PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Seasoned projects and programs management person with over fifteen years of hands - on experience built on strong foundation of Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford and PMP, CSM and CSPO certifications, with advanced training in Agile. Implemented up to 5 projects concurrently.
• Working with SMEs and others developed and implemented POCs to migrate over 1300 databases from the traditional infrastructure to specially created Applications Centric Infrastructure (ACI).
• SCRUM certified since 2009. Delivered projects using Agile & Scrumat Motorola, Sony, and Confidential .
• Successfully turned-around troubled initiatives and projects to synchronization and completion on time and within budget, with P&L and fiduciary responsibilities up to six million dollar.
• Directed and implemented initiatives for IT, ERP, Supply Chain software development, e-documentation, facilities built-up, manufacturing systems, processes, manufacturing engineering, quality, cost reduction, and data collection; from inception to completion, through Product and Software Development Life Cycles (PDLC/SDLC). Used JIRA and Oracle Web Center.
• PDLC and SDLC included requirements definition, AS-IS v/s TO-BE, gap analysis, flow charts, pre-sales conferences, RFQ, negotiations, selection, configuration, set-up, customizations, upgrades, patches, executing, testing, acceptance, Go-Live, compliance, support, documentation, change management, training, collection, concept, breadboard, proto, pre-prod, prod, and end-of-life stages.
• Directed and managed groups and departments of over seventy personnel. Orchestrated efforts of multi-cultural and cross-functional global teams of over 10 personnel.
• Four years of experience implementing and supporting all modules of Oracle Manufacturing with interface (Sierra Atlantic) to Agile PLM, from inception to completion. Oracle EBS: 12.0, 11i, 11.0.3 and 10.7 (SCM- MRP, BOM, WIP, INV, PO, OSFM & COST), 11i (IB & SA). Implemented Zesati BPM and PLM solution. Also, implemented MES solutions like OSFM, FAB300 and Camstar In-Site.
• During fifteen plus years of work in medical device and high-tech manufacturing, reduced cost and cycle times - each by over 20%, and inventory and scrap - each by over 50%, by implementing GMP, New Products Introduction - NPI, Design For Manufacturing - DFM, Design For Excellence - DFE, World Class Manufacturing - WCM, Just In Time - JIT, KANBAN, quality initiatives, Statistical Process Control - SPC, Automatic Data Acquisition - ADA, cost reductions, and supplier quality.
• Achieved projects and programs for - software, IT, ERP, Printed Circuit Boards - PCB, electro-mechanical assemblies and disposables; for products like - customized software development, ERP, Magnetic Resonance Imaging - MRI, Ultrasound, Hospital Sterilizers, Blood Analyzer and high-tech products; under stringent requirements of FDA, GMP, ISO9000, DMAIC & six sigma lean principles.
• Implemented GMP at Resonex, Diasonics, ASP division of Johnson & Johnson and ABAXIS.
• Experienced in medical device, high-tech, semiconductor, Class 100 clean room, Fabless mfg, metal fabrication, injection molding and ultrasonic welding. Also, used Clarity as well as Workday.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented POC plans to migrate over 1300 databases from the traditional network to specially created Applications Centric Infrastructure (ACI) network.
• Worked closely with the Architects, Design Engineers, Implementation & Operations (I&O) Engineers, and Network, Compute and Storage groups to develop and implement the above plans.

Program Manager

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented fusion of SDLC, Waterfall, Agile and Scrum principles and methodologies to create, track and release the CRs for Features, Collection and Plans in JIRA for various products.
• Managed product backlog,coordinated development and release between Engineering and ProductDevelopment. Worked with multiple groups to deliver on an average 25 features quarterly.
• Developed and implemented business process improvements for tracking and managing prototypes.
• Developed plans for relocating servers and 15 related applications with over hundred sub-applications.
• Worked closely with the Prototype Program Management, QA and Services groups. Defined the SW features and HW quantities requirements. Also performed classical BA functions.
• Managed Supply and Demand of Prototype with various groups. Also, acted as a Scrum Master.
• Set-up, implemented and managed processes for collecting, distributing and tracking prototype phone devices of various products, including JIRA Dashboards for various products.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the vendor project management groups and developed and implements projects for Oracle R12, Identity and Access Management (IAG/OIM), Concur, ADP EeTime, Oracle Security Assessment (Integrigy PentTest) and Single Sign-On (SSO) Projects.
• Program managed the Workday project to implement time and expense system.
• Orchestrated efforts of over thirty cross functional and multi-cultural, internal as well as external, technical as well as non-technical, global team members. Also, acted as a Scrum Master.
• Led daily product feature meeting. Managed product backlog.Coordinated development and release between Engineering, ProductDevelopment, and IT. Resolved over 100 CRs quarterly.
• Implemented fusion of SDLC, Waterfall, Agile and Scrum principles and methodologies.
• Used Oracle WebCenter. Introduced JIRA as change request management system.

