SUMMARY:

Highly result - oriented Certified Project Management Professional guiding complex, multi-phase IT projects through lifecycle phases, often in the face of challenging deadlines, evolving requirements, and the competing needs of various stakeholder groups.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Agile Methodologies
• Project & Program Management (PMO)
• Delivery of Time-Critical Projects
• Software Delivery
• Project Governance
• People Management and Leadership

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: JIRA, Eclipse, TFS, MS Project 2013; CA Clarity PPM, Power BI

Technologies: Java, Cold Fusion, .NET, XML, Web Services, Rest API

CRM: Siebel 8.0, MS Dynamics CRM 4.0, SalesForce.com

Databases: Snowflake, Teradata, Oracle 9.0/10g, SQL SERVER, MS-Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Tech Program Manager/Scrum Master

Environment: Atlassian JIRA 7.1, Snowflake, TeraData, Amazon S3, Python, ThoughtSpot

Responsibilities:

• Worked along with Program Sponsor, cross-functional teams, and assigned product owners, development leads to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plans, budget, and Schedules.
• Taken responsibility of working directly with development leads, architects to identify solution approaches, technical flow diagrams, risks, mitigation plans to smoothen the delivery and reduce the rework and scope creep
• Helped Product Owners with database query generations, data validations, worksheet development for SIT/UAT validations
• Streamlined the delivery process by making various IT/Business teams spread across geographic locations adhere to the agile delivery model
• Substituted for the Scrum Master role by helping the teams with Sprint Planning, Daily huddles, Retrospections, JIRA board administration
• Responsible for analyzing and overcoming program risks, producing program status documentation/reports for management and stakeholders

Confidential

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of data analysts, Execution planning, Agile ceremonies, team building, coaching on self-organizing

Environment: Atlassian JIRA 7.1, .Net 4.5, Kibana, Snowflake, Python, Spark

Confidential, Irving, TX

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Help team focus on current Iteration goals and Program Increment (PI) Objectives by Coordinating daily standup meetings, Sprint (Iteration) Planning, Iteration Review sessions
• Coordinating with Product Owners and teams in validating Product/Sprint Backlogs
• Working along with System Team, User Experience, Architecture, Shared Services and other Scrum masters from cross-functional teams to sort out the interdependencies and smoothen enterprise-wide project delivery
• Responsible for fiscal forecasting, actuals consolidating and variance analysis/reporting

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

Agile PM/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating daily Scrum meetings, Sprint (Iteration) Planning, Review sessions
• Working with Product Owners/Solution leads, business stakeholders to arrive at executable solutions
• Working along with RTEs/Scrum masters from other teams to sort out the interdependencies and smoothen enterprise wide project delivery
• Managing and forecasting deliverables by working in coordination with various IT/Business teams spread across geographic locations

Environment: Atlassian JIRA 7.1, MS Project 2013, .Net 4.5, ASP.Net, C#, Sharepoint 2013, PL/T-Sql, Sql Server 2012, IIS 7.5, Ajax, Visual Studio 2013, Windows 2013 Server, Telerik Kendo UI, LinqToSql.

Confidential, PLANO, TX

Scrum Master/Agile PM

Responsibilities:

• Working along with Product Owner and team in creating Product Backlogs
• Conducting daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review sessions
• Developing/tracking Sprint plan, communicating project expectations to team members and stakeholders
• Creating and Monitoring the Cost and Schedule plans and monitoring over runs while working with teams to minimize the same

Environment: JIRA, MS Project 2013, .Net 4.5, ASP.Net, C#, Sharepoint 2013.

Confidential, DETROIT, MI

IT DELIVERY LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Worked with IT and business stakeholders to gather business requirements / user stories and arriving at feasible solution approaches
• Develop/track project plan, individual workplans, communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders.
• Conducted project/program status meetings with Steering Committees, Stakeholders.
• Identifying risks in each phase and tracking, managing and creating mitigation plans.

Environment: MS Project 2013, Java/J2EE, Oracle 11g, SharePoint 2010, ColdFusion 9, HTML, Java Script, IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0

IT PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall Project delivery
• Project Planning, Schedule and Resource estimation - Collecting impacts for all the projects in CGX area, scheduling scrub meetings, getting the cost plans, budget plans created.
• Reviewing the project team deliverables to ensure quality (design walk-through, test results, etc.) and adherence standards/regulatory requirements

Environment: VersionOne, Microsoft Project 2010, C#, SQL Server 2005, SSRS 2005, SharePoint 2010, HTML, Java Script, ASP.NET, IIS 6.0