SUMMARY

• 18+ years’ experience in IT, leading large teams and managing successful full lifecycle implementations of Enterprise wide IT and ERP Systems and Software.
• Successfully managed the greenfield implementation of Finance SAPS/4HANA and integrations with Salesforce.
• Owned all BAU delivery and strategic initiatives for PMO within the client's various portfolios (multi - million annual budget) including 6 applications and 32 resources across multiple international locations (Texas, California, Canada, Mexico, India)
• Performed conversion from Iterative/Waterfall to Agile methodology (Scrum), while maintaining all service level agreements
• Responsible for project scoping, statement of works, acceptance, test criterion execution and sign-offs (i.e. reviewing technical feasibility proposals from customers Maintain continual contact with IS technology CoEs and alliance managers to stay informed of the latest initiatives, developments and capabilities.
• Transform concepts from Business owners and “productize” it internally and to customers.
• Assist IS teams in framing technology solutions into business terms Support Due Diligence and Contracting phases by identifying client-specific technology integration and unique technology requirements.
• Manage Scope, schedule, budget, CRs, resources, communications, and risks
• Develop and review project status and reports, including burn down charts and velocity diagrams
• Process customer schedules and reports to ensure all appropriate customer needs and expectations are mets
• Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies such as Backlog Grooming / Generation, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Backlog Refinement, and daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Review Meetings, and Sprint Retrospective Meetings
• Initiate and improve incident, change, and problem management processes.
• Identify Areas to Improve and plan for continuous Improvement plan.
• Monitor and maintain backlog & project tasks, Help create business cases, define project scope, goals and deliverables
• Managed a diverse Team of Business Analysts, Developers, Data Analysis and QA team
• Setting up effectiveKey Performance Indicators KPI(metrics) and Goals to individual and to the teams, reviewing those on annual and quarterly basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domain: Supply Chain Management, Energy, Finance, Cloud, Telecom, Automobile, Insurance, e-Commerce, Military (Navy), DevOps

ERP/COTS Applications: SAP, Supply Chain Management, Solution Manager, Salesforce and Pega Systems

Tools: /Application: HP-ALM, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, Oracle, MSSQL, TFS

Project Management Tools: MS-Project, Smartsheet, Confluence, JIRA and Rally

Methodology: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum), SAFe, TDD, ASAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Seattle, WA

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall Program Plan, budget, schedule and staffing requirements. Managing $15 million of business having 35+ team members both @Onshore and Offshore of Finance BU
• Managingprojectscomprising Data Architecture, variety of cross-functional resources from Functional consultants, Developers and Quality Analysts.
• Implementing Recycling Administration through Requirements Gathering, Scope definition, Configuration and Master data management
• As a scrum master to facilitate daily scrum meetings to track the progress of stories/tasks and clear impediments
• Facilitate Sprint Planning meeting to determine the product backlog items the team will work on during thesprintand discusses initialplanfor completing those product backlog items.
• Facilitate Sprint Review Meeting to demo completed stories to PO and other stakeholders and discuss the next work on the product backlog items
• Sprint Retrospective Meeting to discuss / inspect the positive outcome of the current sprint and area of improvements for the future sprints.
• Facilitated the effecting Product backlog refinement session to ensure stories estimated, added sufficient details, and planned
• Provide Agile(Scrum) training to Development team on process, best practices and tools
• Working with business to identify and guided to prepare product backlogs, areas for business process improvement and provided IT solution.
• Guided PMO office for IT process standardization and identify gaps in the processes which benefited organization.
• Coach and constantly improve the quality of Teams deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done
• Orchestrated for implementation of CRs right from initiation to transition for various requirements.
• Representing the project in front of CAB/CCB - Change Control Board for change control processing
• Worked closely with Security team on roll off of OSS Notes, user access and upgrade/enhancement/patch
• Documented user story, identify gaps, and participate in solution design for these features. Track their progress through and provide SME sign off on the final product. Track RICEFW objects and documentation till signoff
• Leads project meetings; identifies, documents and prioritizes scope changes and facilitates approval process; maintains and updates all project documents
• Managing the deliverables for Functional Areas/Resources also liaise with technical/development/functional team to understand the requirements, functionality and helping the team members with the same.
• Track and monitor project issues to be resolved openly and quickly. Escalate to the appropriate management level when necessary and help team to remove impediments.
• Participate in Cut Over Strategy to ensure a successful Go Live

Confidential, Saginaw, MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Define project timeline/milestones and track overall project progress using MS Project
• Serve as the project liaison to SAP development and lead communication with SAP Core Team.
• Facilitate cross-team issue resolution as related to program scope, timing and cost. Review development specifications for consistency across teams
• Oversee data migration and data cleansing, as well as legacy system integration
• Facilitate design approval to ensure business requirements that define the implementation are adequately addressed through SAP processes/functions, as well as interfaced legacy functionality
• Oversee the development of all training documentations
• Prepare All Hands meeting presentations and conduct as necessary
• Interface with all department managers to ensure requirements are being met.
• Ensure successful transition with all key stake holders; including training and production support
• Coordinate testing, training, and end user support for all sites in the United States to ensure all processes changes in the region were identified and tested, and that production support was in place
• Plan, coordinate and drive all integration testing activities, standardization and consistency of business functions/processes, business cutover and go-live readiness
• Develop project report presentations for Local Steering Group on a weekly and monthly basis, to update on project progress, as well as ensure the scope of project is being attained
• Ensure all business objectives and requirements that define the implementation are met.
• Conduct all Local Steering Group Meetings and coordinate stage gate sign offs as necessary.
• Develop Cut Over Strategy to ensure a successful Go Live.

Confidential, Simi Valley, CA

Agile Project Manager and

Responsibilities:

• Implement Change controls, follow up on changes, approve or deny the change requests, update the project plan in accordance with the change requests
• Preparing the estimation document for various tasks like Development, Testing, Implementation and Documentation
• Performed the transformation from Iterative/Waterfall to Agile methodology (Scrum), while maintaining all service level agreements
• Setup Agile Scrum Center of Excellence (CoE) and played scrum master role for multiple scrum teams
• Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review Meetings, to ensure stories/tasks are planned, completed on time and address issues
• Sprint Retrospective Meetings
• Facilitates organization level Agile Scrum best practice session to ensure adherence to the org process.
• Facilitated the effecting Product backlog refinement session to ensure stories estimated, added sufficient details, and planned
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Coordinating with Vendors to review and agree the data feeds for the new requirements
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments, if necessary, during project cycle.
• Provided metrics, status report, support and decision as appropriate during Enterprise wide implementations.
• Guide the team to document the requirement specification, high level design, low level design and test documents with good source of information
• Project intake Resource Tracking (Planning, forecasting and initiative on-boarding etc.)
• Coordinate with Line of Business, SA, BA, Dev and QA team during planning and execution phases

Confidential, Port Hueneme, CA

Petty Officer

Responsibilities:

• Provide advice, guidance, and expertise in information, command and control, and space systems through the planning, acquisition, operation, maintenance, and security of Naval network and the systems that support Navy operational and business processes
• Maintain technical proficiency across the cyber domain
• Help lead the Navy’s network warfare missions, developing tactics, techniques, and procedures to realize tactical, strategic, and business advantages afloat and ashore
• Trained to provide the critical secure communications links between ships at sea and units ashore.
• Help protect unclassified sensitive information related to the planning and execution of sensitive Government activities.
• Expeditionary Warfare training officer for Cargo Handling Battalion