SUMMARY:

• Known for servant - leadership, facilitating self-organizing teams, coaching and delivery of solutions that contribute to long-term value.
• Experienced in coaching teams in complex organizational environment.
• Managed all ceremonies of SCRUM/KANBAN
• Certified Software Development Professional and Certified ITIL Foundation V3.0.
• Trained on Product Platform Strategy, Design & Implementation by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Trained on Cyber Security - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Experienced in teh Healthcare vertical - Verispan, Harvard Pilgrim and AmeriSource Bergen.
• Experienced in Financial vertical - Confidential, Interactive Data, Fidelity, Capital One, Bank of America
• Attended two 2 day workshop on “Understanding teh Securities Industry” - Olmstead Associates.
• Organized a PMO workshop on Agile Adoption into organizations currently in traditional project management / low maturity Agile culture.
• Thought leader at Lunch & Learn sessions on Agile / Scrum adoption
• Coached / Managed SAFe implementation at AmeriSource Bergan.
• Managed all SCRUM/KANBAN ceremonies and coached teams at Confidential, Dell, Fidelity, Confidential, Interactive Data, Thomson Financials for multiple projects during teh past 10 years.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. IT Project Manager

Confidential, Southborough, MA

Responsibilities:

• Project managed a DCA expansion project. This project added additional capacity and improved performance for teh Business Analytics as a Service
• Program Taylor
• As per an Executive decision - all mission critical applications on Oracle will be, by default, migrated to Postgress DB.
• Project Managing 3 migration projects - Oracle to MS SQL & Postgress. - SCRUMBAN
• Facilitated Scrum-of-Scrum
• Managed/ Trained/Coached team on identification of User needs. Elicitation and Documentation of User Requirements /Stories.
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team on Product Planning / Release Planning/Sprint Planning/Daily Standups
• Trained/Coached team on Demos, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team to self-organize
• Trained/Coached team on using Planning Poker for sizing User Stories (Story Points)

Sr. Advisor Project/Program Management

Confidential, Wellesley, MA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Scrum-of-Scrum
• Managed/ Trained/Coached team on identification of User needs. Elicitation and Documentation of User Requirements /Stories.
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team on Product Planning / Release Planning/Sprint Planning/Daily Standups
• Trained/Coached team on Demos, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team to self-organize
• Trained/Coached team on using Planning Poker for sizing User Stories (Story Points)

Program Manager - Analytics

Confidential, Smithfield, RI

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Scrum-of-Scrum
• Managed/ Trained/Coached team on identification of User needs. Elicitation and Documentation of User Requirements /Stories.
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team on Product Planning / Release Planning/Sprint Planning/Daily Standups
• Trained/Coached team on Demos, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team to self-organize
• Trained/Coached team on using Planning Poker for sizing User Stories (Story Points)
• 2 Program Managing teh Knowledge Management Project
• Facilitated Scrum-of-Scrum
• Managed/ Trained/Coached team on identification of User needs. Elicitation and Documentation of User Requirements /Stories.
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team on Product Planning / Release Planning/Sprint Planning/Daily Standups
• Trained/Coached team on Demos, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team to self-organize
• Trained/Coached team on using Planning Poker for sizing User Stories (Story Points)

Project Management

Confidential, Wakefield, MA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Scrum-of-Scrum
• Managed/ Trained/Coached team on identification of User needs. Elicitation and Documentation of User Requirements /Stories.
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team on Product Planning / Release Planning/Sprint Planning/Daily Standups
• Trained/Coached team on Demos, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team to self-organize
• Trained/Coached team on using Planning Poker for sizing User Stories (Story Points)

Senior Project Manager consultant

Confidential, Glen, Allen, VA

Responsibilities:

• Organized 16 orphan initiatives into programs & portfolios
• Teh strategy was to convert all applications to be mobile read. Introduced agile concepts and incremental delivery model.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project managed a major 5-layered web based Enterprise Platform Development and Deployment - which will provide customers a single point gateway for their data needs.
• Project managed a major re-architecting of Enterprise System Bus which will has x3 improvement in efficiency
• Project managed a major enhancement to a commercial product to satisfy teh needs of teh biggest customer
• Contributed extensively to setup and run teh PMO which promoted consistent project management, project prioritization, business alignment and needed visibility to teh business.
• Facilitated Scrum-of-Scrum
• Managed/ Trained/Coached team on identification of User needs. Elicitation and Documentation of User Requirements /Stories.
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team on Product Planning / Release Planning/Sprint Planning/Daily Standups
• Trained/Coached team on Demos, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team to self-organize
• Trained/Coached team on using Planning Poker for sizing User Stories (Story Points)

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project managed (Agile) teh integration of a third party product with Thomson One, teh company’s flagship product. This enabled teh Thomson One product to expand its market share by 3% Confidential
• Managed teh Speed & Stability Program which addressed customer concerns about teh speed and stability of teh Thomson One product Confidential
• Facilitated Scrum-of-Scrum
• Managed/ Trained/Coached team on identification of User needs. Elicitation and Documentation of User Requirements /Stories.
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team on Product Planning / Release Planning/Sprint Planning/Daily Standups
• Trained/Coached team on Demos, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
• Facilitated/ Trained/Coached team to self-organize
• Trained/Coached team on using Planning Poker for sizing User Stories (Story Points)

Project Manager consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• STAPLES: Managed (Agile) teh EMV Euro-Master-Visa compliance project which enabled all stores in Europe and teh UK to continue credit card transactions without being hit with merchant liability in case of a fraud. Worked extensively in Cyber Security, Security Implementations/Security Architecture, Network integrations / system Integrations
• Verispan: Delivered a high performance Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system - collection, storage, retrieval, transmission - in a HIPAA environment. Teh EDW contained medical / patient data for pharmaceutical / hospital customers. Worked extensively in Cyber Security, Security Implementations/Security Architecture, Network integrations / system Integrations
• Albertsons: Turned around and successfully managed (Agile) teh CEO’s #1 project - Pricing project which provided optimized pricing (including promotions like buy 2 - get one free) for several thousand items across several hundred stores.
• A core pricing module from Khimetrics was implemented.
• Teh project addressed teh following -
• 1 Teh base pricing algorithm - taking into consideration competition, region, season and more variables (nearly 100).
• 2 Promotions - like buy 2 and get 1 free.
• 3 Create logical price labels to go with teh items in teh store.
• 4 Appropriate design of teh planogram - where to place which items.
• 5 Interfacing with logistics and delivery of store items - to ensure optimizing of inventory (EOQ).
• 6 Teh price may be reduced for clearance sale and clear teh inventory and teh price labels recreated.
• 7 POS redesigned to accommodate teh new pricing model.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with teh Business to produce teh Project Concept Document, Feasibility Study and teh Business Requirements Document
• Managed projects (RUP) which delivered Automatic Train Control Systems to Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority and Southern New Jersey Light Railways System Authority GE - through Confidential
• Implemented CMM L3 - organizationally mandated US Department of Defense through Confidential
• Implemented CMM L3 - mandated by market to pre-qualify for bids Harmon Industries (later acquired by GE) through Confidential
• Provided pre-sales support to win contracts worth $6+ MN. Confidential, GE