PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Resourceful and proactive Project Manager with 12 years of IT experience encompassing a solid understating of Project Management, Software engineering, Product Management providing business solutions that enhance the individual and team productivity, for the desired objectives and achieve viable deliverables.

• 12 plus years of Project Management in technology Consulting, Financial, Banking Retail industries
• Expert in managing medium to large - scale technical projects
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in working in different Software Development Life Cycle, SDLC (Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Incremental and RAD)
• Broad work experience working in various technologies including big data, security, maps/navigation, analytics, consumer products, eCommerce, SAAS, API/SDK, etc
• A fast learner and team contributor, I work best in fast-paced environments that iterate quickly
• Enjoy building relationships across functional teams, customers/end users and vendors, leading procurement efforts including receiving quotes from offshore vendors and creating a finance purchasing report to release the purchase order
• Comfortable interacting with any part of the organization, from C-Level, engineering and sales to legal, operations, or press/media
• Experienced gathering requirements, testing, and supporting implementation of AEM/CQ5
• Excellent coordination skills including coordination of project requirements and issues with clients, senior managers, developers, subject matter experts and other analysts
• Experienced in business process flows, business process modeling, case tools, business analysis, gap analysis and organizational change management
• Experienced in conducting working sessions with executives, developers, and end-users to define the exact requirements
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
• Experience working in Java technologies
• Excellent Knowledge of IT platforms such as Linux, UNIX, Window Administration, Cisco Router/Switches, Virtualization, Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting, UI/UX, Mobile Apps
• Extensive interaction with developers, configuration management while handling production issues with development and Quality Assurance teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming languages: . NET, C, C++, Java, HTML, XML

Testing Tools: Mercury Quality Center, JIRA, and Clear Quest

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7, MS-DOS, UNIX

Networking Technologies: TCP/IP, Ethernet, Token Ring, Routing & Switches, Hadoop

Scripting Languages: TSL, Java Scripts, VB Scripts

Databases:: Oracle, SQL, MS Access

Reporting Tools: Hyperion Interactive Reporting Studio, Cognos Imprompt, Business Objects

Office tools:: MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project, MS Access, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lisle, IL

Sr. Project Manager

• Performed overall planning, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of project using both Agile and PMI project management methods and principles
• Identified high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints based on the current environment, organizational factors, historical data, and expert judgment, to propose an implementation strategy
• Presented project management plan to relevant stakeholders according to applicable policies and procedures to obtain approval to proceed with project execution
• Continually monitored project status, budgets, deliverables and schedules, maintaining open lines of communication with project stakeholders as needed
• Assisted on resource allocations, scheduling, costs controls, progress reports, departmental coordination, and monitoring
• Utilized engineering and analyst resources on a regular basis throughout the project
• Oversee pre- and post-implementation testing of products, as well as the formal hand-off of the system and operational services to clients
• Establish, review and monitor the client implementation schedule and reports status to project team members
• Analyzed existing client systems, interface requirements, business process, and operational needs
• Played a key role in the generation and maintenance of project plans, communication production timelines and responsibilities to the project leader and customer
• Played key role in resolution of technical issues
• Implemented analytics module to provide behavior analysis of security threats introduced by humans and devices
• Collaborate with Software Engineering teams in India and U.S. in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum development process
• Managed and completed project post-mortems and captured and archived key learning's and project data

Confidential, Oak Brook, IL

Project Manager

• Identified key deliverables based on business requirements to manage stakeholder expectations and direct achievement of project goals
• Reviewed and assessed detailed project requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders based on project charter, lessons learned, and by using requirement gathering techniques to establish detailed project deliverables
• Collaborate with product and development teams in updating deliverables as required with new functionality roll outs
• Conducted kick-off meeting, communicating start of project, key milestones, and other relevant information to inform and engage stakeholders and gain commitment
• Provide leadership and guidance to create structure and discipline for programs and projects
• Provided insight and technical expertise in evaluating new solutions and processes
• Maintained the project's scope, budget and planning overview
• Coordinated a variety of field activities with software vendors, internal management, agencies and other project stakeholders
• Performed accurate project documentation, maintaining correspondence with clients and vendors in compliance with regulations
• Setup the project plan to describe summary of work, goals, project status, tasks etc.
• Developed and managed relationships with external partners and global cross-functional teams
• Managed various production system issues on a daily basis, implementing fixes within service level agreement timeframes
• Verified that project deliverables conform to the quality standards established in quality management plan by using appropriate tools and techniques to meet project requirements and business needs
• Obtained final user acceptance of project deliverables from relevant stakeholders to confirm that project scope and deliverables were achieved

