SUMMARY

• An experienced IT project manager who managed multiple simultaneous IT initiatives over 6 years. Track record of determining goals, time frames, constraints, risks, milestones. Planned and managed multi - million-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions. Ensured high-quality deliverables that meet or exceeds timeline and budgetary targets. Over 6 years of solid experience in managing IT projects from initiation to closure, using waterfall and agile project management methodologies and driving through continuous process improvements to achieve competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Demonstrated skill in Agile project management, Agile coach, Scrum Master
• Planned and managed multimillion dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions, handled by large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceeds timeline and budgetary targets
• Well versed with using Microsoft Project scheduling and solid hands-on using MS Project, Visio, Jira, Confluence, Clarity, MS SharePoint and MS Office Suite of products
• Experience in Mainframe, Midrange and Windows technologies including Linux, UNIX, VAX, Apache, Tomcat, Application Servers, Databases, ERP, Data Warehouses, BI, Java J2EE, .NET Platform

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Project Management
• Agile Scrum Methodology
• Agile Feature Driven
• Global Team management
• Resource Management
• Quality Management
• Vendor Management
• Cost and Quality management
• Risk and Compliance Management
• Process Development
• Change Management
• Regulatory environment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Project manager/ scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Help customer adopt and improve agile method and practice
• Facilitate building Epic, personas, developing backlog
• Develop new scrum team, couch, help collaborate and improve team velocity
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies - Story workshops, Backlog grooming, sprint planning, review and retrospective, Scrum of Scrums and PI Sessions
• Own impediment log work closely with stockholders to remove roadblocks
• Prepare Jira dashboards, reports project progress to management
• Help build processes to scale scrum

Confidential, Groton, CT

Sr. Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed project execution to meet aggressive timeline
• Track task and milestones across all parties including business activities and vendors
• Drove Business Technology team to deliver quality software within time
• Reported project status, risks, mitigations, decisions and forecasting during PMO reviews
• Prepare cutover plan, coordinated large team to execute cutovers in multiple waves
• Reported project progress, risk, changes, forecasts, budget and time performance to higher management regularly
• Facilitate and supported execution of Business continuity, Deviations, Installations, Disaster Recovery, Data Migration and UAT and Cutovers
• Contribute in Daily defect triage
• Coordinated planning and execution and control of SCLC deliverables related to quality compliance in a regulated environment

Confidential, Austin, TX

Agile project manager

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Agile model BTC (Build Test Certify) to produce timely value to customer
• Prepared release plan, iteration plan, risk and change control plan, project budget
• Facilitated agile ceremonies, storyboarding, backlog refinement, prioritization, tasks identification, estimation, client demonstrations and retrospective meetings
• Conducted project status review, change reviews, quality reviews
• Delivered 90% of committed backlog items after two initial iterations
• Coordinated with resource manager on onboarding resources, planned and mitigated resource issues
• Responsible for creating project dashboard, scheduling request items, addressing discrepancies and change request routing using Jira
• Reported project progress, risk, changes, forecasts, budget and time performance to higher management
• Responsible for team development and team member’s performance appraisal for the tenure of project

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

Scrum master/ Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepare risk, resource plan and project schedule
• Lead collaborative sessions with business leads, external cloud vendor and technical experts on scope, risk, issues
• Conducted daily scrum and addresses impediments
• Responsible for managing impediments, burndown and coordinating all Scrum Ceremonies.
• Identify and escalate issues that impede progress of delivery - resources constraints, requirement gaps, technical issues.
• Monitor issues and risk on daily basis, plan and mitigate
• Planed, hired and disbursed technical resources on a short term basis to accomplish completion of highly complicated, integrated applications requiring diverse skill sets.
• Reported progress of the projects during weekly governance meetings
• Accomplishments:
• Delivered project deliverables within time and budget - 30 application migration initiatives within 4 months.
• Accomplished migrations of more than 150 applications as migration manager/cutover manager.
• Seamless integration of host of Non-ERP ancillary application with ERP software.
• Being a part of core member of PMO team, advised, planned policy around application migration across program.

Confidential

Project Manager/scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple Web Development projects within Sales and Marketing domain
• Lead and coordinate collaborative JAD sessions with business leads, external vendor and technical experts and other stakeholders.
• End to end project development using scrum framework
• Collaborated with Scrum Product owner and other stakeholders during backlog grooming, story workshop
• Owned scrum events such as sprint planning, daily scrum, spring review and retrospect
• Coordinate multidisciplinary global project teams to deliver projects of varying size and complexity.
• Monitor project activity through daily scrum meetings.
• Take ownership of any business stockholder’s concerns & rectifying them.
• Negotiate the use of local and outsourced resources and reports resource justification to management.
• Identify and escalate issues that impede progress of delivery - resources constraints, requirement gaps, technical issues.
• Communicate with cross functional teams on addressing issues arising during different phases of development and including releases and roll outs
• Utilized project management tools and techniques