SUMMARY

• Results and solutions - oriented professional with a successful 8+ years of software project development and management experience.
• Coordinated and managed projects, cross functional & distributed teams, dependencies, release activities and organized reports/dashboards in Agile/scrum environment
• Expertise in product and technology development, concept to delivery roadmaps, profit and performance improvement, operational excellence, shared services, offshore development and new market entry
• Collaborated with management teams to deliver assigned projects for Mobile Applications including Android and iPhone and Web Projects
• Identified the associated risks, potential bottlenecks and red flags. Planned mitigation strategies for resource deficiency, or story dependency on a third party
• Drove and facilitated focus groups, story grooming and retrospective (at later stage) sessions to understand and implement business and functional requirements of the platform project in agile/scrum environment
• Involved in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)including Planning, Scheduling, Budgeting, Resourcing, Tracking and Supporting adhering the PMP best practices
• Developed and initiated internal processes within teams using Agile/scrum methodology to improve program delivery within specific timeframes and used project templates and mentored teams to in corporate organized work style to improve performances in scrum environment
• Part of Stakeholder management, Change management, Release management, Risk management to improve the process
• Strong ability to analyze and prioritize projects, Creative thinker and problem solver. Effective communicator with executives, colleagues, clients, and customers

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Project
• MS Access
• Visio
• Sharepoint
• IBM Master Data Management
• Globala Data Synchronization
• SQL
• Ruby
• Oracle
• Clarity
• JIRA
• Version One
• Mingle
• Agile/Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in iteration planning, story walkthrough and story sizing meetings.
• Worked with team spread across globally and conducted daily stand up meetings
• Worked with internal groups to streamline development efforts, implementation process, increase collaboration and strengthen communication
• Coordinated with offshore teams in understanding requirements and priorities
• Worked with product owners to help maintain the product backlog emergent,prioritized and manageable
• Led Omni channel Projects such as Wallet, BOPS and Same Day Delivery
• Worked with Third party partners for integration projects such as Citi for credit Conversion Project, Amex for Plenti and Epsilon for E-mail Assembly project
• Monitored and tracked the progress of team’s deliverables in Version One
• Encouraged the team to come up with reusable elements and use best practices
• Protect the team from distractions by removing impediments at all levels of management
• Manage relationships with third party vendors through effective management of communications, appropriate documentation and time management
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused on making the applications more intuitive and interesting.
• Involved in Production Release Activities and responsible for SignOff’s on production
• Communicated project progress and other relevant information to project stakeholders
• Documented, implemented, monitored and enforced all processes and procedures are established as per standards of the organization.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prioritized issues and tasks for application team to work on software releases.
• Maintained effective communication with clients and STAR management and ensured project related information is transparent across groups.
• Coordinated, planned, and directed project activities and resources to ensure project goals are completed on time with optimum quality.
• Managed weekly software releases for the changes and new requirements.
• Prepared and maintained release management project plan.
• Analyzed and reviewed current state business processes and made recommendations for testing automation.
• Assisted in implementing application changes, and ensured the impacts to business are understood and accepted.
• Participated in design and product review sessions with developers and architects.
• Interface directly with product owners to identify, prioritize, define and execute business- driven project requests, organizing and fulfilling requests through regularly scheduled sprints.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and demonstrated walkthrough sessions with the project team.
• Analyzed requirements and coordinated with project stakeholders to make sure that the requirements are scripted completely.
• Planned, scheduled and facilitated the user acceptance sessions with business users.
• Supported and prioritized change requests across various teams based on available capacity.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate daily stand up, iteration planning and review meetings
• Analyzed business requirements and coordinated with end users for review sessions
• Analyzed functional specification document and reviewed requirements with business users to create SLA and negotiated the scope and changes as required
• Assessing business needs and performed GAP analysis
• Planned, scheduled and facilitated the user acceptance testing sessions with business users

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated prioritization and scope of business process improvement initiatives
• Provided status updates, training, and consulting to business stakeholders
• Developed detailed project plan
• Worked with development team to ensure proper understanding of requirements

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Project coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business team to understand business logic and end user requirements
• Monitoring the work of developers, team leads and business analysts
• Regularly held meetings with various stakeholders working on multiple projects
• Interacted with other project managers and team members to understand timelines of upstream dependencies