SUMMARY:

• Highly skilled professional with more than thirteen years of experience in planning, coordinating, managing and administering multiple program using Agile, Waterfall and RUP methodologies within matrix environments.
• Experienced to manage cross - functional teams with collaborative approach
• Partners with Product development Project Management team for process integration to implement collaborative team framework for continuous progress.
• Leverage insights and market knowledge to enhance connectivity and collaboration between our strategy partners within our business units, Regions and other business partners
• Leads and facilitates cross-functional team meetings comprised of internal and external resources for the development of project plans and project progress to ensure on-going alignment across functions.
• Establishes relationships based on trust and respect to successfully manage onshore and offshore teams.
• Develops and maintains successful networks and relationships with key leaders across functional area to ensure projects are supported and delivered successfully
• Coach and mentor teams and the organization on Agile/Scrum practices to continuously improve outcomes
• Facilitated the sharing of knowledge and leading edge procurement concepts as appropriate.
• Effectively collaborate with business owners and product managers to determine business needs and create functional requirements.
• Ability to resolve conflict and influence teams without enforcing formal authority.
• Leverages excellent communication skills to establish collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders and regulatory authorities.
• Proven experience in working systematically with various product management tools
• A strong problem solver and organizer, able to prioritize and multi-task while managing multiple projects.
• Experience in managing program/product teams for various projects including Cloud based tool implementation, Oracle life science hub (LSH), data warehouse legacy system, along with various Salesforce based system implementation, integration, cyber security, and artificial intelligence Projects

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Program Management
• Project management life cycle
• Supply chain management
• Portfolio management
• Process Improvement
• Team Leadership
• Strategic Leadership
• Risk Analysis & Risk Management
• Risk Assessment
• Managing Project Plans
• Managing Project Timelines
• Identifying Resource Needs
• Defining Project Scope
• Project Scheduling & Status Reports
• Identifying Interdependencies
• Defining Project Deliverables
• Transformation Program Management
• SDLC Process
• Agile, Waterfall & RUP
• Scrum Master & Scrum Retrospective
• Relationship Management
• Documentation & Research
• Stakeholder Management
• Change Management
• Delivery Management
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Sprint Planning and Review
• & Staff Management
• Strategic alignment
• Business Intelligence
• Process Workflows & SOPs
• Cross-Functional Team Management
• Vendor Management
• Communications Management
• Strategy & Customer Relationship
• AI & cloud project management
• Business and IT Alignment
• Service Management
• Procurement Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management / Workflow: Microsoft Project, Program Project Management (PPM), Workfront-Enterprise System, Office365, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM), Q-Doc, Learning management system (LMS), RAVE, MS Visio, Brightwork

Modeling: Sharp Cloud, JIRA, Access, Track Wise, SPOTFIRE

Document Management: HotDoc, RAPID (Documentum), Adobe LiveCycle, DocuSign, eDOC, SharePoint

Other: RAVE, DAVE, LSH (Oracle Life Science Hub), Lotus Notes, Xinet, Mediaocean, Ariba, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Agile PLM (Product life cycle management), Salesforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ & CA

Program Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Identify as well as prioritize program risks and streamline mitigation in advance where feasible
• Work closely with the Portfolio Manager and PMO Operations to identify and promote best practices and continuous improvement in PMO processes, systems, tools and reports
• Oversee financial operations, scheduling, resource requirements, and integration efforts for multiple projects
• Act as the primary project interface to the customer to ensure project plan and contractual commitments are met
• Work with a global IT team and key stakeholders to develop as well as maintain program/ project plans
• Independently manage/resolve complex scheduling and resources conflicts across global project team
• Utilize risk assessment and program management expertise to anticipate problems to find solutions

Confidential, NJ

Program Integration Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Carried out planning and managing complete life cycle of large-scaled projects, with competing resources, priorities, and multiple stakeholders. Led by example with excellent diligence, planning, analysis, and communication.
• Developed presentations, visualizations, dashboards, KPI’s and other analytical tools to facilitate timely communication of findings, strategic insights, and recommendations to stakeholders, including executive management
• Presented findings and recommendations to all internal and external stakeholders, including executive management
• Created and proposed Portfolio management framework as well as Partial Agile (Fusion Framework of Agile and Waterfall) project management process for clinical and Data Science & Analytics projects at Bayer

Confidential, NJ

Program Manager/ Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated, planned, and executed new product launch successfully through Agile SDLC for biopharma products.
• Supported and addressed elements including organizational, departmental, and framework change management
• Participated and facilitated senior stakeholder steering committees, program advisory boards, risk assessment, scope management, escalation management, and communication management
• Facilitated input from IT Operations and other line of business teams to ensure project timelines are realistic
• Collaborated with business unit leaders to understand requirements to ensure configuration changes are met
• Provided on business process and clinical programs to various departments for global program team
• Developed comprehensive program plans that identified objectives, strategy, risks & risk mitigation, budget, effort estimates and schedule for new product development. Lead project teams of 20 up to 50 resources
• Identified opportunities for improving overall business performance of the program
• Overseen and managed all aspects of US and global program team for various programs

Confidential, Newark, NJ & Irvine, CA

Operations Associates Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and oversaw the team that supported project workflow, requirements gathering, media purchase and production finance tools.
• Provided coaching, developed and provided continuous feedback to project team members.
• Increased communication across cross-functional team, managed burndown chart, sprint retrospective, and review.
• Collaborated with global colleagues to develop and leverage key market and competitive insights
• Worked collaboratively with the Program Manager and VP to follow the legal and vendor governance process
• Assembled project plans and teamwork assignments, directed and monitored daily work efforts, identified resource needs, performed quality review, and escalated functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately
• Supported governance council to ensure business priorities are aligned, agreed upon while progress was monitored
• Tracked program/portfolio data and leveraged information to help organization track key performance indicators

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Scrum Master/ Program Associate

Responsibilities:

• Implemented strategic business process modeling, traceability, program administration, and Quality control.
• Managed risk analysis, mitigation and communication plans, status reports, work breakdown Structure.
• Trained global project team & external vendors on GCP compliance
• Provided guidance to core team members in resolving conflicts and clearing barriers to maintain effective and timely progress towards project completion.

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst / Program manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 11 to 25 employees. Gathered, analyzed and prioritized business and project requirements.
• Managed risk analysis, mitigation and communication plans, status reports, Work Breakdown Structure ( Confidential ) and client presentations for Project Managers. Collaborated with product launch team to finalize business rules.
• Excellent business acumen including agility with business complexity and ability to identify processes for change
• Managed external vendors. Partnered with QA to create front-end system test documents while facilitating end user testing and for salesforce based tools.
• Created compliance, quality and risk management plans. Developed and managed project strategies, plans and budget scenarios for PMO (program mgmt.). Re-engineered and streamlined complex business processes.
• Reduced work time and costs up to 30% by implementing in-house semi-automated integration solution.

Confidential, Kenilworth, NJ

Program Manager / Sr. Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided project administration support at portfolio level and reviewed change orders.
• Documented lessons learned, meeting minutes, project updates and scheduled meetings.
• Performed quality review. Developed and maintained project schedules.
• Escalated risk and issues when required.