EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

PMP certified experienced IT professional focused on developing product and managing portfolio. Specialty includes developing roadmap, stakeholder negotiation, building high performance cross - functional team, setting up process, and delivering products/releases in incremental fashion through collaboration and interaction.

STRENGTHS:

Supply Chain

Program Management

Rally/Kanban

Telecommunication

Agile (SCRUM)/SDLC

JIRA/Git

Healthcare

Business process reengineering

Six Sigma

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include: facilitating JAD sessions toward conceptualizing the solution architecture, solidifying requirements and leading estimation process to come up with an earliest delivery date and managing product releases and a team of Project managers.
• Managing project budget, resource allocations, schedule and 30+ project team members
• Preparing project status report for C-level executives
• Proactively managing project risks and maintaining issues log
• Acting as the ‘ go-to-person’ for stakeholder communications
• Partnering with business and marketing executives to bring out minimum viable products by listening to the voice of the customers

Confidential, Atlanta Georgia

Director, Development and Enterprise Portfolio Management

Responsibilities:

• Establishing PMO processes within Technology team following best practices
• Aligning programs with enterprise strategy and vision
• Driving priority of projects to realize short term and long term company goals through implementations
• Forging relationships with all branches of the company to optimize program delivery
• Implementing lean processes, Test Driven Development, Automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery leveraging tools (Git, Bamboo, Stash, JIRA, Splunk) and building strong collaboration between Dev and Ops to bring product quickly to market

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Delivered successfully nine supply Chain software releases on time, under budget, and with agreed upon scope and quality
• Integrated Demand Forecasting with Inventory Optimization products at major clients resulting increased forecast accuracy by 2.5%, reduced safety stock by $1.6 million and potential inventory reduction opportunity for ~$30 million.
• Trained project team in agile methodology to deliver yearly releases shortening team learning curve
• Facilitated product demo for ‘Planning, Forecasting & Inventory Optimization’ products every 3-weeks to get early feedback and ensure right features were built
• Started Continuous Delivery initiative through agile process, automated tests (Groovy/JUnit) and build tools (Git, Jenkins, JIRA)

Confidential, Marietta, Georgia

Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Delivered five consecutive releases with agreed upon business benefits for $500,000 yearly savings
• Transformed global delivery team from waterfall-shop to Agile-SCRUM shop significantly reducing learning curve
• Negotiated vendor contract and managed contractor’s work to release product on time and under budget

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led architectural and consulting services effort involving seven application teams and five product groups
• Provided client facing support with frequent interactions with Confidential Technology Group and internal Confidential senior management clients
• Managed vendors & contractors to minimize project risk and eliminate waste

Development Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Produced data analytics for reporting needs of Confidential and key statistics to Wall Street and influencing Confidential ’s marketing strategy.
• Performed project planning, execution, communication, integration, issue resolution, and risk management for 10 initiatives

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed team with of average eight members to plan, design, develop, and implement telecommunication applications catering to Confidential ’s internet billing, provisioning and maintenance needs.
• Implemented seven projects including two new product launches
• Conducted ‘Good Requirements Writing’ workshop to improve requirements quality significantly
• Conducted design & architectural reviews and walkthroughs with senior business executives to align business and IT needs
• Mentored &coached eight employees and conducted performance evaluation

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Technical Lead -Developed Supply Chain-ERP

Responsibilities:

• Integrated company’s supply chain operations & project data with major customers and suppliers via EDI and XML to minimize maintenance cost
• Implemented an enterprise web based planning & project portfolio monitoring application to considerably increase company-wide visibility for all portfolio items
• Managed vendors &contractors to significantly reduce project delivery time

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Saved significant cost and time for a utility company by developing interfaces to an existing Customer Information System using Visual Basic, ODBC drivers and Oracle stored-procedures
• Reduced administrative cost significantly for an insurance provider by automating patient visit record, minimizing codification errors (CPT/ICD-9/E&M/HCPCS) and improving payer-provider relationship