PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Hands - on Technical Project Management Professional with over ten years experience in managing multiple competing cross-functional projects/programs simultaneously in Telecom, Business Intelligence (BI/DW), HR and Finance domain, and over twenty years of technical experience in leading and managing small and large complex enterprise software development projects and programs in virtual and matrix environments
• Extensively managed opportunity identification, contracts and invoicing, project planning, consolidating project plans into an overall program plan and mitigating conflicts, project scoping, estimating, WBS, scheduling, CPM, risk management, monitoring, reporting and project closing
• Extensive experience in managing project teams using Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Waterfall and Extreme Programming
• Extensive experience in orchestrating sprint backlog, burn down chart, product backlog with core scrum roles
• Extensive experience in requirements gathering employing interview, JAD and role/process discussion techniques
• Successfully developed and implemented enterprise applications in telecom, retail and financial domains as architect and team lead
• Extensive experience in establishing governance and industry best practices for operating processes
• Extensive experience managing projects using Project Server 2007, Jira, Prism, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and PMI PMBOK standards
• Extensive experience with UML business modeling and object oriented systems design; In-depth understanding and experience with Rational Unified Process (RUP) and enterprise Release Management program
• Deep technical expertise in the area of web and windows application development using Microsoft .Net technologies and Java technologies
• Expertise in leveraging multi-cultural teams to run large global projects. Experience in setting up and leveraging offshore development services.
• Extensive functional expertise in implementation of ERP systems- Oracle EBS, Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (GP) and PeopleSoft
• Excellent communication and leadership skills acquired through an active involvement with Toastmasters International and Volunteering activities

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Expert Level: PMO, MS Project, Visio, PL/SQL, Scrum methodology, Agile process, Lean, ETL, Informatica PowerCenter, Data warehouse, Business Intelligence. OLAP, COGNOS, ColdFusion, Oracle Pro*C, Windows Office Professional (Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel)

Proficient level: Rational Unified Process, Requisite Pro, TOAD, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SAS, Oracle E-Business Suite R12 and R11i Financial (GL, AR, AP, Cash, AM), Incentive compensation, C, SharePoint, MOSS 2007, DOTNET, Visual Basic, BizTalk, IIS, ASP, Java, JSF, JMS, EJB, Designer 2000, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Query Builder, Erwin, Case Tools, Query Analyzer, Slice and dice Cube, Lotus Notes Domino, Notrix, MFC, WS FTP, FTP on Time, Active Reports, Crystal Reports, Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000), Unix, Sintran o/s, Solaris, SIBAS, Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Augusta, ME

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Travelled to offshore location to setup the offices and gel the culture
• Extensively managed opportunity identification, contracts and invoicing, project planning, consolidating project plans into an overall program plan and mitigating conflicts, project scoping, estimating, WBS, scheduling, CPM, risk management, monitoring, reporting and project closing
• Effectively employed agile methodology based on scrum and Microsoft Team System and enforced project standards and governance
• Orchestrating sprint backlog, burn down chart, product backlog with core scrum roles
• Managed day to day interactions/expectations with customers, stakeholders and sponsors
• Efficiently managed the requirements gathering sessions and developed the System Requirements Specifications (SRS) Document and Design document.
• Managed and was actively involved in all phases of SDLC including discovery, design, development, review, release management, implementation, hardware procurement and maintenance.
• Worked extensively in technical design review
• Extensively used Team Foundation server (TFS) for tracking System backlog items (SBIs) and Sprint backlog Tasks (SBTs)
• Identified resources including contractors needed and assigned individual responsibilities.
• Managed day-to-day operational aspects of a project/engagement and scope.
• Reviewed deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.
• Effectively employed agile methodology and enforced project standards.
• Performed engagement reviews, quality assurance tasks and supervised Release Management
• Minimized exposure and risk on project.
• Ensured project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Efficiently used industry’s best practices and methodology for estimation
• Tracked team hours and expenses on a weekly basis.
• Managed project budget to run the project as a fiscally successful project
• Analyzed project profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections.
• Administered appropriate revenue recognition, ensured timely and accurate invoicing, and monitored receivables.
• Assured project legal documents are completed and signed.
• Motivated, coached and groomed next generation managers

Environment: Agile, Prism, Jira, MS Project 20xx, C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2008, Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Reporting Services (SSRS), MS Power Point, MS Visio, PL/SQL, Windows XP, HTML, MS Office, SharePoint, SSIS, SSAS, DTool, ERP Oracle EBS, Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains (GP)

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed day to day interactions with customers and sponsors
• Extensively managed project planning, scoping, estimating, WBS, scheduling, risk management, monitoring, reporting and project closing
• Orchestrating sprint backlog, burn down chart, product backlog with core scrum roles
• Created and executed project work plans and revised to meet changing client’s needs
• Managed day-to-day operational aspects of a project/engagement and scope.
• Effectively employed agile methodology and enforced project standards.
• Efficiently used industry’s best practices and methodology for estimation
• Performed engagement reviews and quality assurance tasks.
• Minimized exposure and risk on project.
• Ensured project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Tracked team hours and expenses on a weekly basis.
• Managed project budget to run the project as a fiscally successful project
• Analyzed project profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections.
• Administered appropriate revenue recognition, ensured timely and accurate invoicing, and monitored receivables.
• Assured project legal documents are completed and signed.
• Motivated, coached and groomed next generation managers

Environment: Agile and Waterfall Methodology, Java, Caliber RM 6.0, Jira, MS Project 2007xx, Oracle EBS ERP, MS Visio 2007, MS Word 2007, MS Excel 2007, Quality Center 9.2, Toad 7.3, SQL Server 2008, SAS, ETL Informatica, Erwin 4.5

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Lead/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Client Requirements study, designed, developed, tested and implemented multiple systems.
• Managed a team of programmers and QA to develop and implement the systems effectively and on-time. Support sales team in pre-sales and technical presentations.
• Projects included Pre-K, Special, SIS, Grants Management, School Nutrition, Phoenix Financials (People soft), and Medicaid system, Quality Based, FTE, CPI, Central Directory, Financial Review, Student Record and Capital Outlay.

Confidential

Team Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the entire SDLC implementation of the system.
• Led a team of programmers to develop the system.
• Designed user interface for data capture with a focus on reduced data entry.
• Implemented best practices using constraints like field and record level validations.

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the development of systems for manufacturing and plant maintenance
• Developed programs for data input screens and built robust reports to display data for different slice and dice options.