PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9 years of experience as a Project Manager/ Scrum Master with proven capabilities in various domains such as Non - Profit, Health care, Pharma, Security..
• Experienced in maintaining vendor relations, project tracking, budget adherence, and conflict resolution.
• Expert in handling cross functional teams and coordinating with PO and BAs to get all the clarities for the stories.
• Well versed in handling projects in Web Based Technologies.
• An accomplished team member with an ability to perform individually. A quick learner with an aptitude for taking responsibilities.
• Detail-oriented, extremely organized, and have exceptional writing and communicating skills.
• Ability to bridge communication amongst technical and non-technical project staff and stakeholders.
• Certified Scrum Master and working on PMP .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/VISTA

Business Tools: MS VisioTracking Tools: QTP, Test Director, Win Runner, Load Runner, Bugzilla, JIRA

Programming Languages: Visual Basic, C#

Mark Up Languages: HTML.

Project Management & Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, MS Project

Requirements S/W: Enterprise (UML Software)

Document Management S/W: MS SharePoint

Methodologies: PMBOK, SCRUM, Waterfall

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide Production Support for IIE Enterprise application and resolve IIE Enterprise production problems of medium to high complexity as reported by the Business Users.
• Work with Business Users to gather business and technical requirements and to define specifications; prepare documentation describing what needs to be done and how it is to be done.
• Work closely with the technical team to translate the business requirements into functional specifications; develop project estimates and manage scope throughout the project lifecycle.
• Perform various types of testing cycles such as System Testing and Quality Assurance Testing to ensure quality.
• Track and communicate project status, issues, risks and decisions to senior management.
• The key skills used are Microsoft technologies - MS-Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), MS-Visio, MS-Project, Team Foundation Suite etc. for performing the duties mentioned.

Confidential, NJ

Lead PM

Responsibilities:

• Following The ITUP process, estimating the various applications. Tracking Rally( Agile tool).
• Tracking hour, budget if Milestone dates are achieved during the entire lifecycle of Project.
• Tracking all dependencies, estimating budgets. Preparing scope of project, CRs.
• Triaging defects and tracking issues. Handling both onshore and offshore team members.
• Coordinating with other teams during different phases of project.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Scrum Master /PM

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and daily activities related to stand-ups and sprint burn down.
• Ensure cross-team coordination and with Product owners and BAs
• Own and resolve identified impediments.
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see and understand their progress during a sprint.
• Taken responsibility for managing dependencies betweenscrumteams.
• Establish priorities for stories with Product Owners.
• Work with other Agile teams, theirScrumMasters and Product owners to ensure alignment and act together toward common goals.
• Coach, mentor and educate team members on agile best practices including Kanban.
• Ensure team execution and delivery to committed sprint work. Protect team from over-commitment
• Using Version One as a scrum tool .Creates forum for communicating vision, goals, and Product Backlog items to the team
• Teaching the team to create clear and concise Backlog items
• Provide perspective to the team and keep team focused on critical deliverables and tasks
• Tracking hour, budget (EM), Milestone dates are achieved during the entire lifecycle of Project.
• Tracking all dependencies, estimating budgets. Preparing scope of project, CRs.
• Triaging defects and tracking issues. Handling both onshore and offshore team members.
• Coordinating with other teams during different phases of project.
• Estimating, purchasing, planning, scheduling, execution, risk management, quality & process control, change management
• Negotiate to driveprojectteam and executives to make decisions in a timely manner in order to deliver projectas to agreed scope, schedule and budget.Monitor if code standards are being followed.
• Plan all phases of theprojectincluding requirements, design, build, conversion, QA, UAT and . Communicate and assign crossprojectteam members to the planned tasks. Monitor and adjust theprojectplan to ensure the success of theproject.

Confidential, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed an outsourced team of 15 members in India and delivered projects on time, within budget, with high level of quality and customer satisfaction.
• Created project level work breakdown structure, high level and detailed project plan, and Risk and mitigation reports, communication plans.
• Hired, mentored, coached and supervised a technical team and security analyst to help members take on greater responsibilities.
• Collaboration among departments and developed KPI to measure success/efficiency.
• Interfaced with management, employees and vendors, evaluated proposals, contract negotiations, scope of work and made periodic presentations to elected officials.

