SUMMARY

• Result - focused project management professional with over 6.5 years of experience serving as the key liaison between customers, stakeholders, business and project sponsors by forging business ideas into implementations.
• Proven skills in coordinating with multiple teams, developing strong working relationships with business partners and building domain expertise with successfully supporting multiple projects.
• Focused on project management, business analysis, agile methodologies, test process management and coordination and release management. Extremely results-oriented and proactive in addressing and resolving conflicts and meet objectives in stressful situations.
• Skilled with in-depth understanding of project lifecycle and project development methodologies with outstanding advanced MS-Excel skills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified Confidential Administrator (ADM 201)
• Project planning and development
• SDLC / Agile methodology
• Release planning and management
• Business artifacts documentation
• Automation solutions
• Change Management
• Business Analysis
• Advanced MS-Excel skills (Vlookup, Pivot tables)
• Expert in using MS-Office suite
• Business process re-engineering
• Requirement analysis and use case creation
• Strategic Planning
• Workflow analysis
• Process Improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential - Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed executive presentations and reports to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement.
• Implemented a set of comprehensive tracking processes to monitor project performance.
• Directed all phases of projects, from initiation to closure.
• Monitored timelines and flagged potential issues to be addressed.
• Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated them to other team members.
• Assessed vendor products and maintained positive vendor relations.
• Directed planning, budgeting, vendor selection and quality assurance efforts.

Project Manager / Confidential Business Analyst

Confidential - Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Experience gathering requirements, creating documentation, and creating user stories for Confidential projects.
• Experiencing administering Confidential by configuring reports, dashboards, and Confidential objects.
• Worked with product owner teams to provide business solutions.
• Reviewed and approved all engineering, product and project scope documents prior to delivery.
• Ensure compliance with Confidential standard processes and procedures.
• Effectively communicated project scope, schedule, and budget with both customers and contractors
• Processed documentation such as solution design requirements, project timelines, performance reviews.
• Working closely with the developers for technical requirements and solution delivery.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Documented business processes and analyzed procedures to see that they would meet changing business needs.
• Assessed the impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders.
• Directed planning, budgeting, vendor selection and quality assurance efforts.
• Provided business guidance to help shape business visions and strategies for developing and improving processes.
• Managed testing cycles, including test plan creation, development of scripts.
• Experienced with the cross functional teams spread across different geographies.

Project Lead

Confidential - Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Aided requirement analysis, reviewed, defined project scope and budgeting.
• Scheduled project meetings to ensure all stakeholders were abreast with the information.
• Developed executive presentations and reports to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement.
• Directed quality assurance efforts to maximize productivity.
• Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated them to other team members.
• Reviewing the usage reports, the change requests for new features and coordinating with all verticals.
• Coordinated design meetings and decisions across internal departments and teams.
• Demonstrated ability to re-engineer business processes by identifying causes of recurring functional issues.
• Reviewed customer concerns and new opportunities to drive business strategy at weekly planning sessions.
• Identified issues and risks to work streams and collaborate with teams to resolve and mitigate concerns.
• Developed multiple Excel/VBA Forms for data capture and report generation.

System Engineer

Confidential - Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Attended sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint demo and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Develop time saving automation tools in VBA, MS-Excel, Autohotkey for report generation.
• Coordinate the drive teams to identify and resolve any performance impacting issues during cut activities.
• Accessed Confidential -Lucent network equipment and performed configuration changes for deployment purposes.
• Maintained detailed records and provided accurate status and report to superiors.
• Created the use cases, traceability matrix for the captured requirements.
• Developed user-defined functions, menu bars, forms, add-ins, etc. used for daily tasks.