SUMMARY:

• High IQ hard working professional who loves challenges. 12+ years of technology management working with 1000+ people on complex projects for top firms.
• “If you are the smartest in the room, then you are in the wrong room”. I have been chasing the right room for years doing consulting and helping many along the way.
• I have traveled far enough, looking for a transition - PERM or long-term opportunities where I can be of great help. I am open to working for good startups.
• I am overqualified than most; We need a job too - to survive and keep doing our best;: ) People professional who is always open to helping others.
• Dynamic, highly efficient, high profile leader, engineer, troubled projects and people specialist, technology/business expert, project portfolio expert, strategic leader and a risk management specialist who is respected for quality and integrity. Guaranteed to drive and deliver projects successfully on time, on budget, as expected and beyond expectations.
• Totally unique with super sharp mind, strong management, programming, engineering expertise with record performance, quality, excellence, stakeholder satisfaction, team building and strategic insights poised for continued growth and success.
• I have always fared exceedingly well than all my Harvard, MIT and Caltech peers.
• Expertise: Technology, Business, Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Portfolio Management, Program / Project Management, Cost Reduction, Operational Streamlining, Team Leadership, Motivation, Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Management, Risk Management, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Big Data, SOA, Cloud, Mobile, IOT and Confidential .Net technologies.
• Results driven quality professional with a great record defining and implementing effective IT strategies, implementing cloud, data analytics and mobile strategies and services, defining enterprise and application architecture, global infrastructure deployment, implement large-size international projects, business-to-business integrations and new product development.
• Smart, poised, agile, elite, highly technical, articulate, extremely fast, go-getter who is passionate about creating and developing solutions for complex, elite projects/programs.
• Motivational, inspirational coach and mentor who builds highly motivated, top performing global teams that is responsible for generating brilliant revenues.
• Act as a mentor, guiding, managing and offering valuable solutions and time sensitive solutions solving critical problems.
• Expert at mapping customer’s vision to reality taking it through different stages of software life cycle, mitigating business and technical difficulties and supporting the developed product.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: Mobile, Cloud, Data Analytics, Big Data, IOT, .net, C#, WPF, WCF, ASP.Net, XAML, MVC, Prism, MVVM, Design Patterns, VB.Net, SOA, Multithreading, Hibernate, iOS, Android, Azure, Hadoop, HaaS, MDM, Cassandra, Hbase, HTML5, Angular, JavaScript, JQuery, Infragistics, Sync Fusion, Telerik, Confidential, CRM, SAP, REST, SOAP, JSON, AJAX, XML, SharePoint, MSMQ, Visual Studio Team Foundation, Visio, MS Project, Jira, Atlassian, Confluence, Crystal Reports, Reporting Services, SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, MDX, DTS, Oracle, Sybase, GIS, MapInfo, Erwin, UML, RUP, Agile/XP, Scrum, Remedy, Clarity, Workday, Salesforce, ITIL, ITSM, SCCM, ETL, EDW, Security/Compliance, Nunit, Team Foundation Server, Subversion, Resharper, Java, Unix, Linux, Windows and Mainframe.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MA

Project/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the execution of Confidential IoT ThingSpace Platform/Products that allows developers to create applications, customers to manage devices, partners to market their services, and Confidential to launch integrated vertical solutions simply, in an open environment that can serve customers efficiently using customer information analytics (CIA).
• Responsible for leading the team in the design of connected car, smart city solutions, intelligent video, lighting and parking management.
• Guiding the team with the development of Master Data Management solutions, concepts, methodologies and ability to apply this knowledge towards building robust MDM solutions.
• Responsible for creating and defining the project requirements, scope, time, cost, resources, quality and alignment with corporate mission, vision, goals and risk management.
• Responsible for working with teams across multiple countries, forecasting, planning and budgeting, Product Development, Product Road map, Cost analysis and risk assessment and Vendor management.
• One of the top teams that works closely with the global CIO and CTO of Verizon. Worked closely with the top executives, business and technology specialists leading 100+ resources, 10+ teams in driving the project towards Launch I and Launch II in only 6 months.
• Highly efficient Project Management Expert who worked day and night to make the impossible deadlines possible.
• Facilitating daily, weekly and monthly tracking to ensure we are in budget, schedule and scope of project.
• Worked tirelessly with the Confidential Security teams to get the product in-compliance and ready for the launch, one of the most scrutinizing process ever given the sensitivity of the confidential information.
• Mentoring, outsourcing, cross-functional team management and support, hiring new resources, researching and procuring new tools and technologies, adopting best standards, practices and leading the team in the process of research to deployment and support.

Tools: Program/Project/Risk/Change Management, Connected Car, Smart City, Smart Parking, Visual Studio Team Foundation, Jira, Atlassian, Confluence, MS Project, Clarity, Agile/SAFe/Scrum, Kanban, Matrix, Cross functional, ITSM, IOT, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, VR/AR, HoloLens, Oculus Rift, Cloud, Azure, Analytics, Big Data, Visual Studio .Net, C#, XML, SOA, MVC, HTML5, Angular, jQuery, Mobile App Development, WS02, Security, Java, Analytics, ETL, MDM, EDW, Hadoop, Cassandra, Hbase, MapReduce, kafka, NoSql, Oracle, Unix, Linux, Telematics, Fieldglass.

