Vendor Manager Resume Naperville, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Operations leader and client - facing professional with experience in Project Management. Proven ability to deliver on business goals while efficiently managing costs and risks. Ability to lead development, testing, integration and deployment of challenging, large scale projects. Proponent of Agile practices and transforming teams to Agile methodology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Vendor Manager

Responsibilities:

Increased productivity of team by 25% by working with SPECTRUM to choose right solution for Internet connectivity.
Managed vendor Spectracom to redesign Network timing system solution and removed hurdles of existing design to customer delight.
Identified, solved several issues on network design on routers and switches leading to simplified design and implementation.
Implemented Data Driven testing reducing duplication of work.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Negotiated customer contract for bringing work resulted in a revenue of one million dollars to company.
Troubleshoot, prioritize several issues during deployment. Contributed to Test strategy, development and implementation of testing for functional, capacity and performance of network.
Consulted for performance optimization of Volte network after deployment, resulted in increased customer network performance.
Established strategic goals and contingency plans, defined project specifications, and devised risk and risk mitigation plans.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Directed definition, execution and deployment project for TELUS Small cell project with several teams to complete the project: network to customer satisfaction.
Spearheaded integration and Customer acceptance test teams and resolved several customer issues.

Technical Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Created method of procedures to implement a zero-defect product in Verizon network for 130 locations.
Consulted as a subject matter expert(SME) for various deployment teams to introduce a new product in several customer sites to customers delight.
Guided an integration team of 4 people for a new product for NTELOS customer in half of scheduled time.

Agile Thought Leader/Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Trained and consulted several teams in SCRUM methodology, to transform into Agile teams.
Simplified process as a SCRUM lead for a highly complicated project reducing delivery time of project from 60 months to 36 months.
Introduced ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development) on current project, helped to decrease time to find issues.
Served as VOIP ecosystem coordinator to oversee validation, integration and interoperability testing across 14 different vendors, helped company and customer to deploy product into existing network.
Established strategic goals and contingency plans, defined project specifications, managed risk and risk mitigation plans, scope creep.
Produced project status reports, organize team to settle day-to-day issues with emphasis on SDLC.

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Offshore Project Lead

Responsibilities:

Trained over 80 R&D engineers in India and other countries on software life cycle management, network integration processes, communications and reducing technical debt.
Moved resources from development and test teams to deployment in Reliance Infocom, resulted in savings in time and cost of several million dollars.
Created system level requirements and Request for Proposals for projects improve product realization time 50%.
Spearheaded several Quality Improvement Process (QIP) teams cutting down costs and improving time efficiency by 30%.