SUMMARY

• Expert in Project, Program & IT Delivery Management including managing charters, programs, projects, Application Service provider Vendors, Internal business & IT technical teams and also briefing Stakeholders for delivery of milestones with various application releases.
• Over 14+ years of experience in Program, Project Management, Business Analysis, design, data analysis, assisting development, Quality Assurance, Release management & Production support teams in Client/Server, Web Based Applications & various other platforms.
• Expert in obtaining a grasp of the business process and acting as a bridge between the Business, Management, IT technical teams including Requirement analysis, System Analysis, Data Analysis, Design, Development, testing, release management and production support teams.
• In - Depth knowledge of various Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC) including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Spiral and RUP. Have thorough understanding of various SDLC phases such as Initiation, Elaboration, Construction & Transition that narrates various milestones such as SOWs, RFPs, RFIs, Procurement, Requirements, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Production Support and Maintenance.
• Successfully implemented PMBOK principles and OPM3 models for the projects & its related application development.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentational, interpersonal, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Always willing to work in challenging and cross-functional platform environments.
• Achieved PMP training certificate from a PMI recognized institute. Also, have a active Safe Agilest (Safe) & a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certifications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: JAVA, J2EE, .NET, XML HTML, SQA Basic, SQL, Visual Basic, COBOL, VBScript, Javascript, HTML, C, C++.

Databases: PL/SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle 11i/10g, Big Data.

Operating systems: Linux/Unix, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP

Software tools: MS Office, PPM, JIRA, HPQC, Confluence, LiveLink, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Robot, Requisite Pro, Business modeling tools such as rational rose, requisite pro, UML, MS Visio, MS FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Share point, Live link, Discovery, WebEx, Live meeting, Performance studio, ITUP process, ITIL process, PRISM processes, Erwin, Test manager, Win Runner, Load Runner, Defect tracking tool such as Quality center, Clear Quest. Quick Base, Clarity, MS Exchange 2013, TFS, Gradle, WCF, MapReduce, Yarn, Ambari, Pig, Apache Spark, Hive, Kafka, Storm, Spark Streaming, HBase, Phoenix, Kerberos, SPNEGO, Ranger, HDFS Encryption, Zoo keeper, Knox, Apache Ranger, Vagrant, .

Methodologies: SDLC - Water fall, Agile, Scrum, Spiral, RUP, PMBOK, BABOK, OPM3, Cloud Computing, SOA, Prince 2.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Sr IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed more than 15+ partner teams including third party vendors in terms of tracking project statuses, maintaining project plans, managing risks, issues, dependencies, constraints & resources end to end.
• Successfully delivered projects in production and also managed these projects in production during the warranty period for any production issues and resolved them in a timely manner.
• Reported various statues to senior management on a daily and weekly basis while simultaneously conducting daily sync up and standup calls accordingly.
• Attended & proactively participated in various PI planning, Pre-PI, Post-PI and I&A sessions.
• Used various tools such as MS Project, JIRA, SharePoint etc. to successfully manage and deliver projects.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Sr IT Project & Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed & tracked program statuses of all individual projects within this program on a daily basis for reporting it to a senior management by creating a program dashboard, that depicts accomplished milestones, issues, risks, budgets, dependencies, path to green Iteration level milestone chart, RAG status etc.
• Managed weekly CCB (Change Control Board) in order to accommodate all CRs of various projects. Represented my program to various forums such as TPC, Tech Steering committee, Program Governance Board, Core team meeting, Critical Care meeting, Executive committee etc. to obtain funding approvals, issue resolutions, escalations and status reporting.
• Managed daily SWAT calls to resolve and troubleshoot all the relevant issues, risks, dependencies & constraints to bring projects back to green from amber and red statuses.
• Managed Early client Onboarding & Application Security projects end to end using Agile/Iterative SDLC and managed respective monthly releases.
• Worked on various SDLC processes including Waterfall, Agile and Iterative processes.
• Created various kinds of status reports for various levels of business and technology stakeholders and executives including CIOs, MDs, Directors etc.
• Created and managed budget spreadsheets for entire program and communicated any discrepancies back to the respective PMs to adjust their budgets.
• Used PPM, Vision 360, JIRA, SharePoint, Confluence, Netx360 Wealth & MS Office to manage program and projects.

Confidential, NY

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed tasks, milestones, issues, risks, dependencies, resources, timelines & constraints, with onshore & offshore in order to successfully deliver various projects & it’s related deliverables.
• Worked around the clock to perform Code deployment, property updates, code sync-ups, DART testing & application migration production events.
• Successfully used ITSM tool & various other tools to create a request to deploy code, various updates, DART & final app migrations in various phases. Intense follow-ups were performed for Implementation plan updates, seeking approvals & getting resources assigned to various tasks being performed.
• Created Implementation plans, reviewed it & got sign offs including approvals from various teams & stakeholders.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed tasks, milestones, issues, risks, dependencies, resources, timelines & constraints, with onshore & offshore in order to successfully deliver various deliverables.
• Acted as a bridge between the source systems, Data Services/Bridge team and Citi Insight technology teams to deliver FRD, MPD, DDS, Dev & code migration to SIT, UAT & Prod.
• Successfully delivered various deliverables such as Project plans, trackers, dashboards, resource capacity planning sheets etc. Used JIRA to track various tasks, requirements, issues, defects. Also used HPQC to track defects & issues.
• Successfully coordinating end to end, various issues & its related risk mitigation in order to deliver these reports to various users on time and within budget, by exceeding client’s expectations.
• Successfully running daily sync up calls, with onshore and offshore teams for all the related work streams, thereby regularly communicating meeting minutes, actions items, issues & risks to the team members.
• Successfully followed-up with various team members both internal and external for various issues, to resolve them on time.
• Expert in quickly adapting various tools, techniques and market’s best practices to understand any gaps and expeditiously providing solutions to bridge these gaps via. Effective communication through all means.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered all the projects and enhancements as per the release calendar by managing various vendors & resources. Used MS Office, Share point, Clarity, MS Project and many other tools for completing day to day tasks.
• Implemented SDLC guidelines and market’s best practices to get various artifacts & milestones delivered including SOW, FRD, HLD, LLD, Dev, QA and Production Support deliver their tasks on time and within budget.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managing ETS Optima Retail project end to end in terms of managing tasks, timelines, resources, issues, risks, dependencies, constraints and any other adhoc matters.
• Interfacing between management for various reporting needs on a daily and weekly basis.
• Created project plans, presentations, heat maps, Data Profiling tracker reports etc. for day to day tracking of various tasks.
• Managed internal & external technical teams for various coordination efforts such as for data acquisition, data mapping, FRD signoffs, test coordination etc.
• Managed internal teams performing various tasks for project’s delivery related to Hadoop, Big Data, Cloudera, SAS, Abinitio, Oracle, NDM transfer setup & various other technologies.
• Extensively coordinated with onshore and offshore teams for various issue resolution in a timely manner in a different time zones around the globe, for successful delivery of a sprint based agile development.
• Handled biggest NAM (North America countries) Cards, Loans & Mortgages volume of data in terms of ENR for bringing history and Risk BAU files into agreed formats that is acceptable by Genesis. Also delivered EMEA, LATAM & APAC countries that include CCB & CPB (Commercial & Private Bank) solutions.