SUMMARY:

• Experienced Project Manager, Scrum Master and PMP, CSM and SAFe Certified with 15 years mainly in managing and leading project teams in SDLC whilst at all times managing triple constraints of scope, time and cost . A proven track record of successful project implementation for Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Confidential .
• 9+ Years of experience as Project Manager IT and Scrum Master - Managed both Waterfall, Agile
• Managed multiple concurrent large projects (both T&M, Fixed Price) of higher complexities through the initiation, planning, execution, control and closing phases. Controls all Project activities for scheduling, estimating, forecasting, budgeting, monitoring, analyzing and reporting costs
• Extensively worked with PRIMS, PeopleSoft, Confidential Project, ITIL, Confidential Visio, JIRA, Confidential ALM/ QC, Confidential Office Suite, Project and SharePoint, AGILE, PeopleSoft, Rally Tools for Management
• Develop and Driving execution of project and program deliverables activities related to end-to-end project management, including project plans and estimates, scoping and requirements through implementation and deployment. Worked on Identification and Prioritization of work items
• Developing and reviewing estimates, determine project approach, staffing, responsibilities, and schedule Review.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Management Plan, including the configuration management, risk management, issue management, change management and communication plans
• Obtain appropriate approvals and sign-off from senior management
• Accountable for management of scope for the Project and gaining agreement and approvals
• Measure and monitor/track progress to ensure project is delivered on time, within budget with quality
• Balance scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risks
• Prepare and publish various reports on project progress and update status reports for leadership
• Accountable for tracking and overseeing that all Project members adhere to the Project Plan.
• Review and manage all changes to the requirements through a formally defined scope change process. Represent the project team at client meetings.
• Coordinate work between different teams at different locations
• Accountable for the establishment and compliance to the Metrics Plan for the Project,
• Accountable for approval of all Phases/ milestones and Project closeout activities
• Project Management Tools - PRISM, ITUP, RALLY, JIRA, CMPM, Confidential Project, Confidential Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), PeopleSoft
• Experienced as Scrum Master - Planning and Hosting Agile ceremonies which includes Sprint/Iteration Planning, Iteration Grooming, Release Planning, Retrospective Meetings, Scrum of Scrum
• Rich Experience in AGILE and Scrum Tools JIRA, Rally, PRISM and ITUP
• Accountable for establishing and managing the framework for governance of Scrum, manage team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
• Understand project objectives and balance against constraints of cost, schedule, scope and quality throughout SDLC .
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Development teams to refine, organize, and prioritize requirements
• Work closely with Scrum Teams and managers across organizational unit boundaries to drive productivity and deliver solutions
• Manage project Risks, Actions, Issues and Defects through tracking tools
• Proactive, have excellent communication skills, work well in a matrix organization, and adapt well to change in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in guiding teams from Waterfall to Agile transition.
• Strong in problem solving and in analytical skills.
• Team Player, work with team and facilitates to get things done instead of dictating the work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Software: Confidential Project, Confidential OfficeQuality Models CMM 5

Technical Knowledge: JAVA, J2EE, Web applications, development, mobileApplications development, ASP.Net, C++, C#.Net, HTML,CSS3, JavaScript, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PL/SQL,SharePoint.

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, Confidential UNIX, Windows 2000/XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• End to End Project Management with team of Onsite and Offshore (Offshore - India and China) - includes planning, understand business requirements, feasibility analysis of new enhancements/ project, Drafting, discussions and approvals on SoW/Statement of Work/ Individual Agreement/ Change Reuest/ CR, scheduling of projects’s resources, design review, and user testing, all project issues, risks, deliverables, track milestones, timelines and resources, track invoices
• Stakeholder Management, Cost Management.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Management Plan, including the configuration management, risk management, issue management, change management and communication plans.
• Interactions with project stakeholders, resolving any conflicts and following for their approvals.
• Involved in interaction with clients for understanding business requirements, vision.
• Good experience in dealing with conflict management and negotiation skills.
• Developed requirements specifications.
• Back end database maintained in Oracle and SQL.
• Also working as Scrum Master - Host daily Scrum Calls, Iteration’s Demo, Retrospective meetings, weekly meetings with Client, Track User Stories through Rally and Projects through PRISM and ITUP Processes, Worked with product owners to groom the backlog and plan iterations, ensure that Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered
• Tools used: JIRA, Redine, Assembla, MS Project
• Managed Project Budget, Margins and completion within timelines. Ensure timely invoice submission to Client and resource allocation into project to avoid Revenue Leakages
• Planning and Hosting Daily Team Meetings, Publishing Weekly Status Report and Project’s Health Status to all the stakeholders.
• Managed and Contributed in writing and Executing of UNIX Shell Scripts (Install, Start, Uninstall Scripts) of key modules and performance and Functional testing, User Interface testing and Regression testing.
• Coordinated with different teams and streamline processes to prioritize work for the team and remove any impediments by collaborating with required personnel.
• Used Administrator level skills in any of the Agile Tools (Rally, JIRA) to set up projects, Sprints and dashboards for team.
• Strong experience in business analysis and business process reengineering.
• Utilized Leadership skills to be able to push back late scope changes.
• Understand and use various reports to track project progress and update status reports for leadership.
• Used Decision making skills with ability to quickly adapt to changes in team and be able to plan accordingly.
• Majorly tools

