SUMMARY

• Seeking a position as a project manager in an organization dat will utilize my project management and product development experience inretail, telecommunication, e - commerce, financial, mobile and health care industries.
• I has managed multiple projects concurrently wif global and teh local teams in teh matrix organization in an agile and teh SDLC development environments.
• I has extensive experience in software release, test, change and defect management bycoordinating and managing multiple projects TFS, Clear Case, HP ALM, Bugzilla, and JIRA tools wif global and teh local project teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Planning: Primavera, Sciforma, Share point, MS Project, MS Project Planner, Team Foundation Server, Rally, and Clarity, Process, Standards & Methodology SDLC (Waterfall),Agile, Scrum,Six-Sigma

Tools: TFS, JIRA, UML, MS Visio, HPQuality Center,Clear Quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager/SM

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managed all project deliverables from project charter, scope of teh project, project plan, requirements and plan for budget, resources, risk, andthecustomer support.
• Managedtheintegrated releases of features, go live release reviews, change and process management for production andtheemergency releases.
• Managed teh defect meeting on weekly basis wif project teams.
• Configured SharePoint for teh team for managing project document repositories.
• Createdtheproject milestones,budget, WBS,assigned resourcesandthemonitoredtheproject status.
• Utilized Jira, RTC and MS Projectmanagement tools.
• Facilitated as a Scrum Master to coordinate teh daily stand up meeting wif teh project team members and supported product owner for clarification for requirements related questions from teh development/test teamsandproactively halped teh team for teh resolution.Also approved testing results for teh system integration and UAT activities in Jira and Confluence.

Confidential, Riverwood, IL

Project Manager/SM

Responsibilities:

• Managed teh customer referral processing platform development for teh Discover’s Visa, EMV and teh Debit cards by working wif teh third party vendor.
• Facilitator as a scrum master for both product owner and team for facilitating sprint, retrospective and sprint planning meetings to create teh product and teh sprint backlogs in Clarity.
• Managed teh defect meeting on weekly basis in HP ALM wif project teams to log and resolve teh issues wif project teams. Utilized Clarity tool for teh project and time management.
• Created production release document for an approval from business stakeholders.
• Organized project planning, stand- up, sprint review and release planning as well as sprint retrospective meetings.
• Helped team in reviewing teh done and acceptance criteria for teh product back log user stories
• DevelopedQA testing and user acceptance testing strategies,UAT test activities, testing plans, and defect management in HP ALM QCand business readiness plans (Go-Live).

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed teh project’s features releasefor Blue Cross Blue Shield Health CareClaimPortal-Benefit Highlight, Spending Summary, Managed Claims (Medical, Vision, Prescription Drugs, Dental)for HMO, PPO, and Medicare.
• Created project plan, milestones, WBS and updated resources and cost in project management tool.
• Coordinated wif teh business and teh quality team for teh feature requirements for creatingtheUAT test scenariosand their test results.
• Coordinated teh defect tracking meeting on a daily basis wif teh business analyst, system integration and teh development and teh software release management teams.
• Lead teh team in executing theirgressiontestcyclesforfeature release on teh mobile and teh web platforms.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project management - Developed teh project plan, tracked and monitored teh progress of teh web based automated advertising software platformfor teh Super Value vendor.
• Worked wif teh product owner for teh product backlogs before releasing sprint to teh UAT and production server. UtilizedJIRA toolsand dashboard for teh agileperformance indicators.
• Coordinated activities wif teh scrum team (product owner, scrum master, team) during each sprint planning session.
• Managed teh releases of features to customer, managed changes, prioritized enhancements, monitor support tickets and teh integrations plans.
• Coordinated teh highest ordered user storiesand obtained estimates from teh scrum development team.
• Presented to weekly status to Sr. Management on teh progress of teh project milestones.
• Managed teh defect meeting on daily basis in JIRA wif project teams to log and resolve teh issues wif project teams
• Deployed Save-a-Lot applications to teh staging, UAT and teh production servers.
• Managed activities for teh Inner-track CRM application development and teh release.
• Tracked and supported customer tickets and escalated critical defects, and ensured resolution of integration, customer, and product issues.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed teh development of a plug-in software module supporting teh Microsoft suites of Excel, Word, and Power point dat allows teh consumer to realize teh cost saving benefit of inks and papers for their printing documents.
• Managed resources and coordinated issues on teh timely basis; Utilized JIRA tools for defect and dashboard performance data references.
• Involved in product vision, value proposition, positioning, and technical insight to create teh product roadmap.
• Gatheird requirements and worked closely wif teh marketing and teh sales teams to facilitate teh training to customers andeffective product deployment strategies.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed client and server application features; Developed schedules bycoordinating wif technical marketing, requirement, test and third party teams.
• Created activities, milestones, dependency, resources in Microsoft project tool;Performed weekly scrub and generated reports on needed basis.
• Coordinated activities wif thearchitecture team on capturing, documentingfuture user requirementsanduse case scenarios for teh future releases.
• Conducted daily Clear Quest defect andweekly staff meetings.
• Presentedprojectstatus to teh Sr. Management on Bi-weekly basis.

Confidential, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed web portal development enhancement for Kmart.com and Sears.com to accept Confidential and Confidential -Bank master cards.
• Developed resource schedules and participated in conference calls for teh progress update and review changes for requirements wif clients and development teams.
• Performed HSBCand Confidential BankMaster Card’s numbers batch processing verifications.
• Created updated defect tracking process for Confidential and Confidential bank which allows teh conformity of reporting issues wif Sears.
• Coordinated and led projects through all phases and platformsoftware releases.