SUMMARY:

• 15+ years experience working in IT environments in different capacities, with various levels of responsibility. started as a Programmer, where he quickly gained increasing levels of responsibility as a Systems Analyst, Senior Consultant
• for the last 12+ years has been a Sr. Project Manager. He manages complete life cycle development projects (small to large scale, enterprise systems) using SDP - 21 and SEP methodologies with both on-shore and off-shore resources effectively.
• He is responsible for the tracking and fixing of issues, providing daily reports, and risk mitigation.
• He has been involved in all phases of the system development lifecycle from concept to completion and across multiple platforms.
• Mr. Confidential has been responsible from initial project conception (sales support activity) all the way through, requirements identification, specification creation, deliverable definition, construction management, testing, production releases and maintenance.
• He has a very pleasant personality, excellent communication, organizational and technical skills that make him very effective as a Project Manager.
• He is a PMP Certified Project manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Confidential
• WAN
• Confidential Mainframe
• LAN
• UNISYS
• VPN
• Apple Macintosh
• Firewalls
• Sun
• VO/IP
• Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, NT, 98, 95
• TCP/IP
• UNIX
• Microsoft IIS, APACHE
• SAP Netweaver’s WebDynPro tools
• PowerBuilder
• J2EE
• VC++
• WebSphere
• Oracle
• WebLogic
• SQL Server
• .NET Framework
• DB2
• Java
• UDB
• JSP
• AJAX
• IMS DB/DC
• EJB
• Cobol
• Cobol II
• Visual Basic
• VB.NETCICS
• ASP
• ASP.NET
• Focus
• VBScript
• Java Script iRise
• ANCILLARY SKILLS
• Websphere
• Web Logic
• Microsoft Office
• IVR Technologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Product Owner and Stakeholders to define the Product vison and documented them.
• Worked with the Product Owner and identified the initial Requirements, Risks & technical strategy and documented them.
• Created Product Roadmap by working with team and the product owner to determine the number of program increments, Features per Program increments and Target dates.
• Created and Managed the Product backlog and facilitated the team to size them using Relative sizing.
• Prepare and present the weekly application status and metrics to upper management and Business on a weekly basis.
• Facilitated the iterative planning for the team to define & commit to the scope of the iteration. Also helped them to define the Acceptance criteria for the iteration.
• Facilitated the team in reviewing and refining the Product backlog on a regular basis.
• Facilitated Product iterative review before the release between the team and the Product Owner.
• Worked with the Release Manager and the team in preparing Release notes, planned & scheduled tasks for the iteration release.
• As part of daily task facilitated the daily standup meeting, monitored the progress of the team and removed the bottlenecks and impediments for the team.
• Identified the Defects during development, logged them into Rally and made sure that they are addressed before the iteration release.
• Created and published monthly status on the Product development in monthly Governance meeting with the upper management.

Environment: Java, J2EE, WebSphere 8.0, Team Center, Oracle DB, SQL DB

Confidential, Troy, MI

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created, monitored and implemented the Integrated Project Schedule using MS-Project
• Created the SOW for the Front-End Confidential Apps, sent out bids through Purchasing, evaluated and ed the contract to the DTE vendor to develop, Integrate and Test the Confidential Apps.
• Coordinated the Architecting, Design, Development and testing activities with the different groups such as Information Architecture team, Application Integration team, Quality Assurance team & testing team.
• Coordinated the Load Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Managed the deployment of the Application in a phased manner
• Created and presented the weekly Status Report, Updated Financials and the Project schedule to the upper management of DTE.
• Monitored list of the Action items, Issues and Risks and escalated them to the appropriate people in the management chain.
• Monitored the Actual Hours and the Budgeted Hours of team members on a weekly basis.

Environment: Object C, iRise, Java, J2EE, Weblogic 9.2, and Oracle and Agile methodology

Confidential, Troy, MI

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created, monitored and implemented the project schedule for all the four brands .
• Determined the need for and impact of change of scope of project, created the time and cost estimates for of Project Change Request and got it approved for implementation.
• Coordinated the Architecting, Design, Development and testing activities with the different groups such as Information Architecture team, Content Production team, Application Integration team, Quality Assurance team & testing team.
• Coordinated the Load Testing and User Acceptance Testing for each of the brand.
• Managed the deployment of the Application for each brand.
• Created and presented the weekly Status Report, Updated Financials and the Project schedule to the Customer.
• Monitored list of the Action items, Issues and Risks and escalated them to the appropriate people in the management chain.
• Monitored the Actual Hours and the Budgeted Hours of team members on a weekly basis.

Environment: Day CQ WCM, Java, J2EE, Websphere, and Oracle

Confidential, Troy MI

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created, monitored and implemented the project schedule of Oracle modules for each Release.
• Determined the need for and impact of change of scope of project, created the time and cost estimates for of Project Change Request and got it approved for implementation.
• Defined Incident Queues, Incident handling and Triaging process, enhancements and Change Control Process.
• Scheduled and Managed the status meetings with Business, Development team and Operations Control team.
• Also updated the Management on the status of the incidents through status reporting and creating Metrics.
• Worked closely with the Development team in doing monthly releases and organizing Knowledge Transfer sessions for the Support team.
• Worked with the Development team and Infrastructure team in streamlining the WAS 8 upgrade and TWS 8.0 upgrade through seamless communications between teams and Business .

