SUMMARY:

• Result driven project leader with proven record of successfully managing projects within budget and on schedule.
• Expert in planning, risk management/risk mitigation control, change management and key operations solutions.
• Managed multimillion dollar projects; execute business needs analysis, risk assessments, and contingency planning.
• Interact efficiently with executives, managers, and interdisciplinary team globally in orchestration of organizational programs.
• Recognized for strategic planning initiatives and for being adept at problem solving in diverse management settings.
• Seasoned project manager with a track record of building successful motivated teams that meet and exceed project objectives.
• Coach and mentor subordinates to insure career growth
• Extensive expertise at improving existing systems policies, workflow processes and ensuring that tasks fit with the most efficient technologies
• Delivered integration projects, technology refreshes, and upgrades

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Strategic IT Management Project Management & Implementation

Project/Release planning Enterprise Release Management Production Support Management

Enterprise Implementation Program Management Agile/SDLC

Risk/Contingency Management Portfolio Management Quality Assurance

Data Warehouse Resource management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TOOLS: ALM, Remedy, QC10, JIRA, Confluence, IBM RRC, IBM RTC, SVN,Sharepoint

Project Management Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project Plan, MS VISIO, MS Access

Technologies/Platforms: Mainframe, MDM, Teradata, Oracle, DB2, IMS DB, XML, SVN, Visio, UNIX, Jenkins 1.4, J2EE, MySQL, VMware, Web Methods, Informatica, UML, Hyperion, Remedy, Data Warehouse, BI Analytics, Web Services, IBM WebSphere.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Enterprise Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implement ERMO for Supply chain business unit
• Strategic & tactical Planning for all supply chain systems and major programs
• Assess and implement release management processes and best practices
• Assess and implement Continuous Integration(CI) build engineering & automation
• Closely work with business team to discuss on the new business requests, changing priorities and business validation after every deployment
• Communication, Stakeholder and scope management
• Closely work with and Manage data migration, Data warehouse projects and integration
• Manage Change requests for major programs
• Conduct daily scrum of scrum (SoS) meeting between Project teams
• Manage infrastructure and deliverables for releases
• Define & Execute “entry” and “exit” criteria for releases
• Identifies and manages the risks associated with different release and prepare mitigation plan
• Schedule and manage testing support as needed
• Continuous Service Improvement - Analysis of change data to drive improvements to process and highlight areas needing attention
• Manage and Coordinate deployments in Production environments
• Enforce documentation and Run books for each project and releases.

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Project Plan, Sub Version (configuration management). SharePoint, Java, J2EE, ANT, Jenkins, Linux, Sterling, MDM, TIBCO

Confidential, Austin, TX

Release Manager, Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• COM Strategic & tactical release planning for all different business units fall under
• Serve as liaison between varying business units to promote smooth and timely delivery of Software products and updates
• Work closely with QA team for testing status, defect report, defect leakage, performance test report and blocker details
• Conduct, direct, guide and influence Release Governance Board
• Manage and oversee Software Configuration & releases for production, development & Non development planned and unplanned releases
• Infrastructure and capability management
• Define Entry and exit criteria for releases
• Manage Change requests from across all business units
• Conduct daily scrum of scrum (SoS)meeting between business and Project teams
• Identifies and manages the risks associated with different release, resources, Product team and Client
• Schedule and manage testing support as needed
• Root Cause analysis (RCA) for issues report post deployment
• Work with individual Project team to finalize the stories, product backlogs and release scope
• Closely work with business team to discuss on the new business requests, changing priorities and business validation after every deployment
• Continuous Service Improvement - Analysis of change data to drive improvements to process and highlight areas needing attention
• Closely work with and Manage data migration, Data warehouse projects and integration
• Release & deployment automation
• Service Improvement - Managing change to the Change & Release processes
• Managing and reporting Risk Management and Change management for all release candidates
• Enforce documentation and Run books for each project and releases.

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, HP QC, Microsoft Project Plan, Jenkins, WebShpere, Sub Version (configuration management).GIT, SharePoint, IBM RTC

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage planning and requirement gathering from various business units and product vendor. Gather technical architecture and technical requirement
• Oversee the COTS vendor for integration and architectural solution
• Establish project plans, based line the plans, manage schedule and resource load.
• Worked with business partners and SME s to understand business process needs and analyze requirements
• Conduct daily scrum meeting between Product Vendor and Confidential
• Delivery of sprint capacity, velocity, story sizing, story risk analysis, and story management
• Define Entry and exit criteria for releases
• Identifies and manages the risks associated with Vendor, Product team and Client
• Coaching team members about Agile methodologies
• Conduct Retrospective meeting at the end of sprint
• Update Product backlog with BA, Project plan and test plan
• Coordinate for UAT
• Root Cause analysis (RCA) for issues report post deployment

