PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Solution Architect and Certified Project Management Professional
• System Development, Design and Enhancements, Scope Discovery, System Integration
• Risk Assessment & Management
• Quality Assurance
• Process Improvement / Best Practices
• Offshore Team Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:

• An accomplished and highly motivated PMP certified Project Manager offering high quality experience within the corporate IT field. Brings expertise in areas of risk management, troubleshooting, strategic planning, innovative solution implementation, project management and agile methodology.
• Project delivery excellence, business development, contract negotiations, resourcing and optimizing businesses operational profitability.
• SDLC management in waterfall, agile and SCRUM methodology with project implementation, enhancement and support projects.
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services(AWS),Identity Access Management(IAM),EC2,D Confidential bases on AWS,VPC, S3 bucket access control, user management and control using IAM, d Confidential base encryption, Multi - AZ deployment and read replica.
• Pursuing AWS Solution Architect and AWS Developer - Associates s.
• Risk management, defining strategy and processes and devising mitigation methodology.
• Configuration & change management, establishing control mechanism and defining release strategy.
• Expertise on project budgeting, tracking and monitoring.
• Tracking, monitoring, reporting status to management (Executive directors and VPs), quality assurance, performance management.
• Managing large direct and virtual teams, and driving project objectives by mentoring, motivating, and encouraging team to surpass defined goals. Extensive experience in managing global teams and projects.
• Technical oversight & hands on experience on core technologies- C/C++, Java/J2EE, Oracle PL/SQL,
• Design Patterns, and flavors of UNIX (AIX).
• Expertise in PMI Methodology Documentation, Configuration of Applications, Testing, End-User and Supporting IT projects.
• Expertise in Storage and Operating System domain.

KEY SKILLS:

Technical.: C, C++, Java/J2EE, Perl, Oracle PL/SQL, flavors of UNIX(AIX), UNIX Script.

PM.: PMBOK, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Projects, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint,CMVC,ClearCase,SVN,ALM,VISO,SharePoint,Word,JIRA, ITSM(ServiceNow 2.0), Redmine, Confluence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Albany, NY

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT development projects for Confidential and Office of Medicaid Inspector General, ensuring high quality standards and maximum efficiency.
• Creating and managing project management, resource management, risk management and stakeholder plans.
• Business strategist, plan and manage projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Created accurate project plan using the MS Projects and executed the same for project delivery.
• Monitoring projects for validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.
• Project Scope includes - D Confidential base migration, reports migration, new site development, Single Sign On (SSO).
• Project initiation, planning, risk assessment and finalizing of scope while identifying, analyzing and managing project risks.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story. Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.
• Operated in 4 week sprints with flexibility on length based on immediate functionality concerns.
• Coordinated and controlled change request for the clients by conducting impact and cost analysis, prioritizing and mitigating changes.
• Motivate team players with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and management, technical and written skills.
• Drove daily syncs, communicated project status to stakeholders and leadership team, removed obstacles for delivery.
• Developed project scope, deliverables identification, resource allocation, project estimation and change management in coordination with Business Analyst.
• Incorporating effective risk and change control processes across, define and develop IT project management practices, governance standards, processes, guidelines and metrics.
• Continuously improving project processes to ensure the best possible business outcome.
• Stakeholder engagement - responsible for engaging stakeholders, managing their expectation and aligning them to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.

Environment: Sybase IQ, Oracle, Erwin, Informatica, OBIEE, Microsoft Project Plan, ITSM (Service Now 2.0), Redmine, Microsoft Excel, Confluence, Jira.

Confidential, NYC/Austin, TX

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directing and guiding key IT development projects, ensuring high quality standards and maximum efficiency.
• Creating and managing project management, resource management, risk management and stakeholder plans.
• Business strategist, plan and manage projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Project Scope includes - Enhancements to various HP License software applications, migration of standalone application to Web based, support for new HP hardware drives and libraries to software application.
• Created accurate project plan using the MS Projects and executed the same for project delivery.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story. Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.
• Operated in 4 week sprints with flexibility on length based on immediate functionality concerns.
• Monitoring projects for validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.
• Project initiation, planning, risk assessment and finalizing of scope while identifying, analyzing and managing project risks.
• Coordinated and controlled change request for the clients by conducting impact and cost analysis, prioritizing and mitigating changes.
• Motivate team players with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and management, technical and written skills.
• Established project management/budget control for a $5M.
• As a Program Manager, I lead multiple projects from inception through completion, while adhering to project scope, schedule, quality and budget.
• Directed the development and institution of the quality assurance and change control governance models.
• Built a user interface (web application) to Update, Insert or Delete the user accounts in ADSI.
• Analyzed corporate site that is based on HTML & provided technical design to move the same in SharePoint 2013
• Have lead project teams to develop and launch new product initiatives.
• Managed a large global team - drove daily syncs, communicated project status to stakeholders and leadership team, removed obstacles for delivery.
• Developed project scope, deliverables identification, resource allocation, project estimation and change management in coordination with Business Analyst.
• Incorporating effective risk and change control processes across, define and develop IT project management practices, governance standards, processes, guidelines and metrics.
• Continuously improving project processes to ensure the best possible business outcome.
• Stakeholder engagement - responsible for engaging stakeholders, managing their expectation and aligning them to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.

