SUMMARY:

• 20+ years of IT experience in IT Infrastructure and SDLC projects
• 15+ years of increasingly responsible experience in Project/Portfolio/Program Management
• Own & Implement PMO process by introducing Runbooks/process flowcharts, standard templates, questionnaire/checklists, PM tools, risk/ issue register, common repository, resource utilization/Forecast and finance management
• Recommend, Plan, prioritize and execute technology roadmap for Clients
• Participate in strategic planning sessions with client to determine objectives and priorities of Project / Project office
• Develop statement of work (SOW) and oversee financial aspects of assigned projects/project managers including KPI reporting, relative to project progress
• Manage multiple enterprise wide programs and projects within the scope of the IT infrastructure Project Management Office (PMO)
• Prioritize projects and work based on risk, Budget, and organizational strategic plans
• Plan Data center migration activities, dependencies based on business criticality and needs
• Prepare budgets, track actuals, report budget status/variance, invoice at both project & program level
• Work closely with Architects, Engineers to execute Data Center migration with minimal to zero disruption to business
• Diligently use PM tools & documentations to manage projects/program effectively
• Communicate to key stakeholders and client senior management about overall program health and its financial status
• Manage in - house staff, contracting staff, project teams to facilitate delivery of complex IT projects and programs at onsite and offshore cost effectively
• Mentor/coach project managers
• Develop and cultivate relationships with cross-functional program team members and works closely with business and operations/partners to ensure acceptance, quality, and integrity of program goals and initiatives
• Responsible for program level resource recruitment, induction and ramp down accordingly

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rocky Hill, CT

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Business and SME's and vendors to identify requirements/solution and document the same
• Coordinate interdependencies and sequence of migration
• Prepare RFP's and coordinate with Purchase department for bids
• Build detailed MS project plan with activities, estimates and track them
• Manage project budget by tracking efforts and expenses
• Document deliverables and store in SharePoint along with Risk and Issue register
• Work closely with IT & Business stakeholders to keep them well informed on project progress
• Report project status regularly through Daily calls, weekly report and monthly summary

Confidential, NJ

Data Center Migration Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with client IT team and Business to identify move groups for 450+ VM/Physical workloads
• Coordinate interdependencies and sequence of migration
• Write Charters, coordinate gate reviews and sign off
• Build detailed MS project plan with activities, estimates and track them
• Manage project budget by tracking efforts and expenses
• Document deliverables and store in SharePoint along with Risk and Issue register
• Work closely with IT & Business stakeholders to keep them well informed on project progress
• Report status regularly through Daily calls, weekly report and monthly summary
• Reporting directly to Client CIO, business heads in the client organization
• Work closely with operations team to ensure seamless transition of newly build solution into production
• Identify IT dependencies w.r.to shared resources (network, FW, Storage etc.)
• Managed preparedness of move groups and highlight risks/Issues and mitigate them
• Manage cutover window, post migration support, handover to ops related activities

Confidential, Danbury, CT

IT Infrastructure Program Manager - PMO & Engineering; ACV - 10+ Mil

Responsibilities:

• PMO Program Manager for customer Data center related projects
• Manage customer project portfolio and its delivery
• Perform project pipeline review
• Resource utilization, forecast management and PM allocation to projects
• Prioritizing projects and delivery
• An average of 100+ projects run under PMO at any given point in time with PM & Engineering resources reporting into me
• Weekly program status and its health review with client PMO director
• Monitor Efforts, track them, manage demands, resource forecast, demands, and utilization of resources
• Prepare and review weekly, monthly project and team status report. Present it to Client - Partnership review, Ops review, Service Delivery Review and to Wipro Management
• Build environment for quality delivery
• Promote project management maturity in team through regular reviews and agreed governance mechanism
• People management
• Handle internal and customer escalations
• Infrastructure cost review with client Directors
• Facilitate/Implement quality system, audits, GAP identification etc
• Manage day to day operational issues
• Resource Hiring, engagement and management
• Handle administration activities to manage the team
• Guide, mentor PM's for smooth execution of project and delivery performance

