SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Project Manager with 20 years of overall IT experience with 16 years of experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) implementations of software solutions from initial conceptualization to production deployment.
• Solid expertise in leading Software Application Development and Support teams focused on enterprise architecture including design, development, support and maintenance of software applications and full project life cycle implementations.
• Focused on fulfilling enterprise solution needs in accordance with the organizational long term IT vision with optimal resource utilization and successful on - time, on-budget project delivery and deployment.
• Highly skilled in Business Analysis, Budgeting and Team Management within medium to complex environments.
• With a diverse industry and technology background, able to effectively bridge the IT / business communication gap and work effortlessly with globally distributed teams dispersed in various geographic locations.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Management
• Enterprise Architecture - Software Applications Implementation and Support
• Project Management Methodologies - Waterfall, Agile and Scrum
• Establishing Standards and Policies, Ensuring Governance and Compliance
• Mobile App Development for iOS and Android
• ITIL
• Risk Analysis and Mitigation
• Establishing Priorities for Cross-Functional Teams
• Globally dispersed teams (onshore and offshore)
• Requirements Definition and Analysis
• Six-Sigma
• PMP
• Management, Leadership and Team Building of Software Development Teams
• Software Applications Design, Architecture and Enterprise Software Portfolio Management
• Project Scope Development, Cost, Budget and Schedule Management
• PMBOK Principles, Processes and Methodologies
• Managing Stakeholder and Business User Expectations
• PCI, HIPAA and SOX Compliance
• System Migrations, BI and Data Governance
• Specification Documentation (Project, Technical)
• Change and Release Management
• SLA Management

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Oracle Primavera, Clarity (CA PPM), Rally (CA Agile Central), Tableau, JIRA, Confluence, Service Now, OBIEE, Tableau, ScrumWise, BaseCamp,, MS Visio

SharePoint: SharePoint Server 2013/2010, SharePoint Designer, SharePoint Foundation

Microsoft Stack: .Net,, SQL Server, TFS (Team Foundation Server), InfoPath Designer, IIS, Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Mobile Apps Development (iOS and Android): Swift, XCode, React Native, Reactjs, Java, PhoneGap, Titanium

Web: JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL

IBM Lotus Domino: Lotus Domino, XPages, DECS, LEI, Notes API

Collaboration and Social Apps: IBM Connections, IBM Sametime

CRM: Sugar CRM, Oracle CRM

Document Management System: Alfresco Document Management System

Middleware/Integration Tools/ BI: SSIS, Logi BI System, Microstrategy, Roambi, IBM CastIron

DBMS: SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Access, Sybase

Prototyping/Mockup/WireFrames: Axure, Balsamiq, Fireworks

ITSM Software: FrontRange HEAT, HDPro, Remedy, ServiceNow

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing analytics, mobile apps, Big Data and data warehousing projects within the Global Technology portfolio for complex cross business-unit efforts with onshore and offshore teams. Project Management tools used: Clarity (CA PPM), Rally (CA Agile Central), Service Now, Tableau, OBIEE. Mobile Development tools used for iOS and Android apps: Swift, React Native, JAVA, Reactjs
• Responsible for engaging, coordinating, reporting and facilitating communication with stakeholders from business teams to ensure successful delivery of the projects on time and on budget.
• Management of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) implementations of software solutions from initial conceptualization, design, development through implementation and post production maintenance.
• Develop, publish and maintain detailed product/application roadmaps. Creation of Artifacts, documentation of charter, requirements and scope documentation, use cases and user traceability matrixes.
• Develop and maintain detailed forecasting, inflight and pipeline reports for presenting to SLT (Senior Leadership Teams), Governance and executive teams regularly. Perform in-depth research with business teams and provide targeted effectual reports to senior management to benefit decision making Communication of application release timelines, issues/action items/defects metrics, critical path and testing status for overall visibility.
• Implemented Agile processes - Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Retros, Product Backlog Refining/Grooming, maintain user stories using scrum boards

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the execution of SDLC IT projects that are client -facing, impact across the enterprise and are defined as multi-discipline with high complexity and scope using Agile, Iterative or Hybrid Waterfall-Agile methodologies. Tools used: MS Project, Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, PlanView and IBM Rational.
• Responsible and accountable for the day to day management and oversight of a portfolio of several large scale, enterprise wide, application development projects (5 to 8 simultaneous projects with several work-streams each).
• Responsible for management and hands-on supervision of software application development, implementation and support teams.
• Lead project teams and facilitate the communication and interaction among all functional representatives/key stakeholders from initiation to completion of each project.
• Matrix manage a cross-functional staff of highly skilled developers, business analysts and testers based in multiple geographical locations in the areas of budgeting, performance management, resource management and career development of teams.
• Organize and manage internal and external resources required to support and execute the project.
• Report to management the status of projects as they track against phase review objectives, schedule, budget and risk.
• Review, approve and manage project approach, structure, and charter through the establishment of project requirements and planning which are in support of the business and client objectives.

