SUMMARY:

Multifaceted Project manager with traditional waterfall, incremental and Agile methodology with over 12 years’ experience spanning client liaison and business development. Skilled in Agile Project Management, meeting goals for the scope, schedule and cost with emphasis on testing, team leadership, risk monitoring and mitigation, stake holder engagement and managing the delivery on time.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

• Agile Project Management
• Partner/Alliance Management
• Client Liaison & Delivery
• Strategy & Implementation
• Baselines & Risks
• Test Plan and Management
• Test Strategy and Execution
• Oracle ERP and Web systems
• UAT Management
• Functional testing
• Analysis & Reporting
• Team Management
• Team Training
• Accountability and delegation
• Audit Compliance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS Project | Jira| Microsoft TFS | HP ALM Quality Center | Jira | Windows 10 | Oracle 9i | SQL | MS Excel | MS PowerPoint |FileZilla | Oracle R12.1 EBS ERP | SQL Developer | StarTeam | PTC Integrity

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Auburn hills, MI

Responsibilities:

• Provides intermediate level IT project management for software, middleware, or hardware deliverables. Manages medium or small projects.
• Uses ITs project management standards to deliver projects on time, within budget, and with agreed upon functionality and quality to internal client.
• Coordinates daily systems analysis and development. Develops, implements, and monitors technical project plans. Identifies deliverables, milestones, and tasks for the project(s). Interviews team members for estimates. Updates schedule in IT Project database. Plans and integrates schedule, resources, and deliverables with IT departments and vendors.
• Communicates with internal client, team members, management, and IT partners to ensure requirements and priorities are understood.
• Monitors project progress, and distributes reports to management and client.
• Develops strong relationships with client. Meets with client to advise on resources, budget, and deliverables.
• Helps client write document deliverables and coordinates efforts of team members helping to write client deliverables.
• Leads and facilitates design and test inspections throughout development life cycle to identify issues. Leads and facilitates other project meetings, such as those with internal clients.
• Responds to and resolves development issues in a timely manner. Identifies potential solutions, including the cost/benefit of each option. Reviews complex technical issues with technical lead
• Ensures team complies with IT policies and procedures, especially those for quality and productivity standards that enable the team to meet established client service levels.
• Ensures team complies with Information Security policies and procedures, and ensures deliverables meet Information Security requirements.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Environment: Jira, MS Project 2010, Microsoft SharePoint, Agile Methodology.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand - ups, reviews, retrospectives, iteration/release planning, and other Scrum of Scrum-related meetings
• Own and manage the sprints with participation in the release planning.
• Track and communicate team capacity & velocity and iteration/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management
• Ensure the development teams are practicing core agile principles
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Ability to communicate, influence and partner effectively using strong verbal and written communication
• Update Scrum of Scrum meetings to provide transparency on the cross-stream dependencies.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
• Determine and remove all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals
• Support the Product Owner/Business analyst and Release Train Engineer (RTE) in maintaining the release roadmap based on the health and priority of the stories of the backlog.
• Conducting scrum ceremonies: Sprint planning and kickoff meeting, product backlog grooming, sprint demo, sprint retrospective, daily stand up meeting/cadence.
• Represent the team at the Scrum of Scrums meeting to report progress against burndown, cross stream dependencies if any, with other teams on the Agile Release Train.
• Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes
• Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation
• Quickly understand the scope of the project and identify key success and risk factors
• Manage the scrums and Manage monthly releases comprised of 2 sprints within release.
• Work together and figure out what is going to be part of the release.

Environment: Jira, MS Project 2013, Microsoft SharePoint, Agile Methodology.

