SUMMARY:

• A proven leader with 18+ years of experience driving concurrent software development projects\programs from inception through implementation in a fast - paced agile environment streamlining projects, processes, IT infrastructure & operations through strategic assessment, budgeting, initiating, planning, execution, monitor & control and innovation while building high performance teams implementing best practices and methodologies across the board
• Have strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills and extensive experience in team building, conflict resolution, managing cross functional teams in a multi-project environment, leading daily scrum meetings, creating & managing product backlogs and sprint planning, review and retrospective sessions with onshore and offshore teams driving them towards common goal by providing leadership, coaching and mentoring
• Expertise in working with cross functional team, C-Suite executives on providing weekly report, maintaining program/budget status in MS Project, PPM tools such as HP-ALM, Clarity, Onshore/offshore coordination, facilitating team meetings, brainstorming sessions, incident management, working closely with infrastructure & Ops teams
• Have hands on experience managing projects/programs in PMO perspective leveraging budgeting and reporting tools building project constraints, project charter, budget, forecasts with project deliverables and timeline
• Extensive experience in using Project management and MSOffice tools such as MS Project, PowerPoint, ALM (PPM), JIRA & TFS (Sprint Planning, Execution & Tracking), Clarity PPM tool, Visio, Budgeting tools and applications, Process and progress tracker, and SharePoint
• Have extensive experience on working with TeraData/DW, Oracle SmartView, Excel PivotTables, Tableau reporting tools & have extensive experience managing BI teams and projects for cost/benefit analysis
• Have strong business and technical vision, ability to identify risks and bottlenecks ahead of time and mitigate, also have the ability to efficiently handle multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and with the aggressive timelines and budget and produce high quality deliverable
• Have hands on experience providing enterprise solution architecture for major software development and migration efforts

SKILL:

SDLC, Agile, SCRUM, Six Sigma, PMI: PMP Methodology

Team building & Cross: Functional Collaboration and

Timely Reporting TFS, JIRA, SharePoint: Product, Project/Program, SCM & Vendor Management

Creating productive internal & external: Initiate, Plan, Execute & Monitor software Projects/Programs

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE: C#, ASP .Net, C++, Java, J2EE, MFC, Design Patterns, OOM Concepts, Web technologies, Mobile Apps, HTML, XML SAP (SD), Cloud, Oracle, PL/SQL, Sql Server, MySQL, RDBMS, MS Office Tools, MS Project, Visio, Jira, TFS, HP ALM, Clarity, SharePoint (Development and Migration)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project/program collaboration, coordinate and monitor functional area activities, budgeting, program execution and tracking budget and resource burndown rate, forecasting, risk management, facilitating team (onshore/offshore) meetings, preparing and presenting program status/budget/progress to the C-suite executives on a weekly/on-demand basis, maintaining Clarity/ HP-PPM dashboards and reporting and artifacts
• Worked on Merger-Acquisition projects implementing software solutions for AOL & Yahoo financial application including web, desktop & Cloud migration solutions
• Closely working with multiple product management teams, IT PMs, external vendors managing software and new product development efforts in alignment with the overall objectives of the program and projects initiatives
• One of the key players in new product development portfolio team managing multiple simultaneous programs and projects, new product development/CPM IT/O2B Automation with multi-million dollars in combined budget
• Responsible for major project/program initiatives and managing programs starting from ideate through life cycle of the new product development efforts, conducting daily scrum meetings gathering status, progress and reporting that are supervised by SVP, CIO, Directors, Executives & sponsors on a regular basis
• Managed program that involves extracting & building pivotTables with million live and historical records in a efficient ways and integrate with the reporting tools such as Tableau, .Net UI reports and specifically building Pivotable Excel views using SmartView (Oracle) tool. And, leveraged Sharepoint tool for documentation and communication purposes
• Working closely with cross-functional teams partnering with Product, Business, Network, Engineering, Legal, IT, PMO and product/project governance in managing the new product reviews, decision making in product approach, resource planning, reporting, budgeting and timely delivery of high quality consumer based products and services

