SUMMARY:

• Accomplished, technically - proficient professional with demonstrated excellence in managing multi-million dollar projects/programs. Managed $200 million project. Hands-on leader. Holds CSM, PMP and Outsourcing Professional certifications.
• Successfully orchestrated multi-million dollar projects, programs, and enterprise-wide initiatives. Directed cross-functional, international teams. PMI certified in project management. Certified Outsourcing Professional. Led several Business Automation, Transformation, and Innovation projects.
• Executive Consulting - Regulatory Compliance - Technical Project/Program Mgmt - Process Improvement - Risk Mgmt - Contract Negotiations - Team Leadership Client Relations - Enterprise Mobility - Business Interfacing - SAFE and Agile Methodologies - Organizational Leadership - Team Building – Outsourcing – Long Term Projects
• Collaborated with senior leadership, to achieve project goals and realize business value, utilizing focused efforts toward client relations, business development, while solving complex problems on a global scale implementing complex multiplatform IT/Business solutions.
• Core competencies include Agile Project Management & Financial systems Integrations, ERP, EDI, Gap Analysis and Business Process Mapping.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Project, TFS, VSO, Kanban, Jira, Visio, Changepoint, Actuate, Primavera, Planview, Rally, Jira, Scrumworks. Excel, Business objects, PowerPoint; iOS, android,Xcode, css 3, JSON, XML, REST, Jenkins CI, Github, Clear case, Quality Center, Documentum
• Weblogic,Websphere, DataPower, arcGIS from ESRI, Flurry, Forsee, App analytics, Google ad-words.
• VSO, Hiperos 3pm, Visual Studio 2017; SQL Server 2017, Power BI, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS; Yammer, SharePoint workspace and enterprise 2016, 2013, 2010; dot net core, 4.5,4.0,3.5 2.0, C#, VB, ASP, Powershell, VBScript, Java Script; node js; react native; ASP; Java, JQuery, Objective C, Android Studio, Eclipse, Net Dynamics, Visual Cafe; Lotus Notes, Domino third party controls; IBM DB2 UDB; Oracle; Encryption, putty, SSH, TLS, pgp, https, sftp; Windows AD, LDAP, SAML, oauth, BizTalk; SSO, Ariba, XML, cXml; mySAP, SAP R/3, ECC, ITK, Ariba Strategic Sourcing, Ariba P2P downstream PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials, JDE;

PROFESSIONAL CHRONOLOGY:

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading 18 onsite and 20 distributed agile team members, as Scrum Master on separate work streams
• Trained and coached agile development team members to utilize Agile & Scrum Practices
• Successfully transitioned Agile scrum team from Waterfall to Scrum within 2 months
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Motivated the team with different team activities
• Organized day to day Core-time for the team members in order to resolve issues
• Provided fun agile activities to the team members in order to adopt the agile process
• Coordinated with Dev team daily basis to understand progress in productivity in different services both onsite and offshore
• Planned and executed CI strategy with tools automation and automated testing
• Accomplished continuous improvement in addition to steady product delivery
• Regularly coordinated with management & stakeholders about the Scrum Process and gave them updates with daily activities. Tracked team productivity using tracking tools like Jira, TFS online, Kanban features and sticky notes on the wall, for reporting purposes
• Identified and managed cross-team dependencies and actively collaborated with cross-functional leads to resolve impediments
• Ensure high throughput of development teams by identifying potential issues and roadblocks and working on preventing or eliminating them.
• Work with Product Management Product Owners, Business Analyst and Architects to plan ahead and ensure product backlog is prioritized, groomed, and has sufficient detail, so that it is ready to be worked on by Scrum teams to avoid any downtime, ambiguity or rework
• Consistently deployed shippable product at the end of each sprint.
• Matured the agile teams to the levels of self-organizing fluid teams and groomed leaders from within
• Celebrated culture changes in the organization along with product delivery
• Managed Marketing transformation program using big data and analytics with paid media, response scoring, to optimize marketing spend and improve efficiencies over 1B increased sales
• Managed the Mobility transformation initiative for leading Utility company – with over 2.2 M customers
• Planned, coordinated and designed controls and metrics reporting including benefits tracking for $250 million transformation with leading Global Utility provider.
• Interfaced with several global lines of Business, Leadership, and external partners frequently.
• Executed Operational excellence initiatives by focusing on improvement on over 50 high value applications and defect reduction exercises for key applications on portfolio of 1200 application spread across the landscape globally, resulting in $ 10 million savings over 2 years
• Managed all phases of app design and development and rollout using agile tools, Kanban’s and integration with enterprise applications and work management systems
• Managed special releases for iOS upgrades and third party provider upgrades and planned releases for features and functionality with a budget of 4 M with an eco-system of 8 partners internal and external providers
• Delivered periodic releases with incremental features including business and operational analytics using Forsee surveys integration, Google& Flurry analytics, iOS customer feedback.
• Resulted in call deflection to the mobile channel by 12% over saving client over 40M
• Improved customer satisfaction by 15% resulting in Client Listed in top 7 in the JD Power associates Customer Satisfaction survey for the industry apps featured in corporate commercials targeted to the local community
• Optimized data volume spikes on account of storms and natural disasters as a part of the tiger team with the client.
• Technologies used included IBM websphere, Web logic, MQ, Data power, Google Cloud Apple Cloud, ESRI mapping services, SAP, BI tools for iOS and Android platforms, Forsee, Flurry.
• Led teams using agile, scrum, SAFE, ITIL, PMI, CI, Lean, CMMI and Six sigma methodologies
• Managed Enterprise Mobility projects, innovation project involving SAP, Sybase Afaria and Apple iPhone integration - Used lean and agile techniques to Interfaces with partners and internal resources on an aggressive schedule. Contained costs for maximum result.
• Executed enterprise security projects – protecting the enterprise network, Involving key server firewalls, Symantec Enterprise protection SEP, Bit 9 whitelisting, two factor authentication, Cisco ASA, VPN firewall and Palo Alto firewalls. Accomplished continual risk mitigation implementing these technologies.

