Sr Project Manager Resume
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Atlanta, GA
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- Dynamic, results - oriented management professional with 17+ years of experience, 10 years in program/ project management managing high critical, visible projects, systems & accounts with superior level of customer satisfaction and exceeding customer expectations, delivering projects within budget and time.
- Expert in Project and Program Management of SAP Implementations using different methodologies (ASAP, Agile and Waterfall) and created extensive PMO governance process around project execution methodologies depends on project types ASAP / Agile / Waterfall / Hybrid
- Full Life Cycle ERP (SAP) Project Implementations managing large teams through major Transformation roadmaps including all Project phases of Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Controlling & successful Project Closure
- Extensive experience in all stages of SDLC, which includes project planning, estimations, team management, risk and change management, RFP based proposals, Onsite/Offshore coordination, escalation support, conduct regular status meeting and apprising upper management on regular project performance reports and metrics.
- Experience as Project Manager implementing broad range of SAP functions such as: FICO, FICA, HR, MM, SD. PM, PL, BPC, Document Management,, ABAP, Basis, Solution Manger others.
- Extensive experience in managing SAP and Non SAP environments and using ESB and create seamless data transfers.
- Extensive experience in migrating Legacy data into SAP environments and create Master Data Management (MDM)
- Extensive experience in release planning, Cutover planning, Hyper-care, Go-live, user training and future support and maintenance.
- Hands on with Agile/Scrum, performed Scrum Master duties, and facilitate Planning, Grooming, Retro and daily Stand-up sessions.
- Extensive test strategies, plans and automate testing process using SAP TAO.
- Experience overseeing Systems Integrators and acting as a contract administrator
- Experience managing post-implementation support and stabilization for SAP applications
- 8 years in Requirement gathering, design, development, testing, estimation, Process Improvements and implementation.
- Project Management
- Release Management
- Application Delivery Management
- Testing COE & EQM
- Production Support (24/7)
- Process Improvements
- PMO & Governance
- Vendor Management
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Hybrid
- ASAP
- P&C Insurance
- Communication & Media
- Utilities
- Transportation
- Manufacturing
- Health Care
- Annuities
- SAP IS - U, CRM, FICO, FICA, SD, MM, QM, PL, PM
- Java, .Net, Pega PRPC
- Mainframe COBOL, CICS, JCL, IMS DC/DB
- DB2, Oracle, SQL
- ETL, Data warehouse
- COST Applications
- HPQC, ALM, QTP, Load runner
- Clarity, PPM
- CMMI, ISO
CAREER PROGRESSION:
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Sr Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managing the projects under defined PMO project execution framework (Plan, Define, Execute and Close) and governance model.
- Drive the business and stake holder’s requirement meetings to create project charter with problem statement, objectives, business value, in & out of scope based on high-level business requirements.
- Create and maintain project schedules, milestones, budgets, project management plan, communication plan, Configuration management plan and Risk management
- Review and approve along with project stake holders, business requirements, RICEFW, solution design, test strategy, test plan, estimation, architecture, infrastructure design documents / diagrams, post production training plans and HOTS (Handover to Support) process .
- Successfully managed extensive coordination across multiple groups from release planning, status reporting, conflict resolution, risk planning & mitigation including vendors.
- Create and manage product backlogs with product owners. Conduct sprint planning, retrospective meeting and demo at start of each iteration on AGILE project. Commit backlogs per iteration, ensure proper task creation and delivery.
- Conduct daily SCRUM and adjust the resources, storyboards gauging team velocity and milestones. Work with Test managers for various teams to conduct proper system integration and user acceptance testing with high quality standards of the product.
- Secure the cross functional, onshore/offshore resources, provide technical guidance, motivate and establish good working environment.
- Manage EQM process, release based test strategies, plans, test cases and execution.
- Manage the vendor management processes, SOW’s, timesheets and invoicing
- Project closing including, Metrics collection, lessons learnt and recommendations to PMO
- Successful implementation of multiple projects with significant business value and customer satisfaction.
- Extensive technical knowledge helped to reduce execution costs up to $1M and duration.
Environment: SAP IS-U FICO, FICA, CRM, Billing, Smart energy (AMI interfaces), QM, DM, HPALM, TIBCO ESB, Clarity, MPP, OSI Soft PI, JAVA, Oracle DB, SQL and SharePoint
Confidential, Jackson, MI
SAP Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Project planning, WBS, budgeting and executing the projects under defined PMO framework.
- Single point of contact for all projects deliverables project initiation, blueprint, realization, cutover planning
- Release planning, Go-live and Charm tickets approving.
