PROFILE:

Accomplished Project Manager with over 10 years’ of experience in sectors including banking ( Corporate, Retail and Commercial banking), Finance/Audit, Telcom and the Energy domain. Excellent Leadership and people management skills including mentoring, coaching, training, and on - boarding. Strong knowledge application and infrastructure with a highly technical disposition. Astute with new technologies and expertise in Data Governance, Java, .net and mobile development Technologies/framework. Exceptional negotiation and communication skills with a passion for innovation.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Project management- SDCL, Agile

Team building and People management

Project management with 7+ years in Infrastructure projects

Leadership and collaboration

Cloud migration experience

Management of multiple projects/initiatives

Highly technical aptitude

In depth knowledge of business systems

Expertise in Banking, Finance, Telcom, and Energy sectors

Managed project dependencies and stakeholder relationships as it relates to the project/program and ensured timely and effective communication with the program team and project stakeholder.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCES:

Project Delivery: MS Project, Planview, and Jira, SharePoint and Office 365, Clarity

Digital: Big Data /Hadoop, OLTP,OLAP, HTML, PHP, and MySQL,Db2, Salesforce CRM

Application Monitoring: Dynatrace

Infrastructure: Linux, Windows, F5, and Apigee Gateway, zEnterprise BC12 ( Mainframe)

Cloud: IBM Bluemix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Azure

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Consultant (Project Manager)

Responsibilities:

• Led a Team of 20+ of Java and UX developers, QA, engineering and DevOps team members executing business transformation deliverables into Products/ services such as, Digital Currency Project - Confidential Rewards and My offers.
• Managed change for Project Scope, Budget and Schedule, utilizing change management principles such as defining, design/planning and implementing the solution and methodologies Waterfall and Scrum (In Sprints).
• Transformed a large middleware apps with 8+ dependent applications using agile Project management style;
• Managed multiple projects using Agile SCRUM and Waterfall project management techniques through interaction with project team members, subject matter experts and other key stakeholders;
• Integral player in employee hiring process working closely with HR to vet prospective candidates;
• Collaborated with senior executives and stakeholders in the business to prioritize projects based on company objectives in a dynamic and fast-paced business environment;
• Provided regular visibility to project status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics) through status reporting and project/resource reviews;
• Used clarity to manage, track the Project budget, schedule and tasks.
• Collaborated with various departments daily to meet and exceed both organizational and customer objectives;
• Responsible for defining and documenting Planning, Budget, Risks/Issues, Communication Management;
• Provided tailored project Management through all phases of the project to ensure delivery on time and with budget;
• Presented Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities, and client issues;
• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives;
• Leadership: Provide guidance and leadership throughout the project life-cycle, including input into performance development plans;
• Responsible for establishing, standardizing, and leading project management practices for multiple programs, across all areas of the business aligning
• Responsible for defining the test plans and ensure that products are defect free before User Acceptance Testing
• Responsible for Facilitate the User Acceptance Testing process, developing roll out plans and procedures •
• Make presentations to steering committees or project sponsors

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 2 Technical and 2 Functional Project Managers (SME) and 1 Project Coordinator, each responsible for an element such as Designing the solution, Artifacts /Project documents and managing the communication of the project and its associated project team.
• Managed and responsible for Project Charter, Project management Plan, baselining of Scope, Schedule and Budget and ensured that Human resources availability by acquiring the Project team within agreed time, cost and performance parameters.
• Responsible for documenting and maintaining the Issue Logs and articulate the issue and establishes procedures for the development and implementation to solve these issues and problems, and obtains approval from change control board/SMT.
• Defined and documented the objectives for the project; determine budgetary requirements (Project Estimates), the composition, roles and responsibilities (RACI Documents) and terms of reference for the project team.
• Weekly and Monthly reports on progress of the project on elements such as cost, schedule Performance Index (CPI, SPI), Milestone, Top5 Issue and risk to SMT and Stakeholders.
• Chaired the Brain storming sessions and Focus groups meetings with stakeholders and project team members to discuss the problems and issues and come-up with the solution.
• Prepared plans for Scope, Schedule and Budget, Resource histogram chart to assist in analyzing or displaying problems; work with a variety of project management tools such as MS Project, Jira and Clarity.
• Project sign-off with multiple and diverse stakeholders such as Project Sponsor, Finance, HR and Business.
• Managed change for Project Scope, Budget and Schedule, utilizing change management principles like defining, design/planning and implementing the solution and methodologies Waterfall and Scrum (In Sprints).
• Used Microsoft Project for project planning (scope, schedule, budget and resource management) developing, controlling and tracking for project(s) like Confidential .com and Confidential Central collaboration platform. (
• Ensured that projects are delivered on-time, within the scope and budget with Quality and meet the success criteria;
• Managed multiple projects varying in size using Agile SCRUM and Waterfall project management techniques through interaction with project team members, subject matter experts and other key stakeholders;
• Developed project charters ensured alignment with business goals with sound definition of scope, deliverables, timelines, resources, dependencies, risks and rewards;
• Delivered communications to project sponsor and senior management as required/identified as a part of communication plan;
• Delivered managed and rolled out the Microsoft Dynamics CRM environments to Europe, America and ASPAC region .
• Worked with business leaders and the Project Control Officer to ensure that all elements of status/progress reports, dashboards, run rate metrics and financial tracking reports are complete and accurate;

