SUMMARY

• Tenacious IT Project Manager with over 14 years of experience in software development and project management.
• Successfully drive Medium to Large (2M to 9M USD) projects end to end in Waterfall/Agile (Scrum and Kanban)/Hybrid methodologies.
• Manage Requirements overview with Business, Facilitate Design sessions with Architects, Vendors, Tech Leads, Develop schedule, plans, allocate resources based on estimation, Project Financials including forecasting/Allocating budgets, performing Financial Analysis, manage Risks and Issues to closure, tracking and reporting to stakeholders at all levels.
• Provide centralized control, and reporting of scope, change, cost, risk, and quality for the projects.
• Act as a reference point for PMO queries, Internal / External Audits and information and an advocate for best practices in project management.
• Advising teams on the best use of project management disciplines and approaches and act as the first point of contact for any project management queries. (Agile /Waterfall/Hybrid/Tools (MSP, Jira, SharePoint)
• Significant experience in end - to-end project implementation including Requirement Analysis, Finalization of specifications, Estimation, Procure Budget and Resources, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation by working closely with Business, PO, Developers, Architects, QA, DevOps and various vendors plus running scrums as required for the projects.
• Ensure Optimum Utilization of Resources, Organizing and Conducting Retrospective Review after each Release and Proposing Preventive /Corrective Actions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: MS Project Server 2010

CM Tools: MS Visual Source Safe

Design: MS-Visio

Software: HTML, JavaScript, VB Script, ASP, ASP.NET

Database: MS SQL Server

ECM Tools: ONBASE (Workflow Development and API)

MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MSProject, PWA, SharePoint, TFS

BI: Spotfire, Business Objects, Kibana, Power BI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project: Implement Multifactor Authentication across all channels (Chat, IVR,.COM, Mobile)
• Phase 1 involves sending traffic across all channels to a vendor called Secure Auth.SA has a Fraud detection system and provides a risk score to each login Mileage plus account number and send the data back to Foundry(UA Datawarehouse) Corporate security and IT security use the data for analysis
• Phase 2 is to implement multifactor authentication across all channels
• Responsible for working with Business and coordinate walkthrough of requirements with all impacted stakeholders and getting the Requirements Sign off.
• Responsible for working with Architects and Dev Leads on getting high level Design and Estimation completed and signed off and getting approval from finance.
• Responsible for getting timelines and preparing the Project Plan.
• Project put on hold at the Planning /Design Phase due to Covid

Confidential

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project: Reroute data Feeds Originated from ecom platforms (Web and Mobile) and POS Stores and Salon to Google Cloud platform and Build Enterprise Data Model in Big Query to be consumed by all Analytics projects and the entire organization.
• End to End project management from Refinement of scope and requirements, Design, Build to deployment, managing resources, budget, timelines, risks, issues, stakeholder management.
• Work with Business for requirements, scope and prioritization.
• Work with vendors such as Salesforce, Blastam, Urban Airship and Power Reviews for source data.
• Prepare overall project Schedule, Budget, Resource requirements, dependencies matrix by working with the Architect, Dev Managers and QA Managers.
• Run the series of scrums/sprints to align with the business goals, timelines and cost.
• Work closely with each developer and QA and all other cross functional teams and PO assigned during the execution.
• Work with Dev ops for production deployment.
• Responsible for Status reporting to all stakeholders including business, senior IT leadership members, Sponsors and consuming parties such as Quazi-Recommendations engine team, Data Analytics team, CRM Project team etc.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project: Premier Program Redesign
• Conversion of Upgrade Certificates to Upgrade Credits and deduct after confirmation.
• Responsible for working with Business and coordinate walkthrough of requirements with all impacted stakeholders and getting the Requirements Sign off.
• Responsible for working with Architects and Dev Leads on getting high level Design and Estimation completed and signed off and getting approval from finance.
• Responsible for getting timelines and preparing the Project Plan.
• Managed Project Financials including forecasting/Allocating budget to impacted teams, approving timesheets vs estimates, Performing Financial Analysis using various tools like PWA/Excel/Spotfire/Smartview/Essbase/Hyperion and tracking spend weekly. (Labor/Fixed Bid/HW/SW)
• Responsible for the coordination and interface with all parties involved that includes IT Program Manager, Delivery Teams, Business Team, Finance Team for timely execution of all project activities and within the approved budget and Timeline and Quality.
• Responsible for Risks and Issues closure
• Responsible for status reporting