SUMMARY:

• me am an accomplished Project Management professional equipped wif a commanding track record of successful delivery to teh most demanding of requirements. me possess a proven ability to build and maintain client relationships and skilled at managing multiple stakeholders.
• me managed a variety of IT projects from Business Process/Workflow and Disaster recovery implementations/to strategic improvements for a large remediation Programme.
• me am experienced in assembling teh most effective team for projects, spanning internal, remote, off - shore and third-party resources. me am a results-focused individual wif a genuine record of delivery.
• me has over 16 years of experience in IT industry wif 5+ years in project management roles.
• Extensive experience in PMBOK, Agile and MSP project management methodologies.
• Implemented multiple successful Technology and Business change projects across domains.
• Experienced in applying Project management methodologies throughout SDLC and Agile.
• Experienced in Windows 2003 upgrade and Application Migration as part of teh Server remediation to Windows 2012.
• Experienced in working wif senior stakeholders and executive teams.
• Experienced in building and leading large teams spread across geographies.
• Experienced in reporting in line wif PMO and business stakeholder requirements.
• Experienced in ITSM, Procurement Management.
• Implementation disk based backup solution using NETAPP in AWS.
• Experienced in planning and implementation of DR and BCP.Execute effective plans and strategies for BCP and disaster recovery as decided by EMC and client organization. Coordinate wif technical team members in deployment, configuration and provisioning assignments.
• Experienced in Process Management, Stakeholder Management, Change management, Cost Analysis and Quality Management.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and MS Project and good knowledge on public sector project management

TECHNICAL SKILS

Project management Methodologies: PMBOK, Agile

Application Software/Tools: MS Office Suite, Visio, MS Project, JIRA, Rally, Quality Center, Crucible

Hadoop Framework: HDFS, Map Reduce, Pig, Hive, HBase, sqoop, zookeeper, Ooze

Cloud: AWS

Operating System: Lunix RHEL/Centos, Solaris and Aix

Monitoring Tools: Cloudera Manager, Ambari, Nagios, Ganglia

Storage System: EMC VMAX, VNX, Clarion, NetApp

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, ST. LOUIS, MO

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, iteration/release planning. Generate agile metrics and reporting technique.
• Track and communicate team velocity and iteration/release progress wif, and to all effected teams and management, Ensure teh development teams are practicing core agile/Safe principles.
• Assist team wif making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition, Determine and remove all obstacles that may interfere wif teh ability of teh teams’ to deliver assigned goals.
• Proven experience building strong working relationships, working successfully in cross-functional teams and understand teh scope of teh project and identify key success and risk factors
• Plan & manage complex release projects from estimation through successful completion of integration testing in preparation for production implementation.
• Lead teh project team to align wif teh business objectives, project / release schedule, and project budget.
• Provide continuous improvement measures into release performance testing & implementations processes, standards or plans in support of teh business.
• Provide leadership and oversight on various project / release deliverables of a complex nature.
• Responsible for planning, developing, and executing schedules to ensure timely completion of project / release deliverables deadlines and milestones.
• Communicate and collaborate wif various internal and external MasterCard teams.
• Ensure methodology compliance and manage resolutions, reporting to management when necessary.
• Ensure timely reporting to project team, portfolio manager and senior management. Analyze present-state project status and provide appropriate risk mitigation efforts.
• Manage overall coordination of schedules/activities to ensure “End dates” are met as defined in teh project plan. All date changes are to be approved by and involvement project management for Revision/Iterations.
• Manages issues resolutions and responsible for raising issues to teh Portfolio manager and Senior leadership, if not settled by Project team.
• Ensure adherence to methodology, guidelines and estimates, facilities “Get Well” planning.

Confidential, MA

IT Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provide insight on various projects / release deliverables of a complex nature. Responsible for planning, developing, and executing schedules to ensure timely completion of project / release deliverables deadlines and milestones.
• Negotiating contracts wif external vendors, third party consultants. Review/Approve SOW and RFP for new business proposal.
• Provide directions/Mentor teams, coordinate wif LBO’s and product owners for teh applications upgrade as part of teh Windows 2003 Servers remediation program.
• Worked wif Various Infra and applications teams to deploy Virtual machines, databases, install/configure applications and perform all teh necessary applications testing wif QA and business teams.
• Weekly and monthly reporting to teh steering committee and senior business stakeholders.

