SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years in software development industry experience with 10+ years of experience in project and program management with execution and in guiding teams for business process improvement, Mobile App development, product development and deployment activities
• Versatile product management professional with 10+ years’ experience working in product development, product strategy, ownership, product marketing and sales/service roles. Highly - skilled leader and strategist that fosters collaborative and supportive team environments
• Proven track record of execution, working in agile and waterfall development, and successfully implementing projects
• Highly successful people manager recognized for building and running globally distributed high performance teams. Focus on services industry with specialization in business application development, enterprise finance planning, budgeting and forecasting.
• Demonstrates strong communication and presentation skills, ranging from presenting Confidential large scale technology conferences to delivering key strategic vision presentations for customers and partners
• Visionary and advocate for innovation with exemplary storytelling skills
• Exceptional research skills, bringing business and market acumen with ability to translate into strategy and quantitative-based analysis
• Knowledgeable in data science, machine learning and programming languages, web development to data analytics

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS Project, Rally, Trello, LIRA, Visio, SharePoint, Excel, Remedy, SoapUI 2.5, MongoDB, Dynamo, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS Access, IBM TM1, Enterprise Planning, Tableau, R, EC2, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ofallon, MO

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• PI Planning, Practiced backlog grooming, release and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, impediment removal. Ensured the development teams are practicing the agile principles.
• Completed product demonstrations, retrospectives, and resolve action items. Assisted Product Owner with Backlog maintenance.
• Lead project initiative to develop and deliver successful releases of Batch process API for Personal payments and continue to lead for full deployment to customers. Document detailed user stories and use cases capturing business value, needs, and applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product Owners and subject matter experts.
• Communicate requirement and provide leadership and direction to development team to empowering team to self organizing and self management.
• Facilitated structured requirements sessions to elicit requirements, process flows, data flows, business rules, risks and assumptions; champion requirements throughout the duration of the project.
• Ensure appropriate communications to customers related to upcoming changes and impact and all issues are handled in timely matter. Gather and review requirements with Customer to ensure customers’ needs are defined.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Manager, I managed product development of Redbrick Mobile App.
• The product objective is to connect businesses to real-life information about their mobile customers. Then using predictive analysis, we turn that data into actionable strategies that inform more effective marketing, service, delivery and business decisions.
• Responsible for capturing the right data offline, Identify lifestyle patterns and Identify actionable strategies.
• Document detailed user stories and use cases capturing business value, needs, and applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product Owners and subject matter experts.
• Proactively identify and manage risks in the Portfolio, issues and mitigation plans (issues include management issues, non-conformances and defects).
• Communicate the requirement and provide leadership and direction to development team including offshore team. Ensures the interaction between the project team with other support functions for the smooth progress of the project.

Confidential, Saint Louis MO

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked on globally distributed multiple projects for the separation between household division and personal care businesses. After spinoff developed strategies for the re-implementation of the ERP system with integration across multiple departments with a focus on continuous improvement
• Successfully managed migration of applications in manufacturing detailing, sales order entry, purchase order entry and shipping & billing. Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks
• Collaborated with the team, architect and product owner to ensure rightness of features and design developed, managed and tracked project plan to implement requested features. Facilitated grooming and planning sessions with team, tracked and reported on project progress
• Partnered with Product owners to identify product goals, prioritization of Server and Application migration process and assisted in detailing user stories and use cases capturing business value, needs, and applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product Owners and subject matter experts
• Conducted Planning, daily stand up meeting, review/demos and retrospective meetings. Worked with Product owners/team to remove impediments
• Managed risks and communicate the requirement and provide leadership and direction to development team including offshore team. Ensures the interaction between the project team with other support functions for the smooth progress of the project

Project Technologies/ Products: SAP, XML, Oracle, TOAD, Plan-view, SharePoint

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• As a PMO Project Manager, I managed end to end lifecycle of assigned projects of medium to very high complexity from initiation to completion
• Projects were across multiple regions, functions, and business units throughout the common services middleware software development life-cycles including project scope, schedule, quality, costs and change utilizing the IT Unified Process (IT UP)
• Managed projects which follows traditional SDLC and Agile projects, requiring senior level oversight and extensive executive communications
• Managed project risks including mitigation & contingency plans, escalations, and problem resolutions
• Acted as liaison with regions, IT, vendors and others as needed, providing communication and status regarding the progress of the project
• Utilized knowledge of business, industry and technology to assist with creation of business requirements, and developed business and operational deployment strategies
• Manage the financials and track monthly burn rate and monitor the variance
• Create and maintain a task-level timeline for all of your projects, and track the dependencies

Project Technologies/ Products: MS Project, Rally, Prism, Visual Source Safe, CA Agile