Environment: Confidential Project, Confidential Visio, JIRA, Confidential Office Suite, AGILE, Assembla, Redmine, SQL Server.

Project Manager and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum Master - Host daily Scrum Calls, Iteration’s Demo, Retrospective meetings, weekly meetings with Client, Track User Stories through Rally and Projects through PRISM and ITUP Processes, Worked with product owners to groom the backlog and plan iterations, ensure that Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered
• Plan and hosted Go LIVE Meetings.
• Plan and host weekly Scrum of Scrum meetings
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into iteration planning sessions.
• Track burn down, issues and progress through Rally
• Developed requirements specifications
• Create, Facilitate, manage, and oversee the development of the detailed Project Plan, including a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and schedule
• Managed Projects using PRISM, ITUP, Rally, JIRA.
• End to end project management experience.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Management Plan, including the configuration management, risk management, issue management, change management and communication plans
• Overseeing all the end-to-end activities related to the project deliverables.
• Strong experience in business analysis and business process reengineering.
• Good experience in dealing with conflict management and negotiation skills.
• Accountability for Program Budget, Margins, Milestones and completion within timelines.
• Invoice submission to Clients and resource allocation into project to avoid Revenue Leakages.
• Manage, coordinate different Projects, hold progress and review meetings
• Preparing and delivering presentations regarding program status to key stakeholders.
• Managed and Contributed in writing and Executing of UNIX Shell Scripts (Install, Start, Uninstall Scripts) of key modules and performance and Functional testing, User Interface testing and Regression testing
• Weekly Status meetings with stakeholders, Prepare and Submitting Project Health Status Report, Worked with Multiple 3rd parties/ Vendor/ operators for deployments and troubleshoots on LIVE networks.
• Continuously monitored projects for risks and issues, taking steps to mitigate.
• Created communications process to ensure stakeholders are aware of status, risks, and opportunities. Formulated mitigation strategies and recommending solution
• Managed QA Activities to ensure project deliverables meet established standards
• Daily Team Meeting and weekly Meetings with Senior Management
• Manage Quality deliverables to AT&T
• Interacting with Finance for sharing Milestone approval and trackign invoice with Client.
• Extensively worked with PRIMS, PeopleSoft, Confidential Project, ITIL, Confidential Visio, Confidential ALM/ QC, Confidential Office Suite, Project and SharePoint, AGILE, PeopleSoft, Rally Tools for Management, SQL Server.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Various SDLC projects which included Development projects (Plugin Development - SIP Servelets, Announcement, Presence), Integration and E2E testing, Installation/Upgrade & configuration of NE(s) in operator network and Lab. Integration and testing of NE(s) with other 3rd Party vendors components. Real time support to all NSN products and providing quick solutions. Provisioning Gateway designing, development, unit testing, integration testing, load testing, performance testing for OnBoardSPR (Developed using Open LDAP).
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Management Plan, including the configuration management, risk management, issue management, change management and communication plans
• As Project Manager, Gathered and analyzed requirements, facilitated project kick-offs, project planning, schedule development and tracking. Worked on planning, scheduling of projects’s resources, design review, and user acceptance testing / UAT. Managed and Prioritize development/deployment/Support activities of Projects to ensure tasks are completed with quality, in a timely manner and within budget. Run weekly meetings with all stakeholders. Submit Project Health report weekly. Maintain issues log and produce status summary and executive reports to keep management apprised of project status.
• Management of web applications following standard Agile / Project Lifecycle methodologies
• Administrator level skills in any of the Agile Tools (JIRA) to set up projects, Sprints and dashboards for team.
