SUMMARY

• Accomplished portfolio and program leader offering 18 years of IT experience in diverse environments, establishing software development life cycle (SDLC) processes & procedures, managing global multi - site projects, teaming with clients, internal employees and vendors
• Helped clients migrate from traditional waterfall to scaled agile scrum processes to efficiently and effectively deliver projects. Mentored several teams to adopt agile and helped them deliver consistent velocity
• Managed all aspects of Agile development through Scrum process delivering quality products that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. Expert in JIRA.
• Led geographically separated, culturally diverse global teams in onshore-onshore and onshore-offshore model for executing projects through innovative and realistic plans. Experience in building and fostering high performing, collaborative teams based on trust, honesty, commitment to organizational goals and delivering to expectations
• Excellent track record in collaborating with business leaders, IT vendors, architects, leaders and suppliers and delivering breakthrough financial performance working through different contract types - Fixed Price (FP) and Time and Material (T&M)
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI and Certified Scrum Master Professional (CSM) and hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering (B.Tech.) from IIT Kharagpur
• Extensive Program/Service Delivery management experience with end to end delivery ownership for large teams across onsite & offshore
• Expertise in Project Planning, Scope Management, Change Management, Risk Management & Analysis, Resource loading and Resource leveling (sharing resources), Team building, Budgeting & Project Cost Control, Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management, continuous process improvement and Sales Support activities (Proposals for RFPs)
• Played Mergers & Acquisition Program Manager and led post-merger integration planning and executions from start to finish. Led Big Data (Hadoop ecosystem) project to deliver a fast turn patient analytics solution
• Strategist and communicator; Considerable hands-on experience with knee-deep-in-the-trenches-with-sleeves-rolled-up attitude. Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, problem solving and grasping skills. Planned and managed multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains
• Hands-on knowledge of React JavaScript UI Framework, NodeJS, Express, Microsoft .NET technologies (including ASP.NET, VB, C#, SQL Server), Oracle PL/SQL Queries, and Python

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile-Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Kanban, System Development Lifecycle, Waterfall-Scrum, IT Operations, Risk analysis, Gap analysis, Stakeholders analysis, Gap analysis

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Microsoft SharePoint Server, MS Visio, JIRA, Confluence, Rally, VersionOne, Aha

Operating System: Window, Linux (Red Hat)

Projects: Waterfall/Kanban to Scrum transition, Agile Scrum to Scaled Agile (SAFe) Framework transition, Bigdata Hadoop ecosystem, Security Architecture, Analytics BI, Merger and Acquisition, Amazon Cloud, Risk Mitigation, etc

Others: Microsoft Power BI Reporting tool, MS Office, BMC Remedy, Virtual Machine (VM Ware), Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL, HP ALM, HP QC, Informatica Power Center

Knowledge on: React JS, Redux Reducers, Redux Thunk/Saga, ES6+, Axios, Immer, Lodash, Formik, JQuery, AJAX, JWT, JSON, Microsoft .NET technologies(including ASP.NET, VB, C#, SQL Server), Mongo DB, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, HTML5, CSS3, JSS, SASS, Python, Matplotlib, Pandas

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

Scrum Master and Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Initiated the project using agile scrum methodology and guided the team to adopt this framework
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Story creation, estimation and prioritization, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums/Standups, Sprint Review and release planning
• Provided daily communications, scrum notes, sprint reviews reports, and regular snapshots of project velocity and budget burn rate
• Manage the reporting and resolution of issues, risks and dependencies, proactively identifying potential planning gaps, suggesting mitigations to risks, actions to close issues or complete open items
• Provide thought leadership and analytical rigor to identify operational and integration issues, developing solutions, and driving decision making and escalation across multiple stakeholders
• Prepare dashboard & Executive presentations and conduct monthly Governance steering meeting with Client Executive Leadership Team
• Developed the implementation road map and detailed plan for the post-merger integration
• Acted as agile coach to create accelerated delivery of applications by forming high-performance scrum team
• Facilitated cross-functional coordination (Infrastructure, Analytics, Automation, Integration group) and communications between business units and functional group within Cegedim and IMS
• Managed budget, expenses and other day-to-day activities of the program
• Conducted periodic review of risk analysis, change control and scope and provided timely mitigation to avoid schedule delays
• Coordinated with downstream system owners to make sure impact on consuming system is identified and gap is thoroughly documented to avoid any late-stage risk
• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint reviews/demos, retrospective, sprint planning and grooming sessions
• Coordinate with various stakeholders to make sure impediments are removed and team velocity is not impacted
• Manage budget, expenses and other day-to-day activities of the program
• Manage and control multiple projects simultaneously with cross-functional teams
• Periodic review of all technical issues, risks and mitigation with steering group

