SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of dynamic career in Delivery Management / Program Management and Agile Project Management with hands - on experience in Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence and Analytics
• An accomplished professional with multi-cultural experience in Delivery / Program/ Agile Project Management, adept at turning around troubled projects and driving them to successful delivery
• Excellence in Information Technology, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytics
• Successfully delivered multiple large & complex EDW/BI, System Integration projects with team size of over 100 resources in multi geographies and multi-vendor environments
• Managed multi-million dollar accounts handling delivery responsibility, client relationships, revenue targets, margins, utilization and fulfilment
• Led Business Development and sales support activities, responding to RFPs/RFIs, authoring proposals and Statements of Work
• Responsible for vendor management & controllership. Managed 50+ vendor/contract resources involved in development of EDW/BI solutions. Reduced contractor base, vendor diversification for risk reduction & improving productivity
• Responsible for program structure, governance and customer satisfaction & Account Mining to ensure growth objectives are met
• Led and managed team of architects and provided leadership in creation of EDW/ BI Vision, Strategy and Implementation roadmap
• Successfully led complex Data and Application migration projects from legacy technology to Hadoop based ecosystem

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Data Modeling: Dimensional Modeling, ER Modeling, cLDM Data Governance, MDM, Data Quality

Data Integration: Informatica 9.0, Datastage7x, SAP-DS 12.2, Abinitio 3.0, SAS 9.0 ETL studio, Cognos Data Manager 8.3, Talend

Reporting & Visualisation: Cognos Powerplay 6.6, Essbase 5.0, BusinessObjects 6.0 / XI 3.1, MS BI 2010, Micro Strategy 9.3.x, Tableau

Databases: Oracle 7.x/8x/9x/10x/11g, Teradata 13.0 and DB2, Amazon Redshift

Languages: SQL / PL/SQL and VS COBOL II

Big Data and Data Science: Hadoop, Python and R

Project Management: MS Project 2010, Clarity, Rally, Enterprise JIRA, Version One

Others: UNIX Shell Scripts, AWK, JCL, VSAM, Mainframe Utilities and Teradata UtilitiesThe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted as an execution lead closely partnering with the Product owner & to define Themes, Epics, Product Roadmap, Product Backlog and Release Plan
• Coached team in defining the Architectural Runway and enablers in overall solution
• Worked as a partner with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Assessed current agile approaches, suggested initiatives, instituted and re-energized agile practices and served as primary change agent
• Serve as an escalation for impediment removal for the Scrum Masters and scrum teams
• Led and facilitated agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, iteration planning, daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, release planning
• Maintained metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality
• Helped Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items
• Coached Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality
• Worked with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of scrum in the organization

Confidential, WA

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for multiple teams, providing a learning environment to deliver business value and embodying servant leadership.
• Removing impediments and providing guidance to help the team(s) remove impediments.
• Working as a partner with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Leads and facilitated agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, iteration planning, daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, release planning
• Setting up iterations and PSIs (Potentially Shippable Increments) in Rally for assigned teams and ensured teams managed and tracked tasks in the Rally tool. Effectively represented teams in Scrum-of-Scrums report outs
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged while maintaining team and individual accountability to commitments
• Coaching and mentoring other scrum masters in our product team, ensuring that ways of working are consistent across the teams

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and monitor delivery of a portfolio of engagements, to ensure that Project Managers have sufficient support and take an active part in project review Boards when applicable to ensure proactive Project Health monitoring. First point of escalation, for any delivery-related issues, that may arise throughout the Engagement Lifecycle
• Manage and review portfolio of engagements and contracts regularly to ensure delivery is on track within approved scope or that scope changes are properly handled (scope change requests, contract add-ons, etc.)
• Oversee of several scorecard and key performance indicators directly or through collaboration with other roles. These include Backlog Attainment, Delivery Margin/Project Profitability, Forecasting Accuracy, Delivery Excellence Index, and CSAT

