SUMMARY:

• PMI Certified Project Manager and IT Professional with over 17 years of industry experience.
• Strong experience in Project Management and Business Analysis, Solution Delivery, Application Design & Architecture, Application Development & Integration, Change Management and User - Training across a broad range of competencies.
• Extensive experience and knowledge in SDLC and Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) methodologies with over 9 years of project management experience.
• Deep Technical knowledge in various technologies with hands-on technical skills of over 10 years.
• Adept in project management from inception to closure - project proposal, business case, initiation, project scheduling, resource allocation, estimating, hiring and onboarding team, project execution, change control, release management, testing management, closure and benefits realization.
• Adept in Agile project management - user story grooming, product backlog creation, sprint planning, release planning, scrum ceremony, sprint execution, sprint review & sprint retrospective.
• Worked across various industry domains ranging from Media, Property Management, Insurance, Government sector and enjoys learning new domains.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and enjoys working in a challenging environment.

SKILLS:

• Project Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Solution Design to Delivery
• Wire-Framing & Prototyping
• User-Training & Change Management
• TFS & JIRA
• Agile - Scrum, Kanban & SAFe
• Application Integration
• Vendor Selection & Management
• Functional & Technical Documentation
• Application Design & Architecture
• HP Portfolio & Project Mgmt

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• C#
• Powershell
• .Net
• SharePoint
• Lotus Notes/Domino
• Microsoft Office Products
• Java/J2EE
• JavaScript
• IBM Websphere Portal
• JavaScript webMethods
• Endeca Enterprise Search
• BMC Remedy
• MS SQL Server
• Crystal Reports
• MicroStrategy BI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Legacy Systems project within the Confidential ’s signature transformation project Confidential .
• Liaising with the client( Confidential ) to track project delivery, monitor and address risks and dependencies, status reporting and project deliverables.
• Working closely with various product owners on the user-story creation, approval and tracking of deliverables per Deliverable Definition.
• Leading the business analysts, server engineering, technical team(Natural/ADABAS mainframe, ArcGIS & Informatica developers & solution architects), enabler teams and testing teams to ensure successful development, integration and co-existence of about 30 mainframe and legacy systems with the newer Confidential frontend.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning, execution and delivery of various projects in .Net/SharePoint/Java in Confidential Asia. The projects include/interact with client management systems, placement systems, policy generation, claims submission and fiduciary systems.
• Setup the project standards and best practices for Confidential APAC’s MEAN (Mongo DB, Express JS, Angular JS, Nodes JS) stack project (Loan Insurance Scheme), aligning offshore vendor and internal IT groups on delivery and coaching relevant business groups on SCRUM practices, facilitating scrum ceremonies and working with application & server engineering teams on CI using Jenkins.
• Managed multiple work streams geographically dispersed across APAC, UK and US, collaborating with cross-functional teams including internal business users, external users, internal IT teams and vendors.
• Managed offshore vendor(s) for solution delivery with emphasis on quality and scoping of Change Requests.
• Worked with Shared Services and Engineering teams for procurement and provisioning of various IT Systems.
• Worked with Operations leadership to increase user-adoption of the various systems across APAC, by working on change management initiatives , establishing SLAs, metrics and reporting processes.
• Ownership of various project deliverables ranging from running Steering Comm. meetings, project status and finance reporting, Project Plan, RAIDD logs, Toll Gate Checks, OAC(Operational Acceptance Criteria) and Quality Management Plans, adhering to Confidential ’s SDLC processes.
• Managed and monitored project cost, forecasting project cost and managed vendor monthly billing.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning, execution and delivery of the Confidential Portal Transformation Project to SharePoint Online for the APAC region, while driving user-adoption of Office 365 products like Delve and Yammer.
• Managed stakeholders, working with stakeholders and business users from the various core service lines of Confidential to transform their portal sites.
• Managed the project using SCRUM methodology.
• Elicited functional requirements, worked with stakeholders to prioritize requirements, created wire-frames, demoed prototypes and got sign-offs from users.
• Led the regional development team for technical solutioning, ensuring deliverables met global guidelines.
• Created functional user-guides, user-targeted training materials and conducted training sessions.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning, execution and delivery of the multi-phased, multi-year project of migrating numerous Domino Applications, Domino.Doc Document Management System, Quicker Sites, Endeca Enterprise Search, IBM WebSphere Portal to Microsoft SharePoint Platform.
• Responsible for the Architecture, Technology selection decisions, enhancement/as-is migration decisions, managing the project scope and schedule of the migration project.
• Coordinated the project with other internal IT groups, vendor, business units, Internal Communications and end-users, while providing guidance to the development team with hands-on technical involvement.
• Elicited functional requirements through interviews with key stakeholders, prioritized requirements, analyzed existing systems for gap-analysis, created and demoed prototypes.
• Used Agile methodology for the Enterprise Portal migration to manage the solution development and achieving faster time to production.
• Release POC for the development team and involved in the release management of the software deliverables.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer & Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential include various HR Systems, Media Talent Management, Affiliate and Ad Sales Systems, Marketing Systems, Viewer Relations and Financial Tracking Systems, Provisioning systems, Issue Tracking systems and Asset Management Systems.
• Elicited requirements, planned and managed the project schedule, work plan and resource allocation, managed the release plan.
• Managed user-expectations and project scope, identified risks and dependencies.
• Ran user testing sessions with various stakeholders, maintained issue logs.
• Created training materials for the end-users, ran prototype demos and presentations. Documented the functional and technical systems.
• Designed, coded and implemented many projects in technologies like Lotus /Domino client applications and web-based applications.
• Implemented enterprise document management system using Domino.Doc and Quicker.
• Implemented enterprise content management system using Domino, IBM WebSphere Content Management system.
• Performed application and business process SOA integration using webMethods between external and custom applications.
• Performed System-integration with other in-house applications using web services, IBM WebSphere Portlet factory.
• Ran Proof-of-Concept sessions for various technology selections like SalesForce, EmailExtender.
• Worked with multiple JavaScript libraries like Dojo, JQuery, web services like SOAP, REST, JSON, Ant.
• Created multiple reporting systems using MS Access, Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting, MicroStrategy BI.
• Worked on various search engine implementations like Endeca Enterprise Search and Microsoft SharePoint FAST server.