SUMMARY

• Over 16 years of experience in all the phases of project management life cycle (PMLC). Managing the development, implementation and maintenance of IT applications and software on a variety of platforms.
• Extensive experience of managing projects within the constraints of scope, time, cost, risk and quality.
• Proven results of successfully delivering initiatives on time and within budget.
• Strengths include a big picture focus and matrix management of multi - functional teams of over 50 employees.
• Experience with enterprise solutions within the PMO using multiple methodologies (PMBOK, Waterfall, Agile, Six Sigma, CMM) and software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience working with cross functional teams and business areas
• Experience managing concurrent multiple projects. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Industry experience includes Telecom, Financial and Auto.
• Experience working with business and technical sponsors and stakeholders.
• Expert knowledge of MS Project, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, Word, Sharepoint and WebEx.
• Comfortable working with vendors and virtual/international teams across time zones.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies / Frameworks / Architecture / Technologies: Multi tier architecture, PMBOK, Six Sigma, Agile, SCRUM, CMM, SDLC, Global delivery model, Offshore team management, Matrix Team management, Requirements engineering, system analysis and process improvement

Tools: HP Quality center 6.2, CA Clarity, MS SharePoint, JIRA, Source forge, Visual source safe, MS Office 2010, MS Project 2010, MS Visio 2010, Oracle application server 4.0, Oracle 10g, Quest software, ER Win

Programming Languages: Java, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, HTML and JavaScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Project Manager - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Managing IT projects with offshore delivery model.
• Individual PM job responsibilities include conducting project kick-off meetings; validating and managing project scope; facilitating technical, operational and/or business requirements definition for development initiatives; developing detailed baseline project plans; tracking and managing projects against that baseline to successful completion; communicating status, issues and risk to project stakeholders and management; providing leadership to the cross functional project team and maintaining the project documentation archive.
• ADP Implementation, Houston, TX: The project was SAS payables application system with docusign integration for role based approvals for an oil and gas company. The project implementation successfully removed the process bottlenecks in payments processing and increased the revenue by over 20% accounting the discounts for on time processing. I was responsible for the total project delivery from planning to successful deployment involving offshore project teams from IT and QA. The total cost of the project was over $ 750 K and had a team size of 15. The project was scheduled for six months. My responsibilities also included to identify the core team from Business, IT and third party implementation partner through evaluation and selection criteria derived from the project objectives.
• Procure to Pay (P2P), Houston, TX: The project was Oracle Financials (P2P track) based BPM process efficiency initiative for procurement, payables and inventory. I collaborated and executed the deployment and Go-Live activities of the project for a period of six months working with Business, IT and testing teams monitoring the DTS assignments and test cycles through successful implementation of the project. The total cost of the project was budgeted over $ 500 K
• NSI, Detroit, MI: The project delivered the technology migration initiative of transforming the static website of a manufacturing company located in Michigan, USA to a dynamic website using Drupal with content management capabilities for the website administrator. The cost of the project was $ 50 K and had a team size of 5. The project was for three months.
• Mott, Michigan: The project was the .Net 3.5, SQL server and Bootstrap based system for a community college in Michigan, USA for course enrollment on intranet. I was responsible for the total project delivery from inception to successful deployment involving matrix based project teams from Business, QA, Infrastructure teams with offshore delivery model. The total cost of the project was over $ 100 K and had a team size of 7. The project was for four months.

