SUMMARY

• Result oriented with 20 +years of IT experience including 12 plus years of Project Management and Agile and SAFe methods.
• Detail - driven with excellent Communication Skills and proven success in interfacing with all areas of the organization.
• Experience in complete Software Development Life Cycle and Agile Scrum Methods in project management.
• Expertise in coordinating between global onsite, offshore model process and support in a 24x7 environment.
• Experience in Project Management process utilizing PMBOK in implementing process improvements and best practices.
• Expertise in managing, scheduling evaluating, project health, dashboard reporting of multiple projects.
• Experience in Lifesciences, Financials, Automotive, Telecom, Retail, Healthcare and Insurance.
• Expertise in portal projects utilizing the software products and suites like MS Project, CA Clarity PPM, HP-AGM, ALM, Rally, JIRA,Liferay, & Alfresco, SharePoint, Java .Net, Cloud(Iass,Saas and Paas), Big data, Hadoop, Salesforce.com
• Successfully managed large complex projects with global implementation and rapidly evolving requirements.
• Proficient in managing large technology projects of varying size and complexity through the full project life-cycle.
• Implemented projects using Waterfall (Initiation, Planning, execution, Monitoring, and Closure) utilizing MS Project Plan and Clarity PPM.
• Expertise in Agile (Scrum, Sprint, Velocity planning, SOS, Grooming, Refining product backlog, TDD, BDD and Agile Coaching.
• Expertise in SDLC phases like Requirement Analysis, Design, WBS, Development, Testing, Implementation and Support.
• Expertise in MS project Planning, Scheduling, Resource, Costing, Budgeting, Risk Analysis and Risk Mitigation.
• Lead projects utilizing standard Project Management practice to deliver quality product on-time and within scope.
• Managed software development projects for larger projects, developing project charters, budgeting modeling, resources allocation plans, estimates, create work breakdown structures and maintain project management artifacts.
• Prepared and presenting the project status updates, health Confidential Executive and VP Level read outs.
• Managed projects worth $1 to 50 million and acted as liaison between business stakeholders, Management, Quality and Development and testing teams for executing enterprise level projects in Matrix environment.
• Facilitated daily, weekly status meetings, conducting SOS, tracking and presenting project key milestones, managing project issues and risks provided status reports to executive management.
• Expertise in Multitasking, external Vendor management, Prioritizing the tasks and meet project deadlines on time within scope.
• Proven skills in technical Support, oversee Quality Assurance, Resource, budget and Service Management.
• Effective Communication, Negotiation, problem solving skills to manage and coordinate globally located cross functional teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Skills/Tools: PMP, PMBOK, MS Project, Jira confluence, Agile, Scrum, SDLC, RUP, Rally, Plan View, Quest, MS Excel/Word/Visio/PPT, Share Point, Requisite Pro,Clarity PPM,HP Agile Manager, HPSM,TFS, SFDC,Cloud AWS.

Open Source: Hadoop, Big Data, Liferay, Solar, JIRA, Alfresco, Moodle(LMS), Social Office, NOSQL, Cassandra, Cloud, Iaas,Pass and Saas NewRelic.

Languages: Java, J2EE, .Net, ASP.Net, XML, PHP, VB6.0, HTML, ILE/FREEFORMAT, RPG/COBOL/SQL/400, CLLE Mainframes.

Middleware: IBM MQ series, Connect Direct, NDM, Kronos, SOAP, REST

Databases: DB2/400, DB2 UDB8X, MS-SQL Server, Access, MySQL, NoSQL

Operating systems: OS/400, UNIX, Linux, Windows(XP, Vista, 8 )

Testing Tools: ALM,QC, QTP, JIRA, Bugzilla, Test Manager, Clear Quest,Clear Case, A/B testing, JMeter.

