SUMMARY:

• A qualified Post Graduate (M.Sc., IS), a dynamic IT Professional, having over all 14 years of IT experience and over 10 years of rich and insightful experience seeking senior level leadership challenges in Management Functions as Sr. Project Manager/ Sr. Program Manager/ Delivery Manager/ Portfolio Manager
• Successful track record of Technical Leadership in Projects for Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Support of Business Intelligence, Information Management & Analytics, Web App Solutions, Mobile Apps, Product Development, Consumer utilities apps.
• Experience in building solutions on the layers of CMS, SOA, ERP, CRM, Ecommerce/B2B/B2C/Retail and Open Source Technology domains for various verticals.
• Passion for building web - based/mobile consumer facing products in domains spanning Data Syndication, Social Web, Internet Media, specialize in client facing roles including understanding requirements, planning features, owning and monitoring delivery.
• In depth domain knowledge and custom application development/mobile/ product development experience in various verticals like Local Events, Attractions, Finance, Health & Fitness, Weather, Travel, Movies, Music, Shopping and Sports.
• Experience in Presales skills: Business Analysis, Technical Pre-sales/Proposals, Pre-sales Solutioning & Engineering Support. Developing Use Cases, creating Screen Mock-ups, Conducting Gap Analysis and Impact, Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis
• Possess a blend of both Business, Technical Project Management, Portfolio Management skills with the ability to translate business needs into deliverable solutions and analytics
• Business Development: Role play as a liaison between the business and the development teams to clarify functional design definition and solutioning
• Experience in analysing customer needs and competitor studies; designing product look and features; developing product road-maps and go-to market strategy; leading globally located, culturally diverse teams, cross-functional teams for product delivery; Exceptional ability to identify opportunities, develop strategies to capture the opportunities and translate them into product plans.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective partner teams.
• As scrum master, lead team through development and delivery of several implementations and solutions within budget and schedule. Organized Sprint Planning Meetings, enforced good acceptance criteria for user stories, proper decomposition of user stories in to tasks, Conducted Sprint Review Meetings, Organize/ Execute Sprint.
• Proven experience in Release management, Strategic planning, Change management, Risk Management, Security Management, Quality Improvement along with strong exposure to financial reporting and budgeting.
• Track-record of hiring, motivating and growing and retaining high calibre people, analysing their performance and winning their loyalty.
• Highly experienced working with Senior and Executive management. Result oriented, Customer focused with good adaptability, networking and leadership skills
• Successfully delivered Large & Complex Projects (Fixed Price and T&M)
• Fast Paced Individual, handing complex challenges with attention to detail and sharp analytics.
• Motivated, engaged with team members to establish well managed collaboration
• Core Strength includes all functions of Project Life Cycle, Software Development Cycle, Product Lifecycle Management with Teamcenter and Application Support Management; Demonstrated proficiency in mobile and web-enabling of different business processes as well as on various Payment Gateway mechanisms
• Strong Technical Knowledge of Object Oriented concepts, J2SE/J2EE and .Net framework, modelling & design Tools, Languages, Databases, Platforms (OS), IDE, Java Technologies, PHP, Open Source Technologies, Magento, osCommerce, OpenCart, X-Cart, Drupal & Ubercart, Joomla & VirtueMart, WordPress and Centurion
• Similar Function Expertise E-commerce, Health Care, Apparel, Fashion, Social Networking, Blogging, CMS, Retail, B2B, B2C, Merchant Services, Shipping, Staffing, Recruitment and Life Services sectors
• Working knowledge in Windows Azure, Azure IoT Hub, Visual Studio, Zenith CMS, Bedrock CMS, Mooncake, Sangam, Cosmos, Satoti, Bing Social, TFS, IIS, SOA, C#, .Net, My SQL, XML, JSON
• Extensive experience of Project Life Cycle Management through Initiation & Feasibility Study, Business Function Study, Requirement Finalization, Project Scoping, Task Breakdown (WBS), Effort & Time Estimation, Costing & Project Budgeting, Resource Allocation, Scheduling, Risk Management and Execution Control Planning/Monitoring till timely & quality based delivery & closure
• Rich experience in Agile development methodology, Create and manage detailed project plan and emphasising and empowering people as Scum master to collaborate and make team decisions in addition to continuous planning, continuous testing and continuous integration for an ongoing development activities Sprint by sprint, track status, identify risks & mitigation plans etc. including 1:1 with team members and facilitate feedback if any
• High impact broad visibility on project with innovation and forward thinking team
• Competent in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle including Analysis & Study of Business Requirements, Technical & Functional Specifications, Data/Interface/Process Design, Module/Interface Development, Testing, Integration and Implementation
• Adept at Team Management & Leadership skill like tasking, delegation, monitoring, feedback, skill upgrade, competence management, career planning, motivation, mentoring and setup and facilitate core team and v-team meetings, capture and send notes from team and stakeholder meetings
• Cohesive Team Player with Fast Learning Curve along with strong analytical, problem solving, innovation, planning, organizational, communication & interpersonal skills
• Co-ordination, draft and send HR Initiative Status to stakeholders. Working with HR on Total rewards and performance and development. Utilizing SharePoint Sites, documents set up and process to track resource performance, Internal HR Go to Market Frameworks and tools
• Performing Data Analysis and summarization of data, data management and preparing excel report and PowerPoint slides
• Proficient suing tools: Outlook (flag important emails, responding to the point and polite and managing calendar)
• Excel (pivot tables, extracting data, visualizing data and exporting to PowerPoint)
• MS Project for scheduling task activities and complete WBS (work breakdown structure)
• SharePoint - Site creation and management (grids, tables, file management, team workspace creation, permissions management), HR tools for business planning
• Weekly 1:1 with stakeholders to facilitate projects and team progress (people in various functional areas HR, IT Operations, Programs and Communications)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Servers: Bea Weblogic 7.0, Apache Tomcat 4.0, JBoss 4, Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin, IIS

