SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Senior Project Management Professional; crusader to fulfill the needs of the customer through both time-tested and innovative practices. Able to create solutions for new and emerging problems, with 21 years of experience in planning, analysis, design, development, and quality assurance of infrastructure deployment into production working with the RUP, Agile, PMBOK, CMM, and MSF family.
• Managed development and integration, process improvement, and strategic planning for Department of Commerce, PNC Bank, American Greetings, IntelliCorp, National City Bank, AEP, Sprint, Bellsouth, Broadwing, DELL, and BMC Software. Effectively able to communicate complicated concepts in an understandable manner, matching the message to the audience. US Citizen. Completed MBA and Master’s in Project Management (MPM) with Distinction.
• Experienced in supervision, training, motivation and evaluation of personnel. Skilled in finding problems and performing necessary change through project management or other methods.
• Maximize resources to achieve customer satisfaction and increased productivity, meet deadlines and goals. Implement and coordinate both strategic and tactical plans to enhance performance.
• Adept and experienced in problem solving and providing solutions. Excellent qualifications in leadership and interpersonal communications. Persuasive, with ability to communicate effectively with culturally diverse audience.

project management/PMO expertise:

• Responsible for building the overall project plan. Built a project scope based upon the Project Charter. Worked with IT Stakeholder in finalizing the requirements and developed a scope statement.
  Decomposed the scope into work packages. Assigned work packages to their owners to build activity lists and estimate activity durations. Sequenced activities, identified document dependencies. Built schedule using MS Project.
  Monitored and controlled overall project by analyzing the schedule to determine which areas needed corrective action. Decided what specific corrective actions should be taken and revised the plan to incorporate the chosen corrective action. Recalculate the schedule to evaluate the effects of the planned corrective actions.
• As a Project manager lead team of 30 people and develop skills, Communicated successfully with team members by following an effective communication plan to reduce the confusion about due dates, providing a standard, and making it easier to bring new team members up to speed.
• Worked in Project Management Office (PMO) to estimate the size of the project, the time and resources the project requires and lays down the project methodologies through many PMO tools and instruments:
• Program Charter provides an overall vision of the program goals and objectives to the team members;
• Work Plans lay down detailed schedules of activities, milestones, and deliverables of the project team, and identifies the resources available;
• Governance Plan identifies the roles and responsibilities of each member of the project team;
• Work Breakdown Structure defines the specific deliverables due from each team member, at each stage of the project;
• Communication Plan establishes the protocol, procedure, and methods to communicate project information and issues among members of the team;
• Forms and Templates simplify communication, record-keeping and reporting;
• Risk Analysis lists out potential problems and chances of deviance from the project methodology, the probability of such occurrences, the possible impact, and possible solutions.

As a Senior Project Manager, extensively involved in PMO’s Project Tracking & Project Support activities .

• Provided a centralized customer focused office that not only plan, negotiate and analyze projects, but also redress the project related concerns of the client, sponsor, and staff;
• Provided training in project management and the applied project tools to team members;
• Provided in-house consultancy services to the project team on project related issues.

Professional Experience:

TECH – QA Dec 2011- Aug 2012 
Confidenatial 
MM MEDIA SOLUTIONS & MEDIA PLANNER projects Baltimore, MD

Millennial Media is the mobile advertising and data platform powering the app economy. As an innovative technology leader, Millennial Media’s mobile decisioning and ad serving platforms are powering some of the largest companies in the media business today.

