SUMMARY

• PMP certified Project Manager experienced in defining and leading on - time deployment of complex technologies and business solutions to optimally support challenging organizational needs
• Solid experience and knowledge of business analysis, data analysis and project management best practices, SDLC methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and Scrum. Confident and poised in interactions with end users, team members and management with the ability to successfully influence and drive cross-functional teams
• Experience in implementation of PMO processes to ensure that the projects meet organizational goals and requirements

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, Scrum

Quality Assurance: Quality Management System (QMS), EtQ, eDM, Quality Center, Test Director, Bugzilla, JIRA

Business Applications: MS VISIO, MS Project, Outlook, SharePoint, Excel, Clarity, ALM, PowerBI, Project Online

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

EPMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed five projects from initiation to closing including application development/enhancement, system upgrade and securing non-standard devices in research portfolio
• Identified stakeholders to define scope and created project charter to maintain project’s scope
• Led cross-functional team meetings to create WBS and develop project plans in MS Project to track project’s activities, allocate budget and assign resources
• Partnered with technical teams to lead the upgrade of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) software, secure non-standard devices and create dashboards/metrics for the CEO to showcase revenue and financial business growth
• Conducted weekly project status meetings with the IT Research, BA and QA team to track progress, next steps, identify risks/issues and escalate to the management as needed
• Developed scorecards in PowerBI to track the progress of the projects and financial metrics for the leadership
• Created and reviewed external vendors SOW to utilize their services to maintain the budget in Project Online

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and analyzed Commodities and Global Markets portfolio with multiple workstreams including Algo deployment markets, Futures, Fixed Income, and Cash Equities to ensure that the PMO processes are implemented
• Defined project scope, develop budgets, created and maintained project plans, schedules, and roadmaps
• Conducted steering committee meetings with the project business sponsors, escalated issues/risks and provided IT business liaison to direct the team and updates project status in PPM Clarity
• Held weekly project status meetings with the team to track status update, next steps and issues/ risks
• Mapped and analyzed financial and cost management data in PowerBI, PPM Clarity and MS Excel to prepare budget forecast and variance for the teams across the portfolio
• Organized and maintained project artifacts such as project charter, project plan, change management processes and budget on the SharePoint for team collaboration and training

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Built credibility, established rapport and maintained communications with stakeholders and the project teams including IT Risk Management, Audit, Compliance and Algo markets deployment teams
• Created and maintained project plan in MS project, project budget and resource allocations in the PPM tool Prime
• Designed and maintained program repository for artifacts such as SharePoint for internal and external Audit review
• Held weekly status meetings with the cross functional teams to track deliverable status, identify risks and issues, resolve/mitigate issues and forecast budget including Capex/Opex
• Developed Steering Committee decks to communicate status of the project to the management and FRB bi-weekly
• Implemented and trained the IT Risk team to utilize a new PMO deliverable closure governance process to manage and expediate the audit process for regulatory reporting

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for partnering with the cross functional teams on the delivery of multiple strategic initiatives Designed governance structure for programs, identified work streams, maintained current data in Clarity and Jira tool that feeds the Portfolio Report/Dashboard while maintaining the SharePoint with program/project artifacts
• Processed change orders and attain signatures within Clarity tool for all scope changes, identified and maintain issues and risks within the Clarity tool and maintained risk register
• Provided coordination across IT teams, facilitated project meetings and captured meeting minutes/action items, identified dependencies and managed successful delivery of the projects

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established PMO processes as a broader center of excellence among various groups including Quality Management System (QMS), Clinical Affairs (CA) and Regulatory Affairs (RA) with $25M in assets
• Managed a global team of 6 PMO managers at new acquired sites to harmonize quality system
• Created organizational structure and functional breakdown using Business Process Model (BPMN)
• Supported all projects in the PMO globally including business, IT, quality, audit & compliance, and strategic initiatives to ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget
• Managed project risks, opportunities, and issues in order to develop resolutions to meet quality and timeline goals and objectives. Assisted in monitoring and improving project planning elements for various projects under integration

Confidential

Project Associate

Responsibilities:

• Created project plans to ensure that the all milestones are included in the plan and appropriate resources are assigned
• Tracked and backlogged issues or defects in ALM, JIRA and assisted developers and QA to resolve the issues
• Ran queries in SQL while migrating data from one application (COSMOS) to another application (Facets)
• Managed enterprise level applications in configuration and assisted 4 senior PM’s and 5 cross app PM’s on 18 Analysis & Development project billing applications ranging from $100K- 1M
• Communicated daily testing status scorecard for system integration testing, UAT, parallel and configuration testing to all stakeholders; ensured the timely resolution of all testing defects to enable an on-time completion of UAT

Confidential

Junior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and facilitate regularly scheduled project team meetings and monthly executive status meetings
• Conducted database maintenance and managed new reports in LIMS
• Interacted frequently with team, management and customers to define project requirements and identify solutions consistent with defined terms, methodology, policy, and regulations
• Workedeffectively with cross-functional teams, field resources and at times customers to manage assigned projects