Confidential, NJ

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the global portfolio of Audit Platform/Products that supports 70+ projects with 35+ Project Managers and a budget of $250+ million.
• Audit Platform guides auditors through all activities facilitating the compliance and review process saving time while improving audit quality.
• Supports multiple workflow types that contain rules and regulations tailored to work for multiple countries in an international auditing process.
• Managed the scope, plan and changes by following consistent and standard methodologies to meet aggressive deadlines for going live within shorter timeframes and sprint cycles.
• Streamlining project approvals, optimizing time, cost, resources and quality. Skilled at utilizing latest technologies to drive profitable growth and promote exceptional user satisfaction.
• Collaborating with risk management operations team in creating strategic roadmap which leads into creation of a high quality data source, removing redundancies of data and operations.
• Collaborating with partners, executives, stakeholders, solution stream leads, development leads, implementation leads, business process leads, multiple managers to successfully implement the program on a global scale.
• Planned, created and executed data packages to integrate data from varied sources like Oracle, DB2, flat files and SQL databases and loaded into the target source of MDM Hub.
• Managing outstanding issues/challenges by proactively identifying problem areas and working very closely with cross functional matrix teams to bridge the gaps.
• Responsible for leading the efforts of ServiceNow, ITIL and ITSM process integrations including full assessments, architecture, design, planning, implementation, roll outs, development of business cases, ROI, TCO, governance and cost benefit analysis and best practice methodologies in the areas of people, process, technology and information across the organization.
• Established product and governance processes to manage ongoing changes required for global delivery. Responsible for reporting project portfolio status and program status to partners, executive leadership, global CIO and CTO.
• Managing product delivery, support and operations by playing multiple roles as a leader, mentor guiding through multiple initiatives from concept to implementation and support by constantly addressing challenges due to changes in industry, regulations, compliance requirements, different geographies as locale specific, infrastructure challenges and many more.
• Mentoring, managing resources, technologies, products, processes, practices, standards, compliance and leading the team in the process of research to implementation and support.

Tools: Program/Project/Risk/Change Management, Visio, Excel, MS Project, Visual Studio Team Foundation, Jira, Clarity, ITSM, Remedy, Team Foundation Server, Erwin, Agile/Scrum, Matrix, Cross functional, Data Warehousing, SAP, BI, SQL Server, ETL, SSAS, SSIS, Azure Cloud, Big Data, Hadoop, ITIL, ITSM, ServiceNow, SCCM, ETL, MDM, EDW, Analytics, Visual Studio .Net, C#, WPF, XAML, SOA, WCF, MVVM, ASP.Net, MVC, HTML5, XML, jQuery, Backbone, Angular, Infragistics, PRISM, Design Patterns, Command Binding, LINQ, EF, Azure, REST Services, Mobile, CRM, COTS, SharePoint, Salesforce, Oracle, Unix, Linux.

Confidential, NYC/ CA

Project/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the daily operations of concurrent strategic R&D applications with an approved budget of 150M+ driven by 300+ global resources supporting millions of users.
• Responsible for creating and defining the project charter, scope, time, cost, resources, quality and alignment with corporate mission, vision and goals.
• Working closely with higher executives, business and technology specialists in analyzing the project planning cycle, determining the potential project benefits, strategic impact, ROI, and mapping the project benefits to end clients.
• Responsible for ongoing business intelligence projects, providing data warehousing architecture, analysis and modeling along with establishing data warehousing best practices for Confidential financials trading data warehouse.
• Functioning at a corporate level, providing expertise through mentoring and to support the guideline of business (LOB) related to information architecture, data modeling, database design, data warehouse, data quality and repository.
• Driving the data warehouse setup and testing, population strategy and end user view definition of the trading and investment management Repository.
• Formulated and presented high ROI business case for new strategies and changes to management, employed value engineering and risk management to fulfill enterprise reporting and analytical needs.
• Designed and developed several complex financial modules based on intense algorithms and math computations, few of the modules as follows, Finance Blotter, Buy/Sell, Allocations, Account Master, and Buckets for grouping trades, Dashboard, cash projections and bid list used for generating faster trades with zero fault tolerance.
• Designed the complex cash projections data, service and UI algorithm that reports the BI data in giant financial grids/charts supporting dynamic layouts and data drill-downs for 15 different levels of hierarchy representing financial data across 40+ positions.
• Managed the development efforts of complex trading workflows and bid list that includes generating bids, check/Verify Compliance limits and exposure, generate wins for bids and generate trades for successful bids by querying prices from Confidential data based on multiple computations.
• Facilitating daily, weekly and monthly tracking to ensure we are in budget, schedule and scope of project.
• Mentoring, hiring new resources, researching and procuring new tools and technologies, adopting best standards, practices and leading the team in the process of research to deployment and support.

