SUMMARY:

• Dynamic hands - on technical leader with extensive in leading cross-functional, culturally and geographically diverse teams in delivery and roll-out of industry leading and highly profitable technology solutions.
• Proficient in leveraging internal strengths and resources - people, technology, products/services, and competitive market position - to achieve organizational success. Highly knowledgeable in wide variety of software and database tools and languages.
• Expert in collaboration and communication across business lines and teams to achieve desired results.
• Implementation of Agile/Scrum, Kanban, PMI/Waterfall methodologies for faster time-to-market. Speed and success through optimization of team and project performance metrics
• Project Management: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring/Controlling, Closing and delivery of multiple concurrent projects
• Client and Stakeholder engagement, Business analysis, mapping of business processes and generation of functional requirements and technical specifications.
• Analysis, design, planning and development of Enterprise Software, Web/SaaS, Business Intelligence (BI)/Reporting, Digital/Mobile, data driven and software/hardware enterprise integrated systems
• SDLC Management: Achieving planned goals and product roadmaps through analysis, design, architecture, development, QA, release and support cycles.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Technical Project Manager

Tools: and Technologies used: Jira Agile, Confluence, Jira Portfolio, Pivotal Tracker, Postgres, Tableau, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Project, Lucid Chart, Google Apps, PowerPoint, Google Analytics, Selenium, Visual Studio, C#, Android Studio, AWS
Responsibilities:

• Delivery of digital product that has boosted the revenues from $120MM to over $200MM in a year
• On time delivery of technology game content to digital publishing team in London to meet biweekly release cadence
• Full SDLC, delivery planning, and executive status reporting of new mobile game schedule to go live in the near future.
• Leader of teams, collaboration and reporting on teams distributed in London, India and Las Vegas.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Consultant

Tools: and Technologies used: Jira Agile, Confluence, Jira Portfolio, Pivotal Tracker, Postgres, Tableau, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Project, Lucid Chart, Google Apps, PowerPoint, Google Analytics, Selenium, Visual Studio, C#, Android Studio, AWS
Responsibilities:

• NetSuite ERP migration for Confidential eCommerce
• Data analysis and data flow architecture for data migration from legacy system to NetSuite and for BI planning
• Planning and scheduling of software development changes for NetSuite features.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Technical Project Manager

Tools: and Technologies used: Jira Agile, Confluence, Jira Portfolio, Pivotal Tracker, Postgres, Tableau, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Project, Lucid Chart, Google Apps, PowerPoint, Google Analytics, Selenium, Visual Studio, C#, Android Studio, AWS

Responsibilities:

• IT Governance and transition of teams to Agile/Scrum through training/mentoring and set up of tools required for tracking progress. Achieved faster time-to-market of new features and technology initiatives.
• Seamless transition of 100MM user database to a new system for leaner and faster operations with zero down time.
• Implemented automation of payment data reconciliation between ecommerce OLTP database and payment provider data
• Significantly enhanced email marketing impact by reducing rendering times for Confidential (Personalized Image Emails) in email campaigns to Millions of users
• Technical product and project road maps for BI / Reporting, Data Warehouse and Web Server applications. Transitioned development teams to a Service Oriented Architectire (SOA) model.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Project Manager

Tools: and Technologies used: Jira Agile, Postgres, MS Excel, MS Project, Google Apps, PowerPoint, Selenium, Java stack, Eclipse, Amazon Web Services (AWS), SaaS

Responsibilities:

• Transition to Agile Scrum and Kanban process to multiple work streams. Used Jira and Confluence
• Leadership of cross-functional distributed teams in Los Angeles, New York and India including Business Analysts, Software Engineers, QA and Database Specialists
• Enhancements proposals to Data models and associated ETL Processes
• Execution of multiple concurrent software projects (Java, JSP, Postgres, AWS) and production support work streams in a matrix, high velocity environment with continuously evolving priorities.
• Change management, setting up of change control board, process rules and Change Request / SOW process.
• Management of ongoing operations, maintenance, performance and uptime for high value clients and their users.
• Client management, business development and management of user expectations.
• Product roadmap/schedules (MS Project and Excel) for building and deploying core features and subsequent add-ons to the product.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Technical Project Manager

Tools: and Technologies used: Jira Agile, Confluence, Jira Portfolio, Visual Studio, C#, Confidential Test manager (MTM), MS Team Foundation Server ( Confidential ), MS SQL Server, SSRS, MicroStrategy, MS Excel, MS Project, Google Apps, PowerPoint, Google Analytics, ASP.NET, API Services, Analysis, AWS

Responsibilities:

• Agile and Scrum guidance and onboarding of all teams. Scrum Master for internal, onshore vendor and offshore projects. Used Jira for Project tracking, Confluence for documentation and MS Project for high level project scheduling and reporting. Product Backlog grooming and defect tracking. SOA architecture implementation.
• COTS Implementation of Confidential Team Foundation Server ( Confidential ) for Scrum process. Customization of Confidential Work Item Templates, addition of custom fields and custom reporting for process enhancement and management reporting.
• QA process and QA automation using MTM and VS2010 transformed the QA group from a bottleneck to an agile response team.
• Leadership of in-house and vendor teams distributed over globally distributed geographical locations for development and support projects. Brought all the teams onto a common platform and reporting system to increase team velocity and to increase team tracking, reporting and comparison for c-level management
• Mapping and streamlining of business processes to improve team and resource efficiencies and to create standards.
• Vendor evaluation and review of RFPs, SOWs and other vendor contracts.

Confidential, Alpine, CA

Senior Manager

Tools: and Technologies used: Jira, ASP.NET, API Services, Windows services, Web applications, Visual Studio, C#, Confidential Test manager (MTM), MS Team Foundation Server ( Confidential ), MS SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS, MS Excel, MS Project, Google Apps, PowerPoint, Google Analytics, Joomla, Drupal, MS SharePoint, IIS, Datacenter hosting and management. Business analysis and process optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile/scrum for IT projects with off-shore and in-house teams. Scrum Master for projects. Epics, User storied and task breakdown. Product Backlog grooming and defect tracking.
• Initiation of Enterprise Data Warehouse design and development and mapping of all the data paths. BI reports and dashboard implementation for operational and strategic reporting.
• Developed in-house casino financial compliance / Anti Money Laundering (AML) product that automates all the financial processes in a casino from ATMs/cash cages to casino bank to external financial institutions. Integration with Confidential ERP.
• Developed casino Anti money laundering (Title 31) system that reports transactions from all casino revenue centers for IRS compliance.
• Led cross-function teams to execute critical enterprise level projects.
• Business process enhancements resulted in costs savings of over $2 Million per year and mitigation of $5 Million in risk.
• Led initiatives to boost revenues by automating financial analysis metrics for all revenue centers of the enterprise.
• Implemented enterprise collaboration with Confidential SharePoint and enterprise training/learning with Moodle (open source learning management system (LMS))