SUMMARY

• Over 16 years of total experience as Project Manager/Lead/Developer
• Over 8 years of experience in Program and Project Management, PMO
• Project Manager PMP with credentials of managing $20 Million dollar Oil & Gas Software and Hardware programs from initiation till completion.
• Have proven track record of successful project delivery across multiple projects, sizes and multi - million dollar new product launches.
• Demonstrable experience using cross-functional communication between globally diverse virtual teams.
• Adopted multiple project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile SCRUM, Stage-Gate) to deliver on budget and on schedule implementations.
• Have vast domain expertise - Oil & Gas, Energy and Software.
• Pro-actively manage project risks and issues and minimize their impact on the project. Regularly communicate project expectations to stakeholders.
• Implemented the Change Management process as outlined by D&E PMO.
• As part of PMO, managed business data - includes resources and their skills, project spend, hours reported, resource plans, Product Revenue plans.
• Negotiate use of resources in a matrix management environment.
• Coordinate project reporting, project reviews and project steering meetings.
• Possess excellent leadership quality with good communication skills.
• Proven experience as Manager/Lead/Programmer in all phases of SDLC Design, Development, Testing and Implementation in .Net, C#, UNIX Internals, XML, Shell Scripting, C++, C, E-Commerce websites and Application Software.
• Masters in Computer Science
• Companies worked - Confidential, Confidential and Confidential

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technology Specialization: C#, .NET, ASP.NET, XML, AJAX, Win Forms 2.0, Web Forms, Web Services, C, C++, Java, XMotif, Xlib, XML, WITSML

Tools: Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel (Pivot, VLOOKUP, Macros), PowerPoint, Word, MS Office 2013, Clarity, SAP, SharePoint, Visio

Scripting: Shell Scripting, JavaScript

Methodologies: .NET based Design Patterns, Object Oriented Design, Agile SCRUM, Waterfall

OS/Web Servers: AIX, LINUX, Windows, IIS 6.0/5.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary accountability as Program Manager to plan and deploy the entire Windows 8 migration program.
• Supervise the individual deployment projects and resolve the dependencies.
• Devised the entire migration process to fulfill the needs of all stakeholders.
• Streamline the processes and project templates to certify all Confidential ’s business and user applications to be compatible with Windows 8.
• Drafted the program plan, schedules and resource management plan.
• Instrumental in setting up the team and hiring the Project Managers to deliver the individual deployments.
• Prepared the budget and forecasted the progress on weekly basis to the executive team
• Efficient in monitoring and identifying road blocks, risk and resolving the issues to minimize the impact.
• Involved in Vendor Management including Vendor selection, drafting SOW and finalizing the contracts.
• Prepared the communication plan and initiated required process change requests.
• Cached and mentored Project Managers to deliver the deployments in most efficient manner
• Devised the training plan, transition plan, communication plan and migration plan.
• Introduced the new Change Management process to handle changes
• Setup the new Depot process where the Depots are setup at each major locations to migrate 100 PCs per day to speed up the deployment.
• Conducted weekly status meeting with each Project Manager to review the progress and provide the support to remove impediments.

Project Manager, PMO

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with 3rd party vendor Inetelex to re-customize and develop their application to Confidential HSE standards.
• Primary accountability from initiation till completion.
• Drafted the detailed project plan, scope, WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), budget, schedule, vendor management plan, Risk Management plan and stakeholder management plan.
• Planned and executed the needed in house development for all SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) phases to automate Human Resource and Claims data import using Oracle and SQL databases.
• Instrumental in work allocations, execution, weekly and monthly status reporting, cost forecasting to executive team, stakeholders and performing day to day communication and project management activities
• Adhered to water fall methodology outlined by PMO
• Prepared the communication plan and initiated required process change requests.
• Drafted the roll out plan to migrate Confidential Corporation from legacy HSE tool to Intelex.
• Handling resource allocations in matrix organization.
• Guiding and preparing all project related artifacts like Detailed Design document, Software Requirement Specifications, Test plans with Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Issue logs and Lessons Learned etc.
• Instrumental in project execution and status reporting to all stakeholders.

