SUMMARY

• Experienced and skilled in developing, analyzing and executing project plans and, working closely with internal customers, third party vendors and senior management.
• Support PMs at managing S/M/L scale projects from inception to completion working with on & off shore teams
• Experienced in leading end - to-end project execution, program strategies business objectives (scoping, planning, budgeting, communications, risk management, mitigation planning, and execution), roadmap and implementation processes, methodologies and metrics.
• Allocate resources, establish schedules, and assign tasks (WBS) & follow up on updates and assignments
• Monitor Project financials and ensure Project is within budget, scope and schedule.
• Coordinate between Stakeholders, Analysts, Developers and the Testers to ensure project meets deadline and quality requirements using interpersonal skills with strict adherence to company policy and compliance guidelines.
• Monitor project risks (financial) & identify red flags and escalate as needed.
• Adept at taking initiatives, learning new applications/tools while possessing the flexibility to manage changing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Experienced in the complete SDLC implementation (Waterfall and Agile) software development practices (Scrum).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Office Suite
• Agile SCRUM
• SDLC
• JIRA
• Remedy
• Confluence
• Wiki
• Rally
• MS Visio
• MS Project
• MS SharePoint
• Google Drive
• Daptiv PPM
• Business Objects
• BOX
• SAP SRM
• SAP Ariba
• Shibumi
• Outlook
• PPMC
• SAP-PRJ
• Skype
• Hipchat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Walnut Creek, CA

Project Coordinator/Analyst/SM

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Daily Stand-ups as Scrum Master using Jira and Planning Poker
• Update Product Owner and Program Manager on a daily basis on project progress.
• Creating Phases and Timelines in accordance with Budget approvals in Excel and Project
• Ensure Architectural Design Documents get approved by Arch Council (Governance).
• Liaison between Vendors to ensure all Contracts (MSAs, SOWs, SLAs, NDAs) get signed off.
• Facilitate meetings for clarifying requirements between IT and Business
• Maintain Confluence Wiki with updates and status reports
• Maintain team SharePoint site to track Project development
• Organize and conduct CORE team meetings and update meeting minutes to team site
• Coordinating with teams regularly to stay updated and raise flags/escalate to upper Management as needed.
• Facilitate team transparency and open communication using Hipchat
• Work with Offshore teams and help Project Timelines and Milestones are met consistently.

Confidential

Project Management Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously totaling $5M+ with emphasis on SDLC and Financials
• Analyze Actuals and Forecasts and present report to Project management team using BPC PRJ/AJC
• Assist in creation of Concept Estimates, Job estimates and budgets.
• Forecast and monitor Resource / Materials / Vendor allocations and keep them updated.
• Route documents for approval Using EDRS to secure stakeholder approvals.
• Maintain Shibumi Project sites for all projects.
• Use SAP Prod Financials to run Reports and create presentations for budget reviews.
• Use SAP SRM and Ariba to process Purchase Orders, Invoices and Goods Receipts (as Requisitioner)
• Manage Budgets, Vendor relationships, Invoices, PO processing and all project related financing.
• Create and update Project Plan on MS Project- Milestones and Baselining.
• Create dashboards and maintain PPMC (Portfolio and Project Management) sites for all Projects.
• Update Project Status Reports for Governance meetings, stakeholder meetings and team meetings.
• Assist with ad-hoc testing (UAT) requests and presentations

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Project Manager/Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Migrated existing SharePoint Team site to a Secure SharePoint Site - Gap Analysis, Project Proposal, Project Plan, Migration Plan, Communication Plan, Migration, Training and Ongoing Support.
• Took the initiative to create a BOX team site and migrated archived material for Document Management.
• Took initiative and created a new Application Management Team Site/ Workgroup in Daptiv PPM to create, monitor and update requests during weekly team meetings. This enhanced the overall efficiency, productivity, and quality and also helped organize all relevant projects/documents.
• Responsible for new UAT Intake Request on the Production Support Team Site on SharePoint
• Monitored the NCA SSRS site to update Reports and manage recipients of Reports.
• As a SharePoint site admin, assess and grant access to team Folders and Documents in compliance with KP policy & permission levels granted by job role.
• Published Business and IT Production Release Summaries to the relevant Stakeholders, Business Users, Team Members and SP team site.
• Created a Data Dictionary (in collaboration with SMEs) for the Finance and Operating/SOX files.
• Conducted team meetings to update project status for stakeholders and Business leaders using an in-house Intake Reporting tool.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Project Coordinator / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted PMO with recurring PowerPoint presentations for Committee and Stakeholders meetings for project updates/status.
• Change Management to log, prioritize and incorporate scope changes proposed and maintain the risks and issues log
• Collaborated with Business Owner and Project Managers to prioritize and resolve Pain Points.
• Participated in branch visits to understand pain points and gather feedback from the end users.
• Collaborated and created multiple surveys on Survey Monkey for deployment to branches for product feedback.
• Maintain and update the Governance documents as well as the Team SharePoint Site as an Admin.

Confidential

Jr. Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Meet regularly with the Stakeholders and Product Owner to assist in gathering and understanding requirements determine program criteria, desired outcome, and success metrics.
• Ensure each team member has clear understanding of the final product and work iteratively to achieve that goal.
• Making workable software available to the Stakeholders to keep progress transparent and efficient.
• Understanding the scope and importance of user stories from Product Owner and getting an estimate from the team.
• Track team progress, address impediments and promote team collaboration through daily stand-ups.
• Conducted Daily Sprints to understand status and impediments.
• Proactively organized and participated in Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospect etc.
• Ongoing assistance with unit, regression and integration testing to reduce bugs and ensure exceptional quality using Rally.
• Assist the Development team (onshore and offshore) with translations and clarifications of requirements and managing work across different time zones.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Jr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• BCIC- Banking Center Image Counter - Had to assist Project Manager in a Gap Analysis by documenting the As-Is and To-Be state by observing and documenting Tellers in retail centers using the application to run checks at the close of each business day.
• Assisted with meeting minutes, project updates and presentations for the team and senior management.