SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented executive with over 12 years of experience, specializing in corporate strategy, industry trends, and transformation for business, IT, and organizations.
• A Trusted adviser to senior leaders, focused on achieving real world results with business & IT alignment while disruptive technologies.
• Recognized for taking on major initiatives, I lead Cloud and Mobile adoption and migration efforts; company reinvention, course correction, strategy, and adapting to rapidly changing environments.
• Successfully manage complex technical challenges with a solution oriented approach to business and technical issues. Creatively resolve mission critical issues to ensure bottom line success.
• Enable client companies to achieve a dynamic cloud strategy, architecture, KPIs and value streams, replat forming solution value realization with ROI, and path to achieve competitive advantage.
• Articulating business and technical vision to critical stakeholders; developing current and future state solutions models for business, information, data, and technology, and developing transition plans to move from current state to future vision.navigating

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Strategic Planning P&L/Budget/Resource Mgmt. Market Analysis & Strategy Operational Excellence
• PMO Program Governance Business Cases/Selling Ideas Risk Management Process Improvement
• IT Portfolio Management System Development (SDLC) Change Management (OCM) Consensus Building
• Stakeholder Management Manage Client Engagements Communications Planning Coaching/Mentoring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland, OR

Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Program / Project communication; Created Program / Project Metrics; Communicated the Program / Project status with team members, PMO & project status.
• Executive Program Management, Enterprise Project Management (EPM), Portfolio Management and Engagement Management, practiced in multi-tier program planning, change management, change control, scheduling and analysis, precedence diagram methodology (PDM), critical path methodology (CPM), task breakdown, project/gantt development, resource leveling, release planning, assessing manpower and tool needs.
• Programs & projects included ERP software implementation, Data warehousing, Mainframe development, Web development, Custom development, Application enhancement, Infrastructure management.
• Develops technical AWS project plans, proposals, reports, and task order and administrative reporting. Develops and manages projects to track the on boarding of new AWS cloud adopters and the progress and status of projects for current AWS users
• Managed a Large number of Agile / Scrum Projects / Sprints thru their entire Life Cycle
• Created, populated, updated and monitored the Project backlog (features, Sprints, User Stories)
• Managed and facilitated all Sprint activities including Sprint planning, Daily Scum Meeting / stand-up, Sprint demo’s and Sprint retrospective
• Managed All Sprint Communications and reporting including the Creation of the Sprint Burndown charts
• Worked with a large number of Agile/ Scrum Project Management and Development Software tools such as JIRA & LeanKit
• Drive collaboration across teams and departments. Address issues upfront, define alternative solutions, resolve conflict and create lasting, productive partnerships with clients. Provide resources and organizational structure to promote collaborative efforts to project modules.
• Deliver projects on time and in budget. Make changes to project phases as needed to address changes or problems to original project scope. Communicate with senior management regarding project obstacles and make necessary changes to project team makeup and scope in effort to continue progress towards deliverables.
• Convey goals and objectives to project team members in a clear and compelling manner. Produce concise project status reports that articulate project delivery. Ensure that issues and successes are clearly communicated to team members, stakeholders, sponsors and all levels of management. Ensure and promote open communication on the project teams. Tactfully and candidly address situations to maximize opportunity and minimize exposure to risk.

