CAREER SUMMARY:

Over 20+ years of diversified management and technology experience in small to large sized organizations. Proven ability to execute strategies, requirement gathering, planning, manage resources, defining and implementing processes & policies, team building, product development life cycle management, and project management over a broad range of products (Enterprise Software, Web Media, Database Software/Database Technologies, Security and Internet Software/Products). Expertise in Purchasing,, Administration and Development. Strong skills in organization, decision making, delegation, and people management. Excellent communication and management skills to deliver solutions.

• Directing and Managing technology specialists, leads, project managers and managers
• Organizational Building Activities such as staffing, promotions, vendor solicitations etc
• Employee Member of Executive Council
• Worked extensively on Waterfall, Kanban, Scrum, and Agile methodologies
• Client Relationship Management, and vendor management
• Exceptional skills in diagnostics, research, analysis and problem solving
• Knowledge Transfer Planning & Execution; Steady State Management
• Data Center Infrastructure Migration & Project Consulting using Agile Methodology
• Disaster Recovery Planning & Execution Management
• SDLC Management, Project Management using waterfall and Agile Methodologies
• Consulting/IT Applications Support
• Database Architecture/Design/Administration/Development
• Client Server Applications Design & Development
• Software Quality Assurance
• Technical Expertise in MS products
• As a Senior Project Manager, managed multiple projects in large organizations and senior professionals with a budget of upto 8Millions in IT Service Delivery.
• Used Agile/SCRUM methodology, Kanban, JIRA and Confluence for reporting, tracking stories/tasks, backlog, importing stories and assigning them.
• Member of Executive/Strategic Council of the Organization
• As a Technical Architect responsible for designing and implementing end to end infrastructure solutions for any new & existing customers.
• Responsible for meeting key IT stakeholders and architecture teams to understand future IT strategy, develop the roadmap and implement it.
• Responsible to plan and deploy IT transformation projects for Infosys customers across North America region as part of IT Infrastructure team which include persuasive presentation of new technology and solutions to various stakeholders.
• Work closely with stakeholders across multiple business segment, to ensure alignment on requests vs. projects, and proactively look for any overlooked dependencies.
• Plans and coordinates all aspects of internal information system - specific projects from initiation to IT Service delivery.
• Manages and accountable for program scope/vision and roadmap in IT Service Delivery.
• Actively track and manage program & multiple project(s) execution and communicating timeline impacts.
• Ensures all program & project objectives and requirements are clearly documented, approved and delivered to meet customer needs.
• Leading & Managing program & projects in the domain IT infrastructure platforms & associated implementation & enhancement.
• Monitoring Program Budget
• Planview tracking and reporting time/hours/budget spent.
• Leading datacenter transformation activities which include legacy infrastructure upgrade, consolidation and virtualization to converged infrastructure, defining and enhancing DR strategy for existing, new clients & driving multiple SME teams from different service lines to define and implement end-end solutions.
• Leading and mentoring the Global implementation teams to deliver the defined solution.
• Managing Tech Leads doing DevOps Tools and other infrastructure tools
• Extensive experience in installation, configuration and maintenance of SQL Server and client/server connectivity, security, backup/recovery and troubleshooting on production database. Supported hundreds of SQL Servers in onshore and offshore model Expertise in cluster installation in 2005/2008R2/2012 and applied latest patches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• RDBMS:MS SQL Server 4.2/6.0/6.5/7.0/2000/2005/2008 R2/2012, SQL Clusters, Progress 9e, Access 2000,Informix 7.2, Sybase 1.0
• GUI: Visual Basic 3.0/ 4.0/5.0/6.0, SQL Windows, Active Server Pages 2.0, VB Script, Java Script
• LANGUAGES: T-SQL, C, HTML, XML
• SYSTEMS: MS-DOS,WindowsNT,Windows95/98/XP/7.0,WindowsServers 2000/2003/2005/2008/2012, Cold Fusion, PVCS, Visio, Visual Interdev, Visual Source Safe, Visual Studio, ERWIN, Great Plains, QAD (MFG/PRO) ERP, Citrix
• OTHER: Pilgrim, Sabrix, Share point, Silk Net CRM, MS Project Server 2007, SOX Compliance, Remedy System, Equity Edge, ADP, Hyperion System Administration, Crystal Reports 6.0 / 11.0, WISE Installation System 6.0, and Lotus Notes Groupware Release 3.30, EDI Complete, PCAnywhere, Clarify, HEAT, NeXT Desk, Kayako, HP Service Manager, CA Help Desk, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• In charge of companywide uplifts projects, and build infrastructure projects
• Built totally 125 servers so far
• Managing the Engineers, Systems Admins, DBAs and other technical staff in diverse technology areas as RedHat Linux, Windows, Oracle, MSSQL Server, JBOSS etc
• Assigning work to professional engineers, procurement of storage, costing, securing approvals
• Driving review meetings, client interface, co-ordination between architects, engineers, and clients
• Performed lead project management functions, including conducting resource workload analysis, preparing scope and project management plans, and analyzing budget data to ensure business initiatives are deployed within defined scope, budget and schedule
• Resolving client escalation and technical tangles
• Used Agile/Scrum methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Kanban, Share point, MSWord, ServiceNow, Excel, Visio, MS Powerpoint, MS Identity Manager

