SUMMARY

• Results - oriented information technology leader with deep experience in applying technical, people, process, and problem solving skills to drive business-criticalprojectsfrom initiation to completion on-time, budget and providing deliverables with the highest quality.
• Business strategist; plan and manage project budgets, aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements. Expertise in defining and managing project KPI and ensure risk control.
• Managed end-to - end projects delivery, responding to RFI/ RFPs, estimation and pricing of bids, proposal presentation,
• Experienced core PMO team and people management including planning, imparting training - /*+techincal, soft skills. Track program and project status, risks, issues and dependencies. Proactively addressed delivery team impediments. Resolved program and project roadblocks to enable successful program execution.
• Highly skilled in leading diverse, high-performing teams to meet organizational objectives. Expert in T&M, Fixed Price contracts and managing managed services engagement with SLAs
• 14+ years ERP professional experience in implementing and supporting ERP (SAP, BAAN) application consulting; specializing in Finance modules.
• A certified PMP® credentials with a Masters degree in Finance and Computer Science.
• Extensive consulting experience with companies likes Confidential Consulting, CSC, and Aspect communications to name a few of past employers.
• Excellent communicator; leverages technical, business, functional and financial acumen to communicate effectively with stakeholders, both; internal and external. Expertise in documentation of business requirements, MS Office, and MS Visio
• Strong knowledge of technical requirements, due to her own developer background. Expertise in project management methodologies and tools, SDLC, Waterfall, Agile / Scrum Methodology, MS Projects and expert documentation skills.
• An author of book “Managing Project Team and Resources”, it is a recommended text for MBA-IT program of a top Management school in India. Conducted training programs for Project Management, Business Analysis and Scrum Menthodology.
• Cross industry experience includes Retail, Manufacturing, Aerospace and Defense, Contract management, Automobiles and Service industries.
• Expertise in managing multi culture, multi location teams - offshore / onsite business model.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Project Manager / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Lead the project initiation and analyze project deliverables.
• Implemented Agile Scrum. Coach / lead the iteration planning, Daily Stand ups meetings to identify the business needs and prioritized them.
• Lead the team retrospection at the end of each iteration to constantly motivate team and improve the delivery efficiency.
• Conducted training for project leads and business analysts to understand Agile methodology.
• Determine staffing requirements based on estimated resource requirements across IT and Business channels to form project teams
• Managed a team of diverse functional and technical skills throughout the requirements, design, development, testing, and implementation phases of the project
• Develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and monitor progress toward goals
• Ensured decisions by key stakeholders, both Business and IT, in context of the projects goals relative to scope, schedule, costs/benefits
• Establish project budget and work with the project vendor and Finance team to ensure costs are tracked on a weekly basis and reflected in the forecasts accurately
• Monitored and controlled project status, risks, issues and dependencies. Resolved impediments and roadblocks to enable successful project execution.
• Provide senior management with visibility into project progress, while supporting effective decision-making, approvals, and direction in a consistent manner
• I have also single handedly been responsible for:
• Setting up Center of Excellence for Business Analysis and Project Management.
• Managed training and workshops for Project Management and Agile Management.
• Mentored project managers, customers, and other team members in various aspects of project, cost, and team management
• Conducted workshops for Communication - Vocal, Verbal and Body language, Team Building, Creative Leadership and many others.

Confidential

Agile Coach / Project Manager and core team

Responsibilities:

• Managed the financial reporting migration track for the order management system to upgrade for a large media house.
• Managed concurrent projects as per Agile Scrum, SDLC process, gathered business requirements, prepared use cases, and ensured compliance with development and information security standards
• Team member in the development of a PMO within the corporate systems group
• Mentored business analysts on project management methodologies.
• Mentor and coach teams in understanding and implementing Agile by leading and guiding daily Scrum meetings, plan sprint deliverables. Coaching during sprint retrospection. Also improved Agile adaption by developing and delivering training sessions to multiple Agile teams.
• Managed, cross-divisional projects integrating financial systems, vendor application integration, end user migration and management reporting.
• Managing project risks required ensuring monitoring of project KPI. Specifically, merger of 2 established systems required, risks tracking of business goals and ensuring that the merge did not create impediments and roadblocks to established business objectives and dependencies. Proactively addressed delivery team impediments. Resolved program and project roadblocks to enable successful program execution.