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

Project Manager - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Person in-charge of the auto major’s IT initiative. Handled a high visibility project with multiple teams both offshore and onsite.
• Defined and validated project scope.
• Created project plans and schedules.
• Selected and applied standards, delivery processes, roles and responsibilities; ensured team compliance.
• Identified and assessed risks with mitigation plans.
• Managed project delivery process (drove project through methodology gateways; tracked progress, identified, escalated, and resolved issues).
• Managed scope; analyzed impacts to project, clarified dependencies, constraints and assumptions. Evaluated and administered scope change requests.
• Managed project costs; estimated/forecasted project funding, requestedbudget and made reallocation decisions, and ensured the project was within budget.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Project Manager - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT projects of budget over $ 6 million and team size over 50.
• Roadmap monitoring and mentoring of other Project Managers in accordance with the PMO directives.
• Published Agendas, Minutes, Issues Logs, Schedules and Budgets.
• Provided overall guidance to project team to ensure solution met the application area needs.
• Communicated project status, decisions and issues to core team and program leadership.
• Escalated issues as needed. Ensured resources were allocated to support project efforts.
• Engaged resources to gather additional information for project team as needed.
• Communicated and validated requirements and assumptions with peers.
• Participated in working sessions throughout project. Facilitated sessions using LiveMeeting.
• Pre-foreclosure Project: The project delivered the .Net 3.5 and SQL server based web system compatible with IE 7 to in corporate the federal, state and local government regulations in identifying the qualified home loans subjected to pre-foreclosure process. I was responsible for the total project delivery from inception to successful deployment involving matrix based project teams from Business, QA, Infrastructure, Release management and IT teams with offshore delivery model. The total cost of the project was over $ 900 K and had a team size of over 30. The project was over nine months in duration.
• BLQ (Breach letter queue) Project: The project delivered the .Net 3.5, SQL server and PDF based system to generate the regulatory breach letters for the defaulted home loans. I was responsible for the total project delivery from inception to successful deployment involving matrix based project teams from Business, QA, Infrastructure, Release management and IT teams with offshore delivery model. The total cost of the project was over $ 500 K and had a team size of over 20. The project was over seven months in duration.
• Monthly releases: Managed the monthly releases of small projects of various focus areas (call center systems, mainframe maintenance, web site management, database changes, fixes etc.). At any given month, I managed a minimum of fifteen projects involving over 50 team members. The monthly cost of the projects was over $ 300 K.

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Project Manager - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Individual PM job responsibilities include conducting project kick-off meetings; validating and managing project scope; facilitating technical, operational and/or business requirements definition for development initiatives; developing detailed baseline project plans; tracking and managing projects against that baseline to successful completion; communicating status, issues and risk to project stakeholders and management; providing leadership to the cross functional project team and maintaining the project documentation archive.
• Roadmap monitoring and mentoring of other Project Managers in accordance with the PMO directives.
• Published Agendas, Minutes, Issues Logs, Schedules and Budgets.
• Provided overall guidance to project team to ensure solution met the application area needs.
• Communicated project status, decisions and issues to core team and program leadership.
• Escalated issues as needed. Ensured resources were allocated to support project efforts.
• Engaged resources to gather additional information for project team as needed.
• Communicated and validated requirements and assumptions with peers.

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Project Manager; Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Increased Verizon’s revenue from $150K to $70m in a 5 year span by follow through on assigned projects and also by implementing the 3-Tier architecture of IT systems.
• Enhanced the IT services delivery workflow resulting in cost effective and optimized resource usage by more than 200 %.
• Was responsible to lead and review the RFPs, GAP analysis of current and target state of IT systems and derive the functional requirements of IT systems, development and deployment.
• Was also responsible for the ongoing project delivery and deployment involving matrix based project teams from Business, QA, Infrastructure, Release management and IT.
• Created work breakdown structure (WBS) for work packages and milestones with 8-80 granularity using MS Project 2003. Established critical path (CPM) using network diagrams and inter dependent relationships of individual tasks.
• Created traceability matrix for project documents and deliverables using Excel 2003.
• Managed the Waterfall SDLC phases with specific exit criteria of deliverables.
• Was responsible for Project scope monitoring and controlling using formal change request process and MS Project 2003. Risk identification, risk response planning and risk monitoring of all the projects using traceability matrix.
• Was responsible for Task assignment, Resource forecasting, Delegation, Scheduling and tracking of projects using MS Project 2003. Crashing and fast tracking the projects for effective project schedule management.
• Lead the project meetings and technical review meetings with specific agenda items, followed up with minutes of the meeting and action items.
• Developed and executed the project communication management plan for regular project status reporting to stakeholders.
• Configuration management of project documents and deliverables using Source Forge and Visual Source Safe.
• Analyzed, designed and deployed the IT products using Oracle, web servers, HTML, MS Excel, JAVA, JavaScript, web queries and PL / SQL packages.