SUMMARY

• Seeking a position as a Senior Project Manager/Program Manager with a view to provide management and leadership assistance, software release planning, analysis and innovative solutions for the growing needs of individuals and businesses.
• Experienced Business/ technical project manager offering 10+ years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects.
• Operational Excellence; plan and manage multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains based on KPI’s.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with executives and their respective teams.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• SDLC experience in managing, scoping, managing project teams, supporting enterprise scale business application and business intelligence software for iterative development methodologies. Focus on current standards, best practices, design patterns, performance, human factors, code quality, open source languages and tools, and agile development in large team environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Agile Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Visa Multi-Channel Platform (VMCP) was envisioned as a set of capabilities that will provide foundation services for consumer facing mobile(iOS and Android), web and emerging channels. With the convergence of these initiatives, the technology organization is building foundational capabilities in VMCP to enable multi-channel access to products and services.
• We built a product VMCP that will provide a container for backend services for mobile and web applications with specific architecture goals - platform designed with mobile-first approach, building SDK foundational components and backend services components to enable mobile apps and to authorize access from consumers through the internet.
• The functionality will be built once and offered as services for Visa and approved partners, leveraging existing Visa enterprise services to build on-behalf-of experience for our issuer community.
• Managed multiple project teams, delivery of various features like mobile Alerts (text, email alerts), RDC(Remote Deposit Capture), and CBP(Cloud Based Payments).
• Worked with the Agile teams in looking for lean software development practices and work with stakeholders on release and delivery.
• Custom Software Developments: Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for dozens of custom solutions for SaaS and cloud based services.
• System Integrations/Migrations: Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms/ services using SOA and the merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies.
• Experience in Agile/ Scrum methodology, tools like JIRA, Rally with short sprint cycle to release products.

Tools: Mobile iOS and Android Platform for mobile payments, Splunk, MS Project, JIRA, Greenhopper, Rally and SQL, Confluence (Wiki), MS Sharepoint

Confidential

Sr. Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Help manage and build the new financial online software purchasing experience for Quickbooks. Responsible for the UI, engineering team technical leadership and strategic direction. Recommended and currently guiding the team in building out a lean, responsive UI layer utilizing semantic html5, node.js, backbone.js and REST API architecture.
• Managed multiple scrum teams of 6-8 members each with daily standups, coaching the teams on agile best practices and monitoring release activities.
• Worked with the Agile teams in looking at Depth charts, burn up charts, epics, task hour burndown, product backlog, Sprint Retrospectives and followed lean software development practices and work with stakeholders on release and delivery.
• Custom Software Developments: Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for dozens of custom solutions for SaaS and cloud based services. Results: Delivered industry-leading software that saved the business unit millions of dollars, shortened processes from weeks to minutes, captured huge market share and generated up to $21M in annual revenues within year one of launch.
• System Integrations/Migrations: Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms/ services using SOA and the merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies. Results: Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime and delivered by as much as $750K under budget.
• Enterprise Implementations: Directed global rollouts of new software and systems for customers. Worked with Multi tier J2EE technologies.
• Experience in Agile/ Scrum methodology, tools like JIRA, Greenhopper, Rally with short sprint cycle to release products.

Tools: Mobile iOS and Android, Java, J2EE technologies, Quickbase, Splunk, MS Project, JIRA, Greenhopper, Rally and SQL

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led company wide initiatives and multinational rollout of robust, scalable and secure electronic data interchange (EDI), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and point-of-sale (POS) mobile payment systems on iOS and Android mobile platforms.
• Managed budgets of up to $8M and cross-functional teams of up to 25 architects, engineers, product managers, UX/XD designers and analysts.
• Work closely with a cross-functional team including development engineers and project managers with code reviews, technical documentation following our aggressive incremental SDLC schedule. Used Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Worked with Architects, Engineers, UX/XD designers to define product strategy and roadmap.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.

Tools: Java, J2EE technologies, MS Project, MS Office, SQL, JIRA, Rally, Clarity, GIT

Confidential

Sr.IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
• Created cost-benefit analysis and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects.
• Working with Messaging and Calendar Server in the Communications Group using the LDAP Protocol as base.
• Working with Directory Server and Delegated Administrator GUI design, writing code in Java, debugging code, worked on JDAP.
• Developing software on diverse platforms including Unix, Linux and Windows based operating systems, C and C++
• Developing embedded applications
• Developing applications through the entire Software Development Lifecycle (requirements, design, implementation, testing) utilizing a variety of software development tools
• Scripting languages - Perl, Unix Shell script, etc.
• Distributed processing and data analytics
• Integration of bluetooth products into a complete system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming languages: C, C++, and Java

Scripting: CSS, Perl, Shell & JavaScript

Web Programming: XML, DTD/XSD, XHTML, HTML, DOM, ASP

DBMS: MS-Access, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, ETL and Abinitio

Tools: MS Project, MS Publisher, MS Visio and MS Office.

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, LINUX and Mac OS.