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Practiced backlog grooming, release and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, impediment removal. Ensured the development teams are practicing the agile principles.
• Completed product demonstrations, retrospectives, and resolve action items. Assisted Product Owner with Backlog maintenance
• Delivered two successful releases within an year on Finish-line's $5M ERP System, Manhattan Supply Chain Management and Sales and Distribution project, Credit Risk Assessment, and Purchase Eligibility assessment tool
• Manage cross-functional and matrix project teams responsible for the software development and delivery of Supply Chain Management system and its integration with Order management Systems
• Responsible for successful implementation of ERP System (Supply Chain Management Application Project) for various business area Confidential with 20+ globally distributed team members
• Document detailed user stories and use cases capturing business value, needs, and applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product Owners and subject matter experts
• Communicate requirement and provide leadership and direction to offshore development team
• Facilitated structured requirements sessions to elicit requirements, process flows, data flows, business rules, risks and assumptions; champion requirements throughout the duration of the project
• Defined UAT for each tasks based on each sprints
• Managed and implemented products that move customers from a desktop application to web interface and accomplished a complete rewrite of the correspondence platform. Give demonstrations and presentations to customers utilizing the composition application
• Ensure all issues are handled in timely matter
• Ensure appropriate communications to customers related to upcoming changes and impact
• Create project plans and business cases for enhancements to existing functionality
• Create and review pricing of new functionality with customers
• Update documentation and reviewed functionality with customers to ensure successful roll out of change
• Analyze and define changes to correspondence platform ensuring capacity is available within print platform
• Gather and review requirements with Customer to ensure customers’ needs are defined
• Presentations and overview of new products internally/externally
• Worked with Data Center as well as international employees to complete a rewrite of the correspondence platform

Project Technologies/ Products: MS Project, Visio, Dashboards on Tableau

Confidential, Duluth, GA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development and Implementation of Enterprise Finance Planning Applications for Planning, budgeting and forecasting systems in accordance with industry standards and practices including development of efficient operational linkages between the corporate planning system and the regional and business function models
• Responsible for projects in release and coordinating with the user group
• Implemented dashboards to monitor KPIs and Operational metrics and presented to Senior Management and Business units
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology\Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates
• Wrote User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stake holders
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Stand ups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story. Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities
• Operated in 3 week sprints with flexibility on length based on immediate functionality concerns
• Ensured application availability and data integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades

Project Technologies/ Products: Oracle, IBM Cognos Enterprise Planning and IBM Cognos TM1

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects of medium complexity for the Benefit Administration Application and Drug Administration Application
• Projects were across multiple functions and business units throughout the software development life-cycles including project scope, schedule, quality, costs and change requests
• Managed projects which follows traditional SDLC and Agile projects, requiring senior level oversight and extensive executive communications
• Managed project risks including mitigation & contingency plans, escalations, and problem resolutions
• Defined project scope and ensured changes to scope and deliverables were managed
• Utilized knowledge of business, industry and technology to assist with creation of business requirements and developed business and operational deployment strategies
• Manage the financials and track monthly burn rate and monitor the variance
• Create and maintain a task-level timeline for all of your projects, and track the dependencies

Project Technologies/ Products: SAP SD, Java, TIBCO RV, XML, Oracle, Visual Source Safe

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Corporate Finance Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Data Warehouse is designed primarily to track parts usage and maintenance events for US Military
• Upgraded complex Report studio reports prompts, conditional formatting and customized queries
• Developed Metric studio dashboards for upper management, Metrics and strategic maps
• Aircraft maintenance and modification status Dashboards, financial operations planning and status reports
• Aircraft maintenance/modification management & financial planning experience.
• Coordinated with the Offshore Team for testing and releases
• Worked in the migration of BI reporting to Cognos 8.4 from Cognos 7.2 report net

Project Technologies/ Products: Congos 8.4 BI tools (Enterprise Planning Analyst and Contributor, Framework Manager, Report Studio), RTC Planner, Teradata, Oracle 11i

Confidential, Saint Louis, MO

Enterprise Finance Planning Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Contributor apps and migrate the model, GTPs, Load and publish
• Developed and worked with D-Lists, D-Cubes, D-Links, File Maps, Macros, Selections and Libraries. Created D-Links with Analyst and Contributor to transfer data
• Developed reports in Report Studio. Worked with master-detail reports, drill-through, prompts, calculations, formatting, conditional formatting, Bursting reports, Cross-tab, multi-query reports, charts, Created Query prompts, Calculations, Conditions, Filters
• Setting up the Contributor application, developing plan in Analyst, Designing the E-List, Setting up the users, assigning the rights