PROFILE:

An IT Professional experienced in full life cycleprojectmanagement for both infrastructureand application development. Proven leadership and ability in team building,project organization and effective communication at all organizational level.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced Project Manager with highly competitive team management and technical experience and in - depth experience of project management, product/process implementation, technology and strategic planning experience and possess an extensive skill-set with regard to IT Infrastructure and systems management.
• Possess strong business acumen which has helped in building strong customer relationships. Have been managing communication at all levels of organization.
• Strong knowledge of DevOPS Toolchain to build out DevOPS infrastructure which fully automates software deployments that can scale with demand and recover gracefully from issues. Managed the POC of implementing RedHat OpenShift Platform to manage the deployments
• Primary expertise is in the areas of Data Center Relocation, Consolidation, Infrastructure setup and design, Virtualization and Vendor Management.
• Experience managing the Rollout Project involving ~300 users
• Domain Understanding of BFSI and Telecom Sector
• In-depth understanding of the various facets of ITSM framework including the onsite/offshore delivery models
• Excellent record of delivering large-scale, critical projects on time and under budget
• End to End Project Management for Services division covering all phases such as initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control and closure.
• Highly organized, goal oriented, strong customer focus, analytical problem solver, able to anticipate issues and create new systems that streamline operations, resolve concerns and improve efficiency.
• Skilled in building excellent rapport with client and team members, delegate effectively and motivate team members to achieve on timeprojectcompletions.
• Experience managing all phases of the SDLC for bothWaterfallandAgiledevelopmentteams.
• Expertise in writingBusinessRequirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), and Data Mapping.
• Experienced in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD), Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) and JAR sessions across the functional and technical groups to capturing, clarifying and confirming business requirements.
• Team based management style and excellent interpersonal/communication skills

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Project Management: MS Project, JIRA, Omniplan, WIKI

Operating System: Solaris, Linux RHEL/SUSE, Windows

Automation Tools: Jenkins, Puppet, RedHat OpenShift

Microsoft Office Applications: Sharepoint, MS Word, MS Excel,MS Power Point, MS Visio and Microsoft Outlook Express.

Database: Oracle, MS SQL Server Programming Language C/C++, Shell scripting

Reporting and ETL Tools: Informatica, SSIS

Modeling & Designing, DB tools: MS Visio, Quest Toad

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring team execution and delivery to committed timelines across a range of PSO projects.
• Experience managing projects in cloud-based SaaS environments
• Experience managing the Automation and DevOPS projects. Build out DevOPS infrastructure which fully automates software deployments that can scale with demand and recover gracefully from issues
• Managed the POC of deploying RedHat OpenShift Platform to manage the deployments
• Compliance experience includes SOC2, FFIEC
• Managing project plans (i.e., delivery dates and resources)
• Identifying and removing impediments to the team’s progress
• Identifying, managing, helping to mitigate project issues and risks
• Facilitating planning and status meetings
• Enacting change & continuous improvement to increase the productivity of the team and quality of deliverables
• Protect team from over-commitment
• Ensuring compliance with Confidential policies for project delivery and execution
• Building relationships across the organization
• Manage project risks, issues/problems, and activity progress to ensure project goals (e.g., deadline, scope and quality) are achieved.
• Manage the integration of vendor/subcontractor tasks, and track and review vendor/subcontractor deliverables

Confidential, Modesto, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with multiple departments to develop requirement and project plans.
• Lead cross-functional team meetings, working collaboratively with all necessary individuals to achieve the goals of givenproject.
• Planning and budgeting, calculating ROI and NPV for projects
• Work with legal, sales, customer service and clients to understand issues and enhancement request
• Prepare a detailed and accurate cost estimate for eachprojectscope ensuring that funds are released in accordance with the needs of theprojectschedule
• Define the resources required for completion of aprojectand allocated resources accordingly
• Meet with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals, and identify and resolve systems issues
• Lead the RFP process for outsourced work, evaluate vendors and establish contracts

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning, executing, monitoring and controlling
• Identifying project tasks and their dependencies and create Work breakdown structure
• Technical design review
• Controlling efforts and cost over run
• Provide necessary Effort Estimation & Pre-sales support along with proposals
• Design & implement necessary tools/tracker for effective tracking of project transactions.
• Daily Activity Planning and work allocation
• Risk and issue management
• Baseline Management (Create, maintain, update & upkeep)
• Process adherence & Compliance
• Vendor Evaluation & its work Quality control
• Principal and Vendor Management
• Scheduling and Coordinating meetings
• Project Communication and project documentation
• Timely Issue Escalation & Risk Management
• Customer Complaints Response & Resolution

