SUMMARY:

Accomplished, high - performing, dynamic technology leader and technical program manager with extensive nineteen years of experience driving greater operational efficiency while ensuring adherence to best practices. Strong delivery manager with expertise in translating business goals and objectives into technologically advanced strategies and solutions through strong business acumen and deep technical knowledge. Ability to break down complex projects into meaningful tasks to achieve objectives. Outstanding relationship builder, skilled at quickly gaining and maintaining the trust and respect of management, staff, and clients. A leader, motivated problem-solver and strategic decision-maker with a strong ability to coaching and development of large teams.

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS:

• Lead strategic initiatives by creating alignment on business goals, vision, program structure & securing cross-functional support.
• Conceptualize and execute program vision from start to finish, managing complex milestones while adapting to changes and shifting priorities.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources.
• Provide visibility to program status (key decisions, release/production issues, dependencies, risks, metrics, milestones, etc.) on an ongoing basis through communication channels and tools to stakeholders, team members, and interested parties.
• Take on both tactical and strategic tasks depending on the team's needs, ranging from leading Agile ceremonies to stakeholder workshops, leveraging Agile best practices, enabling measurement to predict delivery estimates, and uncover opportunities and risks.
• Passionate about building high-performing teams, lead international, cross-functional teams in delivering strategic initiatives proven to improve systems, processes, and bottom-line results.

CORE COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:

Technical Program Management Strategic initiatives Cloud (AWS, Azure) implementation

Budget Management & Forecasting Technical Product Management Microservices

Mentor/Training Strategic Program Planning Mainframe modernization

Scaled Agile Delivery and Implementation Data & Analytics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

Senior Technical Program Management

Responsibilities:

• In this wealth management initiative, Confidential will onboard high-net-worth customers through Investment Cloud portal.
• As the lead TPM I interact with various Confidential internal teams and Investment Cloud in finalizing the overall scope, technical design, integration architecture, end-to-end validation and production scaling.
• With the Banking-as-a-Service initiative, in this mega program, Confidential integrated its API with the Google Pay app, which helps the end-users to manage bundle accounts (checking and saving) from the Google Pay app with Confidential bank as the servicer and system of record.
• Users have options to operate the accounts using Confidential mobiles, Confidential Web, and Google Pay app.
• I work with more than forty Confidential scrum teams and multiple Google teams to strategize the product specs, technical specs, timelines, execution processes, code deployment strategy, integration with Google, User Acceptance Testing, post-production validation and product enhancements.
• As an additional responsibility, I started new teams to create and publish near-real-time executive dashboards in Tableau and Angular using Big Data technologies.
• By changing the prioritization processes, enhancing the communications, clearly defining the scope, and motivating the team on delivery focus, the Bill Pay team that modernizes the legacy java application with angular - successfully delivered five sprints of pending stories in just one Sprint.
• Researched the critical blockers, re-organized team structures, made teams accountable, set priorities, and increased the program success rate from 20% to 90% in just two sprints.

Technologies: Microservices, Angular, Mobile Development, Cloud (AWS, PCF), Data & Analytics.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Technical Program Manager / SME Loan Systems/ Mainframe Modernization Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed various real-time and batch integration with vendors.
• Used Heirloom PaaS SDK to convert COBOL to Java as part of mainframe modernization and cloud implementation

Technologies: REST API, Microservices, Angular, Sprint boot, AWS, Heirloom SDK, MySQL, RedShift, Snowflake, Kafka, Web services

Confidential, Plano, TX

Software Developer to Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• SHAW Auto Loan Systems project is a multi-client-based Shaw implementation, where easy onboarding, processing, and offboarding of loans and reusability of functionalities were the keys to the business's success.
• Upgraded the Mainframe-based SHAW - Auto Loan Servicing applications with a web-based application.
• Migrated Mainframe-VSAM legacy system to windows-DB2 for cost-effective solutions.

Technologies: Web services, Mainframe, MQ, Oracle, Java

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed a Windows desktop application using Oracle, Visual Basic 6 for pharmaceutical distribution.