Following are the list of test management activities:

• Test Effort Estimation (LOE): Estimated the overall Test Effort
• Product Requirements Review: Reviewed Requirements and communicated gaps
• Test Plan Development (Traceable to Requirements) : Developed Test Cases traceable to requirements
• Establishment & Implementation of QA Process: Implemented process to ensure team members are
• accountable on assigned activities
• Entrance / Exit Criteria in Software Life Cycle: Established Entrance / Exit criteria for different phases of
• \\ the project and test life cycle
• Test Cases Review: Obtained review from Development & Peer Review on designed test cases
• Test Schedule Management: Managed overall schedule after obtaining LOE on assigned tasks
• Defect Tracking : Opened Defects and worked with development to resolve the defects.
• Communication of Metrics to IT Stakeholders

senior test and integration specialistAugust 2010 – Nov 2011 
Confidenatial 
class noaa project Suitland, MD

• Define the test plans, test cases, detail level test procedures, perform test execution, and report defects accordingly for all the releases of CLASS.
• The Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) is NOAA’s information technology system designed to support long-term, secure preservation and standards-based access to environmental data collections and information.

senior qa consultantMay 2009 – July 2010
Confidenatial 
Pittsburgh, PA

• Worked on testing activities for the integration of the NCC CIF into the PNC CIF System to provide a single source of information for both NCC and PNC customers. The process involved in converting the NCC Customer and Account information for deposit products only.Loan products are fed into the PNC CIF through a Universal record that includes customer information specific to the loan.
• Defined Test Plan and Test scenarios for following interfaces in Quality Center tool:
• Specified / imported requirements into Requirement tab.
• Developed the test cases, traceable to requirements using the Test Plan module of the Quality Center Tool. Developed queries using Hyperion system and executed the queries from Hyperion Client and also scheduled to run jobs in the web version of Hyperion tool. Performed peer review on developed test Cases and Hyperion queries.
• Worked with team members and external DBA team to improve the performance on the execution of queries there by making the results available to users in timely manner

senior project manager/ SENIOR QA leadSeptember 2008 – December 2008
Confidenatial 
Cleveland, OH

• Established Test Approach, Test Task Plan, Test Design for AOL Project.
• Managed QA resources and overall testing.
• Extract AOL user and image data from their 128 databases, transfer the data over the internet to American Greetings Photo Works, and tested the loading of data into a temporary database by American Greetings Photo Works.
• Coordinated the Reports testing. Ensured Developers perform Unit Testing and met the established exit criteria prior to QA performing the System/Integration Testing. Ensured QA documented test cases which are traceable to requirements and obtained the approval from IT stake holders.

PROJECT MANAGER – TESTING / quality assurance leadJanuary 2008 – September 2008
intellicorp records, inc. Beachwood, OH

• Established Test Approach, Test Task Plan, Test Design, and Performance Test Approach.
• Reported directly to IT Vice President, managed the testing process for several projects.
• Used Microsoft Visual Studio for Testers: Unit Test, Manual Test, Web Test, Database Test, and Load Test; Web Test to test Web-based applications; Basic and Coded Web Test to automate the testing for Web applications; Web tests for load testing applications with Web interface. Performed Load Testing using different scenarios by specifying the load.
• Specified different mixes (Test Mix, Browser Mix, Network Mix) to these scenarios to accommodate users using different browser, network connections, and test mix percentage for different test scenarios

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER / quality assurance leadApril 2007 – December 2007
Confidenatial 
Cleveland, OH

• Responsible for a range of projects with budgets in the range of $500,000 to $5 million.
• Established Test Approach, Test Task Plan, Test Design, and Performance Test Approach.
• Ensured developed Test Cases are traceable to Requirements.
• Defined/Baselined Regression Test Scenarios
• Coordinated the migration of Code between DEV/QA/TEST environments using Team Foundation Server.
• Used IBM RequisitePro, Test Cases using IBM Rational Test Manager, Develop Test Scripts using IBM Manual Tester, Developed Automation using IBM Rational Functional Tester,
• Performed Test Execution and Defect Tracking using IBM Clearquest, Developed and shared the standards and best practices within the Project Management Office.
• Performed IT Project Management, actively directing and controlling project management activities for designated projects. Assigned the appropriate number of project resources to the respective projects.
• Developed and maintained Project Plans, including estimates and schedules for assigned projects.
• Identified, assessed, resolved and tracked project-related issues.
• Performed project-impact analysis as per Risk Management Techniques throughout the project.
• Coordinated approvals of phase exits with the Senior PM and PMO. Served as liaison with other related projects.

