Project Manager Resume Pleasanton, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Seasoned Project Manager with 10+ years of overall experience across Healthcare, Insurance, Banking, and Hi - Tech industry verticals in a matrix and dynamic environment and under strict time and budget constraints.
Expert level knowledge of SDLC methodologies- Waterfall/Agile/Scrum, practices, and processes across various types of environments.
Subject Matter Expert in Business Analysis, Quality Control, SDLC and PM techniques.
Managed improvement programs leading to significant changes in business functions.
Conducted and facilitated discovery workshops, brainstorming sessions, identifying business needs, and doing analysis.
Led multiple efficiency-improvement initiatives by liaising with business partners and implemented strategy, roadmap, and solutions to improve efficiency.

NOTEWORTHY SKILLS:

Strong business presentation skills and able to effectively communicate (written and verbal), engage at all levels, and explain Technology in simple terms.
Strategic acumen with impeccable interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
Ability to partner and negotiate with cross-functional teams and facilitate tech conversations.
Self-starter, self-motivated, and able to autonomously drive end-to-end project lifecycles.
Ability to translate business needs into tactical, objective programs, and actionable items.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Project and Program Management Budget Forecasting Financial Reporting Risk Management
Process Improvement Vendor Management Procurement and Logistics Automation
Gap Analysis SDLC Agile Methodologies Business Analysis Product Development
Standard Operating Procedures Business Process Modelling Quality Assurance

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Working closely with senior management and business partners to enhance business efficiency, automation of manual processes and evaluation of new & existing business operating models.
Provided project management oversight to executive staff and project team members to successfully define and complete both business and technology projects.
Developed project proposals, managed project execution, tracked progress and resolved issues.
Successfully partnered with cross-functional teams to complete project tasks on time and with desired results.
Delivered project management support by eliciting business requirements, project estimates and engaging vendors for requirement management, client relationship management and consulting.
Work directly with senior business owners to define project scope, gather requirements and create project charter to meet corporate objectives.
Perform various Project Management activities including developing project materials, maintaining status and ensuring that defined milestones are met.
Building strong relationships with key business partners and network with national and regional resources.
Collaborate with IT delivery team to ensure that mandatory SDLC processes are compliant and necessary documentation are up to date.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

Skillfully used project management skills to manage cross-functional teams and perform project activities like developing business requirements, tracking tasks, initiate corrective action when necessary, and distribution of reports.
Liaised with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to facilitate Business sign-off.
Maintained and published weekly progress reports to appropriate audience.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr. Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked directly with a team of developers and end users to review and understand business requirements, develop test plans and maintain documentation of test results.
Partnered with development team to track, log and follow through on software defects.

Confidential, Concord, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Reviewed credit information for new/existing customers to make credit determinations on new credit lines, increase existing lines when needed and mitigate negative exposure using multiple tools.
Conducting walk through sessions of the functional specifications document with business and technical teams to facilitate requirements sign-off.
Tested functionality that had to be delivered across applications and workflows and performed end to end system tests. Prepared the traceability matrix to fill the gap between the requirements and the test cases covered.