OBJECTIVE

• PMP Certified Projectmanagement professional with strong business acumen and solidtechnicalbackground. A team player, collaborator, and a relationship builder whose infectious “can - do” attitude inspires others and encourages great performance in a fast-moving environment.

SUMMARY

• A performance-driven Project Manager offering nearly 8 years of experience in end-to-end project planning & implementation from scope management, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management
• Creative and Multi-disciplinary Executive renowned for swiftly completing projects with competent cross-functional skills and ensuring on time deliverables within pre-set cost parameters.
• An enterprising leader with the capability to motivate personnel towards achieving organizational objectives; adhering to industry best practices
• Saved $110K by leading & implementing a migration effort; established a process to resolve and address issues in different cross-functional groups that helped in reducing bugs by 30%
• Adopted agile methodology by transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methodology and successfully reduced Time-to-Market for project deliveries by 20%
• Directed high performing team in geographically distributed development (team of 10 to 30 across India, China & EMEA) with soft skills under tough deadlines to meet expectations of multiple stakeholders
• Managed the entireprojectlifecycle from planning through handover to support for various projects
• Drove tracking and reporting KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) on a monthly, quarterly basis for executives. Conducted and tracked workshops for various key initiative projects
• Successfully hosted War Room calls with vendors, business partners, testers and all stakeholder to review RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and action items
• Administered multiple projects simultaneously using Agile methodology and Waterfall methodology based on preference of Project sponsors
• Ensured that theProjectaligned with the steering team strategy and that the goals of theprojectwere properly defined and agreed to by theprojectsponsor, theprojectsteering committee and/or the stakeholders.
• Identified key stakeholders and engaged theprojectsponsor and stakeholders inprojectactivities.
• Coordinatedprojectdiscovery and product evaluation efforts, specifically to develop time, resource and cost estimates to be used inprojectprioritization decision making
• Strong Management skills, demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize levels of productivity, while forming cohesive team environments.
• Developedprojectplans, identified resource needs, defined team roles, lead team meetings, and assured healthy team dynamics
• Worked in a liaison role to both communicate user need to the appropriate parties and better explain technical ramifications as they pertain to thoseprojects, to the end user.
• Led a team of fifteen members located in multiple countries to implementprojectfrom ideation to go live phase
• Analyzed investmentproject, developed the best strategy to maximize the ROI
• Enhancedprojectsperformance by managing operational efficiencies, schedule management,projectplans and requirements documents.
• Proactively coached product (business and technology) teams to transition into AgileSAFedelivery teams.
• Managed project work plans and schedules, resources requirements, and cost estimates and projections and monitored and managed project deliverables.
• Effectively coordinated the activities of the team to meetprojectmilestones.
• Provided feedback to team and/or individuals about their performance within the team.
• Acted as Change Control Board Coordinator responsible for working with stakeholders throughoutEnterpriseServices Application and Business Services organization using a disciplined change control process
• Defined Business Process; identify the risk, methods, baseline acceptance criteria, and deliverables.
• Experienced in elicitation techniques like interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming and focus groups.
• Good understanding of other applications under Office 365 such as MS Teams, Power BI, Planner, Yammer, Stream, Sway

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirement Management Tools: MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro (Novice)

Database: MySQL, TOAD, MS Access, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters

UML Tools: MS Visio, Visual Paradigm

Tools: JIRA, SharePoint, Confluence, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Outlook, MS SharePoint, clarity, Office 365, MS Azure Cloud, Plan View, Rally, Smart Sheets

Methodologies: Agile, SCRUM, RAD, SAFe, RUP, Waterfall, SDLC, COTS OMT, OOIE, OOSE, UML

Business Intelligence & Reporting: Advanced Excel, Tableau (Rising Proficiency), Google Analytics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine

Project Manager & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Identified and met with key stakeholders at the key hospitals that will be impacted by theprojectto carry out a feasibility study.
• Created theprojectbusiness case, reviewed and validated withprojectteam and had steering committee signoff on it.
• Formulate requirements and documentation requisites in support ofinfrastructure,projectsand standardized process
• Communicated effectively with external business partners and internal teams to oversee the delivery ofprojectrequirements
• Handled end-to-end planning and execution of workshops for project stakeholders and analysts through development, organizational readiness, commercial product enhancement, testing, and post go-live stabilization.
• Identified super users at various key locations, Epic application specialists and technical implementation team members to form aprojectteam.
• CreatedprojectSharePoint site and conductedprojectkickoff meeting.
• Coordinated with theprojectteam to identify all deliverables, sequence of all activities and tasks necessary to complete theproject plan that was created in MS Project.
• Worked collaboratively across the organization to support successful institutionalization
• Made recommendations on profitability improvement and cost containment
• Recorded inefficiencies of query logic and suggested solutions for improvement
• Detailed analyses regarding deviations and aberrations in data returned
• Analyzed and quoted data quality to ensure integrity standards were met
• Responsible for briefing the Senior VP ofInfrastructureon the status ofprojects
• Maintained positive, supportive working relationships with business users and technology staff on assigned projects
• Lead a 1.5 year initiative Request for Information & Request for Proposal (RFI/RFP) to introduce Business Process Management to IT and the Business. Obtained Business and IT executive approval during initiation phase to proceed with tool purchase and implementation on a funded project
• Initiated a vendor management improvement plan that resulted in extra 25% product delivery throughput. Organized CRDR to formally close the project and hand over the deliverables to the key stakeholders.

Environment: Version One, JIRA, Business Objects, O365, SAFe, Clarity, XML, CORABA, Visio, SharePoint, Microsoft Suite (Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project).

