SUMMARY:

• Experienced Project M anager with 12+ years of IT experience in leading all phases of diverse technology projects; PMP (1770029, Dec 2014); Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology (2004)
• Expert in Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies. Have managed large project teams and have delivered quality projects within allocated timeline and budget
• Excellent communicator: leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with Business executives and stakeholders.
• Expert in managing both complex/large programs (0.5M~3M) or multiple small programs
• Expert in executing Data warehouse, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Applications projects

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Software Development
• Data Warehous ing
• Business Intelligence
• Quality Assurance
• Data Migrations
• Master Data Management
• Requirement Analysis
• Project Planning
• Project Estimation
• Costing & Budgeting
• QA/Rollout/Support
• Collaborative Leader
• Cross - Functional/Multivendor Team Management
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Client Relation ship Management
• Excellent Negotiator
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Excellent presentation/documentation skills (Word, Confluence, Connect-Me, PowerPoint, MS-Excel, OmniGraffle )
• Excellent complex problem solving skills
• Expertise in capturing Minutes of Meeting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: Microsoft Project planner, JIRA, Asana, Confluence, PBS (Internal Infosys tool for Budgeting), Alcon (Internal Infosys tool for allocations), IPM+(Internal Infosys tool for project management)

Defect Management: Quality Center, JIRA, Radar, Central Station

Master Data Management: Riversand MDM Tool (Master Data management)

Data Warehouse: Oracle warehouse Builder, Informatica, DataStage, SSIS Packages

Business Intelligence: Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Microstrategy Reports, Tableau

Operating Systems: Win 2007/NT/XP, Unix

Database Tools: SQL developer, Toad

Languages: Java/J2EE, PL/SQL, .NET

Databases: Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2010, DB2, Teradata

IDE: Eclipse

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Mobilized and managed teams from different vendors across functional domains to work as a cohesive unit and successfully delivered projects on time with quality
• Liaised with Product Owner to: 1. Understand Business Requirements, 2. Define Project Scope, 3. Define milestones, 4. Define Deliverables
• Created/managed Project Management Plan, Project Schedule, Project Milestones, Identified Dependent systems
• Designed Business critical reports using Tableau
• Managed Business Objects Universe for data warehouse analytical reporting.
• Analyzed existing systems and the business user requirements to take strategic decisions to perform data migration from Old CRM system to new CRM systems
• Data migration requirements are identified and validated with the key users and stakeholders
• Identified the gaps in source data and defined the strategy to fill the gaps
• Worked with Stakeholders to make sure that data integrity is maintained during the data migration activity
• Coordinated with stakeholders across the organization to drive critical initiatives for the company and ensured the projects are executed within timeframe
• Monitored project for schedule and optimum resource usage and raised appropriate flags whenever needed
• Communicated High priority activities/risks/issues to stakeholders
• Facilitated Kick-off meetings, Status meeting with stakeholders as per the defined schedule in project plan
• Led demos sessions with project stakeholders to ensure the product being developed is in sync with the expectations
• Defined change management process and assisted clients in prioritizing requirements
• Managed Scope, schedule and resource changes during the project
• Assigned and Monitored all the project tasks and prioritized tasks depending on the business priority
• Working closely with Development and QA team for Planning Activities, tracking Activities and removing impediments
• Facilitated code review meeting with the architect and Development team
• Tracked project status closely and raised flags for risks
• Communicated all the risks/issues to stakeholders as per the SLA mentioned in the project plan
• Identified issues/risks in the projects and worked with all the counterparts on mitigation plan
• Resolved conflicts within cross-functional teams/Multi-vendor teams
• Prepared weekly/monthly project status and reported to all stakeholders
• Co-ordinated with release management team for production rollouts
• Managed monthly Billing vitals and identified ways to give add-ons to clients by creating reusable artifacts which will help clients to save $ amount.
• Analyzed what to continue, what to stop after each iteration
• Guided team to prepare reusable artifacts/tools, best practices and add these in the common repository
• Worked with Compliance team to ensure that processes are being followed properly and document are in the format which compliance team supports
• Ensured that Overall productivity of the project is exceeding the goal provided by unit and defined new processes for productivity improvement

Agile Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA, USA

Responsibilities:

