SUMMARY

• 16 years of IT experience with over with over 6+ years of Project Management experience in managing multi - million-dollar projects, coordinating with global workforce of 40+ team members (US, India, and Mexico), and performing budget allocation and analysis.
• Scrum certified professional aiming to leverage considerable agile experience and efficiency expertise into project manager role and agile practices.
• Championed Agile concepts & methodologies and successfully guided two development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development
• Ability to identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal, facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Facilitated Agile Adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance
• Led development of processes and forms that supported full SDLC life-cycle for IT during stand-up of IT Project Management Office (IT PMO)
• Participated in PMO activities, including demand and project portfolio management, facilitated prioritization workshops and communicated with senior management and stake holders.
• Strong experience in developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Proven ability to identify, manage and mitigate risks to minimize impact to successful delivery of project
• Strong experience in managing all aspects of a project including project planning, execution, schedule, quality, cost and early identification of potential issues
• Proven ability to manage the relationship with stakeholders and clients, evaluate their interests and establish effective communication channels
• Excellent experience in managing multiple project teams ensuring efficient use of resources
• Ensure resource availability, procurement and allocation
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Custom Software Development

Systems Engineering: System Migrations/Integrations

IT Project Lifecycle: Requirements Analysis

Costing & Budgeting: Project Scheduling

Testing/QA/Rollout/Support: Value

Added Leadership: Cross-Functional Supervision

Team Building & Mentoring: Vendor Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Member of Agile Startup group to assist transition from waterfall to agile
• Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach 2 scrum teams responsible for developing software products.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 12% and the quality of deliverables by 10%
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders
• Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown and Burnup Charts'. Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team thru the project management processes.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Application Development Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project management for top-priority technology initiatives to build and roll out next generation Point of Sales (POS) system.
• Managed budgets of up to $4M/annum and cross-functional teams of up to 40 developers, programmers, analysts and infrastructure specialists (across USA, India, Mexico).
• System Integrations/Migrations: Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms and the merger of disparate systems
• Successfully managed seamless migration and roll out of new Point of Sales system to 8500+ stores
• Managed large-scale enterprise initiatives from initiation to closure such as Loyalty program, Chip and pin, Store configuration tool, Apple pay, Customer Scorecard
• Accomplished projects with no unscheduled downtime and delivered by as much as $500K under budget
• Drove impressive process improvements to collectively reduce move to market time and associated cost. Shortened the deployment cycle by 30%, and reduced cost by 10%.
• Implemented continuous delivery by collaborating with DevOps team and integrated application with continuous delivery DevOps tools
• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
• Liaison with business stakeholders to clearly articulate business requirements
• Member of the change management committee, performing change assessments and change audits
• Vendor management for the base product vendor - Collaborating regarding delivery schedules, scope, risks, integration, and product installation.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project planning and coordination
• Analyzing, Designing and Developing the Enterprise application
• Responsible for designing High Level and Low Level Design Documents
• Validating and approving wireframes and providing technical suggestions.
• Mentoring new team members.
• Liaison with customer
• Task Management and on time delivery.
• Verify result meets business needs.

Confidential

Developer and Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• System Analysis and Requirements gathering
• Technical Design, Low-level and High-level design
• Project planning and coordination and liaison with customer
• Deliverables as per client standards.
• Supporting the build process and UAT and coordinating with testing team
• Involved in Unit Testing of individual modules and Integration Testing of the project.
• Documentation of requirements and work flow of the module