Sr. Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master Resume Parsippany, NJ - Hire IT People

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Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Sr. Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Responsible for resource planning at global level, Financial planning/budgeting, project timelines planning & sprint planning. Assigned tasks to resource managers & also directly to resources based on the project deadlines and business priorities.
Always on the top of time management by following this life cycle
Define activity, sequence activity, estimate the duration, develop schedule based on estimations & maintain the schedule to meet the projects deadline.
Strong expertise in producing products by cross-collaborating with different IT teams.
Constantly interacted with developers, BA’s, QA’s, users & solution architects to understand the progress in projects.
Worked as an efficient scrum master for PS to SAP conversion on HCM modules.
Implemented burn down & burn up charts, agile score points to arrive at MVP minimum viable product & to schedule for sprint releases & go-live dates. Constantly updated executive team regarding the progress of the project.

Tools: Management - Proficiency in JIRA, Kanban, TFS, CAPPM, MS Office, Dashboards, Tableau, Cloud & Azure.

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Responsibilities:

Arranged & facilitated daily stand-ups to ensure quick inspections & proper adaptation process.
Coached scrum team members emphasizing the importance of individuals & interactions over processes & tools.
Responsible for executing the master services agreement & master contracts with various vendors.
Proficiency in PS integrations with internal applications like carrier point, PLM & foxpro.
Responsible for generating RFP & RFI documents.
Conducted periodic review meetings to fill the gaps in RFP documents.
Always on top of cost estimation & budgeting for both in house, outsourcing & in vendor based projects.
Never went over the budget for any of the assigned projects.
Lead big teams by assigning around 50 applications to test during Co-Location project.
Constantly interacted with developer managers & BA managers to address any issues identified by the QA team.
Developed great skills interacting with vendors like Verisk for Inspections & Commercial claims project; Vendavo & also currently working with Photon for Home Owners Journey project.
Always ensured risks are identified & a mitigation plan is in place to address the risks. Update the alternative so no hurdles can stop the project from going live on the agreed dates.
Made sure that the product owner & the end user is happy about the product. Come up with support plan in case of any concerns.

Confidential

Sr. Projec t Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed huge teams of BA’s & QA’s with around 10 direct reportees. Worked as a great resource manager in identifying the right people for the right tasks.
Conduct QA & BA training programs and sessions.
Integrated the trainings into resources performances into workday & also in PS HCM.
Facilitated daily stand - up meetings and brought up any issues/concerns/risks to the CTO to avoid delays in project delivery.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Project Manager/ QA Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed large cross-functional teams of size 40.
Response IVR system which is an application built to support the execution of various securities and equities on both buy side and sell side trading.
Broker Dealers BD’s use this application with built in FIX protocol when filling orders and to track the progress of each order throughout the system.
Conducted performance reviews of direct reporters & developed a plan to improve the performance of the employees whose performance is below the accepted levels.
Established metrics and regular reporting to the organization.