Technology: JAVA, J2EE, Web Methods, Informatica, UML, XML

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager, Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Setup Release Management and processes for Confidential
• Partnered with Business team, development teams, QA team, Configuration teams, build teams for smooth execution and release for Loyalty program
• Implemented Automation and Performance testing center
• Work closely with QA team for testing status, defect report, defect leakage, performance test report and blocker detail
• Coordinate with Performance and automation team to schedule and execute the performance testing and Automation requirements.
• Conduct Release Governance, Change management and Risk Management meetings and report metrics
• Work with Multiple line of business for release planning and coordination
• Root Cause analysis (RCA) for issues report post deployment
• Developed detailed project plans including costing and time lines. MS Project is the primary tool for this work.
• Direct and oversee multiple PMs and/or team leads on complex projects, Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
• Created Metrics status reports to meet the project deliverables, involved in client steering committee meeting, status meetings are defined and captured that will position the team to identify and drive continuous improvements
• Conduct Release Planning, deployment calls, owning deployment communication to senior leadership team and Conduct Go, No-Go calls before release deployment.
• Schedule and manage testing support as needed
• Direct and oversee multiple PMs and/or team leads on complex projects, Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
• Created Metrics status reports to meet the project deliverables, involved in client steering committee meeting, status meetings are defined and captured that will position the team to identify and drive continuous improvements

Tools: Mainframe, DB2, JCL, Java, J2EE, Ab-initio, MDM (Master data Management), Web Services, IBM, Data Power, ESB, IBM RTC

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Program Manager, Release manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed project charter, scope statement and project plans including costing and time lines. MS Project is the primary tool for this work
• Work closely with QA team for testing status, defect report, defect leakage, performance test report and blocker detail
• Executed project covering enterprise level usage of store numbers in all business units
• Developed customized tools and utilities for store number search
• Champion Agile processes and roles
• Formed agile teams and coach team on agile process and methodologies
• Conduct all Sprints (stand-up, review/demo, planning, retrospectives ) and enforce time boxes
• Identifies and removes impediments/blockers impacting the team’s ability to meet goals and objectives by implementing creative solutions
• Ensure communication across teams and projects by attendingScrum of Scrums
• Ensure the team remains focused on the tasks
• Mentor Scrum Master apprentices
• Identifies and manages the risks associated with their team
• Monitor daily issues impacting the team; facilitate resolutions and escalation as necessary
• Conduct Release Governance, Change management and Risk Management meetings and report metrics
• Work with Multiple line of business for release planning and coordination
• Developed detailed project plans including costing and time lines. MS Project is the primary tool for this work.
• Direct and oversee multiple PMs and/or team leads on complex projects, Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
• Conduct Release Planning, deployment calls, owning deployment communication to senior leadership team and Conduct Go, No-Go calls before release deployment
• Execute and managed Pre and post production deployment activities

Technologies: Teradata, Mainframe, Java, J2EE, Hyperion, Remedy, Data Warehouse, BI Analytics

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Formulate strategies and plans for analyzing business processes to identify priorities and develop assignments for major re-engineering, restructuring and implementation of transformation plans.
• Apply effective project management methodologies and control techniques.
• Managing enhancements, supporting and process improvement in data warehouse systems and jobs
• 24 *7 Production support for Merchandizing and Merchandise Planning applications
• Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups and/or projects.
• Conduct planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an effective transition into production. Managed $8-10M budget for fiscal year and $3-5 M for fiscal year
• Realized cost savings of $3M+ thru implementing lean methodology and process & performance improvements.
• Managing 50+ member resources pool for Production support and the major development and production support activities.
• Created multiple project plans to meet the project deadlines, Resource requirements ramp-up ramp down to meet the project timelines as well as budget optimization for the customer.
• Created Metrics status reports on timely manner to meet the project deliverables, involved in client steering committee meeting, status meetings are defined and captured that will position the team to identify and drive continuous improvements

Technologies: Teradata, Mainframe, Java, J2EE, Hyperion, Remedy, Data Warehouse, BI Analytics

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Data migration and system re-engineering at an enterprise level
• Data modeling and table design
• As business system analyst, Direct interaction with Business team for all new requirements and enhancements for the peripheral application
• Designed & developed various Interfaces to Compensation applications. Developed business reports for the business users/agency
• Review and Gap Analysis of the application, process handbooks and suggestions for improving them
• Conducted training sessions to share the domain knowledge on migrated applications

Technologies: Cobol,DB2, Informatica, Data Warehouse, CICS, Focus