SUMMARY

• Over 22 years of professional IT experience with expertise in Project and Program Management, PMO (Project Management Office), Agile and SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Experience in working in various industries including Banking, Insurance and Pharmaceutical
• Experience in working with public sector in area of education
• Extensive experience in working with PMO (various clients) and practicing project management processes including scope, schedule, resource, cost and quality management
• Experience in directly working with Risk Working Group of Bank Line of Defense (including Compliance and Internal Audit) on implementation/Testing of AWS Cloud Security Controls
• Specialized in area of IT Security project management. Experience in delivery projects including Identity and Access Management, Data Center Migration and Hardware/Software Upgrade projects, Content Management Systems and IT Governance solutions
• Experience in leading large and complex cross - functional teams of analysts, architects, developers/engineers and testers - both onsite and offshore resources
• Experience in managing vendors and resources in terms of project timelines and deliverables
• Experience in managing multiple projects within matrix organizational structure
• Experience in working as a liaison between business users and technical team
• Extensive experience in terms of Project Communication, keeping Executive Steering Committee, Business stakeholders and other team members apprised of project status, issues and Risks through regular status review meetings
• Experience in handling budget planning, vendor selection, Procurement, Purchase Orders and ROI. Experience in managing contracts and preparing RFPs
• Manage quality review and standards implementation throughout business and technology teams; Experience in defining quality management plans
• Comprehensive understanding and experience of PMI standards and Agile methods

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Functional Areas: Safe (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrums/Iterations, Squads/Teams management, Project Management, Business Analysis, SDLC, Business and Technical writing and Quality Assurance, Scrum/Kanban boards

Methodologies: PMI standards (PMBOK), Agile, Waterfall and Iterative methodologies

Tools: and Technologies: Oracle IAM/OAM, IBM ISIM/ISAM/IFIM, CA Clarity / Open Workbench, Avatier Group Enforcer, BeyondTrust PowerBroker, MFA/Duo Security (Mobile push notification), Veracode Static Analyst (SAST), JIRA, HP PPM, MS Project, ServiceNow, Micro Focus Caliber, Databases (Oracle and Microsoft), PL/SQL, Open Text eDOCS DM/RM, HP Quality Center, Confluence and MS SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported LOD in managing review of Confidential tailored Risk Management Controls catalog using Booz Allen’s input resulted from FedRAMP moderate and high baseline assessment
• Worked with LOD on Risk Assessment, Controls Assessments and Information Risk Assessment Scoring process. Worked with team in establishing process around Risk Treatment (remediation, mitigation, acceptance etc.)
• Developed a close working relationship across all teams (Engineering, Operations, Security and Risk), fostering an environment of collaboration and teamwork
• Worked with team in building Risk Management processes for AWS Landing Zone implementation
• Working with LOD on the implementation of High Risk Controls for AWS Cloud
• Practicing agile methods with First LOD (Business), Second LOD (Compliance) and Third LOD (Internal Audit). Supported Second LOD on Independent Assessment
• Collaboration with teams on Controls testing, providing evidences, addresses LOD concerns and following up on gaps to implement Confidential Controls alignment with NIST 800-53
• Partnering with teams in putting together issues and action plan in QRC (Open Pages) platform and collaborating with Risk Working Group on acceptance of Action Plan
• Supported Data Center migration project from Security standpoint. Managed design, installation, configuration work related to Firewall and Monitoring tools
• Managed Secure By Design certification process

Confidential, PA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Supported PMO in project initiations, building solution complexity scorecards, architecture reviews, solution reviews, securing financial approvals
• Daily stand ups with team (Squad). Facilitated separate DSMs for each team and support in addressing blockers
• Established the environment so team can be more effective and be more self-organizing team
• Performs team’s capacity planning
• Execute PI (Program Increment) of 3 sprints; whereas each sprint is of 3 weeks
• Facilitates weekly backlog refinement sessions. Ensures that all team members are actively participating in the backlog refinement meetings, stories are updated, ‘acceptance criteria’ is defined, dependencies are called out
• Execute prolonged Sprint Planning meetings every 3 weeks. Facilitates team to assign story size to each story (using Fun Retro board) and owning these stories during the sprint. Work with product owner on goals definition for a sprint
• Facilitate team to prepare for demo for Sprint review. Facilitates those meetings and make sure that feedback is captured
• Facilitates Retrospective meetings by using Fun Retro board, ensuring action items from previous iteration are reviewed

Confidential, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with technology stakeholders on managing project requirements
• Responsible for project status reporting to IT and Business stakeholders. Managing stakeholders notifications, project reports, project presentations and project records (on SharePoint site)
• Worked with Application Development, Server Operations, Network Operations on various issues
• Responsible for maintain risk register. Closely work with SMEs on analyzing risks in weekly/bi-weekly Risk Review sessions. During review sessions, responsible to ensure that the Risk Response is in-place and progress is reviewed frequently (risks are reviewed and reassessed)
• Ensured documentation standards are met considering audit aspects
• Responsible for building Project Schedule by defining project activities, sequencing activities, estimating activity resource and task durations
• Responsible for cross-functional coordination among groups of Server Operations, Application Development-Operations, Network Support, Service Center, Network Operations Center