SUMMARY:

• Experienced Information Technology Management professional with over 16 years of experience in leading all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Agile and Waterfall; Program / Project Management, Business Analysis, Scheduling, Scope Planning, Cost/Resource Planning, Risk Management, Application Development and Change Control Management. Business Strategist with excellent combination of leadership and technical skills and demonstrated experience in coordinating/driving superior and timely project results, streamlining work flows, setting productivity benchmarks and decreasing costs.
• Certified Scrum Master with proven ability in managing multiple projects (from small to large scale) with strong emphasis on Enterprise Data Warehouse emergent requirements, risk mitigation and effective communication using Agile/Scrum and other PMI Methodologies. Reputation for ability to leverage technical, business and financial acumen to interact effectively with client executives, stakeholders, co - workers and subordinates of diverse backgrounds to facilitate decision making and conflict resolution. Hands on experience working on large scale enterprise application integration and implementation including PeopleSoft HRIS, financial management solutions, benefits management system, CRM solutions, business process re-engineering and application development for diverse industry verticals including aerospace, banking, telecommunications, securities and financial regulatory organizations. Cloud enthusiast (Amazon Web Services & Microsoft Azure) with an understanding of Public, Private & Hybrid models, IAAS & PAAS models, scalable & hosted databases & data warehouse, flexible compute & storage for lower TCO and faster time to market. .
• Cross Functional Team Supervision
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Client Relations & Presentations
• Time, Cost, Change & Risk Management
• Migrations / Integrations Enterprise wide Implementations; Cloud Bursting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodology: SDLC, Agile - Scrum, Waterfall, SAFe, RUP - SLCM, UML, ELSIF, SWAT, DMR Macroscope P+ and DED

Requirement Management Tools and Techniques: Rally, Rational Jazz Suite 2.0 - RRC, RTC and RQM, Rational Requisite Pro, Doors, Interviews, JAD sessions, ERD, Survey Methods, Prototyping, Storyboards, Data Modeling, Data Flow Diagrams, State Transition Diagrams, Scenarios and Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Wire Frames and UML.

Testing Tools: Cucumber, TestDirector, QuickTest Pro and LoadRunner

Testing Methods: Unit testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Stress Testing, Compatibility Testing, Load Testing, Performance Testing, and User Acceptance Testing

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Mercury Quality Control, Serena Change and Version Management

Computer Languages: SQL, Microsoft .Net Studio, J2EE, JDBC, XML, XSL, XFDL, XBRL, HTML - DHTML and ASP

Relational & NoSQL Databases: MS SQL Server, Sybase SQL Server, ORACLE, MySQL, PostGreSQL, AWS RDS & Aurora, AWS Redshift, Cassandra, MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB

Datawarehouse & Data Analytics: Teradata, AWS Redshift, Hadoop (MapReduce), Spark, AWS EMR

SharePoint Technologies: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, MS SharePoint Portal, MS Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0/2.0, Team Site, Web Work Flow Process, Info Path, Corporate SharePoint Web Site Policy, Web Site Disaster Planning SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Designer

Enterprise Project Management: Microsoft Enterprise Project

Configuration / Case: MS Visio 2011, WinCVS, Visual SourceSafe, Vault, Power Designer, Visible Analyst, System Architecture, DB Artisan, SALSA and TOAD

Reporting & BI Solutions: PeopleSoft HR, Crystal Report, Business Objects, Microstrategy, Tableau

