SUMMARY:

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER (Web, Mobile, Big Data Analytics, Amazon AWS/Cloud)

TECHNICAL AREAS:

• Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resource, Communications, Risk, Procurement, and Stakeholders
• Complete Project Management Life Cycle (Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing), complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Crystal Methods, Extreme Programming (XP), Feature Driven Development (FDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM), Scrumban
• Confluence, JIRA, JIRA Agile (for Agile Project Management)
• IBM Rational Team Concert for Agile Scrum/Kanban Project Management
• Java based application and web services (SOA/REST/MicroServices) development.
• Amazon DynamoDB, IBM Cloudant
• Mobile applications development using Google Android APIs
• S3, Glacier, EBS, EFS, EC2, VPC, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing, Aurora, Dyanamo DB, Redshift, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Serverless Architecture
• Big data analytics, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon AWS EMR), Hadoop, HDFS, Spark, Sqoop, HBase, Hive, Pig

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Emerging Technology Researcher

Responsibilities:

• Cloud solutions - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure,Google, IBM, Oracle, etc.
• Web architectures especially Serverless Architecture
• Database trends including relational and non-relational
• Internet of Things (IoT) and connected device
• Applied Artificial Intelligence
• Intelligent APPs
• Conversation Systems (Alexa/Cortana/Siri/Google Voice, etc.)
• Research papers on emerging technologies at Gartner, Forrester, etc.

Web and Mobile Applications Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create Project Charter, define overall project scope and come up with high level requirements (by working with stakeholders).
• Stakeholders, Procurement and Risk management.
• Onshore-offshore (India) development model.
• Write high level requirements as epics.
• Work with product owner to create a product backlog and prioritize epics.
• Work with team and decide on User Story point estimation method (T-Shirt size, Fibonacci sequence, etc.)
• Work with team and product owner to break down epics into User Stories and come up with high level work effort estimates in terms of story points for each user story.
• As a team decide on Definite of Done (DoD). No story will be considered as complete until it meets DoD.
• Clearly define the acceptance criteria by working with product owner and stakeholders and communicate this to the entire team.
• Work with product owner to create prioritized Sprint backlog for Sprint planning purpose

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Organize Sprint Planning meeting and come up with a team agreed Sprint plan with 2 weeks Sprint Duration.
• In the Sprint planning meeting break down User Stories into tasks and estimate task in hours considering overall team capacity for two week sprint duration.
• In the Sprint planning check availability of each member for two week sprint duration to set realistic Sprint goal.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential and keep the focus of team on what was done since last meeting, what is to be done until the next daily meeting, and what are the impediments (if any)
• Resolve impediments immediately after the scrum meeting.
• Keep Scrum meeting short ideally no more than 15 minutes.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Schedule a Sprint review at the end of Sprint Normally an hou
• Review the work that was completed and the planned work that was not completed
• Presents the completed work to the stakeholders (i.e.. the demo)
• Only the work that meets the definition of done (DoD) and acceptance criteria should be shown in demo
• Update Sprint backlog

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a team reflect on the past sprint
• Identify and agree on continuous process improvement actions
• Two main questions are asked in the sprint retrospective: What went well during the sprint? What could be improved in the next sprint?
• Keep the meeting duration to one-and-a-half hours for a two-week sprint

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Keep backlog grooming as an ongoing process of reviewing product backlog items and checking that they are appropriately prioritized and prepared in a way that makes them clear and executable for teams once they enter sprints via the sprint planning activity.
• Product backlog items may be broken into multiple smaller ones; acceptance criteria may be clarified; and dependencies, investigation, and preparatory work may be identified

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide Sprint burndown and velocity chart to the senior management at the end of each Sprint. Strive to keep it updated after daily scrum.
• Keep Product Backlog up to date
• Keep Risks and Issue documentation up to date
• Keep stakeholders up to date

Software Tools/Methodologies used:

• Agile/Scrum
• Atlassian JIRA
• MS Office 2016
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013

Confidential, Dover, NH

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Applied Agile methodology: Used Lean and Scrum methods.
• Follow Agile Scrum methodology within Personal Insurance - IT Commit 1 and Commit 2 Approach
• Confidential, Take part in Bi-Weekly Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Planning sessions
• Confidential, Phase Planning, Release Planning
• Communicate with Product Owner regarding overall project progress by providing weekly updates as well as Bi-Weekly Sprint demos
• Partners with project sponsor to define project objectives, scope and schedule
• Establishes project charter and plan, including metrics.
• Find and manage risks and dependencies. Document assumptions.
• Oversee the evaluation of business and system requirements and project related research on business and technical trends and dependencies.
• Facilitate team activities to meet project objectives.
• Review, evaluate, formulate, and executes project plans and schedules
• Identify and negotiate schedule, milestone, and resource required to meet project objectives, and modify schedule as required.
• Organize and guide project operations through the use of Agile Methodology
• Keep informed of advances in IT (both technical and management sides)
• Team used Java, Talend (No SQL) and MicroStrategy for BI Reports
• Wrote documentation on various Agile methodologies on enterprise Confluence Wiki. Topics included Agile Overview, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Crystal Methods, Extreme Programming (XP), Feature Driven Development (FDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) and Scrumban.
• Presentation to the team on various models for Facilitating Innovation at Workplace
• Conduct weekly Agile information sessions for 200+ Project Managers

Software Tools/Methodologies used:

• Lean Agile/Scrum
• Atlassian Confluence 5.7.x
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013
• Rational Team Concert 5.0.2
• MS Office 2013 and MS Visio 2013

Independent Contractor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project and Program management (Scrum, Scaled Agile - SAFe- and other Agile methods).
• Coded and Published several paid and free apps in the Android Play store (Java SE 7, Android Version 4; x Jelly Bean and KitKat versions).