• Grooming User stories along with Product Owner
• Managing cross functional teams
• Liaising with product owner for prioritizing the stories
• Facilitating story estimation meetings/Daily Stand up
• Providing updates to VPs on project status
• Working with VPs for budgeting
• Monitoring and tracking projects for schedule and optimum resource usage
• Working closely with Development and QA team for tracking tasks and removing impediments
• Creating and maintaining project management plans with milestones and dependencies to drive systems and release roll-out dates
• Conducting sprint review meetings, preparing burn-down reports and sprint backlog to ensure business requirements are implemented
• Conducting Sprint Retrospective meeting with entire project team (including VPs)

Agile Project Manager (BI)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with business users to understand functional requirements and created specifications for technical teams to implement user stories using sprints
• Lead Data warehousing (DW-Datastage)/ BI (Microstrategy) teams.
• Created and maintained project management plans with milestones and dependencies to drive systems and release roll-out dates and track projects for schedule and optimum resource usage
• Analyzed existing systems and the business user requirements to take strategic decisions
• Worked with Project team to Design, develop and implement the data warehouse solution
• Helped the client to implement Master data management (MDM)
• Identified Data migration scope and validated data migration strategies
• Worked with stakeholders to define source and Target data requirements for the data migration project
• Provided strategy related to Data migration, Data cleansing, Data conversion, data quality and data consolidation
• Conducted sprint review meetings, prepared burn-down reports and prepared sprint backlog to ensure business requirements are implemented by the team
• Coordinated with stakeholders across the organization to drive critical initiatives for the company and ensured the projects are executed within timeframe
• Groomed User stories along with Product Owner
• Conducted Sprint Retrospective meeting involving all the project team to improve on process and delivery
• Led demos and conference-room-pilot (CRP) sessions with project stakeholders to ensure the product being developed is in sync with the expectations
• Defined new process for offshore productivity improvement
• Defined change management process and assisted clients in prioritizing requirements
• Facilitated daily Scrum meetings
• Assisted Scrum team with story estimation and requirement clarification
• Facilitated code review meeting with the architect and Development team
• Identified risks in the projects and worked with all the counterparts on mitigation plan
• Prepared weekly/monthly project status report to all stakeholders
• Assigned and Monitored all the project tasks using JIRA
• Reviewed QA test cases/test suites
• Managed defect backlog and proposed plan for new release cycles depending on the business priority
• Co-ordinate with release management team for production rollouts
• Managed IPM+ and Billing vitals related activity
• Ensured that Overall productivity of the project is exceeding the goal provided by unit
• Worked with Infosys talent management team for new recruit, allocation de-allocation of resources, training on new technology

Project Manager

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Mobilized and managed teams from different vendors across functional domains to work as a cohesive unit and successfully delivered projects on time with quality
• Lead Data Warehousing/BI teams
• Worked with Business and other Stakeholders to understand requirements and define Scope
• Worked on Project Estimates for different projects
• Facilitated Design/Code review meetings with Architect
• Facilitated Test case/Scope reviews with Stakeholders
• Prioritized and coordinated tasks to complete projects within deadlines.
• Reviewed Test plans for all releases
• Worked with Infrastructure team for environment readiness
• Status reporting to clients (Weekly/Monthly)
• Managed defect backlog and assigned client in prioritizing defects
• Co-ordinated with Team for defect resolution and change management
• Worked on allocating and de-allocating team members as per project needs
• Co-ordinate with release management team for production rollouts
• Implemented process changes in order to meet the productivity improvement strategy
• Responsible for Training and managing offshore team

Technical Lead

Confidential, Milwaukee

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business requirements and giving requirement walkthrough to offshore
• Prepared high level and low level design documents
• Worked with Technical Architects to design business/database models for a DW project (Informatica) and for BO reporting (Business Intelligence)
• Estimated the CR’s and defined processes for change management
• Assisted offshore to complete Data setup for testing related activities
• Performed Unit and System Integration Testing
• Conducted Ad-hoc Testing
• Facilitated business during User acceptance testing.
• Executed Test cases related to ETLS for DSS part
• Assisted offshore to prepare Test cases, Test case execution
• Conducted project review meetings with client
• Reviewed and rework of Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Case execution results
• Provided weekly status reports, milestone reports, and metric reports to project stakeholders
• Worked with infrastructure team for environment readiness during project execution.