PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Seasoned Project Management professional with 18 years of experience in Information Technology managing development and testing efforts in diverse business domains such as Telecom, Finance & E - commerce.
• Skilled in streamlining operations, develop and maintain schedules, ensure maximum customer satisfaction and optimize business revenue.
• Proven track record of adding value in organizations through improved systems / processes, operating efficiencies and project management. Other key strengths include:
• Project Planning
• Leadership
• JIRA
• Release Management
• Motivation
• Rally
• Vendor Management
• Team Building
• MS SharePoint
• Change Management
• Problem Solving
• MS Office
• Risk/Issue Management
• Organized
• MS Project
• Process Improvement
• Adaptive
• HP Quality center
• Scrum Framework
• Waterfall/Agile Methodology
• Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop project milestone delivery schedule to allow team to efficiently and effectively deliver multiple release cycles annually
• Act as an SME for project requirement and gap analysis
• Increase project efficiencies by 75% by documenting processes, procedures, checklists, and verification templates, which produce success rate of 75% with minimal downtime
• Proficiently create, manage and prioritize project plan, schedules and resources to align with the Project and Organizational goals
• Efficiently handle Risk analysis/migration plan, Issue analysis/tracking, Change management and Status reporting
• Effectively Mentor and Coach the team to consistently deliver within scope, time and budget
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to achieve project milestones
• Initiate, maintain and manage vendor relationships
• Utilize Scrum framework by facilitating scrum ceremonies, cross-team Retrospectives to help the team/business increase their velocity by 50% within the first year of Agile adoption

Environment: Jira, Rally, HP Quality center, Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management, BMC Remedy, MS Office Suite.

Project Lead/Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the insight and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helped ensure that all the stakeholders agreed with the Project Charter
• Generated quantitativeestimatesand duration of the required resources
• Acted as an SME for Business & System requirements and Design experience
• Planned and managed software development life cycle (SDLC) by working closely in conjunction with the business teams to ensure project was within scope, time and budget
• Efficiently handled Risk analysis/migration plan, Issue analysis/tracking, and Change management & Procurement process
• Created periodic project progress reports, executive dashboards and project logs
• Reduced overall organizational costs through close coordination and negotiation with the team
• Led the team to utilize the Agile process to improve project quality and schedule
• Devised forecasting and capacity planning strategy to enhance customer experience
• Oversaw multiple projects across all phases of the project life cycle

Environment: Jira, MS SharePoint, MS Project, HP Quality center, MS Office Suite.

Senior Technical associate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created technical artifacts including functional specifications, design and user acceptance criteria
• Acted as an SME for Business & System requirements and Design experience
• Developed software solutions by analyzing business and system requirement artifacts and followed the software development lifecycle
• Determined operational feasibility by analyzing problem definition, solution development and proposed solutions
• Efficiently handled Risk analysis/migration plan and Issue analysis/tracking
• Improved SDLC processes by conducting systems analysis, reviewing documents & codes and recommending changes in policies and procedures
• Prepared project progress reports for the Management and Executives, service issues and risk logs
• Facilitated project & team issues resolution

Environment: MS SharePoint, MS Project, HP Quality center, MS Office Suite, Java, J2EE, Struts 1.0 Framework, Spring Framework, Volantis framework, Web Services JAX-RPC, JMS, EJB, CORBA, Oracle 10g, RAD 7.5, Hibernate, SAX parser, XDIME 2, AJAX.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated stakeholder meetings for Business requirement gathering
• Gathered, defined and documented highly complex business requirements
• Created technical artifacts such as functional specifications, design and user acceptance criteria
• Identified operational feasibility by analyzing problem definition, solution development and proposed solutions
• Developed software solutions in Java/J2EE by analyzing business and system requirement artifacts and followed the software development lifecycle
• Facilitated project & team issues resolution

Confidential

Software Engineer / Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, defined and documented software product requirements
• Developed software in Java/J2EE, create d Confidential base tables and test for in-house products
• Facilitated stakeholder meetings to review the software product