SUMMARY

• Highly skilled project management professional with 6+ years of experience leading both domestic and international projects seeking new opportunity.
• Project manager with 6 year’s experience providing cradle - to-grave management over large-scale IT implementations. Excel at liaising between business and technical areas to achieve on-time, on-budget and on-spec project completions. Able to merge customer and user needs with business requirements, budgetary restrictions and logistical considerations to meet project deliverables.
• Strong Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
• Created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects.
• Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to tailor presentations towards different functional areas of business.
• Experience in working with various departmental teams, developing interactive relationships with business and IT colleagues, having a thorough understanding of needs, and perspectives of both the business users and the technical team.
• Team player, energetic, result-oriented, fast learner, excellent communication skills with strong research capabilities.
• Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.
• Escalating promptly any issues that may impact operations.
• Producing stage plans, highlight reports, risk logs, requests for change etc.
• Providing strategic direction during the implementation stages.
• Managing client expectations by ensuring the delivery of the highest quality service.
• Project Scheduling Consulting Team Building & Leadership
• Agile Project Management Agile methodology Scrum
• Project Planning & Tracking Estimation Project Life Cycle Management
• Team Management Client Relations & Presentations Cross-Functional Supervision
• System Migrations/Integrations Enterprise Implementations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum

Project Management Tools: Jira, Confluence, Clarity, Rally

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Scrum Master for daily standups for multiple scrum teams.
• Established and maintained release management guidelines for all PMO team members to follow.
• Utilized Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Clarity, Microsoft Project.
• Project management involved development & implementation of the product in an AWS Cloud infrastructure. (All Phases of SDLC)
• Conduct Penetration Tests (PEN Tests) for all the applications so that the product released in the market are compliant with the HIPAA and other market standards.
• Managed Manual Penetration Test’s for all products under PMO. (budget, schedule, remediation planning, etc.)
• Worked with Legal Department to manage 3rd Party Lists under the PMO for Copyright/Proprietary Notices.
• Act as a liaison between product and development.
• Co-ordinate all aspects of project and served as a manager for the project team who are a liaison between project management and departments.
• Focused on milestones, deliverables, documentation, end-user training and Agile based methodologies for execution of the project/programs.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Systematic prioritization of warehouse orders depending on processing progress of delivery orders and/or delivery order items.
• Possibility for defining re-prioritizations based on events.
• Flexible, time-controlled prioritization of replenishment, warehouse picking orders, production supply, etc.
• Completely integrated into SAP EWM resource management.
• Worked with multiple work streams conducting deep dive assessments on the full SDLC for large scale projects to determine root cause of delayed project timelines.
• Helped drive process improvement in the R&D department by implementing best practices from Agile and Scrum in to the project methodology.
• Created executive presentations of findings and recommendations based on the investigations.
• Worked with a team of consultants driving process improvement initiatives with the PMO.
• Put together training material to train project managers on best practices.
• Created governance framework for status reporting and escalations to increase project success rate, resource efficiency, and leadership insight.
• Worked on Agile Methodology with monthly release and weekly sprints.
• Increased service scores by 10% for supported operational areas by facilitating training and communication on key topics for sales offices.
• Tracked and communicate project status to stakeholders and investors through weekly excel reports.
• Monitored projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing issue resolution and taking corrective action as necessary.
• Worked closely with Development and Release Management teams to coordinate deadlines and manage expectations.
• Managed project change requests and functioned as an escalation point.
• Managed a senior team of Business Analysts, Architects, and Project Managers.

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Project Manager/Business Development/Account management

Responsibilities:

• Interacted extensively with various business groups, stakeholders and users to develop the Vision that is aligned with corporate strategic objectives.
• Conducted Monthly Business Prioritization meetings with the stakeholders identify features to be scheduled for the upcoming release.
• Conducted requirement workshops to verify and validate business requirements.
• Co-coordinated the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on a daily basis with the SME’s to make sure that all the business requirements are addressed in the application.
• Architect, Design, Implementations, Deadlines.
• Documented test cases / test scripts.
• Performed functional and GUI testing to ensure that the user acceptance criteria are met.
• Conducted weekly sprint planning meeting with the developers and quality assurance analysts to review user story, assign story points and assign cards to a respective sprint.
• Project Manager for the Quality Task Force initiatives, a prioritized list of 20+ small projects.
• Reduced implementation cost by 30% on existing arrangements by renegotiating Vendor contracts.
• Performed least cost analysis in determining project requirements.
• Acting on client feedback.