SUMMARY:

• Technical Business - savvy Project Manager with Waterfall & Agile SDLC Experience
• Customer focused, People oriented IT Professional with over 14 years of expertise in Business systems analysis, Project, Program and Product Management.
• With a fine balance of technical, business and management skills, delivered complex software solutions to multiple industries including but not limited to Oil & Gas, Federal Healthcare, Construction, Retail and Telecommunications.
• Excellent communication, consulting, interpersonal, facilitation, and negotiation skills to address stakeholders at all levels of organization.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Business Process Engineering
• ERP Systems Integration
• Risk Management
• Supply Chain Management & Logistics
• Vendor Relationship Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Solution Architect
• Offshore Resource Management
• Mobility Solutions with Auto ID Technologies; RTLS, RFID, Barcode

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY:

Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Assembly Language - 8085, 8951

Operating Systems: Windows XP/7/8, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , UNIX

Web Development: ASP .NET, Silverlight 4.0, HTML

Databases: MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012 , Oracle, MS Access

ERP: PeopleSoft FSCM 8.9/9.0, Oracle e-Business Suite R12, SAP R/3, Siebel 8.0

Applications: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Project Server, TFS, Visual Studio 2010

Tools: SOAP UI, Web Services, SOTI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Advisor/Manager

Confidential, Houston TX

Responsibilities:

• Lead daily Scrum of Scrums with product owners, team leads, development manager, UX leads and change management leads
• Lead Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Planning, Release Planning meetings
• Preparing and Analyzing Burn down chart increased estimation accuracy within 20%
• Ensure smooth progress of team by resolving external dependencies with other teams such as IT
• Program Manager to ensure that overall product vision is met by working closely with other Program managers, Technology Director, Strategic Business Managers and Product Managers
• Create Product release roadmap and present to PSL leadership for approval
• Maintain project budgets from $1M to $2.5M for both the product lines
• Proactive Risk management with clear action items and mitigation plans saved $1.5M that would have otherwise resulted in customer fines
• Comply with Confidential Lifecycle process to review status, provide updates, manage risks and issues for the project/program at various phases as it moves through conceptualization to commercialization

Product Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed product life cycle for Federal Healthcare Point-Of-Use Supply chain management program and HSSE (Health, Safety, Security, Environmental) for Oil & Gas using Auto ID technologies
• Built product definition by interviewing internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems
• Defined detailed business requirements, specifications, wireframes to address various roles that the product would support
• Architected solutions with appropriate technologies, hardware, devices, RFID tags in collaboration with hardware vendors & software partners
• Managed development sprint cycles, planned releases, provided status updates to management and gave demonstrations of product modules
• Participated in Presales activities to demonstrate solutions to potential customers and helped answer RFPs. One of the win was $5M 5-year program with large Ship manufacturing company

Systems/Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Architected mobility projects related to simplifying business processes, increasing operational efficiency of field personnel and enabling corporate personnel & executives to make business decisions on their mobile device.
• Mobility project in area of field services for Order assignment and execution to reduce paper work, improve order to cash process with upfront order entry, Reduce DSO and improve customer satisfaction
• Managed and led agile project team of 8 developers including consultants from Confidential
• Led the RFP efforts to select vendors for mobile devices and mobile device management tool
• Integrated Oracle EBS Project Management module to send notification from EBS to review and approve/reject project budget
• 3-Tier application with front-end as Ruby on Rails with HTML5, middle tier as WebMethods to communicate to EBS Projects module via web services and stored procedures
• Managed team of 10 developers including internal team, consultants, and offshore developers
• Project was behind schedule by 6 months with budget exceeding $500K. Managed the project effectively to reduce schedule delay to 3 months with budget exceeding $200K
• Prepared status reports for IT leadership and business steering committee to report progress and escalate issues

Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Extended ERP business processes to the end users using Auto ID mobility solutions including Bar code, RFID and RTLS, in connected, disconnected and occasionally connected mode of operations to streamline downstream processes, reduce/eliminate paper work and increase operational efficiency.

Technologies: ASP .NET, C#, Silverlight, SQL Server, Web Services, Visual Studio

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project team lead for RFID and GPS based mobility solution to track and trace high valued Assets like Skimmers, Beach cleaners and ATVs that were being used for cleaning oil
• Worked with USCG, BP internal & external contractors including office of the CTO, to understand the process of commissioning, assignment and retirement of assets
• Developed application to facilitate check in, check out, demobilization of assets in occasionally connected mode of operation at the remote sites
• Worked with multiple hardware vendors to facilitate integration with the software Mobility solution on offshore rigs for Oil & Gas drilling contractor integrating to PeopleSoft FSCM 8.9
• Provided disconnected mobility solution for supply chain and purchasing functions at 104 offshore rigs worldwide
• Worked with PeopleSoft consultants to design and develop application packages for transacting data PeopleSoft using web services, application packages and component interfaces
• Worked with diverse project team of 3 developers, 2 PeopleSoft consultants and several key client stakeholders including Rig managers, storekeepers and PeopleSoft technical & functional team members
• Implemented the project with Hybrid (Waterfall + Agile) development methodology

Systems Analyst

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Technologies: C++, UNIX, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Technical project lead - worked with business to analyze requirements, define scope, estimate cost, create project schedule, define architecture, detailed design, development, integration testing, go live implementation, assign and monitor tasks, manage risks, report project status to key stakeholders and sponsors
• Mentored new hires in offshore office by sharing key application concepts and providing indirect hands on training which increased their work efficiency by 30%.
• Worked on projects of clients based in US, Latin America and France having more than 15 million subscribers