SUMMARY:

• 13+ Yrs of Experience in Software/IT
• 6+ Yrs of Agile Project/Program Management Experience
• 4+ Yrs Experience as Scrum Master and Agile Coach
• 7+ Yrs of People/Team management experience
• Software Development background using Java. J2ee technologies
• Over 13 years of experience in software/IT as Consultant, Engineer, Project manager, Scrum master in design, development, maintenance of various software releases.
• Managed highly complex software projects in offshore - onsite model in Finance, Banking, BI, Storage, Spend Analytics, manufacturing, education, and Supply-contract management
• Highly skilled in managing projects through full SDLC using waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Extensive experience in cross-functional team leadership, working with IT leaders and senior business executives in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
• Demonstrated ability to build teams and lead organizations through growth and change.
• Understands business requirements and applies people, processes; technologymanagement skills in implementation of effective solutions to the clients.
• Career includes a wide-range of experiences and a proven flexible, resourceful and resilient professional.
• Key resource, goal-oriented,demonstrating through knowledge of the project activities and milestones. highly energetic, a customer focused team player always putting the needs of the client ahead.

TECHNOLOGY STACK:

• Java, J2ee, XML, Web Services, SOA, Struts
• Onshore-Offshore management, Business Analysis
• Javascript, Spring, AJAX, REST-APIs
• Project, Strategy planning and development
• Clearcase, P4, SVN, CVS, GitLab
• Technical Design, Programming and debugging
• Jira, JIRA-Agile, Mingle, Rally, QuickBase
• Quality, Risk and communication Management
• Windows, Unix, Linux, Android
• Scope, Cost and Vendor Management
• MS Project, Visio, Wiki, Prezi, Balsamiq
• Team building and development
• SharePoint, Remedy, Pivotal, Confluence
• Recruitment, feedback and appraisals
• Agile, SCRUM, Leanand Kanban
• Financial Services, SpendAnalysis
• Oracle, MySql, BigData and Cloud computing
• SAN and NAS, Storage network

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AgileProgram manager

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed 20+ End to end release of 3 Application products in SaaS envieonment including platform product.
• Track record of ontime and quality delivery of applications.
• In depth expertise in Banking and finance domain including Bill Pay and small business.
• Evangelize Agile and SCRUM processes, coach multiple teams and peers.
• Facilitate all SCRUM sessions including daily Scrum, sprint planning, Release planning retrospective meetings.
• Manage project related dependencies and cross-team communication.
• Partner with product management to identify new strategic requirements and plan to develop those.
• Identify dependencies across multiple project teams and communicate the dependencies in proactive manner.
• Analyze areas of improvements and improve processes.
• Manage and mentor team members about Agile, scrum and self-organization.
• Exhibit high skills of technical project, risk and people management.
• Coach and mentor teams towards common commitment using Agile methodologies.
• Take all measures, coaching, mentoring and facilitating skills to improve sprint velocity and teams’ productivity.
• Participate and contribute in design and review sessions.
• Participate in leadership meetings to provide analysis and status update to leadership.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed strategic IT programs including development and implementation projects which include planning for administrative and user level trainings.
• Performed Program management for Exchange and Lync roll-out from conception to implementation including implementation, installation, support readiness, training and users’ feedback.
• Performed business analysis for Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Teachers’ Effectiveness Dashboard (TED) and overall project management of these projects.
• Executed feasibility analysis for implementation and roll-out of Exchange and Lync 2010 to whole district.
• Partneredwith product and technology groups and vendors from different geographical locations and got projects completed in timely manner.
• Led Cross-functional teams towards common goal and strategic objectives of department and organization.
• Exhibited negotiation skills during procurement management and vendor management and helped district to achieve better quality and on time delivery.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the acceptance and implementation of core project management processes such as cost management, procurement management and risk management.
• Communicated the update and status to top level, including C-level and other stakeholders.
• Managing Data center co-location project with Verizon as data center vendor.
• Exhibited negotiation skills during procurement management and vendor management and helped company saving several thousands of dollars.
• Led cross functional team for all IT projects and managed IT projects of budget amounting total of $2M.