Confidential

IT Dev/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led highly complex project following fast paced Agile approach involved in Sprint Planning & Execution (including Product/Sprint backlog maintenance in TFS, Daily SCRUM, conducting retrospective sessions, IT-DEV & Business teams coordination) to implement generic compliance packages on portfolio of SAP projects or modules such as Materials Management, Transportation Management, Project System, Customer Service, Production Planning, Sales & Distribution which resulted in cost savings across board
• Have experience managing SD/Transportation management system modules that include pre-sales activities such as inquiries, quotation, billing, transportation, credit management, bill of materials, returns, credit and rebills, credit and debit memos, customer & materials master data and sharing across organizations in AMS, Americas and EMEA regions
• Responsible for providing leadership and directions to a technical team with the size of 50+ with over two million dollar budget that includes SMEs, functional and technical analysts, designers, architects, ABAP developers, testers and business users located across Americas, EMEA & Asia Pacific regions
• Worked closely with the release team providing the necessary project artifacts on time an involved in release management activities utilizing PPM & Sharepoint tools for Documentation
• Responsible for team building and coordinating tasks across multinational diverse team and creating virtual team environment and bringing them to work towards the common goal
• Also worked on a large scale .Net compliance project and successfully delivered three months ahead of schedule for Korea Republic and Taiwan HP sales offices
• Led product team of 18 engineers/SMEs and revamped the SDLC process implementing a better end-to-end development and delivery model with an anticipated cost savings of cost effective and 30% increase in efficiency and 35% increase in customer satisfaction for timely delivery with better quality results

Confidential

Project Leader / Tech

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led and implemented customized financial software application products in different phases leveraging Agile methodologies directly involved in creating product/sprint backlog, multi-Sprint planning and execution and directed toward strategic business and organizational objectives, which resulted in higher customer satisfaction and at least 25% cost saving benefits for our customers
• Established rapport maintaining effective communication with internal and external customers and clients on merger & acquisition software solutions & implementations
• Responsible for managing client projects from initiation through implementation, and managed schedule, cost and performance of cross functional teams & projects and earned complete trust and highest level of customer satisfaction
• Effectively used fast paced Agile development methodologies and tools such as Cucumber, QTP, PPM, Sharepoint to gather & convert user stories into use cases and integrate into the BDD environments
• The main focus in this assignment is studying the business requirements and creating technical and functional documentations, and architect and design based on the requirements, develop high quality robust software solutions, conduct unit testing and user acceptance testing, deliver the software modules and getting approval from the client
• Responsible to complete release management and worked closely with the client to make sure each release is planned and documented and implemented on time without issues and received highest level of customer satisfaction in every project we handled

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with business solutions, BI teams and SMEs collaboratively in developing and implementing the interface applications using data analytics & tools
• As an IT project manager, helped the company to optimize business processes through automation techniques and also helped back office to process order & ticketing and transportation management 45% more effectively and timely
• Actively involved in third party software evaluation and Vendor selection processes and articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical documents in order to customize that better fit into business needs. Involved in creating cost-benefit analysis and ROI assessment and generating quantitative statistical models that were used in making major decisions in procurement processes
• Provided technical leadership to a diverse team on multiple complex and multi-tier software applications built in house and lead a team to customize applications delivered by external software vendors, Facilitating change management activities related to the associated projects
• Responsible for collecting business requirements, system analysis, design, implementation, status updates to the upper management and customers and all stakeholders. Also responsible for conducting peer reviews and software acceptance test activities on a regular basis

Confidential

Tech Lead / Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and expertise to the team in developing and implementing imaging and workflow applications. Collaborated with external vendor “Team IBM” to customize and implement IBM’s Filenet (P8) system, Workplace, AE(WebSphere6.1), Confidential applications to fit Region’s functional requirements and hosted the Java application on Tomcat server 6.0 & Sharepoint
• Worked closely with the administrators of Filenet, WebSphere & Tomcat server in implementing and hosting the Java applications that was developed to support the consumer, small business and commercial loan application and approval process
• Responsible for designing and developing a desktop application and BPM that allows associates to monitor and track the status of the consumer and small business loan package throughout the post closing process and delivers the loan document images in pdf or tiff formats upon request
• Delivered a complete end to end business process management software package for consumer and small businesses loan processing that includes approvals and delivery of necessary documents in different formats, and also to generate consolidated reports that will be used by the executives
• Responsible for converting, and conducting unit testing, integration & performance testing, creating design & unit test documents and implementing the home grown software modules to interact with the new Filenet Content Engine servers and the backend systems.

Confidential, AL

Senior Software Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for initiating, planning, defining scope, schedule and creating empowered technical teams for this major conversion project. Also, was actively involved in conducting review meetings with internal and external users to gather requirements and created multiple technical and functional requirement documentations, and process improvements
• Developed and implemented a successful C++ to C# converter apart from the current assignment and implemented successfully that reduced the development time in the whole conversion project drastically. This tool helped the developers in getting 85% of the source code automatically
• Key player in redesigning and developing custom controls for UI integrating and customizing a third party tool to fit into the business requirement. Implemented all possible Creational / Structural / Behavioral Design Patterns in this conversion project