SUMMARY:

Resourceful and PMP Certified Project Manager with 12+ years of experience offering an array of skills in strategic program planning, business analysis, leadership, client engagement/services, team building and training. Align customer business requirements and goals, assigning resources appropriately. Mentor staff in SDLC phases in an Agile environment. Develop senior - management relationships with customers, vendors, partners, and corporate service organizations. Collaborate with peers to leverage and implement ideas and address organization wide technical organizational challenges. Create business relevance and engage in solutioning and selling. Drive the use of efficient PMI methodologies and lead cross-functional projects.

EXPERTISE:

Scrum/Agile Methodology

SDLC/PDLC/ITIL

UX Design and Content Strategy

PMP/Project Management

Business Analysis/Re-Engineering

PeopleSoft HRMS/Campus

Data Analysis/SQL

HTML/CSS/PHP

SaaS/Web Development

MS Office Suite

SharePoint/JIRA

Presentations/Reporting

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage projects involving multiple vendors/projects delivering a technical conversion project in Agile environment
• Ensure project timelines, budgets, deliverables, and milestones are met, engage key stakeholders in decision making and update status of projects and engage them from initiation through completion
• Partner with senior management to identify key deliverables, requirements, environment planning
• Define SLA’s/KPI’s and ensure the technical and analyst team adheres to SLA’s
• Led project development, QA, Rollout and production support activities
• Identified and anticipated risks around data integration and conversion, implemented risk mitigation strategies

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Draft Confidential, initial charter, and project plan, create and review functional and technical specification documents.
• Monitor, track and analyze project control metrics working with cross-functional teams in agile environment
• Ensure effective operations within the teams and guaranteeing the delivery of clear collaborative work as the final hand-off
• Lead and ensure project complies with QA Processes and is adhering to the defined timelines for rollouts
• Provide application production support as per process/RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed) Matrix
• Managed a system integration with third party vendors and system migrations from old environment
• Identified strategic priorities at the client site and lead initiatives to address them
• Established Data Governance structure and set governance metrics to report on the health of the project

Confidential, NYC, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led cross functional teams driving recommendations through to full implementation for a human capital management tool
• Acted as the SCRUM Master conducting daily and weekly standup meetings and lead the scrum of scrum meetings
• Measured project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor the progress of the project
• Managed system migrations and system integration activities before rollout and post rollout
• Defined Confidential and managed a portfolio of 4 projects of 1M budget and built WBS (Work brake down structure)
• Managed vendor selection process from RFP/RFI to implementation, defined and developed new hire onboarding process
• Defined and documented project scope and obtained business stakeholders signoff for implementation of ATS and enhancements to PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Self Service, Benefits, and Payroll
• Created functional and technical specification documents and templates and manage the project SharePoint site

Confidential, Albany, NY

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
• Collaborated with various internal service teams and successfully onboarded vendors on to PeopleSoft eSettlements
• Facilitate and lead the JAD sessions with SME’s Developers and conduct focus group studies
• Conducted standups and used Kanban board to keep track of tasks and managed sprint cycles
• Conducted various PeopleSoft demos and developed training plans as part of the new onboarding process
• Managed the complete test phase from Initiation of System Testing to final UAT stakeholder signoff from multiple state agencies

Confidential, Albany, NY

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created project documentation such as activity and sequence diagrams for claims and adjudication process for unemployment insurance; use cases (narrative and diagram); functional requirements documents/ user stories, technical specs, and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Project managed the development of unemployment insurance website using Java and WebSphere
• Conducted detailed internal audits of work process and was instrumental in driving Scrum agile development methodology
• Reverse engineered requirements from legacy mainframe COBOL code’s and programs and defined technical specifications

Confidential, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Consulted as an Advisor in assisting Tandon School of Engineering Graduate School to integrate/migrate the existing solutions Environment to Confidential environment during the merger transition
• Support existing eco-system with an emphasis on developing tools and refining existing methodologies to identify potential risks early in the stage of integration/migration
• Define data conversion rules for integrations and data conversion process
• Provide reporting support through the phase of integration and support go live activities such as bug fixes, resolution and any configuration changes and develop WBS
• Work on providing training to new staff members in effectively using the ERP functionalities

Confidential, NYU, NY

Senior Associate Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed business operations for a portfolio of 43 different graduate programs with revenues exceeding $53M
• Mange the maintenance and patch cycle of ERP and co-ordinate with end users for periodic testing
• Led the development of proprietary web applications/products for engagement in KPI reporting, technical evaluation of leads and recommend conversion tactics to the sales team.
• Implemented a complete document management solution across 16 different business units
• Liaised with multifunctional agency teams effectively generating leads and developed tools to effectively follow through with leads resulting in revenue improvement of 5% successively across 3 cycles
• Developed 63 new standard reports and performed raw data analysis to forecast outcomes and to set revenue goals
• Led cross-functional team effort to optimize program performance in the areas of quality, cost, and delivery

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

Managed a team of 6 to deliver reporting and workflow solution to customer base,

• Completed a Business Objects reporting project based on Java and WebSphere server
• Conceptualized and developed all UI for reporting as per client specifications and defined security guidelines and SLAs
• Conducted weekly status meetings for cross-functional business and technology teams relating to all projects in the Wealth Management Pipe Line