SUMMARY

• PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
• 10 plus years Project Manager experience
• Experience in managing Information Technology, Telecommunication/Utility, Education, and Agriculture Sectors
• Excellent time management, cost management, communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
• Experience in data management
• Experience in change management
• Experience in virtual team management
• Experience in Agile methodology
• Experience in risk identification, and management
• Excellent documentation, and presentation skills
• Ability to work independently

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Project
• SharePoint
• Agile Methodology
• OneDrive
• MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Visio
• Skype for Business

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential,Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and manage project plans for multiple website/mobile application development projects all through teh SDLC
• Conduct meetings with clients to collect requirements and related project constraints
• Define teh scope of teh project and identify required resources
• Prepare and maintain requirement documentation
• Create work packages and assign teh work to appropriate resources
• Conduct daily scrum meetings and monitor teh project schedule
• Conduct periodical meetings with teh clients to capture any updates and communicate teh metrics/status of teh project
• Monitor cost, and schedule for any possible overruns and take risk mitigating measures when needed
• Perform quality checks to monitor teh vendors for teh quality of work
• Verify teh deliverables with teh scope of teh project for acceptance
• Perform change control and manages changes appropriately
• Monitor and evaluate employee performance periodically
• Prepare RFPs and accept vendor bids
• Select teh vendor based on teh selection criteria
• Prepare contracts for agreement with external vendors, wherever applicable
• Prepare bills and accept final payments
• Upon acceptance of deliverable, make final payments to teh third-parties involved in teh completion of tasks
• Provide training to employees where needed
• Collect and document client feedbacks and archive teh lessons learned during teh project
• Release teh resources upon project closure.

Environments: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, MS Project, PMIS, Visio, MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Project Manager

Confidential Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in determining teh requirements, capturing funding allowance, and scheduling telecom site selection
• Performed site selection for macro and mini-macro telecommunication/utility pole for Sprint
• Followed teh standards and expectations set by teh client for teh telecommunication tower site selection process
• Processed over 800 construction sites, working with Construction Project Managers, and Network Real Estate Specialists while also addressing and documenting teh concerns of RF Engineers
• Followed zoning ordinances for jurisdictional information
• Identified risks and developed risk response
• Implemented approved and validated changes when needed
• Executed risk response to mitigate risks
• Performed data quality control using Microsoft Excel and managed data periodically
• Conducted regular stakeholder meetings to communicate/present teh status of teh project
• All deliverables were saved in teh organization repository
• Documented and archived teh process, issue logs, and results in teh organization repository for future reference.

Environments: ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS 10.3, MS - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Agile, Scrum

Project Manager

Confidential Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted meetings with teh clients and collected teh requirements and constraints for teh project
• Defined teh scope of teh project
• Assisted in planning teh project schedule and created teh artifacts and deliverable as per teh requirements placed by teh client
• Identified appropriate resources and assigned teh work
• Conducted regular meetings with teh clients to capture any updates and communicated teh status of teh project
• Organized parallel efforts to accommodate multiple projects and was able to produce teh deliverable simultaneously
• Conducted quality assurance for each deliverable
• Implemented validated changes
• Validated teh deliverables with teh scope of teh project and delivered teh completed work within teh schedule
• Generated bills and received final payments
• Submitted a copy of teh final payment and account settlement statement to teh clients/vendors where applicable
• As part of teh closing, collected clients feedback on teh project
• Archived teh lessons learned and released teh resources

Environments - MS Project, SPSS, MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Adjunct Instructor

Confidential Marietta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Collected course requirements and planned course deliverable
• Created course expectations, lecture schedule, and exam schedule
• Executed teh course by teaching in class and in lab
• Conducted face-to-face discussions
• Assisted regular monitoring of student performance. Documented and communicated student performance regularly with respective student and teh Academic Dean
• Prepared exam questions, conducted exams, corrected and documented exam results in teh university database
• Archived exam papers for teh required retention period
• Lead, motivated, and mentored students
• Collected reviews about teh course
• Archived teh lessons learned from every semester
• Published exam results in teh University database.

