EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Technical Project manager with more than 17+ years of industry experience.
• More than 8+ years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects
• Drove high - quality completion of systems engineering, software development and enterprise wide projects for major clients: Confidential, Chrysler & Confidential
• Leading and driving projects in Warranty Payments, Data Warehousing and Reporting Solutions
• Project Management using Agile Methodology, Waterfall, Iterative and Tools using Visio, Rally, Clarity, MS Project
• Ability to drive teams to their goals using best practices of SDLC, Scrum and SAFe frameworks.
• Scrum Master for engineering platform, responsible for backlog, prioritization, product roadmap
• Experienced in planning and managing multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions.
• Strong analytical and issue resolution skills with the ability to multi-task and liaison between business and technical teams
• Experienced in leading cross-functional large diversified teams and managing product/business owners present in multiple time zones around the world.
• Demonstrated strong leadership, communication, negotiation and facilitation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels in an organization and liaison with globally distributed, cross-functional and technical teams.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile Software Development
• Disaster Recovery
• Scrum and SAFe frameworks
• Incident/Problem Management
• Iteration and PI Planning
• Change Management
• System Migrations & Integrations
• Sarbanes-Oxley IT Audits
• Mentoring, coaching & conflict resolution
• Vendor Management
• Project Estimations
• Client Relations & Presentations
• Good knowledge of design and development
• Scheduling, Requirement gathering
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Strong analytical and negotiation skill
• Stakeholder Management, Status reporting
• Proficient Communicator
• Focused, Collaborative and hard working
• Release Management/QA/Support

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Agile, Project Management, Testing: Rally, Microsoft Project, Clarity, Rational Rose, HP Quality Center

Databases Big Data: Teradata, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Hadoop

Application Development: Java, ASP, JavaScript, PL/SQL, COBOL, JSP, JDBC/Servlets

Data warehousing & Cloud: Enterprise Data warehousing (EDW), DataStage, Spark based frameworks, Hive & Hive ACID, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS S3,Apache Kafka, Nifi

BI, Data Analysis, Scheduling and other tools: Business Objects, Splunk, Visio, Rational, Teradata SQL Assist, SQL Management Studio, Autosys, Github, AccuRev, CA7, SQL Server Agent, Dynatrace

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Mac OSX, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

• Joined this project as Application Management Onsite coordinator and was promoted to Sr. Project Manager role to plan software project implementations using SAFe and Ford Agile Framework (FAF). Facilitated the team using the FAF principles and Ford SDM methodology.
• Created business solutions by taking ownership of the design and technical architecture and definition of specific technology platforms and products to be used in the solution
• Assisted the team in preparation of Agile Release Train events like PI Planning and demos and participated in deciding the roadmap.
• Worked with various team to help the team complete various architectural, infrastructure and compliance enablers.
• Used several Ford in house tools like Sheer, ACR/ICR, SCRP, Etracker, GICC to effectively estimate manage schedule and execution.
• Participated in several internal and external audits to check Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
• Worked with the Product Owner for backlog grooming and prioritization.
• Helped the Product Owner and the development team to write features and user stories.
• Helped in reducing numerous ongoing production support issues in the critical Ford Warranty portfolio to make the existing system stable and meet the required SLA’s.
• Prioritizing user stories in rally with the help of the product owner
• Weekly & Monthly status reporting.
• Facilitating daily standups, product backlog and retrospective discussions within the involved teams
• Participate and review high level design documents and data flow pertaining to new requirements
• Cross Functional coordination and manage expectation of multiple stakeholders
• Reviewing client deliverables for quality
• Communications with interfacing teams and shared services teams.
• Mentoring the team
• Vendor Management
• Onsite/Offshore coordination
• Incident and Problem management.

Confidential

Project Leader

Technology: IBM Mainframe 3090, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, ASP MS IIS.

Responsibility:

• Weekly & Monthly status reporting.
• Reviewing client deliverables for quality
• Interacting with the client and the onsite/offshore teams for issues and queries in the project.
• Guiding team on technical issues
• Documenting existing processes in the system
• Assigning work units to team members
• Tracking deliverables on timelines

Confidential

Project Leader

Technology: IBM Mainframe 3090, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and IMS DB/DC, J2EE, WebSphere 5.0/6.0 using STRUTS framework.

Responsibility:

• Preparing High Level Design Document and Detailed Design Document.
• Coding Testing/Review
• Problem Analysis/Production Support
• Guiding the offshore team for issues and queries in the project.
• Documenting existing processes in the system
• Assigning work units to team members
• Tracking deliverables on timelines
• Handling Data changes on the system

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Technology: ASP, SQL Server 7.0 and IIS

Responsibility:

• Coding Testing
• Problem Analysis
• Project documentation

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Technology: J2EE, WebLogic application server, JSP, Servlets, SQL Server 7.0.

Responsibility:

• Coding Testing
• Problem Analysis
• Project documentation