SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced PMP certified Project Manager with over 13 years of total IT industry experience in full SDLC as analysis, design, testing, development and implementation of client/server applications in a waterfall, iterative/agile - hybrid IT environment. Agile certificatied with a results focused approach and an unrelenting drive for excellence.
• Expert in Project Management, planning, project initiation, scoping, estimation, stakeholder management , metrics based tracking and reporting, budgeting and technical / functional specifications.
• Expert in the use of Microsoft Project for task scheduling, milestone tracking, project documentation and resource planning. Hands-on experience with MS Project to create WBSs, Schedules, Resource & Cost management and project plans.
• Solid track record of delivering projects on time, on budget in line with desired outcomes.
• Natural interest in finding the actual rootcause of bottlenecks or problems. To gain full insight into these issues I have experience overlooking the process chain in which they occur (helicopterview), but as a technical PM I can also go into details when required. Natural ability to face the client and excellent at relationship building.
• Analytically strong, a critical thinker, an inventive ‘outside-the-box’ thinker, a great communicator, highly motivated to get things done. Open and accessible personality, excellent interpersonal skills, clear communication and team-player understanding with various interests within organization. Solid strong problem solving skills.
• Experienced in interacting with end users to gather requirements for reporting with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Technically competent and extensive knowledge of the business side and an MBA.

SKILLS:

• Project/Program Management
• Leadership, communication and mentoring
• Performance Metrics
• Risk Management
• Negotiation & Problem Solving
• Multiple & Complex Projects
• Stakeholder Management
• Quality Management
• Six Sigma and Lean
• Change/issue Management
• Root cause analysis
• Testing / Test Co-ordination and Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all aspects of project planning and execution including but not limited to cost, schedule, scope, quality, risk, stakeholder, vendor, resource and integration.
• Excellent presentation, communications and facilitation skills in an Agile envirnoment.
• Develop detailed project schedules, resource plans, status reports, while providing team management/leadership for enterprise level projects. Priotized the backlog with stakeholder input.
• Stakeholder/vendor management, identification and resolution of bottlenecks and issues.
• Liaison between data specialists, communications specialists, and customer support specialists to ensure standards and protocols are maintained while coordinating activities with other information staff.
• Drive execution and successful delivery of technology solutions in support of company initiatives. Ability to build relationships & lead a team, to support deadlines. Extensive knowledge of SDLC.
• Track and report on projects during daily stand up meetings. Liaison with various technical, functional and business teams while successfully managing multiple programs/projects.
• AWS experience as well as experience managing a cloud migration program. Involved with UAT.
• Experience working with MS Project creating project plans and resource planning.
• Experience working with JIRA, assigning tasks, creating active sprints, user stories and managing a large onsite and offshore team holding daily standup meetings in order to get tasks done on time.

BI Project Manager

Confidential, San Francisco.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and expertise in development of new products, services and processes.
• Faciliate cross functional teams & ensure completion of project/product on schedule and within budget.
• Managed implementation of data marts which needed to come together in the data warehouse to run analytics, frequently operating at the cutting edge of technology. Experience with UAT.
• Prepared and distributed weekly status for the project team and senior management.
• Provided matrix leadership to cross-functional teams to accomplish project tasks and goals.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment where change is the only constant. Unaffraid of change.
• Proactively communicated with program team and developed the ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Wrote and maintained user and technical operating instructions while providing training to users and other technical staff, advise on best practices, stay on the cutting edge of technology, and provide status updates and completion information to staff and users via in person, email and voice mail.

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Palo Alto

Responsibilities:

• Set key project milestones and track execution against them to delivery against plan.
• Partner with senior management of the business side to identify and prioritize opportunities for utilizing process and technology to achieve the goals of the enterprize.
• Expert knowledge of project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices, and organization change management techniques.
• Knowledge of SQL, ETL, and hands on experience with reporting tools like Cognos and BO.
• Monitor the project from initiation through delivery while planning and directing schedules.
• Strong communication and delivery skills - able to operate with minimal direction. Proven ablity to plan, and coordinate within and across the teams. Innovative and effective in solution development, risk mitigation, and execution.
• Involved in recommending major changes to existing processes/products/services.
• Worked closely with Cognos leads and ETL leads and gave direction to help develop wonderful Cognos reports that added value to the business users and their daily operations.
• Ability to solve problems and think independently: proficient ability to identify and structure complex problems, rapidly prioritize issues and solution development, plan and conduct complex work, process information quickly, basic technical knowledge of devops, Iaas in public and private cloud.

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Palo Alto

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate relationships between business groups and IT departments, including collaborating with IT to ensure costs/resources are considered in alignment with project schedule while directing team members from multiple work groups.
• Wrote project status reports and responded to client inquiries and corrected technical specifications.
• Defined project scopes and set implementation, testing and upgrade schedules to ensure quality.
• Developed clear & concise communication skills to summarize at audience-appropriate detail.
• Remain composed when project progress, workload or resource allocations are less than ideal and stress can be sensed across project stakeholders.
• Worked within the fundamentals of program/portfolio governance, including compliance with project management methodology, adherence to financial policies, and instantiation of best practices. Assisted in capacity planning.
• Planned workshops and trained employee and established a reputation for collaboration through openness, empathy, employing an objective approach to decision making, and an awareness of politics without getting mired in them.
• Ability to resolve complex business and technical issues using excellent verbal and written communication skills. Willingness and ability to travel as needed.