Operating Systems: WIN XP/9x/NT/2000/Win Server Upgrade/Win 8, Linux, MS-Dos

Cloud Technologies: Azure Storage, Azure AD, Azure AD B2C, Azure DevOps, Azure CD/CI

Identity technologies: Azure AD, Azure AD B2C, Stormpath, OAuth, Shibboleth, Salesforce (as IDP) and Confidential Account

Authentication protocols: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, WS-FED

Languages: Java, C, C++, C#, SQL, PL/SQL

Confidential Tools: VSTS, Excel, PowerPivot, .Net, IIS, MVC, ASP, C#, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Power BI

Open Source: Magento, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, SugarCRM

Open Source Frameworks: Zend, CakePHP, Symfony, CodeIgniter

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i, MS SQL, My SQL

Frameworks: J2SE, J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, .Net

Modelling Tools: UML, OOMD, ERWin, MS Visio 2003

CMS: Zenith, Bedrock

Big Data & Streaming: Cosmos, Satoti, Bing Social, Azure Data Storage, Cassandra, C# jobs, SIPHON queues, MSMQ, Scala jobs, Spark, Web API.

IDE: JBuilder X, Eclipse 3.0, NetBeans, XML Spy, Visual Age, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server

Java Tools: JFC, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, Struts, EJB, HTML, XML, Log4j, JUnit, JNDI, JTS, JTA, Ajax

Project Tracking Tools: Telelogic Change, Rational Clear Quest, JIRA, Redmine, OpenAir

Configuration/Version Management: TFS, VSS, CVS, SVN, GIT, CodeFlow, Perforce, Telelogic Synergy, Rational Clear Case

Communications: Network communications, GSM, CDMA, Wireless, Radio systems knowledge

CAREER PROFILE:

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Technology Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Execute engineering programs and projects in development and testing division, which includes handling tasks involving feature spec and development.
• Role play Scrum master, project planning and execution of Sprints, handling daily scrum sync ups, executing teams, managing people and holding them to deadlines
• Tasks status and presenting impact of tasks to derive big picture
• Applying broad and deep project management of the project for better budget management
• Plan and track tasks for successful completion of project from start to finish
• Strategy creation for contingency planning and risk mitigation
• Oversees and directs the project engineering team and manages conflicts within the different groups.
• Support a geographically dispersed product development team.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and all stakeholders in a timely manner. Document and facilitate follow-up action items from all project meetings

Confidential

Technology Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Execute engineering programs and projects in IoT division, which includes Confidential and Smart Buildings, handling tasks involving feature spec and development.
• Technology survey in IoT and sensor system, bring in best practices
• Role play Scrum master, project planning and execution of Sprints, handling daily scrum sync ups, executing teams, managing people and holding them to deadlines
• Tasks status and presenting impact of tasks to derive big picture
• Applying broad and deep project management of the project for better budget management
• Plan and track tasks for successful completion of project from start to finish
• Strategy creation for contingency planning and risk mitigation
• Oversees and directs the project engineering team and manages conflicts within the different groups.
• Support a geographically dispersed product development team.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and all stakeholders in a timely manner. Document and facilitate follow-up action items from all project meetings

