PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) professional managing cross functional business demands and end to end delivery of multi - year Information technology initiatives in a complex, global company environment using industry standard Software development life cycles and tools for BFSI, Healthcare, Retail, Travel & Hospitality business partners.
• Practitioner of Agile methodologies (LeSS, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, FDD, TDD) and PMI knowledge areas and its underlined processes.
• Effectively leading complex system integration Information technology demands with help of globally dispersed onsite/offshore resources.
• Effectively managing business requirements (Charter, Prioritized Product backlog, BOW), Engagement Matrix, Cross-Impact Matrix, planned and actual budget.
• Liaison with leadership (MDs, EDs, SVP/VP), PMO, LOB SMEs, POs, Release management team.
• Effectively shared overall program status, health indicators (RAG, OTOB), metrics and financials.
• Contributed in documenting and executing contracts (RFP/RFI), SOWs and point of views (PoV).
• Leading cross functional teams, kick-offs, establish delivery schedules, managing interdependencies, facilitating Scrum of Scrums.
• Hands on industry standard demand management (JIRA, Clarity), project management, Release management, Defect management processes and tools.
• Hands on industry standard collaboration tools such as SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence, Outlook, Adobe Connect, Skype, Symphony, Web Conference and OneNote.
• Plan mitigation and contingency actions with steering committee by managing RAID (Risk, Assumption, Issues and Dependencies).
• Tracking delivery progress, reports status and makes necessary corrections to achieve program objectives
• Proactively escalate risks and issues to avoid impact on program objectives.
• Proactively manage scope creep by maintaining Change log and raising change requests.
• Effectively collaborated, motivated, mentored cross-functional solution delivery teams.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Technical exposure in managing Digital and mobile enablement, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Digital Asset Management (DAM) initiatives.

Technical exposure in managing Bigdata (Hadoop, Cloudera) and Data Analytics initiatives.

Technical exposure in managing Cloud computing platforms - SaaS (Salesforce, AWS), PaaS (AWS), IaaS (AWS).

Technical exposure in managing EDW, Data ingestion (Talend, Informatica, Ab-Initio, ODI) and Business Intelligence (Cognos 10.2, OBIEE, Microstrategy, Qlikview, Tableau) Master Data Management initiatives.

Hands on databases (Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, SQL Server), dimensional modelling, Data Analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Agile Project Manager

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Executing Digital initiatives for commercial business banking demands with help of T shaped scrum teams using LeSS framework.
• Delivering new digital features to commercial loan customers for easy accessibility and transact.
• Managing projects budget and financials for various demands using Project pipeline, Clarity PPM.
• Contributed in engagement assessments, impact analysis and resolving team interdependencies.
• Effectively collaborating with business partners, tribe leads, squads, Scrum Masters, Testing (IST & QA), release management as per PMO guidelines.
• Facilitated kickoff, backlog refinement, Scrum of scrums, weekly checkpoint, Go/No-go meetings.
• Contributed in finalizing Product backlog (Highlights, Epic, features and stories) and Charter.
• Ensuring MVPs are sequenced for Monthly Digital release and Quarterly Coordinated releases.
• Ensuring weekly project status reporting in compliance with PMO standards (Project financials, Status reports, Timesheet review) using Clarity.
• Managing project risks, risk response strategy to mitigate impact on scope, schedule and cost.
• Ensuring project issues/impediments/blockers are resolved or escalated on timely basis.
• Ensuring schedule and cost deviations are not impacting on time on budget (OTOB) indicators.
• Effectively managing project milestones, RAID, PTO, ITSM, Change requests.

Sr. Agile Project Manager

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Managed and executed cross functional initiatives in multivendor engagement.
• Managed project using Agile (adaptive) and Waterfall (predictive) solution life cycle.
• Managed project setup, projects budget and financials using CA Clarity PPM tool.
• Effectively collaborated with business partners, delivery and testing partners and PMO hierarchy.
• Contributing towards review and finalization of fixed bid SOWs with 3rd party vendors.
• Facilitated project kick-offs, weekly meetings, phase gate reviews and sign-offs meetings.
• Contributed towards finalization of Charter, business requirement, Solution requirements.
• Contributed towards engagement assessments after understanding interdependencies.
• Managed team assignment, effort estimates (ETC), work breakdown structure (WBS).
• In compliance with EPPM guidelines, managed project financials, team allocations, task assignment, status reporting and review of timesheet to avoid overbooking using Clarity.
• Effectively managed risks, issues and response strategies to mitigate impact on project baseline.
• Ensured project issues/impediments/blockers are resolved or escalated on timely basis.
• Ensured schedule and cost variances are not impacting OTOBOS indicators.
• Effectively managed project milestones, RAID, RACI, stakeholder register, PTB, PTO, CRs.