Environment: C/C++, Windows, UNIX, ClearCase, ALM, Microsoft VISO, Microsoft Project Plan, Jira.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Building business case documents, scope statements, creating project plans, schedules, risk registries, communication plans, facilitating meetings and stakeholder engagement, comparing project actuals against the plan and making adjustments as necessary.
• Strategic planning and building of roadmaps.
• Project Scope includes - Enhancements to various HP License software applications, migration of standalone application to Web based, support for new HP hardware drives and libraries to software application.
• Leading all aspects of the project lifecycle working with corporate and IT partners for achieving desired business benefits.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story. Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.
• Operated in 4 week sprints with flexibility on length based on immediate functionality concerns.
• Mentored resources for smooth on boarding and transition in their deliverables.
• Conducted detailed audits/assessments, identifying levels of compliance with new processes and providing recommendations
• Creating project deliverables such as project charters, business case justifications, project scope documents, project plans, project schedules, project risk registries, maintaining issue logs etc.
• Continuously improving project processes to ensure the best possible business outcome.
• Conducted Timeline Reviews and monitored milestone and reward program.
• Stakeholder engagement - responsible for engaging stakeholders with different perspectives and needs and aligning them to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.
• Coordinated with project stakeholders to track the progress of the project, update status and lead review meeting to ensure that schedules and deliverables are met.
• Daily status meeting with all the leads, managing daily SCRUM meeting, sprint planning meeting, retrospection meeting.
• Created deliverable and presentations for senior management, Pilot,, and post-implementation support
• Managed overall aspects of SDLC, Production Support, Defect Management, Project Delivery and Post Implementation
• Gathered d Confidential for conducting analysis and documenting of requirements/ workflow / process and assisted in project definition, strategy & implementation planning, testing, execution, control and closeout.
• Performed upgrade from HTML pages to SharePoint 2013 pages, enhanced with content management & security features.
• Responsible for managing multi-platform development including enterprise web application development and analytical services.
• Functioned as Software Architect for designing, developing intranet and extranet Web applications.
• Applied standard processes for scope/change management, risk management, issue management, quality assurance and project communications
• Coordination with testing leads and guides them on testing strategies for CR/Enhancements.
• Recognized for team-oriented leadership, strong inter-personal and communication skills, fostering positive relationships with customers and key stakeholders.
• Communicated escalating changes, issues, risks and project dependencies to stakeholders and project lead
• Created Use-Case Models to depict Actors and Use-Cases in various Business Processes.
• Vendor management - played a key role in the negotiation of contracts with a multitude of vendors and ensuring that they complied with the organization’s architectural standards.
• Utilized Jira for Requirements Traceability throughout the testing and development life cycle, issue tracking, requirements management and project management.
• Quality Management - ensured the quality of the deliverables by ensuring optimal quality assurance and quality control processes. Processes such as peer review, code review, code refactoring, performance testing, automation were used to ensure the quality of the final deliverable.

Environment: C/C++, Java/J2EE, Perl, Windows, UNIX, ClearCase, ALM, Microsoft Project Plan.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Mapped industry standard design patterns to existing codebase to derive a component architecture model of the system. Analysis and integration of the solution to eliminate several customer-visible system lockups that were occurring under peak-hour loads.
• Provide design, coding, modifications, and implementation of batch and on-line/desktop programs based on various technologies including C++, Java/J2ee, CORBA, Oracle etc. Create business analysis technical documentation such as design specs and flowcharts.
• Liaised with key stakeholders to maintain Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), milestones
• Recognized for team-oriented leadership, strong inter-personal and communication skills, fostering positive relationships with customers and key stakeholders.
• Integration and System test cases review and coordination with test lead / team
• Established and maintained relationships with CIO/ Confidential Leaders, channel leads, product owners, shared resource leaders, technical and non - technical teams
• Implementation and maintenance of Microsoft project for planning and tracking all projects and to provide visibility Reports to higher management.
• Led a process based business improvement, reducing spend by over $2M, which streamlined delivery and claim processing operations.
• Directed d Confidential base design, development & updating of d Confidential bases related to Web applications besides ensuring security of windows apps, Web sites and related applications.
• Identified, analyzed and resolved problems with existing applications & web sites.
• Managing all implementation-related environments (including updates, monitoring, patching, etc.).
• Communicated escalating changes, issues, risks and project dependencies to stakeholders and project leads
• Identification, budget allocation, open issues resolution and project schedules development.
• Assisted the Project manager in creating the Work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Established goals and milestones as per the estimated output generated by the project. Ensured that all projects were executed within the decided time period and complied with the defined standards.
• Analyze the System Requirement Specification for various modules
• Creating various documents like High Level Design, Low Level Design, Test plans and Deployment Plans.

Environment: C/C++, Java/J2EE, Perl, Visual Studio, Vim, Eclipse, Windows, UNIX, ClearCase, ALM.

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a C developer, successfully developed various key features for Confidential Topas system performance tool.
• Was recognized as key C, library programming resource on AIX.

Environment: C, AIX, DBX, CMVC, ClearCase.