SUMMARY:

• Experienced IT Project Manager and Scrum Master with experience working in both Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies.
• Global Experience - 15+ years of experience including 10 years of working experience in US.
• Working with virtual teams across.
• Technology Professiona l from consulting background, instrumental in aligning customer’s technology vision with business strategy, and providing IT advice and direction. Have experience managing Application / Web application development, Production Support, Data migration, Data warehousing and business intelligence projects.
• Domain Specialist - Rich domain experience in Insurance Industry, Energy and Utility, Banking and Financial Services through topline Confidential .
• Ensuring IT services and programs are managed adhering to industry best practices, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, building solid working relationships with key stakeholders, clients, suppliers and business partners.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TECHNOLOGIES: Confidential Mainframe, Web technologies and Applications, Java, J2EE, .Net, ASPOracle.

TOOLS: Rational Clear case, Rational Clear Quest, Ultra edit, Eclipse, Confidential WebSphereSmart Test, Toad, MPP, Squids, Test HSS, CA Service Desk Manager, Microsoft SharePoint, Remedy, Xuber, Guide wire.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Waterfall and Agile Projects, Scrum, Extreme Programming XP, Kanban and Lean Principles, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Microsoft Project PlanVersion One (Agile Tool), JIRA, Earned Value Calculations, Cost and Schedule Variances, Cash Flow and Earned Value Reports using MPP 2013, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Confidential Lotus Notes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NYC, NY

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for the initiation activities of the Confidential (Global Platform Solutions) Program, facilitating Confidential (Global Product and Operating Model) Process, Confidential Product and Functional Definition Workshops for Various work streams like Underwriting, Billing, Claims, Ceding, Data Migration and tracking the deliverables in each phase.
• Working closely with the Business Analysts and Functional Leads and keeping track of the RAIDD (Risks, Actions, Issues, Dependencies, Decisions), Early Sight Enhancements and following up with the status based on due date and criticality.
• Working closely with the PMO Governance for the Program deliverable documents like RAIDD Log, Documents Management in SharePoint Portal, Preparing the Weekly Status Report which is the Program Dashboard.
• Strong experience in project managing/tracking tools like MS Project.
• Strong experience in working with customers in gathering requirements, writing user stories, documenting business processes.
• Strong experience working in both Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies.
• Using MPP and Tracking the Milestones of the Program Deliverables.
• Responsible for Project Charter, kick off meetings, Business Functionality Requirements Documents, Risk registers, Dependencies between applications.
• Customizing Xuber Product for Confidential Project - Implementing Healthcare Line of Business in the first year.
• Trained in Xuber Product Customization (Billing, Claims, Underwriting, and Security Features) for 2 weeks in UK.

Confidential, Dover, NH

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Project Schedule Management, Stakeholder Management, Cost Management, Risk Management, taking an effective stand on schedule and cost variations.
• Participating in project kick off meetings, presenting the project factors in stage gate meetings and getting project fund and timeline approval, conducting weekly status meetings, taking care of the approval process during various stages of the project in Easy Pass, updating status in Easy Status, tracking project development through RTC and Project Plan.
• Strong experience in working with customers in gathering requirements, writing user stories, documenting business processes.
• Strong experience working in both Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies.
• Responsible for managing the project teams spread across 3 different time zones in USA, UK and India, effectively organized team building through video conferencing sessions.
• Maintaining all project related documents in the SharePoint website including documents related to Project Management like Charter, Risk Register, Issue log, Project Governance Tailoring Matrix, Project Plan, Commit1 and Commit2 presentation slides, testing calendar, communication plan, Project Funding Request form, Lessons learned and also documents related to Scope Definition, Requirements and Analysis, Testing and Implementation.
• Strong experience in project managing/tracking tools like MS Project.
• Responsible for Project Team feedback, gaining the appropriate technical resources, managing escalations, managing change requests, scope creeps, maintaining resource calendars, scheduling tech commit meetings, one on one meetings with the resources as needed, weekly status meetings, developing the project plan which contains resource calendar, resource cost and schedules and project milestones.

Technology: Java, J2EE, Angular JS, HTML, XML, Confidential WebSphere Integration Developer, Confidential WebSphere Process Server, Confidential WODM, Aion, C++, Guide wire, SharePoint, Confidential WODM

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Participating in the Release planning meetings hosted by the Product Owner.
• Executed projects in a (Scaled Agile Framework) SAFe environment, was part of PI Planning, PI System Demos, worked with the Release Train Engineer, facilitated Scrum of Scrum meetings and other meetings as needed, was responsible for creating the Agile roadmap.
• Scrum Master responsible for Daily standup meetings, Pre-Sprint Planning, Sprint Planning, Story Point Estimation, Retrospectives.
• Strong experience in project managing/tracking tools like MS Project.
• Strong experience in working with customers in gathering requirements, writing user stories, documenting business processes.
• Strong experience working in both Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies.
• Responsible for the timely delivery of the PIs in through the Agile Release Train.
• Effective use of the historic Velocity for planning the critical skills training, number of sprints required for the release, descoping the functionality, resource planning and increasing the product owner involvement.
• Improved leadership and client satisfaction by making various changes in the Team Structure, Introducing a Quality team, effective use of Rewards system etc.
• Worked extensively in Version one, creating Burndown charts to show the project progress.
• Delivered projects within the scheduled budget and strictly maintained the delivery dates.

Technology: Java, J2EE, Confidential Mainframe, Informatica, JQuery, Version one Agile Tool

Confidential, Lincoln, NE

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed an automation project which was a LEAN initiative, which significantly reduced time and cost, mentored other developers, provided guidance to business users.
• Project planning, scope control, coordination between developers and Business Managers for requirements gathering and UAT Testing.

Technology: Java, J2EE, JavaScript, JQuery, EJB, Confidential WebSphere

Confidential

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Release planning, schedule management, cost management, risk management.
• Responsible for coordinating with the Product Owner for Product backlog grooming and meeting with the scrum team for sprint backlog grooming.
• Scrum Master responsible for coaching the team with Agile best practices, Story point estimation using planning poker method, daily stand up meetings, sprint planning meetings.
• Agile Project Status reporting using the agile tool JIRA.
• Special achievements: Guided and motivated the team with an innovative approach to resolve an issue that was unresolved for 4.5 years, which was affecting around 8,500 employees.

Technology: Java, J2EE, spring, Oracle, PL/SQL, SSRS

Confidential, Irving, TX

Senior System Analyst/ Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided ideas to fix Root causes of recurring issues and reduced ticket count by 80%.
• Managed a 12-member team at offshore, review and track deliverables, client meetings, requirements gathering etc.

Technology: Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, Apache, MySQL

Confidential, Merillville, IN

Team Lead, Onsite Coordinator, Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing the existing system and providing ideas for improvement.
• Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing and Implementation, Post Implementation Verification.
• Assigning work to offshore team members and reviewing their work.