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined requirements and planned project lifecycle deployment.
• Planned and scheduled project deliverables, goals, and milestones.
• Included day-to-day coordination, provision of technical direction, assignment planning, and progress reporting and task order budget management.
• Continuously provided status updates and reports toprojectteam and stakeholders throughout theprojectlife cycle on a regular basis.
• Met specific monthly goals for activation, quality, decision per hour, andfraudprevention at or above standard
• Facilitated project discussions with stakeholders to determine project expectations, milestones, and go-live readiness; weekly charter read-out to Steering Committee including risks & issues
• Utilized SharePoint and Plan view to reportprojectstatus, managed issues, documented and classified risks as well as track critical path milestones to give visibility onprojectprogress.
• Developed and maintained productive working relationships withprojectowners, business functions, IT, vendors, and otherprojectstakeholders.
• Ensured that issues and risks are identified, understood early and dealt with in a manner that mitigates surprises, risk to scope, cost, and schedule
• Assisted with management of change requests and functionality release process to ensure scope controls are maintained.
• Monitored payment system performance and identified, tracked, and communicated key metrics to senior management
• Oversaw the development of project scope definition and management of communications planning, quality control, change management, and archiving project documentation.
• Conducted business analysis support for enterprise levelprojectsand their dependencies in order to maintain resource efficiency throughout the lifecycle of theprojects.
• Drove baseline and parallel testing activities across multiple migrations, tracking status and delivering pass rates to client and senior management.
• Responsible for making sure all technical andfunctionaldocuments are delivered on time
• Managed Change Requests (CR)'s and facilitated bridge line overnight during maintenance window.
• Led meetings throughoutprojectlifecycle, including finalprojectclosure meeting with customer to formally close out theproject.

Environment: - MS Project, Clarity, MS Office Tools, Jira, SharePoint, SAFe, Plainview, SQL

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Planned & executed projects deliverables within stipulated time & budge as per Customer standards.
• Partnered with the internal Product Management teams to drive requirements and continuously interacted with stakeholders to meet expectations, review objectives and coordinate resources across the individual projects
• Estimated Scope, resources, risks & cost decomposing theprojectusing Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Managed and coordinated the day to day operational aspects of theProject.
• Served as the single point of contact & facilitated the Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning/Review, Backlog Grooming and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Implemented project using Agile Scrum methodology with JIRA for creating and estimating user stories, building a sprint backlog, identifying team commitment and velocity, visualizing team activity, reporting on team progress
• Continuously tracked projectbudget by monitoring resource usage, managed scope meticulously and ensured projectcosts do not overrun
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Worked closely with Development team, BA and QA teams as well as Stakeholders and members of management to resolve any issues.
• Developed release schedules and intermediate milestones.
• Identified risks and tracked them using Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed (RACI) matrix while ensuring risk mitigation plans are in place.
• Communicated release plans and published release notes.
• Created training documentation and provided training to operational teams

Environment: WBS, JIRA, Scope, RACI, Smart Sheets, MS Project, MySQL, Spring Framework

Confidential, California

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the business requirements from the Subject Matter Experts.
• Involved in installing Hadoop Ecosystem components.
• Used to manage and review the Hadoop log files.
• Supported Map Reduce Programs those are running on the cluster.
• Involved in HDFS maintenance and loading of structured and unstructured data.
• Wrote Map Reduce job using Java API.
• Involved in managing and reviewing Hadoop log files.
• Written Hive queries for data analysis to meet the business requirements.
• Creating Hive tables and working on them using Hive QL.
• Utilized Agile Scrum Methodology to help manage and organize a team of 4 developers with regular code review sessions.
• Weekly meetings with technical collaborators and active participation in code review sessions with senior and junior developers.

Environment: Hadoop, Hive, Java, Map Reduce, Sqoop

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Accomplished end-to-end implementation of various big and complex projects, including Requirement Analysis, design, development, coding, testing and implementation.
• Identified & analyzed defects, documenting, tracking and communicating test plans, test results, analysis, etc.
• Gained experience in leading and management of projects/teams and prioritization of multiple projects.
• Successfully completed requirements gathering and feasibility/scope definition, development, Enhancement & Maintenance/Support.
• Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.
• Created and published executive program dashboard and metrics for resource utilization and capacity planning that expedited decision making as well as improved transparency across the organization.
• Identified key performance indicator and incorporated in the business processes to measure success of product development processes.
• Presentation to executives on product development compliance and process maturity.
• Vendor management for different technologies, from different cultures and across different continents. Effective collaboration with them to improve product development solutions including spec alignment, design reviews, user acceptance test (UAT) and production deployment.

Environment: MS Project, Clarity, MS Office Tools, Jira, SharePoint, SQL

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for understanding the Business Logic of an existing legacy application which is being used since a decade in a very short span of time.
• Created a Workflow to integrate the new requirements by the business along with SQL Jobs which are used to run some processes in the application.
• Introduced Technical documents and ER diagrams for the existing application.
• Developed forms for the web application in VB.NETWritten configuration settings in Web. Config file.
• Configured Forms authentication the application by using a Configuration File. Configuring Security with IIS and ASP.NET
• Validated user input on Web Forms using validation controls like Compare Validator, Range Validator, Regular Expression Validator and Custom Validator. Also Performed Client Side Validations using JavaScript.
• Used ADO.NET to access SQL Server database.
• Designed and developed Web Services usingC#, ADO.NET and XML to handle online transactions with central database, which reduces the time, required performing data entry and generating reports.
• Tracked, analyzed and assigned the bugs and change requests to the team members.
• Optimize and troubleshoot the application.

Environment: C#, ADO.NET, XML, SQL Server, ASP.NET, IIS, REST, XML, UML