- Performed scrum master duties, and facilitate Planning, Grooming, Retro and daily Stand-up sessions.
- Coordinated with theProjectStakeholders and Sponsors to prepareProjectScope andProject backlog.
- Facilitated Sprint Planning session to coordinate with multiple teams including Tech Leads, SMEs, Business Analysts, Architects, Development and Testing teams to groom and assign stories from sprint backlog.
- Coordinated with the key stakeholders to identify the key resources for the successful completion of theproject.
- Monitor and Control Risk, Cost, Schedule, Scope and Stakeholder Engagement.
- Monitored process compliance and recommended process improvements; resolvedprojectroad blocks.
- Create hybrid project execution methodology using ASAP and Agile/Scrum
- Prepared and presented weekly status reports, status dashboards, and status presentations for the leadership team andprojectsponsors.
- Liaison between Business and Technology teams for smooth execution of projects
- Facilitate requirement analysis, create RICEFW documents, developing POC / prototype setups and review functional design
- Formulated regular and on-demand executive reports onprojectstatus, risks and issues, scope, defects and resources for senior management.
- Manage the scope changes and track change request with impact on budget & time.
- Collect sign-offs from project stake holders and create release notes
- Ensureprojectis on time and on budget by meeting projects milestones.
Environment: FICO, SD, MM, PP, PM, QM, ABAP, ECC 6.0, ABAP and solution manager, HPQC, MPP, Oracle and PPM
Confidential, Ft, Lauderdale, FL
SAP Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Development and Maintenance of the overall project plan - maintaining project phases, milestones and overall project plan
- Manage the planning, execution and completion of all testing activity
- Management of project financials including reporting of actual/budget spend on a regular basis
- Management of project resources, planning, budgeting and management of any resourcing constraints - both technical and business teams
- Quality Assurance, Issue and Risk Management
- Manage the Client relationship to guarantee the high level of satisfaction
- Ensuring that Change Management and communications plans are defined and integrated in to the overall project plan
- Management and delivery of Communications plans and presentation across key stakeholder groups
- Participate in weekly status meetings and monthly executive meetings Engage, support and coach toward agile as a culture (business and technology) within and across teams
- Assist the teams and organization to fill in the gaps in the adoption of Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Facilitate Scrum meetings and maintaining Burndown charts
- Understanding the requirement, scope, Architecture design, internal & External interfaces and provide technical guidance to the development & testing teams till successful implementation
Environnent: FICO, MM, PP, QM, SD, DB2, ABAP, BASIS, ECC 6.0, HPQC, MPP and Clarity
Confidential, Atlanta, GA
Client Engagement
Responsibilities:
- As a Client Engagement Manager, managed the Agency Channel Personal Lines (Auto, MC, CV) Design, Development, Testing and Support for multiple projects.
- Closely worked with PMO office and standardized documents, reports, project plans and processes
- Instrumental in creating testing center of excellence (TCoE)
- Successfully implemented New, Renewal, Endorsement, 400 rate revisions Business requirements in multiple Systems which underwrites business in 38 states
- Lead the design and implementation of real time comparative raters using ACORD XML format
- Process improvements implemented which reduced the implementation time, improved rate revision quality and reduced cost by 20%
- Lead the design, develop and implement various rate matching process tools which reduced rate variance from15% to 5%.
- Identified and implemented various methodologies like Test Driven Development methodology which helped in effort reduction across all phases of SDLC which reduced rework effort and defect leakage.
- Identified, Assessed and discussed the potential risks and provided the mitigation strategies to project stake holders and implement the approved strategies.
- Involved in identifying right skilled resources for a given project and complete their performance review process.
- Production deployments and validations to make sure deployment is successful
- Educate the team to use Bi-Directional Traceability Matrix to implement defect free solutions.
- Implemented E2E, automated functional and regression test suites which reduced 30% manual effort, increased performance and reduced no of defects.
- Status reporting to CIO’s, project stake holders and respective managers
- Define and collect metrics and created dash boards to derive meaning full reports
- Track Project progress, health reports, timesheets, vendor management process
- Lead the document management assessment process, propose and implement the solutions which reduce the annual cost by 20%.
- Lead the RFP/RFI responses on multiple modernization programs initiated by client and won multiple contracts ranges from $3M to $4M.
- Successfully implemented new policy admin system and Real time raters which increased written premium by 10%.
- Successfully integrated Confidential divisions applications and maintained data integrity
- Implemented multiple product enhancements and 400 rate revisions