backlog grooming meetings, and planning sessions for release/deployments
• Provide input to release planning using team capacity and skill set information
• Compile, analyze, and present statistics about time estimation accuracy, team velocity, and burndown rate to development team and management for each sprint
• Create and maintain statistics on story lifetime to assess efficiency of requirements throughput
• Meet with product owners and operational business managers for selected modules to introduce scrum and program processes and outline expectations
• Review and provide feedback on drafted user stories and epics to ensure alignment with general Agile user story standards
• Managing dependencies and tracking risks/issues to maintain the WBS items
• Assist the team to follow agile principals and achieve sprint goals
• Remove impediments of dev team and halps teams to improve productivity
• Documenting lessons learned and noledge sharing

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, Java, Test Link, Trac, Lotus Notes, Selenium, Ice Scrum, Pointing Poker

Project Manager

Confidential - Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Interface with PMO, Business Teams, Stakeholders to gather processes and
• Created roadmap for E2E application development
• Involved in full implementation cycle of SDLC (Creating Charter to Project Closure)
• Created business case, project charter to initiate the project
• Provide input to identify high level risks and define acceptance criteria
• Create and maintain requirements to capture the key capabilities with respect to scope
• Identify and coordinate with cross functional teams to build successful project team
• Planning and work allocations based on task priorities
• Review the legacy applications and define the project objectives to interact with new features
• Managing dependencies and tracking risks/issues to maintain the WBS items
• Resource allocation, conflict management and team building
• Provided /mentoring the resources on project key deliverables
• Established quality measurements with respect to compliance regulations
• Provided service transition to operation to sustain the application without any impediments
• Created KCD/KIs to provide documentation assistance to support team
• Documenting lessons learned and noledge sharing
• Liaison between Leadership, Business, Developers, Testers and Deployment team

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, Java, Test Link, Trac, Lotus Notes, Selenium, Primavera P6

Project Manager

Confidential - Norristown, PA

Responsibilities:

• Followed traditional(waterfall) project management methodologies
• Involved from creating project charter to close the project
• Coordinated with customer to gather requirements and manage expectations
• Performed estimations using functional point techniques(PERT)
• Understand the scope and identify the success criteria
• Document and monitor risks and issues across all phases of the project
• Trained team members on development and change management process
• Drive the team to follow organizational standards to achieve quality goals
• Identify the environment needs and halp building multiple environments
• Established communication channels to engage stakeholders
• Supported design, development and quality assurance to ensure meeting business needs
• Monitored performance of the project and adjusted milestones/baselines
• Conduct performance reviews on team performance and individual resource performances
• Involved in creating business decision/ architectural decision diagrams
• Documented transition/support documents and updated noledge items
• Collaborated with diversified team from various time zones

Environment: Oracle Apps, R12, Java, Quality Center, BMC Remedy, Load Runner, QTP, MS Project

Project Lead/Coordinator

Confidential - Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Led the team(onsite/offshore) to understand requirements and expectations
• Conducted requirement gathering workshops, brainstorming sessions
• Develop and Implement resource plans and project budgets
• Created detailed level business documents, communication strategies
• Engage business stakeholders to analyze, implement,
• Prepare project meeting agenda and facilitate project planning meetings
• Document meeting minutes and follow-up on action items
• Developed RTM and identified gaps in requirements
• Proactively identified and documented risks/issues
• Monitor project timelines and track project milestones for reports
• Provided optimize solutions on resource management and process improvements
• Created test coverage/traceability to again customer acceptance on test deliverables
• Liaison between business, development, quality and support teams
• Managed customer communications, escalation support and status updates

Environment: Oracle Apps, R12, MS Project, Quality Center, BMC Remedy, Lotus Notes, QTP