SUMMARY:

• Self - motivated and Result-oriented project management professional with 15+ years of experience in Information Technology industry with over 8+ years focused on software project management with good technical background, customer relationship and people management skills.
• About 15+ years of comprehensive experience in the areas of
• Global experience as Scrum Master, Project manager & Program manager
• Expertise in delivering development, maintenance and testing projects successfully
• CMMI, SDLC, Iterative, Agile processes
• Managed large team across geographies (US, India, Sweden, Finland & China, Kiev)
• Well versed with requirement gathering, estimation, requirement traceability, onsite-offshore coordination, cross-functional teams, communication management, and delivery management
• Well versed in preparing project plan, resource plan and implementation approach for both fully onsite and hybrid models
• Risk management at project & program/account level
• Successfully delivered projects involving multiple teams & vendors with aggressive timelines
• Worked on full life cycle projects involving all stages from requirement analysis, functional specifications, HLD, LLD, Development to Testing.
• Good knowledge on Project management/ALM tools VersionOne, TFS, Hansoft, OpenALM, Microsoft Project, DevOps/CI/CD tools, Rational ReqPro, ClearQuest, IBM RRC & Focal point…
• Worked on various proposals for business/account growth & operating margin improvements
• Experience as SPOC for Account - Business continuity plan / Disaster recovery plan
• Applied ISO 9001, SEI-CMMi processes and Lean methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: C++, PLEX, Assembly Language, Protocols

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Dev Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop project charter working with product owner & relevant stakeholders to define the scope and objectives for both above projects
• Develop a detailed project plan & following LIFECYCLE - Haliburton’s process
• Execution using Agile - Scrum methodology
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Handling User Acceptance Testing and Go-Live
• Establish and maintain relationships with all stakeholders and third parties/vendors (as needed)
• Identify customer’s business flow and gap analysis, provide recommendations
• Competency development by planning s and sessions within team
• Interface development and complete design, build, test and deploy phase
• Identify the process gaps and provide alternatives to the Program teams
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Steer the Scrum ceremonies and Project Governance meetings
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Dashboard reporting/metrics and maintenance (TFS Board)

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Dev Project Manager/Onsite Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participating in requirement gathering and understanding the business requirements
• Project Scoping, Planning (Human, Software & Hardware Resources, Schedule & Release)
• Tracking and coordinating project activities to meet project deliverables
• Smooth implementation of the application addressing all the technical, functional and production deployment issues
• Effectively communicate with the business team for issue resolution during UAT, production deployment and support, co-ordination with stakeholders including offshore teams and external vendors
• Project status data collection, report compilation & presenting to Confidential and all other stakeholders.
• Project execution in SAFe (Program level), Scrum (Team level) & VersionOne
• Program level tracking in MS Project for higher management
• Managed and assisted POs and RTE in planning and executing all program level ceremonies (Pl planning, Release planning, System level Demos, Scrum of Scrums…)
• Successfully delivered multiple drops/releases

Confidential, Herndon, Virginia

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed product backlog for IP Routers (SSR, R8801, R6000) in L2L3, Hardware & Solution areas based on inputs from product management & system/product owners
• Planned and executed Quick Study deliverables (Market requirement specifications, Quick study response) & Pre-Study deliverables (Implementation Sketch & Engineering requirement specification documents) based on execution capacity for teams, priorities and product roadmap
• Hand overs deliverables for implementation and track the progress for planned releases
• Handled & part of LSV/Release management (DevOps/CI/CD) & change control board
• Well versed with Confidential processes and tracking tools - Hansoft, JIRA, OpenALM, IBM RRC & Focal point
• Risk management, defect prediction and preventive activities
• Collects data and reports to higher management as needed

Confidential, California

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in managing the team to develop the applications specific to SSR (Smart services router) to emulate the features like SASN, EPG, ePDG in C/C++/Linux/System programming
• Involves in designing and developing the scripts for trouble shooting and debugging for SSR product
• Handling maintenance release of this project

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Iterative way of project execution including features / correction deliverables with short durations (2-4 weeks)
• Involves in planning, execution, monitoring & control
• QA activities: Feature, Regression, Performance, Sanity, Smoke, and System Testing, Automation of test scenarios
• Estimation of work for each iteration, planning & execution
• Resource planning, Competency Building of the team
• Client Coordination & Status Reporting
• 100% adherence to SLAs and Metrics
• Good customer satisfaction by ensuring operating parameters adherence
• Weekly/Monthly status reporting to Wipro management including project status, customer commendations, risks, customer complaints/issues

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Telecom PABX product maintenance which includes development, sustaining and testing activities for Wipro responsible modules as per customer specific process within planned budget
• Guided project manager/leads in planning, estimation and process. Monitored the quality parameters to achieve the best performance from the team
• 100% adherence to SLAs and Metrics
• SOW/Assignment specification preparation & reviews
• Resource planning, Competency Building of the team
• Client Coordination & Status Reporting (weekly & monthly)
• Good customer satisfaction by ensuring operating parameters adherence
• Weekly/Monthly status reporting to Wipro management including project status, customer commendations, risks, customer complaints/issues
• Executed Lean projects for process, quality and productivity improvements
• Involved in project proposals/activities for the growth of the account
• Brain storming new ideas/innovation ideas for account growth
• Involved in developing Business Continuity Plan for Account
• Represented as SPOC from Account with respect to InfoSec Compliance
• Software product build & release management

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Telecom PABX product maintenance which includes development & sustaining activities
• Design reviews, Technical guidance, Bug reports tracking as per defined SLA & Norms
• Estimation, Resource planning, Monitoring & Control of the project
• Competency Building of the team, People management
• Customer Metrics - calculation & reporting, Defect prevention activities
• Client Coordination & Status Reporting (weekly) along with design coordination & reviews
• Executed Lean project using tenets like Visual Control, Work load leveling, Mistake proofing, 5S
• Involved in developing Business Continuity Plan for Account
• Software product build & release management including regression test planning & estimation

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing technical guidance to the team in designing & implementing the voice over IP features & call logging modules
• Requirement analysis, high level design of the project, detailed design, test plan
• Conducted the unit and integration testing of the features implemented.
• Involved in customer interaction, status reporting & participated in reviews
• Ensuring competency of the team with required skills and mentoring new members
• Providing required reports, status updates to management/supervisor