SUMMARY:

• Sr. IT Infrastructure Project Manager (AWS Cloud) / AWS Solution Architect / Sr. Scrum Master / Business & Systems Analyst/ Data Modeler / Release Train Engineer / Research Scholar & MentorSolutions oriented professional with distinguished career defining and leading the delivery of technology solutions to drive growth within the telecommunications, supply chain industry, Education and Banking / payments industry.
• Resourceful AWS Cloud Practitioner /Project & Program Manager / Scrum Master/ Business Analyst / Data Modeler having 15 years of experience in IT and skilled in streamlining scope and maintaining schedules to ensure timely completion of assigned projects.
• Experienced working on Cloud Infrastructure, building and managing Physical and Virtual data centers, manage deploying servers, network, storage and applications.
• Well versed with AWS Cloud infrastructure and its compute, network and Storage services.
• Created data warehouse designs and worked on data privacy requirements.

• Project Management
• Program Management
• Vendor / Supplier Management
• Global IT Leadership
• IT Team Collaboration
• Scrum Master
• SAFe4 Certified Agilist
• Release Train Engineer
• Automation
• Enterprise Cloud Computing (AIC & AWS)
• Cloud Deployment
• Systems/Network Infrastructure
• Multi - Site DataCenter Migrations
• Cloud Orchestration & Security
• Understanding of DevOps CICD
• ALM/QC (Test management)
• MS Project
• PPM tool (ATT Internal tool - PRISM)
• Agile / Waterfall
• Organization and Planning skills
• Leadership skills
• Jeopardies / Risk management
• Data modeling
• Budgetting
• Report Generation

SKILLS SUMMARY:

Management: Project Management, Project Planning, Scheduling & Management - Risk, Issue & Change management - Team Leadership - - Business Process Analysis - Cost Benefit & business Impact Analysis - Budgeting, Forecasting & reporting - Resource Scheduling, Allocation & Oversight - Structured Methodologies (Waterfall, Agile including Scrum and SAFe) - Client, Team & Partner Relations - Software Quality Assurance (SQA) ITUP PRISM, Confidential & Confidential CR Tool

Technical: AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, SNS, CloudWatch, Cloud Trial, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, AutoScaling etc), Creation of Database Design, Creation and managing user stories and Sprint backlog, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint, Wireshark, IRIS, Microsoft PowerBI, SRT RM ReqProALM QC, TMATS, Rally, JIRA, Erwin7.2/7.3 data modeling, HTML, ASP, JavaScript, Java and Windows & Linux OS.

Report Generation: Project status report, Burn down and Burn up chart, Velocity chart, Finance reports, Warehouse inventory report, Jeopardies, Risk Report, Erwin Reports, and QC reports.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cloud IT Infrastructure Project Manager / Associate Architect

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the bridge between functional business units and IT. Possess extensive experience working with and managing various teams including Product, Development, and Systems Analyst, Quality in creating and managing the user stories and managing Sprint backlogs. Held Sprint planning, daily scrums, and Sprint review calls successfully.
• Guided the development teams to breakdown large and complex user stories into simplified versions of execution.
• Hosted calls to review MEC Architecture for 4G and 5G with the Design team & LabOPs team to get their estimates and engage them in the project.
• Built strong relationship with all the stakeholders including suppliers, LabOps team, development team, testing team, Operations team, Warehouse managers, network, RAN, Hypervisor teams, management etc.
• Developed a Project Schedule with MS Project/ communication plan / Resource Plan / strategy to address how the products and services will satisfy the demands and necessities of the customers. Hosted calls with LabOps team and the RAN design team to discuss on the design strategy that yields minimum investment & maximum profit. Baselined the design strategy.
• Co-developed a CUPS architecture which is a standards-based approach local content offload using Control and User-Plane Separation principles to deploy a remote user-plane Confidential a customer premise or venue which has the capability to selectively offload content to the enterprise or venue using IP breakout rules.
• Had setup the labs with HPEL4000 Servers, Dell 640 & 740 Servers, required 1G & 10G backhaul cables, switches, mmwave, build the RAN infrastructure (Nokia FSM4BBU, RRU & Ericsson 6630 LTE BBU RRU). Transport build request to install/build/configure new Whitebox S9500 SIAD to support Lab and field POC work from within the labs etc.
• Lead cross- functional teams for the lab testing, deployment and field testing of software releases on the Mobility and VoIP networks. Team leverages Wireshark and IRIS for network monitoring tools to ensure call flows happen per the network design. Team also uses Ansible playbook to configure VMs.
• Perform risk management, risk mitigation. Ensure defects are closed on time and escalate and issue Jeopardy where needed.
• Create and share project report status, QC status, Burn down charts and velocity charts with the C-Suite leadership.
• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience and oversee ongoing development, ensuring common implementations of metrics across multiple application platforms and brands, highlighting platform and brand-specific nuances when necessary.
• Take products through their lifecycle and transition them across internal organizations, including supporting Call flows and Operations by creating detailed engineering documentation (Engineering Design Documents, Test plans and Installation procedures and guides, (MOPs)Method of Operations, Golden Configuration, Road Maps, etc.) and lead design and development across multiple vendors (Broad soft, Ericsson, Nokia etc).
• Led global IT Infrastructure migrations: AIC Cloud migrations, deployment, AIC Cloud Management, automation, Data center Virtualization, Network Virtualization etc.
• Good knowledge and understanding of Infrastructure migrations with AWC Cloud migrations, deployment, AWC Cloud management, automation, data center/network/server/Storage infrastructure and cloud operations etc.
• Educated business, customers and helped teams to understand AWS cloud solutions, and best practices and lead in the vision, strategy, architecture and implementation of private, public and hybrid cloud solutions using AWS services and products such as EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, RDS, IAM, Route 53, SNS, auto scaling etc.
• Participated and well managed the deployment of AWS Services and capabilities. Team demonstrated cloud scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, Security using AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, VPC, Auto Scaling, ELB, Route 53, Cloud watch, Cloud front etc.
• Good understanding and management of AWS solutions such as creation of EC2 instances, building VPCs, migration of Premise to AWS cloud, setting up of ELBs (Elastic Load Balancers), and secure storage solutions using S3, EBS, NACLs etc.
• Good knowledge and understanding of use cases and practical application experience of AWS products, and solutions such as EC2, S3, IAM (Identity & Access management), Cloud Front, Glaciers, Storage Gateways. Internet Gateways, Security groups etc.
• Experience working with various teams including development, QA, Operations, Product etc. Held Scrum of Scrum calls to understand the bigger picture of the project and to take status from all impacted apps.
• Extensively worked on MS Project for creating and maintaining delivery timelines and also used PRISM - Confidential & Confidential in house PPM tool to monitor the project resources, deliverables / milestones and to manage budget / investments across a portfolio of assets to ensure maximum return on capital.
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Several times appreciated by the clients in recognition of on-time delivery and outstanding project results.
• Coached to clarify assignments and deliverables; mentor others in project management practices; review quality of work and manage integration of team member’s work.
• Worked with various external vendors in getting the quote for Servers, BBUs, RRUs, SFPs, cables etc and successfully placing the orders and ensuring on-time delivery. Played a key role in setting up the Mobility lab in Alpharetta location.

