SUMMARY:

I am an experienced and highly motivated project/program manager with passion for project management through agile practices. I’m a seasoned and certified agile practitioner with go - getter attitude. My experience shows my ability to interact with Sales/Product/Engineering teams and bring together people expertise and technology to solve business problems. I have proven track record to manage cross-functional teams through excellent leadership and collaboration.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Cross-Functional Leadership
• User Experience Improvement
• Program/project Management
• Quality Management
• Team Management
• Responsive web UI development
• Release Management
• Costing and Budgeting
• Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe
• Performance and Career Management
• Enterprise Applications Development
• Strong verbal communication

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: SQL, My-SQL, MongoDB; MS-Access

Web Development Frameworks: Bootstrap, AngularJS, Backbone, JQuery, LESS

Services Architecture: REST, Service APIs

Software Techniques: Scrum, Agile, Kanban, CMMI

Computing: Java, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML5, VB, CSS3

Tools: SVN, MS Project, Rally, JIRA, GIT, Wiki, Confluence

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing program and projects under the program.
• Understand the functionality and technicality of the features and deliver projects on time managing cross functional dependencies.
• Manage multiple projects at the same time under the program
• Develop a plan and schedule with well-defined milestones
• Work with different teams and roles like UX designers, business analyst, developers and QA.
• Ensure project scope through functional and technical reviews with project team and functional leadership
• Manage internal and external stakeholder expectations
• Collaborate though all layers in organization to ensure strategic alignment and successful delivery of projects / program
• Manage release cycles and cross functional dependencies, assess the quality of release through incoming defect flow and taking appropriate action
• Responsible for identifying risks at project and program level and develop mitigation plan for the same
• Conduct all agile ceremonies like user story grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo and sprint retrospection
• Communication to all levels in management to ensure visibility in the program/project execution

Technologies: Elastic Search, Kafka, Java, Angular JS, Mongo DB, Kibana, Rally

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing new as well as ongoing projects to meet customer business needs.
• Mentor development team for adopting agile practices.
• Identified need to customize development practices to suit business requirements.
• Managing transformation from traditional development practices to agile methodology
• Collaborated with clients from concept through final delivery of product or service
• Responsible for increasing customer satisfaction through quality deliverables and continuous customer involvement though out the execution
• Act as bridge working closely with UX, development and QA teams and ensure projects deliverables are on time
• Develop high level plans and schedules
• Coach development managers for agile best practices, scrum rituals like sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings

Technologies used: Javascript, HTML/CSS, AngularJS, Boostrap

Confidential

Project/ Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identified opportunities, proposed and delivered multiple cutting edge solutions.
• Responsible for managing large scale client engagements.
• Managed and delivered projects from inception to deployment.
• Managed and mentor team of engineers, UX and QA.
• Increased team productivity through agile practices and reduced development cycle by 16% and rework after delivery by 18%
• Experience in working with and influencing senior management and executives
• Built, inspired and managed team of UI developers to deliver large scale enterprise, web and hybrid application
• Managed finances for projects budgeting 1M with resources 20 to 25
• Handled multiple projects at a time
• Worked with sales team for better customer engagements
• Managed projects with decoupled and scalable UI architecture and design
• Managed multiple projects for data visualization and dashboards
• Setup Agile methodologies across all engineering teams and coach teams for best agile practices
• Created and owned agile project plan, responsible for execution and monitoring
• Overall effort and sprint planning and milestone reviews
• Facilitated design, architecture and code reviews
• Delivered multiple UI projects based on technologies like Angular.js, Backbone, and HTML5/CSS3
• Established the culture to continuously improve the development quality and use of latest UI frameworks
• Cross-functional product development, from ideation to sprint planning to deployment and release.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Set up quality assurance team and defined set of development and management processes across organization
• Raised maturity quality level for organization through CMMI initiative reducing defects after delivery by 20%
• Establish and improve business operational standards and processes
• Identified problems and issues across organization and created programs and processes to solve them
• Managed programs adopting new processes, collect feedback and identify needs for improvement
• Worked with sales team on leads and to support creating artifacts for answering RFPs
• Handled client and vendor interactions, status reporting, risks and issue management, costing and budgeting on the projects.
• Responsible for planning and implementing different organizational strategic initiatives for improving processes
• Managed engineering efforts and handled multiple projects at the same time
• Perform yearly performance reviews for the entire team; ensure they have achievable and aggressive performance goals defined.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated usability conferences, ASUG.
• Worked with end users to gather the feedback and articulate it for engineering team.
• Helped customer understand the SAP Visual Composer set up problems
• Worked with support team and engineering teams to prioritize customer problems and plan development efforts accordingly
• Managed customer escalations and took it to closure through collaboration with engineering and field service teams
• Worked with distributed teams on different initiatives to improve quality and usability