project manager testing/QA LEADJuly 2006 – March 2007
Confidenatial 
Cleveland, OH

• Worked closely in support of IT Project Management and Business Process Owners.
• Developed deliverables outlining test strategy, approach, plan, and schedule, as well as actual results, working closely with appropriate project and support resources. Facilitated Unit Test Completion, Documentation, and Confirmation
• Lead Integration, System, and Performance Testing Processes.
• Participated in Integration, System, and Performance Test Design & Execution as necessary & appropriate.
• Worked closely with the User Acceptance Coordinator, Project Management and Business Unit Representatives to understand business processes and develop concrete.

business development leadMarch 2005 – June 2006
Confidenatial 
Overland Park, KS

• Provided IT consultancy services in Project Management, Configuration Management & establishing process implementation for local companies.
• Provided Software Services, Project Management, Business Development and Quality Assurance Testing.

qa MANAGER 
Confidenatial 
May 2002 – February 2005

• Implemented True Comp Manager (Callidus Package), Compensation Management system for sales force.
• Managed the development of the baseline database to support unit, string, system and acceptance testing.
• Configured Web logic application server for development and testing. Planned for and led or participated in project review meetings and walkthroughs. Conducted impact assessments on other projects and corporate organizations.
• Enforced project compliance to SDF.

PROJECT MANAGER - PMAP / PARIS / PMAP–NG May 2001 – April 2002 
Confidenatial 
Birmingham, AL

• Lead Integration, System, and Performance Testing Processes. Lead 25 team members
• Established Entrance/Exit Criteria for various levels of testing.

Project Manager – DatawarehouseNovember 2000 – May 2001
Confidenatial 
Austin, TX

• Established Production, Development and Test Strategy for Data warehouse applications.
• Managed the test implementation as per the established process.

Education And Training:

MASTERS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT with Distinction 
Confidenatial OF MANAGEMENT

master of business administration in project management 
Confidenatial school of management

master of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY in engineering technology
Confidenatial institute of technology and sciences (BITS)

Professional Development:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Training
• Developing Proposal for Private and Government Business
• Systematic Software Test Life Cycle, Feedback for Results, Mentoring for Results, Time Management - What Matters Most, Leadership 2000, Basic Principles of a Collaborative Workplace, Project Management, Process Mapping and Measuring

technical expertise:

Hardware: HP-UX, IBM-AIX 4.2/4.3, Sun Solaris 2.5/2.6/2.7, DEC-Osfl 4.0a, AT&T, SEQUENT: Dynix
O/S: Windows Millennium, 2000, 98, NT, 95, 3.1, UNIX

Languages: QAPartner: 4 Test, Power Script, MS-COBOL, ICL-COBOL, Fortran, Pascal

Software/Database: Software Testing / Product Development, Oracle 9i/ 8.0/7.0/6.0, Oracle Tools, Oracle 816 Enterprise Manager, Oracle 816 Network Administrator, Oracle DBA Studio, Oracle Data Migration Assistant, Rational Rose, Remedy, SQLForms, SQLPlus, SQLMenu, Report Writer, Sybase Rel 10, Callidus Truecomp 3.1 - TC Manager / TC Viewer, Oracle ERP / CRM, MY SQL

Tools: Webload 5.0, Telelogic - DOORS 5.2, WinRunner, Load Runner, Test Director, Rational Tools (Clear Quest, Test Manager, RequisitePro, Manual Tester, Functional Tester, Quality Center, Project Management, MS Project 98/2000, Microsoft Visio Standard 2002 (10.0.525), Business Intelligence, QA Complete

Data Modeling: ERwin/Erx, Version Control/ Configuration Management, Merant - PVCS Version Mgr Rel 6.8.13, MS-Visual Source Safe RUP Methodology, Version 4.0a, CCC Harvest, UML Modeling