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Project Manager

• Developed and deployed implementation project plan and ensure project is delivered on time, on budget and optimized return on investment
• Applied functional and technical expertise to effectively execute requirements definition, solution design, configuration, unit and integration testing, training and full deployment
• Followed Change Control process when major changes took place
• Worked with Product Manager to perform Impact Analysis
• Prepared Test Plans and tested applications
• Interacted with technical teams in China to get the custom requirements and specifications
• Involved in Customer UAT along with the Development & testing teams.
• Prepared marketing brochures and documents about product’s hardware and software specification documents during the product launch
• Followed up with application teams with meetings, emails and phone calls
• Prepared user training materials

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Software Engineer

• Worked on Open-Source Java by making use of Multi-Threading, Collections
• Created Web services using WSDL file given that is designed for sending data to back-end
• Developed UI using AngularJs, JQuery for dynamic web flow.
• Involved in web designing using HTML 4/5, XHTML, CSS 2/3, JavaScript, Web GL and extensively used Table Less Design in CSS for positioning
• Worked in UI team to develop new customer facing portal
• Utilized Spring Boot to create java micro services applications
• Implemented exception handling using Spring Exception handler framework
• Designed a Real-time service for the email triggering to the Predefined Customer for the applied application
• Developed report generations, which run on daily basis for the last 30 days for the application data that is submitted for tracking purpose to the business unit using spring batch
• Provided solutions for technical challenges faced during testing
• Provided demonstration and overview of various modules in Online Banking application

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Software Engineer

• Developed HTML5 templates and CSS3/Sass style sheets for a UI Framework based on Angular2 in an agile environment
• Interacted with java controllers (JQuery, Ajax, and JSON to write/read data from back end systems
• Integrated Spring DAO for data access using with Hibernate
• Implemented Java EE components using Spring MVC, Spring IOC, Spring transactions and Spring security modules
• Developed automation test framework using Selenium Webdriver
• Developed and executed test scripts
• Prepared Test Plans and tested applications
• Interacted with technical teams in China to get the custom requirements and specifications
• Reviewing the test cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix along with the testing team
• Involved in Customer UAT along with the Development & testing teams.
• Prepared marketing brochures and documents about product’s hardware and software specification documents during the product launch
• Followed up with marketing contacts with meetings, emails and phone calls
• Prepared user training materials

PNC Bank, Pittsburgh, PA

Software Engineer

• Involved in various stages of the project life cycle including database designing, development and enhancement of the application
• Developed use case and sequence diagrams
• Developed User Interfaces using JSP, HTML and JavaScript, CSS
• Used Spring MVC framework as a middleware
• Used JDBC to access the Oracle Database
• Developed varies components for business logic
• Involved in writing stored procedures to insert, delete, and update the database
• Involved in writing triggers to add programmatic features to the database
• Also involved in Unit testing with testing team
• Prepare test plan and test cases
• Involved in many aspects of the non technical parts of the project as well

Confidential, Des Plaines, IL

Technical Support Engineer

• Translated Business needs into Functional Requirements and Non-Functional Requirements
• Involved in various Technical and Functional testing.
• Generated Test plans, Test cases and Test documentation.
• Responsible for Regression Testing and Integration Testing
• Used SQL Queries to test the updates in SQL Server Tables
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to efficiently manage requirements
• Developed test cases and test scripts for Functionality, Security and Regression Testing
• Mapped functional requirements to individual test case requirements.
• Reported and tracked the status of the bugs, assigning severity ratings
• Participated in defect review meetings with the team members.