SUMMARY

• Strategic intent driven technical manager with over 15 years of experience in successfully managing diverse projects and programs in Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid settings.
• Proficient in tailoring, training, and instituting project, portfolio, and risk management methodologies and processes.
• Experienced and proficient in financial management, schedule and cost forecasting, resource management, process improvement, organizational change management.
• Streamlined and managed Project Management Offices, standardized communications, improved requirements analysis, WBS definition, task sizing, schedule, and cost forecasting processes resulting in program - wide aligned and efficiently allocated resources. Rework was reduced by 50-70%, delays and costs were reduced significantly.
• Designed roadmaps, built, and managed Project Portfolio Management Offices based on strategic intent, core strengths, firm positioning and market analysis. Centralized demand intakes, balanced and freed about 30 to 40% of the intake pipelines. Periodically rationalized initiatives in progress and in flight, designed dashboards.
• Successfully rescued and transformed agile efforts into scaled cross-functional scrum teams and an integration team. Coached team members and management resulting in 80% improvement in Feature delivery.
• Tailored and integrated software, hardware, requirements and systems engineering processes in support of the organizational strategic intent, performed organization-wide resource and process gap analysis. Recruited, trained, and integrated resources. Achieved 70 to 90% reduction in rework.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Agile, Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner, Scaled Scrum(NEXUS), SAFe, LeSS, Kanban; Waterfall, MS Project (expert level), MS Office, PMBOK, Earned Value Management System (EVMS ANSI/EIA 748C); WBS; Integrated Master Plans and Schedules. Familiar with JIRA, Plainview, Daptiv, Tableau

Financial Management: Capital Budgeting Techniques, Risk adjusted Decision Trees, Real Options Analysis, Monte Carlo simulations

Risk management frameworks: ISO 1 ; FDA 21 CFR Part 820; ISO 14971; ISO 3 ; ISO/IEC 3 ; COSO 2004, COBIT 5 & COBIT 2019; Statistical process and quality control, DFMEA, PFMEA, FTA; Six Sigma

Decision Support: Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP), RACI, SWOT, MoSloW, SIPOC, Goal Question Matrix, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy Maps, FMEA, FTA, sensitivity Analysis

Process Improvement: CMMI-SE/SW/IPPD, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Six-Sigma

Data Science: Expertise in Multi-layered Neural Networks, Regression, Decision Trees, Digital Filters. Familiar with Python, Cython, Django, Tensorflow, Numpyi, Scikit, Pandas, Matplot, OpenCV, Seaborn

Software: Software-Systems Development Life Cycle(SDLC), Expert C programmer, VBA, Python, Django, Java strings, HTML5, JSON, Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++, Embedded Systems C/Assembly, JAVA, PHP, Java strings, HTML5, JSON

Standards & Architecture Frameworks: ISO/IEC/IEEE, TOGAF, Zachman, ARCADIA, DODAF, FEAF, IEEE, IEEE-SWEBOK, Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBOK), Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), COBIT, ITIL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PROGRAM MANAGER

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Managing the cloud based next generation massively multiplayer online game development project.
• Reduced the schedule and cost by about 20% through streamlined processes and empowered teams.
• Coaching and mentoring Scrum Masters, Project Managers.
• Overseeing the integration team, shared product development backlog, and strategic value increments (sprints).
• Defined and standardized processes, terminology, and project life-cycle documents achieving operational efficiencies among multi-site, multi-cultural, agile and waterfall teams (India, Ukraine, US).
• Oversaw the System Architecture design and subsystem interface architecture design.

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The $350 million smart pipe project (part of the $1.6 billion TRNC Water Supply megaproject) is the World’s first suspended subsea pipeline, 50 miles long, 900 feet below the Mediterranean Sea level. Project successfully completed within the planned duration, and within allowed cost variance:
• Managed the program scheduling, cost, and sets of critical paths and milestones. Headed the risk mitigation committee. Managed the multi-discipline contractors and vendors from Denmark, Norway, Malaysia, United States, Cyprus, and Turkey.
• Oversaw the design, development, testing, and installation of collaborative embedded systems hardware and software project for the control and monitoring of the pipeline (134 units capable of data analytics, self-learning, and back-testing).

PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed product and project portfolio.
• Improved and augmented Project Management Office with portfolio management capabilities and governance.
• Oversaw the management of projects, offered workshops to PMs and technical leads in SCRUM, NEXUS (Scaled Scrum), CMMI, Earned Value Management (ANSI/EIA 748C), and System Interface Architecture Design.
• Tailored and established processes enabling rapid realization of project plans, system requirements, scheduling, resource allocation, budgeting, schedule and cost performance forecasting and monitoring.

VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING

Confidential, Solana Beach, CA

Responsibilities:

• Converted the business model from a dispersed system into an IoT system.
• Introduced and oversaw the in corporation of self-learning and back testing capabilities into the field units.
• Led the design and development of the Confidential trusted infrastructure based on Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• A division of Confidential ($11.2 billion revenue), Confidential Elite offers end-to-end enterprise business management Solutions encompassing Financial Management, Client & Matter Management, Risk Management, and Business Development. Managed software development projects (120+ software developers and business analysts) comprised of five different product lines including time, billing, issue, expense management, and general ledger.
• Established lean PMO processes and led software process improvement efforts resulting in CMMI level II certification, and level III readiness. The overall program cost reduced by 25% and the average gap between the estimates and actual completion times were reduced by 85%.