Program Manager Resume
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SUMMARY:
- 15+ years of project management experience in managing full life cycle of projects in IT, insurance, manufacturing and pharmaceutical industry.
- Over 11 years of comprehensive project controls experience in managing fully resource loaded schedules with Earned Value EV and Critical Path Management.
- Successfully delivered $250k - $20M projects, with quality products, consistently meeting deadlines, and simultaneously handling multiple projects.
- Proficient with project management tools like MS Project, Primavera P4/P5/P6.2.
- Excellent knowledge of office management tools like MS Office 2010, MS Visio, Lotus Notes and Share Point etc.
- Relational database experience with Oracle, Developer, SQL, PL/SQL.
- Successfully delivered projects between 2-18 weeks ahead of time and 5%-15% under budget at project & program level.
- Proactively led project teams to achieve its target by effective leadership, good communication and excellent problem solving/issue resolution skills.
- Played instrumental role in providing positive team environment with the ability to contribute expertise and follow leadership directives at appropriate times.
- Achieved high performance from project teams working in cross functional and matrix organizations and successful offshore & global resource management.
- Met profitability and time to market goals for multi-million dollar projects by proactively managing stakeholders, scope creep, issues and risks.
- Experienced in managing entire project lifecycle with waterfall, SDM, Agile methodology and adopted ITIL processes during entire project lifecycle.
- Proficient in conducting meetings for project planning, status gathering, monitoring & tracking and meetings with project sponsors, stakeholders & higher management.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Program Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managing programs for Supplier Quality Management and Supplier Portal Development with heavy involvement of IT component.
- Responsible for change management, stakeholder management, and global project team management during entire program & project life cycle.
- Handling data integration, process control, website redesign and application/tool system enhancement projects at program level.
- Proficient in creating project plans, project and program status reports and dashboards.
- Hands on experience with MS Project & Primavera.
Confidential, IL
Project Management Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Involved in the entire project life cycle, right from charter creation, project planning, execution, monitoring & control and completion.
- Achieved successful implementations by constantly monitoring project risks, issues, and defects and project cost/budget (Earned Value Management, EVM) throughout project lifecycle, budget management at project & program level.
- Proactively lead the projects by creating Work Breakdown Structure, project schedule, identifying deliverables, milestones, task dependencies, critical path.
- Effective resource management by proactive resource allocation, resource leveling and resource coordination, managing team of 12-50 resources & offshore resources.
- Created Gantt Charts, look ahead reports, status reports, and critical path reports and various cost/budget reports for higher management.
- Implemented several projects within budget and ahead of time with quality, stable products.
- Hands on experience with Primavera Project Manager version 4.1/5.0/6.2
Confidential, MI
Project Planner/Coordinator
Responsibilities:
- Facilitated meetings & planning sessions to develop project timeline and cost.
- Developed and maintained project schedule in coordination with cross-functional team and off-shore resources.
- Advised on schedule conflict and assisted cross-functional team to drive resolution.
- Identified deliverables, milestones, task dependencies, critical path, and constraints. Performed schedule variance analysis.
- Created report for completed and in-progress task, baseline comparison, resource usage and offshore resource coordination.
- Implemented project 13 weeks ahead of time by monitoring monthly progress and fast tracking of schedule.
Confidential
Branch Manager
Responsibilities:
- Ranked in top branch by effectively managing a team of 8-10 employees.
- Successfully met organization’s strategic goals of providing quality products and services exceeding client expectations.
- Contributed in significant revenue generation by successfully revamping and coordinating entire branch operations.
- Achieved high customer satisfaction by effectively communicating client requirements/specifications.
- Acted as single point of contact for customer facing operations.
Confidential
Systems Executive
Responsibilities:
- Integrated project management and product oriented processes.
- Analyzed activity sequence, duration and resource requirement to create project schedule.
- Led cross-functional team to achieve production goals.
- Organized and streamlined the production process by supplying timely reports.
- Maintained an invoice and inventory control system.
- Developed a payroll application for the company.