SUMMARY

• Hands - on 'cradle-to-grave' management, managing end-to-end enterprise-wide implementation of software applications and products.
• Extensive experience delivering multiple enterprise-wide implementations for Confidential across industries including Healthcare, Retail & Mfg., Insurance & Financial Services.
• Strong technology skills and leader with ability to partner with business and technology customers to lead transformational change and apply innovative solutions.
• Experience in Waterfall, Agile, Lean and Waterfall-SCRUM hybrid methodologies.
• Comprehensive IT background with expertise in information technology functions like Change & Release Management, DevOps, Software Development, Project & Program Management.
• Dynamic and motivated professional with a proven record of working across cross-functional teams strong analytical & leadership abilities, with the ability to make decisions independently.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: MS Project, Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps Server/TFS

Cloud Services: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure.

Open Source / Web: AWS-Elasticsearch, Lambda, EC2

BI Reporting: Cognos, OBIEE, Hyperion Financial Management, QlikView, Tableau.

Data Integration: AWS-Glue, Abinitio, DataStage, Talend, SAP-Business Objects Data Services

Storage: AWS-S3, Oracle, SQL Server, Essbase, Teradata, DB2 & MS Access, SAP HANA

Languages: Python, COBOL, Shell scripts, HTML & PL/SQL.

Testing: Micro Focus Quality Center, Team Foundational Server.

Scheduling: Maestro, Autosys, Control-M

Content Management: IBM Notes, MS SharePoint, Confluence, CA Project and Portfolio Mgt.

Version Control: MKS; SVN; PVCS.

OS/Frameworks: UNIX, Windows, .NET, Hadoop.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Strategize and drive the product strategy and roadmap for the Stanley Enterprise Data Platform Integration, for SEF, Security & GTS business units.
• Responsible for working with Product Owner to ensure the Product backlog and story boards are updated.
• Migrated the Business Analytical & Reporting BA&R solution on the Cloud, by replacing the On-Prem instances with OACS - OCI platform.
• Facilitate scrums and remove impediments for successful implementation of the product within the sprints.
• Act as change agent to promote Agile and establish continuous delivery processes by working as Scrum Master.
• Coach Scrum Teams in SAFe Agile framework to ensure full understanding and use of required ceremonies for faster delivery in Agile environment.
• Champion and provide oversight for initiatives during the Technical Delivery process, assisting the dev team in understanding requirements.
• Facilitate Change & Release Management efforts between the Application Services, Business Services & Enterprise Shared Services teams.
• Worked with PMO & Portfolio Leadership team to continue refining ITSF delivery methodology including deliverable structure and content.
• Creation, maintenance and coordination of Planning/Forecasting metrics for Corp. Finance team viz. Tableau & QlikView dashboards, as part of their standard monthly close process.
• Delivered SEF adoption initiative on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology.

Solution Delivery Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the enterprise-wide Informatica Oracle database upgrade efforts, that included installation & support, application migration and operations, and warranty support.
• Facilitated release planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings.
• Leading distributed scrum teams which involve mentoring and coaching the teams in Agile, Lean, and Scrum practices.
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Facilitated team and cross-team retrospectives to build good working relationships among multiple agile teams.
• Developed detailed project Roadmaps, Plans/Work Breakdown Structures working with Systems Engineering & Application Solutions group.
• Coordinated cost-benefit analysis & ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision making on proposed implementation approaches.
• Coordinating w/Architecture & Solution Engineering to ensure definition and development of proper documentation and standards.
• Coordinated the Informatica upgrade initiative, that included migration of existing production applications to the Oracle Engineered Super cluster.
• Ensuring compliance with all software licensing agreements. Tracking & Maintenance of software versions thru a centralized log.
• Overseeing the development, design, and implementation of applications, including changes to existing hardware systems and software packages.
• Managing a team of 90+ professionals (Onsite & Offsite), supervising all aspects of the migration efforts across IT Projects and/or Production Support functions.
• Supervise inventory control by establishing a process to ensure IT systems (Hardware & Software that have reached lease expiration, to remain in compliance.
• Partner with IT & Business in facilitating review meetings and helping in the management of incidents in accordance with SLAs.

Scrum Master / BI Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate consolidation & prioritization efforts for FP&A & support Planning/Forecasting report needs team viz. Tableau & QlikView dashboards, as part of their standard monthly close process.
• Created, reviewed & prioritized User Stories with the Scrum Team and helped them write Tasks.
• Evaluated the Scrum Maturity of the team; coached the team to achieve higher levels of maturity and at a pace that is sustainable for the organization.
• Utilized strong analytical skills to identify, track, report and resolve critical issues in a timely manner on JIRA.
• Worked with Business & technology stakeholders to design & implement FMR Call Analytics application, to further enrich Master Data platform, for the Marketing team.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Reviewed and updated project status and cost reports, schedules to Steering committee team & Portfolio committee.
• Supported efforts to develop a reusable solution to migrate Historical Cold data from Teradata to HDFS using Hadoop technologies.