Development Tools: Visual Studio (.Net), JSR186,Barcode/400, Synon2E, OracleQuery/400, Crystal Reports, Robot Scheduler, Sonar

Others: Requirement gathering, Use Cases, SOA, SOW,PMO, RFP,RFC, CMM process, SOX-Compliance and SQA IT AuditsTDD, BDD, PMO, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Sales Force Dot Com. TIBCO, HPSM, SAP HANA and Business Objects, AWS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - AUSTIN, TX

Senior Project Manager/SM

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects for Life science informatics products for DTD GSD Assays program improving assay ordering experience on Confidential .com.
• Utilized Jira and confluence and created maintained, managed project artifacts, process flows aligned with solution architects & tracked the traceability of requirements.
• Delivered the project utilizing Agile SAFe methods, PI Planning, preplanned Iteration and innovation sprints, Refining requirements.
• Responsible for defining the complex projects scope objectives with blended approach, tracking applications for agile models.
• Provided accurate daily and weekly status reports capturing key schedule, financials, issues and risk to management.
• Coordinated and managed a release of cloud based application integrated with SAP from its early inception to post deployment.
• Tracked Project process artifacts and participated in Project Management Office (PMO) governance process.
• Managed project stakeholder’s expectations for downstream/upstream applications for both internal and external client’s vendors.
• Utilized MS Project plan to track the project status including agile methods and the WBS for water model applications.
• Resolved issues and mitigated risks and successfully rolled out the project Scope on time within the allocated budget.
• Help team resolve roadblocks, Impediments, Coach Support product owners setting up clear acceptance via backlog refinements session.
• Prepared lesson learnt report, retrospective report, executive status and financial reports vital to the success of the project.
• Managed SCRUM teams for all agile deliveries including support for user story creation and prioritize backlog using Rally.
• Ensured SCRUM artifacts are visible and promoted engineered best practices. utilized JIRA to track the backlogs.
• Coach agile principles and mentor, motivate and supervise project team members to take positive action.
• Introduced best practices like Pair programming, extensive code review, unit and system testing of all code.
• Designed Dashboards Agile Kanban metrics variables in Jira Dev and provided transparency on product promoting the best practices.

Confidential - DALLAS, TX

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and implemented multiple projects involving API for sales express, Sales force integration IPFR OTT, Esign, Goss forms products suite with BVOIP, VOIP,HISA,BIS,MIS, AVPN, OSS,BSS VBB,ASE,SOA,FBB express integrated with Sales and service delivery.
• Successfully managed and delivered OTT cloud service (Iaas, Saas) big data migration for audio, video, TV content mobility streaming.
• Implemented the existing manual forms functionality on the Sales Express platform to collect, store, share, and send data for network inventory and service provision to accommodate both Pre-Sales and Order Hand-Offs.
• Utilized MS Project plan, tracked the performance of the project, baselining, resource leveling for both waterfall and agile model apps.
• Created maintained, managed project artifacts, Aligned with solution architecture, process flow & tracked the traceability of requirements.
• Facilitated joint application designs sessions across cross functional application teams including external interfacing vendors.
• Managed SCRUM teams for all agile deliveries including support for user story creation and prioritize backlog using Rally.
• Maintained Program-wide Project Plans, track various project milestones and tie them up with key program milestones.
• Responsible for defining the complex projects scope objectives with blended approach, tracking applications for Agile and Waterfall models.
• Provide accurate daily and weekly status reports capturing key schedule, financials, issues and risk to management.
• Resolved issues and mitigated risks and successfully rolled out the project on time within scope.
• Removed impediments, created mitigation plan, prepared the status reports in PPT and keep the project on track.
• Updated Agile Kanban metrics in Rally Dev and provided product transparency promoting the best practices.
• Utilized ALM, worked with the Development and quality management and ensured that quality product enters UAT phase.
• Managed project stakeholder’s expectations for downstream/upstream applications for both internal and external client’s vendors.
• Effectively managed project budget modeling, provided weekly budget status updates and reported to stakeholders and sponsors.
• Tracked Project process artifacts and participated in Project Management Office (PMO) governance process.
• Prepared and presented the project goals, status updates, project health Confidential Executive and VP Level read outs
• Facilitated review sessions for multiple portfolio and ensured compliance procedures with IT Vendor Management Office
• Prepared lesson learnt report, retrospective report, executive status and financial reports vital to the success of the project.