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Project Manager

Environment: and Tools: MS Project 2011, RTC, RQM, Rally, Cucumber, Doors, MS Visio - office 2013, EPPM, Fulcrum, Code Review, Code Automation.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Responsible for overall project delivery and day to day project level communication, relationship with stake holders, Manage cross functional project plans, Manage and coordinate all facets of multiple projects.
• Maintain existing as well as creating new project charters, level of efforts, schedules and objectives for assigned software development projects. Reporting, status, issues & risks with internal & external stakeholders.
• Conduct required Project level meetings with Sr Management & impacted stakeholders.
• Gather information at front end to determine project parameters and specifications.
• Work with various organizations such as Project Quality Office, Architecture Review Board, Enterprise Data Governance, and Other Business Units on project deliverables.
• Multitask various roles and responsibilities in order to meet customer and project expectations. Excellent communication skills and ability to work with stake holders and team members from various groups and background.
• Meet with business, application owners, application developers and analysts, and coding staff to determine business needs and functionalities desired for new or revised application.
• Plan course of projects, including milestones, resources needed in the form of staff hours, budget, use of technology and tools and document in project plan, following established project management methodology.
• Document changes to the scope and context diagrams or functionalities with change ticket, project plan, or other format.
• Assess compliance of development process with accepted methodology and communicate to responsible managers or staff.
• Manage the Project Risk and Issues Management process. Ensure that there is a robust process for tracking and reporting risks and issues across projects and that risks and issues are communicated and managed appropriately.
• Facilitated weekly meetings with multiple source systems to coordinate Interface Control Document (ICD) review and approval, data availability for lower environments, and defect resolution.
• Report on progress of project, use of staff, $ expenditures, and on milestones to application owners.
• Partner with Technology and Business owners to implement given initiatives as per expectations.
• Document exceptions or deviations as needed. Convene meetings and plan agenda to ensure important issues are aired and resolved.
• Accountable for gathering, reviewing and delivering Program level deliverables on Enterprise Data Initiative.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Consultant / Program MANAGER

Environment: and Tools: MS Project 2007,Rational Unified Modeling Language (UML), BPM, Process Modeling, Business Rules Analysis, Data Modeling, Scenarios and Use Cases, RRC 2.0.0.1, RTC, RQM, MS Visio - office 2007, MS SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003.

Responsibilities:

• Perform various Project Management activities including: building relationships, documenting project feasibility (i.e. buy vs. build), defining - multiple project scope, business processes, resource requirements and management, documented project materials (charter, plan, criteria, scope, objectives, detail work plans, milestones, acceptance, deliverables and project plan), maintaining status & WBS, documenting and managing risk, issue and defect logs. Part of change control board and ensuring technical and functional resources are engaged to meet defined milestones. Performed various roles based on the demand of the project.
• Work with the business stake holders to transform their current state to comply with the new process and systems and ensure necessary reporting requirements are met. Define, assist and advise multiple stake holders across multiple divisions to develop business process flows that in corporate the solution requirements and data architecture. Document Business Requirements and System Design documents. Provide ongoing guidance to the team of analysts. Present final solutions to upper management and stake holders. Results Focused and regularly track progress and provide weekly reports on identified issues and progress.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Consultant / Scrum master

Environment: and Tools: MS Project 2007, SharePoint 2010, BPM, MS Visio - office 2003, MS SQL Server 2008, .Net MVC Framework, XML, BizTalk, HTML, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003

Responsibilities:

• Spearhead redesign / rewrite of Benefit Plan Rating (BPR) enterprise system from VB6 to .NET technology. Identify business functions supported by existing applications, from the mission level down to the specific program tasks. Assess the alignment of business functions with existing solution architecture. Conduct interviews with key stakeholders (leadership, business & technical managers) across in order to understand current state process and ensure that context and implications of change are understood. Day to day tasks include but not limited to work as a Scrum Master, Identify the Product which we have to deliver in defined
• Sprints, Identify the product owner, Sprint planning - sizing, Size the story with the team, Drive Daily standup, facilitate daily standup - monitor the team and help remove blockers, Spring grooming, Demo to the stakeholders, Definition of ready, definition of done, Sprint retrospective, Track and produce key metrics (e.g. burnup, burn down)
• Managed / negotiated multiple project plans, Influence and communicate with senior management, project sponsor, complex stake holders, diverse team members, and dependent organizations in order to keep all apprised of progress, assumptions, dependencies, status, risk and issues. Manage geographically dispersed multi-disciplinary project teams within a matrix organization. Coordinate all aspects of the project, including application development, production timetable compliance, status reporting, client-team coordination, quality assurance, change requests and risk management to guarantee success of the project as well as total client satisfaction. Deliver technical presentations to business audiences to discuss project status and applications complexities in a comprehensible manner. Maintain constant communication with business users and stake holders to assess needs - requirements, and conform to their expectations. Work collaboratively with a wide range of personnel from various departments involved in the project, including business users, developers, DBAs, system testers and user acceptance testers.

