SUMMARY:

• Experienced Information Technology professional with track record of success in Program & Project Management leading all phases of diverse technology projects.
• Top quality performer who planned and managed large projects and diversified resources.
• Oversaw Vendor Management ensure aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements.
• Technically savvy in waterfall, scrum, and agile project management methodologies.
• Proven track record in managing large project teams and known for high quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Providing organizational governance to meet overarching business goals and mission statements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: MS - Access, Oracle 11g, DB2, MS SQL sever, MySQL

Application Servers: Web logic, Web sphere, IIS, VMware vCenter sever

Web Technologies: HTML5, JavaScript, XML, jQuery

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java

Other tools: Team Foundation Server, SharePoint, SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully deployed contact master data database for multi-channel marketing campaigns. As part of the project handled data privacy, data sharing and other confidentiality issues.
• Involved in scoping/de-scoping, estimation, forecasting, formulating project charter, plan, vendor management, resource planning on-boarding and Risk management,
• Handled status reporting, design reviews, development, QA and UAT efforts and ensuring deployment into production.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a major transformation initiative from SOAP based Trading APIs to Rest based APIs; at the same time keeping all previous migrations and versions support intact.
• Communicate and collaborate with channel partners, key enterprise customers, cross team and third party integrators, Product Marketing, technical enablement, release management on near and long term roadmap.
• Transitioning to microservices, DevOps release cadence enabling accelerated release cadence, reprioritized features, and streamlined continuous delivery.
• Conceptualized, Planned and drove MIP initiative from vision to real execution resulting in successful launch and made the first seller centralized platform operational.
• Prioritized feature requirements, evangelized use cases & drove opportunities across multiple internal & external stakeholders. Worked with engineering to develop product through MVP process.
• Independently managed premium customer interactions from the product side, role involved managing expectations, handled escalations.
• Created customers advisory board for seller tools with an intent to get external perspective on our product with an eventual goal to evolve our current products.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create and drive agile software development schedules for low/mid-tier OEM handsets starting after chipset first commercial release through device certifications to customer ship SW.
• Worked with industry leading OEM customers on requirements, issues and release planning activities for launching devices with worldwide carriers, meeting launch deadlines in fast-paced environment.
• Led all the Scrum events for the internal development team - Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Demos, and Retrospectives and drive to successful sprint completions.
• Collect, report, and refine Agile Metrics like Velocity, Committed/delivered story points, Sprint/Release burndown charts to quantify and communicate team performance.
• Overall accountability for maximizing team performance delivering quality customer software releases on time, and within budget.
• Catalyze continuous improvement of process and practice through collaboration with team and organizational leaders to identify and implement improvements

Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Managed launch of multiple mobile devices from start to finish. Led end to end software project management activities for cross functional teams across multiple countries.
• Handled Software Quality and release management. Host, triage and maintain the software Change Control Board to achieve quality goals and drive issue resolution across the component teams. Ensured Product Stability and Product Performance (KPIs, battery life, User Experience) prior to Launch.
• Acted as a primary point of contact for internal and offshore feature teams during the development and proactively tracked critical issues.
• Developed presentation materials and presented weekly report to senior management with program status/dependencies and identified key cross-functional issues.
• Managed complete SDLC of Mobile Devices including Requirements Definition, Feature Commitments, Product Development Costing, Software Development, Hardware Proto Allocation, Status Reporting, Release Management, Device Test and Certifications
• Managed Vendor relationships and established deliverables and requirements for third party preloads.

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the progress of all Stories and update the status of Tasks on daily basis in Version1 as part of Agile process
• Preparing high level scenarios, Test cases and Test Data
• Representation of Stand up, Sprint Planning and Grooming meetings
• Proactively alert management for any impediments and involved in planning and preparation of process related documents
• Reviewed test scenarios, and test results with the agile teams; Involved in System, Integration and Regression testing
• Coordinating Dependent teams and developers and making sure that dependencies are not impacting our deliverables
• Used Abinitio and Main frame Jobs for extracting, cleaning, transforming and loading data into Card Data Warehouse(CDW) and Offer management Environment(OME) databases
• Worked on DB Visualizer and Teradata to validate the results/data using SQL queries