SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of active work experience in Project Management, IT Applications, QA, Agile Coaching and as Scrum Master.
• 10+ years of experience in End - to-End Development / Delivery across all phases of SDLC.
• 10+ years of experience in handling multiple complex and commercial level project ranging from $50K to $ 20M.
• 8+ years of experience in working with CEOs, members of account department, product owners, different stakeholders, clients or their representatives, developers, chief architects and application engineers.
• 8+ years of work experience for incorporating and on boarding third party vendor applications.
• 7+ years of experience in working with subject matter experts (SME), business analysts (BI) and business system analysts (BSI) to design and develop project plans, technical and business scope and approach, multiple documents of varying nature such as, but not limited to RFP (Request for Proposals) and Proof of initial concept and deliverables.
• 7+ years of experience in preparing action plans, setting up goals, allocating resources, monitoring project budgets and integrating cross-functional team activities.
• 7+ years of experience incoaching and staff to improve customer and client experience.
• 7+ years of experience in working with different SW development models such as Agile, Waterfall, RAD, XP Programming.
• 8+ years of experience in running cross-functional teams as 'Scrum Master' and/or 'Agile Coach' on multiple projects in parallel.
• 7+ years of experience in hiring new staff, bringing contractual engineers on multiple projects, technical mentoring of new hires and SW development and QA test teams through knowledge transformation and performance management.
• Experience in multiple industries including, but not limited to, E-Commerce, telecommunication, healthcare, criminal justice, law enforcement, and financial, banking and insurance industries etc.
• Strong understanding of standards, limitations and recommendations of SEC (Securities Exchange Commission), ANSI (American National Standard Institute) codes and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).
• Experience and firm understanding of E-Commerce Business Applications, mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply and inventory chain management etc.
• Strong understanding of all phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) such as analysis, design, implementation, testing, execution, reporting, delivery, production, post release, support and maintenance etc.
• Hands-on experience in Microsoft Technology and Web Portal Management.
• Experience in deciding and recommending SW & HW Engineering Tools of varying nature for implementation.
• Sound experience in dealing risk perceptions, risk analysis and risk management at organizational, technical and legal levels as well as external suppliers and vendors.
• Experience in working with all 5 maturity levels of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).
• Sound understanding of Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM) and Process Enterprise Maturity Model (PEMM)
• Experience in Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and Prince 2.
• Experience in managing Enterprise Level Multi Million accounts/partnerships.
• Capable of making right decisions at right time within my scope of authority.
• Experience in facilitating Steering Committee Meetings and technical communications varying in nature and outcome.
• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Believe in working with all team members very closely to make most challenging items as less challenging and deliver products on time successfully.
• Ability to bring project to successful completion through political sensitivity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System (OS): Windows, UNIX, LINUX, Android, iOS Platform

ERP & EAM Tools: Meximo, Logica, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials and multiple others.

SDLC Models: Agile, Waterfall, RAD, XP Programming, ALM, Kanban etc.

Software Test Tools: Selenium, HP QTP10/11, HP, HP QC10/11, LoadRunner, jMeter

Test Management Tools: HP QC10/11, MTM, TFS, Tarantula, QA Book

Defect Tracking Tools: HP QC10/11, Bugzilla, JIRA, Mantis etc.

Documentation Tools: SharePoint 2013, MS Office 2010, 2012, 2013, MS Visio

Project Management Tools: Project Professional 2013, Version 1, Projecturf, Wiki etc

Agile Life Cycle Management Tools: Rally, ScrumWorks Pro

Reporting Tool: Rally, Crystal Reports, Version 1

Requirement Management Tools: Rally, Version 1, QA Book, IBM DOORs.

Databases: Oracle, SQL, MySQL, ORACLE, MS Access, RDBMS/DB2

Development Tools: TOAD (Tools for Oracle Application Development)

Web Technologies: Web APIs, CSS, HTML, XML

Application Servers: J2EE based servers such as JBOSS, WebSphere 6.0 & 8.0

Software Frameworks: .Net, Active X, JAVA etc.

Scripting/Programming Languages: VB Script, SQL, JAVA

Browsers: IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and multiple others.

Networking Environments and Protocols: Ethernet, TCP/IP, VPN, RPC, HTTP, HTTPS, RTP, RTSP etc.

