SUMMARY

• Highly Experienced IT Project Manager / Program Manager / Techno - Functional Manager. Extensive experience managing multimillion-dollar IT programs, projects, portfolios and process improvement initiatives from conception through completion.
• Well-developed skills driving project initiation, scope definition, execution, monitoring, coordinating with business partners and multiple technology teams, scheduling deliverables and tasks, managing budgets, and providing cross-functional leadership across various teams.
• Dedicated leader with good communication skills and a proven track record of success - completing complex technical projects on time and within budget using Waterfall and Scrum framework following agile methodology.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Technical Project Management
• Application Development Manager
• Agile, Waterfall, Scrum Framework
• Program Management
• Infrastructure Project Management
• IT Implementations
• Portfolio & Account Management
• Transition & Transformation Management
• Implementing Process Improvements
• Budget Management
• Managing Onsite & Offshore Teams
• Production Support
• Resource Management
• Various Business Domain Exposure
• Risk & Issue Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Federal & State Reporting of Educational Student Data and Organizational Entity Management System in Agile Methodology
• Responsible for Planning, Analysis, Modelling, Mapping of approx. 180 reports for various Program Areas within Department of Education to be delivered to Federal & State Reporting System.
• Responsible for Analyzing pain points of current Organizational Entity Management System and leading re-design effort within IT department along with Business Stake Holders.
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, risks, issues & other compliance aspects of the project.
• Responsible for Development, Enhancement and Maintenance of Configurable Connector Pipeline, which is a multi-step process to convert various Student Information Systems into OneRoster format.
• Convert Clever formatted files to RenSimplified format.
• Create demo sites with anonymized data (demo sites populated with “Real” data, but dis-associated with original users)
• Reverse Migration of data from AWS environment to Renaissance Data Centers for Legacy Applications.
• Coordinate Performance Testing in AWS environment.

Confidential Te

Project/ Program / Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to deliver new & highly complex solution through entire lifecycle of the project starting from Concept to Release. (Concept->Planning->Analyze->Design->Build->Unit Test->Integration Test->Stress Test ->UAT ->Release->Warranty->Maintenance) and Agile Methodology
• Translate customer needs into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including development and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Coordinate Sprint backlog, Product Backlog & Program Release Increment with Product Owner.
• Conduct daily standup as Scrum Master for various products, remove impediments, manage & estimate product stories, improve team velocity and conduct retrospectives.
• Lead & Manage Onshore & Offshore Teams
• Confidential internal compliance processes like Technical Due Care(TDC), Joint Architecture & Design Review(JADR), Disaster Recovery(DR), Vulnerability & Threat Assessments (VTA), Security Gap Analysis(SGA), Physical Site Review(PSR) & Other security processes(SAR)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Investigate & understand feature & functionalities of Loyalty Coalition product (a.k.a. PAYBACK)
• Being part of PMO team, create and implement the processes for the new organization that was created for USLC.
• Work with various Stakeholders (Business Team, Delivery Team, Infrastructure team etc) on project planning and create high level Milestones.
• Work with Business Team on User Stories/EPICs for the US Market Launch

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Customer Engagement & Validate Transition Scope as per Statement of Work / Contract
• Transition Resource Planning & On-boarding
• Educate Client & Transition Team on Transition Methodology.
• Application Knowledge Transfer Planning & Execution
• Setup Delivery Process & Delivery Team/s
• Identify Application Migration Stakeholders & Setup Application Migration Teams
• Create Knowledge Transfer Plan & Coordinate Knowledge Transfer Sessions.
• Evaluate Knowledge Transfer Sessions (Feedback from Trainer & Trainees)
• Identify, Mitigate, Manage & Report - Risks & Issues
• Lead & Manage Onshore & Offshore Teams during Transition Phases

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage day to day operations at ASE including Backup/Recovery, Setup Environment for Mock Trading to Test Enhancements, Production deployments.
• Customize Application (Stock Exchange) parameters, Analyze Application and System Software performance and customize for optimal performance, deploy software patches and generate market statistics.
• Gather Requirements from ASE Board (Members/ Brokers) and Managing Relationship with ASE customer.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Feasibility Study and creation of System Requirement Specifications.
• Task & Schedule Planning, Development (2 Complex Modules), Code Review
• Creation of test data, test cases, data scripts, traceability matrix, user manual, test execution of Forms & Reports created by team members.
• Coordinate, Identify & develop common Stored Procedures and Functions used across modules.
• Responsible for designing & enforcing coding standards.