SUMMARY:

• Senior Project Manager and Scrum Master with over 20 years’ experience in Hi - tech Project Management, Product Development and Delivery.
• Project Management (15+ years): Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring/Controlling, Closing and delivery of multiple concurrent projects
• Implementation of Agile/Scrum, Kanban, PMI/Waterfall methodologies (10+ years)
• Service Delivery, Client and Stakeholder engagement. Analysis and identification of service delivery gaps and fulfilment of client and business needs. Leadership of cross-functional (onshore and off-shore) teams
• Software and Digital Product Development (15+ years) with full SDLC: Achieving planned goals and product roadmaps through analysis, design, architecture, development, QA, release and support cycles.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Technical Project Manager

Environment: iOS and Android Apps developed with C++, Flash and HTML5. Aha For Product Roadmap and high-level planning, Jira and Confluence for software development Project management

Responsibilities:

• Management of on time delivery of technology game content to publishing unit
• Full cycle management and delivery of multiple concurrent projects and workstreams
• Management, collaboration and reporting on teams distributed in London, India, Austin and Las Vegas.
• Instrumental in getting the high quality digital app released to market resulting in significant boost in revenue

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Consultant

Environment: NetSuite, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, Lucid Charts, Selenium, Google Apps

Responsibilities:

• NetSuite IVR (Interactive Voice Response) integration with Interactive (ININ).
• Data analysis and data flow architecture for data migration from legacy system to NetSuite and for BI planning
• Planning and scheduling of software development changes for NetSuite features.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Technical Project Manager

Environment: Jira Agile, Confluence, Jira Portfolio, Pivotal Tracker, Postgres, Tableau, MS SQL Server, MS Excel, MS Project, Lucid Chart, C#, Android Studio, AWS

Responsibilities:

• IT Governance and transition of teams to Agile/Scrum through /mentoring and set up of tools required for tracking progress. Implemented Jira for Scrum workflows and customized workflows and reports to stakeholder needs
• Effective implementation of Jira, Confluence, Pivotal Tracker and Google Docsfor project planning, management, tracking, reporting, documentation and collaboration.
• Automation of payment data reconciliation between ecommerce OLTP database and payment provider data (PayPal, Vantiv, Amazon, iTunes, etc.)
• Technical product road maps for BI / Reporting, Data Warehouse and Web Server applications. Transitioned development teams to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model
• Leadership of multiple cross-functional teams consisting of senior software and data engineers, QA and Product Owners

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Project Manager

Environment: Jira Agile, Postgres, MS Excel, MS Project, Google Apps, PowerPoint, Selenium, Java stack, Eclipse, Amazon Web Services (AWS), SaaS

Responsibilities:

• Transition to Agile Scrum and Kanban process to multiple work streams. Used Jira and Confluence
• Leadership of cross-functional distributed teams in Los Angeles, New York and India including Business Analysts, Software Engineers, QA and Database Specialists
• Execution of multiple concurrent software projects (Java, JSP, Postgres, AWS) and production support work streams in a matrix, high velocity environment with continuously evolving priorities.
• Change management, setting up of change control board, process rules and Change Request / SOW process.
• Management of ongoing operations, maintenance, performance and uptime for high value clients and their users.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Technical Project Manager

Environment: Jira Agile, Confluence, Jira Portfolio, Visual Studio, C#, Microsoft Test manager (MTM), MS Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS SQL Server, SSRS, MicroStrategy, MS Excel, MS Project, Google Apps, PowerPoint, Google Analytics, ASP.NET, API Services, Analysis, AWS

Responsibilities:

• Agile and Scrum guidance and onboarding of all teams. Scrum Master for internal, onshore vendor and offshore projects. Used Jira for Project tracking, Confluence for documentation and MS Project for high level project scheduling and reporting. Product Backlog grooming and defect tracking. SOA architecture implementation.
• COTS Implementation of Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) for Scrum process. Customization of TFS Work Item Templates, addition of custom fields and custom reporting for process enhancement and management reporting.
• QA process and QA automation using MTM and VS2010 transformed the QA group from a bottleneck to an agile response team.
• Leadership of in-house and vendor teams distributed over globally distributed geographical locations for development and support projects.
• Vendor evaluation and review of RFPs, SOWs and other vendor contracts.

Confidential, Alpine, CA

Senior Manager

Environment: Jira, ASP.NET, API Services, Windows services, Web applications, Visual Studio, C#, Microsoft Test manager (MTM), MS Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS, MS Excel, MS Project, Google Apps, PowerPoint, Google Analytics, Joomla, Drupal, MS SharePoint, IIS, Datacenter hosting and management. Business analysis and process optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Agile/scrum for IT projects with off-shore and in-house teams (Microsoft TFS 2010 and VersionOne).
• Developed in-house casino financial compliance / Anti Money Laundering (AML) product that automates all the financial processes in a casino from ATMs/cash cages to casino bank to external financial institutions. Integration with Lawson ERP.
• Developed casino Anti money laundering (Title 31) system that reports transactions from all casino revenue centers for IRS compliance.
• Business process enhancements resulted in costs savings of over $2 Million per year and mitigation of $5 Million in risk.
• Implemented enterprise collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint and enterprise /learning with Moodle (open source learning management system (LMS))