PROFILE:

• Project Manager and Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM) with experience in leading all phases of software development lifecycle.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills combined with a strong business and technical acumen.
• Demonstrated success in leading cross - functional teams, controlling costs, and managing risks while delivering complex projects.
• Skilled at applying Agile, Lean and Design Thinking methodologies to create compelling product experiences.
• Adept at mentoring team members and communicating at all organization levels.
• Skilled User of Agile Project Management and Collaboration Tools. Understanding of various Content Management Systems (CMS), SalesForce CRM, Saas Platforms, Analytics and Email Marketing Tools.   

Confidential

Project Manager, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Lead overall impact analysis and assessment across applications, oversee resource and budget allocation for multiple projects.
• Track course of project from meetings, conferring with developers, and receiving reports. Update project plan as needed.
• Drive internal, external and cross-functional meetings with application owners and executives.
• Managing creation and maintenance of issues and risks internal and external to the work stream, highlighting dependencies and driving items to resolution and closure for the projects.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Weekly synchronization with the PMO team for project roadmaps.

Confidential

Agile Project Manager, Washington D.C.

• Collaborated with business stakeholders to define project scope and requirements (epics, user stories).
• Prepared and facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, backlog grooming, review, and retrospective meetings with team of software developers, business analysts, and quality assurance engineers.
• Managed product and sprint backlog, release plans information using JIRA, Confluence and MS Project.
• Designed wireframes, flowcharts and product prototypes using Balsamiq and LucidCharts.
• Led activities around data analysis, validation, data modeling transformation and integration with data from multiple disparate sources for business intelligence projects.
• Worked closely with quality assurance resources to create test plans and ensure that issues are properly assigned, fixed, and regression tested.
• Applied DevOps methodologies and tools to increase release velocity and reduce deployment failures.
• Developed and managed dashboards and reports for business leaders and external partners.
• Analyzed traffic and engagement for the site. Identified product improvement with quantitative data on user behavior and experimentation (a/b testing).          

Confidential

Project Manager (Consultant), Washington D.C

• Managed multiple projects across all phases of development. Led transformation from Waterfall to Agile and Scrum-based software development life cycles for faster, and better software delivery.
• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs.
• Managed daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two concurrent development teams located across various regions.
• Involved in defining the source to target data mappings, business rules, data definitions and data dictionaries. Managed Data Warehousing projects to support self-service reporting and data analytics.
• Worked with business and technical resources to implement data quality and data governance processes.
• Ensured successful completion of sprints/releases within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters.
• Used tools including MS Project, SharePoint and JIRA for project planning, assigning resources, tracking progress and   managing   the budget
• Delivered team burn down charts and sprint velocity reports to senior management to provide visibility to the teams’ performance.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst, Atlanta

• Facilitated requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to gather information required to model current and future state business processes.
• Applied Rational Unified Process Methodology. Identified actors and use cases to create use case diagrams that described the behavior of the system using Rational Rose.
• Worked on web based applications implemented using Microsoft.Net technology. Built a Data dictionary to meet the Business Intelligence and Reporting team requirements
• Developed and validated Test Plans and Test Cases for UAT (User Acceptance Testing), functional and integration testing.
• Managed defects tracking and Software Change Request (SCR) using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Later served as Project Manager. Utilized MS Project to manage project teams’ time and resource allocation.

Confidential

Business Analyst, Atlanta

• Prepared detailed analysis and provided decision support to determine the financial impact of proposed changes to the distribution network, and projects.
• Participated in preparation of annual budget and quarterly forecasts for the division (included critical evaluation of assumptions,financial modelling techniques and variance analysis).
• Worked with Business Analysis Manager to recommend project portfolio mix, aligned with strategy and business goals.
• Created reports and monthly scorecards to track performance of the portfolio.
• Reported project KPIs and key metrics to senior management, through Monthly Project Reviews (MPR) using MS Excel.

Tools: JIRA, Aha, Confluence, Balsamiq, LucidCharts. MS Project, Visio, SharePoint