SUMMARY

• Technical/Functional Project Manager who thrives on helping teams and organizations succeed.
• Software developer and manager with over 16 years of experience in software product delivery at various Global Corporation.
• Certified Scrum Master who is equally adept at advising leadership and coaching at the team level.
• Have led transformation of large, global organizations to agile while coaching up to 5 Scrum and Kanban teams.
• Have good customer facing background.
• Hands - on with proven ability to recruit, coach, instill a sense of teamwork, work across organizational boundaries, and inspire teams to plan, develop, test, and deliver quality software products.
• Diligent project manager offering a proven record of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects; PMP, Six Sigma Black Belt credentials; and computer programming.
• Resource Planning, Scheduling, Requirements gathering, Costing & Budgeting, Process improvements, Proficient communicator, Collaborative leader, Client Relations & Presentations, Hands on with design & development.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Excellent in sharing wins and struggles with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches and coach team member who are currently working as Scrum Masters.
• Excellent knowledge and worked on helping teams implement/improve Agile development approaches
• Excellent working knowledge and managing Data Privacy projects.
• Project Management: End-to-end Program Management from ideation to deployment, working with cross-functional teams across U.S, Canada, India, Poland, UK Budget management.
• Enterprise Transformation: Experienced at organizational transformation, bring Agility and build high-performing Agile teams with large enterprises - Amica Insurance, Confidential, IBM Internal Accounts.
• Leadership: Graduated from Transformational Leadership Development Program (TLDP), a career accelerator program to perform Program Manager/Agile roles for different projects related to team management, technology innovation, building high performance teams, and working with cross-functional teams.
• Recognized at the AOT Agile Conference for paper on "Metrics for Agile projects".
• Application Development/System Integration: Systems thinker and strong technical acumen to drive top class engineering. Automated Server Resource management development with year-on-year growth in New assignment coming in from Client.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included, Planning, Coordinating, and tracking of all project activities for assigned projects including Resources, budget, and documentation efforts from end to end.
• First Program Management professional to join the team to establish SDLC process, development tools (JIRA) and drive Agile/Scrum practices in Teradata Migration team.
• Worked on ETL and the team in computing, extract, transform, load data from one or more sources into a destination Teradata system. worked on entire migration of database objects from DB2 z/OS to Teradata.
• Responsible for managing Data Privacy for the project.
• Responsible to plan, schedule and execute all stages of enterprise software and system implementations. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards, and cost targets.
• Coached the Team to implement Scrum and Kanban Methodologies.
• End-to-end project management, from the project chartering to the project closure for Big Data and Business Intelligence Data Analytics.
• Work with Client Director on his strategic project initiatives, execute the project and report back to executives on the status, health and Risk and issues.
• Manage projects involving multi-vendor environment. This would also involve managing projects that are developed by IBM teams and along with the other vendors for the same client. The responsibility of project manager is across all stakeholders, including client teams as well.
• Define Requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria for teams, track team velocity, remove blockers and release features to internal users in iterations.
• Define metrics for CEO to track quality, progress, and overall predictability for Teradata Migration.

Technologies: ETL, DB2 z/OS, MongoDB, Mainframe, JIRA, DB2, Teradata, Agile, Scrum/Kanban Methodologies, BI.

Confidential - Piscataway, NJ

Project Manager - Automation

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included, Planning, Coordinating, and tracking of all project activities for assigned projects including Resources, budget, and documentation efforts from end to end.
• For RPA solutions, responsible for leading and ensuring stakeholders in AG, EM, AP Geos are following the RPA methodology on RPA solutions such as Blue Prism to assess, define, design, develop, test, and deploy solutions.
• Manage Confidential engagement managers across the Confidential Geos on 10 plus Blue Prism use cases in PTP, RTR, and OTC.
• Responsible for managing Data Privacy in the project.
• Worked on the preparing the RPA documentation for the Team along with guiding the team Technically on WinAuto solutions.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures.
• Facilitated Scrum meetings, enforced Kanban principles as SCRUM master that resulted in reduction of cycle time by 25%.
• As a Facilitator running Release Planning Sessions and Retrospectives on a larger program level scale.

  Led monthly Program Review with the leadership team consisting of Directors, VPs, DPEs, and delivery transformation leads from the CPS Automation team and Confidential F&A Delivery team for steering committee calls to report out on outlook progress, raise risks and roadblocks in the automation program at Confidential, and discuss how to mitigate them.

• Partnered with cross-functional leaders to streamline Product planning and prioritization, identify risks and dependencies, bring alignment across Product, Engineering, Design and Quality
• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
• Created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed RPA projects.
• Defined Release and Sprint doneness criteria along with KPIs to drive program execution
• Customized dashboards to provide visibility into team/program status, milestones, risks and dependencies

Confidential, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Skillfully Collaborated with client to establish a robust process improvement program.
• Worked on guiding the team Technically application using Java, J2EE and Angular JS.
• Responsibilities included, Planning, Coordinating, and tracking of all project activities for assigned projects including Resources, budget, and documentation efforts from end to end.
• Responsible for driving process improvement initiatives for profitability across the Public and Commercial Sector, managing strategic & transformation projects.
• Created, led and implemented the process improvement initiatives through Clear Case, Clear Quest, Tool based on simple analysis of current and proposed system.
• Developed & managed project plan, defined scope, created WBS, developed schedule, created communication plan, identified risk & created risk response plan.
• Built governance/risk management processes, drove resource re-balancing across all accounts.
• Established change management processes to prioritize process gaps, develop process solutions and document return on investment including soft benefits and hard dollar benefits.
• Facilitated Scrum meetings, enforced Kanban principles as SCRUM master that resulted in reduction of cycle time by 25%.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Creating Business process document with Process Mapping for development, DBA, production support activity and defining the TO-BE process (value-stream mapping).

Technologies: DB2, Java, J2EE, Analytics, Angular JS

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led cross-functional teams across Netherlands, USA for SICS AHE Migration in Netherlands to serve the IBM market in the region.
• Worked on the Technical Design documents, Coding for some of the complex User Stories using Java, J2EE and Angular JS.
• Led the team to create specification/designs. Identify business and functional requirements, Create Prototypes, Define Process Flows, Data Standards, and co-ordinate e2e design and implementation. Manage master data and metadata related standards and processes.
• To provide technical expertise in JAVA, J2EE to help resolve technical problems
• Review offshore deliverables and ensure quality, compatibility between offshore designed application and customer’s requirement.
• Coached 3 different co-located Agile Scrum teams to embrace Agile methodology.
• Coached other product owners on requirements gathering and story writing process.
• Fostered team building and skills development by utilizing each member’s strengths and personal growth interests in development process, and by encouraging team interactions and collaboration, thus giving the team more engagement in the outcome.
• Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, rally tracking, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training resulting in realized velocity improvement of more than 100%.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc.
• Responsible for removing impediments on team, as well as organizational level
• As a Scrum Master for Confidential teams, identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments. In eight weeks, reduced time to ship by approximately 30%. To achieve these results, updated group’s processes to conform to Agile Scrum standards.

Technologies: Java, J2EE, Angular JS, DB2