SUMMARY

• He is a high energy, talented and avid project management professional with experience in Software Development life cycle, Business Analysis, Budgeting and Global Team Management in small to large, complex environments, interface with all levels of management, effectively bridge the IT / business communication gap.
• He is Innovative Agile Program Manager with success guiding teams globally, across numerous domains such as IT Program, Development, and Application Support teams as well as company’s policies and practices.
• Recognized for ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously. Collaborative communicator continually focused on building relationships and promoting synergy across business lines and global units to drive positive change and enhance profitability.
• The projects that he has worked on have been delivered with highest quality and within budget by effectively organizing, managing and utilizing various cross - functional team resources.
• In addition, he is an ambitious learner who takes initiative and goes beyond to manage stakeholders’ expectations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Strategic Business Planning
• Resource Management
• Planning / Quality Control
• Issue / Risk Management
• Agile Project Management
• PMO & Project Governance
• Communication and Reporting
• Vendor Management
• Technical Expertise
• SDLC / Saas
• Budget / Cost Management
• Off-shoring & Outsourcing
• Team Building & Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Process Improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. IT Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leading an $9M Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) application integration/ implementation/ Windows 10 upgrade projects involving over 38 cross-functional team members.
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed business acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile (Safe & Scrum) Methodology. Created detailed project plan and financial roadmap.
• Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates.
• Mentor and coach a team of Scrum Masters supporting the various US based business units.
• Lead teams to understand and implement effective metrics on things that impacts value driven delivery.
• Mentor and guide multiple teams on a day-to-day basis.
• Driving multi-stage projects within large matrixed organizational context, overseeing full product lifecycle from concept to completion
• Worked with cross functional DevOps team
• Managed two cross-functional teams across Product, Dev, UX & QA
• Worked with various vendors to get RFP’s and implement SLA and SOW
• Lead teams to create an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality and speed.
• Organized and facilitated Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Worked with Legal team to ensure all the project deliverables, milestones and timelines are reflected the enterprise agreement and SOW.
• Demonstrated ability to engage in senior level business and technology decision maker discussions related to agility, business value, and end-to-end BI technology.
• Enthusiastic dedication to showcase improvements driven by promoting continuous process improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative from the planning stage straight through to implementation.
• Coordinated with product leaders to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story. Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.

Confidential

Sr. IT Program Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led a $10M business application integration/ implementation project involving over 35 cross-functional team members.
• Managing multiple projects involving complex Highway legacy management system applications. Identifying business and technical requirements, and bringing them together by creating detailed project plans. Scoped planned and managed resources, budgets, change control, timeline and quality plans, monitoring, tracking, reporting and acting on all project activities appropriately. Engaged with onshore and offshore delivery partners managing third party supplier estimates, costs and resource requirements through to the successful completion of each project to agreed terms of reference.
• Created Project governance worksheet, Risk/Action/Issue/Decision log (RAID), Resource plan, Communication plan and Project charter.
• Categorized Technical Problems, resolved issues through the use of facilitation skills, researched and troubleshot with technical leads, and created a checklist for the future.
• Facilitated two cross-functional development teams through MVP deployment
• Executed Scrum projects and drove execution through engagement with multiple stakeholders
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and business acumen skills developed by working closely with C Level
• Coordinated efforts with multiple squads, and oversaw project roadmap, budget and resource allocation
• Served as a liaison for the cross-functional teams from product management, engineering, solution development to operations, setup Kanban board in Jira (Agile) or Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to bring visibility to management and prioritize backlogs for portfolio of accounts supported.
• Partnered with Product Managers, Cross functional Project Managers, Business owners to develop Roadmaps and Timelines and Sprints ( Confidential undergoing Agile Transformation).
• Created and implemented Initiative SharePoint site to enable a single source of truth for Program Overviews, Product manager deliverables, roadmaps, analytics, design reviews, user research, and more.

Confidential

Sr. IT Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Led a $8M business application integration/ implementation project involving over 29 cross-functional team members onshore/offshore
• Governed projects involving complex web and legacy media asset management applications live video streaming and CMS integration. Identified business and technical requirements, and brought the stakeholders together by creating a detailed project plan, and following through to successful execution of the plan. Decommissioned 2 media legacy systems.
• Evaluated and reported project-related metrics to senior executives and senior project management while developing and implementing mitigation plans to address below standard metrics.
• Established Scrum work culture for two newly formed development teams
• Collaborated with senior management team to develop strategic process improvements and lead tactical initiatives to implement and/or assess standard project and test methodologies.
• Managed two cross-functional development teams, including back-end and front-end developers & a UX/UI designer
• Identified and fulfilled critical staffing requirements and allocate (25+) resources to assigned project initiatives within organization by building cohesive working relationships with various clients and vendors.
• Managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms and the merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies.
• Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime and delivered by as much as $450K under budget.
• Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for dozens of custom solutions. Delivered industry leading software that saved NBC millions of dollars, shortened processes from weeks to minutes, captured #1 market share and generated up to $11M in annual revenues within 1 year of launch.