SUMMARY:

• Retail Project Manager and Master Scheduler with a consulting background and 9+ years expertise creating, managing, and maintaining accountability for all aspects and artifacts of project management for the design, development and execution of small and large - scale IT systems and projects.
• Experience in iterative Agile project management methodology with Scrum to manage the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Project Manager Experience in working on Iteration and Infrastructure projects.
• Experience in creating Business Context Diagrams, Work Flow Diagrams, and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Project Charter, and Project schedules.
• Experience in developing Test Cases, from Use Cases, reviewing Test Plans to ensure Use Cases accurately reflect Functional and User Interface testing.
• Extensive experience in infrastructure domain and web application development.
• Develop Master Production Schedule for a $1.3 Million project. Manage and develop 11 hourly and 3 salary personnel.
• Planned, Created and implemented Master Schedules for large companies
• Maintained an accurate and current master schedule on daily basis
• My role as a Master Scheduler has enhanced skills and taught me different ways to tackle a problem and to think outside the box for a solution.
• Conducted Requirement Gathering Sessions (RGS), Joint Application Requirement (JAR) sessions Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, interviewed Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) and updated requirements.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, ROI analysis and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used MS Project to manage schedules, meet deadlines and plan resources in line with triple constraint. Followed up with weekly Project Status and organized Task Review meetings.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate appropriately in business and technical situations at all levels. Effectively presented projects using MS PowerPoint.
• Project management skills with ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously with little or no supervision.
• Excellent knowledge of standard industry methodologies like Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process as per Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile (SCRUM), CMM (Capability Maturity Models) and Rational Tools used during various phases of RUP.
• Coordinated and consolidated schedules to ensure all detailed work plans are consistent with PMO scheduling policies and included in the Integrated Master Schedule.
• Worked on setting up Clarity Environment and System Administration Activities.
• In-depth experience with nearly all modules and accelerators of Confidential PPM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Master Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Play the dual role of a Scrum Master & Project Manager for five corporate initiatives delivering on-strategy, 100% on-time and within 95% of the budget.
• Utilizing MS Project I was able to schedule significant development and/or production programs usingIntegrated Master Plan (IMP) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) .
• Develop and present information from the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to senior management using MS Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Reports included corrective action planning, what-if scenarios and schedule work around plans.
• Organize and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies such as Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and Daily Stand-ups for multiple front-end and back end mobile, web and API development teams.
• Scrum project management with JIRA. Also used for bug fixing, requirement gathering and prioritization of work for next release.Lead post project assessments and make recommendations for future projects or project optimization.
• Liaise between product owners, development team, and management ensuring requirements are properly defined, documented in JIRA, implemented, tested, and deployed as per the defined timelines.
• Identify potential scope creep and work with internal teams and clients to find risk mitigation strategies.
• Build strong business relationships and coordinate project performance with other affected departments such as Operations, Finance, Marketing and Sales.
• Helped team learn from issues, risks, dependencies and technical bottlenecks in effective release planning and implementation.
• Adopted and Implemented client laid out standard work practices and providing value-add to the team in addressing deviations/exceptions in the standard work.
• Mentored and coached team keys in on boarding new business partners and welcoming challenges and change within leadership.
• Effectively collaborated with product owner, business lead and upper management in achieving the common goal of high quality deliverables and in stipulated budget.
• Perform financial/administrative reporting and distributed as required.
• Conduct financial analysis including variance, risk and profit/loss analysis for project.
• Responsible for coordination, identification, and tracking of all items prior to delivery.
• Submit progress reports to management and participate in schedule discussions.
• Experience in Confidential v13.1, v13.2 and v13.3.

Confidential, Johns Creek, GA

Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and determine plan variance from project performance.
• Lead the implementation of new Confidential e-commerce system, including quality assurance and migration from existing platform.
• Worked extensively with Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methodologies with complex implementation projects from initialization phase to deployment.
• Prepare project specific Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan along with the respective team.
• Accelerated project to virtualize servers at various Macy's locations.
• Substitute for Master Scheduler and run over all production Schedule.
• Develop master schedule for the project.
• Perform monthly/weekly updates to the Master schedule.
• Master Schedule oversight and management.
• Supervises contractor scheduler(s) and planning/scheduling staff
• Project manages the virtualization of Intel servers in a quick time frame to save costs for maintenance and storage of physical servers.
• Performed validation of database integrity and physical movement of server data.
• Utilized rally to manage projects simultaneously across various platforms.
• Deployed servers, Storage and VMWare/ ESX Host HP DL380 and DL 580 servers with 4 Hitachi VSP San storage systems in two data centers.
• Oversee precise project results to identify if relevant quality standards area attained.
• Created WBS (work breakdown structure) for scope management of projects and project planning of activities.
• Data modeling for DWH / BI projects.
• Collect and present performance information related to Infrastructure projects.
• Identify prospective performance and rigid concerns associated with project initiatives.
• Identify probable impact to associates, clients and shareholders.
• Perform with subject matter experts all through organization to gather entire business needs required to attain project goals.
• Conduct change throughout project inclusive of schedule, scope and team membership.
• Collaborate effectively with Infrastructure associates across entire business units along with management levels.
• Identify prime cause of contention or disagreement plus recommend corrections as necessary.
• Ensure to capture, prioritize and solve project problems in organized manner.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed future state requirements for automation of MPF (Mortgage Partnership Finance) pricing capabilities.
• Created detailed future state process flows for MPF pricing automation to provide additional clarity to senior management using MS Visio. Defined, documented and validated complex business logic for a large-scale data conversion.
• Ensured the infrastructure adhered to the requirements for availability, stability, and efficiency. Develop and maintain infrastructure and resource cost estimates. Mapped data fields from the As-is in-house system to the new platform.
• Assisted in the development of SharePoint governance documentation, used for SharePoint implementation across the Confidential .
• Developed requirements around automation of Polypath's install jobs.
• Implemented a document tracking application, within Lawson, which is now used across the Confidential .
• Managed the roll out of Windows 7 across the Confidential, involving cross-business functionality testing of all Confidential applications as well as vendor products, implemented at the Confidential .
• Worked with infrastructure services to ensure testing across all departments, within the Confidential, was coordinated and completed with regards to the JBoss and PowerBuilder upgrade, along with the Windows 7 upgrade, resulting in a Confidential -wide UAT for all three platforms. Participated in UAT team's efforts, to ensure a smooth transition to the To-be state.
• Assisted in the creation of a Training plan to inform employees about the upgrade to Windows 7 and seek their buy-in into the use of the OS, as pert of the implementation team.
• Helped manage the roll out of WYSE terminals across the Confidential to 100+ employees.
• Assisted in the definition of requirements as well as implementation of the new data center (physical) site for the Confidential .
• Utilized the entire SDLC throughout the project to ensure completeness and accuracy of the initiation, requirements, design, construction, testing, implementation and closure. Tracked the progress of each managed project through MS Project
• Managed business division expectations throughout each of the technical projects.