Tools: Program/Project/Risk/Change, Visio, Excel, MS Project, Jira, Clarity, Visual Studio Team Foundation, Erwin, Agile/Scrum, Matrix, Cross functional, CCAR, Data Warehousing, BI, ETL, SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, Cloud, Big Data, CRM, Visual Studio .Net, C#, WPF, XML, XAML, SOA, WCF, MVVM, ASP.Net, MVC, HTML5, jQuery, Infragistics, PRISM, Design Patterns, Command Binding, LINQ, EF, Confidential API, SCCM, ITIL, ITSM, SAP, Azure, REST, Mobile, Silverlight, SharePoint, Unix, Windows.

Confidential, Newport Beach, CA

VP Consulting - Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Mandated to transform the company’s seriously troubled, behind schedule, flag shipped solution to 100k+ client base for a budget of 100M+.
• Reorganized the team structure and hired new resources by interviewing 100s of candidates. Developed and implemented remedial plans to address project/technical issues.
• Defined the project roadmap, strategy and architecture for an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) taking into account the global strategies for PIMCO business data warehouse.
• Communicated the strategies and gained approvals from the stakeholders and senior management.
• Led the EDW/MDM engineering activities from requirements through implementation. Developed the business subject areas conceptual models for the enterprise data warehouse.
• Responsible for all project activities prior to the implementation of MDM. Managed, prioritized and coordinated all tasks, researched and analyzed issues and solutions, and followed up on all tasks through to implementation and support.
• Managed 40+ resources through the project lifecycle. Reported status to the business sponsors, results monitoring team, directors and other top level executives including CIO and CTO.
• Responsible for enterprise data warehouse in production, maintaining and enhancing the environment to meet the needs of the business and strategic goals. Responsible for gathering, evaluating, prioritizing, rationalizing, coordinating, planning and monitoring change.
• Responsible for project planning, managing resources and their activities, milestones, delivery and support. Also responsible for validating and approving logical and physical data models to ensure they meet the requirements and providing guidance on data sourcing and ETL processes.
• Led the project turnaround from challenging to stable within 6 months generating billions of revenues by improving the production management and process efficiency.
• Designed the retail investment bridge for trading, multiple complex financial modules and integrated security, admin module that includes several editors as account, cash desk adjustment and manual adjustment editors.
• Responsible for providing options analysis, expert advice and recommendations to support effective departmental decision making by defining and communicating strategies regarding client information delivery and getting client approval for proposed strategies and projects.
• Managed the people, process and projects in a dynamic agile environment by well-coordinated task and change management.
• Mentor both information technology and BI teams on data warehouse and BI principles, techniques and best practices to aid in the successful implementation of BI solutions and an enterprise data Warehouse.

Tools: Program/Project Management, Portfolio/Asset Management, AGILE/SCRUM, Visio, Excel, MS Project, TFS, Data warehousing, BI, ETL, SQL Analysis Services, Visual Studio, Team Foundation, .Net 4.0, C#, WPF, SOA, WCF, ASP.Net, HTML5, JQuery, JSON, AJAX, Infragistics, Telerik, Design Patterns, MVVM, EF, ETL, MDM, EDW, SAP, Confidential, CCAR, Mobile, Silverlight, Sybase, SQL Server, Unix, Linux, Windows.

Confidential, Bakersfield, CA

Senior Architect/ Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided project analysis, mentoring, management, data research, analysis, integration, systems architecture, and data modeling.
• Responsible for managing the scope and project initiatives driven by a team of 100+ onshore offshore resources with an approved of 250M+.
• Responsible for authorizing and approving projects, build project lists, allocating resources, other project managers, requirement analysis, management of scope and resources.
• Responsible for the implementation of a large data warehouse with years of oil well data that requires extensive analysis, design, statistical processing, complex data caching, workflows, data assimilation, rules processing and reporting.
• Worked with multiple stakeholders in identifying the data requirements, information gaps and outlined the diverse steps needed to build an integrated data system. Provided the data warehouse development methodology and created the data warehouse architecture and dimensional model in developing an effective system.
• Responsible for the implementation of the enterprise wide portal using MVVM pattern, C#, WCF, ASP.Net, Web parts, SharePoint that reports BI data from cubes using WCF Minerva Services, MDX queries, ChartFx, grids and multiple processes and controls.
• Facilitated daily, weekly and monthly meetings, sprint planning, scrum sessions to ensure that we are in budget, schedule and scope of project.
• Facilitated onshore, offshore communication model across multiple teams, sharing resources, processes, contracts, proprietary documents access across multiple channels through a secured network.
• Responsible for project closeouts, delivery of tasks on time, documentation of project charter, related s and acceptable project standards.
• As a mentor providing guidance, standards, management,, presentations, knowledge transfers, R&D and support through the project life cycle.

Tools: Program/Project Management, Agile/Scrum, Matrix, Cross functional, Visio, Excel, MS Project, TFS, Confidential Visual Studio .Net, Visual Studio Team Foundation, C#, Design Patterns, MVP, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, JSON, ASP.Net, XAML, Expression Blend, WCF, WF, ChartFx, Telerik, Web Services, SQL Server, LINQ, CRM, EF, ETL, MDM, EDW, Silverlight, SharePoint, Unix, Linux, Windows.