SUMMARY

• 15 years of combined managerial and technical experience in Information Technology in diversified industries, especially federal and other governmental projects
• Over 10 years Project Management and team lead experience in IT applications implementations
• Managed Program Budget, Program Status Reporting, Program Communications, Program Business Cases, Program Resource Plans, Program Vendor Management Procedures and supported development of the program plan and activities
• Experienced in implementations using Agile methodology (Scrum Master certified)
• Advanced MS Project Professional skills
• Extensive experience with software development process (SDLC), including requirement gathering, analysis/design, development tools/technologies, architecture, release/version control, contemporary testing methodologies and deployment management
• Facilitated meetings effectively (guide the conversation, balance consensus building with decision - making, and ensure outcomes/action items are met and documented)
• Acted as a facilitator and mentor and motivated cross functional and virtual teams
• Understood and tracked project details and balanced that with the larger business needs
• Prepared project reports for management, clients, or others.
• Conferred with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.
• Coordinated project activities with activities of business units.
• Communicated key messages for projects by understanding communication requirements of key stakeholders, providing outcome-based, crisp and actionable communication, escalating critical issues and risks promptly, regular communication to customers on accomplishments, initiatives (scope, schedule & budget), application support, risk management, key next steps and clear owners of key next steps.
• Accurately assessed the risks/issues associated with each project and systematically manage and report on project risks/issues.
• Ensured that the solutions meet all infrastructure requirements such as information security, performance, maintainability, scalability, and extensibility.
• Ensured that sound practices are taking place. Replace old processes with newer ones where feasible, and provides feedback for efficiencies.
• Used MS Project for project scheduling, tracking and resource allocations.
• Created Communication plan, identifying the target audience such as senior management, development staff and external stakeholders, communications channel, frequency and message content etc.
• Managed Program Resource Plans, identifying which resource is needed how much and when.
• Reviewed Program Vendor Management Procedures and interacted with COTS vendor.
• Supported analysis and development of the program plan in consultation with business users.
• Created, managed, and drove execution to the project plan to deployments. Managed and aligned cross project dependencies.
• Effectively managed changes to scope or deliverables. Lead re-plan activities and developed alternate delivery scenarios.
• Held regular status meetings with the teams. Reported status weekly to stakeholders and executive leadership as necessary.
• Investigated and escalated critical project issues.
• Identified, collected and managed project risks as applicable.
• Identified, collected, assigned, and managed issues to closure. Provided supervision and leadership for team members, communicated the purpose and vision of the project, prepared reports and recommendations for management, conducted daily stand-ups, log progress and issues, then work to resolve obstacles to project progress.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft: Project, MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint

Biometrics: Synthetic fingerprint creation in house tools, IAFIS, Cogent, MorphoTrak

Query Tools: TOAD, Oracle Discoverer, Crystal Reports, Oracle Reports, DBArtisan, Quality Analyzer, Quality Profiler Advanced Query Tool(AQT), Rapid SQL

CASE Tools: Erwin (Data Modeling), Designer 6I

Databases: Oracle, Teradata, MS SQL Server, Lotus Notes, DB2, UDB, Sybase

Reporting Tools: MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Brio Designer, ETL, Informatica

Automated tools: Mercury Quality Center, Rational tools Requisite Pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case, Mercury, Quick Test Professional, Test DirectorOther Tools: TeamTrack, Putty, Serena Version Manager, Autosys, Rational Tools, MetaRecon, Lotus Notes, Remedy, PVCS Tracker, Xterm, Platinum, Metadata, SQL Navigator, PCVS, Capability Maturity Model, Sharepoint, Bugzilla, CVS

O/S: AIX, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows XP, Windows Server 2000/NT, OS390

Web: HTML, Front Page, IIS Web Server, Java, Java Script, ASP .NET, XSP, XMLSpy, XML, XSD

Languages: PL/SQL, SQL PLUS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rosslyn, VA

