SUMMARY:

• Project Manager and certified scrum master with 12 years of Information Technology (IT) and business management experience with key emphasis on infrastructure management, billing, vendor management and project management.
• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of projects involving multiple teams directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
• Experience in executing projects using agile and waterfall model. Involved in company wide initiative to transform project execution to Agile methodology.
• Executed projects that include design, development and maintaining JAVA / J2EE Enterprise applications including JAVA, JSP, Servlets, EJB (Session and Message Driven Beans), JMS, JDBC, JAVA Mail, XML and XSLT technologies. Frameworks like STRUTS, Hibernate and Spring using JAVA Design Patterns. Worked on WebLogic, WebSphere Application and JBOSS servers.
• Define and initiate projects, and manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.
• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization.
• Maintain continuous alignment of project scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the project to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.
• Coordinating various project related activities involving project Planning, Execution and Risk Management in tune with the core business objectives.
• Monitoring project progress as per scheduled deadlines for various tasks and taking necessary steps to ensure completion within time, scope and effort parameters.
• Maintaining close coordination between Onsite and Offsite teams for ensuring seamless delivery of the project as per scheduled timelines.
• Interfacing with vendor/s for technical support. Interfacing with onsite/ offsite teams for business requirements gathering, conducting system analysis and finalizing technical / functional specifications and high level design documents for the project.
• Support the team with the design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the application being developed and ensure all quality practices are followed as per company requirement.Ensuring smooth implementation and testing at client location.
• Maintaining a positive attitude in the face of changes in work assignments or conditions.
• Monitoring scope creep and effectively deal with change management and re - scopes projects, if necessary
• Serving as an active Team Leader, Team Member and as an Individual with good communication, self-motivation.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain project schedules and known for working well with cross-functional teams to achieve on time project completion.
• Strong experience in planning, organizing and managing resources to successfully complete project goals and objectives, while honoring predetermined constraints.
• Rich exposure in project coordination activities entailing Planning, Scheduling, as well as application maintenance & enhancement, project progress monitoring, regular reporting to various stakeholders and delivery as per quality, time and budgetary norms.
• Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment.
• Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current project, future opportunities and client issues.
• Experience in Capacity planning, scheduling, effort estimation and Risk management.
• Experience in Requirements gathering and ability to understand business problems and apply technology to formulate workable solutions.
• Experience in executing projects with teams located in multiple locations (Offshore, onsite and near shore model) and Monitor and control man hours and expenditures against Project Budget.
• Experience in executing projects in Retail domain.
• Estimation for fixed price and non fixed price projects.
• Developed functional specifications and Solution approach strategies.
• Design using Enterprise Architect tool and Rational rose.
• Experience in coding using eclipse.
• An effective communicator with excellent coaching & interpersonal skills at multiple levels. High integrity, energetic leader known for ability to envision and create successful outcomes in complex environment.
• Excellent customer feedback on high quality delivery, enhanced customer satisfaction and excellent team building across departments, suppliers and customers
• Won ‘On the Spot Award' 3 times from Infosys Rewards and Recognition.
• Recognized and won award from client at onsite for the dedication shown towards the project.
• Certified Scrum Master.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Java, J2ee, Struts 2,RESTFul webservices using JAX-RS with Jersey and resteasy implementation, SOAP webservices using JAX-WS, Swing API, JDBC API, Ajax, Spring framework (Spring core, Spring MVC, Spring beans, Spring Web, Spring AOP, Spring security, Spring Context), JUnit, XML (XSLT, XPATH, XSD), Hibernate, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, JSON, Angular JS, Bootstrap, Swagger, Grunt, Bower, Node JS, HTML5, Struts, EJB, dojo and JQuery.

Design tools: Enterprise architect, Rational rose, Microsoft Visio, RAD (Rational Application Developer)

Build tools like Ant, Maven and Jenkins:

Agile tools: JIRA, Rally, Confluence.

IDE: Eclipse, STS, WSAD, JDeveloper, Net Beans, Webstrom, and Brackets.

Application servers: Weblogic6.0, WebSphere 5.3, JBOSS 6.3

Databases: Oracle 10g, SQL Server, Postgres

Management tools: Microsoft Project, Clarity, JIRA.

Source control tools: GIT, SVN (Subversion), SharePoint, TFS (Team Foundation Server), Dimensions/PVCS (Polytron Version Control System), and VSS (Visual Source safe).

Frontend Design tools: HTML5, FrontPage, Dream weaver

Operating system: Windows, UNIX, and Linux

Other Tools/technology: UML, Log4j, TOAD, HQL, Mercury Quality center (QC), Web Sequence Diagrams, SOAP UI, SOA test, Postman, Dynatrace.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Lexington, SC

Responsibilities:

• Working in collaboration with product owner and other stakeholders to estimate the Product Backlog, and prioritize the same as a team.
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology.
• Developed, managed and tracked project plan to implement requested features.
• Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates.
• Resolve issues related to User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stakeholders.
• Help with Agile transformation by attending Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Work with team to adjust focus and approach as needed.
• Support scrum master to facilitate grooming and planning sessions with the team.
• Involved with cross-functional project teams and work with Business Analysts/partners to determine and translate business requirements into technology solutions.
• Ensure effective change control procedures and processes are efficiently used to maintain control on scope, schedule and cost.

Environment: J2EE (JSP, Servlets, JavaScript), Spring Core, JBOSS 6.3, RESTful services, Resteasy, SWAGGER, AngularJS, SASS, BOWER, GRUNT, NODE JS, Maven, GIT, Jenkins, Webstrom, Web Sequence diagram, RAD (Rational Application developer), Websphere 5.3.

