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Technical Program Manager/project Manager Resume

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OBJECTIVE

  • Project management professional with strong business acumen and solidtechnicalbackground. Excellent organizational skills to handle many activities without losing sight of highest priority items. A team player, collaborator, and a relationship builder whose infectious can do attitude inspires others and encourages great performance in a fast - moving environment.

SUMMARY

  • Forward-focused Program Manager with expertise in concepts of end-to-end project planning & implementation from scope management, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management.
  • Proven track record of managing and leading global cross functionalprojectteams across multiple organizations to deliver multimillion-dollar ITProjectinitiatives.
  • Defined processes and tools best suited to eachproject. Moved between agile and waterfall methodologies depending onprojectspecifics and client goals, created detailedprojectroad maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures
  • Well versed in Management and leadership skill, demonstrated Team/People Management aptitude, motivating, training, mentoring large teams for excellence in performance and delivery with quality.
  • Capable of leading high performing team in geographically distributed development (team of 10 to 30 across India, China & EMEA) with soft skills under tough deadlines to meet expectations of multiple stakeholders.
  • Worked with Business and other stakeholders to understand, gather, clarify requirements and developprojectsuccess criteria for complex application development/upgradeproject
  • Developed standardprojectmanagement policies, procedures and templates for use across the IT organization as well as monitored compliance to the standards to be used in PMO.
  • Introduced severalprojectmanagement processes such as Task Management, Issue Management, Time Sheet Management,Projectlife cycle Management and Change Management based on PMI guidelines.
  • Handledprojectsof Microsoft .NET technology and Java Technology.
  • Successful implementation of Hadoop/Hive platform replacing DB2 warehouse to improve the efficiency of daily data processing, tracking and Data Analytics
  • Spearhead tracking and reporting KPIs on a monthly, quarterly basis for executives. Conducted and tracked workshops for various key initiative projects.
  • Creative and Multi-disciplinary Executive renowned for swiftly completing projects with competent cross-functional skills and ensuring on time deliverables within pre-set cost parameters.
  • Led and implemented a migration effort that saved $100K and established a process to resolve and address issues in different cross-functional groups that helped in reducing bugs by 30%.
  • Hosted War Room calls with vendors, business partners, testers and all stake holders to review RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and action items.
  • Reduced Time-to-Market forprojectdeliveries by 20% with adoption of agile methodology by transitioning from Waterfall to Scrum & Kanban agile methodology.
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously using Scrum/Kanban methodology and Waterfall methodology based on preference ofProjectsponsors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: MS Project, JIRA, Visual Studio 2010/2013, VSS, SVN, TFS, Eclipse, Siemens PLM, Smart Sheets, Share point, Clarity, MS Office Suite, MS Visio

Primary Skills: Project Initiation, Project Charter, Risk Management, Budgeting, Offshore, Stakeholder Management, Project Planning, Execution of Project Plans, Monitoring and Controlling various Project Tasks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, California

Technical Program Manager/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Prepared deck for Kick-off meeting and captured the project sponsor’s recommendations and subsequently implemented in the project management plan.
  • Prepared Project Charter and Deliverable responsibilitymatrixdocuments (RACI).
  • Developed project plans, schedules using Gantt charts and Milestone charts.
  • Designed & built scalable infrastructure and platform in Apache Hadoop to collect and process very large amounts ofdata(structured and unstructured), for batch processing & streaming / real time analytics using Hadoop stack (HBase, Spark, Sqoop,Hive, Kafka).
  • Managed day-to-day operational aspects by executingthe projectplans while adapting to meet changing requirements and strict deadlines.
  • Identified resource needs and assigned individual deliverables by creating Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
  • Promotedprojectvision and objectives withprojectteam.
  • Assessed project risk and developed risk mitigation strategy and communicating to stakeholders in a timely manner.
  • Worked on Change Management Deliverables. Worked on Change complexity assessment document working with Business Subject Matter Experts, Prepared Impact analysis and Change engagement plan Documents.
  • Involved in Change Control Board (CCB) to go through the risk and assign the priorities by controlling the risk and making any changes to the scope baselines.
  • Worked closely with product owner and quality stakeholders to oversee successful implementation.
  • Generated weekly project status reports with identified risks and communicated project status and reports to stakeholders.
  • Analyzed root cause of production problems identified in current business model, evaluate the impact on the workflow process and provide recommendations.
  • Captured 40% savings inprojectcosts in only six months - reengineeredproject& release plans and renegotiated contracts with vendors; enhanced quality assurance and maintained timelines.
  • Developed an aggressive multi-year integrated program roadmap and release plan to iteratively deliver integrated portfolio of projects on a 6 weeks cycle.
  • Initiated a vendor management improvement plan that resulted in extra 25% product delivery throughput. Organized CRDR to formally close the project and hand over the deliverables to the key stakeholders.