• Interactions with project stakeholders, resolving any conflicts and following for their approvals.
• Involved in review of RDD & SDD and interaction with client for understanding requirements.
• Developed requirements specifications.
• Managed and Contributed in writing and Executing of UNIX Shell Scripts (Install, Start, Uninstall Scripts) of key modules and performance and Functional testing, User Interface testing and Regression testing
• Act as Scrum Master used scrum framework, Worked with cross-functional scrum teams and development managers to support the full SDLC, Conducting Agile ceremonies- Sprint Planning, Grooming, Release Planning, Retrospective.
• Good experience in dealing with conflict management and negotiation skills.
• Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 40% within the first year of Agile adoption.
• Strong experience in business analysis and business process reengineering.
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals
• Reviewing and optimizing use of JIRA to support Agile process.
• Coached/Mentored a cross functional team of 22 resources to deliver quality products which led to over $4.5M in revenue for the year of 2012/2013.
• End to end project management experience.
• Extensively worked with PeopleSoft for Management
• Manage Test cases preparations and execution at customer Lab
• Review and Manage UATs, product documentation which includes UTP, ITP, RTM, User Manual, Query logs, package for delivery with Release notes.
• Plan and Manage Project’s deployments
• Extensively worked with ITIL, Confidential Visio, Confidential ALM/ QC, Confidential Office Suite, Project and SharePoint, AGILE, PeopleSoft, Confidential Project, Rally Tools for Management, SQL Server.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Billing Platform through Datawarehouse (Abinitio) for different billing reports including fair usage ploicy
• Develop requirements specifications
• Accountable for integration among Project activities, development, testing and deployment
• As Scrum Master planned and hosted scrum events including sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups
• Managed and Contributed for Development, Testing and Maintenance, Support and Enhancement Support Projects in both Waterfall and Agile Environment for RMD/Radius Mediation Device (Stores more than 100,000 of session records everyday in Hourly partinoed database)
• Requirement Gathering, Design and Development in Abinitio/ ETL, Shell Scripting, using Visio in Unix/ Confidential -UNIX/LINUX/Reh-Hat Linux/Windows Environment
• Extensively worked with PeopleSoft for Management.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Management Plan, including the configuration management, risk management, issue management, change management and communication plans
• End to End Project Management for both Fixed price and Time and Material Projects with resources at Onsite and Offshore - includes planning, understand business requirements, feasibility analysis of new enhancements/ project, Drafting, discussions and approvals on Statement of Work/Change Reuest, scheduling of projects’s resources, design review, all project issues, Installation, Performance Testing, troubleshoot for RADIUS and fixing (providing patches, new TAR, deployments on Productions/ BT LIVE etc.), risks, deliverables, track milestones, timelines and resources, track invoices
• Managed Project Budget, Margins and completion within timelines. Ensure timely invoice submission to Client and resource allocation into project to avoid Revenue Leakages
• Strong experience in business analysis and business process reengineering.
• Good experience in dealing with conflict management and negotiation skills.
• Publishing Weekly Status Report and Project’s Health Status to all the stakeholders
• E2E Ownership for BT RADIUS (AAA) Project, Hosted and participated in CFT’s calls inclusing Design and Review.
• Managed and Contributed in writing and Executing of UNIX Shell Scripts (Install, Start, Uninstall Scripts) of key modules and performance and Functional testing, User Interface testing and Regression testing.
• Lead in CFT/ Cross Functions Teams calls from RADIUS Team, leading BT RADIUS components in End to End design calls
• Interactions with all stakeholders
• Plan and Manage Project’s deployment on LIVE/Production
• Involved in Transition and handover of Project
• Extensively worked with ITIL, Confidential Visio, Confidential ALM/ QC, Confidential Office Suite, Project and SharePoint, AGILE, PeopleSoft, Confidential Project, Rally Tools for Management, SQL Server, Oracle

