SUMMARY:

• Providing innovative and progressive expertise in project management field
• Motivated and results - focused project management professional with 15 years’ of experience spearheading complex and effective projects at large organizations, including software development, program management, test management using waterfall and agile methodology.
• Effectively managed the cross functional teams and has successfully delivered critical projects on time, on budget and with desired results.
• Possess a combination of at least 10 years of project management, team leadership, and Information technology skills.
• Ability to catalyze lucrative results while complying with budget and time constraints.
• Efficaciously managed complex development programs with budgets of up to $16 million.
• Successfully implemented product inception until product deployment a phase worth USD 5MM.
• Proven track record of producing complex project deliverables within time and budget, using best practice methodologies like Agile Scrum, Waterfall and CI.
• Accomplished cross functional team sizes of up to 75 members; resources included project managers, business analysts, engineers, QA team and infrastructure teams.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Requirement Analysis
• Process Improvements
• Resource Management
• Motivational Leadership
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Project/Program Management
• Vendor Management
• Software Implementation
• Functional Test Specialist
• Full Lifecycle Management
• Budgeting & Cost Reduction
• Stakeholder Communication
• Data Migration
• Problem Solving
• Time Management
• Customer Relationship
• Production Deployment
• Loan Origination System

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: JIRA,QC, HP QTP, Wiki, SQL, MS Office Tools, MS Project, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS SharePoint, MS Excel, and MS Visio, Mavenlink

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redwood city, CA

Senior Project Manager/Program Manager- Professional Services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for doing the initial kickoff, requirements gathering with business users and stakeholders
• Responsible for writing and getting the SOW, Change orders signed and approved.
• Experience managing SaaS based Cloud and On prem implementations
• Responsible for conducting the Fit/Gap Analysis with the Product, Implementation and the customer team and plan for enhancements/changes to the product
• Responsible for Infrastructure setup working closely with the Technical consultant and Customer stakeholders
• Lead and managed cross functional development in Java/J2EE from design thru delivery
• Managed remote teams to deliver projects and services in sync with launch timelines
• Involved in the design review, architecture review, Infrastructure and installation reviews
• Effectively and efficiently managed the Change control Process for any scope creeps and new requirements
• Responsible for resource planning, resource utilization, and budget management
• Responsible for managing vendor/partners across multiple locations to implement the product
• Managed and successfully implemented various data migration projects
• Responsible for creating and maintaining the overall and end to end Project & Implementation Plan.
• Work closely with business users/stakeholders and tech team during the SIT and UAT phase
• Responsible for managing defects and organizing daily triage calls
• Responsible for hosting the GO/NO GO calls with all the stakeholders prior to production implementations.
• Hands on experience in Jira, Confluence and Atlassian tools
• Expert in using MS Projects
• Responsible for precise and crisp communication with senior management on Status, Risk and change control
• Prepared MSR, QSR and Facilitated Steering committee meetings
• Prepared Weekly, monthly financial and status reports including the ETC and EAC of the project

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interfacing with and reporting status to high level executive management internally and with end customer.
• Work with Business sponsor/technology sponsor in writing the project charters and with customer to get the SOW written and approved
• Successfully created project roadmap and release plan for a 4 year long program working with product owner
• Interfacing with external vendors and development team, infrastructure, network and production support team for successful product development and implementation.
• Risk management, procurement management and Customer management are efficiently done
• Implemented many process improvements to streamline project activities and business process which accelerated the time to market products (RAD - Rapid Application Development).
• Successfully completed many production releases by coordinating with push engineers, DBA team and tech team.
• Cost, time and scope management for 4 releases in parallel.

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accurately prepared and maintained project plan.
• Practically managed requirement analysis till project rolls out.
• Processed streamlining and milestone tracking that impact the overall project.
• Continuously communicated with the team and management through status calls and reports.
• Project closure and metrics reporting

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Risk analysis and mitigation to improve project efficiency.
• Proactive management from requirement analysis till project rolls out.
• Improved automation maturity by increasing more coverage, less manual intervention and manual testers trained in automation.
• Accomplished teams in various geographic locations with a proven track record of completing projects on time and within budget.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate and conduct multiple complex software engineering activities
• Create and participate in software planning and estimating, status monitoring and reporting
• Contributed software engineering expertise in the development of products through the software lifecycle, from requirements definition through successful deployment.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and processed for various automation testing initiatives.
• Accountable for implementing best practices and value adds within the team focusing the application pain areas.
• Worked with automation team in developing automation test suite.
• Performed design reviews for continuous improvement in meeting client goals and needs.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Updating functional and technical specification documents according to change request.
• Testing new functionalities developed.
• Feasibility and impact analysis for new change requests.