SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience managing mu lt imillion - dollar IT progra ms, projects, portfolios and process impro ve ment in it iat ives fro m conception through comp let ion.
• Well-de ve loped skills driving pro ject initiation, s cope definition, execution, monitoring, coordinating with business partners and multiple technology teams, scheduling deliverables and tasks, managing budgets, and providing cross-functional leadership across various teams.
• Dedicated leader w ith good co mmun icat ion s kills and a pro ven track rec ord of s uccess - comp let ing co mp le x techn ical projec ts on t ime and w ithin budget us ing Water fall and Scrum framework follow ing agile methodology.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Technical Project Management
• Application Development Manager
• Agile, Waterfall, Scrum Framework
• Program / Product Management
• Infrastructure Project Management
• IT Implementations
• Portfolio & Account Management
• Transition & Transformation Management
• Implementing Process Improvements
• Budget Management
• Managing Onsite & Offshore Teams
• Production Support
• Resource Management
• Various Business Domain Exposure
• Risk & Issue Management

TECHNICAL & FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

OS: Windows / Unix / Linux/ Novel Netware / OS/400

Databases: Relational (SQL) DB - Oracle / DB2 UDB / SQL Server / DBASE / Clipper

Network DB - HABITAT: Exposed to NO SQL DB - Mongo DB /Dynamo DB

Languages: C /SQL PLUS/ FORTRAN / CL / Oracle Developer 2000

Projects Managed: Java, JavaScript (Node JS, Angular JS), Dot Net Frameworks

Cloud Technologies: Exposed to AWS / AZURE

Project Management / Agile Tools: EPIC / Clarity (CA Agile Tool) / Rally (CA Agile Central) / JIRA / Microsoft TFS

Other Tools: Microsoft Office / Google Apps / ER Studio /Visual Studio/ Git, SharepointExposed to DevOps Tools (Jenkins)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master / Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Federal & State Reporting of Educational Student Data and Organizational Entity Management System in Agile Methodology
• Responsible for Planning, Analysis, Modelling, Mapping of approx. 180 reports for various Program Areas within Department of Education to be delivered to Federal & State Reporting System.
• Responsible for managing Student /Educators / Entities - ODS (Operational Data Store) and Data Marts.
• Responsible for Analyzing pain points of current Organizational Entity Management System and leading re-design effort within IT department along with Business Stake Holders.
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, risks, issues & other compliance aspects of the project.
• Perform/Co-ordinate Sprint ceremonies.
• Interacting with customers to identify needs, opportunities, and gaps, and solve problems.
• Create and prioritize user stories for scrum team
• Document acceptance criteria for user stories
• Help your team develop products by making difficult tradeoffs and removing roadblocks
• Prioritization of QuAD Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog based on end users and stakeholders, for offshore agile development team.
• Responsible for Development, Enhancement and Maintenance of Configurable Connector Pipeline, which is a multi-step process to convert various Student Information Systems into OneRoster format.
• Convert Clever formatted files to RenSimplified format.
• Create demo sites with anonymized data (demo sites populated with “Real” data, but dis-associated with original users)
• Reverse Migration of data from AWS environment to Renaissance Data Centers for Legacy Applications.
• Help define AWS Architecture for Cost & Performance Optimization
• Coordinate Performance Testing in AWS environment.

Confidential

Project/ Program / Product / Portfolio Manager / Delivery Manager / Scrum Master/ Engagement Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to deliver new & highly complex solution through entire lifecycle of the project starting from Concept to Release.
• Translate customer needs into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including development and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Coordinate Sprint backlog, Product Backlog & Program Release Increment with Product Owner.
• Create user stories and acceptance criteria
• Prioritize product and sprint backlog.
• Conduct daily standup as Scrum Master for various products, remove impediments, manage & estimate product stories, improve team velocity and conduct retrospectives.
• Lead & Manage Onshore & Offshore Teams
• Confidential internal compliance processes like Technical Due Care(TDC), Joint Architecture & Design Review(JADR), Disaster Recovery(DR), Vulnerability & Threat Assessments (VTA), Security Gap Analysis(SGA), Physical Site Review(PSR) & Other security processes(SAR)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Investigate & understand feature & functionalities of Loyalty Coalition product (a.k.a. Confidential )
• Being part of PMO team, create and implement the processes for the new organization that was created for Confidential .
• Work with various Stakeholders (Business Team, Delivery Team, Infrastructure team etc) on project planning and create high level Milestones.
• Work with Business Team on User Stories/EPICs for the Confidential

Confidential

Transition & Transformation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Customer Engagement & Validate Transition Scope as per Statement of Work / Contract
• Transition Resource Planning & On-boarding
• Educate Client & Transition Team on Transition Methodology.
• Application Knowledge Transfer Planning & Execution
• Setup Delivery Process & Delivery Team/s
• Identify Application Migration Stakeholders & Setup Application Migration Teams
• Create Knowledge Transfer Plan & Coordinate Knowledge Transfer Sessions.
• Evaluate Knowledge Transfer Sessions (Feedback from Trainer & Trainees)
• Identify, Mitigate, Manage & Report - Risks & Issues
• Lead & Manage Onshore & Offshore Teams during Transition Phases

Project Manager / Program Manager / People Manager

Confidential, Hilversum, NL

Responsibilities:

• Manage day to day operations at Confidential including Backup/Recovery, Setup Environment for Mock Trading to Test Enhancements, Production deployments.
• Customize Application (Stock Exchange) parameters, Analyze Application and System Software performance and customize for optimal performance, deploy software patches and generate market statistics.
• Gather Requirements from Confidential Board (Members/ Brokers) and Managing Relationship with Confidential customer.