SUMMARY

• Project Manager with over total of 26+Years - { 20+ years of Project Management - Manufacturing & 6+ years Project Management in-IT - Scrum Master & Agile} and being an accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams.
• Provide Knowledge & Skills to Plan, Direct and Co-ordinate Project activities in handling High Value and Multiple Projects. A Portfolio/Program /Project Management experience handling of Large, Medium and Small projects with budget ranges over from 20M- 250M.
• Proficient knowledge in Scrum, Agile, KANBAN, Waterfall and SAFe,
• Proficiency & knowledge in standard project management practices (PMBOK & SBOK)
• Facilitate the agile scrum process, build the scrum/ iteration plan, to remove impediments.
• Plans and hosts various scrum meetings for each sprint/release (scrum/ iteration planning meetings, demos, release planning meetings, retrospectives).
• Manage day to day activities (user stories, tasks, etc.) using agile tools/techniques.
• Track and communicate velocity and progress thru burn charts and sprint reporting.
• Partner with agile experts on team to strengthen the presence of our team as an agile center of excellence.
• Successfully delivering infrastructure, and application development projects, Risk Management
• Ability to mentor, cross train, coach and build a strong team by improving their performance.
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.
• Working with Product owner on Artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, Sprint Burnup, and Release Burndown.
• Conflict Management - Managing and resolving conflict for greater productivity and working relationship.
• Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders.
• Managing projects in both Agile and Waterfall development environments.
• Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.
• Migrating the Projects from Waterfall to Scrum is major responsibility. Integrated with the system development lifecycle-SDLC (requirements gathering and signoff, system/ technical design, prototypes review, development, QA and user acceptance testing, deployment to production)
• Ensuring project work conforms to company project management methodology, standards, and procedures.
• Knowledge and Understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design
• Strong communication, planning and organizational skills.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, matrix environment, and to adapt project methodology to projects of various size and scope/ complexity.
• Strong judgment, negotiation, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects/tasks effectively.
• Manage day to day project activities, including obtaining signoff on critical project artifacts.
• Manage functional, user acceptance and performance tests.
• Manage change requests throughout the life of the project.
• Excellent communication skills - verbal, written, listening and presentation.
• Proven experience in stakeholder’s management and client relationship management.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders to ensure awareness of project status.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Agile Principals
• Tasking Meetings/Retrospectives
• Communication
• Relative Estimation
• Project Management
• Story-Based Development
• Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings
• Conflict Resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Grand Prairie / TX

Project Manager

Responsibility:

• Planning and hosting various scrum meetings for sprint/release -scrum/ iteration planning meetings, demos, release planning meetings, retrospectives.
• Hands on experience in use of EDI-electronic data interchanges for Invoicing, POs releases,etc
• Managed functional, user acceptance and performance tests-user stories, tasks, using agile tools & techniques
• Managed change requests throughout the life of the project.
• Facilitate the agile scrum process, build the scrum/ iteration plan, to removing any impediments.
• Successfully delivered infrastructure, and application development project through the SDLC.
• Managed the Program/Project using scrum and agile development practices using standard PM practices -PMBOK & SBOK.
• Able to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects/tasks effectively.
• Ability to work well in a team with both IT and business staff and strong knowledge in Technical documentation.
• Managed change requests throughout the life of the project.
• Managed all phases of the project lifecycle (initiation, planning, execution, control and closing) and strongly integrating with the system development lifecycle-SDLC (requirements gathering and signoff, system/ technical design, prototypes review, development, QA and user acceptance testing, deployment to production)
• Provided timely project status reports and presenting progress to EPMO/ PMO and stakeholders, as well as data required for the monthly executive dashboard and budget review presentations.
• Ensuring project work conforms to company project management methodology, standards, and procedures.
• Providing input and assistance for the continuous improvement of the EPMO/PMO.
• Knowledge and Understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design

Confidential . - Plano / TX

Stockroom Manager

RESPONSIBILITY:

• Interacting with purchasing, production planning, stockroom, shipping and receiving.
• Supervised 8-12 stockroom employees for the issue of materials to shop floor.
• Kitted customer supplied parts, bill of materials and revision.
• Monitored purchases and consigned parts received and allocated it to respective work orders.
• Followed shortages with purchasing based on customer due dates and released to kits shop floor.
• Updated system for any line shortages.
• Created interactive custom program report in SD & MM module for displaying customer information based on the selection made for corresponding customer requirement.
• Generated sales order reports and OTP & cycle-time reports measuring how well business was meeting commitments to customers as well as length of time it took to deliver products to customer.
• Produced inventory overview report which was used by the customer to help get an overall view of inventory, demand, consumption and master data fields.
• Resolved all urgent production issues immediately.

Consultant-Dallas/TX

Senior Manager

Responsibility:

• Organized the company in building its own infrastructure for the production of various types of Telecommunication equipment, and contributing to overall growth in corporate revenue of over 200% within a span of 3+ years.
• Guided several departments in designing and developing projects through production stage.
• Collaborated with management teams to deliver assigned programs - developed group and individual timelines, assessed/identified potential bottlenecks in each project/program process.
• Directed the recruitment process of key employees and the selection of consultants and outsource-vendors.
• Developed and initiated internal processes to improve program delivery within specific timeframes.
• Established goals and milestones as per the desired results to be generated by the project.
• Defined the resources required for completion of a project and allocated resources accordingly.
• Managed teams working on different programs and resolved all areas of conflict.
• Evaluated the timely performance of different teams working on a project and documented the progress accordingly.
• Assisted the engineers in documenting the project designs and making changes as per needs.
• Ensured that all programs were executed within established time period and complied with the defined standards

Confidential

Manager-Production

RESPONSIBILITY:

• Assisted in overall development of the company by improving the production capabilities, infrastructure.
• Development, implementing quality standards in assembly and testing; and interacting with various customer related activities as vendor development, procurement of components and sub-contracts.
• Contributed to the increase in revenue of 100% by advocating the use of various new products and techniques in house.
• Managed a team of over 100+ personnel in assembly, testing and other areas.
• Handled projects from 2M- 80M over a period of 8 years with an annual growth of 200%.
• Joined the company as a Production Planning Engineer responsible for launching materials, scheduling, following up on shortage materials for production, monitoring of material inflow as per the management priorities and also projection of fund requirements based on urgency involved and interacting with various inter departments for smooth flow of materials. Worked in other departments as R&D Engineer, Production In-Charge, Assistant Manager and Manager Production.
• Total revenue growth 500 % over a span of 8 years and gained exposure to areas that helped to improve and refine personal production skills and managed a team of over 200+ personnel at various levels from assembly to final dispatch of the equipment.