Program Manager/ Sr Project Manager Resume

SUMMARY

PMP Certified Project Manager helping teams move from traditional waterfall to the efficient Agile Development by facilitating Estimation sessions, Planning, Backlog grooming, Standups, Sprint demos, reviews and retrospective
Strong interpersonal skills to work seamlessly across board with product owners, end customers, business stakeholders, QA teams, developers and operational Support teams to ensure that impediments are removed for Scrum teams to perform and deliver quality products
Hands On experience in user story creation, Building Dashboards, Estimation, Risk Assessment, PMO Process definition, Managing Dependencies, Managing Stakeholder expectations and improving Customer Satisfaction
Strong experience with Microsoft Project, Planview to manage Projects
Proven expertise with evaluation of COTS products and integrations with existing systems.
Excellent Communicator and skilled in the presentation and delivery of solutions and business practices to the CXO and VP Level.
Excellent Cross functional experience working together with Engineering, Marketing, Design, QA and support teams to prioritize Features and release plans to execute and deliver on time
Excellent Resource Management and People Management Skills having trained and mentored professionals, teams over the years.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Agile, Jira, Microsoft Project/MSPS, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), Visio

Development: Java, PHP, Oracle, Mysql, .Net, SQL Server

Cloud: AWS, Azure, Office365

Environment: s: Windows UNIX, Linux, SUN Solaris

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Program Manager/ Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed all aspects of project management and project lifecycles by effectively initiating, planning, scheduling, controlling, and bringing to closure multiple high profile, high priority multiple projects.
Controlled and tracked project performance, time allocations, cost, and quality by constantly evaluating project progress and conducting regular team status meetings.
Managed multiple customer projects simultaneously by prioritizing projects, resources and tasks.
Managed the system/process validation efforts, insured the necessary qualifications were met and documented for audit review.
Created and maintained an effort - driven project schedule for each project by identifying and monitoring: overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, resources, task dependencies, and critical paths.
Created and defined PMO Processes, templates, trained users on Project Server.

Confidential

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed IFMR datalink initiative and delivered the project within time and budget.
Facilitated Bi-Weekly sprints, daily scrums, feature decomposition and retrospective meetings, Mitigated multiple project/resource risks and issues.
Prioritized issues and ensured the closure. Managed stakeholder communication.
Spearheaded new product enhancements to enterprise release management tool IRENA.

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed all phases of provider IT projects including Provider data integration ($1.2M project), WMS/SSB Shutdown ($3.2M project), Provider West Data enhancements ($350K project), GA Provider data enhancements ($800K project).
Worked with project stakeholders and Prioritized issues by application and criticality, and assigned development and testing resources.
Managed Project Budget, Resource allocations to ensure projects were delivered within budget and schedule. Created and managed WBS.
Documented and kept the senior management aware of risks and issues. Groomed junior project managers and contributed to process improvements to PMO.