SUMMARY:

• Hands - on, business savvy Project Management Professional with expertise in leading high-visibility, client-driven and internal projects in global technology organizations.
• Adept at driving governance, applying effective methodologies, PMO strategy to successfully accomplish firm objectives with focus on agile and sprint-based development. Excels at facilitating data-driven decisions by optimizing metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) and improving transparency.
• Over 15 years in project management support and leadership roles.
• Program/Project Management Agile | Waterfall Coaching and Mentoring
• PMO Leadership Strategic Planning Vendor Management
• Risk Management Conflict Resolution Stakeholder Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Short Hills, NJ

Senior Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed development and delivery of Phase II of the DB Compass platform for the large customer.
• Improved bugs and features governance methodology and aligned Jira tracking to ensure adequate and transparent reporting of program status.

Confidential - Murray Hill, NJ

Manager of Project Management Office (PMO)

Responsibilities:

• Supported global product development teams of ~ 300 individuals across 8 locations in the U.S. and offshore. Provided, coaching, mentoring and . Established reporting, metrics, templates, and DevOps automation procedures.
• Spearheaded development & re-architecture of Unigy on-premises solution to a multitenant cloud based Unigy 360 SaaS platform with soft clients for Apple, Android, and Windows based endpoints.
• Collaborated to select Agile strategy, framework, steered migration, and customization to SAFe Agile and defined KPIs/metrics. Strengthened R&D efficiency and accelerated features time to market.
• Expedited software delivery and reduced infrastructure load by introducing DevOps methodology and processes. Reduced development cost and removed dependency on on-premises and offshore build infrastructure by moving code and product builds into AWS cloud-based environment.
• Enhanced product security and cut risks by incorporating Open Source Software compliance (License, Security Vulnerabilities) in SDLC process by introducing BlackDuck solution replacing the manual process of scanning product binaries twice a year by a third-party vendor.

Confidential - Pearl River, NY

Lead Project Management Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management support for delivery of Flashwave4100 ES and Flashwave CDS programs from concept to launch, incremental and maintenance releases to support company Access business unit with $80M+ in annual revenue. Managed project scope, deliverables, risks, implementation, quality, and changing priorities to ensure projects were completed on time with expected scope and budget.
• Fueled data-driven executive management decisions by heightening transparency for project reporting. Standardized program metrics; influenced leadership buy-in, revised templates, and trained project managers.
• Key in enabling near real-time KPI reporting; principal contributor in migrating metrics to SAP Business Objects.

Quality & Project Management Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered multiple Flashwave 4100 Releases on time, on target, within budget, overcoming staffing constraints.
• Aided to diminish cost of goods by 70%, as project manager for FLASHWAVE 4100 cost reduction program.
• Modernized quality management system and positioned process for updates on an ongoing basis. Facilitated maintenance of TL9000 with no major findings from external audits.

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with project leads and engineering managers to define metrics and KPIs for purposes of understanding engineering performance in terms of cost, schedule, quality, content, productivity and analyze project data to suggest corrective actions or improvements.
• Minimized prototype project costs by developing Oracle based hardware prototype management system for R&D.