SUMMARY:

• Currently Senior IT Project Manager consulting at Wells Fargo with 1 6 years of intense and progressive IT experience.
• More than 8 years of experience in program and project management.
• Great communication and presentation skills.
• Proven experience in customer, business partner, and vendor interfacing for business requirements analyses, product assessments, and project service proposal evaluations.
• Great leadership, people, and project management skills to deliver complex projects within the challenging constraints.
• Have very good experience with project management methodologies of Waterfall and Agile development.
• Excellent fusion of business and technical skills bridging the gap between these two areas.
• Experience managing the onsite - offshore cross-functional team.

Key Accomplishments:

• Managed complex projects, clients, accounts, and crisis that were time-sensitive, highly confidential, and deadline-driven. Turned around many projects, generating significant accolades, testimonials, referrals, new business, and client appreciation.
• Lead many client projects with very aggressive dead-lines with utmost focus on quality of the deliverables. Developed and used standards that allow economies of scale and help keeps the project cost low.
• Highly skilled at building teams, designing, developing software products and deploying it to the customer's satisfaction.
• Highly skilled at interfacing with the customer and resolving their issues with a quick turnaround time.
• Demonstrated success many times under aggressive project schedules and deadlines. Flexible, result-oriented and adapt to the environment quickly to meet the goals of the product and the organization.
• Hardworking, enthusiastic and highly committed to the growth and success of the organization.
• Very quick and efficient in solving complex technical issues.
• Was chosen as one of the top 10 employees in the company as future potential leaders and underwent a certification program at Drake for Leadership Certification .

Skills

• Verticals Management, Software, Consulting, Manufacturing, Insurance, Automobiles, Education, Home Mortgage, Capital Markets
• Project Management SDLC, Agile, Microsoft Project, JIRA
• Version Control Source Safe, Git, Team Foundation Server
• Database MS SQL Server, Oracle
• Defect Tracking Track Studio, Rational Clear Quest
• Operating System Windows all versions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Tools:

• MS Project, Visio, MS Live meeting, Lync Live meeting, DataStage ETL, Teradata, SDLC, Agile, PlanView, Pac2000, ClearCase, Metadata, Data Warehouse, Micro strategy, SharePoint
• Managed a highly visible and mission critical multi-million dollar Agile project that includes multiple upstream and downstream dependencies across different business lines involving cross-functional teams across multiple geographies.
• Managed and led teams to deliver simple to complex business solutions by building up a Semantic layer housed on a Terra data platform.
• Managed a total of 10 Enterprise Data Warehouse projects at times managing 5 or more projects simultaneously.
• Managed projects using Waterfall as well as Agile methodologies.
• Managed project budget with a run rate of more than 3 MM per annum.
• Implemented processes that improved the collaboration and increased the speed to market.
• Identified issues/risks early in the project life cycle that helped mitigate the project risks and ensured timely delivery of the projects.
• Successfully negotiated difficult business situations to deliver IT solutions on time.
• Managed cross-functional team resources across different departments Data Analysts, QA team members, ETL resources, DBAs and Production Support team members.

Confidential

Tools:

• MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, SQL Server
• Responsible for leading technical teams to accomplish project work. Provided technical leadership and strategic direction.
• Initiated and implemented a framework for knowledge sharing and higher degree of collaboration.
• Liaison with business to requirements gathering.
• Led a team of 3-5 developers to implement IT solutions.
• Managed vendor relationship. Worked with them to define processes for data capture and availability to provide business solutions.

Confidential

• Used Agile for project management. Used JIRA to manage the product backlog, tasks assignments, project burn-down rate and for velocity tracking purposes.
• Key member of the internal customer team that decides the technology roadmap based on the client's business needs.
• Lead a team of developers to implement IT solutions for fortune 500 companies.
• Architected a reusable base template which improved project turn-around time, thereby resulting in increased efficiencies within the company and better ROI for the client companies.
• Mentored and trained developers in the team.
• Used to work in a fast paced project development environment.
• Performed configuration management to oversee the standards and implements process improvement methodologies.
• Part of the competitive intelligence committee that monitors the competing companies and interfaces with Sales to make sure our IT offerings are always steps ahead of the competition.
• Oversaw writing and maintenance of all unit and system testing plans.
• Planned and organized test case development, test execution, load testing, and performance tuning. Iowa State University Project Manager 2002-2005
• Managed a 5 million project agricultural marketing Web site for the state of Iowa.
• Used Waterfall methodology for system development.
• Defined and directed project goals, objectives, critical success factors, milestones, and risks.
• Proactively managed systems development, implementation and risk via the use of SDLC.
• Used MS Visio to create process flow charts.
• Mentored team members in project management methodology and encouraged best practice in project management and project planning.
• Build relationship, and maintain communication with stakeholders at various levels, including those external to the organization.

Confidential

• Implemented a bug-tracking software ClearQuest for a company of more than 5000 employees, which improved the tracking of the bugs, thus increased the productivity of the employees.
• Contributed to development effort and served as key technical resource.
• Migrated data across different platforms to merge disperse DBMS systems TRACK and OYNX into one, resulting in savings of several hundred thousand dollars.
• Integrated ClearQuest with ClearCase and prepared the user manual for training purposes.
• Used JavaScript to create windows explorer type tree structure and Crystal Report for creating complex reports.
• Client companies include fortune 500 companies like CISCO, Agile, and Paperloop.
• Delivered excellent customer service and gained respect of client management and end-users.

Confidential

• Lead a team of three developers and two web designers.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining system architecture.
• Assumed different roles of an architect, leader, developer, tester and successfully implemented IT solutions for client of different sizes.
• Performed code reviews.
• Played a key role in interfacing with client for requirement gathering and creating functional specifications.
• Created process flow charts and created database design.

Confidential

Lead quality circles that resulted in new ideas and motivated employees to think out of the box. Increased productivity by 15 by improvement in production planning and better coordination with internal suppliers and buyers. Managed a team of 50 people on the shop floor.