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Technology Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Execute engineering programs and projects in Confidential division, which includes PSP, PAP, OSP, CR, CF Pipeline projects, handling tasks involving feature spec, upgrade scenarios and development.
• Role play Scrum master, project planning and execution of Sprints, handling daily scrum sync ups, executing teams, managing people and holding them to deadlines
• Tasks status and presenting impact of tasks to derive big picture
• Applying broad and deep project management of the project for better budget management
• Plan and track tasks for successful completion of project from start to finish
• Strategy creation for contingency planning and risk mitigation
• Defining data quality process, objectives and understanding individual feature data needs.
• Identifying and solves project issues effectively.
• Oversees and directs the project engineering team and manages conflicts within the different groups.
• Support a geographically dispersed product development team.
• Reports the progress as well as the problems to management stakeholders.
• Author high-quality, detailed Functional Design Specifications at a granular level such that development and test teams can implement the features and components defined in the specification correctly and efficiently
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and all stakeholders in a timely manner. Document and facilitate follow-up action items from all project meetings
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations. Report trends by collecting, analysing and summarizing information

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Sr. Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Execute complex programs and projects, which includes handling tasks involving feature spec and development.
• Role play Scrum master, project planning and execution of Sprints, handling daily scrum sync ups.
• Strategy creation for contingency planning and risk mitigation.
• Defining data quality process, objectives and understanding individual feature data needs.
• Identifying and solves project issues effectively.
• Oversees and directs the project engineering team and manages conflicts within the different groups.
• Support a geographically dispersed product development team.
• Reports the progress as well as the problems to management stakeholders.
• Author high-quality, detailed Functional Design Specifications at a granular level such that development and test teams can implement the features and components defined in the specification correctly and efficiently
• Architecting solutions based on Service Oriented Architecture especially for mobile and web based applications
• Apply professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and all stakeholders in a timely manner. Document and facilitate follow-up action items from all project meetings
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations. Report trends by collecting, analysing and summarizing information

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accountable to lead projects for e-Commerce, business to business and other web solution development.
• Managing all functions of project life cycle including project scopes, milestones, goals and deliverables
• Responsible for direct communication with clients to gather and document business requirements and translating requirements to the project team.
• Involved in prioritization of multiple projects (10-15) at a time based on targeted delivery time line.
• Conducted meetings and conference calls to review final product and provided on-hand to end users.
• Providing and contributing to the knowledge repository in Confidential Utilities and Code repository.
• Supporting Pre-sales activities by estimation and technical proposal development against RFP.
• Performing routine team administration tasks as well as team development initiatives.
• Reported to the CEO, PMO and led a team of 20 resources in various web portal development & support projects
• Managed all functions of project delivery coordination including effort estimations, planning, monitoring, execution and control.
• Responsible for Application Support Management involving enhancements and change management.
• Involved in defining the Processes & Standards for improved performance and ensuring timely and quality deliverables.
• Spearheaded all stages of system development efforts including requirements definition, design, architecture, testing & support.
• Interfaced with clients for requirement gathering as well as for project feedback.
• Performed team administration tasks including scheduling, tasking, allocation, monitoring and feedback.
• Reported to the CEO and led 18 resources in various development and support projects.
• Managed all phases of development cycle from requirement elicitation to solution implementation.
• Responsible for client interaction, weekly demonstrations/reviews, domain Analysis and building business logic
• Involved in design modelling using UML, design reports using Design Patterns and in documenting the system.
• Provided and transfer of knowledge to technical team as well as the end user.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Initiated the career as Software Trainee and progressed as Software engineer and Sr. Software Engineer and reported to the Program Manager as individual contributor in projects with the responsibilities of Requirement Analysis, Specification documentation, Solution Design (based Java technologies), Development of various modules/functions, implementation of Database access through JDBC, testing and solution integration.

Environment: Windows Azure, Visual Studio, Zenith CMS, Bedrock CMS, Mooncake, Sangam, Cosmos, Satoti, Bing Social, TFS, IIS, SOA, C#, .Net, My SQL, XML, JSON