Confidential, PLANO, TX

Senior Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and implemented $24 million billing API products suite with VLAN, AVPN, MIS-T1 and ASE for EBM client integrating with Sale Force .Com for networking suite with universal pricing and Billing.
• Managed big data project for att that deals with volume, Velocity and Variety of data tracker for networking via sales force in real-time drawing from text to Images, audio video through data fusion.
• Responsible for handling multiple projects that support the strategic initiative for billing/pricing API’s with Sales force.com as frontend App.
• Worked with business stake holders, identified areas requirements, defined project scope and objectives, controlled project budget.
• Utilized Ms Project plan to track the project status including agile methods and the WBS for water model applications.
• Directed SCRUM teams for managing all agile deliveries including support for User Story creation in Rally and prioritize backlog.
• Facilitated review sessions with vendor management and IT SOX compliance legal Audits for Vendor Management Office (VPMO).
• Maintained Program-wide Project Plans, project budget, track various project milestones and tie them up with key program milestones.
• Responsible for managing the large complex projects with blended approach, tracking applications for both Agile and Waterfall models.
• Facilitated weekly SOS, Weekly grooming, Sprint Planning and Retrospective sessions with the teams and product owners.
• Resolved issues and mitigated risks and successfully rolled out the project Scope on time within the allocated budget.
• Removed impediments, created mitigation plan, prepared the status reports in PPT and keep the project on track.
• Updated Agile Kanban metrics variables in Rally Dev and provided transparency on product promoting the best practices.
• Managed infrastructure(Iaas) for large volumes of big data coming from multiple sources like data links, connections and correlations;
• Managed project stakeholder’s expectations for downstream/upstream applications for both internal and external clients.
• Prepared lesson learnt report, retrospective report, executive status and financial reports that helped grew business relationships vital to the success of the project.

Confidential - Houston,TX

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead large complex IT cloud (Iass, Saas and Pass) CDM split project, Utilizing MS Project plan for multi-project teams.
• Implemented project using both waterfall and agile methods demonstrating solid Project management capabilities for HP Split.
• Coordinated and managed a release of cloud based application integrated with sales force.com from its early inception to post deployment.
• Transformed waterfall application to agile scrum methods and coached agile scrum methods introducing best practices.
• Demonstrated the ability to conduct solution discussions, requirements with product owners, Architects and senior technology leads.
• Worked with all IT stakeholders ensured all components supporting end-to-end requirements defining project scope and objectives with Biz.
• Interacted with wide variety stake holders from business users to product owners and presented project status to updates to VP's.
• Plan overall program delivery and its activities in accordance with the project objectives and team constraints.
• Managed project budget with a 6 scrum teams for both up stream and down streams applications both onsite, offshore.
• Provided weekly budget status, tracked project burn-down, setup infrastructure and reported to stakeholders and sponsors.
• Introduced best practices like Pair programming, extensive code review, unit and system testing of all code.
• Orchestrated the release level roadmap in agile methods with release leaders and the product owners.
• Organized Weekly SOS Ceremonies, grooming, Sprint Planning, retrospective session and demo sessions.
• Interacted with stake holder’s application teams splitting the existing cloud base application for HP Inc and HP enterprise.
• Coach agile values and principles. Mentor, motivate and supervise project teams, contractors to take positive action.
• Coordinated with Architects, Biz Analyst, System Engineers, development teams, QA testing and ensured quality UAT readiness end to end.
• Prepared daily weekly management status reports in the PowerPoint and present the status with stake holders.
• Monitored and escalated risks before they become active issues, and offer timely suggestions to any risks and issues.