Development Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed development of multiple large and small size releases through SDLC from conception to completion.
• Demonstrated excellent interaction skills winning relationships with all stakeholders, senior management, clients and suppliers, service delivery & support, business development, product management for executing onsite/offshore product development.
• Quickly grasped the business and technical knowledge and developed software with valuable suggestions for diverse business domains
• Directed management responsibilities for staff of 25 (Architect, Product Manager, Business Analyst, Team Leaders, Software Engineers, Quality Engineers, Configuration Engineer, System & Network Engineers, Technical Authors and translators)
• Demonstrated excellent requirements analysis, architecture and database design skills with resilient.
• Ensured best practices and tools are used to adhere to standard processes to deliver projects with higher quality standards. Most of the practices were set as examples for organization wide implementation.
• Actively participated in yearly roadmap planning meeting in Burlington head office.
• Introduced new testing approach, new testing tools, planned increasing share of automated test cases. Started use of EMMA for code coverage and JMeter for performance.
• Increased user acceptance and minimized rollout obstacles by producing extensive training materials and delivering them one-on-one, classroom settings, and through self-help guides.
• Managed releases as release manager interacted with Product managers, sales team to identify release dates and release scope.
• With strong organization and leadership skills, managed conflicts between people and across teams to deliver the business goals.
• Always proactive to identify need of a process and facilitated the implementation of processes.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Initiated new project “ARF- Asynchronous Reporting Framework” from requirement gathering, recruitment planning, budget planning and Risk planning
• The successful completion of this project represented a milestone, as this project was the first to use an SCRUMmethodology for software development.
• Developed, managed and monitored both overall and weekly budgets and variances.
• Prepared project Statement of Work for Senior Management scope and budget approval.
• Developed, managed and updated the project plan to reflect up-to-date activity.
• Proactively managed scope requirements, actively oversight of testing and defect resolution.
• Identified and managed resource requirements for both internal and vendor resources.
• Established open and ongoing lines of communication with the project team.
• Continuous monitoring and management of issues and risks from both outside and inside the project.
• Worked with higher management to identify the key performance indicators measured against defined standards and provided interactive, analytical views for the company.
• Set up, directed and supervised project data and communication management through Wiki.

Team Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led one web application development of Driver Quotation which was application from new Account Lex Vehicle Leasing UK.
• Established project's scope, objectives, milestones - matrix and risk assessment with mitigation strategy. Identified critical issues and monitored the resolution.
• Managed team of 10 people team during development of this application
• Developed plan, schedule and estimates for all project phases.
• Negotiated timelines and efforts required with customer.
• Managed vertical and horizontal communication about project progress.
• Planned resource requirement and drive recruitment for the same.

Group Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Functional Requirements Gathering sessions with the Business Users and mapping the functional requirements to the system.
• Involved in the System Design sessions to identify the Application and Products Interfaces.
• Defined and Tailored Project Plan, Determining the Project Scope, Identifying the Risks & Contingencies, Estimating the Effort, Planning for Human Resources and Team Organization, Setting the Milestones and Creating Schedule & Baseline.
• Responsible for Deliverables and Group Reviews to ensure that Confidential ’s Guidelines are followed.
• Mentoring a team of Senior and Mid-level developers on the technical aspects.
• Allocating Tasks to the team members, Monitoring team’s progress and addressing team’s needs and issues.
• Tracking work progress using Issues Log, Preparing the Metrics and reviewing the status with Senior Management, Business Users, Technical Architect and other Stakeholders.
• Prepared and Conducted Training Sessions on Fundamentals of SAN, NAS and Clustered Storage.
• Providing the Defects Metrics to Defect Prevention Team to help them do Root Cause Analysis.

Onsite Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Clients, Confidential to gather the Business Requirements and preparing Technical Specification Document.
• Coordinated with Offshore Development Team at Confidential, India to discuss & resolve the project related issues.
• Presented Project Demo to the Confidential team and Group lead.
• Participated in the Project Management meetings to track the progress of project.
• Performed successful negotiation with Confidential Project Manager for schedule and scope.
• Development onsite development plan.
• Led and Mentored team members and assisting them in resolving the technical issues.
• Held Group Code Reviews to ensure Coding Standards are met.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed design and implementation of required APIs using Java, XML, C, Shell scripts.
• Managed project closure activities in absence of on project lead at the end of project.
• Undergone domain trainings related to SAN and NAS storage management.
• Acted in conjunction with/and as Project leader.

Web Developer, Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a freelance web designer and programmer.
• Involved in development of website using Java/JSP and Html.
• Developed animated eCards using Flash and wrote action scripts for animation.
• Developed eCards using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator.