PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Detail - oriented IT Project Manager having an overall 7+ years of experience, constantly being updated on all the latest in information technologies. Expertise in software development, software implementation, business process improvement, and management consulting. Applied deep knowledge of PMO standards and, Software Development Life cycle (SDLC).
• Effectively implemented Waterfall and Agile methodologies in major process and system improvement projects at premier financial institutions and consulting firms within the derivatives in regulatory committed software professional services.
• Provides complex scientific & technical leadership in determining research priorities & the plan, design & execution of research projects ensuring that programs of investigation meet specified objectives.
• Successfully communicated to the Business and Technology teams, stakeholders and executives regarding project status, issues, risks, mitigation plans and deployment plans. Used logic and critical thinking to guide actions and present rationale and plans concisely. Escalated when necessary.
• Managed an Enterprise IT Asset Management financial cycle including bidding and proposals, purchase orders for hardware and software assets. Imperative to develop an enterprise level asset management framework and streamline procurement recruited to lead technical teams within a quality management framework and outsourced/vendor partner environment (both onshore and offshore).

CORE EXPERTISE INCLUDES:

Project Management

Managing deliverables within SDLC

Requirement Management

Risk Issue Management

Resource Management

Vendor Management

MS Project Tools

Word

PowerPoint

PowerPoint Timeline

Excel

Visio

SharePoint

HP Quality Center

JIRA

WordPress

Tableau

RStudio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City. NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed a comprehensive project plan with coordination of business, technology stakeholders and technical personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation
• Primary responsible for vendor selection, vendor management and work with sourcing team to complete vendor onboarding process and the budget approval process.
• Engraining EIS risk assessment professional and analyzing the threats and vulnerability at a facility, determining the potential for losses, and identifying cost-effective corrective measures and residual risk.
• Working with technology and infrastructure teams to make sure the environment built and ready for successful execution of SIT, UAT and performance testing.
• Involved in implementation activities and prepared detailed level migration task list to make sure change request is approved and all the necessary team individuals are captured for implementation.
• Lead the go-no-go decision meetings and monitored overall project health by documenting the Risk, Issues, and dependencies to ensure the mitigation plan in place.
• Full control of project quality and make sure successfully exiting the project execution phases with all the documentation available for the audit purpose in the SharePoint site.

Confidential, Fort Wayne. IN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained project plan (and phase tollgate reviews) and report semi-weekly status dashboards to IT oversight governance body and operations committee, key stakeholders, including Executive Steering Committee levels
• Worked with Scrum Master and created sprint planning, task estimates, task sequencing, sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Implemented Agile, sprint activities, daily standups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and sprint release planning.
• Assisting product owner to make sure that the product backlog is in good condition.
• Collaborating with the product owner and the team to get good estimation for the sprint.
• Worked very closely with the QA Team manager, establishing QA and Test processes as well as implementing test plan schedules, reporting process of successful test execution and defect management process.

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established strategic project planning and analyze, design system specifications for integrating all business processes into a new ERPM system.
• Assisted in developing an ongoing manual for the operation of the legacy networking platform.
• Created project documents, status reports, and monitored project progress.
• Actively in training and conducts pre-implementation, implementation and post-project review meetings for successful release.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

IT Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the PMO manager and created Confidential, project baseline budgets, resource allocation, and schedules in individual and group situations.
• Drive and implementation of best agile practices: dynamic team collaboration, informative metrics, lean development, continuous improvement.
• Monitored the project slides to keep track of project specifics including actual spend versus budget, milestone dates, resource assignments, and any project changes to provide updates and reminders to project managers and management board.
• Restructured existing disposal process to ensure AIG data was properly removed from HDDs, ensuring all assets were removed in compliance with Federal Regulations and AIG's legal standards.
• Coordinated with testing team for execution of test cases and closeout defects.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

IT Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with program manager to manage on budget tracking, updating project plans, ad hoc requests, dashboard and executive reporting and preparation of project decks.
• Worked with SCRUM Master and performed agile project management activities including planning, execution, tracking and reporting.
• Actively contributed to the continuous improvement of project framework and to the successful organizational transition to Agile.
• Helped and Created Use Cases and Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams (Activity diagrams, Class diagrams and Sequence diagrams).
• Gathered/reviewed requirements for Single Sign-on (SSO) and Identity management.
• Worked on requirements for user store and policy store data from Active Directory to LDAP.
• Managed cross-functional teams across tracks (testing, development, business analysts, business intelligence, operations, and client strategy).
• Facilitated training material from multiple functional IT leaders and conducted end-to-end training.

Confidential

IT Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with program manager to manage, support project budgets and partner to the line of business understands strategic goals, customer needs and business objectives.
• Regular face to face communication and recurring project status checkpoint with all key project stakeholders.
• Acts as key liaison between the line of business and Sales Shared Services and cross-functional partners involved in implementation.
• Created project plans and executed all phases of the project lifecycle, including scope management, requirements management, work breakdown schedule and timeline management, priority and dependency management, and the assignment of roles and responsibilities.