SUMMARY:

Project Manager at Confidential with an experience of 11+ years in IT industry. Extensive experience in project management, software design and development in various technologies for the Retail and Logistics domain. Experienced in various project methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Demonstrated these skills during my professional stints while working in a team, interfacing with the clients and delivering quality deliverables ahead of schedule.
• Exceptionally self motivated (Obsession to meet deadlines with a dynamic, positive “can do” attitude)
• Knack to energize projects
• Excellent leadership qualities
• Enjoy working as a team
• Good communication skills
• Ability to influence others

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframe: Cobol, CICS, JCL, IMS

Other Programming Languages/IDE: VisualBasic, C, VB .Net

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, MVS

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2,IMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Technologies: Oracle, Unix, Perl.

Methodology: Agile Development (Safe/Straight Scrum)

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Working with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown.
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum for offshore Scrum teams in India.
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross - functional
• Facilitating sprint planning as Scrum master for Scrum team(s)
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
• Managing projects in both Agile and Waterfall development environments.
• Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints .

Confidential

Technologies: Mainframe, Cobol, DB2, Forte, .Net, VBA

Methodology: Waterfall development/maintenance model.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Requirements.
• Estimating effort for business requirement
• Tracking of budget and adhering to schedule for the minor/major enhancements taken up.
• SLA monitoring across entire program
• Automation of support activities
• Reduction in incidents by 5% annually.

Technology Lead

Confidential

Technologies: Mainframe, Cobol, IMS, DB2, Unix, C

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement.
• Generating design documents
• Integration Testing Support
• Quality of deliverables from offshore.
• Automation of production support activities.

Confidential

Technologies: Mainframe, Cobol, IMS, DB2

Responsibilities:

• Analyze applications using IMS DB and understand impact.
• Design DB2 database tables.
• Develop solution to migrate data from IMS to DB2
• Design solution to ensure that performance was not impacted.
• Manage deliverables from offshore team.

Confidential

Technologies: Mainframe, Cobol, IMS, DB2

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business needs and communicating the same to Offshore team
• Developing solution to meet business need
• Help to facilitate UAT.
• Managing deliverables from offshore team
• Delivering and deploying solution

Confidential

Technologies: Mainframe, Cobol, IMS, DB2, Unix

Responsibilities:

• Generate processes within team to ensure that SLA’s were met.
• Was SME for the inventory system.
• Mentored the offshore team to ensure that SLA’s during offshore hour were met.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand the applications under the allocation and inventory portfolio.
• Document interfaces and identify critical jobs/applications.

Confidential, Scottsdale

Technologies: Mainframe, PowerBuilder, PHP, ASP, Visual Basic, Java, Unix and C

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand the needs of the business users.
• Generate the requirements and design solutions.
• Develop solutions.
• Manage team.
• Deliver and deploy solutions.

Confidential

Technologies: Mainframe

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement.
• System Requirement Generation
• High Level design
• Integration Testing Support
• Deployment
• Analysis of Requirements
• Design
• Code Walk through
• Coding

Confidential

Software Engineer

Technologies: Mainframe

Responsibilities:

• Design
• Code Walk through
• Coding