Project Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Project-managed pioneering B2B application to facilitate invoice exchanges from system to SAP/Oracle application.
• Early adapter of XML technology. Closely interfaced with development team, analysts, and QA to conduct unit integration and coordinate with experts. Responded to errors and rolled out application that was subsequently adopted by key vendors.
• Facilitated migration and decommissioning from JD Edwards to SAP (financial/treasury/systems team). Coordinated with subject matter experts (SMEs) to understand goals and expectations. Worked on security needs with cross-functional teams. Project saved $2 million to $3 million and enabled Medtronic to comply with regulations. HIPPA Compliant transactions.
• Oversaw conversion and decommissioning and transition from proprietary system to Oracle.
• Project involved long life cycle and management of large team. Despite joining project at a critical crisis mode, turned-it around to achieve successful completion, compliance with schedule, and transition from “in risk” to “no risk” status. Project was expected to save 500,000 pounds. Used HIPPA transactions for conversion and EDI exchange

Developer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and managed the contract lifecycle via the Contract Management System/Repository
• Excellent expertise in Ariba Contract Management, Sourcing, Buyer, Travel and Entertainment modules of Ariba Upstream and Downstream.
• Reviewed, analyzed, drafted and negotiated agreements
• Managed relationships and acted as the focal person between internal and external stakeholders
• Developed strategies for the most economical acquisition of IT services and supplies through the market assessment, supplier management and negotiations
• Implemented and Maintained Ariba Supplier Product Catalogs gathering and analyzing data for transaction enablement and catalogs products.
• Lead and Executed Strategic Sourcing Projects collaboratively with business units and Potential Business Partners to develop solutions needed.
• Analyzed product performance and monitored contract efficiency based on Service Agreements
• Developed reports to monitor spend and business partner performance
• Proficient in Ariba Markup Language (AML) programming and in-depth knowledge of Ariba Object Model
• Ensured compliance to the enterprise procurement process with vendors and internal employees and contractors. 100% compliance achieved
• Authored international, national and local RFP and RFQ's for seeking bids from suppliers - deal size 20M - 250 M
• Reviewed shortlist and engaged in due-diligence, scoring responses, vendor interviews, selection and awarding the bid
• Co-ordinated with Legal for contract T&C finalization
• Presented Acceptance criteria to management on the decision making methodology
• Consistent cost savings through e-procurement, contract negotiation, selection, and SOW for a commodities including projects, people, products and turn-key solutions over 20M, 10-20 % average savings in several categories
• Produced quarterly and year-over-year savings reports, based on business outcomes
• Created supplier score card based on long term performance both inbound and outbound