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing the programs for successful end to end delivery
• Drive day to day delivery and execution of cross-functional migration program plan, tracking key milestones and deliverables; executive dashboards; transaction timeline/key events; development of Integration Plan; identify and resolve integration issues
• Facilitated inventory collection working closely with Stat and Analytics group for gathering proof points and other performance metrics
• Closely worked with offshore team to make sure CRs are handled appropriately and SAS/WPS comparative analysis is completed on time

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned and managed the entire effort from start to finish
• Tracked budget, expense, actual and forecast to keep variance low
• Coordinated with vendors to ensure smooth running of the project
• Managed the effective utilization of resources assigned to the project team, and proactively communicate resource capacity and shortages
• Participated in vendor selection process
• Facilitated coordination with Vendor (ProtonMedia), Confidential ’s infrastructure team and identity federation team for rolling out the product to MRL users org-wide
• Established procedures and process flows for the roll-out
• Adopted several solution accelerators including automation for content/data transfer

Scrum Master and Solution Manager

Responsibilities:

• Helped entire team to adopt agile scrum framework
• Acted as Scrum Master for the project to help team keep aligned with scrum processes
• Architected the integration solution for integrating disparate systems
• Coordinated with vendors (Plateau, TIBCO, CORE, CPAC) to make sure project objectives are met and to avoid scope creep
• Continuously providing support and guidance to the technical team to remove roadblocks
• Led end-to-end integration process from development of integration plan with milestones and timelines required to complete the integration of Plateau, provisioning systems and EDC
• Manage the reporting and resolution of issues, risks and dependencies, proactively identifying potential planning gaps, suggesting mitigations to risks, actions to close issues or complete open items
• Developed the Strategy, Approach & Rollout plan to implement and rollout ELMS. Rollout plan also included detailed transition and decommissioning plan for the legacy systems
• Developed a detailed change management plan
• Performed Readiness Assessment in preparation of the Data Migration and prepared Migration Priority Chart across all divisions
• Responsible for overseeing the programs for successful delivery from initiation through closeout
• Managed the MKN project from start to finish using agile scrum framework
• Manage and control multiple projects simultaneously with cross-functional teams
• Managed the effective utilization of resources assigned to the project team, and proactively communicate resource capacity and shortages
• Periodic review of all issues, risks and mitigation with client IT higher management

Confidential, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in creation of coding specification, system design and requirement elicitation
• Review of code, design, test plan and deployment plans
• Guiding team technically to mitigate coding challenges and to smoothly drive the projects to completion
• Periodic review of all technical issues, risks and mitigation with client IT managers
• Managed the day-to-day activities of critical projects involving external project team members to deliver tasks on time, within budget, and within scope.
• Responsible for managing, directing and planning a complex project.
• Managed the effective utilization of resources assigned to the project team, and proactively communicate resource capacity and shortages
• Leading a matrix project team in executing assigned tasks and coordinating the efforts of internal and external project team members
• Manage the project budget, and report project cost information in an accurate & timely manner. Proactively identify additional cost-savings to reduce overall project expenditures
• Proactively evaluate project activities, builds contingency plans, executes corrective action, and monitor issue resolution to mitigate risks such as scope and/or budget variances. Use Schedule and Cost Performance Indices to report to Sr. management
• Manage the scope of the project, and ensure that scope changes are reviewed and approved by the Portfolio Manager and Business Sponsor where appropriate

Confidential, NY

Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Help team in preparing coding specifications
• Review of design, code, test plans and implementation details
• Technically guide the team in resolving coding challenges
• Discuss SOA implementation with stake holders and client IT managers
• Actively participate in business requirement analysis and design Managerial
• Responsible for managing a large team with onshore-offshore model
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope
• Responsible for ensuring all business requirements are implemented and delivered as promised
• Participate in the identification and development of strategic information technology initiatives
• Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Effectively apply methodologies and enforces project standards. Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
• Manage project budget by tracking hours and expenses and comparing to plan
• Manage and direct production releases. Create and track implementation plans and escalation matrix
• Act as the single point of contact and escalation for the Application Implementation, co-ordinate with business partners for business validation
• Work closely with Business and technology teams to drive post implementation problems to resolution

Confidential, FL

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Create and review system specifications. Liaise with client to get business requirements and guide the team in implementation of the same
• Create and manage project plan and continuously track it for any changes in scope
• Review design specifications, test plans, release notes and implementation plans
• Regularly meet with the client to review project progress and discuss mitigation of risks
• Serve as a single point of contact for final deployment of each application and driving the plan by interacting with different team and stake holders
• Drive continuous improvement plans and coordinate corrective, preventative and adaptive maintenance activities
• Responsible for ensuring all deliverables are of top quality and as per business requirements
• Responsible for documenting Risks and Issues, Deliverables and Mitigation
• Documenting Risks and Issues, Deliverables, Mitigation, Impact and Workarounds