Project Manager

Environment: MS Project, TIBCO, Oracle 10x, XMLSpy, Putty,.Net, Team Track, Serena Version Manager, Mercury Quality Center, Bugzilla, TOAD, Share point, Crystal Reports, Data Warehouse, ETL, Unix and various inhouse applications, such as SIT and iTest, Agile methodology, ITIL

Responsibilities:

• Lead project meetings. Recorded key points, decisions, risks, or action items and published back to the project team.
• Developed a thorough understanding of the projects within their scope of influence.
• Stored all project-related material in a centralized data store.
• Approved team members’ time and expense reports and track to project budget.
• Involved in determining project goals, setting project priorities, developing and maintain Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs), using Microsoft Project, developing and maintaining project plans, risk plans, quality assurance plans etc.
• Supported the management and planning of all efforts associated with the project including: development and management of work plans, defining and delivering individual project deliverables as a part of the overall program deliverables, managed the expectations of all stakeholders, organized and addressed emerging project requirements, managed project relationships and integrations, managed more than one project team in delivery of commitments.
• Developed and managed a set scope of work within the project to be delivered through effective expectations setting, communications, change management control, budget control and management, and overall business understanding of the project needs.
• Actively supported the project management team's efforts, to include: project plan, scope management, budget management, resource management, time management (activities, scheduling and task planning), communications, risk, procurement, testing, user training, program / project delivery, transition, maintenance and support management.
• Reported project progress, issues, and risks through weekly status reports.
• Worked on applications development in agile environment using Scrum methodology.
• Ensured project tasks are completed according to established timelines and budget and necessary sign-offs are achieved
• Managed the project estimating activity. Worked with Program Manager, Resource Manager and Project Team to communicate approach, present plans and gain sign-off from the business and IT leadership. Managed delivery teams.
• Program Status Reporting duties involved reporting on extent of project completed, critical issues, action items etc.
• Program Communications duties involved establishing appropriate communication processes, frequencies and message content, while reporting to management and interacting with development team.
• Managed Program Resource Plans which included identifying the skill set of resources, scheduling
• Prepared and managed Program Business Cases, which involved justifying certain IT project proposals and providing cost benefit analysis.
• Lead team as Agile Scrum Master on applications development in Agile environment using Scrum methodology.
• Designed system architecture and road map for application development.

Confidential, Washington DC

Team Lead

Environment: Sybase, UDB/DB2; Rational Tools, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Data Warehouse, ETL Informatica, DBArtisan, Visio, PowerPoint, MS project, Access, Erwin etc, Unix, OS390 etc.

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained project schedules, project status reports and mapped project activities to project requirements
• Participated and contributed to Program Budget, Program Status Reporting, Program Communications, Program Business Cases, Program Resource Plans, Program Vendor Management Procedures and supported development of the program plan and other activities.
• Conducted project/phase kick-off meetings to communicate individual roles and project expectations and ensure that all project team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively.
• Monitored projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing issue resolution process and taking corrective action as necessary.
• Lead the post-implementation review evaluating project results, including client satisfaction.
• Tested entire process of granting of awards and various subsequent adjustments to awards, in GMS application. Performed both front end testing and backend Oracle database testing. Used TOAD for database analysis. Used Merant Version Manager for configuration management.

Confidential

Data Analyst

Environment: Databases Sybase, Teradata, Business Objects, Data warehouse, ETL, Informatica, Oracle and Red Brick; Visio, PowerPoint, MS project, Access, Erwin, Mercury - Quick Test Professional

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with users to understand, define and implement new product strategic requirements, and Business and Technical SMEs to review high level requirements for assigned projects.
• Lead functional specification reviews, evaluates and incorporates feedback in order to obtain specification approvals.
• Created and managed processes, tools and systems to support all work streams of the large-scale project.
• Organized, scheduled and coordinated testing activities, from writing test plans to running manual and automated tests.