SUMMARY

• To lead and manage projects by applying various project management methodologies such as waterfall, Agile, SAFE, Scrum along with knowledge of latest approaches to development like Test Driven development, Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• A desire to provide excellent customer service using principles gained through past experience having served as team of Global implementation and Rollout Projects with multiple end to end implementation projects with offshore leverage within domain of aerospace, consumer packaged goods, technology, utility and food products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• roadmap, HR IT Portfolio, SAFE 5, Scrum, Project Management
• Coaching, Communication Skills, Confidential Experience, Management Skills, Progression Elaboration, Requirement Elicitation, Daily Scrum, Retrospectives, Sprint Planning, Burndown Charts creation, Velocity determination, User Stories, Epics, Themes, SDLC, Unit Testing Strategy, Workday, SAP
• MS Project, MS Office, JIRA, Confluence, Cornerstone On Demand.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidentia

Project Manager/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple project for successful go lives
• Worked with the team to develop product roadmaps and facilitated product/sprint backlog
• Communicated team plans, report impediments for escalation, identify risks/concerns to relevant stakeholders to help resolve.
• Assisted key business users (product owners) with backlog creation, grooming and prioritization
• Monitored team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state of the sprint
• As a Scrum Master organized and facilitated all scrum related meetings (stand - ups, retrospectives, reviews, demos, etc.).
• Work with product owners and stakeholders to refine vision and establish goals and metrics
• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint progress to all affected teams and management
• Organized and facilitated the product release by following all the governance standards

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Eliciting requirements and scope using client interviews, shadowing, document review, surveys and other techniques. Parsing out client requirements into manageable work units.
• Documenting vision and scope, including monitoring changes throughout project lifecycles
• Collaborating with the user experience and design team to perform traceability of solution to design and business requirements
• Creating screen mock-ups to help clients visualize requirements
• Estimating the level of effort required for projects, features and individual stories work items

Confidential

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for mentoring multiple scrum teams consisting of geographically distributed team members.
• Developed and maintained the multiyear HR Technology roadmap
• Responsible for project managing the HR IT Portfolio: schedule, issues/risks, spend management & reporting
• Participated in developing cost benefits analysis and annual portfolio planning
• Lead all aspects of the day to day support and maintenance of HRIS applications, including quarterly release management process, operations support, and reporting & analytics.
• Lead all aspects of the day to day support and maintenance of HCM, including quarterly release management process, operations support, and reporting and analytics.
• Managed the HR Technology team including Managers and Analysts. Lead annual goal setting process, ongoing review and progress of team members’ goals, providing continuous coaching and mentoring, and supporting the team members’ professional development.
• Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and retrospectives.
• Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning
• Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams
• Day-to-day management of multiple enterprise projects with varying team sizes
• Enabled and maintain Agile Framework & Activities
• Facilitated the development team for techniques for progressive elaboration, decomposition of themes/epic into user stories and tasks for effective delivery.
• Supported analysis of the Workday HCM roadmap and coordinated with stakeholders to understand implications and priorities

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, job shadowing, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios and other methods
• Collaborated with cross functional department managers and project sponsors to refine project scope, vision and delivery
• Set and ran effective recurring status meetings with the product, portfolio and delivery managers
• Provides a single point of contact for projects
• Worked with Product Owner to define project scope and objectives
• Worked effectively with others to remove delivery team roadblocks

Confidential

Business Process Manager

Responsibilities:

• With an Associate Business Process Manager role, managed and worked as a team using Agile and waterfall methodologies to implement solutions across the information services landscape.
• Partnered with HR, IT and Training teams to design user friendly processes, trainings, and documentation
• Developed and maintained the multiyear HR Technology roadmap
• Responsible for project managing the HR IT Portfolio: schedule, issues/risks, spend management & reporting
• Worked in a not so mature agile environment to ensure agile principles are adopted gradually.
• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theater and so on to help the team become a high-performance team
• Empowered the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings
• Removed obstacles for developers and testers
• Used key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work

Confidential

Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identified key stakeholders and perform analysis to gain buy-in and requirements
• Trained new team members and transition teams to agile framework with Scrum to enhance team skill levels.
• Monitor and manage dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are resolved.
• Participate in iteration planning to create acceptance criteria and tests that define “done” for developed features.
• Assisted key business users (product owners) with backlog creation, grooming and prioritization
• Proactively communicated any risks, design and quality issues, or increases in scope/time required to ensure projects remained on track.
• Plan an active role in risk management, issue resolution, planning dependencies, critical path deliverables, and guiding the project reporting to the project executive leadership
• Be central point of communication for project related matters
• Work creatively and analytically in problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, collaboration and excellence
• Manage overall tasks & agenda, manage projects and team-members in a task-focused manner, and show attention to detail
• Experience in complex SAP HCM projects and an understanding of data conversion concepts including managing unit and integrating testing.
• Implemented the approved actions and workarounds required to minimize the impact of project risks.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead consultant for requirement definition for around 300,000 state employees using the ASAP methodology. Assisted PMO with scope definition, setting milestones and in resource planning.
• Proposed numerous custom solutions by way of schemas and rules in the Payroll module to handle several unique union and non-union requirements for wage type generation. Customized the time module to handle several requirements around overtime calculation, absence quota accrual, time wage type valuation and capping of quota.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared, imparted and managed the training program for around 5000 end users to be comfortable with the system design and usability
• Effectively communicated project status to all project stakeholders including project team members, resource owners, vendors and customer groups. Communicate technical issues and risks effectively to non-technical team members and stakeholders
• Managed virtual and onsite teams to deliver within budget and with quality.
• Lead Unit and integration testing including the design and development of unit test cases, integration test scripts. Ensured that that the system solution follows the stakeholder requirements.