Confidential

IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handled Midrange Technology Refresh Program, HW refresh Programs worth 3 Million AUD and worked closely with solutioning team
• Experience in managing multiple projects with competing priorities
• Facilitate solution to customer by engaging the Technical Solution Architect (TSA)
• Estimate required resources and time based on TSA input
• Facilitate the delivery of the Solution Maturing phase of the project by managing development and approval of Server Solutions Organization detailed/matured Technical Solution Document ready for the Implementation phase of the project
• Create and maintain project Schedule
• Raise request and engage resources to complete task as per SOW
• Ability to do remote project management through different geographies
• Coordinate and facilitate stakeholders meeting
• Identify Risk and mitigate them
• Identify and resolve issues for timely delivery
• Document Lessons learnt
• Acquire required approvals from stakeholder
• Acts as escalation point for problems and complaints, and manages compliance, contingency, and risk situations within own area of control.
• Monitor and manage resources (staff, suppliers, and hardware & software) in a cost effective manner, identify opportunities for cost reduction, and action cost reduction initiatives.
• Manage Budget and prepare Financial (802) report for weekly sponsor review
• Track, monitor, report milestones/Deliverables to stakeholders
• Work with the Delivery Integration Team to ensure that all relevant Teams within IBM and alliance teams by engaging them to deliver the service at Implementation
• Acts as primary interface to the customer, other vendors and all IBM and alliance personnel associated with the project
• Prepare DAD and get customer signoff on successful project completion
• Complete CSAT survey

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Initiate Project
• Create/Update project Artifacts
• Estimate size, effort based on technical inputs
• Create project schedule, control and track it to closure using MS Projects
• Monitor schedule & effort variance, resource leveling and take preventive and corrective actions
• Handle a team size of 6 members
• Coordinate issues and resolve
• Conduct weekly team meetings
• Coordinate testing activities
• Monitor defects to closure
• Adopt QMS and CMMi best practices to ensure quality delivery of projects
• Carry out risk assessment and recommend risk mitigation measures to reduce/eradicate risk exposures
• Create and monitor project metrics and report to all stakeholders
• Prepare project progress report on monthly basis for stakeholders
• Record lessons learnt and implement it in next increment/release
• Ensure high quality delivery and customer satisfaction and on time delivery
• Conduct Gap Analysis for CMMI assessment
• Identify Process compliance and take necessary action
• Conduct Interviews
• Team building
• Maintain team skill matrix and organize s/ cross platform s for better utilization
• Train people to suit the project environment
• Shadow resources until they can handle work independently
• Distribute work for full utilization of people
• Regularly review work and conduct feedback sessions
• Support and manage low contributors

Confidential

Project Controls Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate workshops and assistance in preparation of Work Breakdown structures
• Generate and maintain multi-level program plans and schedules using the Primavera 6.0 and Microsoft Project tools
• Processing of network logic and analysis of the detailed CPM schedule
• Collate data relating to progress against a plan, work completed, labor and material actuals, commitments and estimates to complete
• Maintain and monitor performance of control Accounts/ Work packages for spend, forecasts, and Earned Value
• Prepare and analyze EVM Cost performance using custom Dashboards
• Report co-ordination of the project control activities
• Provide planning data to support the bid process
• Assist in monthly project reporting
• Prepare, maintain and assess risk, issues by performing What-If analysis
• Identify schedule/ cost impact and mitigation actions
• Produce, maintain and consolidate Resource Load Forecasts with custom layouts and reports and export date for analysis of graphs through excel
• Plan and prepare ‘S’ curves
• Support the preparation and set up for project meetings
• Support Continuous improvement initiatives
• Identify and investigate new tools and methodologies for improved working ways

Confidential

PMO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involve in Business Blueprint setup process
• Assisted in preparation and review of help documents
• Participate in workshops to facilitate scheduling process suiting Confidential VDO needs
• Assist PM’s in processing of network logic and analysis of the detailed CPM schedule
• Assist migration of MS Project Schedules to Primavera
• Provide recommendations for schedule maintenance, What-If scenarios, reporting formats and corrective actions
• Assist in preparation of layouts to monitor critical internal & external milestones
• Assists with Development of reports for functional departments to monitor performance and identify variances with respect to project budgets, schedule, resources, etc
• Mentor PM’s to troubleshoot and follows-up on potential schedule problems
• Impart product knowledge by mentoring Project Managers on the EPM tool

Confidential

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identifying implementation phases in detailDrafting Plan for implementation and identifying resources
• Pilot implementation

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project planning/Tracking/monitoring, Documentation, Risk/issue register and reporting

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project planning/Tracking/monitoring, Documentation, Risk/issue register and reporting

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project planning/Tracking/monitoring, Documentation, Risk/issue register and reporting

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of Sales, Inventory Control, Purchase, Plant Maintenance and Payroll.
• Created and updated test plans, test scenarios and test cases
• Performed testing activities
• Providing system and support on the system for key users
• Conducted various management activities by analyzing and verifying test results, providing status report. fine tuning of SQL queries and stored procedures
• Designed and developed various MIS reports

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• The Project Management System maintains the projects that are executed in different sites from the Preliminary Cost Estimation of the project to Final Billing of the Project. The Detail about the Contractors, Vendors, Manufacturers are also Maintained. The Comparison/Evaluation of Tenders is done. The Statutory Documents are also maintained to ensure the quality. The System is integrated with the MS Word and MS Excel using Visual Basic for Application. The Interface of the application is similar to outlook Express.