SUMMARY

• Well rounded management capabilities in handling large complex projects/programs with geographically dispersed teams.
• Driven program management and execution of large, complex development projects, including scope, schedule, and budget.
• Certified Scrum Master, armed with extensive experience in agile projects.
• Experienced in managing projects including developing schedules, identifying and managing resources, analyzing and managing risk, and working with cross - functional teams and stakeholders.
• Cross-cultural experience with clients across USA, EU
• Managed multiple projects at a time and shares constant updates with the Business owner.
• Tracked Financials (P&L) and periodically presented engagement wide scorecards (Financials, Project Health, Risks, Mitigation Plans) to Senior Executives
• Business pipeline forecasting, planning and management.
• Analysis of Customer Profitability at account level and growth.
• Successfully managed and delivered complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements.
• Experience in engaging Program level status to IT leadership, presenting project status briefings to project steering committees and/or agency executive management.
• Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups and/or projects.
• Effective communication skills and maintained good record for coordination between globally located teams.
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing, package and Release.
• Managing reports, analysis and decision-making for a change request.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with business owners to ensure our program deliverables align with broader Technology & Operations organization and its business and technology programs.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Project/Resource Management tools like PeopleSoft and Clarity
• Award winner - Best Performer Award 2012 in Continental Europe, Cognizant Technology Solutions BV

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domain experience: Financials, Insurance, Banking and Life Science, Business & System Analysis, Requirement Definition, Gap Analysis, Development, Testing, Implementation, Production Management/Support

Languages: C++, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, TOM (Tridion Object Model), Java Script, XML, HTML, XSL, CSS

Databases: Oracle, OBIEE, SQL Server 2005.

Operating systems: Windows (2000, XP, 7), .Net Framework

Content Management: SharePoint, Tridion

Development Tools: Edit Plus, Dream Weaver Microsoft Visio, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, South Carolina

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the program of assessing applications and remediate the solution to migrate to latest environment that is supported.
• Outcome of the assessment was successfully projected with roadmap and estimates.
• Managed the project in a short timeframe and successfully deployed in the latest environment.
• Maintained all project documents as per SDLC model
• Keeps close watch on the financials to make sure the budget is not exceeded and maintains resources to the need.
• Tracking key project milestones and adjusting project plans and or resources to meet the needs.
• Interacts weekly with Business and keeps the project status updated.
• Updates to weekly 4 blocker reports and milestone and presents to management.
• Actively participates during Production release and support during business user checkout to make sure everything is deployed without any issues.
• Proactively tracks issues during development and facilitates triage call to resolve the issues.

Confidential, North Carolina

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in managing one or more cross-functional projects.
• Develops estimates for effort, budget, and schedule.
• Tracking key project milestones and adjusting project plans and or resources to meet the needs.
• Managing daily scrum calls, Sprint planning, Retrospective and delivering the reports in a timely manner.
• Managing the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional
• Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.
• Interacts weekly with Business and keeps the project status updated.
• Updates to weekly 4 blocker reports and milestone and presents to management.
• Actively participates during Production release and support during business user checkout to make sure everything is deployed without any issues.
• Proactively tracks issues during development and facilitates triage call to resolve the issues.

Confidential, North Carolina

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing AM Portal upgrade and Exadata Migration Projects.
• Successfully upgraded Old AM portal to new platform using VAADIN technology.
• Successfully managed and completed the Exadata migration projects.
• Runs daily Scrum calls and updates every Sprint with retrospective and reviews
• Creates Change requests for Production release and coordinates with the team till the Go Live.
• Maintains Clarity by tracking billing and allocations for the team.
• Periodically updates the status report with the Project health, Financials, Risks and Mitigation plan to the Business.

Confidential, North Carolina

BA / PM

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with multiple projects within Enterprise Data Management to analyze the gaps in current model of estimation and standardize throughout the department.
• Managed Project status, Tracked Financials and Billing. Periodically presented program level status reports (Financials, Project Health, Risks, Mitigation Plans) to all Business & IT stakeholders
• Manage Sharepoint for multiple projects and provide Solutions.
• Attend Portfolio meetings.
• Enhanced proactive monitoring
• Leveraged Roadmap plan in Sharepoint across ITSA

Confidential, New York

Project Manager - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Involving in assessment of the requirements with IT stakeholders.
• Offshore- Onsite coordination and resource management
• Lead a team to analyze multiple applications that supported the operations of Confidential .
• Key Liaison between the Client and the project team.
• Gather, document, and maintain business requirements from initial phase to final implementation, assuring requirements meet customer standards.

Confidential, New Jersey

Program Manager - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed 300+ websites in Tridion that are developed for Confidential Consumer products
• Works directly with the Business users as IT management to develop systems enhancements and resolve production problems.
• Work with users as IT management to set priority for user requests; review and clarify user requests
• Responsible for IT policies and procedures for implementing solutions into production including preparation of project plan, user signs off to production.
• Managed globally dispersed team to develop custom solutions.
• Key liaison between the business owner, client, vendor and the project team.
• Directly responsible for providing oversight and input into the estimating, RFP, vendor evaluation, tracking and reporting, deliverables, deployments, engaging with 3rd party stakeholders and quality.
• Monitoring & controlling the project activities. Removing & helping out to remove impediments.
• Periodically presented program level status reports (Financials, Project Health, Risks, and Mitigation Plans) to all Business & IT stakeholders.
• Responsible for Document specifications, user manuals, procedures, and other relevant information.
• Performs new system and release testing, implementation, and post-implementation reviews.
• Works with Project managers on user specifications and assure proper solutions are tested and delivered for user review and implementation
• Coordinate and manage user acceptance testing.
• Managing multiple projects with customer specifications and delivered it on time

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Gather, document, and maintain business requirements for various projects from initial phase to final implementation, assuring requirements meet customer standards.
• Communication of project status reports and tracking.
• Coordinate and manage user acceptance testing.
• Act as a liaison, translator, and communication bridge between Regional PM’s and development team
• Provide project work effort estimations
• Tracking team member performance against schedule and targets, providing feedback, resolving issues, and coordinating changes to enhance project performance.
• Create detailed project schedules
• Assign responsibilities to development team spread globally.
• Operational activities to analyze the profitability and attend project management meetings

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Customize the templates in TRIDION Tool using TOM coding.
• Fixing issues in website Search Engine using ASP, XML, and XSLT Schedule development & management.
• Managing the team from offshore and assigning the requests to the support team
• Provided estimates and analysis for projects
• Involved in client communication and follow-ups for projects

Confidential

Senior Engineer / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering & Functional documents
• Schedule development & management.
• Actively involved in developing the Trade Module, Involved in preparing Tech design document, Involved in bug fixing.
• Communicating with stakeholders.
• Provide weekly status report to the stakeholders

Confidential, New york

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Learnt the new technology Ruby on Rails in a short span of time and worked in agile methodology
• Lead the daily stand up calls and rated the progress.
• Drafting business requirements
• Coordinating with Offshore team and guiding project requirements
• Key liaison between the client and the project team.