SUMMARY

• Results - oriented professional with 1 3 .5+ years of experience and a proven knowledge of application development, emerging technologies, and IT strategy in Retail, Supply Chain Management SCM & Consumer packaged goods CPG domain . Aiming to leverage my skills to successfully fill the Project and program Manager role at your Organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Industry Knowledge: Project Management, Project Planning, Project Estimation, Project Management Office PMO, Global Delivery, Program Management, Agile Project Management, Scaled Agile Framework SAFE, Proposal Writing, Statement of work SOW, Proof of concepts POCs, SCRUM, Software development life cycle SDLC, Waterfall, Datawarehouse, Multinational Vendor Management, Operations Management, Business Process Improvement, Continuous Improvement, Distributed Systems, Business As Is To Be Analysis, Process Analysis and Improvement, Operations Management, Risk Management, Managed Services, Legacy Modernization, Cloud Migration, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (Enrolled)

Soft Skills: Leadership, Communication, Time Management, Prioritization, Negotiation, Sales Skills, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Analytical, Critical Thinking, Accountability, Stakeholder Management, Mentoring, Motivation, Team Building

Domain: Retail & CPG, Supply chain Distribution, Corporate Finance (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger), PeopleSoft GL, HCM

Technology/Tools: Mainframes, MVS, Cobol, Unix Shell script, BlockChain, eoStar, Google Cloud platform, Microsoft Azure, JIRA, Oracle E Business Suite Financials., MS office applications

Databases: DB2, UDB, SQL, Oracle, Teradata, Datawarehouse

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CINCINNATI

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading a Managed Services portfolio for pharmacy retail application 24/7
• Lead continuous improvement portfolio to analyze, reduce & eliminate Issues in Agile framework
• Lead Deployment and release management across 2300+ stores
• Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
• Effective Communication with Executive Leadership and all stakeholders
• Simply and consolidate process improvement across portfolios
• Ability to handle non-routine multi-faceted technical problems with Critical Thinking skills
• Lead store conversions, acquisitions, Inventory transfer process
• Coordinate recruitment or selection of project personnel.
• Develop and manage annual budgets for information technology projects.
• Develop and manage work breakdown structure of features & enablement projects.
• Manage dependencies between our team and other scrum teams and or Trains
• Conduct Scrum ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective & Daily standups
• Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills, with ability to sell solutions to senior management within a client organization
• Monitor the performance of project team members, providing and documenting performance feedback.
• Perform risk assessments to develop response strategies.

Confidential

Service Delivery Manager / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively Engaged in working on Blockchain Proof of concepts POCs for leading Coffee c0mpany in customer loyalty management for B2B portfolio.
• Develop solution for CPG global leader for provenance tracking using blockchain.
• Identify use cases where blockchain technologies can be piloted more rapidly and effectively as a starting point
• Lead and implemented a project for engagement level governance management for a 500 MUSD Large managed services engagement consisting of 7 portfolios and 130 sub-tracks .
• Leading the implementation and support team for an end to end beverage Distribution custom ERP package including OMS (order Management System), WMS Warehouse Management System, Sales Reporting etc.
• Managing unit operations for a retail Confidential consisting 80+ resources across the globe inclusive but not limited to Demand forecasting, Budgeting, Revenue tracking and reporting, Contract Management, Knowledge Management, Centre of excellence COE & Hiring.
• Cloud Migration Activities for moving the ERP in to Cloud
• Develop or update project plans for information technology projects including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing.
• Able to effectively lead and motivate large multi-disciplinary project teams
• Develop and manage work breakdown structure (WBS) of information technology projects.
• Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
• Coordinate scrum standup meetings with team for continuous improvement and delivery
• Able to build strong relationships within client organizations through quality work and thought leadership
• Develop and manage annual budgets for information technology projects.
• Strong project management skills and experience, including: Budget/schedule development and management/oversight, Resource management and forecasting, Task and delivery management, Risk identification and management, leadership, teambuilding, and team management
• Identify, review, or select vendors or consultants to meet project needs.
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and UAT demos and sign off of production readiness
• Monitor the performance of project team members, providing and documenting performance feedback.
• Perform risk assessments to develop response strategies.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead & implement a strategic Warehouse Distribution Management consolidation project where multiple distribution center and warehouses were consolidated into single larger warehouses.
• Exceptional Result driven approach in leading solution implementations of various packages in OMS, WMS & SCM.
• Lead multiple large initiatives projects, Complete Integration of 30+ Client Canada IT applications including OMS, Retail, HCM, WMS systems and operations to US Applications with fixed time constraints. Worked on all Retail.net Tomax POS (point of sales) interface . Co-ordinate with a team of 150+ personnel from business users, cross functional teams, third party vendors etc.,
• Integrate HR Payroll applications in to US Operations, requiring working with ADP and third part HR application Interfaces.
• Process Improvement by mapping and consolidating everything under Business process model removed lots of inefficient Business processes and provided training.
• Conduct Several Workshops and requirement facilitation across the right stakeholders, Incisive acumen in implementing systems as per business needs (AS-IS & TO-BE ANALYSIS), Experience with process definition and the ability to define solutions that will generate measurable results for the client
• Conduct Sprint planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective & Daily standups
• Collaborate with Leadership to ensure strategic objectives are met that align with business strategy for better enhanced reliability and modernization on technological platforms
• Lead and Build an entire Data warehouse ground up as part of Digital initiatives with 200 + tables in Extract Transform Load formats for Omnichannel ecommerce and store POS data & reporting with in 6 months under budgeted cost. Data ingestion, migration & reporting for Enterprise Datawarehouse EDW for Data Science Initiatives
• Performed role of Business Consultant / Service Delivery Manager/Project Manager/Business Analyst for multiple projects

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• As part of PMO Account management team, have also been responsible for Centralized resource management system which begins from onboarding an employee in HCM system through termination including a tight integration with sap system for access controls
• Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends. Provide Key performance Indicators KPI reporting and update to Senior Executive level summary to CIOs
• Demand Planning and Vendor management
• Negotiating and resolving high level client issues & Foster cross disciplinary communications on all levels
• Assign duties, responsibilities, and spans of authority to project personnel.Schedule and facilitate meetings related to information technology projects. Project and program management
• Single SPOC for multiple operating companies as Escalation and Relationship manager to CFOs
• Submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
• Managed problem resolution and risk mitigation for escalated issues, problem, risks

Confidential, Plano Tx

Project Lead / Developer

Responsibilities:

• Lead and implemented Several projects Including a complete Financial Transformation /Consolidation Project of their Accounts Payable, General Ledger and Chart of Accounts revamp for IFRS reporting capabilities across multiple applications
• Peoplesoft GL Upgrade Project - Lead development team for a people soft upgrade project.
• Migration of Peoplesoft General Ledger to Oracle EBS GL suite.
• Proven track record of driving large client engagements in onshore-offshore model with extensive experience across project phases - Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment & Maintenance)
• Data migration and conversion project of legacy Accounts Payable/Receivable/General Ledger system to Oracle ERP EBS Financials
• Directly responsible for Changes in to existing 50+ interfaces in to the financial applications