SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Senior Project Management professional with over 33 years of progressive experience, including 22 years in comprehensive leadership roles.
• He has worked in various industries with business domain expertise in Insurance, Manufacturing, Banking/Finance, Utilities and ERP.
• I have delivered more than 100 projects, medium to large size/complex projects. I have experience with Program with Business projects, Application Development or Infrastructure or Data Warehousing/Big Data or Risk/Compliance or cloud/Data Center migration projects with sound experience of Project Management tools and Waterfall/Agile/Scrum or SAFe Agile methodologies.
• Additionally, Confidential has worked on large enterprise Infrastructure projects forhardware, software roll - out, data integration projects, and application migration.
• Experience within the commercial lines of the insurance industry as it relates to Property and Casualty lines of business.
• Most recent experience with Data Center Cloud migration projects to define strategy, Governance model (Security, Availability/Performance and execution) for Cloud migration.
• Confidential was Responsible for Release Plan, Program Increment (PI Objectives), Release train Engineer (Chief Scrum Master) and Team allocation.

SKILLS:

Industries: Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing, Utilities, IT Consulting, Airlines/Aviation, Retail

Client Companies: State Farm Insurance, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, GE Aircraft Engine, GE Capital Fleet Services, Stride Rite corporation, Cap Gemini, Southern California Edison

Roles: Sr.Project Manager, program Manager, Delivery Manager, Business Development Manager, IT Manager, Resource and Portfolio manager

Areas of Expertise: Strategic Project/Program Management | Agile Business Strategy | IT Strategy Planning and Portfolio Management | IT / agile Transformation| Quality Management | Customer Relationship Management | PMO and Center of PM Excellence implementation | SDLC| Business Process Analysis | High-Performance Team Building | Excellent mix of Technical/Leadership experience | Executive and High level Stakeholder Management | Effective leader/Coach/Navigator and active team player

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Project Management Tools: Primavera, MS Project, CA- Clarity, MS Office, MS Visio, Lotus notes, Share point and Version-One, TFS for Agile and other tools.

Project Management Methodology: Agile, Waterfall, Scaled Agile framework (SAFe), Lean/CMMI-SEI and iterative development, Release Train Management

Software: COBOL, C and Basic languages, Assembly languages, Java and .Net Projects/Web Development, IBM Mainframe development

Databases: ORACLE/SQL/DB2, SAP/ERP, SYBASE

Operating Systems: Windows, Linus/Unix, Solaris

Hardware: Client Virtualization with Citrix/NetScaler, Data Center migration with Linux and Windows-Virtualized environment, Storage SAN-NAS, DASD, VTS

Applications: Web Development projects - Java/.NET, M/F Development projects

Industries: Financials, Insurance, Banking, Manufacturing, Utilities and Retail

Tools: - Enterprise content management tools - FileNet P8, Captiva, Control-D, Risk and Compliance Tool - Archer, IT SM Tools Suite - HP Service Manager, HP UCMDB, HP- Asset Manager, HP-OO, BMC performance monitoring tools., Skype for business for unified Communication - IM and Video/Audio conference, Office 365 migrations for Organizational productivity.

Cloud and Data Center Migration: Assessment, Evaluation, Strategy and approach for migration and execute migration programs and projects. Workstation, Server, Network and other technologies to multiple data centers or Cloud migration.

Data warehouse: DB2, Hadoop architecture tools

IT Security Risk and Compliance (IT SRC): Risk/compliance framework implementation

Insurance Domain: Commercial Lines, Property and Casualty & Policy and Claims, Conceptual Knowledge of Guidewire.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Based on business priority, IOE PMO delivers and supports all infrastructure, data analytics, Security and business continuity projects.
• Many of the applications are customer facing and mission critical, need to be upgraded with latest technology to benefit Customers of Confidential .
• Lead the Tech-ops re-architecture/infrastructure, Data Analytics, Cloud and business critical projects
• Planning & Scheduling, Stakeholders management, Issue-Risk-Dependency management, Budget and Schedule management
• Project Management office support function - Gate keeping process enhancements, PMLC and SDLC process improvement.
• Full knowledge of Capex/Opex, EDBA (Envision, Design, Build and Activate) Cycle.
• Working closely with Marie Lee (Deralyn O’Connell - managing Director IOE PMO), Pat Sweeney - Sr PM.
• Brings lot of experience from Portfolio management/Strategy planning to delivery and setting up support team/support life cycle of Product and application

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Sr. Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master and PM

Responsibilities:

• Built a high-performance agile product team to re-engineer the organization’s enterprise Data Center consolidation program, worked more as RTE (Scrum of Scums), managed team of Scrum masters
• Stood up and leveraged advanced Agile/Scrum teams and practices (e.g., Multiple work streams, Scrum-of-Scrums)
• With the use of JIRA (Agile/Scrum Management Tool), I was able to maintained a daily, predictable, and continual pulse/visibility on the ‘Value-Streams’, velocity of the team, integrity of the Product/Sprint Backlogs and the relative integration points and dependencies that could/would adversely impact the Scrum Team.
• I was also leading some of the infrastructure projects where traditional waterfall methodology used as per PMO/Sponsorship direction. It was aligned with Program Delivery goals and objectives.
• Plan and execute the Data Center Upgrade and Migration project - transforming and/or migrating the entire Data Center from its current location or state to the new data center.
• Provide leadership over the project team (including Client Engineers, internal IT staff, vendors and contract staff including on-shore and off-shore resources).
• Partner and build collaborative relationships with Business, Infrastructure leadership and Vendor to ensure successful execution of the data center migration.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Senior Project Manager - Agile Scrum Master, PM

