SUMMARY:

• Senior IT Program Manager managing large data clusters of big data environments using advanced technologies like - Hadoop, Spark, Hive, HBase, Amazon Web Services (AWS)/Google Cloud, Java and TIBCO integration software services for over 10 years.
• Innovative, resourceful, results-driven senior program manager with ability to work with stakeholders across business, technical, shared services and cross functional areas.
• Have extensive experience in managing resources, developing business case, scope, budget, schedule and stakeholder management.
• Strong technical orientation and organizational skills that complement a superior understanding on how to improve existing processes.
• Managed projects as per Agile Scrum, Agile Release Train and SDLC Waterfall methodologies.
• Have experience in Financial, Healthcare, Govt. and Secondary Mortgage industries.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Strategy Management
• Program Management Project Management
• Big Data Analytics
• Risk Management
• Cloud Migration
• Resource Management
• Project Coordination
• Delivery Management
• Web Based Applications
• Financial Applications
• Business Applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior IT Program and Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the architect to analyze the data available vs. needed by conducting business reviews, filter/transform load/provide visualization to the business stake holders.
• Evaluate and propose new developments in the Big Data arena of Horton Works.
• Monitored conversion of Hive/SQL queries into Spark transformations using Scala. Spearhead implementation of document database, MongoDB and utilize deep query, horizontal scalability with process (~100X).
• Assisted in creation of proof of concepts using Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, and Spark ML.
• Monitored the automation of Sqoop, Hive and Pig scripts using work flow scheduler Oozie, both times based and by defining data dependencies, sharing and high availability with replication features.
• Conducted data review meetings with the client after providing them the data for visualization in Tableau.
• Program is following Agile Release Train methodology and individual projects follow Agile Scrum methodology. Scrum teams compose a team size of 10 and at a release level, the total team size is 30.
• Responsible for estimation/forecast of budget for 2016 and 2017 financial years (Forecast: $3 Million).
• Reporting progress of the program, staff usage, $ expenditures and milestones to senior and executive management.
• Migration and planning of technologies working with Architects in developing and planning Cloud based solution
• Responsible for the allocation of the resources in Plainview across multiple projects.
• Responsible for the technical, change, risk and issues management.
• Responsible for several process improvements in the program.
• Evaluated resources at a program level.
• Managing Phase 1 and Phase 2 activities of the EDM methodology-based projects which include PDP Intake Process, Vendor and Staff Aug Procurement (SOW), Architecture Review, Single Family Data Governance Standards, Privacy Impact Assessment, High Level Solution Design, Implementation, Test, Deployment and Project Closure.
• Interacting with business, dependent and shared services teams daily.

Environment: : Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Cloud SQL (MySQL), AWS, Scala, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, MS Project 2010, Plan View, Project Delivery Portal (PDP)

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Senior IT Project and Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 30 to implement Cloudera Hadoop, Impala and Greenplum -migration to Hadoop Legacy systems
• Confidential and Confidential applications using Agile and SDLC methodologies.
• Conducted daily standup calls, participated in prioritization of user stories in product and scrum backlogs along with the Product Owner, SMEs and the development team.
• Conducted retrospectives after each sprint. Sprints span for 3 weeks. After each Sprint, the feature(s) are production ready. Release spans every quarter.
• Confidential (Structured Collateral Management Systems) used SDLC methodology. Successfully managed and delivered multiple releases to production for both FUSE and CSP initiatives.
• Responsible for estimation/forecast of budget for 2014 and 2015 financial years (Forecast: Over $5Million).
• Responsible for creating and maintaining risk and issues log in EPPM.
• Responsible for technical and change management.
• Interacted with business, technical, dependent, cross functional and shared services teams.
• Reported progress of the project, staff usage, $ expenditures and milestones to senior and executive management.
• Responsible for EPPM allocation of resources and resource management across projects.
• Managed all phases of the project delivery including Governance Reviews (Legal, Privacy, SOX Controls), Architecture Review Board (ARB), Enterprise Data Governance (EDG), planning, execution, monitoring and control and closeout.

Environment: : MS Project 2010, Plan View, Enterprise Project and Performance Management (EPPM), Java, Oracle 10g, Web Service

Confidential, McLean, VA

IT Project and Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a small size team of 6 to complete several deployments of COTS products (ALM and DOORS).
• Responsible for technical, change, risk and issues management.
• Interacted with technical, cross functional and shared services teams.

Confidential, Washington, DC

PMO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on DC Medicaid Claims Management System (CMS). The project involved converting DC Medicaid CMS to be compliant with HIPAA (837, 835 transactions). Claims sent by providers to DC Medicaid must comply with the HIPAA format.
• Worked as a liaison between the customer and the development team. Worked as a lead to gather business requirements, completed analysis and handed them over to system analysts.
• Lead UAT team of 10 to test provider scenarios for claims.
• Worked on case management tool to validate claims for compliance to HIPAA.
• Assisted SIT and DEV teams to understand business requirements and acted as a liaison between the customer and the IT team.
• Served as the single point of contact for interaction with the Govt. customer.
• Served as the management expert to schedule plans and to forecast budget.