SUMMARY

• Multifaceted Project manager with traditional waterfall, incremental and Agile methodology with over 13 years’ experience spanning client liaison and business development.
• Skilled in Agile Project Management, meeting goals for the scope, schedule and cost with emphasis on testing, team leadership, risk monitoring and mitigation, stake holder engagement and managing the delivery on time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile Project Management
• Partner/Alliance Management
• Customer Management
• Strategy & Implementation
• Baselines & Risks Management
• Test Plan and Management
• Test Strategy and Execution
• Oracle ERP and Web systems
• UAT Management
• SharePoint Online Migration
• Analysis & Reporting
• Team Management
• Team Training
• Accountability and delegation
• Audit Compliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Responsibilities:

• Created the operational model, SOW & service level agreements with stakeholders.
• Quantified the work in terms of work units to measure the team’s effort.
• Uses ITs project management standards to deliver projects on time, within budget, and with agreed upon functionality and quality to internal client.
• Prepared SOW, reviews with sourcing managers, prepares weekly and monthly reports for Scorecard review meeting with Dept. head and line managers.
• Coordinates daily systems analysis and development. Develops, implements, and monitors technical project plans. Identifies deliverables, milestones, and tasks for the project(s). Interviews team members for estimates. Updates schedule in IT Project database. Plans and integrates schedule, resources, risks, and deliverables with IT departments and vendors.
• Communicates with internal client, team members, management, and IT partners to ensure requirements and priorities are understood.
• Coordinating for Cloud infrastructure such as: Ansible devops solution, backup and recovery.
• Monitors project progress, and distributes reports to management and client.
• Coordinate testing schedules with QA staff to ensure quality within project deadlines.
• Develops strong relationships with stakeholders and customer management. Meets with client to advise on resources, budget, and deliverables.
• Manage multiple migration app projects simultaneously with application modernization.
• Helps client write document deliverables and coordinates efforts of team members helping to write client deliverables.
• Leads and facilitates design and test inspections throughout development life cycle to identify issues. Leads and facilitates other project meetings, such as those with internal clients.
• Responds to and resolves development issues in a timely manner. Identifies potential solutions, including the cost/benefit of each option. Reviews complex technical issues with technical lead
• Ensures team complies with IT policies and procedures, especially those for quality and productivity standards that enable the team to meet established client service levels.
• Ensures team complies with Information Security policies and procedures, and ensures deliverables meet Information Security requirements.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Decommissioning the old systems

Environment: Jira, Win SCCM, Flexera admin studio, MS Project 2010, Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint Online, Agile Methodology.

SR Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential, Auburn hills, MI

Responsibilities:

• Provides intermediate level IT project management for software, middleware, or hardware deliverables. Manages medium or small projects.
• Uses ITs project management standards to deliver projects on time, within budget, and with agreed upon functionality and quality to internal client.
• Coordinates daily systems analysis and development. Develops, implements, and monitors technical project plans. Identifies deliverables, milestones, and tasks for the project(s). Interviews team members for estimates. Updates schedule in IT Project database. Plans and integrates schedule, resources, risks, and deliverables with IT departments and vendors.
• Good understanding of SharePoint Online architecture.
• Communicates with internal client, team members, management, and IT partners to ensure requirements and priorities are understood.
• Coordinating for Cloud infrastructure such as: VM, NSG, Firewalls and backup and recovery.
• Monitors project progress, and distributes reports to management and client.
• Coordinate testing schedules with QA staff to ensure quality within project deadlines.
• Develops strong relationships with stakeholders and customer management. Meets with client to advise on resources, budget, and deliverables.
• Manage multiple migration app projects simultaneously with application modernization.
• Helps client write document deliverables and coordinates efforts of team members helping to write client deliverables.
• Leads and facilitates design and test inspections throughout development life cycle to identify issues. Leads and facilitates other project meetings, such as those with internal clients.
• Responds to and resolves development issues in a timely manner. Identifies potential solutions, including the cost/benefit of each option. Reviews complex technical issues with technical lead
• Ensures team complies with IT policies and procedures, especially those for quality and productivity standards that enable the team to meet established client service levels.
• Ensures team complies with Information Security policies and procedures, and ensures deliverables meet Information Security requirements.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Decommissioning the old systems

