SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management & Scrum Master Professional with over 15 years of experience.
• Experienced interacting with Executives, Business Owners and subject matter experts.
• Have strong ability to anticipate and understand the needs of Executives, senior leadership team and take a proactive approach in accomplishing those needs.
• Currently engaged as Senior Project Manager Confidential Confidential managing complex, critical Strategic Initiatives in the Capital and Commodity Market, gained thorough knowledge of the SDLC processes, tools .
• Played various roles as consultant ( Program M anager, Product Manager, Scrum Master, Business/Systems Analyst, Technical Lead, Software Developer ), having experience working with complex public safety, financial mortgage systems, telecom applications using Agile/Waterfall methodologies for multiple Confidential 100 companies.
• Demonstrated experience in IT strategy, enterprise wide application delivery with a focus on enabling business operations
• Provided Project Management s to colleagues to motivate them to pursue s. Trained and mentored junior staff in various roles.
• Managed complex project definitions, schedules, budgets and objectives for large sized and multiple projects of high complexity while multitasking on different projects.
• Proven record in coordinating and building strong customer relationship, effective teams and developing direct reports, strong business acumen, strategic agility, managing diversity
• Demonstrated strong understanding of the object - oriented Analysis/Design and java development and have managed deployments with activities involving documenting business/infrastructure requirements, understanding the data mappings, testing the feeds, data validation and migration from Development to Test to Stage to Production environment.
• Solid programming / multithreading / testing skills in real-time system
• Diverse experience utilizing Java tools in business, Web and client-server environments.
• Fluid understanding of multiple programming languages, including Java, C++, JavaScript etc.
• Able to mitigate and resolve issues, re-establish project momentum throughout all stakeholder tiers including end users, technicians, engineers, subject matter experts as well as management in both business and/or operations in f ac Confidential paced team environment
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and PMLC (Software Development and Project Management Life Cycle)
• Deep exposure to C Level executives through presentations in the areas of Application Optimization & Management, Infrastructure Management, Unified Communications & Connected Enterprises, Enterprise Storage Strategies
• Managed and executed multiple complex P rograms /P rojects from Analysis, design and development to production deployment using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Managed the communications and co-ordinations with various support groups such as Security team, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, ETL
• Developed and Managed P roject Budget, Project Risk and Project S chedule and presented to the management
• Worked extensively in Web applications, Content Management and Portal projects where responsibilities cover a wide range from Programs, Technical Project Management, Business Analysis, system study, design, development of Document templates, maintenance of the Internet/Intranet applications, onsite/offshore co-ordination, Process management, Authored documents as per the requirements and provided technical support for development and post production.
• Worked extensively in developing Business Process diagrams to help the stake holders and vendor team to get a high-level requirements of the project
• Developed and authored various project documents such Business Requirements, RTM, HLP, MLP, LLP, RACI, Go Live Plan, Performance Plan, Security Plan, Test Plan, Test cases, User Acceptance etc.
• Worked in developing Strategy Roadmap for Customer Relationship Management solutions
• Experienced in dealing with clients and managing client relationships - interactions involved dealing with Business Sponsors and user team
• Managed a team of IT staff, likely including managers, across multiple sites, not limited to,, developing and evaluating subordinates to improve current performance and prepare for future
• Managed ongoing development, revision and adherence to Service Level Agreements for provision of critical systems and IT security practices.
• Provided end-to-end project support (Created and developed the URD and Use Cases documents, Created and developed Migration strategies documents, Created, developed and evaluated Technical Specification document and other project related documents, involved in design, development, testing, roll-out)
• Performed Quality Assurance activities such as Test Planning, System Integration Testing and supporting User Acceptance testing.

DEMONSTRATED STRENGTHS INCLUDE:

• Program Management Project Management Business Analysis
• Process Design Process Improvements Enterprise Architecture
• Change Management Risk Management Quality Assurance

SKILL:

Project Management: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Excel, Powerpoint, JIRA, Confluence, Rally, Requirement Analysis, ROI Analysis, Costing and Budgeting, Project Scheduling, QA/Rollout/Support, Cross Functional Supervision, Team Building/Mentoring, Client Relations & Presentations, Business & IT Planning, Vendor Management, Multitasking

Languages/API: Core Java, J2EE, Swings, Struts, Spring, Faces, Hibernate, Web Services, Servelts, JSP, Javascript, JDBC, RMI, JMS, JNDI, XML, ANT, Shell, Perl, HTML, Maven, JSON, C++, AJAX, Jquery, Izpack, Jql, amazon webservices, ETL, SAP

Concepts: Object Oriented Analysis and Design (UML, Design Patterns, Refactoring), Synchronization, Multithreading, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, SOA, SAAS, Cloud-based, CICD, SAFe, Lean Product Development

