SUMMARY

• Accomplished Project Manager with over13 yearsprogressive experience in the IT industry and with over 6 years of project management experience
• Provenability in End to End project management including organizing, prioritizing, planning and executing multiple medium to large scale projects from definition through implementation, involving vendors.Successfully ledmultiple concurrent projects and interfaced with business and technology leadership.
• Engaged in successful Transition from existing team and maintained multiple applications with stringent SLAs managing a team size of 5 to 25+ across different locations.Led Mainframe Migration and Legacy Modernization Program as part of multi - year $ 10 million initiative executed from multiple locations across globe.
• Spear-headed projects involving application development, package implementation, production support and Maintenance Projects using Waterfall as well as Agile methodology.Collaborated with a dynamicScrum team, facilitated backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily scrum, and sprint reviews.
• Operated projects at high CMMI level (level 4 and 5)while applying formal Project Management (PMI) framework following with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and SOX compliance
• Orchestrated projects/teams across different technologies and domains, coped with changes very fast. Keep up-to-date with changes in the industry through continuing professional development (earned PMP and Agile certifications)
• Expert in MS Office Suite including MS Project, MS Excel, Power point, Visio
• Program Management, Project planning, Resource &Cost Management, Risk and Issue Management
• Hands on experience in ticketing tools likeRemedy and Service Now
• Experience in Support, Maintenance anddevelopment project
• Experience in project management tools e.g.CA Clarity and HP ppm&Agile Tool e.g. Rally Software
• Mainframe technologies (hands on), Java & .net technologies (managed)
• Domain experience in Publishing, Transportation and Logistics, Banking and Finance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TEMPE, AZ

PROJECT MANAGER/ QA RELEASE COORDINATOR

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple cross functional teams and projects across various locations.
• Ensuring Environment was properly base lined at least for critical applications and for others,providing guidance and leadership for issue resolution
• Coordinating and validating integrated application software and infrastructure builds for Test Environments
• Leading activities likeQA environment refreshes, deployment etcand streamline processes with Devops team
• Working closely with the IT Directors, department Heads and various other stakeholders to implement automation and enhance continuous integration/continuous development process
• Driving process optimization and achieving results in an ever-changing environment.

Confidential, PHOENIX, AZ

PROJECT MANAGER CUM SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Global Business Services Technologies applications:
• Engaged and responsible for structuring a project, performing the detailed planning, and leadingand organizing the project team and deliver high quality product.
• Managed planning, budgeting, vendor selection and quality assurance efforts of the project.
• Planned and scheduled project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools and tracked the progress of projects, managed Risk and Issue and provided status report to steering committee.
• Ledmultiple projects in parallel, managed resource and worked as interface between technologies team and business.
• Actively contributed to PMO by managing finance and resource forecasting of a multi-year program.
• Expertise in Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanbanon Rally Software as Scrum Master
• Responsible for driving Scrum processes, risk management, tracking dependencies and conflict resolution.
• Managed Release and coordinated Change management activities for critical projects under the program with multiple stakeholders and provided status update, finalizing scope of release, ensuring signoff, post implementation validation and streamline processes

Confidential, MA

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 25+ members to maintain and enhance one of top newspaper publication inUSA, Wall Street Journal, print publication and integration with electronic publication.
• Managed multiple applications across various technologies(Mainframe as well web applications) including WSJ self-service, contact center, Fulfillment and Delivery.
• Actively engaged in the RFP of the Legacy Mainframe Migration Project of Fulfilment andDelivery Application project and resulted in successful win in Confidential favor.
• Worked closely with PMO to successful execution of the Migration Program.
• Executed this program from onsite (up to a size of $ 3-4 Million/year) at high maturity level (CMMI level 5) and maintained commendable Knowledge Management practice across the team across various technologies.
• Led multiple projects from production support, maintenance through development and provided year on year cost saving through automation and knowledge sharing.
• Managed all project phases, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure to achieve high customer satisfaction.
• Led value-add and tools &reuse initiatives to contribute towards customer delight and savings

Confidential, MA

TECHNOLOGY LEAD AND ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• WSJ Legacy Modernization project
• Actively engaged in Proof of concept for the selection and confirmation of Shadow/z-services as acceptable product.
• Played a critical role of coordinating with different parties involved in this integration tosuccessfully implement this product in production.
• Worked on identifying and implementing number of system improvement for the existingapplications and saved effort and money for client and Confidential . It helped turn aroundcustomer feedback from a score of 3/7 to 6.5/7.
• Managed transition of the IT support from client to Confidential team for New York Post in a criticalmigration from AS400 legacy system to one of the leading print circulation fulfilment anddelivery product from DTI.

Confidential

PROGRAM ANALYST/ SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Credit Card Compliance Project for Confidential:
• Worked as onsite coordinator for 6 member team from initial requirement phase tillimplementation without any impact on day-to-day business of the application.
• Actively involved with the auditors in negotiating and convincing the acceptable solution to avoid any penalty.
• Led the team to successful implementation of this project helped building a confidence andstrengthened the relationship with Confidential .
• This project won the Best Project Award in Confidential in 2007-2008.
• Worked as onsite coordinator to provide system improvement alongside utilizing offshoreteam.
• Client appreciation in collecting requirements in a bit hostile environment at client location.
• Helped in having better control of the processes from MVS and also reduce the dependencyon specific users.
• Logis-Air is a global operations system, which caters to airfreight forwarding business This an IT application which primarily enables Confidential Danzas Air and Ocean (DDAO) do air freight forwarding business capturing of shipment related data to allow varied operations ranging from pickup to delivery and more.
• Worked on minor and major enhancement as well as production support of this application.