SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of project management experience working in various capacities and across various Business Domains as Healthcare, Banking and Financial Services, Infrastructure/Asset Management.
• Managed the development of software applications under various SDLC frameworks such as Waterfall and Agile in challenging, fast - paced consulting environments.
• Experience in financial analysis, Data analysis and reporting, developing strategy, software deployment and Release, risk assessment and mitigation.
• Proficient in gathering user requirements, preparing and analyzing Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS), and propose changes for process improvement.
• Experience in system analysis & design, implementation and managing teams onsite and offshore for large projects with budgets ranging from $5-$50 million.
• Excellent Skills in Performance Management to support strategic planning, goal setting, accountability, enhanced decision making, Problem Solving and Project Planning based on Cost Benefit and ROI analysis.
• Facilitated meetings for defining business requirements, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to fulfill the business needs of the customer.
• Managed cost, time, milestones, scope, plan, risks, issues, dependencies, quality, and benefits of the project. Managed multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Organizing, building and empowering teams, Scrum Master for Agile projects. Facilitated sprint ceremonies such as Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review and Retrospective to improve the efficiency of the team.
• Proficient in cross-functional collaboration within technical and functional teams, along with the ability to successfully deliver projects within identified constraints.
• Managing internal and external stakeholders, and expectations ensuring the creation of solid relationships.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Agile (Scrum Framework), Waterfall

Domain Knowledge: Finance, Retail, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Industrial Automation, Sensors & Actuators

Functional Skills: IT Strategies & Operations, Risk Analysis and Mitigation, Data Analytics, Business & Vendor Management

Project Management Tools: Rally, JIRA, Oracle EBS R12

Business Intelligence Tools: Tableau, Power BI

Prototyping Tools: Justinmind, Axure RP, MS Excel

Databases: MySQL, Oracle PL/SQL, AWS

Document Management Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access), MS Project, Outlook, and Office 365, SharePoint

Business Process Modeling and UML Diagram Tools: MS Visio, Lucid Chart, Gliffy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENC

Confidential, Boston, MA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Business process designs, functional configuration, Data Privacy and Risk management, testing, client user training. Purchasing (PO), Order Management (OM), BOM, WIP, iProcurement.
• Provide Functional expertise for Purchasing, Order Management, Advanced Supply Chain, Inventory and Manufacturing business processes, Costing, & BOM.
• Financial Reporting and Management Reporting requirements from Oracle and Data warehouse.
• In charge of developing, updating and presenting consolidated project plans with multiple interdependencies.
• Using Data analytics tools for optimized automation.
• Assure that scope is aligned with business objectives and meets budget, time, cost and cost requirements.
• Work hand-in-hand with Business, IT and Procurement to secure resources, SMEs, software and hardware requirements as well as vendor selection.
• Adhere project and PMO controls and risk management practices and escalate risks to Steering Committee as needed.
• Work closely with the Change Management to assure project is progressing within the scope and any scope creep risks are identified and change, acceptance and approval management are processed through Change Control Board.
• Work closely with onsite and offshore teams, vendors, Virtual Teams, SMEs, sponsors and executives.
• Assure adoption of changes by moving stakeholders and users through the stages of engagement from awareness, through resistance, and into true ownership.
• Plan, execute, monitor, track and report large-scale technology projects using traditional and Agile development processes & techniques.
• Facilitate the Project Kick-off, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, and other Scrum events in a time boxed manner.
• Prepare periodic reports using Jira and Excel for the internal communications and stakeholders.

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Office 365, MS Visio, MS Outlook, JIRA, MS SharePoint, Oracle EBS R12

Confidential, Boston, MA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading stakeholder engagement during the project, responsible for ensuring consistent and accurate communication with all levels of stakeholders.
• Planning and estimating the work units, resource requirements and duration; key milestones and work outputs, selecting appropriate project methodology.
• Managing detailed requirements elicitation with Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts.
• Identifying and managing risks throughout the life cycle of the project.
• Worked with Product Owner to create and refine the backlog by coordinating with various stakeholders, manage and groom product backlog, lead sprint planning sessions, sprint review and retrospective.
• Identifying project team by assessing for both technical skills required for project execution as well as critical thinking and soft skills.
• Preparing and updating project plans, resources and status reports.
• Formulating and executing functional specifications for application designing.
• Creating and modifying business workflows, marketing materials and training modules.
• Developing integration requirements and supporting health care applications.
• Integrating project plans, coordinating with teams from different projects and functions.
• Organizing and leading teams in Scrum format, as well as dedicated teams in a Waterfall approach.
• Ensuring the quality of the product delivery by planning and managing quality assurance.
• Collaborated with corporate communications department for project rebranding, advertisement and developed marketing material to communicate and engage employees
• Administered system and built system structure, security access and defined roles in system.
• Identifying key business requirements and critical success factors.

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Office 365, MS Visio, MS Outlook, JIRA, MS SharePoint, Java/J2EE, AWS

Confidential, Boston, MA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed two SCRUM teams to deliver end to end project requirements and coached agile principles to SCRUM teams and resolved risks and dependencies.
• Gathered business requirements from users and multiple stakeholders and translated them in business terms in the agile methodology.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
• Attended project status meetings with medical center directors, drafted agendas, and updated project plans accordingly.
• Collaborated with corporate communications department for project rebranding, advertisement and developed marketing material to communicate and engage employees.
• Used data analysis tools from multiple vendors for system optimization, technical support, and training to build an interface between multiple databases.
• Administered system and built system structure, security access and defined roles in system.

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Office 365, MS Outlook, JIRA, MS SharePoint, Justinmind, Angular JS, JavaScript, Java/J2EE, AWS

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scope identification, analysis of key requirements, risk assessment, and basic engineering design to decide viability. Assigning tasks to the team using a modular approach like in Agile.
• Specification review and working with the technical team to prepare an optimal pre-bid proposal.
• Raising RFQs, Automation Product Selection (Sensors, Actuators, Transmitters, Cables)
• Pre-Bid negotiations with vendors and customer/stakeholders to get the project.
• Reviewing and finalizing functional design specifications, testing and approval procedures.
• Monitoring the development progress, project activities tracking and reporting.
• Verification of engineered solution, GUI, data analysis and reporting, data privacy and risk management, Testing and Approval activities.
• Product Lifecycle Management using PLM tools like PTC Windchill.
• Acted as a single point of contact (SPOC) for interactions with cross-functional teams, site teams, procurement, QA etc.

Confidential

Project Manager/PMO

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirement data from customer, preparing business requirement documents, project planning and execution strategies.
• Conducted various training sessions on process and engineering approach for efficient execution of bagged projects and used agile methodology for Automation Software solution delivery.
• Interaction and brainstorming with cross-functional teams to get the clearance for Automation scope for final Industrial Automation software solution delivery.
• Project Management, Design Automation solutions including sensors, transmitters, actuators, timeline and progress monitoring, project materials delivery schedule preparation and monitoring reports. Staying aware of market trends & keeping track of competition.
• Working on Automation Solutions with Vendors and verifying their work through data analysis for deviations and change order management.

Confidential

Business Development

Responsibilities:

• To co-ordinate with design team and Project team for Control logic/interlocks, ESD and Control Scheme implementation for final Automation software solution delivery.
• Pre-Bid engineering for PAN India Optical Fiber Laying Project for Indian Army.
• Proposal engineering, maintaining databases for solutions, vendors and key aspects repetitive in nature. Liaising with vendors & stakeholders and build long term relationships with them.
• Vendor Management, to compare vendor’s solution for technical and commercial aspects and shortlist the optimal solution providers.