SUMMARY

• Dynamic project leader with an expertise in project management, strategic planning, systems analysis Excel in liaising between business and technical areas to achieve on - time, on-budget, and on-spec project completions.
• Exhibit strong leadership, problem-solving, relationship building and communication skills. Cultivates trusted relationships with key stakeholders, leverages innovative thinking in solving complex problems and managing conflict, and develops and inspires cross-functional teams to success. Thrives on responsibility and challenge and is committed to customer service excellence.
• 12+ years of experience working in multiple roles in IT and engineering domain with good understanding of Project management, business requirements elicitation, analysis and experience in envisioning, representing and translating the product vision from business area to product development by making critical contribution in varied domains.
• Experience with Project Planning, reporting, resource planning and execution. Strong Project Management skills like product planning, estimation, and resource plans.
• Experience with utilizing the values and practices of Scrum, Agile and JIRA to ensure Development Team is being utilized across the project.
• Solid understanding in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Product
• Development Life Cycle (PDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Hands on experience with Vendor management, Contracting and vendor assessment processes.
• Well versed with software engineering methods like Waterfall, Agile and broad cross functional experiences leveraging multiple frameworks.
• Have extensive knowledge in project management tools like MS Project and Jira.
• Firm ability to research, analyze and translate complex business and technical information to stakeholders, SME’s, and developers at all levels of the organization
• Strong facilitation and managing skills to negotiate priorities, escalate and resolve conflicts among project stakeholders, coordinate with cross functional teams, and conduct status and checkpoint calls.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical skills, desire, and ability to research and formulate appropriate analytical technology and resolve complex problem situations and document results.
• Lead cross functional team from Business case analysis to Solution development & deployment.
• Project planning, Tracking Schedule & Budget, Analyze Performance & take actions
• Achieving Cost & Cycle time reduction with simple but powerful solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving, TX

Scrum Master (Project Manager)

Responsibilities:

• Working with multiple technology streams for delivery, driving work through project teams and communicating regularly with shareholders
• Interact regularly with Business Analysts, Architects, Developers, Application Support, Enterprise Test, Operations, and Senior Management.
• Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments. Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. Track burn down. Work with development teams to resolve issues.
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks.
• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
• Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution, ensuring resource availability and allocation.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participating in Status Meetings, providing project estimates, getting Business approvals for the projects, providing project estimates, and planning the project with the approved budget and schedule.
• Work with Scrum Masters from various teams to align the delivery of projects in line with our release schedule.
• Report the development, design, testing and migration status to IT managers and Project managers.
• Project tracking and reporting using Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), Weekly Status reports, Excel Pie charts, Pivot tables, Project Presentations using Microsoft Power Point, SharePoint etc.
• Facilitate discussions with business partners and tech lead to understand requirements and make sure the Requirements are tracked properly and converted to stories and assigned to appropriate teams.
• Work with testing teams to make sure the projects are being tested as and when the sprints end.
• Facilitating meetings with the Development team, Business users, SMEs etc.
• Help the release manager to migrate the multiple stories to other environments.
• Facilitate the scrum master in prioritizing the backlog and future work and work with them in understanding the resource requirements and report that to the IT managers.
• Provide overall forecasts for the area in terms of project impacts and resource planning.