Confidential, MCLEAN, VA

Consultant / Project Manager

Environment: & Tools: MS Project 2007, Rational Unified Modeling Language (UML), Doors, Sybase SQL Server, Serena, MS Visio 2003, Test Director, Load Runner, Quality Center, J2EE Architecture, COTS - Momentum, Struts model, XML, XFDL, XBRL, HTML, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Perl, Tomcat Servlet container, Unix Sun Solaris and MS Office 2003. Methodology: Agile - Scrum System: EDGAR- Business Critical Application.

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Director of IT in leading team through all the phases of project development from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, change control, and closing. Interfaced with a multi-functional group of IT professionals to support an Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) enterprise system to automate SEC ‘s collection, validation, indexing and dissemination of submissions.
• Provided hands-on leadership to all phases of project development. Liaised between business stakeholders, technical team and QA team in documenting - reviewing requirements, managing change control board, facilitating vendor selection, analyzing and prioritizing programming requirements and change requests, and interpreting process and functional business needs into functional and non-functional requirements document, system quality assurance document and component level design document to ensure that all specifications and quality standards were met. Conferred project status and performance in accordance to established plan and schedules. Tracked requirements status throughout the project life cycle. Develop positive relationships with managers and staff across multiple departments to enable the PMO to provide support including facilitation, documentation, tracking and reporting on projects.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Consultant/Project Manager

Environment: & Tools: MOSS SharePoint 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2007, InfoPath 2007, Crystal Reports, Enterprise Project Management (EPM) 2007, MS. Office, Remedy, SQL, Visio and Rational Requisite Pro.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the successful implementation of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) server, leading development of project plan and organization of EPM plans in alignment with work schedules and resources.
• Co-authored vision document as well as plan and strategies for the migration of WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007; SharePoint 2003 worthiness assessment document; MOSS 2007 provisioning process and guidelines; ESS communication plan; and MOSS functional requirements.
• Productively conducted SharePoint fit analysis, which led to development and recommendation of best approach within SharePoint framework for a user base of more than 3,000.
• Created Functional, Gap Analysis, Design, Testing and Change Management documentation.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Consultant/ PRoject manager - EPMO

Environment: & Tools: MS Project, Documentum, UML, Rational Clear Quest, Rational RequisitePro, MS Visio 2003, J2EE integration framework, Weblogic 9.1 server platform, Global 360 Metadata, Oracle 10g, Unix OS (Solaris), Business Objects, Sybase SQL Server, WinCVS, MS. Access, Windows SharePoint Services 2003, Lotus Notes, Remedy, MS Windows 2000 and MS Office 2003. Methodology: Waterfall & SDLC

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in managing enterprise IT project life cycle through all phases - rollout and Confidential . Responsible for developing and maintaining multiple project plans, project roadmaps, mitigate project risk, provide project reporting to Sr. Management and Resource Management, supporting stakeholder and managing customer expectations.
• Served as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to user needs.
• Led all efforts for identifying scope, gathering and documenting functional as well as non functional requirements, developing technical specifications. Worked with business unit on acceptance testing of new functionality including the preparation of test cases, test data, reporting findings to the team as well as management, and documenting changes and enhancements.
• Spearheaded periodic system releases and ensured proper documentation of changes and enhancements is in place and the enhancements result in quality projects that meet stakeholder requirements and expectations.
• Responsible for ensuring the development of new systems and enhancements result in quality projects that meet stakeholder requirements and expectations. Developed and maintained real-time systems with agreed SLAs
• Worked on Content Management Documentum- Selling Guide Project. Role included current content analysis, identifying scope, product/vendor analysis, gap analysis, identifying technical as well as business requirements, setting up workflows and merging content, and designing road map for the project.
• CLM Group: - Worked with stake holders of workflow based MFIN application which is integrated with FCMS application. FCMS is a case management and workflow solution that is built on COTS software (Global 360).
• Worked on Enterprise-Level Systems Implementation Framework (ELSIF) project to provide a framework that clearly explains the responsibilities of every software development/system implementation project team for deliverables, activities, stakeholder and sponsor sign-offs, and order criteria.
• Worked on implementation of SOX internal controls over financial reporting, operations, and assets of Confidential
• Prepared material /user manual and trained users. Demonstrated excellent documentation, interpersonal and presentation skills. Generated ad-hoc reports for various business groups as well as for the upper management.