SUMMARY

• 10+ yrs. of IT industry experience (4+ Yrs of Project Mgt in USA & Europe)
• Extensive experience in managing enterprise IT projects in Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM & SAFe 3.0
• Hands on experience in MS Project, Agile Vision, Rally & JIRA
• Experience in managing large scale IT projects in Web Development, eCommerce & Digital Marketing.
• Rich practical experience in various business domains such as HealthCare, Manufacturing, Retain & Securities.
• In - depth knowledge and experience in scope, time, cost, quality, Resource, communications, risk & procurement mgt.
• Extensive experience in enterprise application support, maintenance, enhancement, Build to Run & DevOps Model.
• Proven ability to deliver high quality IT products and services with cross functional distributed teams in Matrix Org.
• Strong technical background in Java/J2EE Architecture/Design.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in communications, client relations and negotiation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for End-2-End Management and delivery of strategic, cross-functional, highly visible project within time, cost, scope, and quality defined boundaries.
• Facilitate to create project scope, requirements definition, and solutions architecture.
• Organizing and facilitating release planning
• Develop a resource plan, which contains buy-in from multiple groups to align appropriate/qualified talent to support program activities to successfully complete the project.
• Lead the cross functional distributed multi-vendor project teams(Offshore & Onshore) to assure that deliverable dates are met.
• Hold project meetings throughout project lifecycle.
• Maintain and communicate project status through confluence and program board meetings.
• Updating agile tracking systems(JIRA) to provide transparency on product & sprint backlogs
• Recommending improvements and assist in changes to best practices
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Identifying and removing impediments, preventing distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint/release goal.
• Improving the productivity of the teams in any way possible
• Ensures project satisfies all required policy, audit, financial and technology guidelines.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for End-2-End Management and delivery of strategic, cross-functional, highly visible project within time, cost, scope, and quality defined boundaries in accordance with life cycle methodologies and disciplines.
• Establish project scope, requirements definition, and solutions architecture to create the Statement of Work & Lean Project Charter.
• Organizing and facilitating release planning (SAFe)
• Analyze needs and develop customer satisfaction improvements to address customer needs for support, high quality and efficiency to provide quick turnaround and maintain performance.
• Develop a resource plan, which contains buy-in from multiple groups to align appropriate/qualified talent to support program activities to successfully complete the project.
• Coach and mentor technical and project team members on effective project management practices and techniques.
• Perform program completion assessment including customer feedback, lessons learned and financial/performance review.
• Lead the project team(Offshore & Onshore) to assure that deliverable dates are met.
• Hold project meetings throughout project lifecycle.
• Manage cross-functional project teams and deliverables for each project throughout project lifecycle.
• Manage complex interaction of multiple technical and business stakeholders that span multiple businesses, functions and geographies within the company.
• Maintain and communicate project status through use of documentation, schedules, and budget information throughout project lifecycle.
• Tracking and communicating scrum metrics including team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Help the team to inspect and adapt in order to have the smoothest development possible.
• Ensuring the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Updating agile tracking systems(RALLY) to provide transparency on product & sprint backlogs
• Recommending improvements and assist in changes to best practices
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Identifying and removing impediments, preventing distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint/release goal.
• Improving the productivity of the teams in any way possible
• Ensures project satisfies all required policy, audit, financial and technology guidelines Skills.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owner and team to conduct Velocity based sprint planning (2 weeks Sprint)
• Serve as the guardian of the Scrum process framework and work as servant leader
• Guide and coach distributed team(located in Kolkata, Bangalore & Netherlands) towards achieving release and spring goals
• Use Rally for maintaining product backlog, monitor and track sprint progress
• Protect the team from outside disturbances
• Help keep track of project progress and do right escalation on time
• Help the team identifying dependencies, mitigating risks and for meeting sprint commitments
• Help resolving team’s impediments
• Conduct daily scrums & open forums, User story pockering sessions.
• Organize Sprint Demo meeting, Assess Agile Maturity Level in each sprint.
• Organize Sprint Retrospectives to help Scrum team to improve on the process and project performance.
• Prepare weekly performance reports and communicate to Wipro and Client.
• Work with Product Owner for defining “Done”.
• Collaborate with the team to create sprint backlog tasks (SBTs)
• Coordinate with the team for estimating backlog items & tasks
• Successfully executed 4 sprints with CSAT rating as 9 and 100% commitment.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owner and team to conduct release planning and capacity based sprint planning (4 weeks Sprint)
• Serve as the guardian of the Scrum process framework and work as servant leader
• Guide and coach the team towards achieving release and spring goals
• Use CA Agile Vision for maintaining product backlog, monitor and track sprint progress
• Use Clarity for timesheet and user story time allocation to team members.
• Protect the team from outside disturbances
• Help keep track of project progress and do right escalation on time
• Help the team identifying dependencies, mitigating risks and for meeting sprint commitments
• Help resolving team’s impediments
• Conduct daily scrums & open forums
• Organize Sprint review meeting
• Organize Sprint Retrospectives to help Scrum team to improve on the process and project performance.
• Prepare sprint and tasks burn down chart, parking lot diagrams.
• Work with Product Owner for defining “Done”.
• Collaborate with the team to create sprint backlog tasks (SBTs)
• Coordinate with the team for estimating backlog items & tasks
• Report performance metrics - Schedule and effort deviation, Distribution of stories, Requirements Volatility, Overall Productivity, Product Stability
• Track & monitor defects in HP Quality Center
• Successfully delivered more than 12 sprints with high quality(defect density < 2 per 100 test cases and met several critical project client commitments
• One of pillars for account growth from initiation to stability phase