IDE/Servers: BEA Weblogic, Websphere, Apache, Tomcat, Eclipse,NetBeans

Tools: ClearCase, CVS, VSS, Junit, log4j ClearDDTS, SVN, Wireshark, Confluence, Jira, Fish eye, DOORS, JUnit, GreenHopper, Voxeo, Sharepoint, Jenkins, Autosys, Selenium, Cucumber

Databases: Oracle, Postgres, MS Sql

Operating System: Unix, Linux, Solaris,Windows 95/98/200x, DOS

Protocols: SOAP, SMTP, INAP, GSM, CAMEL, MAP, TCAP, CCS7, MTP1, MTP2, MTP3, SCCP, SIP, RADIUS, DIAMETER, VOIP, CDMA, FTP, SERIAL COMM, TCP/IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved with the project from Contract negotiations, POC development for RFP to the Go Live phase.
• Responsible for defining/managing project scope, objectives, estimates, cost budget, staffing, resources, timelines and deliverables.
• Responsible for managing/coordinating development teams, System/User Test teams, client teams through development/Integration/UAT/PVT cycle
• Responsible for creating project plans (IDP, MLP, HLP, Sprint Plan, Communication Plan, Performance testing plan, Security(FISMA,FEDRAMP) compliance plan, Go Live Plan, RACI, Weekly Status Reports, and Dashboard) that identify key issues, approaches and performance metrics
• Plan and schedule sprint timelines and project milestones in agile environment by collaborating functional scrum teams and stakeholders to meet the commitments.
• Closely monitor the test execution, reviewing the forecast Vs actual test case execution and reporting to the leadership teams.
• Facilitate the Testing process (Sprint, End to End, User Acceptance, PVT, Automation), developing test plans and working with QA team on tools, process and procedures.
• Plan course of the project(s), including milestones, resources needed, budget, use of technology and tools and document in project plan, following established project management methodology.
• Assess compliance of development process with accepted methodology and communicate to responsible managers or staff. Document exceptions or deviations as needed. Convene meetings and plan agenda to ensure important issues are aired and resolved.
• Interact with the SMEs to document critical technical/functional processes for project teams /guidance
• Report on progress of project, use of staff, $ expenditures, progress on milestones to stakeholders.
• Prepare executive level presentations, status reports for executive meetings, steering committees, product demonstration.
• Interact with various cross-functional support teams for services varying from Quality checkpoints, Release Management, Infrastructure setup, Upstream/Downstream application coordination
• Monitor quality assurance measures and KPI Metrics.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder/leadership meetings involving business and technical group, and product demonstration
• Plan and conduct requirements elicitation meetings with the business to collect functional and non-functional requirements
• Identify risks, create mitigation plans, and resolve project issues and dependencies.
• Create Change Control Plan and manage Change Requests related to scope, time, cost and budget
• Create Go Live Plan and plan/manage/monitor activities for final production deployment.
• Create Support and Maintenance Plan after Go Live and track activities required to onboard Support team.
• Create plan to adhere to compliances such as FISMA, Performance SLA, Security, SISR.
• Follow up on dependencies, remove impediments and keep team focused in changing environments.

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead Integration Initiative of Various Departments and Solutions and provided overall vision and strategy for the effort.
• Lead and managed cross-functional projects teams - Offshore teams, Business teams, IT support & Operational teams - towards a successful implementation of the portals
• Key member from IT to be part of the working group sessions organized by Business for Scope & project planning for future phases of the project
• Directed the planning, design, execution of data mapping, coordination of the integration requirements and efforts between different teams, daily monitoring of progress against plan, issue tracking, status reporting and risk management.
• Developed strategic Enterprise project charters, business case documents, scope documentation, project planning, executing, monitoring & controlling
• Developed project plans, sprint cadence for project, portfolio implementations.
• Managed Automation team in writing scripts using Selenium
• Lead, and coached multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles.
• Assessed and resolved all high priority project risks as they are identified.
• Engaged with Business during the Scoping and Analysis, helping the business to carve out the key requirements/functionalities to be delivered during different phases of the projects
• Managed the delivery of business change and technical solutions that are determined appropriate.
• Interacted with information security team in assessing the vulnerabilities and risk management and resolving appropriately
• Engaged in business process development and reengineering, budgeting, resource allocation and administrative operations.
• Work with individual teams, database resources, IT and functional staff from both source and target systems to drive the development of an integrated plan required to support the final cut and go-live from source systems to integrated solution.
• Provided Project Status Reports to the Executive Steering Committee, PMO and other key stakeholders
• Performed Business Processes Gap Analysis and recommend the changes required to close the gaps.
• Worked on large data sets to create reports and dashboards.
• Coordinated teams in different geography (US and India)