Environment: Java, Data Warehousing, AWS, SAP BIBW, Sales and Marketing, HR, Web Application Designer, Cognos Report Designer, Cloud Migration, Data Center Commissioning and Decommissioning, Network Upgrade, Windows server and VMware, Citrix installation and upgrade, Middleware installation and upgrade, Unix server administration, SQL server installation, upgrade and decommissioning, Telematics.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct the project through the life cycle , defining project objectives, aligning project resources to achieve goals and ensuring established timelines are met.
• Record detailed client project requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders in order to establish the project deliverables, using requirement-gathering techniques (e.g., planning, sessions, brainstorming, focus groups) and the project charter.
• Proficient in SCRUM, PMI, Waterfall, Iterative and Agile Methodologies. Ability to conduct daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review meetings and creating SCRUM artifacts.
• Responsible for managing multiple AWS cloud development , hosting, and implementation tasks (schedule, quality, cost, risk) across the life cycle of cloud managed services, to include managing the work of architects, engineers, and vendors.
• Provides project management of assigned AWS cloud hosting/implementation project or tasks. Lead interface with government client to communicate project status and risks.
• Leads AWS cloud process improvement initiatives, such as cloud customer on boarding, change management, configuration management, AWS self service solutions.
• Includes the Work Breakdown, Project Organization chart, Communication plan, Risk plan, Quality plan, Cost/budget and Resource plans.
• Execute the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals. Includes executing all parts of the project plan and managing the budget/forecast.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated, reflective of authorized project changes as defined in the change management plan, and facilitate customer acceptance.
• Drive the initial review to identify and gather documents for business and functional requirements.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of business operations and understand the technical scope and objectives of the project.
• Provide leadership in analyzing functional requirements , procedures and problems.
• Coordinate with Business Partners, Technical Analysts and Developers to identify and define specifications, indicate areas of system impact and continuously communicate project status and needs.
• Develop, analyze and manage project schedules and appropriate project management documentation.
• Develop and implement a communication plan to keep program managers and other stakeholders informed of project status, key future dates/milestones, new and outstanding issues, identified risks, decisions needed, and project spending.
• Negotiate project plans and time frames and manage change control processes.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing for project team members.
• Plan, allocate and schedule resources as required.
• Foster a strong team environment.

Environment: Java, Data Warehousing, AWS, Cloud Migration, Sales and Marketing, SAP BIBW, HR, Web Application Designer, Cognos Report Designer, Business Objects (XI R2.1, 3.1), Micro Strategy, Crystal Report, WEBI Reports, Xcelcius, Tera data, Infrastructure Management, Adobe Experience Manager.

Confidential, IA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed, motivated and steered cross functional, geographically distributed team, to successfully migrate mission critical system to Amazon Web Services . Architected Amazon AWS cloud solution to migrate existing commercial digital market research website to improve scalability and high availability.
• Currently managing 8 projects concurrently scheduled for implementation at different timelines this year.
• Extensively involved in Requirement gathering, Functional and Technical design documentation, Data Modeling, ETL Development, OBIEE report creation, Unit Testing etc.
• Project Management including Vendor Management (3 rd party software used), Transition Management, Communications, Risk Management, Release Management, special projects planning & deployment activities. Scope the major milestones, timelines and overall business objectives of the project that must be achieved.
• Delivery of strategic, highly visibility projects within time, cost, scope, and quality defined boundaries in accordance with Client s life cycle methodologies and disciplines.
• Creates project schedule, maintains budget plan, communication plan, tracking & reporting variables - Used Primavera P6.
• Primavera P6 helped me to define, plan and manage the projects effectively that were scheduled to be implemented at different times of the year.
• Ability to balance resource capacity and track progress.
• Helped to monitor visualize project performance vs planned.
• Ability to conduct what-if analysis and come up with smart decisions to manage the projects effectively.
• Ability to generate 4-week ahead schedule and also weekly reports of schedule and budget and resource capacity.
• Able to plan, track and mitigate risks using primavera so that projects were completed on time and within budget and maintained the scope.
• In some projects, we were overfunded, so by scraping funds process, returned the funds to the sponsors to utilize it for other projects as needed.
• Leads in implementing/applying standard processes for scope/change management, risk management, issue management, quality assurance, estimate variances and project communications.
• Provide regular project progress status to all stakeholders.
• Manages all projects, tracks time allocations and resource usage; build and deliver SDLC artifacts.
• Communicate to all stakeholders on a timely basis (may include Senior or Executive Level Management).
• Builds and maintains high performance teams through own actions and direction provided to others.
• Participate and contribute to CAB meetings.

