SUMMARY:

• Highly - effective PMP certified professional with 10+ years of experience in leading and delivering broad range of complex projects using both traditional project management and Agile development practices
• Demonstrated experience helping teams transition to agile software development from a waterfall methodology
• Excel in leading all stages of SDLC including requirements definition, design, architecture, and testing
• Proven track record in sprint planning, identifying sprint velocity, generating burn-down charts, use cases and user stories point estimating, facilitating product backlog management and retrospectives in very fast-paced environment with aggressive schedules and rapidly changing requirements
• Proven ability to interface with customers and business process owners at all levels of the organization with excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.

CORE SKILLS:

Managerial : Strategic Planning; Global Team Building; Program Management; PMO Setup; Performance Management; Portfolio Management; Outsourcing/Offshoring; IT Change Management; Budgeting; Resource planning; Reporting; Prioritization

Process: IT Strategy and Governance; Lean Six Sigma; Building Strategic Alliance and Negotiations; Business Process Improvement; Agile Methodologies (Scrum, XP, and, Kanban); Waterfall; ITIL, JIRA; Continuous Integration; Test-Driven Development (TDD); JAD/RAD

Technical: JIRA; Confluence, Lean Kit Kanban; ERP/CRM Systems (SAP, Oracle, and SalesForce); Supply Chain (i2); Business Intelligence; TFS; HTML/XML; Enterprise Architecture; MS Project/Office; Microsoft .NET/C#; Java; Visual Studio; Oracle and SQL Server

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Sr. Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage a global team of 25 FTE and contractors across three SCRUM teams
• Lead full life-cycle Software development projects in an agile environment by providing coaching, motivation and inspiration.
• Mentor, coach, and train Project/Scrum Teams, Scrum Masters, and Project Managers on Agile methodologies
• Contribute to the development and champion the adoption of Agile management practices
• Manage, compile and report statistics and project health, resource estimation accuracy, project execution predictability, and project execution efficiency on a portfolio of global projects to various stakeholders
• Augmented team productivity and team velocity from 80 points to 100 points and established predictable product release cycle using Lean methods like Agile (Scrum) and Kanban
• Established the current scrum teams as best practice teams in identifying key agile metrics, developing more visible scrum board that have been now adopted across all scrum teams

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Agile Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies for the team (Daily Stand-up, Planning, Retrospective, & Review/Demo)
• Experience on multiple Scrum teams - different team sizes, cultures, co-located teams, and distributed teams
• Collaboration within Engineering and across all functional areas such as Sales, Product Marketing, and Product Management to execute product strategy
• Providing guidance on Agile and traditional project management practices, policies, best practices, and methodology
• Spearheaded implementation of Agile (Scrum) software development methodology in Software Engineering group (Recognized with Process Innovation award)
• Augmented team productivity by 30%, established predictable product release cycle, and reduced time-to-market using Lean methods like Agile (Scrum) and Kanban
• Using Six Sigma techniques and SalesForce automation streamlined contract management process and reduced contract approval time from 21 days to 2 days resulting in annual savings of $400,000
• Developed New Product Introduction project methodology to ensure successful delivery of projects
• Co-led Lean Six Sigma project for developing predictable, scalable, and consistent process for managing Engineering Change Orders resulting in annual savings of $200,000

Confidential, Herndon, VA

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Directed the project manager team, managed deployment and installations; performed financial and metrics reporting and ensured the alignment of goals and engagements to new product development.
• Utilized project management tools to enhance project delivery and deliver business value.
• Exceeded client expectations by delivering complex IT projects (ranging from $0.5M to $1.5M) under budget and ahead of schedule, resulting in repeat business
• Managed a project install base of $25M in annual revenue with an average of more than15 active projects per year

Confidential, Dallas, TX

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Provided thought leadership and program management in the development and delivery of value-driven enterprise solutions.
• Successfully managed IT transformation programs using i2 Supply Chain and ERP solutions across variety of industries in global setting resulting in greater than $100M bottom line value generation
• Led efforts in turning around 3 red accounts into reference accounts
• Received numerous Technical Excellence awards