Environment: Jira, MS Project 2010, Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint Online, Agile Methodology.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand - ups, reviews, retrospectives, iteration/release planning, and other Scrum of Scrum-related meetings with multiple scrum teams.
• Own and manage the sprints with participation in the release planning.
• Track and communicate team capacity & velocity and iteration/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management
• Ensure the development teams are practicing core agile principles
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Ability to communicate, influence and partner effectively using strong verbal and written communication with customer management.
• Update Scrum of Scrum meetings to provide transparency on the cross-stream dependencies across multiple teams.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
• Determine and remove all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams to deliver assigned goals with Risk management.
• Support the Product Owner/Business analyst and Release Train Engineer (RTE) in maintaining the release roadmap based on the health and priority of the stories of the backlog.
• Conducting scrum ceremonies: Sprint planning and kickoff meeting, product backlog grooming, sprint demo, sprint retrospective, daily stand up meeting/cadence.
• Represent the team at the Scrum of Scrums meeting to report progress against burndown, cross stream dependencies if any, with other teams on the Agile Release Train.
• Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and processes
• Promote a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation
• Quickly understand the scope of the project and identify key success and risk factors
• Manage the scrums and Manage monthly releases comprised of 2 sprints within release.
• Work together and figure out what is going to be part of the release.

Environment: Jira, MS Project 2013, Microsoft SharePoint, Agile Methodology.

Scrum Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Agile release planning and helping the and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to defining and prioritizing the product backlog.
• Assist with resource allocation and effective capacity planning for team to determine what team can take on in any given sprint
• Conduct Daily stand up meeting, Sprint planning meeting, Sprint review meeting and sprint retrospective meeting during the agile project execution
• Identify, track, and remove impediments for feature/project and team success
• Facilitate the creation of a well-defined product backlog
• Ensure planning of go-live and deployment activities and facilitate their execution
• Ensure that all team members understand and accept their roles and responsibilities
• Identifying, managing, and mitigating project issues and risks
• Monitor sprint velocity and works with team to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature
• Track and reports key project metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate throughout the SDLC.
• Manage feature/project delivery with respect to capital budgets
• Manage relationships with all invested parties, including (but not limited to): Product, Engineering, Brands/Audiences, and/or other key stakeholders
• Arbitrate and resolves conflict within the team and foster the team.
• Coordinate participation of different tech and business groups in requirements gathering, specifications, design, development and implementation of key projects
• PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager allows software development teams to track all aspects of their work, including work items and reporting.
• Shield the team from outside "noise" or distractions that prohibit them from being successful
• Use project management & ticket tracking software to effectively manage the team's backlog and sprint-committed items
• Ensuring transparency into the team's work through the sprint backlog, burndown chart and other Agile metrics
• Leading by example - knowing when and how, to push for more result
• Proactively Identifying and removing impediments that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint commitment
• Facilitate transition from iterative to agile project methodology.
• Conducting pilot sprints for the team to adopt sprints.
• Helping to order product backlog items and get familiar with the team’s work

Environment: MS Project 2013, Microsoft SharePoint, Confidential, Inc. Proprietary YorkWorks, SQL Lite, C/C++, Oracle R12.1, Agile Methodology, Microsoft TFS, HP ALM Quality Center 10, PTC

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed and managed team members, for deliverables, preparing test cases/test scenarios as needed, with offshore work allocation and coordination of a team of 10 staff
• Coordinated with offshore team to allocate and share test case preparation, testing and defects
• Liaised with onshore development team and client manager for understanding of requirements
• Driving the project towards the project profitability by managing task and milestone based cost management with input from finance team.
• Worked with UAT team for coordination and closing the gap.
• Led functional testing (AGIS & OBIEE reports) and progress reporting to management
• Environment: MS Project, Agile/Waterfall methodologies, Quality Center 10, Oracle R12.1 EBS, HP ALM (QC)