Environment: win 7, ETL, JAVA, J2EE,Python, Matlab, Sales and Marketing, Data Systems, Asset allocation, Risk Reporting, Windows, UNIX, Oracle 10g, Java, Share Point 2010, ITIL Service Desk, Microsoft Project 2010, Primavera, Lotus Notes, SAP, Project Methodology, Agile, MS Project, Software Project Lifecycle Management, PLC - Project Life Cycle Methodology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), SLA, Metrics, Hyperion Planning, Broker dealer, Wealth Management, Tera Data, Cloud Applications, Enterprise Portal, Datawarehouse, SAN, Clarity, Security, Data Migration, ecommerce, Infrastructure Management, Adobe Experience Manager.

Confidential, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Product launch - plan the launch of new products and releases and manage the cross-functional implementation of the plan - gathering requirements from users/customer
• Responsible for gathering Requirements from business users and business analyst on Data Quality issues in Data Ware housing environment.
• Worked with Data Model to understand the technical aspects of existing data ware house system.
• Analyzed massive and highly complex data sets, performing ad-hoc analysis and data manipulation.
• Involved in Unit and Integration ETL testing of Informatica Data Quality workflows.
• Assist with developing IT application, user test plan instructions, and participate in UAT testing
• Experience using Agile methodologies in Software Development Projects, strong facilitator and Scrum Master for recent ExpressPath software release. Facilitator of daily Scrum meetings for Planning, Scheduling, Execution, QA and UAT Testing, training and Software release.
• Assist with go-to-market planning and communications of software delivery
• Track schedule using Microsoft Project and manage project within SharePoint
• Take the project from original concept to final implementation using SDLC
• Develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports for all business resources and end users
• Key project lead for assigned projects working closely with the Senior Project Manager and department contact lead.
• Organizes and facilitates online meeting via Microsoft Live Meeting /Tel-con.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, Python, SAP, Matlab, Data warehouse, Asset allocation, Risk Reporting, Windows, Web sphere App Server, Mainframe, Midrange, infrastructure, Hardware, Networking, Tera Data, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft SharePoint, PLC - Project Life Cycle Methodology, Software Project Lifecycle Management, MS Project, Project Methodology, SLA, Metrics, Conflict Management, Hyperion Planning, Cloud Applications, Sun Solaris, Linux OS, Security, Data Migration, ecommerce, Clarity .

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, Business analysis and change management .
• Responsible for gathering requirements, design, development, testing and production support.
• Developed Mapping by using various transformations to suit the business user requirements and business rules to load and eliminate un required data from, SQL server 2008 and Parallel Data Warehouse.
• Data Model Design - Logical (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema) and Physical Data models for ETL Implementation Involved in the design / update of Data marts
• Source system analysis -source to target mapping Business Intelligence / OLAP tools - Business Objects.
• Creating procedures, package and SQL using Oracle DB, Informix.
• Create dashboard solutions to provide key BI and Analytics capabilities using Tableau
• Design and develop intuitive dashboard for data visualization of various organizational metrics and presentation to the stakeholders using industries standards and best practice
• Create visualization that includes advance chart types like Histogram, Box plots, Waterfall charts, Bump charts, Bar in bar chart, etc
• Big Data and Hadoop frame work (Cloudera), No SQL, HBase, Pig, Hive, Mongo DB ETL tools like Informatica, Datastage, Warehouse builder and OLAP tools like Cognos, oracle Discoverer.
• Designed and developed standard reports that are scheduled to run on daily, weekly and Monthly basis.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, Web sphere App Server, SAP, Data warehouse, Mainframe and Midrange, Hardware, Networking, Infrastructure, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft SharePoint, PLC - Project Life Cycle Methodology, Software Project Lifecycle Management, MS Project, Project Methodology, Conflict Management, Hyperion Planning, Cloud Applications, Security, Data Migration, ecommerce, Clarity .

