SUMMARY

• Project Manager with around 9 Years of technical and business development experience with strong management, communication and negotiations skills.
• Focused on partnering effectively with business units and customers to provide high - value solutions.
• An effective leader, experienced in successfully managing a PMO with resources off-shore and in-house.
• Has a proven track record of consistently delivering high quality, value-added technology solutions, services and support to stakeholders.
• Innovator in process engineering, business analysis, and project management, successfully leading globally dispersed teams, to develop and deliver complex solutions for global markets.
• Extensive experience in Project Management, including planning, scheduling, controlling and managing activities over the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Strong background in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering, Software Engineering (JAVA, XML, SAP-MI), Project Management (Microsoft Project) and Agile Software Development including extensive Analysis, Design, Development, Debugging, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance of business applications
• Self-starter, strong leadership quality, excellent multi-tasking ability and proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Exceptional written and verbal, interpersonal and organization skills leading to “Getting Things Done” (GTD) on time.
• Extensive experience in Project Management, including planning, scheduling, controlling and managing activities over the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• High degree of experience in Project management tools - SDM Methodology, IDS Houston Methodology, PMI PMBOK standards, Visio, SERV.
• Involved in staffing and recruiting, communication between the different layers of the PMO, the Steering Committee, users and upper Management Extensive experience working with analysts, programmers, DBA’s, senior management, functional managers and end-users to deliver high quality, user-friendly software applications
• Experience in Project progress tracking, documentation, developing project portfolio reports including periodic project audits in terms of progress, forecasting.
• Excellent Business Analysis skills - ability to transform business users input to software requirements and specifications.
• Ability to co-ordinate all aspects of projects, set milestones and motivate people to achieve Excellent software designing skills - ability to convert functional specifications to detailed technical design specifications.
• Self-starter, strong leadership quality, excellent multi-tasking ability and proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Exceptional written and verbal, interpersonal and organization skills leading to “Getting Things Done” (GTD) on time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Product Management
• Project management
• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management
• ABAP
• International Business
• Digital Printing
• IT Operations
• Business Analysis
• Business Strategy
• Java
• HTML
• SAP-MI 7.0
• SAP Logon
• Microsoft Office Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Microsoft Project
• Macromedia Dreamweaver

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• This system was developed to cost a vehicle as it rolls off the assembly line of an assembly plant.
• The system is typically referred to as simply COS or Cost of Sales.
• Manufacturing Group Accounting (MGA) and Sales and Marketing Accounting (Sales Group) are the primary business customers of this system.
• Lead of Six Developers responsible for the development, maintenance and support of COS systems.
• Defined the current business processes and worked pro-actively with customers to gather Business Requirement and system requirements for new Enhancements.
• Research and analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for potential new Enhancements and Create Estimates for that.
• Assess resource requirements and worked with managers to allocate resources to tasks.
• Assigned project tasks to development team members and managed the schedule and deliverables and Work with the offshore team, manage virtual team (geographically distributed team).
• Organized Code Reviews for the Development work.
• Report Progress to the Project managers and external stakeholders.
• Co-coordinated with the customer, team members and stakeholder for the successful decommission.
• Ensured application maintenance and support activities complying with corporate IT policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensured that software process guidelines and best practices were followed within software development lifecycles (SDLC), which included Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile/Scrum.
• Provided team direction as Project Lead / Scrum Master.
• Liaison between Engineering, Marketing, and end user to document product specifications according to business needs and design requirements.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Project Manager/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to lead analytics projects by translating business questions/problems into structured analyses.
• Participated in all phases of strategic analytics projects including project scoping, project management, interfacing with internal and external topical experts, fact gathering and manipulation, synthesis and modeling and problem solving.
• Responsible for designing the product process applicable to distributed team in Bangalore, India and Foster City, CA and ensuring processes are scalable and flexible to meet future business need.
• Performed contract data search and analysis, data collection and grouping, data entry, data checking, data validation, and data clean-up and prepared documentation tracking process data entry, implemented, maintained and managed the rate of data entry into systems.
• Developed business processes within the technology and business organizations and specifying and analyzing these to a sufficient level of detail to ensure clarity of definition.
• Mentoring and training in-house and off-shore project teams, utilizing Agile/Lean methodology and companies customized Rational Unified Process (RUP) for all software development.
• Developed software prototype process tool to identify required artifacts per project and artifact version control.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Project Manager/Lead

Responsibilities:

• $6 billion dollar global company and worldwide leader in mailing system technologies
• Managed multidiscipline teams and products to deliver new product offerings to a global market according to business needs.
• Products include a digital to physical Internet mail product, a new generation of medium scale mail creation systems, a new generation digital postage meter, and PC meter application used for low to mid-range digital meters, utilizing state of the art technologies.
• Collaborated with multidiscipline leaders to assure that project deliverables were met.
• Enforced change control guidelines according to SDLC process.
• Led and participated in technical discussions throughout product lifecycle, including defining product features, architecture, and component reuse.
• Collaborated with multidiscipline leaders to assure that project deliverables were met.
• Enforced change control guidelines according to SDLC process.
• Led and participated in technical discussions throughout product lifecycle, including defining product features, architecture, and component reuse.

Confidential

JAVA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the project efforts to create, standardize and automate dashboards and work with Data Management and other analytics groups to enhance standard reports using business application tools.
• Built Form to Layout Generator (FLG) to automate online form submission being sent to publishers using PDFLib, Java on Eclipse.
• Developed test plans based on requirements documentation, perform database queries to identify test data, and create test procedures and test cases with expected results and analyzed test results, including user interface data presentation, output documents, and database field values, for accuracy and consistency.
• Identified business priorities and advised business stakeholders on options by collaborating with solution architect, product teams and developers.

Confidential

JAVA/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built Loco Shed Management System for Confidential using Java, JSP, SAP-MI on Dreamweaver with PDA integrated with RFID readers.
• Built PDA based Purchase Tracking Solution using Java, MySQL, and Sync BO for client Jain Irrigation.
• Directly worked with clients Confidential and Jain Irrigation for requirement gathering, Engineering Design, QA Testing and Presentation to both clients at the end of hand-off.