Project Manager

Confidential, Cupertino, CA,

Responsibilities:

• Working with WWL, global regions and IS&T, developed and implemented projects for LDW.
• Developed and implemented projects to create logistics data warehouse with BOBJ (Business Object), and with over 3000 data elements from SAP and other applications. Leveraged these data elements to develop canned and dashboard reports, including reports for Logistics Leadership.
• Developed and implemented plans for Teradata. Used Scrum principles to prioritize requirements.

Consulting Director of Programs

Confidential, Oxnard, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented extremely aggressive initial launch and expansion programs for the company worth over one million dollar, including new Innovation Center and NPI of the company.
• Established IT and Facility departments. Selected and hired personnel.
• Developed and implemented programs for new products introduction, IT and facilities.
• Selected, procured and commissioned servers. Evaluated options, and selected and implemented hosted e-mail solution. Developed and implemented VPN and shared services solution. Implemented and supported InfinityQS, Solid Works, and Navision software.

Sr. Program Manager

Confidential, Union City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed business, financial and operations plan for corporation and divisions for IT and EBS services, with P&L responsibility for EBS division. Developed & implemented strategic partnerships.
• Developed, implemented and monitored budgets and schedules for IT and EBS joint ventures and managed services. Supported classical business analysis, pre-sales & business development efforts.
• Evaluated and established benefits program. Developed and implemented Employee Handbook.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Accomplished the project in additional ten months and $900K only, a significant achievement.
• Completely turned around and brought under control this troubled initiative by balancing triple constraints, by providing focus and direction, by working closely with vendor development team, by synchronizing a dysfunctional team and by using fusion of PMP, Agile & Scrum methodologies.
• Worked closely with manufacturing, process engineering, R&D engineering, customer project management, sales, marketing, IT and the vendor development teams to define, re-engineer and improve business processes and stream line the manufacturing systems and processes.
• Acted as a Scrum Master. Led daily product feature meetings. Managed product backlog.Coordinated development and release between Engineering, ProductDevelopment, IT, Marketing, etc. Worked with over 7-8 groups to deliver over 20 features quarterly.
• Performed classical business analysis. Evaluated and negotiated SLA and SMA contracts and change orders. Managed cross-functional team of 15 people.
• Developed and implemented projects to add and phase-out CMs.
• Developed and implemented 3PL project to enable CMs to execute shipping transaction and pay appropriate CMs while maintaining system integrity and proper back-end financial transactions.
• Developed and implemented project to more accurately, efficiently & consistently capture and automatically load in to the Oracle EBS system the critical product as built and serial numbers data at CMs and ODMs, to stop inadvertent shipment of incomplete products or systems. Used Clarity.
• Developed and implemented project to synchronize timing of, eliminate manual entry of and to automatically load data in to Oracle EBS at CMs thus reducing cost and eliminating data entry errors.
• Supported efforts to develop solution for Planning & Forecasting to replace highly time consuming and error prone manual process with automated process where data from various sources will come in to one place. Performed classical business analysis functions. Reviewed Reverse Logistics requirements.
• Supported project to implement weight and destination based freight rebate instead of flat rebate.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented supply chain project plans and budgets. Secured executive approvals.
• Re-engineered business processes. Developed & implemented Java based Zesati BPM projects-$1MM.
• Achieved multi-fold cost reduction for business processes in operations, finance and sales & marketing. These were full SDLC implementations, from inception to stabilization.
• Implemented these projects under very demanding and extremely aggressive timelines & budgets.
• Recommended, facilitated, negotiated and implemented solutions among internal and external groups.
• Tested and released new processes, and supported Stabilization. Conducted testing and training.