Responsibilities:

• Led a series of strategic and tactical projects (Agile/waterfall) for Enterprise Customer Communication (EC2) Program to bring efficiency on any customer communication. 2 projects were following agile approach and other 2 Projects were using waterfall approach.
• Responsible for Agile PM and Traditional PM role as it was matrix organization and it was in the middle of moving to agile (Enterprise Agile Transformation phase)
• Enterprise Data center Design (EDD) and Cloud Migration Project/program (2+ years): AGILE PM/SCRUM MASTER, Traditional Project Manager:
• As part of Data Center migration, worked on various program management office, starting PMO, Facility Management office (FMO), Technical management office (TMO), Infrastructure Management office - IMO, Migration Management office (MMO) and Operations/Service Management office (OMO).
• Executed few large projects with IMO and MMO.
• Starting from PI planning, scope identification, aligning scope by management office and defining Work streams, Setting up Agile Team, Worked as RTE (Scrum or Scrums) with different projects with different technology (Hardware, Networking, Storage, Applications, Databases) to making it successful cutover and operational to new data center or cloud.
• IT Infrastructure Management and Enterprise Technology transformation projects
• Enterprise Workstation and Server Release, Enterprise Server management tool, Client virtualization release, Skype optimization solution, Software distribution management system and workflow enhancement projects.
• IT Service Management: HPSM and its integrated Web services enhancements to exchange the data between tools. Developing consolidated reporting model using Informatica/Cognos.
• Developing Asset risk assessment framework, consolidating all asset information from various tools, Developing risk criticality scoring model and establishing criticality scope for internal and external audit authorities. (Developed Compliance framework with reference to PI, PII, PCI, HIPPA, SOX, GLBA guidelines)
• Data Warehousing/Data Analytics/Big Data projects (4 years): (Mix of Agile and Traditional Waterfall) - AGILE PM/SCRUM MASTER and Project Manager
• Developing consolidated big data store for IT Service Management data for Change, Problem, Knowledge, and Incident management data (ITIL) for daily, monthly and periodic reporting as well as analytics reports.
• Enterprise content management/Digital projects (3 Years): Mix of Agile and Traditional Waterfall) - AGILE PM/SCRUM MASTER - Full Agile
• Developing, Maintaining and enhancing various content management tools like FileNet, Captiva, Control-D and more.
• Integrating line of business data to provide common share to web/mobile applications.
• Banking and Insurance Business domain projects (3 Years): (Mix of Agile and Traditional Waterfall) - AGILE PM/SCRUM MASTER and Project Manager
• Bank Application Development (User interface and UI Backend) Projects, Combined Statement projects, Operation Center - Workload Management enhancement projects. Auto insurance rate roll out projects
• Used agile tools, Primavera, MS Project and other techniques for all projects in last 16 years.
• Helping program and portfolio management on Strategy Planning, Work prioritization, Sequencing, Roadmap creation for their support area and engaged in envision/initiation process.
• Helped business sponsor to work on developing product life cycle and sunset/support strategy for various products used in IT Organization.
• Establishing PMO function, Develop Program Management Framework for projects.
• Managed 3rd Party Vendor relationship and Vendor resources on project, program.
• Managed Contractual agreement with Vendor on Product and resource performance.
• Responsible for managing multiple large size projects for US Clients and providing offshore solution as Sr. Project Manager/Program Manager.
• Managing 250+ Resource pool.
• Working on pre-sales and pre-project planning, working with vendors and meeting client expectations

Confidential

Manager - Systems (IT Manager)

Responsibilities:

• Managed entire IT Department, IT Strategy planning and procurement, IT Infrastructure management, Enterprise Application Integration and Application Development, Product and Project Life Cycle Management, User experience Management, ERP implementation, Vendor Management, Enterprise IT Transformation.
• Worked as “Manager Systems” Reporting CEO/Managing Director. Managed SYSTEMS department of two engineering divisions - - Entire IT Department of 40-50 people.
• IT Infrastructure Selection, Management and Implementation: Fully responsible of IT Infrastructure Selection, Procurement, Management and implementation. Worked on establishing enterprise network solution, HP UNIX systems, RDMS Selection and Client - Desktop/laptop and other hardware equipment.
• ERP implementation for Engineering division- Bill Of Materials, Inventory management system, Procurement, Accounts Payable/receivable, CRM and Sales management modules.

Confidential

MIS Executive)/Sr. Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Application Integration, Application Development, Product Life Cycle Management, User experience Management, Management Information System solution delivery and IT Services Management.
• Started as Sr. Programmer as well as used File system, UNIX, UNIFY/ORACLE RDBMS, reporting to SYSTEMS Manager.
• Managed small teams of programmers/developers.
• Application Development: Delivered program/Projects for Sales and International marketing Management System, Payroll accounting system, inventory management System.
• IT Infrastructure Selection, Management and Implementation: key team member with Manager (IT) for technical analysis, procurement, and implementation: Infrastructure and Software.

Technical Skills: Oracle DB Administration and Development, C and Basic Programming, Unix Administration, Web based MIS tools for executives

Confidential

Software programmer

Responsibilities:

• Programmer for COBOL and IBM 1401/Auto-Coder
• Delivered Systems/projects for Human Resource Management system, inventory management System, Stock distribution system, Fixed Deposit accounting system, Financial accounting system.
• Was working with business partner to discuss, document and code specifications.