PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A highly self - motivated Senior Project Manager and a SAFe certified Scrum Master who has successfully managed multiple global delivery teams for multi-year programs worth over $1billion.
• IT professional of 20+ years with over 10 years of experience in managing multiple Projects and Program.
• Proven ability in initiating & managing enterprise level complex and high visibility projects.
• Expert in managing end-to-end software delivery life cycle of projects using Waterfall, Agile Scrum and SAFe frameworks.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with business partners, project teams and senior leadership.
• Demonstrated financial management skills by planning for projects over $1MM each year.
• Managed vendor (Microsoft) delivery on the cloud Platform project.
• Distinctive ability to lead cross functional teams and consistency in maintaining delivery schedule.
• Certified SAFe Scrum Master.
• Certified SMAC.
• PMP trained Project Manager.
• Efficient Sprint Planning for each Program Interval in Agile Release Train (SAFe).
• Strong Analytical, Risk identification and Risk management skills.
• Proven ability to manage teams located across the globe.
• Over 5 years of experience in Agile Scrum managing multiple scrum teams.
• Mentored 25+ Scrum teams
• Championed Agile maturity scale-up efforts measured using Team velocity, Burn down charts and other 8 KPI’s
• Inculcated the idea of innovation within scrum teams.
• Diverse experience in Financial Services, Retail, Insurance, Safety product development, Printing and Telecommunications industries.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Management related: Program coordination; SDLC; Agile; Waterfall; Scaled Agile Framework; Scrum; Risk/ Issue management; Stakeholder management; Project tracking (Cost/ Scope/ Schedule); Matrix project management; Change/ Release management; Technical solutions; Vendor delivery management; CA Clarity PPM; CA Agile Central (Rally); HP Quality Center; SharePoint; Microsoft Project; Microsoft Office - PowerPoint, Excel, Word, OneNote; Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Azure, TFS

ETL: Ab Initio; Reporting systems based on Java, IBI and MicroStrategy; Assembler; Mainframe - COBOL; JCL; DB2; SQL; File-Aid, Xpeditor; Changeman; Unix Shell scripting ; D Confidential warehouse

Critical Thinking: Researching and Identifying problems; Evaluating options

Self Management: Ethical behavior; Time management; Detail oriented

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assigned project goal is to upgrade the QNXT version and utilize Trizetto’s hosting and management services.
• Project required DCS to UAT the QNXT functionalities, SSRS reports, ensure Trading partner testing is complete and testing payment processes with AHCCCS.
• This project requires strong system integration and close coordination with the PMO.
• Responsibilities include managing monthly steering committee meetings.
• Successfully completed the deployment phase of Microsoft’s Azure platform project for the departments Guardian program which is a POA solution on Child Welfare Information Systems..
• Project Management tools used included projectmanager.com; MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint; TFS, Visual Studio

Confidential, Troy, MI

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing multi-year, multi-million dollar SDLC projects for the client Confidential in various technologies and roles
• Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams in a Digital Agile Release Train using SAFe..
• Developing business critical ETL and Mainframe based applications for Confidential .
• Supporting Tier1 reporting applications for Confidential .
• Enhancing and supporting Assembler based applications for the client Confidential Corporation.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

VP Project Manager & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple cross-platform project teams for the program across the globe
• Coordinate with PMO and implement their guidelines across teams.
• Matrix collection and status reporting to VP’s and CIO’s.
• Analysis of business requirements.
• Scrum Master for multiple Reporting teams in the Digital Agile Release Train (SAFe)
• Collaborate with product owners, business, RTE and market teams to align on scope, project costs and schedule.
• Develop and deliver new client reports as per regulatory and compliance guidelines applicable for each market.
• Risk Identification and Mitigation to ensure delivery on schedule.
• Manage vendor (translation services) deliveries.
• Create and maintain Cost Plan.
• Ensure SDLC compliance by creating and maintaining required artifacts in SharePoint.
• Implement projects using Waterfall, Agile Scrum and SAFe frameworks.
• As a scrum master,
• Remove scrum team impediments
• Facilitate scrum events - Sprint planning, Daily stand up, Sprint review and Retrospective
• Collaborate with Product Owners
• Manage multiple scrum teams
• Plan for scrum teams in the Agile Release Train
• Attend Scrum of Scrum discussions
• Create Sprint Plan for multiple Program Interval’s (PI) of 6 sprints each
• Track the development and releases of project in sync with the Agile Train.
• Project management tools included MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint; SharePoint, CA Rally, Clarity and project development tools involved ETL- AbInitio, IBI webfocus, MicroStrategy, Java, HTML

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and developed ETL solutions to identify and segregate travel d Confidential .
• Managed teams using cross platform applications based on Java, MicroStrategy and AbInitio based ETL.
• Delivered project on schedule using Waterfall methodology.
• Project Management tools used included MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint; SDLC, Waterfall, Clarity, SharePoint and project development tools involved IBI webfocus, ETL - Abinitio

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Project Manager and Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements.
• Worked with business partners on solutions related to d Confidential cleansing and simplification of a complex merchant hierarchy as received from the source system.
• Executed the project using waterfall methodology.
• Managed team end-to-end.
• Motivated team to brainstorm and innovate on complex solutions.
• Conceptualized design, developed and delivered an application using AbInitio ETL, Stored Procedures and Java
• Developed ETL d Confidential cleansing graphs
• Project Management tools used included MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint; Clarity, SharePoint and project development tools involved ETL - AbInitio, UDB, SQL, Java

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Project Manager & Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple UM teams to deliver enhancement projects related to merchant chaining and ETL used to load d Confidential in the warehouse.
• Executed the project using waterfall methodology.
• This initiative utilized a unique team model using a fixed team to develop medium complexity enhancements related to inbound applications for the d Confidential warehouse.
• Managed all phases of the projects, including capacity planning, project execution, implementation and stakeholder management.
• Project Management tools used included MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint; Clarity, SharePoint and project development tools involved ETL - AbInitio, UDB, SQL, Java
• ETL - AbInitio
• Unix
• Warehouse Manager
• COBOL
• Assembler
• Mainframe based utilities

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Executed multiple Enhancement and Maintenance projects on the Confidential software which was based on Assembler and COBOL mainframe application technologies.
• Lead a team size of 30+ developers based in Hong Kong for Confidential ( Confidential ).
• This project was a 2 year Confidential initiative utilizing Mainframe based technologies - Assembler, COBOL & CICS. Teams were located across Hong Kong and India.