SUMMARY:Project Manager, senior-level qualified, with 15 years of experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, most recently with a Fortune 500 company. Possess strong technical background having risen up from the ranks and business acumen required to deliver solutions that meet the organizational needs. A firm believer in team work with the ability to mentor and lead a team of diverse skill sets. United States Citizen.

Summary of Qualifications

• Experience working in a formalized Project Management Office (PMO)
• Managing global projects in matrix organizational structure
• Managed projects under Agile and Waterfall techniques
• Extensive experience in planning, tracking and coordinating projects through systems development life cycle (SDLC)
• Detailed understanding of software testing and Quality Assurance (QA) methods/processes
• Excellent communication skills, flexible and able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• Able to multi-task and PM multiple projects simultaneously
• Self-motivated and able to work independently
• Experienced with MS Project & MS Office suite: Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Tools, Technologies, Languages

• J2EE Application Servers: IBM WebSphere, Tomcat
• Enterprise Application Integration Servers: Vitria BusinessWare
• XML-related: DOM, XSLT, DTD/XML Schema, Web Services
• C++/C: CORBA client-server development on multiple UNIX operating systems
• UML, Unified Modeling Language: Rational Rose tool suite; Visio
• Build/Scripting languages: Ant, Make, UNIX shells
• Version control systems: CVS, PVCS
• Oracle PL/SQL, application database development

Confidential,Ashburn, VA 2000 to Present
Project Manager
Manage several large scale ordering and provisioning programs simultaneously. Responsible for determination of all application areas impacted and oversee the complete software development cycle. Lead a team of 3-6 Project Managers in the normal development and test cycle.

• Managed an annual budget of $12M across multiple projects by balancing business needs against targeted project deliveries.
• Facilitate requirements sessions and signoff.
• Create and maintain stakeholder list, project plans and dependencies.
• Serve as the portfolio point of contact (POC) to coordinate efforts with other Project Managers within and across portfolios.
• Facilitate all related planning meetings – RGS, JAD, etc.
• Hold periodic review sessions with clients and IT teams to manage and communicate progress of programs.
• Gather estimates for all impacted applications.
• Used EVM to evaluate variances and forecasted future performance to key stakeholders.
• Coordinate design walkthroughs.
• Identify risks to the project and plans to mitigate. Track issues to resolution.
• Initiate and manage change control requests and escalations when necessary.
• Provide regular updates to tools for project status, issues, milestones, etc.
• Report Status to Executives – Issues, Risks, Action Items, Problem Resolution.
• Facilitate lessons learned sessions at the end of each phase to guide future product releases.

Technical Lead
Led projects through their full life cycle and designed and developed software to integrate applications, databases, and workflow systems for both internal and external partner B2B (business-to-business) systems.

• Coordinated with teams from different IT systems within the company and also from outside of the company during the various stages of the Integration projects.
• Prepared accurate estimates and contributed to the scooping efforts of projects.
• Developed work plans, task sequencing and test procedures for the Integration projects.
• Led the analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance of software modules.
• Prepared functional specification & detailed design documents for various Interfaces.
• Worked with business analysts to identify, address and solve production issues.
• Conducted all Configuration Management Lead responsibilities.
• Mentored junior and mid-level developers.

Confidential,McLean, VA 1999 to 2000
Senior Programmer Analyst
Redesigned and maintained a module of the company’s proprietary product.

• Implemented code changes for System Investigation Request fixes.
• Worked on a functional specification and detailed design documents for the bill payment business module.
• Provided use cases detailing the bill payment business module.
• Provided various sequence flow diagrams for the different API’s of the bill payment business module.

Confidential,McLean, VA 1998 to 1999
Programmer Analyst
Developed software for internal clients based on the business needs of the organization.

• Partnered with team that implemented the custom application server in C++ in the middle layer using Transarc’s (IBM company) Ensina/Corba product.
• Specified Interface Definitions, to communicate between front end GUI and middle layer.

Confidential,Indianapolis, IN 1997 to 1998

Developed a proprietary product called ‘IDS viewer’, a Microsoft windows based viewing application written using Visual C++ that publishes GIS data in a highly compressed & protected format on an optical media.

• Developed highly complex mathematical utility programs to convert detailed geo spatial information from different data formats to a standard format that the ‘Ids viewer’ application can interpret.
• Developed prototypes publishing various utilities, cities data on a CD-ROM.

Confidential,Indianapolis, IN 1995 to 1999

• Graduate Student Assistant, for the Department of Computers & Information Science.

• MS Computer Science
• MS Mathematics & Statistics