Multiple: MS Office Suites, JAVA Software Platform, SAO Architecture, multiple IDEs, Web Applications, .NET, C++, C#, OOAD SAO, Restful Services, Web Based Applications etc.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

• Excellent analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Excellent Problem Solving Skills
• Cross-Functional Supervision
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Client Relations & Presentations
• Business & IT Planning
• Customer-Relations and Vendor Management
• Requirements and ROI Analysis
• Costing & Budgeting
• Project Scheduling
• Development Support
• Testing and QA Support
• Production Roll Out and Maintenance
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work as team member.
• Ability to delegate responsibilities
• Captivating ability to learn and apply new technologies
• Software Engineering Economics and IT Principles

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Tigard, OR

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Meet financial objectives by forecastingrequirements, preparing annual budget, generating expense reports, analyzing variances and initiating corrective actions for JAVA, C# and .Net oriented projects.
• Manage projects oriented to Fixed Income, Obligatory Payments, E-Commerce, Trade-Order Management Applications etc.
• Identify the specific activities and milestone, determine proper sequence of activities, estimate the time required for each activity, determine the critical path, ES, EF, LS, LF and slack time.
• In corporate and bring Fixed Income third party vendor applications and suppliers products on board.
• Use Microsoft Project Professional 2013 for project details, overview and reporting.
• Use SharePoint 2013 for managing a range of documentation.
• Allocate resources and tasks to SW Development Teams and QA Test Engineers.
• Work with multiple databases such as ORACLE, SQL, RDBMS/DB2.
• Work with Rally Software to create user stories and use cases.
• Use Rally to plan and write test cases and manage test case results.
• Use Rally for backlog grooming and release management.
• Supervise teams in Agile and Waterfall Environments.
• Review and provide feedback on internal and external software documents.
• Manage BRDs and monitor Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure that all functionality is met as per specifications.
• Perform risk analysis and feasibility study to in corporate new tools and services.
• Mitigate risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data.
• Identify, continuously monitor and review risk factors. Utilize mechanisms to minimize risks throughout the entire life cycle of the projects.
• Coordinate Steering Committee Meeting and facilitate members in making strategic decisions.
• Prepare, contribute and/or modify RFP (Request for Proposals) and SOW (Statement of Work).
• Provide technical and business related guidance to chief architects, and design engineers to strategize design plans and engineering work flows.
• Work with members of account department and clients to take care of billable requirements, software features and functionality developed.
• Operate within financial and resource constraints and manages project dependencies within the program and build the program team.
• Ensure that contracts of multiple vendors, relationships with customers and formal and informal technical communications are all well managed.
• Prepare and deliver formal technical presentations to customers, clients, multiple stakeholders and higher management and authorities.
• Advise customers on various technical and business aspects throughout the lifecycle of project.
• Facilitate clients during UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and OAT (Operation Acceptance Testing), Product Verification and Validation.
• Anticipate and manage changes effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Experience in working with SMEs and Business Analysts on use cases, user stories, business case scenarios, MRDs, BRDs, FRDs and SDDs.
• Experience in working with development engineers and design analysts on architectural design diagrams and workflows for complex systems before and during development procedure and manual and automated SW test procedures.
• Experience in working with Test Managers and QA Teams on designing and developing test strategies, test plans (for a range of applications including multiple commercial level products), test strategies and conducting test case walk troughs.
• Identify and resolve technical issues by proposing and choosing best possible solutions.
• Monitor J2EE based servers such as WebSphere 6.0 & 8.0 for build deployments.
• Monitor security settings and configuration data for multiple applications.
• Monitor XML data translation between interfaces and modules, and work with SVN and NOAD technologies.

Technical Environment: JAVA, JAVA based IDEs, RDBMS, DB2, ORACLE, ORACLE Financial Solution, SQL, SQL Server Management Studio 2012, XML, Gateways, Hubs, VPN, WIN 7, WIN 8, WIN XP, Rally, SOA, Middleware, Citrix, SVN, NOAD, SharePoint 2013, Project Professional 2013, TFS, Version 1, QA Book, Progress, Bugzilla, Web Applications, HP QC11, HP QTP10/11, MS Visio, MS Office 2013.

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Senior Software Project Coordinator and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain project management deliverables including detailed project plans, scope documents, communication plans, status reports, and issue management plans.
• Formulate and modify documents of various nature such product overview, technical and business documents etc.
• Monitor SW application development (JAVA, .Net, C#, C++) and DB structure.
• Use Rally to manage release, iterations and user stories.
• Translate business requirements into IT requirements and illustrate complex terminology into convenient-to-understand language.
• Manage client expectations effectively.
• Manage the full life-cycle of software development projects such as managing the planning, executing, tracking and managing costs, schedule, and scope.
• Communicate with clients effectively to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions within the project.
• Manage resources in accordance with project schedule and budgets.
• Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solutions.
• Coordinate delivery with local markets and regional teams.
• Integrate with technical representative of Confidential Factory Partners from 7 foreign countries in Asia and Europe.
• Participate in test scripts review meetings with business partners.
• Participate frequently in formal mutual discussion sessions with development team and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate daily stand-up meetings, Sprint Review, Sprint Plan and Sprint Retrospective Meetings.
• Participate in Defect Review Meetings, Defect Prioritization Meetings, Hot Issue List and Change Log Review Meetings.
• Prepare and deliver Project Status Reports and Budget Reports.

