SUMMARY:

Project Manager with 20+ years of IT experience with specialization in Project Management, Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, Program Management, Service Management and Support, Vendor Management, Business Process Analysis, System Reengineering, Continuous Process Improvement, Risk Management and Change Management.

METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS:

• Waterfall and Agile/Kanban/Scrum/SAFe
• EPIC, SharePoint, JIRA, Rally, CA Agile, ALM, ServiceNow, Planview, Kronos, Team Foundation Server, Visio, MS Project, Word, Excel and Power point.

EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for multiple teams and focus on guiding the teams towards defining strategies for transitioning Agile practices and aligning with enterprise strategy.
• Managed the budget of $5.5M with onshore and offshore vendor teams.
• Collaborated with multiple diversified Teams from IT, Business stakeholders , Management and Cross functional teams.
• Facilitated PI (Program Increment) sessions and Scrum of scrums.
• Lead teams to deliver software products using SAFe framework.
• Applied methodology that supports the integration of changing customer inputs and business conditions into software development.
• Managed projects and monitored various stages of the progress of the project, removal of impediments and ensured it aligned with the business goal.
• Coordinated internal partners and third - party vendors to deliver on development milestones.
• Worked closely with Product Planning, Product Development and Technology groups to plan roadmaps and deliver releases. Worked with product teams to define and prioritize outcomes. Ensured the application of SAFe framework to the software to increase effectiveness of software development.
• Reported activities and progress to management regarding actual versus planned, team utilization, delivery and quality commitments, and budget forecast for the application development.

Project Manager

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Managed and directed multiple project teams to meet business objectives. Participated in the development of portfolio roadmaps to assess business impact in terms of software, hardware and labor.
• Led IT projects from the initiation stage including product fit assessment, structuring team, business case through detailed program planning and approval. Managed internal team and vendor teams.
• Engaged teams to deliver technology solutions, through effective application of the Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban Method, and Scaled Agile Framework.
• Facilitated PI (Program Increment) sessions and Scrum of scrums. Lead teams to deliver software products using SAFe framework.
• Identified and removed the impediments. Facilitated the creation and adoption of working agreements and definitions of done, including use of appropriate tools, standards and best practices
• Managed application development and digital transformation projects, agile transformation, implementation and integration of application solutions and maintenance of existing applications.
• Handled projects with a budget of $12M.
• Reported stakeholders through Release Burn down and Sprint Burn down and Risk Burn down charts. Communicated effectively across diverse audiences within and outside of the Sprint Team. Motivated and modeled open communication to help surface issues for faster resolution.
• Accountable for project communications and reporting including Project Performance Evaluation reports to sponsors and stakeholders. Accountable for the completion of program management deliverables to corporate PMO standards.
• Provided administrative duties for the managers and monitoring various stages of the progress of the program and ensured it aligned with the business goals/use cases.
• Demonstrated record of accomplishment of maintaining the highest possible on time and on-budget with high quality delivery. Excellent communicator; brilliant at utilizing technical and business acumen, to effectively engage and communicate with clients, executives, team members and vendors.

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the applications, projects, people and budget under my portfolio.
• Developed portfolio roadmaps to assess business impact in terms of software, hardware and labor. Manage and direct multiple project teams to meet business objectives.
• Participated in planning, budgeting and scheduling of application development projects, allocating resources, coordinating the activities with other IT managers and business partners,
• Lead the application development, implementation and integration of application solutions and maintenance of existing applications.
• Defined project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are deployed on time, within budget, and in compliance with quality, PMO standards and customer expectations.
• Managed new development projects and Event driven projects using Agile methodology.
• Played a scrum master role, worked with product owners to finalize product backlogs, facilitated sprint planning to get the sprint backlog, conducted daily stand up meetings, validate the results through sprint reviews, sprint retrospective meetings to improve the process and coordinated with release management.
• Reported scrum progress using Release Burndown and Sprint Burndown chart and Risk Burndown.
• Reported activities and progress to management regarding actual versus planned, team utilization, delivery and quality commitments, and budget forecast for the applications development.

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects with various vendors from the project initiation to closure.
• Led larger size onsite and offshore project using waterfall project management methodologies.
• Responsible for planning and tracking key project milestones, budget, timelines and resources to meet the needs of business partners and maintaining the project status reports.
• Coordinated with cross functional team including Architects, Business Analysts, QA Testers, Performance Testers and business partners to reach agreement on scope, timeline, budget, approach, assumptions, dependencies and risks.
• Ensured projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality, PMO standards and meet business expectations. Proficiency in communicating and participating in Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions.
• Supported for smooth project launch with complete UAT and deployment plans, ensuring stakeholder signoff and complete release readiness processes.

Team Lead

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Worked on multiple projects for multiple clients. Handled internal, onsite and offshore teams.
• Planned and tracked key project milestones, timelines and resources to meet the needs of customers.
• Developed functional and technical specifications and involved design, development, testing and maintenance. Understood the business requirements and validated the data imported from various systems.
• Created different test cases and performed unit testing. Involved in code review, release and implementation.
• Supported clients throughout implementation with troubleshooting and training. Stay current with trends for data analysis and reporting, user experience, and customer insights.

Analyst Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed functional and technical specifications and involved design, development, testing and maintenance.
• Understood the business requirements and validated the data imported from various systems.
• Implemented detailed logging mechanism which will take care of every success and failure scenarios and log the messages.
• Preparation of requirement document, Analysis and review with onsite coordinators, Data Modeling and System Design, Proto screens developed for customer approval
• Preparation of Macro level design document, Coding for common functionality programs, Testing the programs and functionality, Utility programs developed for making the test data.
• Created different test cases and performed unit testing. Involved in code review, release and implementation.