Confidential, California

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for all aspects of the development/implementation of theprojectusing agile methodology.
  • Elicited the business requirements and designed the proposed solution consisting ofdatalake anddatawarehouse on Hadoop.
  • Designed & built scalable infrastructure and platform in Apache Hadoop to collect and process very large amounts ofdata
  • Developed and maintain standardprojectdocumentation -Projectplans, agendas, action items lists, deliverables and ensure adherence to companyProjectManagement Standards and Software Development Lifecycle best practices. Documented Test Plans, Test Experience in conducting UAT.
  • Developedprojectschedule by analyzingprojectactivity sequences, durations, requirements and constraints. Ensure theprojectplans are in line with the SDLC using Agile methodology
  • Estimated resource requirements in implementing the project plan.
  • Developed schedule using critical chain method and executed the plan.
  • Monitored the scope changes by going through the change requests submitted by the business users.
  • Managed the weekly deployment activities to ensure backup recovery plan is in place.
  • Communicated the weekly status report to the stakeholders.
  • Ensure that issues and risks are identified, understood early and dealt with in a manner that mitigates surprises, risk to scope, cost, and schedule.
  • Facilitated release management activities for deployments.

Confidential, California

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Planning, execution, projects deliverables, on time completion, within budget, etc. as per Customer standards.
  • Estimated Scope, resources, risks & cost decomposing theprojectusing WBS.
  • Designed & built scalable infrastructure and platform in Apache Hadoop to collect and process very large amounts ofdata.
  • Managed and coordinated the day-day operational aspects of theProject. Served as the single point of contact. Facilitated the Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning/Review, Backlog Grooming and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
  • Partnered with the internal Product Management teams to drive requirements and continuously interacted with stakeholders to set expectations, review objectives and coordinate resources across the individual projects
  • Implemented project using Agile Scrum methodology with JIRA as the PPM tool for creating and estimating user stories, building a sprint backlog, identifying team commitment and velocity, visualizing team activity, reporting on team progress
  • Created training documentation and provided training to operational teams
  • Continuously tracked projectbudget by monitoring resource usage, manage scope meticulously and ensureprojectcosts do not overrun
  • Developed release schedules and intermediate milestones.
  • Identified risks and tracked them using RACI matrix while ensuring risk mitigation plans are in place. Communicate release plans and publish release notes.
  • Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions. Worked closely with Development team, BA and QA teams as well as Stakeholders and members of management to resolve any issues.

Confidential, California

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Gathered the business requirements from the Subject Matter Experts.
  • Involved in installing Hadoop Ecosystem components.
  • Used to manage and review the Hadoop log files.
  • Supported Map Reduce Programs those are running on the cluster.
  • Involved in HDFS maintenance and loading of structured and unstructured data.
  • Wrote Map Reduce job using Java API.
  • Involved in managing and reviewing Hadoop log files.
  • Written Hive queries for data analysis to meet the business requirements.
  • Creating Hive tables and working on them using Hive QL.
  • Utilized Agile Scrum Methodology to help manage and organize a team of 4 developers with regular code review sessions.
  • Weekly meetings with technical collaborators and active participation in code review sessions with senior and junior developers.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Accomplished end-to-end implementation of various big and complex projects, including Requirement Analysis, designing, development, coding, testing and implementation of the software application.
  • Used entity framework to retrieve data from SQL Server by writing LINQ queries & Lambda expressions
  • Worked and led the projects and applications using C#.NET,MVC, SQL Server 2008 R2, ASP.NET, Software Architecture, Software Design, SDLC, Agile methodology, Database Programming, Database Designing, Data Modeling, Website Designing, Website Development, AJAX, HTML, XML. Also worked on Data Analysis, Quality Assurance QA, SourceSafe, Windows Forms, UI Design, and UI Development.
  • Identified & analyzed defects, documenting, tracking and communicating test plans, test results, analysis, etc.
  • Proven ability to work both independently and in cross-functional team environments. Gained experience in leading and management of projects/teams and prioritization of multiple projects.
  • Successfully completed requirements gathering and feasibility/scope definition, Development, Enhancement, Maintenance/Support.
  • Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.
  • Created and published executive program dashboard and metrics for resource utilization and capacity planning that expedited decision making as well as improved transparency across the organization.
  • Identified key performance indicator and incorporated in the business processes to measure success of product development processes.
  • Presentation to executives on product development compliance and process maturity.
  • Vendor management for different technologies, from different cultures and across different continents. Effective collaboration with them to improve product development solutions including spec alignment, design reviews, user acceptance test (UAT) and production deployment.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Accountable for understanding the Business Logic of an existing legacy application which is being used since a decade in a very short span of time.
  • Created a Workflow to integrate the new requirements by the business along with SQL Jobs which are used to run some processes in the application.
  • Introduced Technical documents and ER diagrams for the existing application.
  • Developed forms for the web application in VB.NETWritten configuration settings in Web. Config file
  • Configured Forms authentication the application by using a Configuration File. Configuring Security with IIS and ASP.NET
  • Validated user input on Web Forms using validation controls like Compare Validator, Range Validator, Regular Expression Validator and Custom Validator. Also Performed Client Side Validations using JavaScript.
  • Used ADO.NET to access SQL Server database.
  • Designed and developed Web Services usingC#, ADO.NET and XML to handle online transactions with central database, which reduces the time, required performing data entry and generating reports.
  • Tracked, analyzed and assigned the bugs and change requests to the team members.
  • Optimize and troubleshoot the application.

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