Project Manager, Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Oversee staff and coordinate with 3rd party vendor to design and construction of a new website
• Primary accountability from initiation till completion.
• Drafted project charter and project plan.
• Completed the requirement gathering and instrumental in outlining the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) for the project.
• Negotiating the contract with 3rd party and formulated the RFP and SOW.
• Streamlining the Project Management process for planning and cost forecasting.
• Defined the Change Management Process - templates for Change Requests (CR) and submission process and setup up the CCB.
• Setting up and lead both Offshore and Onsite teams.
• Applied Agile (SCRUM) methodology to develop this web application using .Net technologies.
• Coached the junior project manager on software development best practices.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead projects size 25 people spread amongst multiple technology centers worldwide to deliver drilling and evaluation Software and Hardware project including control, data acquisition, visualization and production logging
• Instrumental in defining scope and objectives with the help of all stakeholders, business requirement gathering, project planning, estimation, budgeting, scheduling, execution and monitoring
• Coordinate with all functional teams - Requirements, Development, System Test and Field Test teams to meet the Business requirements with effective communication.
• Drafted the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) for projects
• Planned, executed and delivered projects that comprises all phases of SDLC.
• Drafted the Request For Proposal (RFP) for WellLink Radar.
• Instrumental as project manager in decision making and problem solving.
• Effectively used Earned Value Management for cost forecasting
• Adhere to Change Management process of PMO and communicate proactively and carry forward the changes approved by CCB to minimize the impact on Scope, Cost and Schedule.
• Added to new process improvements to Baker Change Management Process as part of continuous improvement.
• Setting up the Offshore and Onsite model and detailing SOW (Statement of Work) with 3rd party companies.
• Making sure project to adhere to Stage Gate process. Comply with all PMO practices. Delivering it on-time and on budget
• Resource allocation and management of onsite and offshore teams in matrix organization
• Responsible for integrity of the collected information. Producing and distributing reports, KPIs, CPI, SPI, Dashboard to Executive team.
• Prepared the templates for Risk Register, Project Plan, Prioritization of projects in Baker Portfolio.
• Negotiating the contracts with external vendors
• Applied proven project management methodologies and Agile (SCRUM) methodologies to deliver software projects with .Net technologies. Executed projects that comprises all phases of SDLC.
• Motivated and empowered project team members to solve problems in an evolving corporate culture
• Minimizing the company’s exposure to risk and financial loss during the project lifecycle.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Project Planning, Devising the Communication Plan
• Ensure business requirements are suitably defined, understood and signed off.
• Scope management, Estimation, project execution as per Confidential PDM process outlined by PMO with successful delivery on-time.
• Evaluate the impacts of the changes and get them approved by CCB and implement the solutions as part of Change Management Process.
• Facilitate and bridging the gaps in functional teams, taking proactive steps to meet Conceptual, Detailed, Release to Acceptance and Release to Launch Design reviews as per the direction of Chief Engineer and successfully passing the gates
• Resource allocation from the onsite and offshore resource pool
• Conducting Daily Standup meetings
• Single point accountability from project initiation till completion.
• Involved in Design, Development of Reporting Software that uses WPF, WCF, WITSML, XML and web services.
• Setting up the Project team size 10 both in onsite and Offshore.
• Maintaining and completing Project Key Performance Indicators.
• Mentoring and assisting the project team to develop their skills
• Evaluating Individual and Team Performances

Project Manager

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• As Project Manager, effective in leading the software team to Design and Develop User Interface using ASP.NET to deliver Automation Test Framework.
• Instrumental in Resource Management, task allocation, scheduling, planning and execution
• Identifying key project risks, whether stated or not, and managing them to resolution or escalating them accordingly.
• Setting project budgets and monitoring velocity of the team.
• Lead and assist the team to perform the design and development of software tools for Energy industry for Day Ahead Market that includes the following:
• Gathering requirement specifications.
• Designing the application screens, Business Logic Components - extensively used C#, .Net, AJAX, Java Script.
• Involved in creating complex PL/SQL statements, Views, triggers and Stored Procedures
• Applied OOAD methodologies
• Work with Business Users and team managers to develop system requirements, analyze data elements.

Onsite Supervisor, Project Lead, Developer

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Technical and Process related leadership and coordination activities with 15 member on-site and 50 member offshore teams. Providing an effective interface between the customer and offshore team.
• Prepared yearly project work allocation - fall plan and hardware - capital plan
• Key role in decision making for FVT requirements and influence the design decisions of the team to establish consistency across the testcases for different kernel components.
• Extensively used C and Shell programming and System Calls to develop testcases for AIX kernel features to improve test coverage efficiency for AIX Kernel.
• Drive bug triage meetings and meet with developers to drive important issues to resolution. Drive Stand up, walk through & review sessions.
• Parameterized the functions and enhanced them according to the test case.
• Execute Test scripts and responsible to track and log the defects using CMVC commands
• Drafted Traceability Matrices, Use Cases and Test Scripts