SUMMARY:

• Seasoned Software Professional with 15+ years of experience in Software Industry Certified PMP and Scrum Master, Expertise in managing Onsite/Offshore cross - functional teams.
• Hands-on experience in leading teams for Requirement Analysis, Scope Management, Schedule Management, Change Management, Cost Management, Stakeholder Management, Quality Management etc.
• Proficient in various tools like MS Project, JIRA, Digite, MS office, Visio, ServiceNow, VSS, SVN, QuickBuild etc.
• Working experience of using SAP R/3 modules like Sales and Distribution, HR, Project System etc. as per organization’s need.
• Worked in a PMO environment, helped PMO team for restructuring and process improvement of QMS (Quality management system), created templates for requirement analysis phase and estimation tool as an additional responsibility.
• Designated internal auditor to perform audits, suggest improvements and prepare reports for PMO as an addition responsibility.
• Experience in Logistics, Insurance-Underwriting, Inventory, Manufacturing, Publishing, PLM domains.
• Result-oriented Management with impressive track record of high-quality, on-time delivery and consistently maintaining higher customer satisfaction.
• Expertise in SDLC Waterfall and Agile-Scrum adopted good practices of Lean.
• Effective manager with the ability to motivate and organize multi-location teams.
• Fast learner, having proven a successful history of on-time, quality deliveries of projects in new domains and technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Ares of Expertise: Budgeting and Planning, Risk Management, Quality Management, SDLC, Vendor Management, Offshore Development, Business Analysis, Scope Management, Schedule Management, Communication Management, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Project/Program Management, Process Improvement, Re-Engineering etc.

Programming Languages and Development Tools: VB.NET, ASP.NET, VB, ASP, SQL, RDBMS, Tableau desktop, VB Scripting, Java Scripting, CGI-Perl, VS.NET, Delmia Process Engineer R17/19, SolidWorks, MS Visual Studio 6.0, Crystal Reports etc.

Operating Systems: Hands on working in Windows environment, knowledge of Linux and UNIX operating systems.

Value Added Leadership: Estimations and Cost Benefit Analysis, Internal Audits, Quality templates for Quality Management System

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engineering Application Support and Infrastructure Upgrade (Windchill Upgrade from 9.1 M0 50 to 10 .0 M040)
• As a part of maintenance and support work, team was providing (24*5) support to more than 3000 users across the globe and managing administration of servers, product upgrades, server cloning, responsible for SLA’s and ticket resolution.
• Led the global team of onsite and offshore analyst of more than 20 individuals, collaborated and worked closely with the team and stakeholders to provide support to applications and server migration and to upgrade Windchill.
• Created detailed project plan considering involvement of multiple stakeholders, dependencies and availability of infrastructure for datacentre relocation, migration, product upgrade and testing required for delivery.
• Used appropriate tools like MS Project, MS Excel, Tableau desktop, JIRA, ServiceNow as per the project requirement for various phases from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control etc.
• Used Tableau Business Intelligence data reports for maintaining dashboards, trend analysis of issues and change requests, risk analysis etc.
• Presented reports in weekly status review meetings, monthly governance with senior management and other stakeholders.
• Took initiatives to improve the performance of the team by identifying gaps and arranging training, guidance from senior technical members, understanding teams concerns and motivating team.
• This resulted to improved customer satisfaction index by 100% in 4 months’ time.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience as Scrum Master, adopted best practices of Lean methodology.
• Facilitated Agile/Scrum daily stand-ups, sprint planning, demos and retrospective ceremonies
• Ensure Product Owner and the scrum team stays focus on delivering user stories and products on time
• Manage release schedule and scoping with Product Owner as necessary
• Communicate status and provide issue reporting with Senior Manager/Stakeholders
• On-time quality and within budget delivery of 50 complex engineering calculation tools available in Excel for Turbine, Compressor and gas piping.
• Led 2 scrum teams of 15 members and worked on re-engineering and developing solution in Matlab, MathCAD and Jasper Report.
• Worked closely with tool owners, helped team members to perform business and technical analysis, POC’s to validate feasibility of products, integration in with Jasper report, data saving capability design to cater the need of historical data.
• Effectively planned and utilized resources to work with limited number of product licenses available.
• Worked closely with technical expert and saved license cost by providing alternate solution of reporting using Jasper.
• Suggested UI framework and standardized workflow to improve usability of applications. This was very challenging to get approval from multiple tool owners. This approach appreciated by client.
• Used appropriate tools like MS Project, MS Excel, Review board, and SVN as per the project requirement in the different phases.
• Mentored and arranged training for team members to meet quality and timely delivery.
• Set clear expectations and goals for project teams.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Digital Manufacturing is very popular for simulating manufacturing processes virtually before actual implementation at the shop floor.
• Confidential is the leading car manufacturing company in Europe.
• Led the project for the development of Logistics, Stamping, Final Assembly and Restructuring for car manufacturing functionalities using customization of Delmia Process Engineer
• Took a challenge to learn new product, understood the product framework and worked to customize the product with very short span of time.
• Worked on multiple Interacted with client to understand business requirement. Understood the gaps in the existing system.
• Map the process as per the new business requirements.
• Created System Requirement Specification, Functional Specification, Use case documents for Logistics, stamping, import/Export and Factory re-structuring.
• Led the team to prepare High Level design document, review with technical experts and secured approval from the client.
• Prepared coding standards and trained team members to follow architecture design for the product development.
• Setup an environment of the quick build, review board and helped test lead with test automation tool selection to minimize rework and defects.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• De-Agustine is an Italy based company renowned in publishing industry. Understood the new domain and existing functionalities for Product Designing, Accounting and Prediction management.
• Led the team with peak size of 8 for developing a Forecasting Module in publishing domain.
• Understood the new domain quickly and prepared detailed functional specification.
• Let the database team to define the data migration strategy, merging of 3 different schemas as per new requirement in the database design in Oracle 10G.
• Reviewed SQL queries and suggested optimization which helped to improve performance of an application.
• Closely worked with an architect to resolve technical feasibility and issues related technical design and to 3rd party controls.
• Periodic demos showcasing the progress of the product development helped to avoid rework and quality issues post deliveries.

