Profile

Over11 years of experiencein IT. Experience spans Technical Project Management, Lead Business Systems analysis, and Business Development. I have supported key clients such as General Motors, American Airlines the State of Rhode Island.During my current stint, I simultaneously manageseveralmultimillion dollar projects for the State of Rhode Island.

Skills summary

Project Management

• Proven experience managing large, complex software development and implementation programs to deliver technical solutions across multipleprojectteams and organizational units.
• Proven ability to manage diverse highly complex programs and ensure effective collaboration and communication across business and technology stakeholders and multiplegeographies using web sharing technologies such as WebEx, MicrosoftLync and HPVirtualRoom.
• Strong business expertise, keen understanding of business needs, and ability to ensure technical solutions, strategies, practices, and governance deliver business and customer value.
• Experience with various software development methodologies including the agiledevelopment methodology such as Scrum and Waterfalldevelopment methodology.
• Success in developing program/project level artifacts to support a major software implementation program with concurrent releases.
• Successful track record of delivering on agreed upon business objectives and performance on key metrics.
• Highly effective communication and negotiation skills in all mediums and throughout all levels of the organization.
• Experience with program management office PMO planning and operations activities.
• Experience working with ecommerce, transportation and healthcare companies and deploying software into a live web environment
• Perform Project Assessment based on interaction with the customer subject matter experts SMEs define high-level scope of the project and seek approval after documenting the Statement of Work SOW .
• Develop Project Charter to document project scope, milestones and deliverables.
• Plan the project by developing a Work Breakdown Structure WBS , a budget plan, a project schedule and a human resource plan.
• Identify the Resourcing for the project. Resources include human personnel, software and hardware.
• Staff the project by identifying the skillset, roles and responsibilities required to complete the project successfully. Includes interviewing, hiring and inducting new team members.
• Participate in identifying and reviewing the business requirements BRD with the client.
• Facilitate the design of the software solution to achieve the project goals.
• Track the project through the project execution when the solution is coded, tested and deployed GO-LIVE using MicrosoftProjector other Project Management tools.
• Ensure the project team members work on thetasksassigned to them and deliver quality software that meets client requirements.
• Coach, mentor, motivate, supervise, and influenceproject team members to solve problems and to take accountability for their assigned work.
• MeasureProject Performance by monitoring and controlling variances by performing corrective actions and communicating it to the Project Stakeholders.
• Determine next steps for issues identified and updating the risk register periodically.
• Report project status to the management using PreSage and client leadership periodically.
• Obtain approval/acceptance of the project deliverables from the clients.
• Collect project feedback and document them as lessons learned during the close down of the project or End of the Sprint for Agile projects .
• Maintain project artifacts in the Microsoft SharePoint.
• CustomerManagement manage customers' expectations and communicate the client's expectations to the team periodically.
• Measure individual's and team performance on an on-going basis and recognize them using the WorkDay Tool.
• Manage escalations by engaging the team, tracking and communicating the progress till completion.

Other skills: Requirements Management, Bid management - RFP analysis, SOW and Solution Opportunity Approval Review SOAR preparation.

Tools

• MS Project Project Management Tool
• Rally Agile Project Management Tool
• JIRA Agile Project Management Tool and Defect Management Tool
• PreSage Project Reporting Tool
• Workday Performance, Career and Team management
• Caliber Requirement Management Tool
• HP Quality Center Defect Management Tool
• Bugzilla Defects Management Tool
• MS Sharepoint Document Management Tool

Professional experience

Confidential

Role Technical Project Lead/Manager

Major responsibilities:

