PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 11 years Experienced Project Manager successfully leading and managing all phases of projects, including Project Initiation, Scope Management, Business Systems Analysis, Application Development, Risk Management, Quality Management, Implementation and Change Management in Financial (Credit Cards, Commercial Banking), and Retail domains. Extensive overall IT experience with Application Development, Mainframes and Database Management.
• Expert in Agile/Scrum and Waterfall Project Management Methodologies; successfully managed large project onsite/offshore teams and produced high - quality deliverables that meet or exceed timelines/targets.
• Excellent communicator wholeverages leadership skills, technical/business expertise, and financial acumen to effectively communicate with project stakeholders and achieve strategic project goals.
• Expertise in preparing and communicating with business stakeholders through 4-blocker presentations for new project proposals as well as status reporting on existing projects.
• Expertise in effectively tracking and reporting project progress using key-performance indicators (KPIs) like Project Schedule Compliance, Quality Compliance and Business Benefits.
• Recognized as Information Security and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Champion.
• Recognized by business users in various organizations for exceptional leadership abilities and technical expertise; awarded Best Performer Awards and equivalent multiple times.
• Conducted trainings and mentored individuals to maximize their levels of productivity, while forming cohesive team environments.
• Conducted trainings for GDI, Strategyware and SMg3 in Kanbay/ Confidential for various business units.
• Participated in recruitment processes for new employees at various organizations.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Project Management: New Product Development Proposals; Custom Product Development; COTS Product Implementations; Realistic Project Schedule Generation; Strategic and Tactical Planning; Time and Resource Management; Business Analysis and Development; Risk Management; Defect Triage and Resolution; Cross-functional Team Management; Peer-Review, Annual Performance Reviews and Mentoring; Vendor Assessment, Audits and Contract Negotiations.

Methodologies: Waterfall Model and Agile Methodology (Scrum & Kanban).

PM Tools: MS Project, MS Office Project Server, Clarity.

Languages and OS: SAS, XML, JCL, Enterprise COBOL, MVS, OS/390, z/OS and other Windows OS.

OLTP, File Systems: CICS, DB2, VSAM, Datacom, SQL.

Tools: & Utilities: TSO ISPF/ PDF, Superce, CA - Endevor, Xpeditor TSO/ CICS, Changeman, Intertest, BMC Control-M, CA-7, JCLCheck, Endeavor Jobscan, TRMS, Fileaid - DB2, Version One.

Middleware: MQ Series (IBM WebSphere MQ), TCP-IP, API.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Project Manager

Environment: COBOL, JCL, SQL Server, Version One, MS Project

Methodology: Scrum, Kanban

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating agile development teams and supervising them.
• Managing all agile ceremonies (Scrum & Kanban) as an acting Scrum Master.
• Successfully conducted release planning, sprint planning, story grooming, daily stand-ups, retrospectives and MBM meetings.
• Developed capability roadmap to define Portfolios, Projects, Capabilities and overall delivery strategy of IT Capability Framework for the enterprise
• Responsible for preparing status reports (daily, weekly) and communicating to all relevant stakeholders.
• Tracked project's health with the help if KPIs like schedule performance vs cost performance and budgets.
• Responsible for monitor and leading project’s Quality Control Activities.
• Handled and coordinated internal as well external quality testing with QA and UAT testing.
• Supervised teams providing technical solutions for system requirements.
• Responsible for maintaining Exception Reports in Knowledge Links.
• Responsible for tracking issues/risks/impediments and managing them.
• Organized and lead S2 (issue resolution) meetings, scheduled DRB calls.
• Handled project's deployment and post-production support successfully.
• Supervised review of production data and analysis for any outliers or issues after production deployment.
• Lead knowledge transfer activities to new team members.
• Successfully lead a team of associates to participate in 3D (a tech innovations contest) and hack-a-thons.

Confidential

Project Manager

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CA7, DB2, Xpeditor, VSAM, File Aid, MS Project

Methodology: Scrum, Kanban

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing complex project plans to meet business objectives working in an Agile/Scrum and Waterfall environments.
• Quality leadership for Agile development project following Scrum and Kanban principles
• Responsible for pre-sales negotiations and SOW initiation.
• Responsible for scoping and planning of the project, created project schedules and resource allocation graphs.
• Effectively managed the cost of the projects to attain 50% GOM.
• Effectively managed resources, established task plans for resources and monitored them.
• Conducted external design reviews and project audits.
• Identified risks and issues for the projects and effectively mitigated them.
• Provided weekly status reports, and completed other project management governance activities.
• Conduct monthly steering committee meetings and weekly operating committee meetings.
• Managed stakeholders and reported project health, deliverables and milestones.

Confidential

Project Manager

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Intertest, Control - M, Datacom, XML, VB.net, SharePoint, MS Project

Methodology: Waterfall

Responsibilities:

• Ensured adherence to CMMI Level 5 artifacts and processes for all projects and clients.
• Responsible for scoping and planning of the project, created project schedules and resource allocation graphs.
• Effectively managed resources, organized required training for resources and monitored deliverables.
• Delivered business intelligence solutions to meet various project initiatives for the client.
• Initiated domain repository and OMNI channel testing repositories for the client.
• Ensured successful deployment of various applications in areas like Credit, Merchandising, Assortment, Performance and Compliance.
• Identified risks and issues for the projects and effectively mitigated them.
• Developed reusable frameworks and tools for the following initiatives:
• Developed Phase II Agile Planning infrastructure (Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog in SharePoint)
• Developed custom agile reporting framework to provide programmatic and executive level metrics
• Provided weekly status reports, and completed other project management governance activities.
• Conduct monthly steering committee meetings and weekly operating committee meetings.
• Managed stakeholders and reported project health, deliverables and milestones.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead and sole point of contact in offshore team for the client, with no onsite counterpart.
• Responsible for Strategyware software release planning and execution.
• Captured requirements for implementation of Strategyware software across Confidential .
• Lead design and coding activities for Strategyware Implementation.
• Project Lead and sole point of contact in offshore team for the client.
• Responsible for SMg3 software release planning and execution.
• Captured requirements for implementation of SMg3 software across Confidential .
• Lead design and coding activities for SMg3 Implementation.
• Lead customizations to base system software for SMg3 related requirements.
• Designed enterprise process architecture that included enterprise level processes and framework to assist in executing the various phases of trading operations
• Responsible for MQ Estimator release planning and execution.
• Captured requirements for implementation of MQ Estimator across Confidential .
• Lead design and coding activities for MQ Estimator Implementation.
• Lead customizations to base system software for MQ Estimator related requirements.

Environment: COBOL, Enterprise COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Intertest, Control - M, Datacom, XML, MS Project, Clarity, SAS, VSAM, Websphere Message Broker, API, JAVA

Methodology: Waterfall