Environment: Oracle eBiz ERP, Java, J2EE, Websphere, and Oracle

Confidential, Royal Oak, MI

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted the Business Workshop for Confidential of America and Confidential of Mexico business owner and business users separately. Identified and documented the GAP items.
• Created the WBS tasks for this project and presented a Project Schedule based on this and got approved from the customer.
• Created and presented the Time and cost estimates as part of Project Change Request and got it approved from Change Control Board after a careful review of the changes.
• Coordinated the Design and Development activities with the On-shore and Offshore resources such as preparation and approvals of Design documents, Code Development and unit testing of ABAP and Java programs, System and Integration testing of the Application.
• Coordinated the User Acceptance Testing for both US and Mexico separately.
• Rolled out the Application for both US and Mexico one after another.
• Created and reviewed the weekly Traffic Light Report, Updated Financials and the Project schedule to the Customer.
• Monitored the list of the Action items, Issues and Risks and escalate them to the appropriate people.

Environment: SAP-SD 4.3, ABAP, Java, J2EE, AJAX, Websphere, and Oracle

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created and presented the Business Discovery proposal to the Client and got it approved.
• Created and presented the kick-off presentation of the Project to the Project sponsor and the users.
• Scheduled, organized and conducted the business requirements gathering sessions along with the Business Analyst, Technical Architect and the Subject Matter Expert.
• Reviewed and documented the minutes of the requirements meetings.
• Reviewed and Delivered the Final Business Requirements Document, Technical Architecture Requirement Document and the Quality Assurance Plan to the Customer along with the Annual support document, BOM and a proposal for the Design and Development phase.
• Created and reviewed the weekly Traffic Light Report, Updated Financials and the Project schedule to the Customer.
• Keep track of the Action items, Issues and Risks and escalate them to the appropriate people.
• Keep track of the Actual Hours and the Budgeted Hours on a weekly basis.
• Keep track of the scope of the Project and raise Project Change Request as and when necessary.
• Reviewed the Application Architecture, J2EE Design Pattern and the Design Specs with Chief Architect and updated them.
• Reviewed the Logical and Physical D Confidential model with DBA group and finalized them.

Environment: Unix, Java, J2EE, JSP, AJAX, Websphere, and Oracle

Confidential, Livonia, MI

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created and submitted the Plan Documents such as Project Charter, Project Plan and Project Schedule to the Customer for approval as per SDP-21 R10.
• Recruited the team members, defined their roles & responsibilities in the project and assigned tasks and monitored their performance.
• Facilitated requirements gathering meetings prepared and submitted the BRDs, SRS and SDDs for customer’s approval. Also raised the CR and submitted for approval with the Customer.
• Monitored and controlled the project regular hours and overtime hours for cost control of the project.
• Facilitated weekly Project reviews and provides weekly status report to the Customer.
• Monitored the daily activities such as tasks completed, Action items, Issues, Risks and Change Requests etc using the project schedule and Project Log.
• Mitigated the risks and escalated the issues in the reporting chain and made sure they are resolved.
• Created and presented the monthly Governance Reports with the Customer. Also assisted the Sales team by providing input to new ITSRs in estimation and writing the proposals.
• Reviewed the Application Architecture, J2EE Design Pattern and the Design Specs with Chief Architect and updated them.
• Reviewed the Logical and Physical D Confidential model with DBA group and finalized them.

Environment: Unix, Sun-One, Java, J2EE, JSP, AJAX, WebLogic, and Oracle

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Management of daily project activities such as fixing bugs, Service requests, testing and deliverables for the existing applications.
• Review of and updates to the project schedules with percentage completion of tasks, milestones activities and deliverables for newly developed applications
• Maintained project logs with Action items, Issues and Risks.
• Risk identification and mitigation and as necessary escalating issues to higher authorities in a timely manner.
• Facilitated daily client meetings with the Delivery managers and Technical people local and offshore
• Reviewed and track project regular hours and overtime hours for project cost control
• Conducted weekly project reviews and provide the weekly status report to the upper management.
• Prepare and presented the monthly PMRs to the Customer.

Environment: Unix, Sun-One, Java, J2EE, JSP, AJAX, WebLogic, Oracle, Confidential Mainframe, Cobol, CICS, IMS, DB2, Visual Basic, C++, SQL Server, ASP.NET, VB.NET and UDB.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Set up Assessment teams (Project Managers, Business Analysts and Technical Leads)
• Prepared kick-off materials and set up the assessment methodology for the assessment phase.
• Recruited the team members, defined their roles & responsibilities in the project and assigned tasks and monitored their performance.
• Mentored and coached the Development Team.
• Created and presented the Project Plan and Dashboard of the project based on SDP-21 methodology and gained necessary client approvals as part SLA deliverables.
• Created and presented the Status Report to GM’s senior management weekly.
• Monitored and managed the entire project schedule and the deliverables
• Prepared the budget for the project on a monthly basis and also tightly controlled project costs
• Conducted regular weekly status meetings with the team members and provided the necessary direction and guidance.
• Set up the on-shore off-shore Delivery model for the Development and Delivery Teams and executed the project on a timely and cost effective manner.

Environment: Unix, Sun-One, Java, J2EE, JSP, AJAX, WebLogic, SQL Server, ASP.NET, VB.NET and Oracle

Confidential, Troy, MI

Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the project estimates and resource plan for design through deployment
• Managed a team of 8 developers and maintained the LAN environment.
• Prepared the User requirements and Functional Specifications documents
• Defined and prepared the workflow of the system using Visio Tools along with the functional requirements of the Customer Care Portal module.
• Prepared detailed design and lead the development team in construction and deployment
• Managed the project plan, monitoring and status reporting activities
• Conducted weekly status meetings, resolved both technical and non-technical issues
• Participated in setting up the Infrastructure facility for a Development Center in Troy, MI which was connected thru WAN and VPN with a facility in California and India. D Confidential Center had IIS Server with 25 Workstations in a LAN environment with all the development tools.

Environment: Unix, CISCO IVR Server, Java, J2EE, JSP, Websphere, and Oracle