SUMMARY

• Seasoned IT, PMO and Process Improvement Manager with proven record of success in global initiatives. Experienced in portfolio management, in program and project management, in strategic and roadmap planning and in developing products and services. Recognized as a leader and a change agent with strong planning, organizational, implementation and management skills. Experienced in establishing/managing large scale global programs and resource pool
• Improved delivery and cycle time by 20%: Led PMO and managed design, development and execution of first ever high risk Motorola reusable platform and reference architecture in a complex matrix organization. The program expanded across SDLC from cost/requirements negotiations to integration, release and support. Partnered with global QA to address all quality processes and activities related to the platform.
• Improved organization maturity by 3x: Managed development and delivery of a global process and methodology transforming a hardware oriented business into leveraging software technology into its products offerings. As a change agent transformed organization maturity level from SEI CMM level 0 to level 3 in a span of 3 years.
• Transitioned waterfall development process to agile/scrum development: Managed and transformed a waterfall development organization into Agile/Scrum process both in a financially regulated organization and in a software Service organization. Trained development, BA and PM teams using Scrum process. Created a hybrid of waterfall/ Scrum end to end organization and development process.
• Enhanced products offering by 5x and sales opportunities by 3x: Directed and managed strategic planning, roadmap and development of enterprise wide web based lifecycle management suite interfacing many ERP systems, including SAP, while developing and employing continuous improvement processes. The SLM suite is designed based on SOA and reuse principals and contains a BI, Analytic and Data Warehousing module. It can be configured as SaaS business model for the respective markets.
• Increased sales by 3x & prod offering by 5x: Developed release planning process, created product strategy & roadmap. This improved sales opportunities by 3 factor
• Improved quality by 5x: Led and directed process improvement effort in core product team in line with SEI CMMI
• Managed design and delivery of a Business Intelligent/Data Warehouse solution; Categorized as best in class and leader in BI by IDC MarketSpace: Managed and directed design, development and delivery of a Cognos end to end solution that included creation of a data warehouse and customized analytic cubes and reports.
• Successfully managed delivery of projects in highly regulated environment: Rolled out a global BI and Data Warehouse in a highly regulated financial environment; Managed implementation of IBM MDM solution and global regulatory standards, demising hundreds of systems retrofitting them with the latest global systems.
• Managed design/development of a Telematic solution; Saving the business $1B over 7 years; featured in WSJ: Managed development and rollout of an Infrastructure Telematic Satellite/Mobile solution (HW, SW and GUI) from inception to installation of the solution in Agricultural and Construction equipments as part of the standard offering.
• Established global teams and grew development effectiveness by 10x (with low 1% - 2% turnover for 4 consequent years): Provided key leadership role in creating, operating and managing domestic and foreign based high performance software teams in Australia, Russia, China, India, Italy, Israel, South America, and the US, with over 150 developers and over $15 million in annual budget. Planned appropriate training to match the needed skill set for the organization portfolio, allocated resources across product releases and customer/clients customization requirements and needs. Created retention and allocation strategy, developed resource profile and roadmap.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Grayslake, IL

Executive Program Manager/Scrum Coach

Responsibilities:

• Technical Program and Release Manager - US transformation program; Managing design, development & rollout of an IBM MDM module, as golden source of US customer information, across multiple sites as part of a massive US bank transformation strategy. Managed onshore/offshore resources including vendor resources, creating/managing budget and resource profile by months/development phases over multiple releases
• IT Software Development and mgmt. Scrum Master; Created Agile/Scurm training module and a workshop; Coached and trained three scrum teams with all scrum ceremonies, story creation, backlog creation and management, story grooming, release/sprint planning and management; Created a hybrid of waterfall/scrum processes to merge and transform organization waterfall to scrum architected; Supported and provided guidance on new software development to facilitate for Continuous Integration, TDD, Mobile, SOA and Cloud computing
• Portfolio Manager; Supported Sr. mgmt in this new entrepreneurial company to develop its portfolio; Created and strategize on its analytic and big data solution; Create visualization & backend API for its analytic & BI strategy

Confidential

Global Program Manager and Software Development Director

Responsibilities:

• Developed release planning process, Created product strategy & roadmap. Increased sales by 3x & prod offering by 5x
• Developed a global diverse development team with proper skill set. Expanded the team & its effectivity by 10x
• Planned appropriate training to match the needed skill set for the organization portfolio, allocated resources across product releases and customer/clients customization requirements and needs
• Managed/directed design, development and delivery of Cognos BI/Data Warehouse as well as customized analytic cubes and reports based on direct customers’ requirements. This module was categorized as best in class and Leader in BI by 2012 IDC MarketSpace
• Rolled out enterprise Service Life Cycle suite of products in an Agile, fast-paced, environment in key int. markets. Directing QA/PM teams’ efforts. Increased deployments by 4x. Led and process improvement, Improved quality by 5x