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Planning, implementing and managing projects related to IT Infrastructure and for Dynamic CRM rollout.
• Responsible for directing all aspects of the project planning and execution phases.
• Worked with project team members to create detailed Project plan.
• Engaged resources as required by the plan for the successful deployment of the project.
• Detail and assign work package plans.
• Responsible for meeting regularly with the team to follow up on tasks, deliverables and issues.
• Communicated status to the client via written reports and meeting or teleconferences.
• Tracked project plan to baseline against time and budget constraints.
• Managed project scope & handle scope change requests using appropriate documentation.
• Responsible for Logging, monitoring and handling project issues, analyze & recommend viable alternatives.
• Held weekly team meetings and attend client meetings.
• Used and tailored the Confidential ’s PMO project methodology.
• Lesson Learned - Ensured proper documentation is completed & stored where accessible. Documentation includes Statement of Work, plan, schedule, scope changes log, issues log, risk assessment, minutes of status meeting and PIR.
• Chaired the focus group to design infrastructure solution for standard and enterprise MS SharePoint installations, both standalone and with integration to other systems

Confidential

Lead - Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed variance analyses of schedule and cost on a formal and informal basis and present them to senior management (i.e.: earned value management system)
• Managed a team of 20+ consisting of: business analysts, QA, DBA, architects, developers, sub-contractors, 3rd party vendors, graphic designers html developers, writers and editors
• Traditional waterfall project methodology
• Managed multiple project teams simultaneously
• Implemented infrastructure, content management, .Net development & integration projects
• Developed project plans including scope, cost, schedule, quality, resourcing, risk identification &mitigation, training/communication and the implementation of Agile based execution.
• Principal point of contact for the executive steering committee, project managers / team leads & project sponsor
• Managed resource and capacity planning for projects.
• Supported development and software quality assurance to ensure optimal progress and product stability for end users.
• Managed customer relationships by providing stellar customer service and maintains effective communication.
• Coordinated quotes for customer requests.

Confidential

Sr. SharePoint Technical lead

Responsibilities:

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0), SharePoint Portal Server 2003, SharePoint Portal Server 2001, SharePoint Team Services,
• Installation, Configuration, Architecture, Site Template Customization, Site Definition Customization, Taxonomy, Content Management, Collaboration, Windows Workflow Foundation, Custom Web Parts, Reports, Business Data Catalog, Search, InfoPath Forms Server.
• Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, Project, Microsoft CMS, Active Directory, Exchange.
• Provide Premier and Professional support for Share point Portal Technologies including SQL and Microsoft IIS6, directly to Microsoft customers, with very large multi-site, multi-server environments.
• Assist Microsoft's customers with Disaster Recovery and required procedures, major administrative and design problems. Working with the customer through all steps until full functionality is restored. Maintain a constant 'Very Satisfied' customer satisfaction level.
• Excel in Share Point Technologies migration solutions and disaster recovery. Extremely proficient in Share Point infrastructure design and implementation, both in small- and large-scale environments.
• Consistently provided a high 'value-added' experience for my customers. Provided additional information concerning Microsoft Exchange/Share point Portal in the form of Exchange/Share point whitepapers, support articles, ensuring the customer had complete confidence in the support, and information I provided to them.
• Author and write Knowledge Base articles for the Exchange and Share Point Portal products, which become publicly available articles on Microsoft’s Support site

Confidential

Network engineer

Responsibilities:

• A team member for completing an IT project that was adopted as the company’s five-year plan to further integrate facilities and provide better service through sharing information with customer and vendors.
• Track and verify assets using LAN DESK management suite; activate and de-activate LAN accounts and Exchange mail accounts, install and support specialized application, Citrix Meta Frame XP, ProComm and assist in the development and documentation of new processes and procedures
• Provided system administration and helpdesk support to include software and hardware installations, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, user account administration, and support under stringent deadlines in a fast-paced, 24X7 environment.
• Knowledge of LAN Desk, Script Logic, Symantec Anti-Virus, VERITAS Backup, Storage Central.
• Experienced at troubleshooting PC's, Notebooks and File Share and Print Servers.
• Understanding of Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 Server environments including Active Directory.