SUMMARY

• Results - producing Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Scrum Master with a proven track record of leading global, enterprise programs.
• Over 15+ years of experience in SDLC and 10+ years directly related to Project management.
• Recognized as a high achiever leveraging effective interpersonal skills, flexibility and team leadership to attain business objectives.
• Known for creating and communicating a shared vision encouraging creativity, productivity and results from team.
• Significant experience working with all levels of management to facilitate strategy development and program/project management resulting in improved operational performance and increased efficiencies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Malvern, PA

IT PMO Project Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Currently working on Fund Financial Services (FFS) 2020 Program as IT PMO Project Manager. Partnering with the IT Delivery Managers on developing the integrated program plan.
• Providing Agile Coaching to multiple Scrum teams across 5 workstreams.
• Coach Scrum teams to work efficiently with Product Owners and Business teams during ATDD and TDD phase and determining Acceptance Criteria for Feature functions.
• Lead multiple scrum teams Sprint Planning and help facilitate Daily scrum calls.
• Participate in Sprint Review and Retrospective.
• Working very closely with multiple IT Project teams within the Program to capture up-to-date status and creating reports for Senior Leadership team.
• Organizing and Facilitating IT Program status, Scrum of Scrums and Technical review meetings.
• Working with IT Project teams to identify Project risks and creating mitigation plan. Managing action items, risks and issues.
• Working with IT Budget team to manage overall Program budget and updating Senior Leadership team.

Confidential - Exton PA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead client implementation service delivery right from Initiation to Closing of Project.
• Created Statement of Work and Project schedule ensuring maximum project profitability.
• Worked very closely with counter Project Managers to optimize resource allocation.
• Conducted Weekly Steering committee and Stakeholder update meetings.
• Directly supervised implementation consultants, business analysts.
• Monitored and executed process improvements and the development of policies, procedures, methods, and tools in support of delivery.
• Working closely with Account Managers and Sales team to upsell Product features and functionalities and fully resource allocation.
• Creating new PMO artifacts and Standards
• Served as a core member of the Management Team. Provided Senior management with regular project updates; served as a critical advisor to the team as an Implementation leader and helps to set the direction for the implementation and professional services team..
• Implemented Software solution into Government AWS for Air Force, Defense and Military.
• Completed full implementation for Pharma industry for GxP environment.

Confidential, Malvern - PA

Sr. Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Manager overall delivery of project across all bank functions including requirements gathering, design, build/customization, Integration and testing.
• Define, track and ensure completion of project milestone and deliverables.
• Identify access impact of and resolve project issues and conflicts with vendors, partners, management and/or project team.
• Experience in leading Onshore and Offshore development teams.
• Conducting all Agile ceremonies per Release and Potential Shippable Increment boundary, which include Release planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, mid sprint reviews, code reviews and sprint retrospective.
• Monitored Estimates vs. Actuals to get the project status and communicated with Senior Management Team.
• Following up very closely with the team in regards to Definition of Done and other testing related artifacts to ensure high quality software delivery
• Develop, communicate and implement Program/Project risk/issues management plans and strategies (e.g. Mitigation, avoidance, transfer and acceptance)
• Practiced SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).
• Solid experience in creating and enforcing best practices in large project management.
• Communicate Program/Project status to Senior management team on regular basis.
• Very fluent with MS tools, JIRA, Confluence, Rally and other Microsoft Products.

Confidential - Exton, PA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led and developed full scale project plan and execution following PMI project management standards.
• Created ‘SOW’ (Statement of Work) and detail Project Plan
• Worked on multiple (~ 6 - 7) projects simultaneously managing $5M - $6M budget anually.
• Created WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) and extensively used Version One to track progress and determine team’s velocity and track project(s) burn down.
• Coordinated with Clients and informed about Production/UAT SaaS environments.
• Created RBS (Resource Breakdown Structure) and identified resources required, assigned responsibilities and coordinated project staff direct and indirectly to ensure successful completion of the project.
• Tracked project Milestones using ‘Projector’ and team tasks and progress in Version One Agile Management tool
• Reported on Project progress and communicated relevant information to Supervisors.
• Work very closely with Client Manager’s on deliverables required from their organization (e.g. BRD) and to obtain necessary approvals on all deliverables.
• Communicated extensively with Clients, Sub-contractors and Vendors to establish cordial/effective working relationship.
• Very well versed and experienced with Scrum methodology and agile development techniques.
• Experience with setting up and managing, On-Shore and Offshore teams.
• Followed up with Clients to very satisfaction.

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Provide overall responsibility for all project management deliverables that support projects and programs including project planning, scope management, quality management, resource management, schedule management, risk management, communications management, and post-implementation review
• Managed Implementation and Methodology projects, converting EMR, Patient Demographic and Financial data from Legacy system to new system.
• Successfully implemented ICD-10 Coding system Phase I project.
• Effectively communicate relevant project information to all stakeholders.
• Closely worked with the Development team at Confidential and Overseas to share domain knowledge, discuss business workflow, issues and overall project status.
• Managed all aspects of project business plan and budget.
• Experience in Agile development methodology, working in scrum team, multitasking - working with multiple scrums during sprints.
• Conducted Customer Validation sessions with Internal as well as Confidential Customers.
• Worked with Account Managers to verify the code cut-off has been achieved and the code is delivered to meet the project timeline.
• Traveled to multiple Customer locations to discuss the Product workflow and communicate Project status.

Confidential - Oaks, PA

Sr. Team Lead - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Managed the group of 13 Sr. Product Analysts (including Sr. Developers and Team Leads) working in 15 different track related to Asset Management Reports at Firm, Advisor, Client and Portfolio level.
• Created Project Charter and Project Management Plan for new product that includes 12 tracks (52 reports) and managed the development of each track individually.
• Define the project scope of work, financial plan, its goals and deliverable
• Presented weekly status reports to Senior Management (Directors and Assistant Vice Presidents) for the above program, covering project accomplishments, risks, issues, changes, and earned value-based cost / schedule performance. Became "go-to guy" for important and last minute project presentations
• Managed all aspects of project business plan and budget
• Work with other Project Managers to identify any Project dependencies and/or creating Risk register and building a mitigation plan if required.