SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of experience in software development and project management with SDLC/Agile methodologies, requirements analysis & documentation, design, development, testing and implementation of applications.
• Over 7 years of proficiency in modeling business requirements, systems specifications, and leading business process improvement.
• Extensive experience in gathering requirements by conducting interviews, workshops, brainstorming, JAD sessions and questionnaires.
• Proficiency in Project Management Life Cycle processes, tools and techniques.
• Expertise with the theories and principles of work breakdown structure, value management, and critical path analysis.
• Superior team building abilities to unite, guide and lead team members towards individual and organizational goals.
• Skilled at taking spontaneous decisions and managing emergencies that help to avert crisis and ensure a steady pace of project development.
• Expert time management skills with impeccable ability to organize work schedule and timelines at every stage of project/program.Experience in preparing project documents, requirement documents,system documents.
• Extensive experience in developing prototype using wire framing tools.
• Experience in creating test case scenarios,test plans and coordinating testing activities to provide outstanding quality assurance.
• Detail oriented with excellent problem solving, organizational effectiveness and highly motivated.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently in a team and individually with excellent interpersonal, technical and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management Tools: CA Rally, JIRA, MS PPM, Excel, Visio, MS Office Suite
• Web Technologies: ASP.Net, ColdFusion, JQuery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, AJAX
• Bases: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server
• CRM: Salesforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Project Manager,

Confidential, NC,

Responsibilities:

• Initiating, planning, organizing and documenting the project plans.
• Interacting with stakeholders to gather business requirements for project using various requirement gathering processes like interviews, brainstorming and questionnaire.
• Documenting Project Charter,Statement Of Work(SOW), Master Service Agreement(MSA), Service Level Agreement(SLA), Business Requirements Document(BRD),Technical Requirements Document(TRD).
• Defining scope, creating Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and schedule estimation for WBS activities and overall schedule using PM tools and techniques.
• Estimating the budget and time of the project using the estimation tools.
• Creating project plan by managing risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations, defined milestone deliverables.
• Creating features, epics and user stories of collected requirements using agile framework CA rally tool.
• Developed the release planning and sprint planning.
• Managed the resource allocations and stakeholder management.
• Working closely with UI team and application development team to define various features of the future product which aligns with the user requirements and needs.
• Responsible for supporting the systems definition process in developing applications by ensuring those requirements are accurately reflecting the business processes and understood during the design and development of the application.
• Developed and managed the RAID/IRAAD log for tracking the risks/issues.
• Held regular project status and planning meetings to track team members progress against assigned tasks.
• Resolving technical and business queries asked during various project phases by coordinating with business teams, application development team and solution architect.

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the preliminary planning discussions to determine the objectives, scope, constraints, risks, and deliverables of the project.
• Defining and documenting scope, work breakdown structure, timelines of each and every activity of the project.
• Evaluate the project requirements and allocate the available resources among the individual elements of the project.
• Creating features, epics and user stories of collected requirements using agile framework CA rally tool.
• Developed the release planning and sprint planning.
• Developed and managed the RAID to track the risks/issues and their depencecies and their status.
• Receive weekly reports from the senior members, evaluate them and provide the derived vital statistics to the head manager.
• Apply the various engineering and management theories as applicable to the project demands.
• Conduct meetings with the team members and convey the project objectives and schedule.
• Convey the individual goals and responsibilities to each.
• Continuously reviewing the product being developed to ensure it meets the end user/customer's requirement throughout the various phases of SDLC.
• Assisted in project planning by managing risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations; defined milestone deliverables, and establishing critical success factors.
• Involved in end to end implementation using agile methodologies.
• Contributing to the development of process improvements and best practices.
• Proactively lead, coach, and motivate project team members.
• Providing post-implementation customer support to stakeholders.

Confidential, NY,

Responsibilities:

• Leading and facilitating requirements gathering workshops with executive stakeholders, and technical stakeholders (brainstorming, white boarding).
• Working with the product owners to level set business expectation and elicit business functional and non-functional requirements.
• Creating project charter and project plan with scheduling, resource allocation, and work breakdown structure (WBS) and detailed timelines.
• Actively involved in all processes of Project Management.
• Elicited and documented business requirements, and high level system requirements.
• Diagrammatic representation of requirements through the use of contextual diagrams, swim lane diagrams, and process flow diagrams to document and distinguish the "as is" from "to be" scenarios and periodic gap analysis.
• Coordinating risks, issues and dependencies and working with the Project Manager to create mitigation plans.
• Acting as the main point of contact for stakeholders and conducting project meetings with all stakeholders.
• Actively involved in change management and initiated change control procedures for scope optimization and re-prioritization.
• Creating weekly project status for reporting to Project Manager.
• Created test case scenarios,test plans and coordinating testing activities to provide outstanding quality assurance.
• Involved in end to end implementation using agile methodologies.
• Involved in issue tracking, logging issues and changes using JIRA.
• Documented the change request, change log and lessons learned.
• Handled multiple tasks simultaneously and delivered products to stakeholders in time.
• Involved in the closing phase of the project by getting the approval and acceptance of the deliverables and signing off the contract.
• Providing post-implementation customer support to stakeholders.

Confidential, MD,

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in the team meetings to gather the business requirements and developing the specifications.
• Worked closely with project managers, business users to formalize a business idea and define requirements.
• Developed the business requirements document (BRD) which can be used by various IT teams to develop the proposed application/system.
• Created process flow diagrams using Visio.
• Conducted JAD and brain storming sessions with the business users and stakeholders.
• Conducted meetings with all the division supervisors to ensure that all the requirements are met.
• Implemented the approved suggestions and modified the current process flows.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix to make sure the current project requirements are being met.
• Actively solicit, analyze, prioritize and negotiate customer requirements from scope definition through detailed system requirements .
• Perform root cause analysis, develop solution options, and influence the organization to adopt recommended solutions/trade offs
• Developed test cases and participated in user acceptance testing(UAT).

Confidential, MD,

Responsibilities:

• Performed research and analysis of data derived from multiple and specialized databases.
• Conducted and performed interviews with stakeholders.
• Analyzed and determined requirements and developed functional specifications.
• Documented all issues related to system requirements and business rules.
• Developed the business requirements document (BRD) which can be used by various IT teams to develop the proposed application/system.
• Reviewed, analyzed and presented all change requests to the project manager.
• Reviewed deliverables, ensured documentation and software are delivered in-time

Confidential, VA,

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for complete requirement gathering, analysis and design of system document.
• Written code within the required framework to ensure efficiency and standards.
• Performed code testing to meet established standards and to determine impact on affected systems.
• Conducted demonstrations to clearly exhibit features and capabilities.
• Conducted code review of team members to ensure accuracy of criteria.
• Used Visio and UML for designing use cases, system flow and process document.
• Responsible for on time delivery and deployment of teams’ tasks.