SUMMARY

• A strategic leader with a clear vision and the drive to succeed in all situations.
• I thrive in challenging situations and believe in leading from the front.
• I believe in collaborative and constructive work atmosphere and team work.
• More than 20 years of progressive experience in managing and leading cross - functional teams to successfully implement strategic IT solutions.
• Managing Program Portfolio, Quality Management and Leading team to deliver Enterprise IT solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Testing Tool: WinRunner7.0/7.6,QuickTestPro8.2/9.2. Microsoft Visio, eclipse, selenium

Bug Tracking Tools: Test Director 7.0/7.5, Quality Center, PVCS, ALM, Rally

Web Technology: Java, J2EE JSP, .Net, HTML, XML, JavaScript, VB Script & ASP.

Web/App Servers: Web Logic, Web Sphere, Java Web server (JWS)

Languages: C, C++, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Visual Basic 6.0, SQL, PL/SQL

Packages: MS - Office, SAP SD/MM/BI

Navigators: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, Ms-Access &SQL Server 6.5/7.0

Version Control Tools: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential | Tempe AZ

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Worked for the Program Quality delivery teams to achieve the objectives. Lead New acquisitions & mergers
• Sucessfully managed multiple projects worth 20MM
• Worked with multiple team like ( Risk, Legal & Compliance)
• Responsible for all KPI’s like tracking team capacity, financials, publishing progress reports
• Responsible for all PMO activities, key deliverables, RFC’s and Artifacts.
• Prepare project documentation, deliverables, finances, resource allocations
• Account for complete project lifecycle from inception to closure in Agile environment
• Coordinated effectively with stakeholders to drive the program. Worked in Building Roadmaps and delivery Plans
• Responsible for defining scope and budget for the Program.
• Responsible for Quality Management & Readiness
• Responsible in resolving & escalating Risks and impediments.
• Experience in People management.
• Develop strategy for clients in alignment with business plans
• Ran ongoing internal program meetings, including weekly status check-ins
• Provided program and project status reports to the project team and Business
• Timely interacting with Business, 3rd Party vendors and all the stakeholders. Maintaing the SOW’s of vendors.
• Worked with team for Agile implementation by setting up Strategy meetings,building out Roadmap,Release Plan, planning the sprints, standups, Retrospectives
• Managed working with Product Ownerin identifying product features responsible for maximizing return on investment (ROI) and translating the features into a prioritized list (Product Backlog) deciding which should be at the top of the list for the next Sprint, and continually re-prioritizing and refining the list (Refining the Backlog).
• Data analysis for continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Responsible to conduct data mining and data modeling, statistical analysis, trending
• Experience managing data technology projects and schedules within a software development lifecycle

Confidential | Phoenix AZ

ProGRAM Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hands on working in Ariba & SAP .
• Responsible for creation of Purchase requisition and working with different teams to mange Source to Pay purchase order.
• Worked as Scrum Master & Agile Coach.Responsible for Agile transformation of a Project
• Responsible for all project artifacts, budget,schedule,Risks etc
• Summarize and communicate functional area results, findings, issues and help needed.

Confidential | Phoenix AZ

Project Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Driving integrated teams to deliver technology solutions in support of key product initiatives by working closely with product owners, architects, engineers, and quality assurance
• Responsible for Working within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases
• Mentor as an Agile Coach in several Agile ceremonies with various teams
• Managing and tracking team capacity, financials, and other KPIs in relation to the plan and published progress reports
• Managing the Testing Team.
• Responsible for Assigning development resources to activities, and monitors performance across resource channels
• Responsible for Maintaining dependency plan between planned sprints across engineering, infrastructure, and third parties
• Managing, and appropriately escalates, delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the product development initiatives
• Responsible to perform hands-on reviews of product backlog, designs, code, test scripts, and results in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues
• Ensuring deliverables across engineering teams are high quality and clearly documented
• Identifying opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Initiating the continuous improvement opportunities
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues to track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Recommended measures of performance and mechanisms for monitoring program and policy effectiveness.
• Worked with the Product Owner in developing Responsibility Matrices for the Team Members periodically.
• Performed SOAP UI Testing using RESTClient and Import XML Calling Second Web Service to Store Data in Database by POST and GET Method.
• Developed and modify XML Schema for particular business flow.
• Handling the (onsite/offshore model), responsible for the testing and certifying the software applications as safe for deployment
• Experience on working on different tools - checking Logs using splunk, Maven, Jenkins, GIT (Stash), SOAP/REST, Lisa.
• Managed the Incidents (IMR) on timely basis based on severity of Incidents.
• Experience in performing and Managing RFC's and Artifacts.
• Worked on updating knowledge base (Confluence) on regular basis.

Confidential | Phoenix AZ

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall Management with respective stakeholders.
• Managed the teams across various modules PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Management), DME (Durable Medical Equipment), CSO (Customer Service Operations), DPAS (Drug Prior Authorization system), Claims processing, Members.
• Responsible for defining the scope and implementingbusinessrules of the project, gatheringbusinessrequirements and documentation.

Confidential | Sanford NC

Manager Everest SAP

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivering projects against agreed scope, budget, schedule & customer expectations. Doing this whilst supervising, directing & motivating teams of multi-discipline contractors & employees.
• Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.
• Worked in Agile and IterativeSAPMethodology.
• Worked in On Boarding New Product involving various team in SD, MM & FI modules

Confidential | Raleigh NC

Lead / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked to implement an internal fraud risk monitoring solution that will monitor monetary and non-monetary transactions and provide early notification of unusual activity based on a set of user-defined scenarios and policies
• Client interfacing and coordinating with team,providing plans, strategy for the project,status reports