• Manage multimillion dollar projects for the client within a Healthcare environment using Waterfall as the project methodology.
• Supported the implementation of ICD-10, T-MSIS Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System and APCD Advance Payer Code Database . These projects sourced data from MMIS Medicaid Management Information system . The data submitted using the T-MSIS project included Medicaid and CHIP Children's Health Insurance Program information.
• Oversee the development of the solutions in Waterfall methodology using MS Project.
• Engage all the project stakeholders - state customer, federal government customer, the project team, HP leadership, the system administrator team, the DBA team, the Electronic File transfer team.
• Oversee the design, building and integration of a Data Warehouse solution - ETL in Informatica, Database in Oracle 11G, Unix scripts in Solaris and BizTalk for file transfer.
• Modify/develop data access processes in accordance with team policies, procedures and security standards.
• Work closely with the business functional areas, technical teams and clients to define systems/project priorities, scope, approach, resource requirements, timing deliverables and Funding.
• Develop project plans specifying goals, strategy, dependencies, staffing, scheduling, contingency plans, and allocation of resources.
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Assign tasks, responsibilities and drive accountability to project team members in a matrix environment.
• Provide leadership and direction to client and project teams.
• Perform weekly and monthly reporting to HP Leadership and the Customer.
• Review the riskregister weekly.
• Seeking approvals of purchase orders requisitions.
• Recruit and induct new project Team Members.

Confidential

Role Technical Project Lead/Manager/Scrum Master

Major responsibilities:

• Leadership of a 10 member development team delivering PaymentEngineChanges for American Airlines as a ScrumMaster and Project Manager .
• Project Management for a project including team members at Dallas and an offshore location in India using Agile Methodology.
• The solution was developed using Java and MS SQL.
• The Project Management tool used was Rally and JIRA to capture the defects.
• Facilitate dailyscrum meetings.
• Responsible for consistent application of all standard project management methodology processes, tools, and documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive all aspects of project management activity, including collaborating and coordinating across the organization.
• Responsible for identifying and managing risks, making sound judgments about quality, and stopping or speeding up production at the right time.
• Lead and coordinate of design/implementation efforts between internal teams and external customers and/or partners.
• Drive userstory brainstorming, review, and clarification sessions with software and quality engineering teams.
• Participate in Deep Dive sessions on key architectural components discuss, debate and influence technical teams on system design.

Confidential

Role Technical Project Lead/Manager/Scrum Master

Major responsibilities:

• Leadership of the two agile scrum teams as a ScrumMaster and Project Manager each consisting of 9 team members.
• The solution was developed using Java and Oracle.
• The Project Management tool used was MS Project and JIRAwas used to capture the defects.
• Facilitate dailyscrum meetings.
• Responsible for consistent application of all standard project management methodology processes, tools, and documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive all aspects of project management activity, including collaborating and coordinating across the organization.
• Responsible for identifying and managing risks, making sound judgments about quality, and stopping or speeding up production at the right time.
• Lead and coordinate of design/implementation efforts between internal teams and external customers and/or partners.
• Drive userstory brainstorming, review, and clarification sessions with software and quality engineering teams.
• Participate in Deep Dive sessions on key architectural components discuss, debate and influence technical teams on system design.

Confidential

Role Jr. Project Manager

Major responsibilities:

• Managing a team of 4 Business Analysts and 4 Developers in addition to performing hands on as a Business Analyst.
• Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements forming project team establishing project budget.
• Determine operational objectives by studying business functions gathering information evaluating output requirements and formats.
• Design new computer programs by analyzing requirements constructing workflow charts and diagrams studying system capabilities writing specifications.
• Improve systems by studying current practices designing modifications.
• Recommend controls by identifying problems writing improved procedures.
• Monitor project progress by tracking activity resolving problems publishing progress reports recommending actions.
• Maintain system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
• Provide references for users by writing and maintaining userdocumentation providing help desk support training users.
• Maintain user confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential.
• Prepare technicalreports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops reviewing professional publications establishing personal networks benchmarking state-of-the-art practices participating in professional societies.
• Solution Opportunity Approval Review SOAR preparation.
• Submit and score of RFQ's, RFI's and RFP's inclusive of vendor demonstrations and final selections process.