SUMMARY

• Program and Project Manager with 10+ years of experience in managing large - scale technology/ data projects end-to-end, coordinating cross-functional as well as global/distributed teams, and developing products. Life-sciences/Pharma, Financial services.
• Skilled in all phases of SDLC, with considerable hands-on experience with technologies involved; has experience setting up and enhancing PMO standards, processes and reporting.
• Has tracked project financials, required KPIs/Metrics, project/program/portfolio; reported to PMO leadership as well as C-levels.
• Global matrix team leadership; Well-versed in Waterfall, Agile methods; Scrum framework; mentored teams, junior resources; up to 6 direct reports, up to 20 in matrix teams.
• Management consulting, data analysis, process enhancement and strategy formulation.
• PMP (from PMI), CSM (Scrum Master) certifications; both current/active.
• MBA (Finance, Marketing) from NYU/Stern School of Business.
• B.Tech (Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai ; M.S., University of New Mexico.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Portfolio, Program, Project management; schedule, resource, collaboration and issue tracking: MS Project, SharePoint, Version One, HP PPM, Clarity, Rally, Jira; Mind Manager, XMind; Project and Program Management; WBS, PMO, PMBOK, PMI; Roadmaps, Roadmunk; Excel, VB Macros, PowerPoint.

Application design and development: business analysis, object-oriented analysis and design (OOA/OOD); design patterns; software development life cycle (SDLC). Waterfall, Agile methods, Scrum framework; N-tier application design, development, deployment.

Data-modeling and DBMS, BI, Analytics: ERWin, Embarcadero ER-Studio, MS Visio, TOAD; Oracle, MySQL. Tableau, Excel, XLCubed, Spotfire, Scitegic pipeline pilot.

Programming, scripting, query, & markup languages, environments, tools: object oriented programming languages (Java/J2EE, C++), Scripting & markup languages; development environments, version/source-code control tools; application development and testing tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Jersey

Client-engagement/program manager, project manager, consultant

Responsibilities:

• Life-Sciences/Pharma. R&D IT PM. Clinical and Translational sample management projects; Translational Research image management; LIMS implementation for TR studies; validated systems. R&D IT PMO; Cloud-based tools, SaaS. Stakeholder management; partner-implemented projects.
• Program manager at an engineering data management firm ; product development and client-facing project-delivery responsibilities.
• Program manager at a mid-size consulting firm, at a key Pharma client, with responsibilities in practice-building and account growth .
• Digital/mobile projects, agile execution; digital marketing, social media; data mgmt.; direct reports.
• A major US bank: Agile/Scrum project management of initiatives handling firm-wide compliance/big-data handling solutions, analytics, and shared architecture components/ services; Hadoop data lakes, rule engines, etc.
• Worked with SMEs, compliance, BPM, QA/Security/Release management/operations groups and offshore vendors.

Confidential, New York, NY

Role: Sr. Project Manager, Data Mgmt.

Responsibilities:

• Managed agile/scrum BI/data/analytics product development ($10MM+ yearly sales) in the natural-gas/power division; oversaw the integration of the acquired development group; saved more than 60% of yearly infrastructure costs by migrating to cloud/AWS; additionally, enhanced user-experience for APAC and EU users as geo-balanced performance numbers improved 3x.
• Assumed management of a research/data product development effort; contained costs, revised data agreements, and delivered on-time at about 55% margin for 2015; streamlined captive offshore research processes, and oversaw various services vendors/internal teams; presented deliverables to clients; conducted training(s); worked with sr. leadership, marketing/sales.
• As part of the PMO and product teams, worked on enhancing processes related to using agile methods and Scrum framework for non-technology/research/product-development work.
• This improved the adoption of the PMO guidelines by 2x within the organization.

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Sr. Business Consultant, Project Manager; Business/Ops/IT-Strategy

Responsibilities:

• Advised a tier-1 telecommunications firm in formulating their Cloud services strategy, allowing them to make their entry into the $2Bn+ Cloud Service Brokerage market.
• Provided agile/scrum and project management services to client efforts.
• Coordinated the efforts to create and operate a system integration environment/lab for a key ISP firm as part of a Cloud-products collaboration valued at ~$1.8MM/year.
• Redesigned the capex-spend forecasting and accrual processes at a $6Bn+ network services provider; improved budgeting and financial tracking accuracy by nearly 70%.
• Skilled in communicating/reporting/presenting to executive/c-level audience.
• Comfortable with using PowerPoint, dashboards, Excel.

Confidential. Warren, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the conversion of the official Citi Diversity employee networks into a SharePoint-based collaboration platform.
• Led a global, cross-functional team for over a year and creatively repurposed existing in-house solutions to achieve ~80% cost-savings over existing ones.
• Oversaw the deployment of social-media initiatives related to Citi-200 and Citi’s Olympics sponsorship, delivering them in time for maximum strategic firm publicity.
• Managed a team consisting of three external vendors globally (US/Europe/Asia) plus SMEs, stakeholders and IT.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Sr. Project Manager / Tech PM / R&D-IT partner, Scientific Computing & Data Management

Responsibilities:

• Managed the development/deployment of data-management/analysis solutions for early-stage drug-discovery research initiatives.
• Handled the required vendor/third-party relationships.
• Oversaw global cross-functional teams (SMEs, PMO, IT). In one project, delivered an operational solution at ~60% of the best external vendor quote.
• Worked as developer, architect in earlier projects/roles.
• Developed gene expression analysis data storage repositories, pipelines, visualization tools and optimization modules.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Architect/Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed data visualization and analysis solutions for micro-array/gene-expression data.
• Architected/developed a pipeline to integrate screening data/LIMS info into Rosetta Resolver.

Software Developer, QA/Tools Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked at The Math Works Inc . (MATLAB) and i2 Technologies, two software product firms; part of teams that developed scientific software platforms and logistics optimization packages.