SUMMARY

• Decisive, action - oriented and results-focused professional with 16+ years of experience in IT industry with last 9 years focused on Project Management and Program Management.
• With expertise in Project Planning and Execution (within scope, budget, and schedule), Customer Relationship and Team Management wit. Driven by new Challenges and desire to be successful in all endeavors.
• Results-driven project-management professional with extensive experience in Project Management in implementing technical solutions, Development and Maintenance Projects
• Expert in project management methodologies, tools, planning, scheduling, change management, risk management, status tracking and reporting to project sponsors and enterprise PMO.
• Strong Business Analyst experience, liaison for business, worked in business case development, requirements gathering, working with technical team members and involved business users in UAT testing.
• Strong experience in Waterfall, Agile scrum processes, SDLC, and Business Analysis practices.
• Strong communication, presentation, documentation, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience in executing projects in Onshore/offshore model and across Manufacturing, Transportation, Education, Utilities and Banking Domains, spread across US and Europe
• Strong experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously in a highly dynamic work environment.
• Led large, complex cross-divisional programs initiated involving integration of multiple projects across operational and technical areas that have helped expand business, reduce operational expenses, retain existing customers and attract new customers.
• Team management/Leadership and Risk mitigation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Methodologies & Tools: Agile-Scrum/Waterfall, MS Project, SharePoint, Visio and MSOffice.

Strong knowledge in development technologies and applications: Java/J2EE, SOA Enablement, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, XSL, VB, Unix, ERwin, SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, SQL, PL/SQL, UML, Rational Rose, Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing projects including web applications, compliance and infrastructure projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives and report to PMO office by working in a cross-functional environment.
• Managing projects across Customer Service, Distribution, Transmission and Information Security Business Units
• Responsible for requirements gathering, planning, estimation/priorities, monitoring/controlling, status tracking/reporting, risk/ issue management, change management, stakeholder approval, and release management.
• Working with business, translating business need into requirements, responsible to coordinate Integration & User acceptance testing. Keeping actual users involved in acceptance testing. Documenting issues and communicating issues to technical team members.
• Manage a team of offshore and onsite developers, QA and product professionals (employees and contractors) to plan, execute, monitor and control web-based projects using Agile methodology.
• Scrum Master for multiple sprint teams across and enterprise wide applications.
• Responsible for collaborating with the team and management for the reporting using MSP, SharePoint and other presentations.
• Communicating and coordinating project activities with a virtual team and third-party vendors.

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with our Customers for Program Planning and execution, managing Program Financials, Program budgets, Resource Planning
• Lead the teams across multiple projects to meet the Program deadlines
• Identification of cross-project task (including interdependencies) and prioritization
• Issue resolution in the program, coordinating with multiple teams in the program
• Identification of Risks and preparation of mitigation plans to address the risks
• Communicate with the On/Offshore Delivery and Test leads and set directions or guidelines
• Periodic Projects Reviews
• Participate in Technical, Design and Code Reviews

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the business partners, functional teams for gathering requirements.
• Making offshore development presentations to client program, functional and business managers.
• Work with program management and client teams in identifying and package offshore development packages.
• Engaging offshore team members and leads with development leads.
• Creating the System Design, migration path for the existing application.
• Creating high-level technical design and identifying enterprise integration risk/check points
• Attending program leadership meeting and reporting project status to Project Management Office.
• Perform schedule and effort estimation for the project. Represent project at PMO meetings for budget approvals.

Offshore Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project planning, Scheduling and Tracking, Resource Management, Task Allocation
• Team Development and Training activities
• Analysis and Design of the application.
• Plan for future tasks and take necessary steps

Onsite Project Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Customer Interfacing
• Requirements Gathering & Analysis
• Preparation and Review of High Level and Detailed Design Documents.
• Preparation and Review of execution of Unit and System Test Plans
• Coordinate for User Acceptance Testing
• Communication with offshore Teams
• Warranty and Production Support

Module Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coding using Java classes and JSPs.
• Integration and System Testing
• Technical Guidance for the Team
• Status reporting to the Project Manager