Confidential, Atlanta

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Confidential was using desktop version of Insurance Underwriting system with integration of web application for creating insurance cases.
• The desktop application was used for assigning case to the underwriter for further analysis and processing. The case details were provided to the system manually or integration with web portal.
• The desktop system was available in Visual basic with Oracle database. Web portal for application creation was in ASP, Oracle.
• Confidential wanted to automate the system to provide flexibility. IFS underwriting Framework solution is a Java based framework, which allows simple seamless integration with internal and external data provider systems and customizing to client specific underwriting requirements.
• As a business analyst, worked closely with the product owner to understand the business need.
• Worked on the business rules for case management, vendor management and requirement management.
• Studied existing old system to understand the functionality of case creation, case import from other system, case assignment to the underwriter, analysis of lab results etc.
• Created functional specification, use case documents, prepared mock-up UI, workflow diagrams, acceptance test cases to help stakeholders and developers.

Confidential, New York

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a web solution to manage bank customer’s record and their account transfer workflow and report creation.
• Responsible for gathering requirements for account transfer, report designing and printing of a report in a specific format.
• Created low-level design, coding, and unit test cases with testing on different printers.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the feature enhancement, Support and maintenance of the electricity bill collection product for Deportment of Post.
• Created interface to gather bill collection data from remote post offices and sync with the centralized server.

Confidential, Danbury, CT

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the web based solution for Department of Defense client of Confidential for move management.
• This provides a complete solution for re-location from one place to other within USA with booking, packaging, pickup, move storage and tracking facility.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Web based solution for defining appraisal management system for HR department with different workflows, assessment period, reporting modules etc.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the online book shopping portal Confidential .com as a Software Engineer, created products, sub products, shopping cart to facilitate user with online shopping and ordering.

Confidential

Portal developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the new feature enhancement and development of Confidential portal.
• Responsibilities includes understanding of requirements and design, coding and unit testing and deployment.

Confidential

Freelancer

Responsibilities:

• Developed desktop application for Cummins dealer to manager inventory system for Diesel Engine, Transformer parts with reporting facility.
• Worked in computer institutes and conducted courses at corporate and college level for Basics of Programming, C, C++, Database, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office etc.
• Designed for corporate employees, College Students and professionals