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management of SDLC, infrastructure and ITIL process related projects for PMO in Confidential using Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid Agile/Waterfall methodologies. Tools Used: MS Project, Oracle Primavera and Clarity.
• Deliver and implement financial, business applications and IT Infrastructure solutions to the various Lines of Business (LOBs) within SunTrust.
• Responsible for collaborating with the technical team of designers, engineers and developers to design, build and implement solutions.
• Manage and provide communications to all stakeholders, business users including Project Sponsor, and Executive Management team the weekly status reports/dashboards, metrics and project documentation.
• Manage project related schedules, project plans and project artifacts.
• Responsible for creating and monitoring budget and tracking expenditure and cost variances.
• Responsible for entire project compliance and adherence to organizational governance and project life cycle methodologies.

Senior IT Project Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Provide Project Management Services over all phases of enterprise-wide IT Software Applications for internal business users and external corporate clients.
• Responsible for management and supervision of software application development, implementation and support teams. The teams were based at onshore and offshore locations.
• Provide technical, analytical and functional leadership and guidance to the software development team.
• Design, build and manage enterprise architecture and middleware solutions to integrate disparate software systems, data systems and application components.
• Design and manage development of BI (Business Intelligence) Dashboard systems.
• Estimate, prepare and present budgets to the steering committee. Anticipate, monitor and track variances.
• Design and create prototypes and mock-ups of products and applications using wire-framing and prototyping tools.
• Documentation and reporting of High Level software design and Low Level software Design per software specifications, creation of Dataflow design diagrams, ER (Entity Relationship) diagrams, Database schema diagrams, workflow diagrams, data model diagrams and flowcharts.
• •Detailed Technical Software design specification and project scope documentation from functional and technical requirements gathering.
• Establish, implement and enhance product build mechanisms, coordinate between the development team, QA team and project stakeholders to define build and product release schedules.
• Troubleshoot and ensure timely resolution of build failures and build issues with development team.
• Projects include conversion of legacy systems to new architecture, web-enablement of existing applications, migration of Lotus Domino applications to SharePoint, Enterprise Content Management, maintenance of application portfolio and creation of Mobile Apps.
• Application LifeCycle Management (ALM) - Establishment of Production, Integration Testing, UAT and Development farms.
• Role involves project management of analysis, design, architecture, coding, development, testing, deployment, source control, implementation and support of numerous Desktop, Web, Mobile and SOA Applications using Agile, Scrum and Hybrid methodologies.
• Manage Native Mobile Apps development with XCode and Hybrid Mobile Apps with PhoneGap and Titanium.
• Conduct project status meetings with the IT Team and stakeholders to communicate organizational goals, discuss software design and coding, ensure complete implementation of the IT applications, on-going maintenance and support of the software, ensure that SLAs (Software Level Agreements), software deliverables are met and manage the client's expectations for the project.

IT Project and Business Applications Solutions Manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led architectural design, development, integration and deployment of enterprise applications and solutions with management and supervision of application development team for all phases of IT Software Development and Implementation projects.
• Provided Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Management over all phases of enterprise-wide IT Software Applications within a multidivisional, multi-state, 12,000-user organization. Managed software application development, QA, implementation and deployment teams. The teams were based at onshore and offshore locations.
• Established Build and Release processes for IT, QA and software applications deployment teams that allow for a smoother flow of product releases.
• Manage support for all installed applications including mission critical ones by ensuring compliance of SLAs (Service Level Agreements) with on-site, remote and on-call after hours support.
• Establish enterprise architecture, design and deploy middleware and data warehouse solutions to integrate different software systems located in geographically diverse areas and business units.
• Manage development and integration of BI (Business Intelligence) Dashboard systems.
• Establishment of application development best practices, standards, policies, methodologies for SDLC and IT departmental procedures. Ensure adherence to corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Develop detailed technical documentation, software design specifications, project scope, project plans and deliverables.
• Creation of budgets and cost estimation.
• The projects involved creation of collaboration solutions, Enterprise Content Management, Document Management, Enterprise Search, Portals.