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and chair weekly coreprojectteam meetings to update progress and facilitate team communication
• Tracked keyprojectmilestones and publishingprojectstatus reports to key stakeholders and business owners
• Provided weekly and monthly status reports to upper management and customers to ensure communication ofprojectprogress and s and any risks or issues with a resolution plan
• Performed task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored milestones using MS Project.
• Led client facilitation meetings to gather Interface andBusinessProcess Requirements from Subject Matter Experts (SME's)
• Gatheredbusinessrequirements from SMEs and draftedBusinessRequirement Documents (BRD)
• Created user stories and use cases for analyzing and gathering requirement for effectiveproject management. Also, made sure that all deadlines were met and delivered in time
• Involved inBusinessProcess Management (BPM) activities like process design, process monitoring and process execution
• Successfully conducted JAD sessions, which helped synchronize the different stakeholders on their objectives and helped the developers to have a clear-cut picture of the project.
• Coordinated the requests for the physical install, Maintains, DB patterns, VDBI, Decommission and other activities using a number of cross functional teams across the firm providing the set-up of standard products, system security, scheduling, and monitoring.
• Identify critical success factors, monitor performance metrics andprojectdashboards.
• Partnered withProduct Managersand Business Analyststo ensure proper resources are assigned at the right times, and allocated correctly toprojectsbased on requirements.
• Managed the release process end-to-end, from the planning of release content through to actual release deployment to production

Environment: Java, Informatica, Oracle 11g, Quest Toad, QTP, Loadrunner, JUnit, JIRA, MS Visio

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Usecase Preparation
• Dashboards Preparation
• Creating flow diagrams for Use Cases
• Preparing Rules for pre-data processing using Informatica
• Creating database tables for reports and database preparation

Environment: Informatica, R, SQL, Tableau, Linux

Confidential

Assisting ProjectManager

Responsibilities:

• Working alongside with senior implementationprojectmanagerto identify stakeholder's requirements and conducts meetings with key stakeholders.Project planning in terms of stake holder identification, Vendor identification and requirement finalization
• Internal project team formation and building and project Hierarchy
• Drawing up a project schedule plan for each Vendor and stakeholder
• Preparing the cost management plan and track the project
• Coordinating with all the businesses to plan for the application criticality and down time
• Coordination with team members and technical leads for preparation of hour to hour migration plan
• Engaging service providers and Customer for setting up a parallel WAN network at new Data Centre for testing and verification of Bandwidth quality prior to actual migration.
• Building up a network Baseline of the existing setup to be used as after migration
• Risk identification and preparation of Risk Register prior to migration.
• Team and Schedule planning with technical members prior to migration.
• Planning Rack layout with respect to power supply and KVA ratings as per the norms set at the new Data Centre
• Sending out regular communications in the form of Emails and SMS during the entire 2 days of migration schedule
• Providing Inputs to technical team members for preparation of final project documentation

Environment: Data Centre consisted of approx. 42 racks hosting a wide array of computing equipment like Dell and IBM servers, NetAPP storage Boxes, Polycom Video Conferencing Equipment, Cisco LAN and WAN equipment like Cat 6500 switches, 7206 core routers etc. Besides this there was high speed WAN and MPLS links from 5 different service providers

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Objective Setting with H3GS for project detailing on schedule, objectives, scope and deliverables
• Liaise with H3GS IT team and capture data of the existing infrastructure
• Control the day to day aspects of the project & execute formal inspection reviews and management reviews
• Track charter and project plans & Produce reports on project progress on weekly basis
• Business requirements captured would be used as input in this phase
• Prepare Application, database, Network, Server& Storage Recommendations & Analysis Document
• Prepare requisite deliverables and Ensure Peer Reviews are applied to all deliverables

Environment: IBM, HP and DELL, Hitachi, EMC, Oracle, Cisco, Avaya, Juniper

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project planning in terms of stake holder identification, Vendor identification and requirement finalization
• Drawing up a project schedule plan for each Vendor and stakeholder
• Coordinating with all the customer to plan for the application criticality and down time
• Coordination with team members for preparation of hour to hour migration plan
• Building up a network Baseline of the existing setup to be used as after migration
• Risk identification and preparation of Risk Register prior to migration.
• Team and Schedule planning with technical members prior to migration.
• Planning Rack layout with respect to power supply and KVA ratings as per the norms set at the target Data Centre
• Sending out regular communications in the form of Emails and SMS during the entire 2 days of migration schedule
• Providing Inputs to technical team members for preparation of final project documentation

Environment: 8 Racks, NetAPP, IBM, Sun and HP servers, Cisco, Juniper

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Definesprojectscope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Understanding the solution design and signoff
• WBS creation, activity listing and preparation of risk identification and mitigation planning
• Responsible for directly overseeing implementation engineers on network, systems and application deployments
• Plans, schedules, and tracksprojecttimelines, deliverables, and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Develops full-scaleprojectplans and associated communications documents.
• Identifies and resolves issues and conflicts within theprojectteam.Coordinatesprojectteam activities and schedules, assessing and revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Manages the financial, time and resource aspects ofprojectagainst a set budget andprojectplan.
• Executes work according to theprojectplan and follows the process such as administering meeting minutes with Action Items and distribution of relevantprojectmaterials to appropriate stakeholders for accountability of the expected next steps.
• Acceptance testing by application team, sustenance team and customer

Environment: Sun Solaris 10, Sun cluster 3.1, Oracle 10g R2, VNB 6.5, Sun LDOM, Oracle apps11i.

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• We divided the project in three Work streams:
• Transition or Knowledge Acquisition, Project Initiation Document, Baseline high level project plan
• Assessment, Plan & Design phase, Risk Assessment report, Mitigation plan, High level architecture document, Implementation Readiness, Detail Project plan, Schedule for Pilot and Pilot Report
• Pre-Migration Checklist, Change Requests, Status Report, SOPs, Post-Migration Checklist, Sign-off

Environment: HP Blade center, VMware, Hitachi storage