SUMMARY:

• Excellent experience in managing internal/external projects and programs, achieving business targets, engaging with clients, and meeting stakeholder expectations
• Proven ability to complete multiple projects simultaneously, and manage global rollout projects with budgets ranging from $500K - $5M
• Excellent experience in managing complete project life cycle (SDLC) implementations using Waterfall & Agile methodologies
• Experience implementing application software projects for Corporate Finance (FP&A), Sales, HR, & IT
• Excellent experience in MS Project, OmniPlan, HP PPM and other Project management tools.
• Experience working with senior executives including C-level (at startups), VPs, directors, controllers, and worldwide business stakeholders
• Excellent experience managing project teams and collaborating with multiple business, ITand cross functional teams
• Experience working at startups as well as established companies
• Very proficient in presentation, business process documentation, and training
• Excellent Experience in generating management and business metrics, addressing user adoption issues, and issue tracking and problem management using various tools such as bmc remedy, sharepoint and etc
• Willing to learn and master new concepts and technologies quickly
• Possess great management, interpersonal, problem solving, and decision making skills, and excellent analytical, communication, and negotiation skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Tableau, SAP Business Objects, Hyperion Essbase, OBIEE, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle, Teardata, MS SQL Server, Toad, Rapid SQL, Big Data - Hadoop

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall

Project Management applications: MS Project, MS Power Point, Visio, Word, Excel, HP PPM, Apple Omniplan, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, OmniGraffle, Confluence, Wiki, Sharepoint, WebEx, Jira, Remedy, Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall portfolio planning and roadmap for 2016 fiscal year
• Worked closely with executive/C-level management team to review the resource and budget requirements for 2016 fiscal year and to finalize/prioritize
• Collaborated with product owners/managers and finance managers to analyze the business drivers, prioritization, revenue, cost, ROI, and benefit aspects for each of the products and projects and to help with their forecast submissions
• Worked extensively with Cloud based Project server 2013 and Power BI and Office 365 applications with Odata connectivity to generate the portfolio reports
• Created the project plans for portfolio analysis using MS Project 2013
• Responsible for cross functional communications and coordination with Publishing, Marketing, Sales, IT, Ops, HR, and other business organizations
• Managed Sharepoint site for program and portfolio related documentation and communications
• Managed the Microsoft Dynamix AX ERP go-live, support, enhancements, and change requests

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing multiple training and BI projects across Sales training and communications organization with budgets ranging from $500K-$3M
• Actively worked with business stakeholders in understanding their requirements and addressing their priorities and concerns
• Responsible for preparing and presenting the Business Intelligence program roadmap
• Involved in all phases of the projects from requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, to go live and to hand over to support teams
• Managed 20 resources located globally in various time zones and held the project related meetings to understand the progress and address any issues/risks proactively, and implement the projects successfully within budget and timeline
• Worked with project managers to create and review detailed project plans and updated as required. Prioritized team activities in order to meet project expectations
• Responsible for program budget and forecasting
• Responsible for all project related communications and status updates. Updated and Managed internal confluence site for documentation and communications

Sr. Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Open Source projects in Engineering Organization involving Cloud based Search (Solr), Big data and Hadoop applications. Testing involved Amazon web services
• Direct report to CTO/Co-founder of the company. Managed and responsible for highly visible external client (budget ~$5M) and internal projects (budget $300K-$1.5M)
• Worked with 20 open source committers and engineers to successfully manage and deliver the project milestones successfully and with high customer satisfaction
• Managed the sprint logs using Jira. Worked with globally located teams including the developers, QA, support, and other cross-functional teams
• Managed the priorities and handled all the client and internal meetings and communications related to projects
• Reported the project and program status to client management and company’s senior executives
• Responsible for project forecasting on internal and external client projects, managed the budget and resources
• Worked with Sales and Finance for billing, invoicing, cost, expenses, and revenue management on the projects and to update/report using Salesforce

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with multiple product managers and managed various BI projects and releases for Procurement and Supply and Demand management tracks in Global BI Organization. Project Budget: $500K - $2M Resources: 15
• Collaborated with business, BPR, and multiple IT(downstream and upstream) teams for effective project implementations
• Gathered and reviewed business requirements, created project plans in OmniPlan, and followed D2P methodologies
• Managed project milestones, various project gate review meetings, and change cycles
• Managed issue/bug tracking applications (Radar/Espresso) for projects and applications
• Conducted adhoc project and weekly meetings with multiple IT, cross functional, and business stakeholders
• Owned the Apple’s confluence wiki and confluence sites for documentation and communications

Program Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and delivered successful BI projects for various business organizations including Sales, Finance, and HR (Budget: $5M ; #of resources: 30)
• Worked with key business teams to gather the user requirements for Business Objects Dashboards, Web Intelligence and Analysis for OLAP and Excel reports
• Created project plans using MS Project. Managed project team and collaborated with sustaining and business teams to deliver the required products meeting the critical project constraints and to improve the performance of BI solutions
• Created test cases by coordinating with business and IT teams and scheduled testing sessions
• Monitored and administered the project from initiation to closing and delivered effective solutions
• Worked with PMO and managed the BI initiatives for the organization
• Prepared weekly project status and communicated to management, sponsors, and key stakeholders
• Managed and updated the sharepoint site for issue tracking and documentation
• Collaborated with the project and PMO teams to prepare and manage the PMO documentation

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the client’s management to understand the projects scope and collaborated with the business users to gather the BI/ Business Objects reporting requirements
• Prepared the project plan and detailed activities, and managed the budget
• Partnered with IT and business teams to create functional and technical documents, planned the client validations
• Planned the deployment activities, scheduled daily checkpoints with teams, analyzed the challenges/issues during execution, monitored and documented issues in Jira. Prepared test cases and coordinated with users and IT to review and finalize. Held user sessions for UAT validations
• Implemented reporting solutions on time and on budget. Validated system performance to meet client's expectations
• Rolled out multiple releases and advocated the Scrum/Agile framework.
• Delivered the required products as per client’s expectations and received the approvals

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and managed program initiative and worked with project managers
• Collaborated with stakeholders to understand key business initiatives and determine cumulative goals
• Coordinated with agile project teams and implemented business solutions to meet customers’ expectations
• Managed program ROIs and communicated milestones to higher management
• Scheduled weekly checkpoints for project roadblocks and status
• Administered SharePoint site for Project related documents and issue tracking

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed scope and prepared program roadmap for migrating databases to Teradata and upgrading reporting applications for WW Finance and Sales Organizations
• Held user workshops and gathered detailed user requirements for SAP Business Objects, Hyperion Essbase, OBIEE reporting solutions based on Oracle ERP
• Worked with the project team to prepare functional documents and review with business and received approvals
• Helped with project forecasting, managed budget, prepared and communicated key project dates, hosted and responsible for all project management meetings and communications
• Managed the project team and worked with IT offshore teams and sailed through execution and controlling phases, helped with data reconciliations, and addressed the roadblocks/issues
• Worked with business, IT reporting, EDW, and ERP teams to understand and prioritize the issues/fixes during execution
• Prepared management metrics for user adoption based on VP organization and presented on a monthly basis

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with sponsors and helped define the project scope, forecast and manage the budget($3M)
• Hosted requirement gathering sessions with key users and gathered the application requirements
• Prepared the detailed project plan in MS Project, communicated the key milestones, and monitored various projects
• Managed the priorities and set up the expectations with management and stakeholders
• Collaborated and worked with IT and cross functional teams onsite and offshore during execution, testing & go- live