SUMMARY:

• Seasoned IT Executive with over 22 years of total experience (15+ years of leadership experience).
• Results oriented leader with proven success in program planning, stakeholder management, problem solving and effective execution of large scale strategic initiatives.
• A Certified PMP and Professional Scrum Master recognized for the ability to lead multiple initiatives from definition to roadmap development and overall execution using both waterfall and agile/ scrum. Experienced in introducing and implementing Scaled Agile Framework.
• Over 10+ years of experience in setup and management of global teams from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds.
• Exceptional ability in influencing and negotiating with cross functional teams to meet business objectives.
• Widely varied experience in both Pharmaceutical and BFSI sectors with long term engagements at several leading institutions in these sectors like Confidential , Confidential - Merrill Lynch, S & P and Confidential .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Princeton, NJ

Sr. Program Manager

Technologies: MS Project 2013, PPM, SAP, Collibra, OSI PI, HP ALM, Vitalize, DocIT, ECC, GPDV, Trackwise, IRIS, CMC, Biovia ELN, Vault 2017/AutoDesk 2017

• Leading the implementation of a Product Market Compliance framework in SAP to support attribute based planning and provide a complete end-to-end traceability of batch hierarchies, managing a budget of $4 Million+. This is a strategic initiative to be rolled out in phases for 6 BMS products over all the 6+ manufacturing/packaging sites with the first product release scheduled in Q2/2017. This is a leadership role that involves SAP implementation management, customer requirements gathering, project management, project budget management and team mentoring.
• Leading a $3 M+ Vault 2013/AutoDesk 2013 to Vault 2017/AutoDesk 2017 enterprise wide migration project with scheduled release date of June 2017.
• Leading a $2 M of a critical GMP template for Biovia ELN (Electronic Notebook) to completely record experiments electronically to fulfill the paper less lab initiative.
• Leading a $3 Million+ infrastructure initiative to upgrade the GMS Enterprise PI system to remove technology obsolescence, meet regulatory compliance goals and improve quality and consistency of manufacturing processes. This role involves project management, budget management, vendor resource management and stakeholder management.

Confidential - Franklin Park, NJ

Principal/ Sr. Director - Program Management & Delivery

Technologies: ASP.NET, Java, Emma, NUnit, AngularJS, Selenium, GitHub, Jira - Green Hopper, Rally, MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, HP PPM, Alfabet, BPMN, SQL Server, Serena, Erwin, Data Modeling/Architecture, Data Warehouse project initiation & planning, Apache Tomcat, Struts, Spring, TFS, SCRUM Master, Product Owner, SCRUM, DAD, SAFe

• Indus Foundry is a global IT consulting and services company providing strategic consulting and solutions for medium to large enterprises in US and India.
• Developed and maintained revenue growth and strategic partnerships. Helped increase revenue over 200% by bringing in some key accounts.
• IT Strategy and Management Advisory services to clients to collaborate and advise on offshore enablement and strategies that address performance improvement and risk, product roadmaps etc.
• Managed a development team of 40+ employees. Strategized and led several complex IT products, projects and initiatives, managing complete end-to-end deliveries using both Waterfall, SCRUM and agile methodology.
• Performed various roles in an agile environment, defined agile delivery models for client engagements, adapted/ customized the agile models to integrate with client side models/ practices and helped clients define agile delivery models based on industry best practices but custom to their unique culture/ organization. SCRUM Master & Coach for several client engagements. Helped several clients perform Product Owner roles along with doing the same for some in house projects.
• Managed complete end to end delivery of several key client projects encompassing requirements, UX design, development, architecture, QA, UAT, release planning, support and project closing.

Key Full time client engagements: Confidential, Confidential, GMAC, The Markets CloudBlue, FactRight, NYC - DOT.