Confidential, MA

IT Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Work in conjunction wif teh Vendor Project Managers, document a Communication Plan as part of teh Master Project Management Plan and will compile and deliver weekly status reports for distribution to both teh Customer and Microsoft management.
• Ensure that project activities are aligned wif client objectives and develop communicate a scope statement that defines project work and limits.
• Weekly status meetings will be held to review teh project’s overall status, teh acceptance of deliverables, teh project schedule, and open issues noted in teh status report.
• Review SOW, contracts wif thirty vendors, Internal teams, implementations partners and align to project schedules and milestones.
• Scrum Master for facilitating daily stand up meetings, maintaining Burn down chart, setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions
• In line wif decisions to executive steering committee for making critical decisions on teh project strategic directions, serving as teh final arbiter of teh project issues, approving significant change request.
• Teh Executive Steering Committee will hold meetings and produce meeting minutes on a monthly basis. Customer and Microsoft Managers will share joint responsibility for reporting to teh Steering Committee.
• Weekly cadences are conducted wif project team to identify for Risks/Issues/Challenges for teh projects and discuss for mitigation plans.
• Project Management including monitoring project progress & performance and collect metrics related to productivity and quality.

Confidential, Pittsburgh,PA

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving teh transition of programs to new platforms and teh merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies.
• Supported team in Implementation of AWS for Oncommand Cloud Manager and Cloud ONTAP in NETAPP. Involved for in setting up Security policy, secured Ports, MI image. Delivered various migration projects for dynamic data center in Infrastructure space and applications.
• Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished wif both scheduled/unscheduled downtime and delivered projects ahead as per teh scheduled, saved $750K.
• Conduct weekly status meeting wif onsite/offshore team to get project status and report teh same to project stakeholder and executive management.
• Manage multiple projects across all phases of development, monitor workflow and make timeline adjustments as needed. Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to achieve project mile stones.
• Collaborate wif various teams to plan project sprints. Develop status reports, cost estimates and resource plans, make vital decisions and drive decisions making across projects.
• Project planning, tracking and control, delivery, recruiting teh right talent and fit. Communicate project status to business teams and executive management. Coordinate wif application owners/business team for teh approval.
• Involved in creating SOW and work client partners to Review/Approve. Worked wif Sr Leadership for New business proposal (RFP).

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and wif teh desired results
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments
• Responsibility includes overall planning and execution of teh project that involves defining teh project plan, preparing schedules, resource estimates and other management plans. Provide status updates to all teh stakeholders on weekly basis and ensuring project completion wifin agreed time lines. Highlight project risk/issues to teh project stakeholders and identify workaround to mitigate teh impact on teh overall project delivery.
• Responsible for building New Infrastructure in Dynamic data center systems
• Providing support to teh Organizational Communication management team teh documents and global announcement for teh end users.
• Involved in generating SOW for teh T&M resources and Fixed Bid Projects and review along wif Client Manager for Amendment/Approvals.

Confidential

Sr.STORAGE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Performed functions of a Storage Administrator including Zoning, LUN Masking and LUN Provisioning on CLARiiON and HP P4500.
• Configuring HP Curve Switches and allocation ports to Windows and Hyper-V servers as per production requirement, performing teh Load and integration test on teh SAN devices.
• Commissioning and decommissioning storage as required on HP Virtual SAN P4500 and Setting up Jumbo Frames on teh Storage for better performance.
• Implementing teh DR drill across teh Data Centers. Experience in collecting HP Export Storage nodes support bundle from CMC submitting them to HP to get teh break fix solution. Making necessary suggested by Vendor for better performance on teh Storage systems.

Confidential

UNIX ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Solaris 8/9/10 and has expertise wif SMF utilities, Zone Configuration and ZFS file systems.
• Handling System outages in solving teh problems as per teh SLA.
• VERITAS Volume Manager and Cluster Administration, Experience in administering volume manager, creating and mounting file systems.
• Resizing teh VxVM file system size, creating and managing volumes wif VXVM.
• Storage and disk Administration through VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Manager
• Applying Patches for Production and Development Environment wifin Schedule Outage.
• Configuration of Fail over and Parallel Service Groups, Configuration of Resources, Resource Types and Agents.
• Installed Nagios monitoring Tool in Unix Environment, Tripwire configuring and Monitoring.
• Trouble Shooting of Service Group Fail over and Faulted Resources, Involved in Server Decommission and relocation.
• Resolving Space issues, coordinate for hardware replacement, Performance monitoring and tuning.
• Data Center shutdown/Power-up, coordinating wif onsite personnel for teh partial/Full datacenter shutdown.