Confidential, NY

Junior Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Wrote proposals, Statement of Work (SOW) in response to RFP .Managed multiple contracts and negotiated new teams for contract extension.
• Managed a team of 65 resources for both the projects. I was responsible for interviewing resources and writing their performance reviews.
• Utilized project management processes and methodologies to ensure that projects were delivered on time, within budget, adhered to high quality standards and met customer expectations
• Managed the project life cycle, from initiation through implementation, crafted requirements and specifications, defined scope and schedule, obtained approvals, managed tasks and leveled resources.
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Working with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown.
• Facilitating sprint planning as Scrum master for multiple Scrum teams
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
• Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.
• Exercised scope management and control by balancing client needs and corporate objectives.
• Organized and prioritized tasks to ensure timely implementation of assigned projects using MS Project.
• Managed, reviewed and tracked issues.
• Defined communication channels for every project.
• Created project level work breakdown structure, high level and detailed project plan, Risk and mitigation reports, communication plans, WBS. Used MS project.
• Provided weekly status updates and kept all stakeholders informed of the project’s progress.
• Familiar with Ethical hacking tools like Burp and Firebug.
• Implemented new style of meeting in company which saved a lot of time and documentation.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Wrote proposals, Statement of Work (SOW) in response to RFP and won new contracts from different telecom operators around the world. Managed multiple contracts and negotiated new teams for contract extension.
• Managed a team of 10 resources for both the projects. I was responsible for interviewing resources and writing their performance reviews.
• Utilized project management processes and methodologies to ensure that projects were delivered on time, within budget, adhered to high quality standards and met customer expectations
• Independently managed the full project life cycle, from initiation through implementation, crafted requirements and specifications, defined scope and schedule, obtained approvals, managed tasks and leveled resources. Developed Web Based software on Lean /Agile scrum Methodology.
• Exercised scope management and control by balancing client needs and corporate objectives.
• Organized and prioritized tasks to ensure timely implementation of assigned projects using MS Project.
• Managed, reviewed and tracked issues.
• Defined communication channels for every project.
• Maintained project level work breakdown structure
• Provided weekly status updates and kept all stakeholders informed of the project’s progress.
• Developed project management procedures for easy execution of upcoming projects.
• Developed and Maintained a PMO library for quick s on previous telecom projects.
• Interfaced and managed outside consultants and vendors

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Studied existing business application and processes, collected end user requirements and suggested the improvised business process model.
• Current and future state model Use Case Analysis, Use Case Specifications and Activity Diagrams, BRD and FRD.
• Gap Analysis of Client requirements, generated workflow process, flow charts and relevant artifacts.
• Conducted one on one interviews with high level management team and participated in the JAD sessions with the SME’s.
• Worked in association with RUP mentors to ensure fidelity to the standard RUP practices of the institution.
• Involved in configuration management, version control and change management using Rational Clear Case.
• Provided the management with test metrics, reports, and schedules as necessary using MS Project and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings.
• Analyzed the “As is” and “To be” system documents to show the current and proposed functionalities of the system using MS VISIO

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios, trained interns.
• Prepared Test cases and Test plan Created scope, use case documents; business process models, use case diagrams, activity diagrams and state chart diagrams. Worked on WBS, BRD and FRD.
• Utilized RUP to configure and develop process, standards, and procedures for setting up the project processes.
• Performed GAP, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, Risk analysis and ROI analysis of existing system and evaluated benefits of new system.
• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.
• Monitored and assisted in designing and development of Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Storyboards, OOD using UML.
• Worked with development and testing teams to accomplish timely release objectives.
• Ensured on-time and on-budget performance of the assigned efforts to the mutual satisfaction of the business partners/ sponsors.
• Implemented the full project lifecycle phases including requirements gatherings, development and quality assurance.
• Analyzed the system requirements and developed test scenarios and test cases
• Manually tested the functionality, User Interfaces and Security of the web application

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained all the 270 PCs on the site. Maintenance activities included ensuring proper network connection, installation of the data entry program and the availability of scanners on each computer.
• Installed the ‘Data entry User Report’ program on the workstations of other team leaders and the project manager.
• Was responsible for taking a backup of the database for entered records after every shift i.e. Twice daily
• Provided support to the project manager for smooth functioning of the project. Since there were more than 900 data entry operators working shift-wise, round the clock on this project, we had to double up as administrators and supervisors for the easy handling of manpower.