Confidential, Ipswitch, MA

Business Intelligence Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 12 direct reports (1 Architect, 3 BAs, 7 Developers, 1 Offshore PM), onshore/offshore development and testing teams.
• Provided feedback on individual performance to team members and write annual reviews
• Established the Business Intelligence department from scratch.
• Hired team members from the employee resource pool as well as contractor and offshore providers.
• Developed Business Intelligence strategy and Roadmap.
• Defined project charter, come up with SMART requirements, and measurable project success criteria.
• Worked with stakeholders to define project objectives, scope, budget, and schedule.
• Used Agile scrum methodology. Added working features in 2-4 weeks sprints.
• Ran the project through complete lifecycle- Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing).
• Risk management used continuous process of Plan (What, When, How), Assessed (Identify and Analyze), Handled (Mitigation), Monitored and Reported (know what’s happening).
• Updated senior management on the progress, issues, and concerns about different projects.
• Identified specific objectives for each team member for the year, Conduct semi-annual and annual performance reviews for team members.
• Met with senior technical and management staff for various tactical and strategic IT initiatives.
• Kept an update on various IT best practices, standards, and technologies.
• Did technical design brainstorming and Code reviews.
• Did requirements and Design document reviews.
• Unit, system and user acceptance testing reviews.
• Usage Cube processed in the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Environment: Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Hadoop suite -HDFS, Spark, Sqoop, HBase, Hive, Pig, SQL Server 2012, MS Visual Studio 2012, SSIS (for ETL), SSAS, SSRS, Data Warehouse, OLAP Cube, Java/JDK7, WebSphere 8.x, JSF 2.x, XML, SOA, HTML 5, CSS, Android SDK, Apple iOS, Agile/Scrum, Atlassian Confluence 3.5.x/4.x (Gliffy/Sharepoint plugins), Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian JIRA Agile (For Agile Scrum Project Management), Version One (Proof of concept with this Agile project management tool), MS Project 2013, MS Office 2013, MS Visio 2013.

Confidential

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Project and Program management (Scrum, Scaled Agile - SAFe- and other Agile methods).
• Published several paid and free apps in the Android Play store.

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Consultant (Lean Scrum Master)

Responsibilities:

• Led 7 member application development team using Agile/scrum methodology
• Managed People, Process, User, and Financial expectations.
• Risk assessment and management.
• Used Scrum /Agile development methodology.
• Developed plan (cost, schedule, and resource estimation) for complete SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation support.
• Met with different stakeholders especially during the requirements and design phases.
• Coordinated IT projects including budget and schedule with various departments and teams including business sponsors, finance, IT infrastructure, and client sales representatives.
• Off shore and outsourced vendor management.
• SLAs and negotiations.
• Did Biweekly updates to senior management regarding progress on various projects.
• Mentored team on technology and work ethics side.
• Did Technical design brainstorming and Code reviews.
• Did Requirements and Design document reviews.
• Unit, system and user acceptance testing reviews.

Environment: Oracle 9i/10g, WebSphere, Java/JDK/J2EE, Struts, JavaScript, XML, SOA, HTML, CSS, Agile/Scrum, MS Project 2007, MS Office 2007, MS Visio 2007.

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Rapid proof of concept application development used Java, Websphere, DB2 and related technologies.
• Wrote Test Data Management intranet application using Java, J2EE, JSF, XML, XSL, CSS, DB2 SQL, DB2 Stored Procedures, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Did Periodic demo of working software to the key stakeholders.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Wrote IT Security best practices and educate team members.
• Ensured Information Security compliance and implementation of best practices.
• Created Functional specification and Technical design documents. Used Rational Enterprise Edition, OOAD, ERD, DFD and UML.
• JNDI LDAP Persistent Search/Event Listeners on Novell eDirectory server rsn on Novell Netware and Suse Linux.
• LDAP schema for second and third level security authorization.
• Oracle 9i data modeling used Erwin for second and third level authorization.
• Captured data from Sybase, Mainframe and SQL Server using DB-Library.
• JAAS for authorization requirements.
• Created messaging framework using Tibco messaging using JMS, Tibco Business Works, Tibco EMS, MOM (Message-Oriented Middleware) for real time feeds to Novell eDirectory from HR PeopleSoft, Convert Swift message to XML message.
• Java based WebServices using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Webservices security and Java Cryptography for securing XML messages (message level /end-to-end security).
• Web User Interface used Java Server Faces (JSF 1.1) with AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML ), Moved from Struts to Spring then to JSF, Java Server Pages (JSP), HTML, DHTML, JavaScript.
• Replace all legacy interfaces in Power Builder (PB) and Visual Basic (VB), custom artifact repository.
• Layout security framework with XACML, SAML, WS-Security, JAAS
• Wrote XACML policies and request XML files.
• Wrote XACML PDP, PEP, PAP, and PIP.
• UNIX shell scripts for job scheduling used Autosys on Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX.