SUMMARY:

• PMP Certified project manager as well as Certified Scrum Master with over 18+ years of total IT experience, strong technical background (Java/j2ee) and management skills; success leading all phases of diverse technology/ecommerce projects; worked mostly with Major Financial institutions.
• Accomplished servant - leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.
• Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Business strategist: plan, manage, assist, execute multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communicator: leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client 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.
• Expertise in Agile and work in hybrid (waterfall & agile) Matrix environment.
• Led Teams across broad technical, financial & business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives & tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget 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.
• Defined and implemented processes and tools (Quality) 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.

SKILLS SUMMARY:

Custom Software Development

Database Design (RDBMS)

Systems Engineering

System Migrations/Integrations

Enterprise wide Implementations.

Requirements Analysis

ROI/COST Benefit Analysis, Costing & Budgeting, Project Scheduling Testing/QA/Rollout/Support

Focus on Quality controls & Quality deliverables.

Agile Principals

Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings, Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives

Relative Estimation

Epics/Features/User stories.

Conflict Resolution

Project Management

Communication

Support Releases

Value-Added Leadership:

Strong Agile Experience

Cross-Functional Supervision.

Team Building & Mentoring

Client Relations & Presentations

Business & IT Planning

Vendor Management

Interpersonal Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Java/J2EE.: AWS (Cloud computing) Java (core/Security), EJB, C, C++. Ext-JS, Angular-JS, Struts, JSP, JSF, HTML5, JavaScript/ JQuery.Spring, Hibernate/JPA, SOA, python, SOA REST/AXIS Web services.

Messaging: JMS/MQ series.

DB: Oracle, MongoDB.

Servers: Weblogic/websphere, Jboss, Tomcat.

Tools: /Env Unix/Linux, Maven/Ant, Subversion, Jenkins, GIT repo,Version One, JIRA/Greenhopper), MS Project, Clarity.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the successful implementation of large-scale complex ecommerce project that impact multiple areas across the bank.
• Manage projects of great complexity, involving participation from and impacting multiple functions across the business lines and address outstanding compliance and Audit issues for Consumer Credit Card.
• Manage overall delivery of project cross functionality through each project phase including requirements gathering, design, build/customization, integration, testing and post implementation.
• Planning and Delivery of various systems impacts with Letter compliance issues.
• Analyze/close all production tickets associated with Credit Letter compliance/Audit issues. Migration of all Letter data and infrastructure to centralize one place for Audit purpose
• Responsible for drafting the project Charter for Account letter compliances initiatives various impacted systems.
• Create and manage all project Artifacts - Project charter, implementation plan, current/future state, Use cases.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum daily stand up, work with Product owners to break down Epics/Features into user stories.
• Define, track and Ensure completion of project milestones and deliverables.
• Proposed current/future state for Customer care applications (CCD Credit/Care) to address compliance and Audit.
• Conduct JAD sessions with various impacted teams for Brainstorming and deep dive into requirements. Attend scrum of scrum, Responsible for Creating Epics and Features in Rally.
• Create project presentations and presents to business, management and to technical teams as well for PE Session.
• Ensure projects are completed according to time ad budged schedules, and that objectives confirm to line of business overall standards, operations objectives, user requirements and client needs.
• Provide current status and updates on programs as requested with executive management, partners and internal project teams.
• Build cross organizational relationships. understanding of Credit Card Compliance and PCI Compliance requirements including application level security standards and best practices.

Project Manager

Confidential, Newark, DE

Responsibilities:

• Project / technical manager roles as well as Scrum Master working with multiple teams in Confidential .
• Working with Credit card compliance issues as per government regulatory rules and also making sure to align with PCI compliance for good customer experience.
• Mentoring teams on Agile practices, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospective, release & spring planning, capacity planning, demos. Create and manage project artifacts - product backlog, user stories, Tasks and performance report, cost, release plan, user guides, implementation plan. Rally tool for managing scrum artifacts and team performance. Ability to lead complex efforts utilizing teams from many different internal groups & geographic locations.
• Lead meetings, conduct JAD sessions set agendas, drive decisions & negotiate “win/win/ solutions. Identifying, resolving and removing Impediments. Coached/promoting management, team and vendors on the agile frameworks and using scrum for development & coaching/implementing engineering best practices.
• Participate in Product backlog & User Stories (Agile projects) meetings along with the Product Owner to effectively capture Product Backlog and User Stories. Identify risks and assess the potential effect on the project.
• Track & reports on project progress to sponsors weekly, monitor risks throughout the project & inform key audiences of these risks. Present project Goals, timelines, accomplishments, issues, critical actives, Risks, watch items, to stakeholders in monthly portfolio meetings. Detailed problems, risks, changes and next steps to team are stakeholders. Develop & recommends plans to mitigate risks.
• Proactively managed project budget of over $10M project and due diligence to cut down the cost of project by 200k to 300k. Monthly forecast of actual effort, Direct & indirect costs using Project Management tools (PCM web, PPRT, PDWARE, Nexus). Create /maintain repository for project artifacts such as status reports, schedules, meeting minutes, issues/risk logs, decision etc. Manage & control project tollgate activities & project quality assessments.
• Responsible for the accuracy & timely processing of issues, risks, monitoring & follow up on the status & ensuring resolution. Manage all aspects of the project phase (Initiation to Rollout).

Development/ Build Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for product deliverables and success. Plan, schedule and execute all stages of MyClient applications Suite.
• Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards, cost targets, maintain scope & schedule.
• As Scrum Master Direct & managed multiple scrum teams with resources located in multiple locations.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies - Release & sprint planning, Grooming, product review & demo’s retrospectives, daily stand ups.
• In corporate change & continuous improvement increasing the productivity of scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 25 %. Enforce Quality, measure quality and watch for maturity over a period of time. SONAR for quality reporting, SSAP & dynamic scanning for security of software and code vulnerabilities. Work on remediation & security with development teams & vendors.
• Migrating legacy apps to new technologies/infrastructure, Pilot phase to aggregate customer Data to cloud (AWS), Spark, Mongo DB.
• Stories, tasks & maintaining all Scrum Artifacts (burn down/burn up chart, performance, cost etc.) JIRA. Coaching team on effective use of the tool. Led teams to overcome dysfunctions, improve creativity and continuous delivery.
• Business meetings, gather requirements, reporting status on weekly basis to management/stakeholders and manage risks pro-actively. Conduct defect calls/triages with cross functional teams and run with release.
• Install, Configure & Maintain infrastructure, Jenkins, Sonar, FAST (deployment tool), Maven/GIT repo.
• Responsible for Maintaining Build, Deploy, continuous integration in all Environments - DEV, TEST, PROD.
• JAVA/J2EE - Ext-JS, Angular-JS, JQuery, HTML5, REST WebServices, Oracle 11, UNIX/LINUX, Hibernate, JPA, spring, JUNIT, Mockito, Maven, GIT, MongoDB, Python, AWS (Cloud computing).
• Developed /Managed release of new technology services (REST WebServices) for mobile space. Managed the full life cycle development of Transfer, payments, Lost/Stolen Credit/Debit replacement Cards, Account landing page, Account summary/overview, Login page, Deposits projects -being developed using Java-J2EE framework.
• Facilitated Agile adoption and transformation of team from Waterfall to Agile environment, coached the team of agile practices resulting in enhanced performance and productivity.
• Daily scrum calls and maintain and track team performance thru scrum artifacts using scrum tools (Version one).
• Manage scope, effort / cost, schedule, and quality, while continuously identifying and mitigating underlying risks. Tracked costs to ensure adherence to budgetary limitations. Managed allocation/reallocation of resources to keep schedule as per plan. Created project Staff Assignments and managed project team.
• Successfully migrated from legacy third party applications (for windows, ipad, blackberry...) to BOA applications using HTML5 to maintain a single UI for all platforms migrate applications to Akamai data servers to increase speed and performance of the applications. Developed detailed risk management plan and risk response plan.
• Developed project plans and ensured milestones were met according to schedule. Tracked issues facilitated resolution and provided weekly status reports to senior management. Managed communication between stakeholders, providing regular status. Key player in process development and improvement, as well as successful audits, assessments, and appraisals: Monitored project work and controlled risks.
• Measured Quality against Quality metrics.
• Responsible for Leading ATLAS Scrum teams (Design and development of the CPATH Web services using Axis2).
• Maintaining Scrum Artifacts, facilitation scrum ceremonies, primarily owned (Analysis, Design, coding, testing, bug fixing) CPATH- GAI interface (CPATH is a client to GAI enterprise system which is implemented with MQ series). interfaces to GAI for User Enrollment, Re-enrollment, Disenrollment, Downgrades and Copy/Merge user profiles
• Using Spring JMS template to send/receive messages.
• Redesigning of existing application of Spring IOC, redesigning of the transactional context model with AOP (transactions, exceptions using AOP).
• Involved in Triages to solve cross platform issues. Provided Technical leadership on troubleshooting and resolution of issues.
• Prototyped mock GAI responders to get/put messages to MQ queues to make testing easy for the team avoiding network issues increasing team productivity.
• Concentrated on quality delivery with Code Quality, continuous testing), build, code coverage, code quality.
• Experience with Maven builds scripts.
• Monitor team progress regularly taking part in team’s various activities coordinating and assisting release and rollout plans.
• Established Agile methodologies like Scrum meetings, XP model following continues build, integration and test.
• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Setup SDLC process and best practices across the teams. 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, establish the infrastructure for various environments.
• JAVA/J2EE - HTML5, JSP, STRUTS, JQUERY, AXIS/REST Web Services WebServices, SPRING CXF, Oracle 11, UNIX/LINUX, Hibernate, JPA, Spring, JUNIT, Mockito, SOAPUI, JMS Messaging, Java Security, WSDL, SOAP, XML Schemas, JSON., Maven.

Project Lead

Confidential, DE

Responsibilities:

• Directed and executed from Project Initiation thru release for the new OTC Channel for both offline and online mode.
• Introduced Agile and XP models to the team supporting continuous Integration testing and team work.
• Facilitation of release & Sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint review, Demo and retrospective. Evaluating & recommending appropriate Scrum tools and best usage. Using standard Agile tracking (Version one).
• Developed prototype for the new OTC Channel product and delivered in incremental cycle (REST/Spring/JPA).
• Implemented Security features for the new OTC (SSL, Encryption/Decryption, message level security).
• Organized and actively participated several group activities to identify project, product requirements, resolve challenges in online/offline mode - Brainstorming, JAD Sessions, Group Decision making, managed conflicts.
• Tested application to check whether it meets all quality requirements (functionality, performance) as per Quality plan.
• Measured quality against quality metrics. Tested application to check whether it meets all quality requirements (functionality, performance) as per quality plan.
• Hibernate, JPA, JMS, JMX, JAXB, XML, spring (Spring JMS, AOP, IOC), Web Services, Axis 2, SOAP, REST, MQ Series, Websphere MQ server, JBOSS 5, ORACLE 10g, Linux, Perforce, Maven, SOAPUI, Spring Batch Framework, JUnit, JMockito.

DEV Lead

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Worked to establish a True Agile Environment leading scrum calls and effectively act as servant leader mentoring the team as well as assisting with technology, project/business issues and proactive participation to remove impediments.
• Worked with product management team to connect & to build an agile company and culture to deliver value both to customers and stakeholders. Major achievement with writing all frameworks API with MVC Spring Framework, Struts (Tiles, Validation, JSPs in the presentation tier for Vendor maintenance.
• Developed database Framework using Spring Data Persistence (MappingSQLQuery, SQLupdate, and JDBCTemplate). Responsible for developing and maintaining Maven POM Scripts and also Vendor maintenance project.
• Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, Spring MVC, Web Services, JMS, EJB, Beans, MAVEN, Jakarta Struts, XML, XSL, UML, Oracle9i, RAD 6.0, WSAD 6.0, RAD 6, Clear case, Agile tool (Version one).

Lead Developer

Confidential, DE

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed tested and deployed server-side web-based applications and product features for MQ Bridge and CPS System. Worked to build a highly motivated Agile team participating in daily scrum calls, effectively collaborate & work as a team. Peer programming, peer review and product demos.
• Worked on refactoring and redesigned Legacy MQ Bridge to new platform using JMS and MDB to improve performance.
• STRUTS1.2.8, TILES, EJB2.0, J2EE Design Patterns, JMS, MQ Series, XML, JavaScript, HTML, IBATIS, WSAD5.1, WebLogic 8.1, Harvest (version control), Subversion (SVN), Oracle9i, Toad (7.6), UNIX, XML, XSL, AJAX, WSDL,

Dev Lead

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing using Use Cases Diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Class diagrams.
• Used STRUTS TILES templates for Front end presentation, STRUTS validation Framework for Client and Server side validation. Educating team members providing technical assistance.
• Used EJBs (Entity beans and Session beans) in the architecture to update and to retrieve data from the database tables, developed various business logic to process around 150,000 ~ 200,000 claim messages that flow every day. The messages arrived into the large database (Oracle) using IBM MQ Series.Assist and help the development team with Technical issues helped team migrating from STRUTS1.0 TO STURST1.2.8. Developed Oracle Stored procedure for Qrouter process. Used Message Driven Beans and JMS API for handling the Claim Flow Messages.
• STRUTS1.2.8, TILES, JSP (JSTL), EJB2.0, J2EE Design Patterns, JMS, MQ Series, XML (parsers), Web Services WSAD5.1, CVS, JavaScript, HTML, Oracle9i, Toad (7.6), Visio 2003, Windows NT, Clearcase, UNIX.