SUMMARY:

• PMP, Professional Scrum Master (PSM, CSM) and ITIL (IT infrastructure library) V3 certified.
• Deliver projects (Software and Infrastructure) meeting stakeholders’ expectations; work with businesses and technology ensuring business requirements are developed and implemented as per scope, schedule and budget.
• Release management: take holistic view considering all aspects to include ‘Plan, Design, build, Test and deploy’ activities.
• Process re - engineering, Change management, Vendor selection and vendor management.

SKILLS:

SharePoint 2010 for Project Management

Certified Scrum Master/ Practitioner

ITIL Foundation certification V3

Microsoft Certified Professional

.Net windows/ web development

Mastering Internet and LAN security

Advanced MS Access / VBA / MS Excel

Firewall and Internet Security

Visual Basic / MS Access

Disaster recovery process and planning

SPSS (Statistical analysis

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies\Frame work: Agile (Scrum, XP, TDD), PMBOK (PMI) as an overarching umbrella Project/ program management, Sprint Planning & Execution. Tracking & monitoring project focal points i.e. scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, issues and extensive communication at all levels.

Tools: SharePoint 2007, MS Project, MS Office suite, Salesforce.com (CRM), Team Foundation server (TFS), Quality center, Rally Life cycle management

Technology: Microsoft ASP.Net, C#, VB.Net, SQL server. Oracle, Java, Open source, Web Logic, MAXIMO Asset Management7.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Lead Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead a process assessment analysis for business/ IT processes Improvement (Vision->Current->Desired->Gap Analysis-> strategy to desired-> matrices)
• Serve as a coach/ Instructor for agile / process Improvement to multiple teams
• Helping transition traditional (Waterfall) to agile scrum and KanBan as appropriate through the organization aligning with the company environments and culture.
• Conducted a Scrum pilot project followed by managing two teams with team growth and split strategy.
• Continual service improvement - Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle
• Helped in transitioning to agile framework. Delivered working software in shorter durations practicing collaboration, transparency, Agile best practicing rules and principles, empirical process aligning business to the methodologies instead force- fitting methodology to a project.
• Mentored and coached project leads and teams standardizing Agile SDLC (Requirements analysis, solution\ architecture design, develop, QA, staging and deployment) as per company environments and culture.
• Worked collaboratively with business and IT teams, prepared RFPs, establish vendor selection criteria/ vendor management, develop project plans, conduct project status meetings and ensured project deliverables were met

Confidential

Sr. PMO Director Agile project Manager/ Scrum Master/ Coach

Responsibilities:

• Managing 10 teams for scrum for an ERP development solution.
• Worked with product owner to help clarify features to the team for sprint and product backlog.
• Ensured the teams adhere to scrum practices and understand agile empirical process controls
• Worked with teams to make them self-organized and take the ownership of the sprints and decisions.
• Facilitated Scrum events (daily stand-ups, Sprint planning, reviews, retrospective). Help team learn identify dysfunctions and finding ways to improve productivity and professional self-fulfillment.
• Conducted training workshops for development teams and management for Scrum.
• Facilitate agile processes, help define iterations, release plans, product and sprint planning
• Monitor status; conduct daily/ weekly, monthly meetings and presentations to Management
• Look for risks, plan mitigation, remove team impediments and ensure focus on deliverables

Confidential

Sr. PMO Project Manager/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Manage 10 scrum teams for mentoring scrum rules/ events and practices (core values/ daily scrums, reviews, retrospective)
• Coordinate and resolve issues reaching out to internal and external teams.
• Empowering scrum team to take the ownership of the deliverables
• Work with business units to define features and user stories. - Requirements gathering, work flow, prototypes and Sprint and release estimation
• Coach agile concepts and apply collaboration to all aspects of project.
• Hold weekly status meetings with the management to apprise them of risks, issues and budget update.
• Track schedule, cost, issues, risk, quality and other project management processes with an agile mindset.
• Helped in transitioning to agile framework. Delivered working software in shorter durations practicing collaboration, transparency, Agile best practicing rules and principles, empirical process aligning business to the methodologies instead force- fitting methodology to a project.
• Managed full life cycle development with dispersed team following scrum framework
• Coordinate quality assurance and test plans throughout the project and product life cycle

