OBJECTIVE

Visionary and innovative technologist seeking challenging position in the high - tech industry to make the most of my technical background, customer focus, creativity, passion, industry experience, and leadership skills

SUMMARY:

• 18+ years of industry experience, strong technical solution and management background
• Designed and implemented technical solutions to enhance applications performance and user experience
• Experienced in implementing Agile processes, working with multiple technical, business and third party teams.
• Executed multiple multi-million programs in Agile & Waterfall Methodologies with various pricing models
• Played vital role in vendor evaluation process for travel commerce platform (GDS) integration provider.
• Known for resolving critical project delivery issues, stabilizing and building high performance teams
• Multi domain experience Travel & Hospitality, Cards & Payments services, Retail, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal and communication skills while interacting with executive leadership
• Delivery Excellence Award for building and growing a new portfolio to 90 member team in a Year
• Won Project of the Year Award twice in a row for successful delivery of projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

J2EE, Mobile, ActiveMQ, WebSphere, Angular, Rest Services, Oracle, DB2, JIRA, Rally, Clarity, Big Data (trained)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. TECHNICAL PROJECT M ANAGER

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of first mobile application in the digital platform across the client organization
• Reducing client infrastructure costs by designing a multi-threaded solution instead of a multi-server approach
• Meticulously track the productivity of the team, improve it by identifying refactoring and redesigning opportunities with new technological trends across the applications.
• Creating solution approach by participating in discovery meetings with business and key stakeholders
• Working with technical teams, UX, business stake holders to develop current and future state roadmaps
• Supporting technical teams in developing technical, data architecture, application interfaces and conduct reviews
• Participating in daily standups, review work progress, perform work assignment and resolve impediments
• Mentoring and inspiring technical teams through new learnings to establish an inspiring working environment
• Creating and presenting weekly and monthly projects progression to client business and IT leadership
• Identifying new business opportunities and channel it through sales leadership in accomplishing them

Sr. TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Naples, FL

Responsibilities:

• Leading multi-year program in enhancing current product to next generation platform (J2EE) through Agile
• Executing multiple custom development projects on current Oracle Forms/SQL platform
• Enhancing the service integration platform to provide new capabilities for the customers
• Participate in daily scrum meetings to resolve impediments and escalate to leadership on associated risks
• Interact with offshore development team on daily basis to resolve impediments and prioritize the work
• Implemented techniques (matrix, integrated plan) to optimize dependencies between Agile and Waterfall projects
• Resolved productivity challenges through transparent communication on estimations and detailed metrics
• Enhanced business trust by implementing project management standards and delivery techniques

Sr. T ECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Leading team in execution of 8+MM Global IT migration program
• Executing Strategic POS Product Development that involves major UX overhaul.
• Planning testing deliverables with Quality Assurance & Collaboration Services
• Review of critical projects and provide direction to move them into success phase
• Organize reviews with TP senior leadership and highlight the key achievements.
• Owning entire project plan and closely tracking the progress and timely communication to all stakeholders
• Motivating team through Innovation and presenting ideas to Confidential to build new Opportunities

Sr. / TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Planning, execution of complete second phase, 12+MM program in Agile involves multiple business/Technical product owners, 30+ internal technical teams and vendors (including GDS vendors)
• When there were multiple challenges due to infrastructure, delay in external vendor deliverables, internal politics in the first phase, joined the team and resolved all the issues in a month by actively working with client leadership.
• Working with business and IT in GDS integration vendor selection process and developing scorecard.
• Worked with Amex Agile CoE in digital delivery initiative in adapting and sharing the best practices.
• Received accolades from the executive leadership in well balancing the program execution and simultaneously supporting migration to various tools from Excel to CA Clarity to Rally for 1500+ stories with no impact
• Interacted with stakeholders and leaders on both business and technology side to adopt agile best practices.
• Timely communicating and presenting program progress and metrics (Velocity), variance and finance to the key stakeholders and presenting metrics in Steering committees to achieve the successful execution of the program.
• Owning and maintaining the Master plan with aggregating of all projects and closely tracking all inter and intra dependencies, risks and timely conducting meetings on risk mitigation approaches
• Manage financials, conduct reviews with project manages and identify opportunities for cost optimizations
• Providing technical guidance to team on Infrastructure, leading them in defining the long term roadmaps (building in-house customer Travel Profile and Itinerary databases) seeing the future vision of the portfolio.
• To optimize cost, provisioned most of the development from offshore in Agile

