SUMMARY:

Certified Project Management Professional with over 17 years of experience in leading and executing development and delivery of high quality business and information technology solutions for commercial and federal government sectors. Proficient in optimization of Software Development Lifecycles and have had great success with helping organizations build highly productive teams with effective use of project management methodologies. I enjoy managing complex projects and leveraging my experience to build empowered teams and to create innovative and incredible products and services. I am passionate about learning and implementing new tools, techniques and exploring methods that would increase the productivity. I am a huge proponent of automation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Reston,VA

Sr. Project Manager

• Implemented projects on time and under budget across multiple departments of the organization. Played a key role in success of these projects by applying project management discipline. Responsibilities include creating project charters, schedules, budget and scope management, project performance and risk management.
• Handled diverse Business and IT projects i.e. Business Services Enhancement projects, Human Resource projects (Success Factors, ADP), Hardware Upgrades, Security Solution Implementation, COTS Implementation (i.e. CIMCON, MIM, BO), Platform, Database Upgrades and Migrations, SAS Implementations. Delivered business and operational value with cost savings. Facilitated solution envisioning for technical and business projects.
• Portfolio management: Planning, Risk management, Status reporting, Projects Oversight Committee, Organization wide Annual project budget planning. Definition and reporting on monthly KPIs and Project Performance Metrics. Automation of Portfolio and monthly organization wide dashboards and tool evaluation
• Coordination with external parties i.e. Banks, Dealers and Vendors. Performed Business Analysis RFP creation. Vendor management.
• Coaching and mentoring of team members on Project Management best practices.
• Won multiple recognition awards for successful completion and high quality delivery of projects.

Confidential, McLean,VA

Technical Project Manager

• Successfully executed and implemented projects across product lines with distributed teams in Virginia, Texas and India. Responsible for scope, budget, and schedule performance of projects. Played a key role in transforming the organization from waterfall to a productive Agile model increasing team’s productivity, autonomy and confidence.
• Implemented staggered planning at the iteration level turning the large scale project plans into iteration plans and product road maps. Worked with distributed teams to normalize their estimation practice and standardized story point values as common unit across the organization.
• Founding member of PMO; Established and implemented project management processes across organization. Provided training and support to other members of PMO. Kicked off newer teams from ground up.
• Responsible for Jira administration and, project metrics and charts using Tableau. Self - learned these tools with intuition. Created automated reports and dashboards to demonstrate the project progress and metrics.

Confidential, Washington,DC

Project Manager

• Involved in developing business cases, ROI and cost benefit analysis. Developed project charters and managed stake holder expectations throughout all the projects.
• Worked with product managers by creating an integrated product road-map. Guided the product managers to write requirements in the form of user stories, as well as to groom product back logs and interact with cross team collaboration by managing risks and stake holder expectations.
• Mentored and trained teams towards self-organization, assessing their effectiveness and course correction on iteration basis.
• Provided senior management with metrics on quality, resource utilization, velocity (capacity/resource use) as well as reporting task and project status for all development teams on a weekly basis.
• One of the key accomplishments was effective implementation of Agile/Scrum that resulted in almost doubled output of development teams.

Confidential,MD

QA/Project Manager

• Responsible for project execution and delivery. Developed execution plans, assigned team roles and responsibilities. Managed delivery milestones, collected and analyzed project metrics enabling project performance reporting.
• Successfully defined, captured, formalized project processes within Profitmax purview

Confidential

Systems QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully reduced the production issues by 30% by implementing various root cause analyses techniques. Led the development of overall software test strategy, approach, test schedules and milestones. Drove Process definition, implementation and improvement for the test organization.
• Led the development of a consistent testing methodology. Ensured appropriate standards and practices are documented, maintained and applied to all projects and services. Applied performance metrics, analyzed the results and took appropriate actions to ensure the continuous improvement of the test organization.
• Participated in Tool evaluation and implementation conducting Gap Analysis and recommending solutions. Provided Automation testing Framework to be adopted for achieving a testing goal. Facilitated and managed User Acceptance Testing,
• Played a crucial role in defining PPQA Process checklists for reviews and audits, and conducted compliance audits and training for ITSLCM (Information Technology Solutions Life Cycle Methodology).
• Performed metrics analysis and created trend reports across various projects in the organization and used this data collected to provide recommendations to improve ITSLCM. Automated the various reports and charts that were time consuming and manual and made them dynamic using macros which are being used till date.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Supported the Engagement Manager to determine IT organizational processes, setting up the PMO, defining the process, check points and defining the policies and procedures related to project management and hiring the personnel required for the projects.
• Worked with business to establish the project goals and interfaced with client for JAD sessions and estimation techniques like Wideband Delphi and bottom up approach. Responsible for project chartering, risk management and business cases.
• Successfully led team to complete 96% of all backlogged critical and high priority fixes/features, necessary for business to be comfortable with development team’s direction and vision of the engagement.