Sr. Project manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the bridge between functional business units and IT. Possess extensive experience working with and managing various teams including Product, Development, and Systems Analyst, Quality in creating and managing the user stories and managing Sprint backlogs. Held Sprint planning, daily scrums, and Sprint review calls successfully. Guided the development teams to breakdown large and complex user stories into simplified versions of execution.
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Collaborate closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant, and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.
• Handle a cross matrix team of over 100 FTP with 50+ applications were impacted.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• SAFe certified Agilist for implementing Scaled Agile teams and built a self-motivated cross functional team - active participant in implementing SAFe.
• Several times appreciated by the clients in recognition of on-time delivery and outstanding project results.
• Coached to clarify assignments and deliverables; mentor others in project management practices; trained new team members and transition teams to agile framework with scrum to enhance team skill levels.
• Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.

Project Manager /Scrum Master

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the bridge between functional business units and IT. Possess extensive experience working with and managing various teams including Product, Development, and Systems Analyst, Quality in creating and managing the user stories and managing Sprint backlogs. Held Sprint planning, daily scrums, and Sprint review calls successfully. Guided the development teams to breakdown large and complex user stories into simplified versions of execution.
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Collaborate closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant, and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.
• Handle a cross matrix team of over 100 FTP with 50+ applications were impacted.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• SAFe certified Agilist for implementing Scaled Agile teams and built a self-motivated cross functional team - active participant in implementing SAFe.
• Several times appreciated by the clients in recognition of on-time delivery and outstanding project results.
• Coached to clarify assignments and deliverables; mentor others in project management practices; trained new team members and transition teams to agile framework with scrum to enhance team skill levels.
• Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.
• Led the team of data modelers in building the logical data models and creating & maintaining the data dictionary. Hosted various number of calls and reviews to gather business requirements and convert them to the data models.
• As a systems analyst, gathered scope requirements and created BRD. Leveraged Rational Rose to create use case, sequence and activity diagrams. Created system flows and data flows. Leveraged Microsoft Vision to create process mapping documents.

Interface Manager / Sr. Data Modeler

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Developed transportation and warehousing solution for budgeting and metrics. The solution helped support decision making and provide context to how the business was performing relative to the plan.
• Performed analysis on the reporting requirements that were gathered and identified any gaps.
• Participated in the discussion with business users to address the gaps that were discovered during the analysis phase.
• Translated the business requirements to data models.
• Created logical data models in ER Studio8.0.
• Developed 16 reports to be generated for Warehouse, Transportation and Finance departments.
• Performed analysis on the requirements that was gathered and identified any gaps.
• Participated in the discussion with business users to close the gaps discovered during the analysis phase.
• Created SRC-TGT mapping sheets.
• Created and maintained Master Data Management (MDM) for global use.
• Forward-engineered the model to create the DDL scripts and to implement the database
• Accessed the staging tables and created the target data model to meet the reporting requirements.
• Maintained the version management of the data models.
• Created the reporting fields mapping.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst / Sr. Data Modeler

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements from business users and performed analysis.
• Translated the business requirements to data models.
• Participated in JAD sessions.
• Took part in preparing Functional Specification and Technical documentation.
• Designed and built Data Models for Data Integration to bring it in to Landing Zone.
• Created Data Acquisition and Interface System Design Document.
• Created and updated Data Dictionary for global use.
• Created Conceptual Models in Visio.
• Created Physical Model in ERwin for CDW.
• Created Star and Snowflake schemas in Erwin.
• Helped ETL team in handling the SRC-TGT Extraction and Transformations.