Technical Environment: HP QC 10/11, HP QTP 11, JAVA, .Net, SQL Server Management Tool, 2008, MS Excel, WIN XP, Rally, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office Suites, Web-Ex, TFS, SharePoint 2010.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Project Manager and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Control the scope, quality and effort for (Java, .Net, C++) Oriented Projects.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals incollaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents.
• Determine the critical path, ES, EF, LS, LF and slack time.
• Communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Plan and schedule project timelines, milestones, deliverables, cost and risks using SharePoint 2010, ProjectLibre and other appropriate tools.
• Ensure development, enhancement and adherence to standard project methodology.
• Provide leadership involving large-scale, commercial level, complex and highly analytical tasks.
• Direct and oversee all daily aspects of SW IT projects.
• Define objectives and manage quality control throughout the project life cycle.
• Conduct meeting and delegate responsibilities to different resources.
• Collaborate and integrate with third parties and vendors to achieve mutual targets.
• Prioritize projects and evaluate projects to facilitate strategic goals both from technical and business standpoints.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company (where needed).
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments (if essential) during project cycle.
• Work with all 5 maturity levels under CMMI environment.
• Direct and manage End-to-End project lifecycle.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Identify and manage project dependencies, critical path, successive channels and alternative execution work flows.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and technical presentations.
• Manage changes proactively in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive actions and accountability for their assigned work.
• Run multiple teams as Scrum Master and facilitate cross-functional communication among various teams working in parallel.

Technical Environment: JAVA, .Net, C++, Web Applications, HP QTP 10, HP QC 10, JIRA, SQL, RDBMS/DB2, Oracle, Oracle integrated financial management solutions, MS Excel, WIN XP, WIN 7, LINUX, SharePoint 2013, ProjectLibre, CMMI, BPMM, PEMM, PMBOK.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Project Manager and Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Manage project developed in C#, JAVA, .NET
• Manage project budgets and drive financial accountability for delivery of all solutions.
• Lead RFP/RFI Process for projects as required and works closely across business and IT teams to drive effective selection of delivery and solutions partners.
• Develop and actively manage project plans.
• Allocate resources, manage project schedule constraints and budget to meet deliverables.
• Maintain all reporting requirements as needed.
• Develop documentation standards for team.
• Manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously by implementing solution-oriented techniques.
• Monitor actively the execution of the project, including but not limited to, assigning tasks to project staff, managing project scope, project finances, and ensuring the quality of deliverables.
• Integrate the work of large teams and multiple vendors to deliver successful products.
• Oversee all phases of the projects, coordinating with business sponsors, vendors, and other relevant areas of IT.
• Ensure all deliverables and commitments are met and the project is in compliance with relevant standards and methodologies.
• Work on-site and in virtual team environment as needed.
• Monitor progress of SW functionality development and functionality in Test by using Burn-down and Release Burn-Up Charts.
• Estimate project risk factors and mitigate them through proper measures.
• Represent IT PMO and track technology delivery efforts to customers and vendors.
• Define and report project completion and business benefits.
• Collect and analyze data necessary to assist in creation of improved/redesigned processes.
• Monitor and manage change and enhancement requests from customers and keep track through IBM Rational ClearQuest.
• Trace and link requirements with design items and appropriate developed functionality and features through a number of project and requirements management tools such as MS Project, Projecturf and IBM DOORs etc.
• Participate in change log review meetings and bug triage meetings.
• Participate in daily status calls during each release to update day-to-day activity and issues to various stakeholders including business partners and product owners etc.
• Run daily Scrum Meeting as 'Scrum Master' in a 2-week 'Sprint Cycle' and track status of all activities.
• Support Agile based SDLC for software development creating necessary standards, tools and best practices.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Maintain process documentation.
• Ensure the development teams do practice the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practices.
• Support the development manager andproject leadsas necessary.
• Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
• Improve the productivity of the sprint teams.
• Maintain communications among team members and address the queries from the quality assurance team, developers and project manager.
• Work with all 5 maturity levels under CMMI environment.
• Use IBM Rational ClearQuest for change and enhancement request management and track defects throughout the development process.
• Use IBM DOORs for requirement management, traceability and linking them to design item.
• Participate in daily bug-log meetings and SW feature-enhancement requests from customers.