Scrum Project Manager

Confidential, York, PA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Agile release planning and helping the and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to defining and prioritizing the product backlog.
• Assist with resource allocation and effective capacity planning for team to determine what team can take on in any given sprint
• Conduct Daily stand up meeting, Sprint planning meeting, Sprint review meeting and sprint retrospective meeting during the agile project execution
• Identify, track, and remove impediments for feature/project and team success
• Facilitate the creation of a well-defined product backlog
• Ensure planning of go-live and deployment activities and facilitate their execution
• Ensure that all team members understand and accept their roles and responsibilities
• Identifying, managing, and mitigating project issues and risks
• Monitor sprint velocity and works with team to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature
• Track and reports key project metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
• Manage feature/project delivery with respect to capital budgets
• Manage relationships with all invested parties, including (but not limited to): Product, Engineering, Brands/Audiences, and/or other key stakeholders
• Arbitrate and resolves conflict within the team and foster the team.
• Coordinate participation of different tech and business groups in requirements gathering, specifications, design, development and implementation of key projects
• Shield the team from outside "noise" or distractions that prohibit them from being successful
• Use project management & ticket tracking software to effectively manage the team's backlog and sprint-committed items
• Ensuring transparency into the team's work through the sprint backlog, burndown chart and other Agile metrics
• Leading by example - knowing when and how, to push for more result
• Proactively Identifying and removing impediments that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint commitment
• Facilitate transition from iterative to agile project methodology.
• Conducting pilot sprints for the team to adopt sprints.
• Helping to order product backlog items and get familiar with the team’s work

Environment: MS Project 2013, Microsoft SharePoint, Confidential Controls, Inc. Proprietary YorkWorks, SQL Lite, C/C++, Oracle R12.1, Agile Methodology, Microsoft TFS, HP ALM Quality Center 10

Project Manager

Confidential, NYC, NY

Responsibilities:

• Directed and managed team members, for deliverables, preparing test cases/test scenarios as needed, with offshore work allocation and coordination of a team of 10 staff
• Coordinated with offshore team to allocate and share test case preparation, testing and defects
• Liaised with onshore development team and client manager for understanding of requirements
• Driving the project towards the project profitability by managing task and milestone based cost management with input from finance team.
• Worked with UAT team for coordination and closing the gap.
• Led functional testing (AGIS & OBIEE reports) and progress reporting to management
• Environment: MS Project, Agile/Waterfall methodologies, Quality Center 10, Oracle R12.1 EBS, HP ALM (QC)

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, Hoboken, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the transition of Project team to Agile methodology.
• Facilitating and conducting Sprint ceremonies such as Daily standup, Sprint planning, Retrospective, and Review(Demo).
• Capacity planning and driving the velocity, remove impediments for smooth delivery.
• Ensure timely catch up with Product owner for grooming the User stories in product backlog.
• Groom the sprint backlog for the team to estimate effort and size the user stories.

Environment: MS Project, Agile Methodology, Jira, IBM Cognos Reports, Oracle 10g, SQL, StarTeam, Oracle R12.1, HP ALM (QC)

Project Manager

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led the team as single point contact for development, testing and reporting.
• Oversaw UI, usability, functionality, regression testing and UAT, and bug retesting.
• Managed preparation of metrics and managing defect management tool
• Escalated issues and risks as needed through daily and weekly status meeting for the management with participating in regular defect calls

Environment: MS Project, Salesforce CRM, Microsoft TFS, Test Manager, SQL, Manual Testing, MS Excel

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project coordination across the teams for successful delivery.
• Lead the deployment of the Patch in the Oracle environment with the creation of the tar file.
• Verified and validated patches installed in the system with MD120 with report distribution.

Environment: SQL, Manual Testing, HP Quality Center 9.0, MS-Excel, Windows 7

QA Manager / QA Lead

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and reviewed test cases, leading work planning and test coordination for team of 6 people
• Handled all UI, usability, functionality and regression testing and UAT for bugs, issues and training, as well as bug retesting
• Oversaw preparation of metrics and managing defect management tool

Environment: Quality Center, Windows XP, Oracle DB, SQL, Oracle Applications R12.1.3, SQL Developer, Near agile methodology

Senior Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled all UI, usability, functionality and regression testing, as well as bug retesting
• Oversaw preparation of metrics and managing defect management tool
• Led preparation of test cases and high-level test scenarios for the modules