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Allows the business units to submit orders up to 100,000 lines directly into Distrack in less than an hour.
• Enables the business units to research purchase orders directly in the application
• Displays almost real-time stock status within the application.
• Enable business units the ability to get future dated orders into Distrack earlier to insure product availability.

Techno Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage project using Waterfall life cycle model & PMBOK Processes
• Help developing technical requirements
• Work with BA & stakeholders to create & define project scope
• Develop UI Prototype using JustInMinder tool
• Coordinate with Enterprise Architect and Integration Architect for overall HLD
• Develop Java EE user interface detailed design
• Coordinate with interfacing teams(ETL, webservice, Distrack iSeries, Business Object, Siteminder) for their DD
• Work with team to develop WBS & WBS Dictionary
• Help team in developing and reviewing project estimates
• Develop UI code framework, logger, Exception handling, service integration, Business Object Integration coordinate with offshore development team
• Coordinate with interface team for system integration testing
• Perform risk identification, risk analysis & risk response planning
• Develop time and cost reserves for the project
• Develop project management plan that is bought into, approved, realistic & formal
• Develop scope, schedule and cost baseline that is bought into, approved, realistic & formal
• Manage & control the project as per project management plan & to performance measurement baseline (PMB)
• Manage stakeholder’s expectation & influences.
• Determine and deliver required levels of quality
• Work with QA team for performing quality assurance and quality control activities
• Work with Configuration management and Change Control Board for managing changes to project deliverables
• Coordinate with QC, performance engineering team & business for functional testing, performance testing & UAT
• Work with infrastructure team for setting up application/server monitoring using IBM Tivoli, HP BAC & CA WIly
• Report project performance & progress reports to management
• Manage and resolve conflicts
• Monitor & control project performance against the contract, SOW.
• Develop lesson learned, collect customer satisfaction(CSAT) rating
• Lead and direct project transition to Run team, customer service and EIT Service Center

Confidential

Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Responsibilities:

• Provide requirements & share business domain knowledge
• Review requirements with different business stakeholders
• Assist Business Analyst in creating technical & non-functional requirements
• Create option analysis for defining in-scope functionalities based on the legacy application usage by the external users
• Help business management in prioritizing requirements & functionalities
• Provide required application knowledge to create better high level estimates
• Provide system integration & legacy application design and infrastructure knowledge information to identify pain points and produce better designs
• Assist technical teams in technical issues by clarifying functional/technical requirements
• Plan & execute Build to Run transitions between different external vendor teams
• Plan & execute support transition to service center team
• Communicate with stakeholders and manage their expectations
• Reporting to management on weekly project status, issues & risks

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Architects for completing Concept Analysis Document (CAD)
• Work with stakeholders to collect functional & non-functional requirements & defining project scope.
• Work with team to develop WBS & WBS Dictionary
• Help team in developing and reviewing project estimates
• Coordinate with offshore development team for development, perform tech reviews.
• Determine and deliver required levels of quality
• Work with QA & QC team for performing quality assurance and quality control activities
• Work with Configuration management and Change Control Board for managing changes to project deliverables
• Coordinate with QC, performance engineering team & business for functional testing, performance testing & UAT
• Report project performance & progress reports to management
• Manage and resolve conflicts
• Develop lesson learned, collect customer satisfaction(CSAT) rating

Confidential

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Gather functional and technical requirements & define scope.
• Create WBS.
• Prepare estimates.
• Prepare project schedule.
• Create detailed design & technical documents.
• Lead offshore development team for completing the development work.
• Coordinate with offshore development team for development and deliverables.
• Co-ordinate with QC, performance engineering & business team to perform functional testing, load testing & UAT.
• Manage and lead defect tracking, defect resolution.
• Coordinate with team to build deployment plan.
• Coordinate with Configuration management team for infrastructure setup, build and deploy to DEV, QA, STG and PROD.
• Work with Change control board to review and socialize the change and impact with other project teams.
• Communicate with stakeholders and manage their expectations.
• Reporting to management regarding weekly project status, issues & risks.
• Plan & execute Build to run transitions.