Confidential, RCHFIELD, MN

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented the product content enhancement system for core SKU and SDF products using AWS.
• Implemented e-commerce, mobile commerce, online transaction processing, EDI and automated data collection systems.
• Managed project stakeholders, including internal, external clients and downstream applications.
• Resolved impediments, conducted retrospective session, and captured empirical data and with action item to owners.
• Managed larger complex traditional big data processing application including analysis of data duration, searching, storage, transfer and visualization using Amazon cloud web services (AWS).
• Effectively managed project budget provided weekly budget status and reported to stakeholders and sponsors
• Prepare kickoff reports, Daily/Weekly status reports in PPT for stakeholders and present them to senior management.
• Shields the team from external interferences and distractions and keep it in group flow enforcing the time boxes.
• Ensured SCRUM artifacts are visible and promoted engineered best practices. Utlized JIRA to track the backlogs.
• Coach agile principles and mentor, motivate and supervise project team members to take positive action.
• Tracked team Velocity, Sprint and Release progress of all affected teams.
• Delivered product on time and successfully rolled the project to production.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Program/Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented intranet and collaborations employee portal using Liferay social office open source product suites.
• Migrated large scale share point data content to LifeRay Content Management System (CMS) with solar search engine.
• Managed Big Data elements to capture large complex data sets to search, share and transfer required data sets.
• Analyzed large scale complex data that deals with collection of data sets, migrating scalable content from SharePoint.
• Communicated with business sponsors, stake holders and developed the system requirements specs from BRD's.
• Progress Planning, Prioritization and Leadership skills in removing road blocks and resolving conflict in agile environment.
• Effectively managed project budget of $5 million with offshore and onsite FTE's and provided weekly budget status, tracked project burn-down, setup infrastructure and reported to stakeholders and sponsors.
• Utilized CA clarity PPM progress-tracking dashboards to executives. Used open workbench, CA Agile tier, tasks flagship and assigned resources with schedule-based progress markers and updated project status reports.
• Provided walkthrough of System Requirements with Application Developers, Business Stakeholders and Quality teams.
• Facilitated daily SCRUM sessions, reviewed product backlogs via JIRA and tracked each action item assigned to the resources.
• Delegated tasks, responsibilities to appropriate personnel, identified issues and resolved conflicts within the project.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Collaborated with cross functional teams and other internal and external stakeholders to remove impediments.
• Tracked project milestone deliverables and delivered progress status reports following the PMO governance process.
• Responsible for planning, executing multiple IT projects and delivered project on time, within budget and scope.
• Coached agile methods, and motivated project team members to take positive action.
• Conducted post project lessons learned and created reports identifying successful, unsuccessful project elements.

Confidential - Austin, Texas

Program/Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented, integrated collaborative community portal online LMS application for NHSC (Nation Health Service) a virtual community content portal designed to support the work of primary care clinicians across the country.
• Analyzed massive data sets, tuning selected data into high-quality information, high-bandwidth applications including, video editing, play-out in media and provide boundless secure scalable data storage to cloud base environment.
• Implemented Big Data content based solutions enabling unlimited amounts of data storage virtually.
• The project utilizes Map Reducers& HDFS in batch process with NOSQL, splitting into multiple data nodes using task tracker.
• Responsible for all phases of Project Management including Scope Management, on-budget product delivery.
• Developed integrated Project Management plans, Scheduling, Sprint planning, dependencies and cross initiatives.
• Managed changes to project scope and efficiently tracked project burn-down, phase wise costing and budgeting.
• Used CA clarity PPM to track project scheduling, open workbench and project Gantt and phase level Gantt charts
• Utilized agile methods, planned sprints, tracked product backlogs and delivered the product on time within scope.
• Successfully executed the project with scrum principles tracking the budget for each sprint deliverables.
• Created, updated and maintained Program dashboard via Jira, executive reports and assisted with resolution of risks.
• Conducted daily SCRUM meetings and retrospective sessions with teams, weekly status review meetings with stakeholders.
• Delivered product on time, excelled stake holder expectations and was instrumental in improving the client relationship.

Confidential - Minneapolis, MN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed and implemented web portal projects for corporate office leaders and employees integrated with Auto insurance.
• Implemented a large scale portal using Liferay and Universal Content Management (Oracle-UCM) platform integrated financial module.
• Integrated the Portal with Auto insurance and financial application for customers and Employees for insurance.
• Worked with the Project Management Office and vendor Project management office and tracked complete Project process documentation.
• Managed portal conversion projects and successfully executed the project for auto insurance dept from initiation to closure.
• Determined project goals and priorities with Project Sponsors, Security team, Project Owner and Program Manager.
• Responsible for Planning and executing the project and delivered product on time, within the Scope and Budget.
• Integrated the web portal for marketing the insurance products for consumers, dealers and employees.
• Performed project manager duties for Ameriprise PMO and VPMO groups. Participated in IT SOX compliance and legal audits.
• Successfully deployed the application supporting the Auto insurance catalogs and pricing to consumers and dealers.
• Prepared project schedules, costing, forecast estimates and track projects and provided status to stake holders.
• Worked with cross-functional and operation teams to deliver the project outputs on time, within budget, and with quality.
• Communicated clear vision of the project’s objectives, motivated the project team that enabled peak performance by team.
• Analyzed and tracked risks, identified triggered events, established contingency plans and mitigated risks.
• Managed relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and their vendors.
• Established clear priorities among project activities and Managed vendor relations and procurement related to the project.