Project Manager

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Joint requirement discussions (JRD).
• Responsible for management of projects involving multiple teams directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
• Participate in developing the component inventory matrix using SMC model define and finalize the Scope of the Project.
• Managed and controlled the development using Agile Methodology.
• Ensured application availability and data integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades.
• Validating sprint releases and ensuring the product quality intact with the defined and required quality.
• Practiced backlog grooming, release and sprint planning, daily standups, support impediment removal.
• Coordinate with vendors to plan and schedule phase wise component delivery for end to end testing.
• Develop Project Execution Plan, Establish Quality Plan and Establish Project Organization and staff accordingly.
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements. Support Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.
• Conducting Scrum of scrum and Manage Scheduled project activities
• Managed integration points with other product teams and the suite
• Defined product roadmap and created backlog in conjunction with product owner and key business partners
• Monitoring the progress of the projects, directing the team associates, and supervising the professionals working on offshore projects in a suitable manner
• Managing the quality procedures of the program with a view to accomplish the organizational and enterprise aims.
• Determining the risks, level of criticalness, and issues involved in the program
• Monitor and control man hours and expenditures against Project Budget
• Develop the component inventory matrix, work/task break down, Effort Estimation, Scheduling and maintaining the overall schedule controlling project costs, forecast and Resource planning, Risk management.
• Manage Business requirements for existing functionality, Requirements Analysis and Reviews and ensure all quality practices are followed.
• Responsible for Capacity planning, scheduling, forecasting and invoicing.
• Support coordination and management of Environment involving around 30 systems.
• Responsible for release coordination and implementation planning.

Environment: Java, J2ee, Hibernate, Spring core, Spring MVC, Spring AOP, Hibernate, Restful web services, Dot Net, Maven, HSQL, SOAP Web services, TIBCO, GIT, SiteMinder, IAM, COM (Customer Order Management), MDM (Master Data Management), Unix, Oracle, SQL Server, Control M, Shell script, JSP, Servlets, Spring 3.0, Restful using JAX-RS (Jersey), JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, WebSphere7.0, TIBCO, Confidential email service provider, Dynatrace monitoring tool, Log4J 1.2.7, JUnit, PVCS 7.6, UNIX, Oracle10g, PL/SQL, GIT, Jenkins, Maven..

Project Manager/ Lead

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Define and initiate projects, and manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.
• Resource planning, forecasting and effort estimation. Prepare milestone reports and metric reports at regular intervals.
• Maintain continuous alignment of project scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the project to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.
• Coordinating various project related activities involving project Planning, Execution and Risk Management in tune with the core business objectives.
• Support configuration management teams and Infrastructure teams to ensure test Environment availability and readiness for all test phases.
• Monitoring project progress as per scheduled deadlines for various tasks and taking necessary steps to ensure completion within time, scope and effort parameters.
• Maintaining close coordination between Onsite and Offsite teams for ensuring seamless delivery of the project as per scheduled timelines.
• Support the test effort with Quality assurance group (QAG) and the Performance test teams.
• Support smooth execution of end to end, User acceptance test (UAT) and Operation readiness testing. (ORT).

Environment: Struts 1.2, Ajax, IOS, Core Java, JavaScript, JSP, Servlets, Oracle, XML, Ant, SOAP web services, TIBCO, JMS (Java Messaging Service), Unix, Shell script, Control M, XML (XSLT, XPATH, XSD), JUnit, Webservices using Axis, Java, J2ee, IOS, Android, Oracle, COM (Customer Order Management), GIT, Maven, SQL Server, Global Store (Fijitsu software).

Technical Lead

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all the phases of software development life cycle including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, deployment and support.
• Technical and Functional lead responsible for capturing requirements, developing functional specification, design and code reviews.
• Provided time and size estimates for project deliverables and that quality goals are met with in the budget.
• Developed and implemented client side and server side validations.
• Developed the Business logic for routing a Confidential and transfer request.
• Developed System components that can be reused across multiple systems.
• Support User acceptance testing, system and end-to-end testing and worked with QA team for testing and resolve defects.
• Involved in Onsite coordination and Participated in Implementation planning and Release coordination support Implementation of the project in production.
• Used GIT version controller to manage the code versions. Worked on bug fixing and enhancements on change requests.
• Support the configuration management team to setup the Environment for development and testing. Support CM in executing the Service requests for production deployments.

Environment: Struts 1.2, Ajax, Core Java, J2ee, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, Oracle 10g, XML, JDBC, SQL, Stored procedures, TOAD, Ant, JMS, TIBCO, JSP, JavaScript, JMS, Log4j, JProbe monitoring tool.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Responsibilities:

• Developer to build the repository that maintains the history of transaction data.
• Analysis, design and Development of applications based on J2EE design patterns.
• Developed System components which are reusable components for multiple systems / projects.
• Performed unit testing on various project modules using JUnit framework.
• Used Apache Ant as build tool. Implemented Log4J for Logging Errors, debugging and tracking.
• Involved in Onsite coordinator at the client location.
• Extensively involved in the review and analysis of business requirements, documenting the requirements and design and communicating the development approach to the development team. Release coordinator for implementation of the project to production. Responsible for Production support of Application by proactively looking at production issues.
• Use of core java for multithreading, Serialization process.
• Developed and implemented client side and server side validations. Worked extensively on JavaScript, JQuery and AJAX in Presentation Layer.
• Created and deployed the project on Tomcat for development environment and Websphere 5.x for test environments.

Environment: Java, Oracle 9i, XML, UNIX, Shell Script, Control M, JDBC, XML, JMS, Ant, Shell script, SQL Server, Control M, JMS (Java messaging service), MQ series, Log4j, Apache Tomcat 2.4, Websphere 5.x, GlobalStore (Fijitsu product).