SUMMARY

• Experienced Sr. Project Manager and Scrum Master with Business Visionary and passion for transforming business operations and introducing innovative, next generation strategies using Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud solutions. Outstanding communicator with ability to share vision, gain executive support, and champion new concepts in Project Management such as Scrum Model. Certified Scrum Master and PMP.
• Sr. Project Manager and Scrum Master with 14+ Years of experience in IT consulting and management experience and stellar track record fueled by strong leadership, strategic - planning and people-management skills.
• Experienced Sr. manager with excellent client and project/program management skills. Action-oriented with strong ability to communicate effectively with technology and business leadership.
• Experienced Scrum Master responsible for directing teams, ensuring that organization goals are attained, implementing and monitoring software development processes, and reporting to senior management.
• Proven ability to deliver substantial revenue, productivity, and quality Improvement through well managed, on- time projects.
• Managed complex projects with budget ranging from $2 Million to $10 Million.
• Have laid the road map for multiple fortune clients in a matrix environment to attain seamless customer experience.
• Successfully managed projects in Waterfall and Agile/Scrum model.
• Have good understanding in Retail, Finance/Insurance, Telecom, Insurance and Supply Chain Management.
• Worked with big consulting firm like TCS to serve fortune 100 clients.
• Managed Enterprise Integration Project involving Legacy (C/C++, Mainframe), Infrastructure, Data warehousing in Oracle/SQL Server/ Exadata/ Teradata/Web Analytics/Big Data, Cognos, Datastage, Informatica, Micro-strategy, Web Technologies- Microsoft as well as Java/J2EE Technologies/ Mobility / Content Management / CRM - Sales force /Saas and Paas Software development etc.
• Proficient in SharePoint, MS Office 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, Microsoft Project), Service Now, Clarity, JIRA, Adobe and Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential | Charlotte, NC

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed strategic engagement for operational excellence by implementing technology standards company-wide, reducing redundancy and saving more than $5 Million annually on maintenance costs. The engagement also includes omni-channel integration for better customer experience thereby increasing Confidential ’s revenue growth by 1% YOY after implementation.
• Collaborate with senior management and cross-functional teams on project development, road map and plan for strategic engagements with clients, and execution to meet program objectives.
• Lead development of requirements, data models, and all documentation throughout project lifecycles.
• Define and initiate projectsand manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.
• Coach, mentor, and lead personnel within a technical team environment.
• Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities, and client issues.
• Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Work closely with Product owner on Artifacts like Product Backlog, Confidential Backlog, Confidential Burndown, and Release Burndown.
• Educate and reinforce scrum/waterfall methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Identified User Stories, milestones and created work breakdown structure, scheduling and resource allocation.
• Facilitated Release Planning, Confidential Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
• Implemented Issues Tracking in SharePoint to effectively track impediments against user stories.
• Holding Review Meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule/budget and ensuring timely completion and delivery of the project to the client.
• The program comprises of various technologies such as Java/ J2EE, Oracle, SQL Server, Mobility, ETL - Data Stage, Cognos and BI reporting, Social integration, Siebel as CRM, systems migrating over cloud and Omni-Channel integration for all the platform used by client for selling their financial/Insurance products.
• Used SharePoint, Microsoft Tools such as MS Office 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, Microsoft Project), Service Now, Clarity, JIRA, Adobe and Visio.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple complex projects for Confidential for selling wealth management products, Analytics and actuarial systems with budget upto 5 million USD/ year in Agile/Scrum and Waterfall.
• The projects executed achieved the business objective by attaining the operational excellence and customer experience. One of the application “Navisys FrontOffice” itself increased sale by 10% in a year as well as attaining operational excellence through effective actuarial system by 15% over 5 year.
• Lead development of requirements, data models, and all documentation throughout project lifecycles.
• Instrumental in proposing, initiating and managing strategic programs for customers to increase their market cap.
• Managed Enterprise Integration Project involving Legacy (C/C++, Mainframe), Infrastructure, Data warehousing in Oracle, SQL Server, Exadata/ Teradata/Web Analytics/Big Data, Cognos, Datastage, Informatica, Micro-strategy, Web Technologies- Microsoft as well as Java/J2EE Technologies/ Mobility / Content Management / CRM - Sales force /Saas and Paas Software development.
• Used Microsoft Tools such as MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, Microsoft Project), Adobe, SharePoint, Service Now and Visio.

Confidential | Kansas City, KS

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed cross-functional team executing projects from multiple locations like India, USA; managed multiple projects up to $2 Million in the Waterfall Model.
• Billing transformation project saved Confidential $4 Million in 5 year and Supply chain engagement enabled them to add online channel resulting operation savings of $3 million in 4 years.
• Strengthened company's business by effectively leading the implementation of the strategic projects in the area of billing transformations and supply chain.
• Coordinated with various technical departments to understand IT software needs and requirements of customer and clients.
• Discussed specific needs and probable budget to build software as per clients’ requirements.
• Instrumental in proposing, initiating and managing strategic programs for customers to increase their market cap.
• Managed Legacy (C/C++, Mainframe), Infrastructure, Data warehousing in Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server. Cognos, Micro strategy, Web Technologies- Microsoft as well as Java/J2EE Technologies.
• Used SharePoint, Microsoft Tools such as MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, Microsoft Project) and Visio.

Confidential | Hartford, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines.
• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and 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 processes and tools best suited to each project depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Managed Data warehousing in Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server. Cognos, Micro strategy, Web Technologies- Microsoft as well as Java/J2EE Technologies.
• Used SharePoint, Microsoft Tools such as MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, Microsoft Project) and Visio.

Confidential | Minneapolis, MN

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated closely with IT team leader to ensure respective goals aligned.
• Designed all aspects of each individual project including task division coding section allocations and implementation.
• Monitored project deadlines closely to ensure customer time frames were met.
• Supervised project performance by individuals assigned to the project and worked with the team to complete large application development projects.
• Communicated and collaborated with customers regularly to ensure quality development and service delivery.
• Provided weekly status reports to the key stakeholders and the management team.
• Managed Oracle, SQL Server, Web Technologies- Microsoft as well as Java/J2EE Technologies, Data Warehousing including Informatica, Cognos.
• Used SharePoint, Microsoft Tools such as MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, Microsoft Project) and Visio.

Confidential

Java/Oracle developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating and gathering customer requirements.
• Involved in meetings with users for requirement analysis, and design of Web User Interface.
• Used Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) in the analysis and design phases of the project.
• Used struts html tag libraries and bean tag libraries extensively while coding JSP pages.
• Worked on MVC (Model View Controller) framework for J2EE applications development.
• Wrote J2EE and EJB Weblogic specific Deployment Descriptors.
• Involved in BEA Weblogic Application Server installation.
• Designed and Developed Action classes, Service classes using Struts Framework.
• Wrote stored procedures for validations of data and to send data back to the database using PL/SQL.
• Design and Developed complex views using various joins.
• Extensively worked in Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader, Query Performance tuning, created DDL scripts, database Objects like Tables, Views, Indexes, Synonyms and Sequences.
• Involved in testing the features of a product by writing the test cases and executing the same.
• Worked on Java/J2EE, Servlet, JSP, EJB, XML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, Struts, Oracle 8i/9i, UNIX, ERWIN, VSS, CVS, Assent, Test Director, PLSQL Developer, TOAD, Weblogic, Eclipse, Cold Fusion, Clarify Tool, Topaz Monitoring Tool, TextPad, EditPlus, MS Office, Oracle 10g JDeveloper.