SUMMARY

• Accomplished Program Manager / Project Manager / Scrum Master
• Experience in dealing with multiple stakeholders including clients, executives, and direct reports
• Experience delivering products and services through leadership, team - building, and effective communication
• Experience in delivering projects utilizing Waterfall and Agile (XP, Scrum, and Kanban) in range of $1m - $10m
• Extensive experience in IT project management in matrixed environment, scrum framework, change management, risk management framework, system testing, compliance, requirements tracing, and closing
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies - daily standup, sprint planning, sprint backlog, sprint retrospective, sprint review
• Manage key metrics and deliverables to ensure they are within targets: revenue, cost of delivery, time of delivery
• Worked successfully in transformational initiatives for migrating Unix servers to Linux servers in cloud
• Experience in managing infrastructure, software development, systems Integration and vendor software project
• Managed matrixed global teams including internal, external resources to deliver project
• Managed Infrastructure project on VMWare, Cloud, Cloud w/Bolt on, Bare Metal UNIX and LINUX platform
• Experience in protecting PII from the HR security perspective
• Experience in scrum framework, change management, Risk and compliance and governance
• Understanding to analyze the threat landscape, vulnerability, and its impact on business
• Understanding on two factor authorization
• Applying weightage systems approach to prioritize and quantify asset risks in Information Technology and assessing the impacts
• Knowledge of confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems and deriving value by protecting assets
• Knowledge in Information Security Governance and Risk Management framework to categorize, select, implement, Assess. Authorize and monitor
• Knowledge in Cryptography, Physical security, Software Security, Database Security
• Knowledge in Business Continuity and Disaster recovery planning
• Familiar with OWASP principles

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed infrastructure project that included the following: Cloud, Cloud w/bolt on, VMware, and Bare Metal
• Shared servers, UNIX, AIX and Linux servers and vendor software
• Plan, execute, control and close project in agreed scope, budget, time and quality
• Developed project work breakdown schedules, cost estimates, resource requests, work requests, purchase requests, forecasts, and status reports to design, acquire/build, and implement infrastructure changes.
• Manage schedules to migrate applications from Unix to Linux in cloud (virtual and private)
• Managed lifecycle timeline of artifacts, milestones, decision gate, phase gate
• Track HLID, hardware design solution, Blueprint, server reservations, server build, configuration, preparation, testing, load balancing, replications, design environment build for servers on cloud, Cloud w/bolt on, VMware, and Bare Metal
• Chaired status meetings using Skype, ATT connect, prepared and published status reports, and escalated issues as needed.
• Interacted with Tech dev and Tech ops teams throughout the process
• Worked with the engineer and the server build teams to resolve issues that were delaying the server builds
• Managed model driven estimating and DDE
• Manage decommissioning of the Unix servers
• Traced requirements through releases to ensure requirements were delivered
• Manage vendors, respreads and budgets for the strategic initiative
• Track and manage cost, budget & schedule variance, progress, milestones and schedules
• Manage unit testing, integrated testing, regression testing
• Manage test plan, test strategy, release management and deployment
• Manage estimates of interfacing applications and track delivery of impacted applications
• Manage change requests (CR) to add and de-scope interfacing application
• Documented lesson learnt in SharePoint

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Program Manager/Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies - daily standup, sprint planning, sprint backlog, sprint retrospective, sprint review
• Track product backlog, release backlog and sprint backlog
• Provide servant leadership to project teams and product owner
• Evaluated and implemented HCM systems, managed vendors and partners
• Managed business client’s IT Project Portfolio.
• Presented project statuses and cost information to client executives
• Chaired status meetings using Skype, prepared and published status reports, and escalated issues as needed.
• Traced requirements through releases to ensure requirements were delivered
• Implemented HCM system, dashboard for reporting, metrics for performance management, compensation module, timesheet module, absence management, career section, organizational management, personnel management
• Partnered with business units to support hiring initiatives and plan workforce needs to ensure timely access to resources
• Developed reports and led analysis for headcount, open requirements, talent supply, demand, management, backfills, development needs
• Decommissioned the Talent link and managed migration of data from Talent link to Open ERP
• Managed configuration of HCM system and employee self-service portal
• Partnered with procurement on contract negotiations and vendor management
• Built Confidential team to manage the design/ develop and implement the OpenERP for the Confidential
• Performed RCA (root cause analysis) to improve delivery of resources using six sigma techniques by improving the process flow and eliminating non value add process

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Confidential project for ERP
• Managed the project using agile methodologies, daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, demo and retrospective meetings
• Facilitated the daily standup meetings, sprint planning, Review meetings and maintained the burndown chart
• Facilitate project meetings involving Sr. Leadership, business /IT stakeholders

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Project Management deliverables including the Microsoft Project schedule, Charter, Scope, Kickoff, Contact List, project budget, project financial tracking, status reports, Project Change Requests
• Managed business client’s IT Project Portfolio.
• Presented project statuses and cost information to client executives
• Plan, execute, control and close project in agreed scope, budget, time and quality
• Interface with other IT and business organizations to reach agreement on scope, obtain resources as required
• Prepared BRD (business requirement document) and FRD (functional requirement document)
• Managed Unit testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, (UAT) User Acceptance testing based upon customer specifications
• Prepare proposal and respond to competitive bids/proposals, analysis of solicitations (IFB, RFQ, RFP, RFI)
• Successfully implemented various web based application(s) in scope, time and cost
• Documented lesson learnt in SharePoint