SUMMARY:

• Dynamic, results oriented Certified Scrum Master & Sr. Project Manager with diversified program / project management experience.
• Proven track record of ability to execute and deliver mission - critical projects at several Fortune 200 companies.
• Experience includes successful delivery of technology initiatives e.g. software development/upgrades, platform/cloud migration / infrastructure, business transformation, establishment of PMO processes to improve environment productivity and operations.
• Accomplished Scrum master and Senior project manager offering demonstrated career success in various industries including banking & financial services, AdTech (Advertisement Technology), marketing, social media, manufacturing, supply chain management
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile/Scrum (including SAFe ), DevOps methodologies
• Experienced in setting up PMO operations, multi-year roadmaps, best practices, delivery documentation
• Led development of Enterprise data warehouses, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning/AI (AWS), business intelligence solutions, Hadoop/Big Data evaluation, ERP upgrades, infrastructure / technology upgrades / migration.
• Qualified in project planning, business workshops facilitation, budgeting, work estimation, strategy, risk mitigation, execution, delivery, release planning, executive dashboards, reporting to all stakeholders
• Well experienced in software and hardware asset management, licenses, TCOs
• Hands-on experience in a variety of leading tools and technologies including Oracle, J2EE, Microsoft .Net, ERP software.
• Led projects to create custom data interfaces and integration with leading ERP packages e.g. Oracle eBusiness / Financials, SAP, JDA/Manugistics supply planning and fulfillment, Lawson Payroll, PeopleSoft CRM
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, multi-task, manage and lead multiple teams to deliver quality solutions
• Excellent understanding of business processes and ability to create functional / technical designs based on them
• Successfully managed solutions delivery in Banking, Financial Services, Advertising and Marketing, Social Media, Supply Chain Management, QSR, Telecommunications, Steel, Manufacturing industries.

RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Scrum Master & Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing portfolio of AdTech (Advertising Technology) transactional & data analytics projects to deliver targeted advertisements (dynamic-creative) on major social media platforms (Google AdWords & DoubleClick, Facebook) and manage ROAS (Return on Advertising Spend) for Confidential ’s top media customers.
• Worked with SaaS vendor NinjaCat to implement reporting and dashboards
• My role as Sr. Scrum Master encompasses planning and managing teams, product and sprint backlog, interdependencies for multiple parallelly running sprints and scrum teams (Scrum of Scrums), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• As Sr. project manager, my responsibilities include working with business to plan and manage high-level requirements, overall budget, delivery schedule, infrastructure requirements, manage onsite and offshore resources, provide progress updates, budget burn rates to Confidential ’s senior leadership.

Tools: Rally, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Splunk.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the project to upgrade existing Oracle 11g database on RAC hardware to Oracle 12c database on Oracle Exadata platform.
• This is a mission-critical project which will modernize back end database and infrastructure for Confidential 's client facing Tier 0 (with 24×7 availability SLA) applications e.g. Wealth Passport, Private Passport, Retained Assets Web.
• Project phases included code modernization, User Acceptance testing, Performance testing, Node Failover Testing, Disaster Recovery Testing for all the applications along with over 20+ data consumer/supplier applications.
• My role included detailed project planning, defining milestones, managing project resources, budget/forecast, managing requirements from application teams, working with infrastructure, information security, DBA teams, maintaining project risks and issues roster, weekly status reporting to all stakeholders.
• I was also responsible for running and managing multiple scrum teams/sprints.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple transformation projects within bank’s Confidential (Intelligent Sales & Service Transformation) Program.
• This program has successfully delivered over $85MM (to date) in additional revenue to the bank by deploying a global integrated CRM, Campaign Decisioning platform to automate generation of transaction and online customer behavior-based leads for smart digital contact with customers and prospects.
• Managed project to upgrade Confidential ’s BI/Data Warehouse (Teradata, Data Stage) platform as part of the Greenfield Program.
• This multi-year program is designed to transform core banking in order to realize operational efficiencies, reduce complexity and improve digital experience of bank customers.
• My responsibilities included planning, managing requirements, scope / budget, project deliverables planning (using Agile/Sprints methodology, Clarity PPM), providing direction/goals to resources, reporting/communication with project stakeholders, executive dashboard for bank leadership.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led supply/demand planning and transactional project tracks/sub-teams on Project Greenfield as part of PMO organization at Confidential Solutions. Project Greenfield is Supply Chain Rationalization (ERP upgrade) initiative to improve focus, reduce diversity in business processes using common Oracle ERP instance.
• Responsibilities included project/WBS planning, budget/scope management, resource management, weekly status reporting to stakeholders, risk mitigation, issues identification and reporting

Confidential, Bloomingdale, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Help tailor and target Ramco System’s ERP/CRM, BI/DW product for the Confidential
• Analyze current functionality, perform fit-gap analysis and lead development team in adapting the HCM (Human Capital Management) product for the Confidential .
• Prepare project plan, work breakdown, manage executive dashboards and regularly report status to the leadership team and stakeholders.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined roadmap, prepared proposal & project plan, defined milestones that led to the of $14M SNAP (food stamps) project from State of Arkansas.
• Successfully led and managed the statewide development using agile methodology and implementation of SNAP program.
• Closely monitored and stayed within (<5 %) project budget of and met all project deadlines.
• The success of the SNAP project team resulted in of another $22M project from the state in addition to the possibility of long-term maintenance contract.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Program Manager/Director - IT

Responsibilities:

• Project portfolio included Oracle ERP upgrade, infrastructure migration, cloud based application deployment.
• Led evaluation and development of an integrated enterprise data warehouse, data standards and business intelligence (BI) platform
• Managed software and hardware assets, TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) optimization.
• Managed IT portfolio and budget, building global teams to support finance, supply chain, human capital management, procurement, sales & operations planning
• Managed multiple projects, established project tollgates and project executive dashboards, managed resources and risk, created project documentation to implement Oracle eBusiness suite at steel mills.
• Established project steering committees for business and IT alignment, issue resolution, project capital approval governance with product group EVPs, CFO & CIO.

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL

Program Manager - Technology Services

Responsibilities:

• Led efforts in scoping, budgeting, resource planning (onsite-offshore) & financial projections for solution delivery across database and web technologies.
• Managed project team, reported regular status using agreed upon project dashboards and implemented the demand forecasting, supply planning and fulfillment solution for restaurants (over 9,500 restaurants in North America) at Confidential.
• Inventory optimization at various levels in the supply chain) resulted in demonstrable improvements to the company & franchisee bottom line

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Enterprise Relationships Management project (PeopleSoft CRM implementation) to redesign and convert a large application from a custom database model in Sybase to PeopleSoft’s database model in Oracle. Significant performance gains and standardization benefits have been achieved from this effort.
• Lead for the project team that created the “Bankers Desktop”.
• This is a portal application that enables over 1800 bankers, tellers and managers at Confidential to have real-time on-line access to banking, trust, investment, brokerage accounts and processes needed to better support the clients.
• Confidential Private Passport - Managed project to design and develop important enhancements including instant online enrolment using ATM card validation with CheckFree, and data integration of retirement benefits with Hewitt.

Confidential, Oakbrook, IL

Project Manager / Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and reported on project to create automated data interfaces (using PMBOK/SDLC methodology) between Lawson ERP based Confidential stock options system and Merrill Lynch’s ‘Option Choice’ system.
• Led project to analyze requirements and architected a web application to allow Confidential employees in the field to store reporting relationships.
• Analyzed client requirements, designed and developed a web-based 'File Exchange' application for Confidential Hamburger University. This allows translators all over the world to access documents and translate course material for Language services.