SUMMARY:

• PMP certified project manager with 8+ years of experience owning all stages of the project lifecycle from inception through monitoring and closing to deliver projects that exceed expectations on time and on budget.
• Utilizing proficiency in coordinating activities of a team and facilitating project - team related meetings to execute assigned work. Consultant with proven expertise with various modules and accelerators of Enterprise Portfolio Management. Excel in demanding, high-visibility and high-pressure environments.
• Utilizing CMMI® framework, developed and implemented “best practices” process standards, and procedures for organization internal audits. Performed Configuration Management (CM) activities for audit procedures of non-software artifacts and documentation for CM
• Plan, and CM System Design. Proven expertise in leading various cloud migration efforts. Experience in working with cross-functional business units supporting the company's leadership vision through execution. Proven highly effective team-building skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: SQL, pl/sql, Gel scripting, HTMLOS: Linux, Windows, Mac OS

Databases: Access, SQL, MySQL, ORACLE

Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Tools: Redmine, Wrike, Rally, JIRA, Selenium, MSP.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day-to-day leadership of matrixed project resources to ensure productivity and efficient use of resources.
• Establishing collaborative partnerships and involved in initiating and monitoring IT development efforts in support of challenging IT projects.
• Designed and implemented functions to address strategic planning, quality and improvement, transformation and governance needs.
• Responsible for the project management practices through benefits realization review, Earned Value Management(EVM) and project close out/handover.
• Work closely with customers and colleagues to schedule and facilitate requirements gathering sessions; responsible to understand, capture, and structure requirements.
• Experience porting applications into the cloud
• Maintain solid communication across teams and throughout the organization to provide updates on the status of varying engineering efforts
• Monitor project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports; recommending actions
• Experience with cloud platforms MS Azure
• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Draft business processes and documentation to support user, functional testing, and other activities required to facilitate implementation of software
• Maintain relevant metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc) to identify areas of opportunity and works with the team to continuously improve
• Participate in monthly PSR and Quarterly IPR
• Assist with other In - house PMO activities
• Responsible for developing, managing, and enhancing the technical infrastructure of Drupal-based websites.
• Lead Drupal 7 Web Development Projects, provide technical leadership and best practices mentoring to Drupal development team, and ensure collaborative engagement between the development team and other cross functional teams.
• Analyze, configure and improve performance, scalability, and stability of Drupal 7 websites.
• Help derive process improvement in Drupal Development life cycle.
• Develop custom Drupal modules and extend existing contributed modules to meet client’s business needs and project requirements.
• Work closely with internal project team members and interact with key project stakeholders to gather requirements, design, develop, configure, test, deploy and support Drupal 7 and 9 websites.
• Lead the efforts of drupal migration from 7 to 9.
• Work independently and with the team, producing creative, reliable solutions.
• Review Software development processes documents and procedures
• Maintain Project timelines and continues project monitoring
• Actively participate in responding to RFI’s for internal BD team.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the CMS & FDA Enterprise portfolio Management.
• Managed the annual project budget of 2M+
• Work with project through design, development, testing and implementation Phase.
• Project planning and scheduling
• Provide regular status updates to appropriate stake holders and steering committee.
• Develop compressive monitoring of risk, issues, dependency, contingency plan, and available resource to remove any road blogs resulting in 99% of milestones achieved on time.
• Organize scrum calls and produce status reports for PSR meetings
• Involved in quarterly IPR meetings
• Manage project scope and manage project changes through the change management process
• Provides performance review input and development recommendations for team members
• Generate metrics and provide regular briefings and dashboards to senior management on the performance of the ongoing infrastructure projects
• Work with customers and technical resources to develop project plans, detailing work break down structures and identify critical path
• Develop monthly project and financial status report
• Approve monthly invoices and create spend plans in Redmine.
• Coordinate with development teams during various SDLC stages.
• Participate in testing efforts (Unit, System, and Performance).
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Create and maintain project budgets, schedules, status reports and all required project artifacts for the lifecycle of the project
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and meet or exceed expectations
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or environment updates
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
• Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves risks and issues using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to produce and deliver deployment documents to customers
• Negotiate, deployment plan, and manage all release activities
• Maintain the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
• Continually work toward making improvements in the release process
• Lead and coordinate go-live activities including the execution of deployment plans and checklists
• Participate in change control meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
• Maintain a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists
• Work with engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges

Portfolio Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Software Life Cycle Process with in Clarity - Portfolio Management
• Delivering an architecture that supports the most efficient and secure IT environment meeting the business needs.
• Ensuring that IT delivers competitive business advantage to the organization
• Aligning IT strategy and planning with the enterprise’s business goals.
• Developing past, present and future state architecture documentation for the Enterprise portfolio management Library.
• Risk Management of information and IT assets through appropriate standards and security policies
• Provided technical and function support for ATT capital planning team.
• Handled defects and new requirements
• Develop, execute and manage large, more complex project(s) within the defined scope.
• Manage a variety of interrelated project activities and lead all aspects of the project life-cycle, working with project sponsors/key stakeholders, team members, and management to oversee all phases of project completion.
• Build and manage project's work breakdown structure, milestones, risks, issues, and deliverables within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of the project.
• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
• Coordinated with various developers, project managers and analyst to prepare designs for new applications and documents all processes to ensure effective evaluation of all application.
• Designed and implemented various structures for all physical objects and recommend changes on application through efficient statistical structures.
• Responsible to translate business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns, such as adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability to achieve the bottom line and business objectives.
• Created processes using gel script and XOG techniques
• Created portlets for Health checks using NSQL queries.
• Created Portfolio Health Assessment for AT&T
• Involved in design, development and testing of code for every release.
• Communicate effectively and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where multi-tasking and prioritizing is necessary.
• Designed and created packages, procedures, views, indexes and all relevant database objects