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding end to end business flow and building business and technical roadmaps in phased approach
• Leveraging DB2 XML storage instead of traditional data tables for solution due to complex nature of data
• Due to budget constraints performed both project manager and solution architect roles.
• Facilitating project governance process, system and user acceptance testing.
• Application infrastructure procurement for various environments and application implementation.
• Performing ROI and working with business senior leadership to get funding for next phases
• Optimizing cost through offshore delivery and closely monitoring cost and schedule of various phases.
• Implementation in J2EE with DB 2 XML and used Microsoft SharePoint, MS Project and CA Clarity tool.
• Achieved delivery excellent award for successfully delivering all 4 phases.

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enabled client to receive consistent business assessment score of 1 at portfolio level.
• One among the few to start and set benchmark on successful delivery of critical projects from offshore and gained customer confidence by successfully executing 4+ MM Next Generation Interactive projects on schedule and cost.
• Increased offshore visibility by sharing value adds of team, daily progress of the various streams
• Executed multiple Fixed bid projects from offshore and increased profitability and utilization
• Follow and maintain Organization and client specific quality metrics and standards
• End to end responsibility of the projects delivery (Financials, schedule & Risks)
• Interacting with multiple business partners and vendors during different phases of the projects
• Responsible for estimation, planning, controlling of budget using client specific Project Management Tools
• Submitting and participating in proposals, SOW management, ensuring Profitability and utilization
• Facilitated testing from offshore with recommended tools and external vendor testing to be compliant.
• End to end project Management (scope, schedule, cost, risk & change) of all the above projects from offshore
• Coordinated with Infrastructure teams on procurement, installation and roll-out into production.
• Interfaced with business on acceptance testing, incremental migration planning with no impact to business services
• Worked with client PMO team on funding, financial management and cost optimizations
• Facilitated technical governance reviews, performance, Integration and stress testing

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT / PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• End to end delivery responsibility of BP Australia IT Engagement from offshore
• Transformed the existing 2MM T&M model to Fixed Bid and improved profitability and utilization
• Brought new opportunities through innovation got accolades from client and organization leadership
• Client / Customer interface for all of the capabilities and services
• Plan and manage resource requirements, allocation and ensure maximize utilization of the project resources.
• Ensured project execution as per the SoX compliance
• Managed the project from offshore in Fixed Bid and enabled cost savings for customer by delivering from offshore.
• Engaged business in requirement gathering, deliverables review, testing and Implementation
• Lead the team with a detail project plan tracking, change management and timely communicating risks to client
• Lead the technical team during 60+ applications transition from the existing vendor.
• Technical leadership to guide and delivery from offshore on multiple projects from inception to implementation.
• Developed Proof of Concepts in enabling more scalable and performance systems.
• Provided technical ideas in major technical transformation projects to increase the system availability.
• Resolved existing technical and platform challenges to enhance the performance, usability and stability.
• Design and developing solution to integrate with SAP without interrupting current business process.
• Worked on solution and integration with multiple vendors and development teams (RetaliX(GSS), IBM, Accenture
• Analyzed several applications to interact with the new device and provided the best tool with high performance.
• Mentor the technical team in successful integration of the new device and configuration of the tool at sites.
• Designed interfaces for the new requirements without interrupting the current business process.
• Supported team in technical analysis, requirement clarification and implementation

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identification of customizations, design and build logic to add new module to integration with Vitria
• Involved in functional requirement analysis, technical design and implementation.
• Lead the team during development and customization of application modules.
• Involved in functional, architecture design, coding and unit testing.
• Used Rational Rose tool to design the functional flow of BOM (Bill of Material).
• Built the automated rule engine for schedule management which is heart of the applications
• Developed pluggable adapters and connecters to interact with SAP BAPI and Oracle as backend interaction involves with multiple ERP (Oracle & API) systems while working on Singapore eAppointment System