Environments - MS Office, OneDrive, SharePoint, Desire2Learn

Project Manager/Project Scientist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical assistance to teh Division Head through teh development and presentation of research concepts and presentations
• Provided critical advice and assistance on cross-cutting procedural and multifaceted research approaches on overcoming scientific studies
• Made recommendations on strategies for improving research objectives to teh Project Coordinator
• Provided oral and written recommendations to teh Project Leader regarding recommendations to improve and/or overcome problems associated with research on target study areas
• Carried out research that involved a full range of scientific activities.
• Design, coordinate and maintain scientific project goals, objectives and priorities.
• Provided technical assistance to teh center as it relates to teh identification of novel techniques in monitoring and assessment of agricultural drought
• Provided expert scientific advice and consultation on agricultural drought conditions of teh target study areas
• Planned and coordinated works to be accomplished by subordinates
• Set short-term priorities and coordinate to achieve those priorities in a timely manner
• Identified and applied new methods, approaches and technology to address unique scientific questions under study
• Geo-rectified and cloud masked NOAA (AVHRR) and Resourcesat - 1 (AWiFS) satellite imageries
• Created models to extract data from satellite imageries and generated
• Normalized Difference Vegetation Indices with IRS P6 (AWiFS) and NOAA (AVHRR) satellite data, Normalized Difference Water Indices and Enhanced Vegetation Indices with Terra (MODIS) USING ERDAS Imagine software for target study areas which included 13 agriculturally dominant states across India
• Rainfall analysis, precipitation forecast and mapping (NOAA Climate Prediction Center) using Esri ArcGIS Desktop software for teh target study areas
• Ground truth verification to analyze teh physiological status of teh crops in teh target study area
• Maintained master data and meta-data
• Created, modified, and performed quality control on teh geospatial data.
• Created and executed SQL queries
• Geospatial data conversion
• Calculated area under agricultural drought
• Analyzed and reviewed scientific data and scientific research papers on behalf of teh Head of teh Division of Agriculture, NRSC
• Documented teh satellite derived product results for publication.

Environments - ArcGIS 9.3, ERDAS Imagine, ArcView, ArcMap, SQL, SPSS, MS Office

Project Intern - Disaster Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Initiated teh project by conducting research to identify pilot study areas for real time agricultural drought assessment and monitoring
• Collected teh requirements and created requirement document by collaborating with teh State Remote Sensing Centre
• Collected data from teh Data Processing Center for satellite data (NOAA - AVHRR, Terra - MODIS, IRS - P6 (AWiFS)) on a regular periodical basis for teh crop season.
• Geo-rectification of satellite images
• Created satellite image mosaics
• Created mathematical algorithms/models to develop scientific products that aid in agricultural drought assessment
• Generated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index from NOAA - AwiFS, Normalized Difference Water Index and Enhanced Vegetation Index from Terra MODIS
• Converted geospatial data
• Managed teh geospatial data and meta-data
• Created and updated geodatabases
• Modified teh existing geospatial data and performed quality control under Microsoft Excel environment
• Created maps on soil depth, soil type, available water content and rainfall
• Geometric modifications in ESRI Arc GIS environment
• Created map overlays to compare and study teh data in detail
• Created and executed SQL queries
• Quantified agricultural drought affected areas
• Prepared charts and tables for teh scientific data and assisted in publishing those information on periodicals sent to teh concerned State

Environments - ArcGIS 9.3, ERDAS Imagine, ArcView, ArcMap, SQL

Project Research Associate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned land Use-land Cover change analysis for teh selected geographical region.
• Performed teh analysis using Aerial Photo, Topographic Sheets, satellite Imageries.
• Conducted network analysis, buffer analysis and decision making.
• Monitored teh quality of teh data and teh project deliverables (maps).
• Archived teh information in teh organizational repository.

Environments – ESRI ArcView, MapInfo, Oracle SQL, MS Office.

Project Associate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collected project requirements and Assisted research under teh Directorate of Agricultural Extension officials.
• Developed experimental field plot designs and conducted field experiments.
• Monitored on crops for their various physiological and nutrient deficiency symptoms and collected periodical crop growth data from teh experimental plots.
• Conducted scientific analysis on soil, water and plant samples.
• Conducted statistical analysis and interpreted teh data scientifically.
• Documented teh scientific research data and prepared reports for publication.

Environments – MS Office, field and laboratory

Project Researcher

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Initiated teh project and developed cost and labor estimates.
• Collected teh field and lab requirements and prepared a requirements document.
• Developed experimental field plot designs.
• Planned and coordinated crop planting for research experiments.
• Executed teh crop plan, monitored and collected periodical crop growth data from teh experimental research plots.
• Conducted experimental research on teh selective retention sites of heavy metals (Cadmium, Lead) in tomato plant parts, soil, and water.
• Monitored teh plants for various physiological, toxicological and nutrient deficiency symptoms.
• Assisted statistical analysis of soil, water and plant data and interpreted scientific data.
• Documented teh scientific research data and prepared reports for presentation and publication.

Environments – MS Office, field and laboratory