Confidential

Agile coach and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Played a dual role of agile coach and scrum master.
• Held workshops to train client on Being Agile, Agile principles, Scrum fundamentals, stories, task boards, burn-down charts, and other radiators.
• Coached teams through planning, standups, demos, retrospectives, product backlog prioritization, refinement and sizing using planning poker, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review
• Facilitated release planning sessions and assisted product owner with backlog creation, prioritization, and splitting user stories.
• Ensured team was on track for each 3 weeks delivery and ensured deliveries / documentation met the criteria of “Done”.
• Facilitated the team in removing impediments, which enhanced the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goals.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the project, meeting with Business users to gather requirements/enhancements for application/Feeds enhancements,
• Review impact of design/architecture, Perform data analysis as needed,
• Manage vendor teams (onsite/offshore)
• Provide project status to Sponsors and Stakeholders on the progress of the project.
• Key PMO team member in construction planning, and supervising/reviewing enterprise architecture of new and existing projects.
• Responsible for defining/managing project scope, objectives, estimates, cost budget, staffing, resources, timelines and deliverables.
• Developing strategic IT Enterprise project charters, business case documents, scope documentation, project planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and reporting on services management, operations of client services, release management, and product support
• Experienced in identifying areas of operational improvement and applying program/project management methodologies to partner with internal customer’s
• Responsible for reviewing As-Is Process, conduct gap analysis and finalize To-Be Process with goal of optimizing the provisioning process and implement the same

Confidential

Sr. System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identifying, defining and documenting the Business needs, objectives and success criteria in project charter.
• Acting as a liaison between Business, IT groups and third party Vendors.
• Participate in Product Roadmap development. Identify the key product specifications, prioritize the product features and drive the design sessions.
• Conducting sessions between cross-functional groups. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results
• Preparing BRDs, FRDs, Use cases, Process Flows, Test cases, System Requirements Specifications.
• Assisted Automation team in writing use cases for automation scripts using Selenium and Cucumber
• Analyzing, and creating Use Case Narratives, Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams, Data/Flow/Navigational flow diagram using UML Tools like MS Visio.
• Maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for tracking the BRDs, FRDs and test cases using QTP, Doors
• Facilitating defects triage, root cause analysis and prioritizing defects.
• Present the results of research and impact analysis to the client and help to build the strategy to handle the impacts, dependencies and risks
• Assisting the project manager for the smooth transition of the project phases i.e. Initiation, Planning, Design & Develop, Monitor and Control and Closing.

Confidential

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage, develop, maintain and upgrade proprietary products and custom client projects.
• System architect and Lead of ILEX division.
• Co-ordinate design and implementation of applications collaborating with engineering teams and client representatives to ensure on-time completion of project deliverables.
• Provide technical leadership to junior engineers, developing overall project architecture.
• Product Manager for SutronWin web service and Tempest Suite.
• Responsible for production support, monthly releases and enhancements.
• Represent company in domestic/ international hydrological - meteorological and alert-users conferences.
• Travel to monitor installation and deployments on client sites and do .
• Write proposals based on scope of work. Work closely with sales team.
• Implemented online system(JIRA) for testing documentation, tracking and reporting that provides sharing of test plans/result among team members, reducing testing cycle duration, decreasing testing platform duplication and improving tracking of proven trouble spots.
• Responsible for setting up queues, topics, troubleshooting various issues with messaging in development /QA/production.
• Played key role in developing, launching and enhancing Domsat Protocol Convertor product.
• Coded web designed interfaces using Java, XML, XSL, AJAX,Cloud,Restful Web services and JWS.

Confidential

Senior Java-Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed ‘proof of concept’ product, made presentation to the management, obtained approval and implemented java product as framework for BLET utility which reduced cost of porting to 11 operating systems; seamlessly merged application across UNIX and Windows platform.
• Responsible for product specification, service architecture specification, service component specification and network function sheet; increased 30 % efficiency in company processes.
• Extended 24*7 support to customer (in Australia) for any issue on live platform and live services.
• Onsite developer support for Network integration team and module lead for the testing team in Sydney.
• Responsible for load and performance testing on the client simulated environment in Belgium; reduced server load 14%.
• Designed server side components and created servlets and stored procedures; increased data retrieval speed 10%.
• Coded data migration logic to ensure cross platform compatibility.

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Charged with coding, testing, making installers and integrating enhanced web applications.
• Developed login, interface, utility gui’s and functionality using sql based storage.
• Gathered user requirements and documented them.
• Involved in testing and customer support.