SUMMARY:

• Seasoned program manager with over 15 years of industry experience in the field of information technology. Strong leader with proven track record in successfully delivering multiple programs which include Sales and Channel Operations, Go to Market, Financial transformation, Global Financial reporting including Revenue and Costing, Merger and Acquisition Integration
• Planned and delivered over 25 global implementations valued at $40 million in program budget, facilitating quick ROI with strategic solutions and managing successful programs through the program lifecycle using PMI methodologies.
• Over 15 years of project management experience in managing large projects.
• Led global financial close transformation initiative for a $16 billion company to make financial consolidation process 15% faster, reduce time to integrate new acquisitions by 25% and centralize management of financial master data to significantly enhance search and reporting abilities.
• Led global financial reporting transformation initiative for a $16 billion company to make financial reporting data preparation 30% faster, reduce time to analyze ERP data by 45% and enable Self - service reporting to reduce IT cost of report development by 50%.
• Led a large cost accounting business transformation initiative leveraging Oracle Project Accounting business capabilities in Release 11i enabling reduction in operational cost by 30%.
• Streamlined NPI process for a leading network solutions provider from hardware to a hardware-software solution offering and from manufacturing to contract manufacturing operating model.
• Led initiative for a leading internet security services provider requiring major process overhaul to reduce order fulfillment cycle times by 40% and automate manual booking processes which were time consuming and impacted their ability to execute orders in time.

SKILLS:

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Program Management, Project Management, Product Management, Agile Development, Scrum, Integration, Cross - Functional Team Leadership, Leadership, Business Analysis, Go-to-Market, NPI, Requirements Analysis, Business Development, Business Process Re-engineering, Product Development, IT Sox and Governance best practices, Vendor Management, Oracle ERP (Record to Report, Quote to Cash, Project Accounting and Service Contract Management), Enterprise Performance Management ( Hyperion Financial Management, Data Relationship Management, Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition), Business Intelligence, SQL, PL/SQL, Communication, Collaboration, Presentations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Skills Used: Project Management, Leadership, Agile Ceremonies, Scrum, Presentations, Requirements Analysis, Project Plans, Leadership Communication, Stakeholder Communication, Executive Communication, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Change Management, Risk Management, Driving Sign Offs from Stake Holders

Responsibilities:

• Lead the EA Scale program for SPACE (Seller, Partner and Commerce Experience) team.
• Worked with OMO, OLE, CPS, EAMP and IT teams to define plan, prioritize requirements, review BRD s and obtain scope commit from IT teams for quarterly deliverables.
• Created high level roadmap for FY20 along with business outcomes
• Created detailed scope sheet aligned with roadmap themes to provide tracking on requirements, BRD, BAT and IT Release
• Created communication for (weekly) EA Space, (biweekly) leadership team and (monthly) executive sponsors.

Agile Project Manager

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Skills Used: Project Management, Leadership, Conflict Resolution, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Agile Development, Scrum, Presentations, Budgeting, Resource Allocation, User Stories, Jira, Confluence, Vendor Management

Responsibilities:

• Led the cloud migration of advanced marketing solution (AMS) from inception to launch to successfully build the foundation of digital transformation of Confidential .
• Successfully achieved 15% cost savings by re - negotiating contracts with vendors.
• Successfully transformed team from waterfall to agile delivery model with a 2-week release cycle to align with the corporate goal of CICD.
• Develop relevant metrics in JIRA and Confluence that help team see how they are progressing and provide stakeholders insight regarding the performance of the project and team.
• Provided leadership in the establishment and development of project base line budgets, resource allocation, and schedules in individual and group situations
• Worked with Vendor and engineering teams on complex backend issues.
• Successfully resolved conflicts from infrastructure to vendor contracts to project release dependencies between cross functional teams.

Finance Project Manager

Confidential, Foster City, CA

Skills Used: Project Management, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Vendor Analysis, Business Process Re-engineering, Fit Gap Analysis, Requirement Analysis, Roadmap, Agile, Scrum, Presentations, User Stories, IT Strategy

Responsibilities:

• Successfully defined strategy, road map and business case for Revenue Recognition and Reporting for revenue, cash, sales and marketing programs, tax and treasury business processes in Oracle ERP.
• Worked with Finance, Sales, Marketing, Tax, Treasury and IT teams to capture As-Is process,
• Defined To-Be process, End State Solution, Strategic Roadmap and Vendor Assessment.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Skills Used: Project Management, Budget Management, Resource Allocation, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Integration, Cross- Functional Team Leadership, Leadership, Business Analysis, Requirements Analysis, Business Process Re-engineering, HFM, FDMEE, Collaboration, Presentations.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered Day 1 of consolidated financial reporting in 6 weeks during the M&A cycle - This included merging and consolidation of 140 Entities with highly complex mappings from Polycom into existing Plantronics entities in HFM
• Successfully achieved 35% cost savings on implementation budget by transforming the project execution to Agile from waterfall.
• Successfully transitioned 9 business entities from Financial Data Quality Management to Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition in 4 weeks - This included migration of 40 interfaces with highly complex mapping logic from legacy FDM application to FDMEE.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Skills Used: Program Management, Project Management, Integration, Cross- Functional Team Leadership, Leadership, Business Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Conflict Resolution, Project Budgets, Resource Management, Requirements Analysis, Go-to-Market, Business Process Re-engineering, Product Development, IT Sox and IT Gov, Vendor Management, Enterprise Performance Management (HFM, DRM, FDMEE), OBIEE, SQL, PL/SQL

Responsibilities:

• Successfully created strategy and managed Go-To-Market requirements for Seagate Branding and Cloud business.