SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master, armed with extensive experience in Agile project management.
• Display strong experience in overcoming organizational challenges of transitioning to Agile methodology from traditional project management and development.
• Demonstrate strong team player and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across organizational levels and effectively deal with a team comprised of both local and off - shore team members.
• Leverage expertise in conducting analysis to recognize issues and develop effective resolutions; performing scoping to address business and technical needs.
• Exemplify strong ability to grasp new things quickly, as demonstrated by seamless transitions made between several technologies, tools, and libraries both in development and project management roles.
• Experienced and comfortable in Waterfall (PMP) and Agile (PSM) environments and everything in between.

SKILLS & METHODS EXPOSURE:

• Project Planning Budgeting Issue & Risk Management Rational Unified Process ( RUP )
• Requirements Analysis Use Cases ER / Data Modeling Object-Oriented Analysis
• Process Modeling Decision Support Change Management Business Process Re-engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided the needed leadership for bringing the desired positive change by coaching, mentoring and developing team that lead to a transition from traditional Waterfall (SDLC) to Agile/SCRUM.
• Help teams apply the Scrum Framework and principles of agility to the benefit of the team and organization.
• Support Product Owners and Development Teams in understanding and enacting their roles.
• Conduct Iteration Planning Meetings (IPMs), Daily Stand-Ups, Review/Demo (Technical and Business), Retrospective meetings (Iteration/Sprint, Release).
• Collaborate with stakeholders to increase the team’s velocity by adopting the lessons learned from each retrospective.
• Educate and coach executives, managers, stakeholders, and others throughout the organization regarding Agile practices and how their roles and interactions may change.
• Analyzed business need to suggest CSFs (Critical Success Factors) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
• Assessed, Analyzed and Advised on current state of the system, processes, tools and practices.
• Help teams improve with facilitated conversations, metrics, feedback loops, and information radiators.
• Coach the Development Teams in self-organization, continuous improvement, cross-functionality, risk identification, dependency management, conflict resolution, and software craftsmanship.
• Remove organization impediments that are preventing teams from accomplishing their goals.
• Trained and encouraged business teams in techniques for Product backlog refinement and Product / Portfolio prioritization etc.
• Trained and mentored teams on Epic/Story writing, splitting, sizing, tracking, and reporting.
• Coached and Mentored good practices for Product backlog setup, Identifying project interdependencies (Internal & External), Identify risks, Establishing DOD, Story Point Estimation techniques etc.
• Guided Tracking, Measuring & Improving team performance, delivery process and value-stream.
• Guided, coached and facilitated impediment analysis and conflict resolution in order to improve team productivity while promoting continuous improvement and maintain continuous transparency.
• Guide and helped define workflows, templates and processes for ALM tools like Jira, RTC, Rally
• Improved accountability, self-organization, self-dependence within the team(s)

Confidential, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the successful implementation of Software products at the enterprise level. Defines the functional requirements for customization and configuration of the software for financial, marketing, and HR. Managed project budget, utilization, and other project-related costs, resource scheduling, project scope, project risks, etc.
• Worked with HR to develop a ‘Definition of Roles’ and associated reporting hierarchy.
• Led the design and roll out of the corporate training program for global pharmaceutical sales team; developed processes and templates to improve the cycle roll out.
• Coordinated activities of the Software project team, subcontractors, and customer from project inception through successful completion.
• Defined functional requirements. Modeled current “as-is” and projected “to-be” business workflow processes.
• Defined business reporting requirements including content, layout, and other characteristics.
• Produced data models for application software that was being converted and upgraded. That included the internal data structure as well as mapping from old to new systems. Produced reports using business intelligence tools. Managed efficient delivery of project in coordination with various business intelligence teams.
• Documented business requirements when necessary, as well as the participation in requirements reviews, design reviews and change control activities.
• Represented IT department in coordination with other departments’ heads and functional managers.
• Managing outsourced work, consultants, vendors, and relationships.

Confidential, IL

SAP Architecture project manager

Responsibilities:

• Led team through development and delivery of sap technical roadmaps that facilitated management understanding of sap future business impacts
• Delivered quality assurance through SAP architecture reviews of proposed solutions for major process improvements project, resulting in lower cost complexity
• Gathered requirements and developed ERP architecture methods and artifacts, including continuous improvement cycle and current accurate sap knowledge base, increasing success rate of future sap development
• Implement Data Warehouse solutions and managed the day to day activities of the BI team. Reporting on the commercial impact of any BI projects and using data to identify areas of service improvements.
• Worked closely with other team managers to deliver single framework solutions to a company's Business Intelligence needs.

Confidential, OH

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct and oversee multiple developers and/or team leads on complex projects.
• Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.
• Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.
• Guarantee the attainment of key milestones by proactively tracking metrics and project outputs.
• Apply effective project management methodologies and control techniques.
• Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups and/or projects.
• Conduct planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an effective transition into production.

Confidential, IL

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of functional consultants and developers to design, develop, and implement a custom business process.
• Managed the B2B implementation effort and designed custom reports on SAP portal using ABAP Webdynpro. Led team to implement the Surge Project which fixed all the major issues which had a high Return on Investment after SAP Go-Live.
• Approve functional specs and technical designs in SD, PS, FICO, VC, PP, MM, WM, B2B, Portal, and Pricing areas.
• Provide detailed estimates for projects for design and development. Validate estimates from consultants.
• Weekly development meeting with the team to monitor progress
• Participate in quarterly department meetings with director to prioritize the development projects for SAP.
• Estimate annual development resources, timelines and budget

Confidential, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Production Support Team Lead for onshore providing daily and weekly updates to customer and coordination of tasks to support team members.
• Coordinated operations of SAP infrastructure team
• Provided operational support in the integration of SAP infrastructure
• Provided support to project teams throughout establishment cycles
• Monitored progress of SAP Basis execution, recording and advising team members and management on issues and needed adjustments
• Watched for necessary protection techniques and possibility of implementing updates
• Corresponded through various media channels to team members and management on progress of projects
• Manage and coordinate SAP technical upgrades, patches, and SAP Notes
• Serve as Project Manager for all technical projects (i.e. Oracle, Unix, and SAP upgrade)
• Member of IT Management team defining standards and methodologies.

Confidential, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined customer objectives, business needs and scope, and systems requirements for marketing and material management applications at Internet services company.
• Provided work schedules for project.
• Documented project risks and issues. Communicated project status and made corrections where effort was off-track.