SUMMARY:

• Motivated achiever with progressive experience in information - technology consulting, focusing on Web-based and Client/Server-based applications, media platforms, state of the art development projects, as well as customization of acquired suite of products
• Experienced project manager who has successfully led large project teams of up to 40+ people from requirements-gathering to implementation and post production support. Experience is equally distributed over Agile and conventional Teams
• Competent Technical guru with more than 14 years of hands-on development experience spanning Microsoft .NET centric platforms and a keen interest to keep abreast of cutting edge technologies
• Work experience with Industry leaders in various domains and Fortune 500 companies
• Specializing in management of Projects involving integration of enterprise applications with COTS solutions
• Experience in Client facing engagement management, expectation & change management
• Proven track record in Release management & implementation of road-maps for enterprise applications
• Extensive background in Budget planning & tracking, earned value, and cost benefit rationalization with proven track record on projects .25 M to 7 M
• Specialist in Offshore Coordination and Multi-vendor Project management. Established capabilities in vendor replacement planning and Best of the breed team formations across multiple vendors
• Solid communicator with exceptional people management and team-building skills. Committed to success and adept at multitasking
• Strong problem-solver who can design solutions and assist developers with issues and push for industry standard best practices
• Adept at C-level communications, program status reporting, executive scorecards, and presentations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager / Program Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led projects to introduce a new class of cost effective media devices to emerging markets
• Was specially brought in to expedite traditional speed to market. Reduced STM by one fourth
• Implemented Kanban methodology to achieve above
• Setup Project Financial tracking and scientific forecasting improving portfolio budget tracking
• Improved asset allocation, allotment & tracking
• Identified areas of improvement and made best practice recommendations to streamline process
• Directed Development, QA and vendor teams resolving conflicts and driving teams to a common larger objective
• Setup maintenance plans for the newly launched platforms
• Managed initiatives to build server racks and host STBs on the same
• Managed server-side feature implementations to augment set top box features
• Drove a project team spanning but not limited to India, S Korea, China. Taiwan, Israel, France, UK, USA,Argentina, Brazil to excellence and productive output

Technical Project Manager / Program Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Helped client adopt a sustainable custom trimmed innovation model. Laid out a long-term Roadmap for the initiative
• Established an Innovation Center of Excellence for the client. Spearheaded the Innovation COE, Evaluation of Innovation Tools, governance and tracking of the Innovation Initiatives
• Migrated the Innovation management system to the acquired 3rd party solution from the SharePoint based solution
• Drove a geographically dispersed multi-vendor SCRUM team to build POCs and prototypes that were submitted as part of Innovation initiatives
• Derived ROIs on the prototypes and helped identify early adopters
• Managed redesign of cloud API gateway architecture phase

Technical Project Manager / Program Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple strategic initiatives from initiation to post production support ; on time, on schedule and within budget along with leading monthly release management
• Spearheaded JAD sessions to drive requirements from a stakeholder community spanning across various Business groups
• Managed the Budget, Forecast and resourcing for the project. Key player in establishing and spearheading release process for a business-critical application
• Managed multi-vendor (geographically distributed) environment maintaining 16-hour development throughput per day. Had the additional responsibility of testing Manager/Coordinator.
• Managed technical platform implementations and integration with third-party software.
• Responsible for Cradle to grave project ownership of multiple projects.
• Acted as the in-house architect and technical solution provider. Credited for proposing and implementing architecture change paving way for 100% performance improvement and batch run time reduction. Applications ranged from in house windows forms to customer facing web applications

Project Manager / Techno Functional Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Mentored, Guided development team with architecture and technical solutions
• Developed/Enhanced web based enterprise solutions for the client.
• Demonstrated proficient use of Microsoft office-related automation: Microsoft office suite; project management tools.
• Managed on-time, on-budget software development and implementation
• Established framework and processes in line with client's strategic plans to deliver an integrated product.
• Created project charters, Established and updated plans, tracked forecasts & budget
• Made best practice recommendations and was involved in an initiative to create a custom SDLC trim
• Prepared and maintained standard estimation templates, and ensured adherence to the same.
• Tracked KPIs and facilitated regular steering committee meetings. The process streamlining saved the organization an annual expenditure of one million, improving incident response turnaround time by 40%
• Coordinated iterative releases with offshore/onsite teams.
• Hired, mentored, coached and supervised a technical team and helped members take on greater responsibilities. Provided employee development opportunities and headed team building initiatives.

Project lead /Software designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved actively in reengineering and re-architecture of an existing Enterprise web applications.
• Involved in building, enhancing trading applications
• Actively involved in the business layer component and class designs.
• Involved in Prototyping, Designing and development of a Winforms based trading application for the client’s trading desk.
• Played a key role in Design, development, testing and documentation of enterprise applications