SUMMARY:

• Overall 17 years of total industry experience, 12 year Project Management and hands - on experience involving infrastructure which includes, VM’s, telephony, Windows Server, Cisco equipment in order to re-design networks and servers.
• 5 years hands on working experience as System/Network Administrator, configured routers, switches, firewalls and VPNs, installed Microsoft and Linux/Solaris OS, setup LAN/WAN,VOIP and intranet solutions.
• Managed onsite and offshore development teams to deliver customer requirements for multiple parallel executing projects including ERP, Web applications, Infrastructure, Oracle PLM, on time and budget for Fortune 1,000 customers using the Microsoft Technology Stack and Java.
• Solid project management skills that include initiating/kick off, planning/scheduling, executing, monitoring budgeting/cost control, using Agile methodologies and tools, scope management, budgeting, financial tracking, resource management inclusive of solution identification and assessment. Proficient in waterfall and Agile project management methodologies.
• Talented at Team management, Risk management, and Communication. Technically-savvy with outstanding relationship building, training and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management
• Driven to get best from self and team
• Detail and deadline drivenConflict resolution
• Communication with executive management
• Resource acquisition and mentoring
• Strong communication Extremely organized
• Client assessment and analysisManage budgets
• Risk mitigationSystem and Networks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project planning, delivery, time & effort estimation, requirements, user/stakeholder expectations, maintaining Profit & Loss reports, and conducting training sessions.
• Infrastructure work that included projects on Windows Server, Cisco equipment, VM managed manager servers. Designed infrastructure environment for enterprise scalable applications with transactional database use.
• 5 years hands on working experience as System/Network Administrator, configured routers, switches, firewalls and VPNs, installed Microsoft and Linux/Solaris OS, setup LAN/WAN,VOIP and intranet solutions
• Set up Xavor network company-wide infrastructure that included VPN, firewalls, routers and security.
• 5 year of lead manager of custom enterprise application development teams
• Leading 35+ people on high-impact initiatives for various clients and projects, delivered using Agile/SAFe and Waterfall methodologies.
• Pre-sales activities/SOW for generating new leads and opportunities to acquire new projects.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Multiple systems required consolidation including the server infrastructure. Helped design and implement on premises applications hosting. These included Agile PLM on the Oracle technology stack using WebLogic, Oracle database, Windows distributed Tomcat file manager.
• Upgraded Oracle Agile PLM 9.3.0 to 9.3.5 for the entire application stack including proxy, application server, database, for all three environments/Platforms. Helped re-define their process in Product Collaboration and Product Governance & Compliance on Agile PLM
• Created project plan for the Agile upgrade and re-implementation activities. Allocate resources and fixed milestones.
• Conducted user training for network and admin teams, coordinated business workshops with engineering team. Facilitated pre and post workshops questions and answers from all stakeholders to converge upon a solution.

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned and Designed an approach to setup geo disaster recovery for Confidential ’ Agile PLM
• Coordinated between network Infrastructure team, server team, and application development teams as facilitator.
• Setup the Agile PLM environment in a secondary data center. Installed all required software, including Oracle Database 11g R2, WebLogic, Agile 9.3.1 and then upgraded to 9.3.2.
• Selected team to deliver script iterations, worked as scrum master and developed burn-down chart.
• Conducted daily stand up meetings, and helped resolve impediments to progress.

Confidential, Irvine, CA.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Infrastructure Management application (DCIM)for 200+ data center locations tracked from a central location for capacity management.
• Conducted detailed requirement gathering, which was 6 months duration. Delivered using hybrid of waterfall and Agile methodologies with an 8 person team.
• Gave weekly status updates, identified risks, made changes, managed resources, coordinated user acceptance testing, and GO-Live.
• 13 major releases delivered during the multiyear project as per committed time lines within budget.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the team for a global effort to consolidate and redefine infrastructure for a Global Organization as part of acquisition process.
• Planed, executed and monitored activates throughout the project. Conducted fortnightly stakeholder meetings as well weekly team meetings, published minutes of the meeting and maintained Risk register.
• Worked with Telephony unit to figure out services required and consolidation of licensing and infrastructure.
• Addressed multiple challenges during the project to keep it on tack, and on time. Prepared many report matrixes to monitor and control the project.

Confidential, Massachusetts

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Projects included delivery of multiple custom process extensions (PX) and workflows in multiple iterations.
• Worked directly with business users to determine requirements for each release
• Created user stories and conducted sprint planning meetings to prioritize those user stories for sprints
• Monitored backlog and burn rate as well as carrying out daily standup meetings
• Conducted UAT sessions with business users
• Triaged and prioritized bugs and defects
• All releases were delivered under budget and before time.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• 60 critical feature enhancements in Microsoft Dynamix AX, with deadline committed to the CEO.
• All requests were in a helpdesk ticketing system with ambiguous and misleading statements.
• Understood requirements, presented the proposal, negotiated costs and created SOW that covered the scope.
• Delivered project as scrum master in 6 (Agile) sprints (Internal), and was able to honor CIO's commitment to deliver in time for Finance and Marketing departments.
• Implementing Agile and bringing the sprint cycles to a shorter rhythm
• Need for improving collaboration across enterprise and improve the look and feel of existing portal used by different departments.
• Conducted initial analysis and on site workshops to gather requirements, and business were presented with different UI options.
• Facilitated meetings, identified and managed risks, changes, resource pool, and participated in user acceptance testing, trainings and GO-Live.
• As a result of this project online training for the employees was offered as well Business units took the owner ship of maintaining their departmental website up to date.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project objective was to improve collaboration between distributed Confidential stores/outlets across the globe. Used SharePoint as collaboration tool, and improved collaboration by 15%.
• Worked directly with business users to determine requirements, presented release plans, and facilitated user acceptance testing.
• Led team of 5 engineers, developed the features and enhancements in the collaboration portal for retail, and automated business processes to avoid human error.
• As part of the project did re-branding of the sites, and restructure of information.
• I delivered the project within budget, and time lines committed.
• I Developed the framework of processes to transition knowledge base and applications.
• Lead and managed teams to support our client, more than 20 applications were supported.
• The applications stack included outlook Addin, IT hardware and software resource database, METLab wrapper, Package Design Tracker, Travel form approval, Fab Process Change Notification, QA Document Control.
• I led the team as project manager provided weekly status reports to IT and business, prioritized releases with the help of product owner, and setup the team and customized processes to provide 24x7 support on critical software applications with the help of onsite and offshore teams.
• The support model complied with the 99.9% SLAs and got appreciation from the client on quarterly basis.
• The client saved millions of dollars by using offshore support model.