Confidential, NYC

Senior Principal Consulting Assignment

Responsibilities:

• Provide senior leadership to all Project Managers (PMs) with a focus on project methodology; consisting of standard processes, tools and templates for all projects
• Collaborate with the business leaders throughout the organization to ensure projects align with the business strategy with the appropriate ROI
• Define and implemented policies standard and procedures for SDLC process that reduced development re-work efforts by 90% for offshore development.
• Key partner in leading and managing governance to ensure Business Program Advisors and functional work stream leads needs are addressed on all fronts for project and portfolio management.
• Coordinates and conducts regular meetings to review projects, resolve escalated issues and address risks
• Shape up and implement best practices, project management standards, and collaborate with other Enterprise functions to enhance project and portfolio capabilities.
• Resolves conflicts regarding resource allocation, seeking resolution internally and externally when necessary Oversees that all project budgets are created and tracked against costs, ensuring that project expenditures are communicated to the business units and corporate, per the established reporting process

Confidential, Laurel, NJ

Director of Services Consulting Assignment

Responsibilities:

• Work with business customers in order to recognize opportunities to improve processes through the use of technology. While maintaining a working relationship with a customer group in order to ensure that customer needs are well understood and addressed in the most efficient way possible.
• Serve as primary point of contact for all system/software changes and upgrades.
• Responsible for managing technical programming and testing resources and compliance auditing team.
• Act as the customer advocate in the prioritization and development of system enhancements and the resolution of data/performance issues of REIT system
• Accountable for the entire project lifecycle, including definition, planning, execution, and deployment. Ensure all projects are successfully delivered on-time, within budget, and to customer specifications.
• Develop work estimates, work breakdown structures and the project work plan.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and successfully manage changes in project scope, schedule, and personnel. Makes recommendations on solutions to management and leadership team. Negotiate, set, and manage stake holder's expectations. Ensures project objectives are set and roles of team members are clear.
• Proactively manage and communicate project risks and issues. Makes recommendations to teams with issues / barriers to continue project. Recommends solutions to conflicts, issues between multiple teams.
• Monitor and review team outputs and hold them accountable for commitments.

Confidential, NYC.

Sr. Business Analysis / Change Management Consulting Assignment

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, direction, and mentoring for the Business Systems Analyst management team in the execution of the solution delivery process across the enterprise project portfolio.
• Plan, execute, monitor and control the road map for the Business Systems Analyst team.
• Coordinating with the groups of business unit who test, validate, evaluate new applications and functions, and determine issues in services and software
• Obtain sign-off from key stakeholders on the requirements, and manage on-going changes
• Follow Client SDLC processes, documentation standards and best practices to produce deliverables.
• Analyze and define requirements for the acquisition and consolidation of all Data Requirements for Metrics, Data Analytics, Match Engine, Dashboard, and coordinate with Operations and Technology team

Confidential, NYC.

Vice President of Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 37 Quality Assurance analysts achieve performance goals. While applying people management skills including resolving conflict, coaching and promoting teamwork while delivering project milestones.
• Own documentation that communicates the standards and procedures of QA automation
• Strategize and manage the entire quality engineering lifecycle for Cvent’s product offerings, ensuring that products meet & exceed customer requirements, while maintaining the organizational flexibility to respond to changing needs
• Collaborate with management to define and communicate overall technology departmental goals and engineering priorities
• Implement, gather, and report team and project metrics which demonstrate business value and show continuous improvement
• Communicate with Project Management team to drive engineering projects to meet expected deadlines and to establish project plans that integrate with and support business objectives
• Help grow the organization through effective hiring, coaching and development of globally distributed team members