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Contributed for multiple SDLC projects with resouces at both at Onsite and Offshore for Offshore Service Delivery Centre and provided services in the IMS, PaCo network area -for Development, Testing and Maintenance, Support and Enhancement Support Projects in both Waterfall and Agile Environment IMS Migration Tool
• Develop requirements specifications
• Conducted Agile ceremonies- Sprint Planning, Grooming, Release Planning, Retrospective etc.
• Worked with the team and facilitating to get things done instead of dictating the work.
• Coordinated with different teams and streamline processes to prioritize work for the team and remove any impediments by collaborating with required personnel.
• Used Administrator level skills in any of the Agile Tools (Rally, JIRA) to set up projects, Sprints and dashboards for team.
• Utilized Leadership skills to be able to push back late scope changes.
• Understand and use various reports to track project progress and update status reports for leadership.
• Used Decision making skills with ability to quickly adapt to changes in team and be able to plan accordingly.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Management Plan, including the configuration management, risk management, issue management, change management and communication plans
• End to End Project Management for both Fixed bid/ FB/FP and Time and Material (T&M) Projects - includes planning, understand business requirements, feasibility analysis of new enhancements/ project, Drafting, discussions and approvals on SoW/Statement of Work/ Individual Agreement/ Change Request/ CR, scheduling of projects’s resources, design review, and user testing, all project issues, risks, deliverables, track milestones, timelines and resources, track invoices
• Extensively worked with PeopleSoft for Management
• Managed Project Budget, Margins and completion within timelines. Ensure timely invoice submission to Client and resource allocation into project to avoid Revenue Leakages
• Planning and Hosting Daily Team Meetings, Publishing Weekly Status Report and Project’s Health Status to all the stakeholders
• Managed and Contributed in writing and Executing of UNIX Shell Scripts (Install, Start, Uninstall Scripts) of key modules and performance and Functional testing, User Interface testing and Regression testing
• Prepared daily and weekly summary report to update team, Client and Stakeholders about Projects in progress.
• Involved in understanding functioning of IMT tool and migration from PSTN to IMS.
• Coordinating Development and E2E testing with different teams and tracking issues/defects until closure.
• Contributed, Reviewed and updated ITP document as per requirement and CR.
• Reviewed and Prepared various documents (User manual, Migration procedure manual, Read me document, Use Case) and shared MoM with action items for Team.
• Extensively worked with ITIL, Confidential Visio, Confidential ALM/ QC, Confidential Office Suite, Project and SharePoint, AGILE, PeopleSoft, Confidential Project, Rally Tools for Management, SQL Server and Oracle.

Team leader / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Contributed for Adhoc requests, queries, monitoring, Troubleshoot voice, fax mailbox applications, Technical investigations into causes of LIVE Issues and fixing
• Worked on Use Case Documentation.
• End to end Project management experience.
• Ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Management Plan, including the configuration management, risk management, issue management, change management and communication plans
• Planning, feasibility analysis of new enhancements/ project, Drafting, discussions and approvals on SoW/Statement of Work/ Individual Agreement/ Change Request/ CR, scheduling of projects’s resources, design review, and user testing, all project issues, risks, deliverables, track milestones, timelines and resources, track invoices
• Extensively worked with PeopleSoft for Management
• Single point of Contact for Technical and Managerial
• Managed Project Budget, Margins and completion within timelines. Ensure timely invoice submission to Client and resource allocation into project to avoid Revenue Leakages
• Planning and Hosting Daily Team Meetings, Publishing Weekly Status Report and Project’s Health Status to all the stakeholders
• Interactions with all the stakeholders.
• Strong experience as a technical team lead with hands-on experience as a developer
• Extensively worked with PRIMS, PeopleSoft, Confidential Project, ITIL, Confidential Visio, Confidential ALM/ QC, Confidential Office Suite, Project and SharePoint, AGILE, PeopleSoft, Rally Tools for Management, SQL Server.

Senior Technical Associate / Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering for ASN Gateways (WiMAX 802.16E), Design and Development in C, C++, Shell Scripting using STL, Design Pattern, Visio in Unix/ Confidential -UNIX/LINUX/Reh-Hat Linux/Windows in Waterfall Environment
• Installation of Aricent ASN Gateway Product - Aricent ASNlite TechM Lab, Pune.
• Development of modules - Paging, Radio Resource Management, QoS & Policy Enforcement, Data Path, Service Flow Management using C++ and design patterns
• WiMAX and LTE - Comparision and analysis for 4G
• Strong experience as a technical team lead with hands-on experience as a developer
• Worked on Use Case documentation

Environment: C, C++, STL, Visio, Design Pattern, Unix shell script, Redhat Linux, Window

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Worked on both Waterfall and Agile Environment
• Role: Worked as Team Leader for Requirement Gatehering, HLD and LLD, Coding and Functional Testing for Protocol stack development for UMTS Mobile Handset (RRC, Layer-3)
• Development of RRC anc RLC protocol for UMTS MS based on 3GPP standards.
• Strong experience as a technical team lead with hands-on experience as a developer
• Protocol stack development for UMTS Mobile Handset (MAC, Layer-2)
• Preparation of High Level Design of RLC layer (TM, UM and AM modes) and RRC
• Worked on Use Case Documentation

Environment: C++, STL, Design Pattern, Unix shell script, Redhat Linux and Window XP