SUMMARY

• Highly skilled project management professional wif 6+ years of experience leading both domestic and international projects seeking new opportunity.
• Project manager wif 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 wif 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 teh 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 teh 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 wif various departmental teams, developing interactive relationships wif business and IT colleagues, having a thorough understanding of needs, and perspectives of both teh business users and teh technical team.
• Team player, energetic, result-oriented, fast learner, excellent communication skills wif 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 teh implementation stages.
• Managing client expectations by ensuring teh delivery of teh 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 teh product in an AWS Cloud infrastructure. (All Phases of SDLC)
• Conduct Penetration Tests (PEN Tests) for all teh applications so that teh product released in teh market are compliant wif teh HIPAA and other market standards.
• Managed Manual Penetration Test’s for all products under PMO. (budget, schedule, remediation planning, etc.)
• Worked wif Legal Department to manage 3rd Party Lists under teh 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 teh 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 teh 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 wif multiple work streams conducting deep dive assessments on teh full SDLC for large scale projects to determine root cause of delayed project timelines.
• Helped drive process improvement in teh R&D department by implementing best practices from Agile and Scrum in to teh project methodology.
• Created executive presentations of findings and recommendations based on teh investigations.
• Worked wif a team of consultants driving process improvement initiatives wif teh 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 wif 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 wif 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 wif various business groups, stakeholders and users to develop teh Vision that is aligned wif corporate strategic objectives.
• Conducted Monthly Business Prioritization meetings wif teh stakeholders identify features to be scheduled for teh upcoming release.
• Conducted requirement workshops to verify and validate business requirements.
• Co-coordinated teh User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on a daily basis wif teh SME’s to make sure that all teh business requirements are addressed in teh application.
• Architect, Design, Implementations, Deadlines.
• Documented test cases / test scripts.
• Performed functional and GUI testing to ensure that teh user acceptance criteria are met.
• Conducted weekly sprint planning meeting wif teh developers and quality assurance analysts to review user story, assign story points and assign cards to a respective sprint.
• Project Manager for teh 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.