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Risk assessment, identify, track, monitor and control all types of risks across various different advertising channels.
• Resource management, coaching and mentoring.
• Identifying stakeholders by different advertising media, gathering wide variety requirements by media type.
• Guide client in business analysis and requirement prioritization. This was particularly challenging due to many different media types used.
• Tracking contracts also included monitoring of contracts with franchise partners.
• Managed in-house IT team and contractors located across the country.
• Lead team by implementing Agile scrum management methodology.
• Lead daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, prioritize deliverable and retrospect.
• Managed project presales, project costing, and monitoring and project team selection. Also have
• Defined project specifications, design, develop and implemented system.

Confidential

Asset Management System, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating dashboards and reports with an initial focus on providing meaningful and insightful data which would be helpful to the programming and marketing teams to schedule TV airing.
• Customer-specific dashboards and reports based upon priority and demand from individual customers
• Work with cross functional team who would be requiring asset related information like advertising team.
• Tracking assets through procurement, deployment and disposal, and maintain records and databases containing information for movies and TV shows.
• The asset management also created dashboard to track purchase orders for inventory stock replenishment, and manage inventory levels for program copyrights.
• Identify and create reports to identify risk and mitigate copyright violations reports.
• Due to the criticality of maintaining copyrights this was risk critical function to the organization.
• Managed project risks by identifying and tracking copyrights requirement, project budget, resource availability and stakeholder understanding the of business needs.

Confidential

Project Manager and core PMO team

Responsibilities:

• My responsibility comprised rolling out this software to all the channels. This included ensuring partnering business, technology and PMO teams like programming, operations, Traffic, Ad Sales, Finance and IT. Ensured required domain resources and stakeholders were available and engaged during the appropriate phase.
• Managing project project risk included managing impediments like go-live process without disruption to live TV programs.
• Implemented Scrum methodology for smooth execution of rollout for each TV channel go live process.
• Responsibility included ensuring roadmap items and gates are prioritized for delivery based on business value and/or impact for each channel. This required me to drive the resolution of prioritization issues as specially when planning international channels go-live process.
• Managed both internal and external teams as the project required cross functional teams working both in-house and external vendors working internationally.
• Development activity required extensive planning and identifying the data objects to be migrated to OnAir. Conduct workshops and document the data stratgey and concept documents. This required coordination of consulting, business and legacy team’s activities. Help legacy teams finalize the extraction and cleansing processes.

Confidential

SAP Data Migration Lead

Responsibilities:

• My responsibility comprised of team planning and identify the data objects required to be migrated to SAP.
• Conduct workshops and document the data stratgey and concept documents. This included planning for development and testing of conversion programs, planning performance / regression testing. This required coordination of consulting, business and legacy team’s activities. Help legacy teams finalize the extraction and cleansing processes.
• Identifying risks in terms of data required to be migrated to the new systems. Impediments in data migrations. Managing stakeholders to ensure timely approvals for data migration are procured.
• Lead migration team thru Scrum planning, daily standup and issue resolution. Confidential One Initiative
• Developed a SAP pre-configured solution template for Chemical Industry was created based on Best Practice. This solution was targeted for Chemical industries in India.
• My responsibility comprised of understanding Best Practice for Chemical Industry, identify scope of the solution, incorporating of local taxes, excise and VAT related statutory requirements for India.
• Planning and finalizing the project scope, acquiring resources and executing this project.
• Define and/or review the statements of work for the project. Identify cross-project dependencies; specially keeping in mind the solution is to be made available for international market in future.
• Develop and/or reviews stakeholder list, determine time required including SMEs and other team members.
• Determine and assess need for additional resources and acquiring resources as per the project cycle.
• Define roles and responsibilities of the team.
• Clearly define project objectives. Develops project schedules, set goals and determine milestones to track progress.
• Develops and reviews project budgets.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Indianization of U.S. assets including pre-configured solutions like Life Science, setting up and maintaining practitioners’ system for DeIoitte India partnership firm which is a separate legal entity.
• My responsibility comprised of understanding Confidential ’s global SAP template for Life Science industry and extending the same for India markets. This scope is limited to incorporating of taxes, excise and VAT related statutory requirement for India.