SUMMARY

• 22+ years of IT progressive experience as Project Manager, Scrum Master, Tech Lead & Software Engineer.
• 4+ Years of KRONOS product configuration & setup (ver 6.3 and above )
• 5+ Years of Investment banking & Trading applications experience
• 12+ Years of Project Manager in various SDLC industry standard models.
• Expert in all aspects of Agile SDLC, including Scrum, Kanban and Scrum - ban
• Experienced IT Program, Project and process management with proven expertise in model-based IT Transformation, Technical Solution delivery and organizational change management.
• Demonstrated success in managing multi-million dollar strategic, highly-complex and highly technical IT programs & projects
• Technically proficient in a wide range of architectures, development platforms, operating systems and quality improvement methods & techniques.
• Cloud experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Build, train, and manage onsite and remote teams; talent for inspiring superior team performance while coordinating initiatives in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
• Standard CMMI Appraisal method for process improvement (SCAMPI) class A assessment team participant & lead for class B & class C assessments.
• Managed the on-time delivery of major projects budgeted at more than $5M.
• Five plus years managing QA teams in the capacity as team lead and manager across oversees
• Industry experience includes Financials, Insurance, e-Commerce, Banking, Retail and Nonprofit
• Project Management Professional (PMP®)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Agile
• Project Management
• Project & Operations Management
• Managing Project Budget
• Process & Productivity Improvement
• Customer Relationship & building
• Communication
• Team Leadership
• Continuous Integration
• QA Automation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SR. Project manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed Multiple projects and reporting project wise status to senior management on weekly basis.
• Configuring & data setup in kronos product
• Hands on experience with Kronos data writing SQL scripts
• Extensive knowledge of working with kronos interfaces
• Helping business with UAT validations
• Facilitating weekly project meetings with all stakeholders to go over the project status
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Project monitoring & governance
• Facilitated agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.
• Implemented complex design for Global Sign on Planform for Time & Labor Product which saves 1M for Infrastructure to maintain the Platform.
• Facilitating Project Procurements
• Co-ordinating with Contract negotiations
• Publishing project status & Project schedules in confluence site
• Enhance QA Automation process to minimize the Regression & Business validation testing effort.
• Co-ordinating with Business for setting up release process, adding the releases in confluence page with project scheduling dates.
• Forecasting & Managing project budget
• Monitor Workflow and make timeline adjustments as needed.
• Well versed in managing Agile Teams.
• Define Across business solutions customer issue tracking mechanism with greater visibility to business stakeholders & Senior Management.
• Collaborate with Product owners & Development team to plan project sprint.
• Created Cost benefit analysis and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision -making on Proposed Time & Attendance product implementation
• Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, scope creep and divergent business and user needs.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included sprint planning, daily scrums or standups, sprint check-in, sprint review & retrospective.
• Practiced backlog grooming, release and sprint planning, daily standups, impediment removal.
• Managed cloud transformation of multiple applications using AWS platform.
• Metric Monitoring.

Tools: Kronos 6.0/7.0/8.0+ VERSIONS, JENKINS, microsoft VISION, EXCEL, CONFLUENEC, RALLY, JIRA, SQL Server 2012, SOAP UI, SWAGGER, Selenium, APPIUM, KAFKA, MULESOFT, SPLUNK,Sharepoint

Project manager

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• ReferTree App is integrated with Social Media like Facebook, Twitter & Google Plus so that users can refer friends with social media groups
• Implemented complex design for ReferTree App for IOS/Android platforms.
• Implemented complex design for Data Transformation Product which saves 2.5M for various inbound Insurance File transformations.
• Enhance QA Automation process to minimize the Regression & Business validation testing effort.
• Co-ordinating with Business for setting up release process, adding the releases in VersionOne with project scheduling dates.
• Managing the project with Multiple teams/Vendor management
• Enhanced the Vindcia payment gateway to accommodate to support ReferTreeApp/Other B2B & B2C platforms.
• Forecasting & Managing project budget
• Monitor Workflow and make timeline adjustments as needed.
• Well versed in managing Agile Teams.
• Define Across business solutions customer issue tracking mechanism with greater visibility to business stakeholders & Senior Management.
• Collaborate with Product owners & Development team to plan project sprint.
• Created Cost benefit analysis and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision -making on Proposed for Assurant development/support product implementation
• Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, scope creep and divergent business and user needs.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included sprint planning, daily scrums or standups, sprint check-in, sprint review & retrospective.
• Practiced backlog grooming, release and sprint planning, daily standups, impediment removal.
• Metric Monitoring.

Tools: Sitecore, Vindicia easy PAY, JENKINS, microsoft VISION, EXCEL, VERSIONONE, TFS, JIRA, SQL Server 2012, SOAP UI, SWAGGER, Selenium, appium, splunk

Project manager

Confidential, Oaks, PA

Responsibilities:

• Manage operational aspects of the project including knowledge management, coordination of resources and project planning and delivery.
• Communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Developing Resource plan, project schedule & project estimates.
• Mentoring the delivery and quality assurance process for both onsite & offshore teams.
• Project reporting.
• Involved in identifying the third part tool LVTS for Trade Order Application.
• Recognize opportunities to increase automation; plan and execute projects to deliver on savings and increased efficiencies.
• Design, Development for OMS application for GWP 11.4 & 12.1 Releases.
• Involved in Supporting (Third Level/Second Level) the OMS application for Production/IT & QA Environments.
• Creation and review of Technical Design document for each release items.
• Publishing project status on weekly reports to key stakeholders.

Tools: LVTS, Global wealth platform, microsoft VISION, EXCEL, HPALM, SQL Server 2005, Microsoft .net 2.0 frame work, Financial Information eXchange4.0, Swift messaging, bmc patrol agent