Technical Specialist

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Responsibilities:

• Supported PMO team in managing & maintaining Program/Project.
• Implemented Clarity R12 with Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1 in a clustered environment
• Performed Upgrade assessment and implementation
• Reporting strategy and customization
• Configured Portlet and portlet page
• Designed and Implemented Custom objects
• Integration/XML open gateway
• OBS/Group/Security analysis and creation
• Created process design &implementation
• Worked on template analysis and creation
• External system synchronization
• Performed installation, configuration & upgrade
• Documented the benefits of and the transition process to the use standard clarity structures and reports
• Enhanced clarity performance through configuration analysis and fine tuning
• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department teams
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
• Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles

Clarity Consultant/PMO Support Coordinator

Confidential, Lake forest, IL

Responsibilities:

• Provided Clarity Support & and seamless data conversion
• Involved in Project data maintenance support and Resource data maintenance support
• Help with Playbook Improvement - Aligning materials to Platform needs, source good examples, collect feedback
• Created Process Documentation - Recurring PM needs
• Set-up and use of PM tools (Clarity Continued customer support - 1st point of contact for GPM queries
• PM onboarding &
• Platform - PMO Liaison: Standardize and introduce economies of repetition in project execution
• Governance support - PSR process, HPRC, Venture Team
• Continuous improvement for PMO products/services
• Continued 1st point of contact for PMO support and onboarding
• Assisted PMs in management of key programs (focusing on facilitation, tracking and reporting)
• Supported PMs of large-scale programs in the execution of PM activities
• Source for Process documentation and metrics and Provide advisory services
• Assisted employees in the use and application of the Project and portfolio Management.
• Worked with project/program managers to ensure that the PPM tool is properly configured for maximum utilization
• Created a Technical Design Documents and test scripts
• Responsible for all system related materials, requirements documentation, workflows, user templates or other modifications related to enhancements
• Provided regular updates on project status, at the task level, when necessary, to ensure that visibility is available to project leads, management staff, and other impacted groups.
• Worked with the Project Team to support the overall software application as well as the business processes supported by the tool
• Worked closely with the application development support teams on end user issues to provide timely resolution and manage documentation of issue resolution.
• Worked closely with the IT stakeholders on requirements gathering and documentation, coordinating implementation of approved requirements, and preparing for user acceptance testing for each approved requirement.

Clarity Consultant/Business Analyst

Confidential, Miami, FL

Responsibilities:

• Provided Enterprise portfolio Support & and seamless data conversion
• Created functional designs for implementing the ERP modules project Management, Demand Management, Portfolio Management, Resource Management, Process Management and Service Management.
• Created objects, object views, lookups, processes, and portlets to implement changes defined in the functional design.
• Developed executive dashboards to display the Project information. Dashboards show Project releases, lifecycle, release by area and release by request type.
• Fine tuned the portlet queries to show the data within the time limit defined as TracFone standard.
• As a functional consultant, helped business users with questions related to usage of tool and questions around business processes and Consultant timesheet .
• Designed and developed multiple processes using the GEL Script. One such example is process created for sending external emails with attachment to vendors outside TracFone.
• Created process flows to send reminder emails for resource managers to approve the timesheet and PO extensions for consultants.
• Worked on two upgrade projects 8. .0.6 and 12.0.6 to 12.1.1. Lead the efforts for upgrading the tool to version 12.
• To ensure the availability of the Enterprise portfolio application, created procedures to monitor the ERP system all the time.
• Organized the releases based on the business priorities, estimates, and timelines set for the release. And also coordinated efforts for QA, UAT testing.
• Expert in creating the XOG files required to move the configuration changes across the ERP environments.

Senior Technical Consultant

Confidential, Poughkeepsie, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked on ERP tools, Oracle, Actuate Reporting and performed software analysis, design, development, requirements gathering, analytical decision-making, and project management.
• Extensively worked on support and maintenance projects which involve fixing run time issues.
• Worked extensively with all levels of user groups for requirement gathering, JAD sessions, periodic user and ad-hoc reporting.
• Provided first level support to business users & executives.
• Worked on Oracle analytical SQL, Procedures and Functions for very complex ad-hoc reporting requirements.
• Designed and implemented Project and Portfolio modules, sub-objects, processes, database triggers, reports and portlets,
• Setup time slices, data marts and financial matrices
• Used custom GEL scripts to automate the Product Development and Management (PDM) process in Clarity.
• Designed and implemented SQL/ NSQL real-time reports.