SUMMARY

Versatile Professional Information Technology (IT) Project Manager with 17 years+ progressive experience in Project Management & Business Analysis in projectized & matrix environments through exceptional record of delivering cost effective, high performance technical solutions to meet challenging business demands & with Pro - Active ability to function Confidential high levels in a wide variety of settings to meet challenging business demands with Agile/Scrum & Waterfall deliverables. Successfully delivering IT, Web & Mobile App projects in multiple domains (eCommerce, Healthcare, Consulting, Retail, eLearning, Telecom, Mobile eCommerce etc.) with a deep understanding of Development Methodologies, Consulting Best Practices & most Common Web & Application Architectures., aiming to leverage considerable experience & efficiency expertise into your project manager role.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TFS, JIRA, Office, Project, Visio, Version One, SharePoint, Excel, CA Clarity PPM, Plan View, Django, Git, Subversion, CodeCloud, REST APIs, SOAP, Google AppEngine, SQL & SQL Query Analyzer, WordPress, Axosoft, Clarizen, Test Director, Oracle Primavera, HP QC, Flydra, Rational Rose, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Business Process Modeling (BPMN 2.0), Context Diagrams & UAT, Open Source Environments, Cloud Based Applications, Java, JavaScript, SAP ABAP, PFHP, XML, FITML 5, .Net, J2EE, PFHP, Android Mobile, iOS Mobile etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Slashed company's 30% cost of development by executing correct dev methodologies & achieve successful Go-Lives for all projects that meet client expectations on product quality, functionality, user experience & project budget (with smooth SIT and UAT phases).
• Maximize measurable productivity/velocity on the 3 Scrum teams by implementing Scrum and software development best practices, clearly communicating purpose & vision, consistently adapting based on frequent learnings & utilizing tools effectively.
• Lay the foundation for the development effort by researching, analyzing and capturing the business context - problem, current state, desired future state, objectives, business needs and impacted user groups.
• Document & manage user stories (by each persona), the acceptance criteria, review & approve testing strategy & test cases, manage project plans, resource planning, scheduling, budgets, change control, project issue discovery & tracking.
• Provide executive status reporting, foster relationships with customers, communicate priorities & act as a single-point-of-contact for multiple clients, while achieving defect-free application environments for multiple concurrent projects.

Confidential contractor

Responsibilities:

• Lead a sprint team of 17, in an Agile software dev. environment, utilizing appropriate tools & technique in Scrum framework.
• Organize & facilitate daily standups, estimations, retrospectives, sprint planning, demos & other meetings.
• Assist team in increasing velocity by making appropriate commitments through story selection & task assignments.
• Work with the Product Owners to understand the vision, objectives & intended ROI behind the initiatives & platforms being proposed for the development & ensured the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially shippable. keep the projects on track using Scrum framework or Waterfall, whichever applicable, ensuring the assigned projects stay on track, build consensus amongst all stakeholders & delivers exceptional results and responsible for maintaining the JIRA content.
• Support their customer facing websites which are available on desktop, tablet & mobile as well as iOS & Android apps.

Confidential, NY

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Assembled an efficient global virtual team from ground up of 25-30 people for the project, in 3 countries  and 5 time zones, that understood product vision strongly & hired local BA, QA & developer talents.
• Independently worked with the company CEO, VP of IT, VP of Sales, VP of Marketing to document a clear business case with detailed problem statements to create a detailed product roadmap, budget & timeline estimates.
• Successfully led team transition to Agile SCRUM methodology for software dev with 2-week Sprints and consistently mentored teams to transition to Scrum successfully to become well-functioning and self-sufficient Scrum teams.
• Created & maintained quality Gantt charts, Risk Mgmt. plan, Change Mgmt. plan, Communication Mgmt. plan, WBS, Issue Logs, Risk Register, Change requests and all other project artifacts.

Confidential, NY

PROJECT MANAGER, SR. BA

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered a portfolio of concurrent projects & acted as a primary escalation path for all projects.
• Reduced the turn-around time by 75% by designing the delivery methodology, doc. generation & plan enhancement pipeline with clients, project prioritization, resource and skill set demand mgmt., proposal response, contract negotiations & delivery.
• Prearranged, systemized & forecasted deliverables & dependencies while managing the full lifecycle of projects from requirements through launch. Few Project Details:

Confidential, NY

PROJECT MANAGER, Sr. BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed & Managed $ 5MM project while working as a PM/Senior BA on Projects with 50+ interfaces, over 5 IT teams using local, offshore & contract professionals, managed the project scope, requirements, goals & deliverables as well as interfaced with business partners and clients to define user requirements and translated those needs into detailed technical scope analysis.
• Produced and presented business cases, project roadmaps for several multi-million dollar projects to Sr. VP level stakeholders and succeeded in securing funding and project approvals.

Confidential, NY

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Delivered an innovative B2B trade portal from scratch using Java, TIBCO messaging, SiteMinder & various software packages and contributed to the architectural design with flexibility to integrate with external partner service.
• Successfully designed & implemented the portal infrastructure in compliance with the HK, SG & UK regulatory requirements.
• Oversaw the dev of the customer mgmt. module & trade document exchange system using Struts framework. This included the end to end design, coding, testing of those modules in compliance with HA & DR requirements.

Confidential, NY

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Product Manager for $ 4MM Workforce Management, Labor Scheduling & Time and Attendance Application Suite.
• Lead for the complete UI redesign of Time and Attendance application. Facilitated client demos & implementation, designed & delivered product enhancements, as well as product training & documentation in Agile framework.
• Leveraged technical prowess & internal resources to analyze + troubleshoot issues related to Oracle DB, Jboss, Java & web applications, SQL scripting to identify & resolve DB records & software functionality related issues.
• Prepared Narrative Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams & Flow Diagrams in MS Visio.

Confidential

PROJECT MANAGER, Sr. BA

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Financial, Healthcare, Telecom & Wireless domains, on various mobile apps & web projects.
• Responsible for every Project Mgmt, BRD/FRD creation, Use Cases, Business Process Mapping, GAP Analysis, JAD sessions, Creating & Executing Test Plans, Defining Test Cases, Creating the required Test Scenarios and documentations Confidential all phases of the dev & testing process as well as responsible for obtaining doc approval from stakeholders & SMEs.

Confidential, PA

Sr. SOLUTONS ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

• Worked in HP's middleware division with Bluestone's web server and application server products. Trained, developed & lead on several middleware products like BEA Web logic, Total-e-Server, HP-Application Server, RadPak etc.
• Gathered requirements from business stakeholders through document analysis, interviews, meetings & other elicitation techniques & produced business process diagrams using BPMN, UML activity diagrams, Use Cases etc.
• Lead for the technical delivery of Mobile Portal Software (MPS), HP's $ 1M mobile portal solution in BEA Web logic, in making proof- of-concepts & prototypes for different clients like Ontario Lottery, Swisscom etc.
• Traveled across the world to meet prospective clients, discuss client requirements & showcase HP's software offerings by delivering classroom presentations for BEA Web logic, Oracle, J2EE, JAVA & related technologies.

Confidential, PA

COURSE MANAGER, TRAINER

Responsibilities:

• Developed, maintained and delivered courses in technologies like SAP, ABAP, HTML, CGI, JAVA, JavaScript, ActiveX, HTML, CGI, XML etc. as well as part of Consulting Projects in these technologies.
• Coordinated and managed all training, activities & ensuring classes are achieved to plan.
• Maintained proper documentation (project plans, action items, timelines, courseware etc.) on all assigned courses.
• Gathered business requirements for SAP/ABAP reporting & functionality enhancements for multiple projects.