SUMMARY:

• PMP Certified Senior Project Manager and Certified Agile Scrum Master with 15 Years of experience in project /program management and business analysis .
• Extensive project and program management experience with proven ability to manage large scale global IT portfolios for financial institutions.
• Strong Knowledge in the financial services industry with experience in global compliance, risk management and regulatory issue management, global trade & securities systems, audit and control function applications .
• Key goals include leading medium to large IT teams providing general direction in varied technology platforms and managing deliveries from cross functional teams.
• Key strengths include effective management of large projects & programs across diverse platforms and application tiers and effective management of business needs and stakeholders .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management /Business Analysis: PMI/PMBOK - Proficient in: (1)Project estimation, project planning and project schedule management (2) Resource Scheduling; (3) Risk and Issue Management; (4) Budget planning and Financial Management (5)Business Case creation, scope and requirements management (6)Global Onsite/Offshore Delivery Model, Agile Scrum, SDLC and project lifecycle management., SOW and contract negotiations.

Agile/Scrum process management . Successful in transitioning waterfall projects ino Agile. Expertise in in agile tools like JIRA, Jenkins

Office /PM Software: Microsoft Project advanced level, share point, MS office, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, PlanView.Quick base.

Technical /SDLC Delivery management - Hands on experience on various technology platforms, management of distributed and client server applications & infrastructure projects, management of technical teams on SQL, Unix, Java, J2EE, Oracle, .Data Warehousing, Abinitio, ETL, SSIS, Net,share point etc, management of Agile/scrum teams, business analysis, requirements definition and management.Knowlede of business analysis, UML,prototyping. JIRA, Jenkins, SVN, Quality center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager /Scrum master

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Technologies: Oracle 11, SSIS, Reference Data, Metric Stream Confidential, Linux, Subversion

Responsibilities:

• Delivery team management as scrum master and technical project manager for the Issue Management application within Confidential .
• Point of contact for the delivery team and the primary interface between business users, business analysts and delivery team on the project.
• Management of offshore/ onsite development, QA, business analysts including multiple vendors and bank employees and contractors across global locations.
• Release management and rollout. Responsible for the planning and execution of Production release .
• Responsible for process definition for delivery. I have successfully implemented Agile/Scrum methodology within the team.
• Responsible for managing various scrum ceremonies including daily stand up calls, sprint planning, backlog grooming, requirements discussions, and product demos and team restrospective.
• Scope and quality management for the program. SDLC processes compliance management to ensure that deliverables meet with business needs.
• Management of product defects, user acceptance, testing and demos to LOB.

Confidential

Project Manager /Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the project and program management of multiple large scale integration portfolios of financial reporting projects involving multi geographical, cross functional IT project teams and business stakeholders across regions including North America, South America, China and India .
• Responsible for the prioritization of business needs and projects, identification and engagement of project stakeholders, project kick off meetings, project scope definitions, project charter creation, scope change management, creation and management of detailed level Microsoft project plans to define, track and manage project tasks and interdependencies across various applications and LOBs, risks and issue management, management of quality of deliverables, test strategy & test planning, UAT and launch planning
• Management of project scope and requirements definition and requirements management throughout the project life cycle to deliver projects meeting with business needs.
• Management of business requirements/scope definition and SDLC processes compliance to ensure that technical solutions meet with the business needs.
• Management of offshore/ onsite IT Teams, multiple vendors and contractors to deliver cross functional applications and projects. Management of QA/UAT / Operations supports resources and testing.
• Management of product user acceptance, testing and launch.

Confidential, NY

Senior Project Manager /Business analysis

Responsibilities:

• Managing large scale data ware housing initiative to build and manage client, account, revenue data and analytics using ETL, data warehousing and business intelligence related technologies.
• Management of IT Project Teams including cross functional application teams on (Java, J2EE, DWH, Oracle ), management of technical consultants, and QA/UAT process and external vendors .
• Responsible for the end to end program delivery and management of project planning, scoping, contract negotiation, development, testing and launch.
• Interacted effectively with stakeholders at all levels including senior level business and IT management and managed global IT offshore and vendor teams located in USA and India .
• Accountable for the quality of all project deliverables including requirements, functional specifications, design documents, test plans, SIT test cases. Managed user Acceptance Criteria definition and project signoff with users.
• Managed relationship and interaction with external groups like Data Support group to plan and execute five years historical data load into the application.

Confidential, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Primary interface to the business sponsor for prioritizing business needs, user testing and status reporting .
• Management of Projects on Java, J2EE, Oracle, .Net, Peoplesoft ABM platforms, management of technical consultants, and QA/UAT teams.
• Overall responsibility for the project management including planning, execution and monitoring for these projects. Managed global teams comprising of business analysts, development managers, QA and support teams based out of global locations -NY, Raleigh, Singapore and India . Collaborated with various departments including HRIT, Client Data warehouse to get the Client / revenue reporting data in order to enable application testing .
• I contributed to the Banking and Client IT LOB wide process improvement initiatives including quarterly budget / resource planning and roles and responsibility definitions.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established global project team structure, governance model and communication model for this outsourced projects.
• Led development teams from knowledge transfer phase to steady state successfully to enable development and support from offshore locations.
• Primary interface to Confidential development and QA teams to gather change requirements and scope enhancements / change requests.
• Scoping, planning and management of CR deliveries.
• Management of IT Projects on Java, J2EE, Oracle, mainframes, CICS platforms

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the maintenance and production support of a portfolio of business critical cash and accounting applications for client accounting and custody data and market information portals. Managed enhancements and support for SWIFT message interfaces and platforms, Global cash processing, Retirement Investment services, VaR, Executive reporting, Market Data and Positions monitoring applications .
• Responsible for project management and technical direction for projects and project planning, work allocation, progress tracking, people management and onsite offshore co-ordination .
• Managed project team and interacted effectively across business, operations, technology teams located in US, Europe and APAC regions supporting applications in C++/ Unix/ksh/ Java/Sybase, J2EE, Oracle technologies .

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project leader responsible for the preparation of Business requirement Document., Review of Functional Specs, design and development of Confidential application. deliverables
• Preparation of project plan, tracking and monitoring and responsible for the timely and quality of all the project deliverables and team Management.