Confidential (New York, NY, USA)

Technologies: ASP.NET, Java, Emma, NUnit, AngularJS, Selenium, GitHub, Jira - Green Hopper (Agile/ Scrum), MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, HP PPM, Alfabet, BPMN, SQL Server, Serena, Savion, Pega, J2EE, ESB, Siebel, SFDC, TIBCO, WireShark, SOA, WebSphere, SQL Server, MVC, JQuery, WCF, REST, IIS, Responsive web design, TFS, Erwin, Apache Tomcat, Struts, Spring

• Managed and delivered a critical firm-wide strategic regulatory compliance program (Budget approx. $50 Million) to address several technical and corporate compliance issues raised by federal auditors.
• Manag ed 20+ projects within Wealth Management during the 3 years it ran with an average team size of 1000+ spread over US and India. The mix of projects included both hardware efforts - asset tagging, asset portfolio streamlining, network/ LPAR segregation etc. and software efforts involving multiple technologies like WebSphere J2EE, .NET, Siebel, Salesforce (SFDC) etc.
• Reporting to Sr. CXO level Management and Chief Risk Officer on Wealth Management as well as Confidential sides.
• Negotiated and build relationships with several stakeholders including Risk and Internal auditors, Head of several IT operations and systems and PMO in order to build roadmaps and then see to completion several initiatives to help Confidential comply with Federal requirements.
• Successfully closed all audit and risk items raised as compliance issues during federal audits and put in place processes and systems to ensure future compliance.
• Managed a very critical Inter-Process Authentication & Entitlements (IPAE) Security project managing a team of 5 Senior IT Security Architects/ Professionals to integrate technology stacks. (Centralized budget of $1 Million).
• Successfully implemented a detailed multi-year socialization plan to socialize the new security patterns and processes with 750+ application teams in Wealth Management division.
• Contributed as a key resource/ domain expert on a Steering Committee to define and formalize a Custom Agile process for application development in Wealth Management division based on SCRUM, SaFE etc. along with seamless integration with the traditional waterfall process while optimizing all the regulatory and compliance checks.
• Contributed as part of a Steering Committee to evaluate enterprise Application/ Infrastructure architecture and contributed to a blueprint plan to improve scalability and redundancy of all production systems deployed at Wealth Management division.
• Contributed as part of a Steering Committee to formalize a proposal for a centralized Enterprise Architecture practice for Wealth Management division.

Confidential

Technologies: .NET, Java, J2EE, ESB, Siebel, SFDC, TIBCO, WireShark, SOA, WebSphere, MS Project, SQL Server, C#, VB.NET

• Involved in multiple joint venture initiatives to integrate the banking and brokerage systems following the merger of Confidential and Merrill Lynch.
• Managed the re-architecture, development and internal socialization of a custom Business Process Framework (BPF) layer based on TIBCO’s Business Orchestration services to help integrate BOFA and ML systems.
• Architected and implemented a prototype that leveraged the custom BPF layer and used a new Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) based integration pattern to orchestrate the flow of information between the banking and brokerage systems. Effort involved coordinating with 10+ geographically distributed teams in USA and India to integrate 30+ .NET and Java web services and widely varied systems based on Salesforce (SFDC), Siebel, WebSphere (WAS), Apache etc.
• Managed a global delivery team (onsite - 3 Senior resources, offshore - 5 resources, budget $250,000) to implement a tactical solution to provide a combined customer base.

Confidential

Technologies: ASP.NET, MVC, SQL Server, JQuery, WCF, REST, IIS, Responsive web design, TFS, Erwin, Visio, MS Project, Data Warehouse project initiation & planning

• Brought about an account transformation from being a new vendor to the most preferred vendor landing several new projects in less than a year of engagement and increasing the revenue from this account from $500,000 to $2.2 Million.
• Performed multiple roles - business as well as technical in addition to managing the complete end to end delivery of various product initiatives.
• Helped the client implement an agile based engagement model based on Agile/ SCRUM principles and involving a mix of 8 onsite Client resources and 35+ offshore Indus Foundry resources.
• Implemented a new customer satisfaction program to seek client feedback proactively after every major milestone that included all stakeholders including C-level executives which were also the key to improve client confidence and ensured repeat business.

Indus Foundry Client: MortgageRamp (a GMAC Company), CloudBlue

Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, MS project, SOA, PayPal

• Managed the delivery of applications ranging from complex client - server based systems to web based systems and web portals involving Service Orient Architecture (SOA) and Subscription models (Paypal).

Confidential - Wakefield, MA

Sr. Architect

• Led several engagements with key clients like AT&T, SBC, Sprint, Verizon, TelStra (Australia) and TelMex (Mexico).
• Architected and managed the implementation of several modules providing new multimedia based offerings like Personal Call Manager, Unified Messaging and Wireless games. These were real time client-server based systems with subscriber base of 30 M+.