Engagement Delivery Manager

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Responsibilities:

• Executed fixed bid SOW as per milestone schedule, acceptance criteria and approved budget.
• Managed creation, review and approval of the project requirements.
• Managed and executed ETL and BI reporting initiative with help of geographically distributed team.
• Managed fixed bid engagement after finalizing SOW scope, milestones, acceptance criteria, costing.
• Established clear objectives and deliverables for the project that support the business needs.
• Collaborating and liaison with Sponsors, System Directors, Portfolio managers and technical team.
• Developed integrated development plan that represents the appropriate level of detail and task interdependency in alignment with overall project vision.
• Facilitated project kick-offs, weekly meetings, phase gate reviews and sign-offs meetings.
• Participated in finalization of business requirements and scope statement for ETL and BI effort.
• Ensured only approved changes are implemented to avoid scope creep.
• Performed technical review of effort estimation, dimensional data model and framework manager.
• Managed project financials, estimates, team tasks, weekly & monthly status reporting.
• Managed project risks, risk response strategy to mitigate impact on scope, schedule and cost.

Engagement Manager

Confidential, Neenah, WI

Responsibilities:

• Managed and executed global, cross functional projects.
• Established clear objectives and deliverables for the project that support the business needs.
• Managed creation, review and approval of the project requirements.
• Developed integrated development plan that represents the appropriate level of detail and task interdependency in alignment with overall project vision.
• Presented Big data Point of view (PoV) and proposed Big data Architecture, ingestion approach.
• Lead Discovery effort for 115 structured & un-structured data sources.
• Defined retention policy associated with the data and its attributes.
• Facilitated project kick-offs, weekly meetings, phase gate reviews and sign-offs meetings.
• Participated in architectural and data modeling review sessions.
• Managed risks and issues through effective contingency plans and proper escalation.
• Established change management process to avoid scope creep.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Lead ETL effort involving 115 data sources using Ab-Initio and Informatica ETL tools.
• Managed mid- sized geographically distributed team in multivendor engagement.
• Managed projects both using Waterfall Iterative & Agile-Scrum solution life cycle.
• Managed capital & operating projects budget and financials using CA Clarity PPM tool.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and ensure team impediments are resolved on timely basis.
• Managed deployment events (ITSM) and ensured deliverables are released as per release plan.
• Managed team assignments, effort estimates and weekly status reporting using CA PPM.
• Collaborated with LOB partners, Solution Architects, Data modeler, ETL and BI and testing team
• Managed project risks to mitigate impact on scope, schedule and cost.
• Ensured project issues are escalated on timely basis to avoid impact to project.
• Performed timesheet review and reconciliation to avoid overcharging and misuse of project budget.
• Certified data elements to ensure BASEL Committee on Banking Supervision mandates are fulfilled.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Responsibilities:

• Lead ETL effort (~ 50 copybook feeds) using Ab-Initio tools.
• Rationalization of ~ 42 legacy reports into Cognos SDK canned report & dashboard.
• Designed automated ETL framework to load summarized transactions in Netezza (~ 2.5 billion).
• Designed workflow to generate IRS 1099K Sales Summaries report.
• Designed automated monthly extraction process based on Merchant request file.
• Lead ETL effort for financial data mart (incl. Customer, Product, Activity and Revenue subject areas) fed from data vault (enterprise level data repository) and MDM for merchant profile reporting.
• Designed and implemented report scheduling proof of concept using Cognos SDK.
• Effectively managed Team Task, risk register, Issue logs and change requests.
• Status reporting (incl. s, planned activities, risks, issues) with stakeholders.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Contributed during requirement gathering, defining Solution requirements, testing strategies.
• Effectively managed onsite/offshore team, costing, forecasting and invoicing.
• Mentored team in resolving performance bottlenecks of aggregates load (used for visualization).
• Contributed towards change management and quality compliance processes.
• Effectively managed Team Task, risk register, Issue logs.
• Reviewed project required evidences and performed verification of team deliverables.
• Status reporting (incl. s, planned activities, risks, issues) with stakeholders.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed project starting from inception till closure.
• Contributed in designing dimensional data model as per reporting requirement.
• Contributed in designing data synchronization workflows.
• Ensured BI reports are in line with mockups and metadata.
• Ensured quality deliverables adhering to SDLC process with proper documentations.
• Reviewed project required evidences and performed verification of team deliverables.
• Maintained Issue logs, Risk register and ensured timely resolution and mitigation.
• Contributed towards hiring events, interview and defined quality compliance processes.

Engagement Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Contributed towards multiyear outsourcing RFPs, RFIs, Knowledge transition activities.
• Managed DWBI engagement with help of onsite/offshore team.
• Proposed various solutions to customers and implemented approved solutions.
• Reviewed project required evidences and performed verification of team deliverables.
• Maintained Issue logs, Risk register and ensured timely resolution and mitigation.
• Managed project financials, estimates, team tasks, status reporting