SUMMARY:

• Seasoned IT Professional with over 18 years of industry experience, rising through the ranks from Programmer Analyst to Senior Product Manager/Product Owner.
• Over 10 years of Technical Project management experience with a successful track record of implementing several medium to large, full cycle, enterprise class projects for Industry leaders like Confidential and Confidential .
• Project Management Professional and sound exposure to the concepts of Project management as per Confidential
• Ability to produce realistic software schedules, Project Management and Business Analysis.
• Strong understanding of Agile software development, and SDLC
• Possess sound client relationship handling experience
• Experience in Waterfall and Agile Methodology (including working as a scrum master)
• Expertise in using PMP and Business Tools such as JIRA, Service Desk
• Strong Skills to Manage internal and vendor teams with deployment of information technology applications, data and infrastructure
• Strong documentation, reporting skills and leadership skills in the strategic vision and benefits of applications
• Extensive experience, leading a DevOps team
• Extensive experience in supporting cloud infrastructure
• Drove mobile web experience
• Support multiple projects concurrently

STRENGTHS:

• Powerful project planning and implementation skills - delivery focused.
• Reliably meeting demanding deadlines and targets working under pressure.
• Able to identify and manage project scope, schedule and budget.
• Utilizing and managing project resources through performance monitoring and project evaluation, resulting in completion of projects on time.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously even with conflicting priorities.
• Effective communication and negotiation techniques, with an ability to convey difficult technical issues to all levels of business.
• Highly adaptive to changing upper management and changing business requirements.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

• Comprehensive knowledge of tools and applications from inception throughout implementation, training and maintenance.
• Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Software Defined Networking
• Extensive experience of Enterprise Application development
• Proven record of rapidly assimilating and utilizing new technologies
• Coordinating activities to manage and implement a portfolio of interrelated projects from proposal initiation to final operational stage for large enterprise-wide solutions.
• Monitoring and controlling resources, revenue and capital costs against the program budget and that each project budget delivers business benefit commensurate within project budget.
• Planning, scheduling and executing all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations.
• Assessing business implications for each project phase and monitoring progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets.
• Articulating project goals and scope, translating business needs into technical terms, preparing detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilling shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
• Leading project teams and managing all activities in a project life-cycle (initiation planning, executing/controlling, and closing)
• Responsible for end-to-end management of the projects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Las Vegas

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects in a matrix environment
• Responsible for budgets on multiple projects (up to over a million dollars)
• Lead the team in creating the project plan, the resource plan, and made sure that timelines were adhered
• Reported status and progress to management
• Responsible for timely completion of projects, if a project was off track, had to make a plan for and bring it back on track
• Extensive use of Microsoft Project, Clarity and Open Work Bench tools in order to run the projects

Confidential, Portland

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• The clients for my team are developers and engineers within Confidential
• Work extensively with Agile methodologies to enable team to work quickly, assess priorities continuously and adjust accordingly
• Worked as scrum master for the team
• Projects crossed more than one line of business
• Teams mainly dealt with DevOps and Software Defined Networking
• Work extensively with AWS as the primary focus of my team is to automate moving all teams to the cloud.
• Knowledge of AWS and its architecture crucial to my role
• Work directly with the customers to get requirements and feedback and prioritized future work accordingly
• Create a backlog of tasks that need to be accomplished working with the engineers so that a roadmap could be created which would be used to set expectations
• This makes the team efficient and responsive to customer needs, also made sure engineers always knew what was expected.
• Manage and develop enhancements of infrastructure tools using Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Define the scope, objective and deliverables of the projects, including review of user requests and participating in decisions regarding project feasibility and direction from a technical perspective
• Coordinate and approve business requirements
• Develop detailed work plans, tasks, priorities and resources to implement the defined strategies
• Define and manage project success and delivery criteria using modern full stack development languages

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Team dealt with SDN and deployments
• Manage all interaction with the client including their business team, their technical project manager and their technical team.
• Oversee telecommunication and converged systems projects from inception to implementation.
• Work with the internal Confidential Global Deployment Team and customer staff to identify project resources, tasks and assign individual responsibilities.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans and other related documents based on the project design.

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate activities to manage and implement a portfolio of interrelated projects from proposal initiation to final operational stage for large enterprise-wide solutions.
• Monitor and control resources, revenue and capital costs against the program budget and that each project budget delivers business benefit commensurate within project budget.
• Lead, coach and motivate the professional services team, ensuring understanding of the company vision and values, utilization and revenue targets, maximum teamwork and co-operation with all areas and divisions of the company and the highest levels of service provision.
• Major initiatives included introducing a companywide CRM system, starting a section for social media initiative for the marketing department and setting up web sites for the company and partner corporations.
• Planned, scheduled and executed all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets.

Confidential

Project Manager / Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Took the initiative for and was the proponent and a key player in changing the entire architecture of the code as well the processes used in the company.
• Develop, negotiate and document project goals, requirements/success criteria and the project plans and schedules to achieve them in collaboration with project sponsors, management and stakeholders this included a complete review of existing code as well as coding practices and redesigning the entire system.
• Estimate resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Lead project executions per plan, schedule and budget.
• Track project milestones and deliverables and oversee quality control throughout the project life cycle.

Confidential, San Francisco

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of five programmers and made decisions that drove the entire team.
• Liaison with the business group, as well programmers outside my team to make sure requirements were clear, deadlines were reasonable and were always met.
• Made sure al the programmers were on course and identified, anticipated and resolved any issues that could cause delays.
• Undertook complex systems designs for both interim and long-term solutions in order to ensure selection of appropriate technology, functional requirements, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• A hands on lead programming role with experience and efficiency in the use of various software languages.
• Undertook complex flexible programming tasks in the development and implementation of application systems.
• Ensured software solutions were fit for purpose and meet organizational requirements.

Confidential, Las Vegas

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Headed the web development team.
• Work with the head of the Vegas office to propose and implement new techniques and solutions.
• Transform these ideas into working software code.