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Build a holistic view of an organization's strategy, processes, and information technology assets.
• Design custom solution programs from analysis and concept, through design and development, and successful test, implementation, and production support.
• Operationalize strategies and measure Business performance with Integrated Technology Services (ITS).
• Strategic planner skilled at developing, analyzing, and evaluating business plans, business and corporate development.
• Ensure effective Benefits Realization Management (BRM). Improve project portfolio success rates by aligning program results are with business strategy.
• Analyze financial forecasts; perform market analysis, competitive intelligence analysis, M&A proposals, Competitive Intelligence, and feasibility analysis. Research, initiate, and manage New Product Development (NPD), and New Product Introduction (NPD). Manage vendor relations, logistics, planning for geographic expansion and corporate change management road-mapping
• Optimize Strategic Service Management, increase revenue and customer loyalty, and workforce productivity by synchronizing service parts and resources forecasting, service partners, workforce technicians, and service pricing.
• Build and manage the customer services team including staffing, training, organizing, and coaching
• Blueprint application suite interaction, Mobile development business integration, orchestration and integration with data systems, middleware, internal and external systems. Lead JAD meetings. Migrate or bridge legacy systems.
• Manage full application lifecycle, and ensure full productivity in multi-instance enterprises. Identify risk and create contingency and governance plans.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for facilitating the resolution of severity 1 and 2 incidents with high business or financial impact, including determining outage revenue, number of users, business production and functions. Using Oracle database programs to manage and assure that incidents are owned, tracked, and monitored.
• Manage status of outages of the Oracle databases in a timely manner to the business and the Senior IT management after assessing the impact using Primavera
• Coordinated IT, Incident Management & Helpdesk to manage speedy resolution of High Severity outages causing tremendous financial impact relating to, Citi mortgage, Auto, and Student Loans).
• Responsible for assisting in creating the monthly deck, analyzing monthly outages using pivot charts and pivot tables by line of business in Excel and Team Play.
• Served as the primary liaison with the end user departments, and gathered and documented end user business and system requirements from key departmental resources.
• Analyzed all outages / incidents, track, and handle the ownership and accuracy of data input.
• Assigned root cause analysis of Oracle databases to responsible teams using Team Play.
• Coordinated and led meetings between the end user department representatives and the technical team representatives.
• Ensure all requirements were met and to ensure the system performed as expected.

Environment: Primavera Team Play, MS Office, Data warehouse, MS Outlook, Mainframe, SOX, SOC2, Hyperion Planning and midrange, Wealth Management, Broker dealer, Clarity, SAP.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with Owner of company to coordinate all projects with timelines, budgets, financial documents, titles and loan certificates and documents, and facilitated and scheduled client meetings.
• Served as Project Coordinator for the Vice President of Construction, Project Managers, and Construction manager for assistance with Project closeouts, invoice aging reports, monitoring subcontractor payments, and processing final payment requisitions, Budgeting, forecasting, timelines.
• Responsible for creating Purchase Orders Subcontracts/Subcontract Change orders using Timberline Software Program for Commercial Bank Building Corporation using Timberline Software and Access.
• Responsible for Process Contract Change Orders as needed using Timberline Software.
• Maintained and insured correct Certificate of Insurance file for each Subcontractor.
• Managed and tracked system issues using Timberline, Microsoft Project, Excel, and Access.
• Maintained and kept project files up to date utilizing MS Office and shared drives, hard copies.
• Prepared final package Maintenance manuals, Subcontract supplier list, extended warranty letter, punch list forms, and debriefing using MS Office.
• Gathered project resource hours and track resource hours, project timelines, budgets and deliverables using MS Projects.

Environment: Microsoft Project, Excel, Timberline, MS Office, MS Outlook, Hyperion, SAP

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Multi Project & Program Management including managing projects through their life cycles from Project initiation to Project closing
• Managed Program & Project Financials in addition to Forecasting
• Created all associated project plans including project charters. Work plans, Risk Management plans, Knowledge Management plans, QMS plans, Communication plans, test plans & implementation plans
• Wide range of project size 5-45 team members & $2 million to 13.5 millions
• Mentored a large number of project managers on project management methodologies, standards & techniques in addition to teaching the company’s standard project management class
• Participated in the different projects auditing process
• Staff performance evaluation, team building, team motivation, conflict & issue management