Confidential

Sr Project Manager of Multiple projects

Responsibilities:

• Taken additional charge of ITDR Data Backup and Resiliency project
• Responsibilities Include but not limited to the following -
• Conducted status meetings and provided updates on Clearance And Settlement project to Exec. Management
• Ensured open tasks are fully resolved across the teams.
• Kept weekly status up to date.
• Coordinated the Visa team with Storage Professional Services
• Conducted Weekly Meeting across team for CAS Updates -Addressing open questions
• Managed Budget of $8M
• Turned around and completed the project

Confidential, Moline IL

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• In charge of Infrastructure tools such as Team site, License Manager, ArcGIS, Adobe, Data tools such as BO, Informatica SAS suites, HP tools such as Quality Center, UFT, Load Runner and DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Jira, Subversion management
• Provided technology management through leadership to people, and executing processes
• Coordination of Knowledge Transfer, Secondary Support and Primary Support activities
• Conducting/driving staff status meetings and staff communications
• Change Management and nominating delegation to change management meetings
• Crisis Management and related follow-ups
• Staff and technology-related decision making
• Staff on-boarding and off-boarding
• People management role of 40 people; 9 direct tech leads reports
• Status reporting to client top management and client tech lead interface

Confidential, Cranston, RI

Senior Principal Architect for Data Center Migration

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 15 DBAs offshore and onsite
• Worked as a principal liaison between the client and the migration teams
• Discussed and prepared the overall strategy for hardware/network, database, data and application infrastructure migration. Scheduled the testing and acceptance
• Coordinating the team leads/managers for day to day work activities
• Conducting conference calls over multiple time zones/sites/countries
• Senior technology people management position with 15 DBAs reporting directly both offshore and on-site in Consulting Stream
• Responsible for setting up IT versus business vision and direction
• High-level technical review, mentorship and responsible for the overall delivery and project consulting
• Attended by Microsoft
• Installed and configured Lite-Speed, PERL and ESM for five instances on a two-nodes cluster
• In-charge of DB Security for the IT; Installed IBM Guardium on servers
• Created and updated server configuration info in Comp-Cat for 56 servers that were migrated
• Installed MSSQL Server 2012 on two nodes cluster, applied service pack2 and CU4

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Principal Consultant for Data Disaster Recovery

Responsibilities:

• Disaster Recovery testing at Confidential, PA.
• Hands-on review of Disaster Recovery Procedures
• Approvals of, overtime, vacation, shift schedules etc
• Shortlisting resumes, interviewing candidates, decision making and hiring DBAs for contract openings
• Representing the company in meetings/telephone bridge calls on technical and management matters
• Taking part in DR Drills
• Work assignments to DBA
• Streamlining the SQL Track activities on preparation, during and post DR drills
• Supervised and coordinated the vendor team and in house sql team for SQL Automation on Install, restore and validation activities