Project Leader Resume
Swiftwater, PA
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:
- Accomplished Technical Project Manager, Technical Solution Manager.
- Proven success in all aspects of project management, requirements management, solutions delivery, system analysis, data analysis, problem solving, change management, testing, and regulatory adherence.
- Extremely customer centric, with the ability to focus on the bigger picture.
- Ability to remain calm and focused in critical and demanding situations.
- Ability to simultaneously manage multiple high priority, high impact, high value projects.
- Trainer/mentor with the skills to motivate peak performance with local or global teams.
- Excellent project management skills
- Exceptional team development/leadership skills
- Proven record of delivering projects on time and on budget
- Broad knowledge of the SDLC in product development and IT environments
- Exceptional problem solver
- Champion of Continuous Process Improvement
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Telephony Technologies: CAS, R2 CAS, ISDN, VOIP, 3G324, SIP, H323 and H245
Video Codecs: MPEG4, H.263, and H.264
Audio Codecs: G.729, G.723, GSM, EFR - GSM, G.726, Oki, and G.711
Bus Interfaces: AdvancedTCA, PCI Express, PCI, cPCI, and ISA
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, UNIX Programming languages Assembler, C, C++, BASIC
Software Tools: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Access, Video Editors, Clear Quest, Visio, Cool Edit, Visual C++, AutoCAD, REQPRO, VTune, Doors, Quality Center, Rally, Puma, GeodIS, Planview, SNOW
SDLC: Project Management
IT Project Management: Netware ESX, SAN, NetApp, DataDomain, NetBackup, Simplivity, Comvault, Veritas, Database Migration, VM migration, Physical Migration, NAS migration, LUN migration
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Swiftwater, PA
Project Leader
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain schedule using waterfall approach
- Hold design review sessions and managed proper review notes and document signoff Hold escalation sessions to drive closure of cross tower design/implementation issues Executed plan to drive development of project documents
- Coordinated and ran Project Steering Committee meetings
- Develop and present Project Steering Committee meeting content
- Maintained effective communication with team and stakeholders through meeting minutes
- Assess risk and collaborated with team on mitigation plans for high risk dependencies
Confidential, Bedminster, NJ
IT Technical Project Manager, IT Technical Solution Manager
Responsibilities:
- Maintain effective biweekly project status for Governance Board
- Communicated using enterprise tools and meeting minutes
- Managed project budgets at portfolio and project level
- Managed requirement and design reviews and proper review notes and document signoff
- Collaborated with project teams detecting dependencies early reducing delivery risk
- Led teams to investigate technical dependencies reducing delivery risk
- Assessed risk, recommended mitigation plans for high risk dependencies
- User acceptance test planning, execution and results approval
- Managed VP level defect escalation meetings
- Authored user and system level requirements, end to end business scenarios
- Led cross functional debug/root cause analysis of end to end test defects
- Led transversal analysis of systems to solution features
Confidential, Parsippany, NJ
Technical Project Manager, System Test Manager, Test Engineer
Responsibilities:
- PMO development team member Practiced theory of constraints and waterfall methods to develop and maintain project plans
- Presented product status and future roadmap to key customers during site visits Managed weekly program reviews of 3 key customers
- Presented program status, plan exceptions and mitigation to senior management/stakeholders
- Drove top level planning of feature and system test execution into single plan
- Led triage of defects streamlining assignment to appropriate resources
- Managed support of launch customers transitioning from digital to IP telephony
- Managed 7 employees Designed/established system test and integration lab
- Developed product training plan for new hires Established/tracked system test group budget
- Developed hardware and software (C, Assembler) to test telephony interfaces and voice processing functions
- Supported hardware interfaces from business requirements, through system requirements, development, test, system test, continuing engineering to obsolescence