Confidential

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Gather technical requirements & define scope.
• Create WBS.
• Prepare estimates.
• Prepare project schedule.
• Create detailed design & technical documents.
• Lead offshore development team for completing the development work.
• Coordinate with offshore development team for development and deliverables.
• Co-ordinate with QC, performance engineering & business team to perform functional testing, load testing & UAT.
• Manage and lead defect tracking, defect resolution.
• Coordinate with team to build deployment plan.
• Coordinate with Configuration management team for infrastructure setup, build and deploy to DEV, QA, STG and PROD.
• Work with Change control board to review and socialize the change and impact with other project teams.
• Communicate with stakeholders and manage their expectations.
• Reporting to management regarding weekly project status, issues & risks.
• Plan & execute Build to run transitions.

Confidential

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Collecting requirements, creating scope baseline which includes project scope statement, WBS, WBS Dictionary
• Estimating activity resource requirements, activity duration and cost estimates, creating schedule network diagram
• Performing risk identification, prioritizing risks & developing risk response strategy
• Developing project schedule
• Developing project management plan & gaining formal acceptance of PM plan.
• Executing the work as per project management plan
• Controlling scope & schedule to baselines & reporting project performance
• Managing changes as per integrated change control (Change Mgt, Configuration Mgt & Change Control Board)
• Holding team building activities, giving recognition & rewards
• Developing lesson learned, Completing customer satisfaction rating
• Completing B2R, closing project, holding celebration for successful project completion

Confidential

Project Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Collecting requirements, creating scope baseline which includes project scope statement, WBS, WBS Dictionary
• Estimating activity resource requirements, activity duration and cost estimates, creating schedule network diagram
• Performing risk identification, prioritizing risks & developing risk response strategy
• Developing project schedule
• Developing project management plan & gaining formal acceptance of PM plan.
• Executing the work as per project management plan
• Controlling scope & schedule to baselines & reporting project performance
• Managing changes as per integrated change control (Change Mgt, Configuration Mgt & Change Control Board)
• Holding team building activities, giving recognition & rewards
• Developing lesson learned, Completing customer satisfaction rating
• Completing B2R, closing project, holding celebration for successful project completion

Confidential

Technical Lead & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Participate in KAP, Plan & execute initial transition from existing team to new run team.
• Provide tier-2 & tier-3 application support & maintenance for medical cardinal.com application family (a set of 16 applications on multiple technologies).
• Manage and lead minor enhancements.
• Work with medical business units to collect requirements.
• Prepare estimates.
• Lead offshore development team for completing the development work as per business requirements.
• Co-ordinate with QC, performance engineering & business team to perform functional testing, load testing & UAT.
• Manage and lead defect tracking, defect resolution.
• Plan and build deployment plan.
• Worked with Steering Committee, Change Control Board and Configuration Mgt team to deploy the changes to different environment like DEV, QA, STG and PROD.
• Prepare and communicate weekly status reports (WSR) to managements.
• Perform impact analysis.
• Lead Service Improvement Plans (SIP).
• Run SRT (service restoration teams) for resolving sev-1 and sev-2 production issues.
• Perform RCA (Root Cause Analysis).
• Meet & improve SLA & OLA on EIT Problem cases, EIT customer request cases & EIT application enhancement requests.

Confidential

Senior J2EE Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed model, view & controller layer of Program Compatibility functionalities within Enter Program module.
• Prepared Class Diagrams & Sequence Diagrams
• Implemented TRC caching framework
• Performed functional testing and prepared UTC
• Integrating with webservice modules

Confidential

Weblogic Portal Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed New supplier registration & User Registration/Maintenance modules in portal framework
• Developed portlets out of a java page flow & work on the state of the portlet
• Developed Session Beans which make calls to LDAP for user authentication
• Developed jcx file to access the database using connection pooling
• Prepared Sequence & Class Diagrams
• Performed functional testing and prepared UTC