Technical Environment: C#, SQL Server 2008, Oracle, HP QC 10, Mantis, Excel, TFS, Web-Services, Web APIs, HTML, XML, Google Docs, MS Project, Projecturf 2.0, IBM DOORs, ClearQuest.

Confidential

Project Manager & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Review multiple documents including, but not limited to, RFP, RFQ and RFI as needed.
• Monitor development in a high volume, multi-tiered, transactional environment coupled with .Net and JAVA Family of Products.
• Monitor the performance of custom data retrieval application, XML web service, integrated high-volume websites, enterprise application GUI interface etc.
• Track % coverage and testing and execution progress for various Hand-Held Devices, Mobile Phone, iOS and Android Platforms and Tablets.
• Work in the regimes of Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and deal with network security standards.
• Provide technical directions and manage project time-lines.
• Define scope and approach (both from technical as well as business standpoint) of projects.
• Interpret the functional specifications, requirements and engineering work flows to the project staff and assist the staff with any questions related to the technology, equipment and design requirements.
• Maintain communications among team members and address the queries from the quality assurance team, developers, application engineers and clients.
• Administer the project budget by ensuring timely and accurate invoicing and monitoring receivables.
• Allocate resources, actively monitor project schedules, and generate project budget reports on regular basis.
• Track and report staff hours and expenses, find areas to decrease expenses and analyze project profitability, revenue and bill rates.
• Develop relationships, facilitate communications, updates and meetings with internal and external stakeholders and customers.
• Find additional sales opportunities, suggest areas for improvement and ensure profitability for the organization.
• Estimate project expenses, project quality control standards, efforts, risks (cost constraints, schedule constraints) in well advance and suggest any changes if needed.
• Manage risk perceptions, and discuss and treat risk factors by incorporating the most appropriate techniques and suitable measures.
• Collaborate and communicate all technical limitations and resulting business impacts to the customers.
• Supervise teams in Agile Environment.
• Frequent technical interaction with SMEs and Business Analysts on use cases, user stories, business case scenarios, MRDs, BRDs, FRDs and SDDs.
• Collaborate with Business System Analysts to generate project plans, multiple documents and deliverable items as needed.
• Perform duties as Scrum Master and run daily Scrum Stand-up Meetings on multiple projects in parallel.
• Track weekly status updates displaying project Burn-Down Charts and other Performance Parameters.
• Participate in meetings and discussions with management about (incorporating) new features and functionality requests from customers.

Technical Environment: .Net, JAVA, Web APIs, QTP 9.5, JIRA, VPN, TCP/IP, RDBMS/DB2, iOS Platforms, Android Platform, Handheld Solution, Cable Modems, Mobile Devices, Other Wireless Devices, MTM, MS Office Suite, Project Management, Process Improvement, Tracking Budget Expenses, Planning, Performance Management.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Management of projects, large and small onsite and offshore teams, vendors, suppliers and contractors.
• End-to-End Management of Web Services, Interfaces and Technologies.
• Work with Spring, Hibernate, Struts, DB2 and Oracle etc.
• Monitor SW Development Progress in multiple IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) and work with Web Applications.
• Experience in Client-Server Environment, Web Services using SOAP UI (SOA and REST) and Web Service Studio.
• Provide feedback and input in preparation of RFPs.
• Provide guidance to team members and address queries from development and quality assurance engineers and other stakeholders.
• Optimize system applications and software modules for commercial usage and generate 'Product Overview' documents.
• Provide to team members, new hires and junior and mid-level staff.
• Run and knowledge transformation program on various stages of software development lifecycle such as design, analysis, implementation, testing, execution, reporting, delivery and SW applications and SDLM etc. to polish understanding with respect to mutual objectives and tasks.
• Work closely with development staff and managers from other departments within designated guidelines.
• Deliver projects status reports, high level view and formal technical presentations to stakeholders, authorized entities and higher management.
• Participate in meeting regarding project day-to-day status, new upcoming builds, production rollout dates and post release open issues.
• Enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to project s.
• Dive into and take responsibility for the resolution of software development and technical issues.

Technical Environment: Oracle, SQL, Excel 2003, QTP 9.2, Mantis, JIRA, Windows, UNIX, multiple IDEs.