SUMMARY:

• 18+ Years of IT Experience as Java developer, Lead, Architect, Tech PM, Scrum Master & Program Manager
• Project Management professional with an outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills, with the ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure.
• Proven experience in spearheading high - visibility technology projects. Strategic leader over multidisciplinary teams and enterprise transformation projects. Expert in implementing and evangelizing lean agile frameworks across enterprise-wide business functions. Demonstrated track record in driving savings through innovation and business acumen.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools & Technologies: MS-Project, Planview, VersionOne, Jira, Eclipse, Java/J2EE, Spring, EJB, Webservices, ORACLE, MS SQL, SQL, PL/SQL, Mobile App Development (iOS/Android), Angular, AWS, Unix, etc.

Methodologies:: Waterfall, Iterative Development, Agile Scrum, Agile SAFe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master / Program Manager

• As a Program Manager, currently managing Selling portfolio; duration: 1+ years; budget: $10M; resources: 35
• Managing Budget, Contracts, Master Service Agreements (MSA’s), SOWs, Amendments, Business Case, Resource planning, etc.
• Taking care of multiple projects, serving as an escalation point for issues, risks, stakeholder expectation, resources, finances and project performance.
• Managing 35+ resources. Set individual/team goals, measure performance and provide feedback periodically.
• Weekly and Monthly governance meetings and reporting
• As a Tech Project Manager & Scrum Master, currently Managing complex multiyear Selling S2S API Project for multiple Contract and Loan submissions for Sellers and SMAs using Webservices platform
• Budget - 5M+; resources - 20+; Duration - 1+ years; Impact: Enhanced Customer experience
• Managed Agile iteration planning through delivery. Facilitated scrum ceremonies.
• Ensured robust stakeholder management and engagement through Agile practices and communications.
• Acted as communication liaison between multiple teams, business and higher-level management to include presentations, documentation and milestones.
• Created a project roadmap based on understanding of business objectives and business priorities.
• Led cross-functional cross-team meetings and came up with program level planning
• Provided architectural and design recommendations to Tech Lead and project team
• Implemented best practices and coding standards across the project duration

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

• Managed project from inception to the closure
• Participated in pipeline evaluation, scope, initiation, planning, monitoring, risk management and delivery of the project
• Acted as communication liaison between multiple teams, business and higher-level management to include presentations, documentation and milestones.
• Worked closely with the project team in requirements, design and development of the application and provided architecture and design recommendations to the team.
• Taken care of all project management tasks - project plan, budget and invoicing, risk management, resource management, status reporting, etc.
• Worked directly with customer to define and develop metrics to measure key indicators including value, efficiency, effectiveness and progress to meet business goals.
• Improved stability of Application releases by reducing the defects causing incidences by about 30%.
• Attracted, developed and retained high performing talent solving niche problems by setting goals, managing expectations and continuously motivating, training directs and other leads/associates.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master

• Managed application development of multiple projects
• Engaged with Business Partners and Third-party vendors for preparing for architectural vision and strategy to meet Business needs.
• Managed Dashboards and Budget - Prepared Team goals, Forecasted Demand and Capacity, Accruals and monthly Budget variance analysis across portfolio.
• Lead analysis and sign-offs of User/Functional Requirements across multiple applications on a Release to Release basis and tracked the requirements tightly through version controls. Managed delivery of User Stories, Interface Controls, Solutions specification, UML diagrams for consistent results in team.
• Coordinate with various vendors for Development, QA, UAT and Deployment tasks.
• Key liaison between business and project teams, and managed all stakeholder communication.
• Worked as Scrum master for one of the projects. As part of this, I was responsible for: Running Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning, Backlog Prioritization, Retrospective, removing road blocks and ensuring team stay on track with organization and program goals.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

• Negotiated contract and the estimates with the customer
• Lead the project from initiation to the delivery
• Ensured business requirements are suitably defined, understood and signed off
• Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings
• Worked closely with product owner on product backlog and grooming and conducted demos on the product to various stakeholder
• Provided recommendations to Technical Analysis, Application Architecture & Design
• Resolved critical dependencies such as VPN setup, Device procurement
• Identified risks & provided mitigation plan along with timely communication to the stakeholders
• Worked with cross-functional teams - Dev, QA, UX/VD & BAs.
• Taken care of budget planning, forecasting and invoicing

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

• Driven the project from initiation through the delivery and taken care of customer engagement, project planning and execution, resource management and the delivery.
• Worked with business and development teams on requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation
• Provided recommendations to application architecture and database design
• Re-estimated the revised changes and negotiated with the customer on approvals
• Prepared detailed project plan using MPP tool
• Troubleshooted technical, performance and security issues and provided resolution
• Performed code reviews and provided recommendations and best practices
• Owned change management and convinced the client on quality and schedule impact
• Provided status reporting on daily and weekly basis to the customer and internal stakeholders and timely communicated on issues and risks
• Provided maintenance and support - incident handling, change request management, OS and SDK upgrades, etc.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

• Taken care of end to end management tasks - estimation, project planning, resource planning, risk management, status reporting, etc.
• Helped the SAs to develop the requirements by facilitating meetings with client SMEs
• Facilitated Architecture and design discussions and contributed to the design document
• Provided design walkthrough and requirements walkthrough to the client team
• Reviewed the code and provided my inputs on coding standards, performance improvements, etc.
• Worked closely with UX team in coming up with UI screens
• Supported mobile apps deployment to Play store and App stores

Confidential

Sr. Java Developer

Highlights:

• Involved in requirements analysis and documentation
• Contributed to application architecture and design
• Web application development Java/J2EE technologies
• Developed Webservices
• Worked on database design, queries and stored procedures
• Taken care of build and deployment activities
• Provided product support

Confidential

Java Developer

• Worked on Requirements analysis and preparation of Functional specs
• Developed of UI pages with HTML, JSP and Java script
• Developed business logic using Servlets
• Worked on database design, developed queries and stored procedures