SUMMARY:

• Technically sound professional, reflecting strong leadership qualifications of over 14+IT yearsand 8 +with hands - on Project Management - Turnkey IT Software Projects.
• Certified PMP with experience in managing complete program/project activities ensuring timely deliveries as per defined timelines and quality standards; handling overall functioning of processes & implementing processes in line with the pre-set guidelines.
• Certified Scrum Master with experience in managing agile projects.
• Certified John Maxwell Team Leadership and communication professional.
• Proven skills in administering teams to work in sync with the corporate set parameters & motivating them for achieving business, quality and individual goals.
• Expertise in concepts of end-to-end program planning and implementation from scope management, to activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management in adherence to quality guidelines &norms.
• Planning project activities viz. scoping, estimation, tracking, change management, delivery management & post implementation support.
• Implementing project plans within preset budgets and deadlines. Monitoring onsite & offshore delivery management for technical deliverables of concurrent projects.
• Understanding client needs, requirements, and expectations and devise solutions accordingly.
• Directing software development activities for business process mapping of the client and identifying appropriate development methodology.
• Client, user, partner interaction for requirement gathering, risk assessment, finalisation of technical specifications and discussions for effort/cost/time estimation and client co-ordination and reporting.
• Developing, implementing and providing support for business application software for clients.
• Managing recruitment, and selection of technical personnel as well as organizing & planning operations.
• Identifying the team’s & development needs, designing and developing the appropriate program and afterwards coordinating appropriate internal programs.
• Handled multiple projects at same time received accolades from senior management and from clients.
• Involved in Project Assessments and won new projects & contracts.
• Actively participated and won few critical RFP for the company.
• Received Team s and Individual quarterly s for managing team effectively.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Java

Internet Technologies: J2EE (EJB, JMS, JAXP), JSP, Servlets, XML, XSL, Web Services (SOAP, WSDL)

Framework: Struts1.1, Spring, Hibernate

Databases: Oracle 9i

ApplicationServers: BEA Web Logic Server 12.1, IBM Web Sphere 6.1

WebServers: Tomcat 5.0

Application IDE Tools: Eclipse 3.0(I.D.E)

Version Control Tools: CVS, Microsoft VSS 6.0, Clear Case

Tools: ANT (Build Tool), Microsoft Project, JIRA

SDLC: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/2003

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Orlando, Florida

Responsibilities:

• To write contracts for New/Renewal SOW, Costing, Staffing Plan and Invoice Submission.
• Onsite Primary point of contact for communication to Vendor offshore (offshore services) resources.
• Monitor, evaluate and report on Performance (budget, cost, schedule, scope, quality, risk and issue) and financial status.
• Would be responsible for coordination between FedEx the vendor team and would need to ensure all work products are reviewed before they are delivered to FedEx.
• Ensure adherence to the project schedule as agreed with FedEx and also ensure compliance to project management standards.
• Deliver the deliverables of all the projects within budget, on time and meeting FedEx requirements.
• Work with FedEx managers to identify work for offshore, discuss methodology, approach, process and best practices for utilizing the offshore delivery model.
• Interact with FedEx managers and IT leads to help refine scope and document requirements.
• Provide technical leadership to offshore team, acting as liaison between FedEx FTEs.
• Need to maintain planned/consistent communication with FedEx managers to ensure success in offshored initiates.
• Plan and Execute all the activities assigned to Vendor.
• Proactively identifies, develop response plans and mitigate project, technology and resource risks.
• Communicate status, progress and directions to project team and sponsors.
• First level of escalations of all Vendor projects.
• On boarding and off boarding all vendor resources and manage all vendor resources.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• To manage Application Development and Testing team.
• To provide Costing and Staffing Plan for new/renewal contracts.
• Offshore Primary point of contact for vendor communication related to budget, cost, schedule, scope quality, risk or issues.
• To work with Amex managers to identify work for offshore, discuss methodology, approach, process and best practices for utilizing the offshore delivery model.
• Whenever required need to provide technical leadership to offshore team, acting as liaison between Amex FTEs
• Need to maintain Project Plan for each project with timelines, task status, milestones, risk, and issues and query log.
• Deliver the deliverables of all the projects within budget, on time and meeting Project requirements
• On boarding and off boarding all vendor resources and manage all vendor resources.

Project Manager

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• To manage the delivery and support of projects by leveraging project management tools.
• Assisting Maintenance& Support team in defining the vision and strategy related to supporting the applications covered by the team.
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with the AMEX practices and methodology supported by the team.
• To report Project Status periodically.
• Need to maintain Project Plan for each project with timelines, task status, milestones, risk, and issues and query log.

Confidential, New York, NY

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• To work closely with Clients and Business team to understand the project scope andSpecifications.
• Lead the design and code reviews.
• Also responsible for coding and testing my respective assigned tasks.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• This project involves maintenance, bug fixing and enhancement of the M6 product. The project mainly deals with the Order Management, Inventory Management, Equipment and Connection Design modules. MetaSolv Order Management is used to track all the delivery steps required for fulfilling a communications service and can be flexibly specified to fit entire service delivery business process. MetaSolv Inventory Management and Reconciliation capabilities are used to accurately manage all resources that are required to deliver a communication service, including physical resources, logical resources, technology or service resources, and name or number resources. The Equipment and Connection Design modules are used to create and manage equipment inventory and design/maintain connections.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• To understand Design and Requirement, Code and Unit Test all assigned modules.
• Report and Demonstrate completed work.