SUMMARY

• PMP, CSM, SAFe Agilist Certified Experienced Project Manager with more than 16 years of IT experience in leading, managing and developing complex and cross functional Software Application Development projects and Application Maintenance Support with budgets ranging from $1M to $100M.
• Project Management Experience in managing Strategic, Business Intelligence, Big Data, Web Based, Mobile, Digital, and Cloud based Projects.
• As an Agile Coach, responsible for coaching and enabling the Application Development Delivery Team. Help team to enable a culture of continuous improvement within the Application Delivery, with common goal to deliver valuable technology solutions rapidly and meaningfully to business partners.
• Responsible for leading all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and serves as the main point of contact for those projects. Takes projects end to end from original concept through final implementation. Monitors and drives project performance by implementing project management best practices Proven experience in managing multiple and concurrent projects and programs using SDLC, Agile Scrum, SAFE, and Lean including application development and maintenance Proven ability to perform effectively in a fast - paced environment
• Ensuring program artifacts in compliance with the defined or customized delivery methodologies and framework, and against original objectives and business case parameters (costs vs. benefits)
• Problem diagnosis, root cause analysis and continuous improvement recommendations to ensure ongoing improvement of systems and processes
• Pro-active Risk and Escalation Management, including identifying cross-projects dependencies, tracking against defined program/project KPIs, prepare and submit project for governance gate approvals
• Experience in effort and resource estimations, undertaking resource procurements, managing large and cross teams, target planning and performing project/annual appraisals
• Publish project status reports and dashboards to steering committee and executive leadership, identifying and communicating any performance variances to planned scope, timeline, project financials and budget To be responsible for the overall direction, coordination, planning, implementation, execution, control and completion of projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2
• Windows, Unix, Linux, IOS, Android
• Java, Informix 4GL
• Internet Technologies Java/J2EE, JDBC, Servlet, JSP, JNDI, Java Beans, EJB, HTML, JavaScript, ASP, Bizflow
• Sever, Epicentric Portal, Vignette Application Portal 4.5, Sterling Commerce, Weblogic,
• Websphere
• WSAD, VisualAge for Java2.0, Eclipse, RAD, JCL, Homesite, Rational Rose, BizFlow Process Designer, BizFlow Form Designer, Visual Studio, BOBBY, MS Project 2000, RPM, CM Synergy, Change Synergy, VSS, CVS, TP Broker, Webmethod and Savvion, Sterling Business Center, PlanView, BlueMix, Rally, SharePoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow
• Eclipse, RAD
• Agile, SDLC/Waterfall, WWPMM
• Project Management Tool RPM, IPWC, Rally, MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio, Prism, Remedy
• Business Intelligence Informatica, Cognos, BO, Datastage, DCT/DLU, Siperian MDM. Microstrategy
• Domain Pharma and Life Science, Healthcare, Telecom and Retail
• Big data Teradata, Hadoop
• DevOps Jenkins, Git, GitHub, JIRA, ServiceNow, Apache Ant, Junit, Bluemix, Watson(WHC)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Technologies: Java/j2ee, Watson, Bluemix, Webmethod, Informatica, APIGEE, DB2, Hadoop, ServiceNow, JIRA HP ALM, SharePoint. Mobile, IOS, Testflight, Kafka

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building strong client relationships, managing expectations and acting as the primary liaison between the client and in-house teams
• Manage project financials. Forecast vs actuals and take necessary action to bring project within the budget
• Actively contributed to revenue generation by bringing new opportunity within and outside of business unit
• Define project schedules and milestone due dates, and identify resource requirements
• To keep the project on track and remove blockers to progress
• Created and Managed Traditional Project Plans using Tools Microsoft Project Plan, create WBS for modules, assign resources and track the progress of the project, Identify Critical Path for faster execution. Used Sharepoint as Enterprise Project Management Tool
• As a Scrum Master facilitating the daily standup, helping the team maintain their burndown chart, setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions, shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint, removing obstacles that affect the team, walking the product owner through more technical user stories, encouraging collaboration between the Scrum team and product owner
• Responsible for preparing Project Charter.
• Managed all PM Key areas like Scope, Cost, Schedule, Time, Variances (Forecast Vs Actuals), Risks/Issues, Communication, Quality, HR & raise CR's to achieve project goals
• Collaborated and Worked with Product owner/Clients and business team to manage collection of Product Backlog, Prioritizations and translating Backlogs in to User Stories, Manage Customer/Product Owner expectations during the Sprints and bring transparency to the client. Used Rally Tool which helps you to go Agile.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Technologies: Cloudera Hadoop, Horton Hadoop, Hue, Impala, HIVE, HP Vertica, Teradata, HP ALM, £A Agile Rally, SharePoint, tspace, Prism, TWS, AutoSys, Microstrategy, Cognos, Bluemix, Watson.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building strong client relationships, managing expectations and acting as the primary liaison between the client and in-house teams
• Manage cost, forecast data on the cost tracker. Used GPE Tool for sizing. Forecast load to IPPF Tool.
• Actively contributed to revenue generation.
• Define project schedules and milestone due dates, and identify resource requirements.
• To keep the project on track and remove blockers to progress.
• Created and Managed Traditional Project Plans using Tools Microsoft Project Plan, create WBS for modules, assign resources and track the progress of the project, Identify Critical Path for faster execution.
• As a Scrum Master facilitating the daily standup, helping the team maintain their burndown chart, setting up retrospectives, sprint reviews or sprint planning sessions, shielding the team from interruptions during the sprint, removing obstacles that affect the team, walking the product owner through more technical user stories, encouraging collaboration between the Scrum team and product owner.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Technologies: Salesforce, SharePoint, SDLC/Clarity, Oracle 11g, SharePoint, Biztalk, Rally, ServiceNow

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Account level activities from Project lunch to implementation.
• Establish team and managed staffing from the beginning.
• Responsible to prepare/implement and review process documents. Provide process training to team regularly.
• Finalize deliverable items as per contract.
• Manage cost, forecast data on the cost tracker. Used GPE Tool for sizing. Forecast load to IPPF Tool.
• Actively contributed to revenue generation.
• Followed OPAL and all related deliverable items including PMSS and DoU. My job is to keep the project on track and remove blockers to progress.
• Worked as a SME with Risk Management Team to review DoU and PCR.
• Production Support of more than 50 applications. Salesforce (GCP, Merchant Force, PRISIM, OPEN etc..), SharePoint, SDLC, Clarity, Exchange Media, eApply, GNA etc.)
• Lateral Hiring: Conducted PDM round discussion during lateral hiring for multiple accounts.
• Created and Managed Traditional & Agile Project Plans using Tools Microsoft Project Plan/Clarity, create WBS for modules, assign resources and track the progress of the project, Identify Critical Path for faster execution.