Confidential

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with Product Owners and other key stakeholders to identify, refine, and shape the product backlog and roadmap to support business value delivery
• Organizing, scheduling, and facilitating agile ceremonies
• Identifying opportunities and implementing improved processes and workflows to boost team efficiency by tracking and reporting on development team metrics such as velocity, risks, burndown, cumulative flow, etc.
• Providing visibility and transparency into daily operations for Product Owners and stakeholders
• Facilitating the daily work of the development team by removing impediments and interferences

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Establish delivery plans and roadmaps that align to business priorities
• Manage stakeholder expectations to align to realistic schedules, budgets and scope
• Manage the successful delivery analytics solutions as defined by business stakeholders
• Ensure critical success metrics and minimum success criteria are defined as part of the project intake lifecycle and are used to manage the solution roadmap
• Implementation of lean six sigma to manage delivery of continuous improvements to existing solutions based on strategic roadmaps
• Build and manage technical delivery teams and delivery processes across teams to meet business commitments
• Establish delivery metrics to monitor and control delivery process and define methodology improvement opportunities
• Partner with application, platform and technology teams to develop maintainable solutions, operationalize support activities and ensure the defined service level objectives are met post go-live
• Oversee the maintenance and creation of BI systems based on existing architecture and environments to solve business issues

Confidential

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership for a cross-functional team of developers, business analysts, and BI professionals to ensure consistency in tools and methods and accuracy in Data Warehouse deliverables
• Led teams through release planning and execution and removing impediments
• Liaise between the developers and User Experience/Visual Designers
• Took responsibility for managing dependencies between scrum and external teams

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed work plans and monitored the activities, resources, deliverables for our customers
• Created developmental frameworks and conducted design / code reviews
• Implemented change control and change management processes to manage project scope

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led the technical workshop with Confidential / Informatica Corp & developed Solution Architecture Document, BI transformation roadmap and Architecture roadmap

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Transition Management
• Complete ownership of the project deliverables & was responsible for day-to-day management of the entire project
• Planning and designing the BI program, proactively monitoring its overall progress, taking action on issues & risks to ensure a successful release implementation
• Managing the program’s budget, monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the program progresses
• Ensuring that the delivery of new products or services from the projects is up to the appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the program plan
• Advised leads during analysis, design and construction of work products and resolved technical issues
• Communication management with all stakeholders and participation in governance meetings

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for day-to-day management of offshore project tasks executed by external IT vendor
• Provided SME support to designers and developers in analysis, design, construction of work products and resolving technical issues
• Review and approval of project deliverables for production release
• Led the BI track for knowledge/ / best practices shareware as a part of Hub Collaboration initiative across GE Business IT Hubs in India
• Responsibility for Vendor management & controllership. Manage 50+ vendor/contract resources involved in development of BI solutions. Responsible for reducing contractor base, vendor diversification for risk reduction & achieve productivity

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implement practices and processes for ensuring that logical and physical data models are uniform across the organization
• Oversee the maintenance and creation of BI systems based on existing architecture and environments to solve business issues
• Ensuring that the data in the source transactional systems is reliably and predictably loaded into the data warehouse, setting up a correct protocol
• Assess and evaluate new technologies that would allow the data warehouse to continuously improve in availability, accessibility and self-service
• Oversee the design, implementation and performance of business focused data marts
• Create and maintain the Data Warehouse/Analytics roadmap for future anticipated technology and data needs
• Provide strong leadership for a cross-functional team of developers, business analysts, and BI professionals to ensure consistency in tools and methods and accuracy in Data Warehouse deliverables

Confidential

Data Integration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design of the ETL Strategy & Coding of Complex mappings.
• Development of end-to-end design and automation of the ETL process.
• Engaged in design of various data marts
• Co-ordinate and provide 24*7 production support for data load cycles in warehouse
• Mentoring team members in analysis, design and construction of work products and resolving technical issues