SUMMARY:

• Vishal has more than seventeen years of experience in the IT Industry spanning the leadership roles of Program/Project Management, SCRUM Master, Client Management, Business Analyst and Technical Management.
• Results - driven project-management professional with MBA-level education, project-management certification, SCRUM Certification and proven track record in delivering Projects/Programs.
• Extensive experience in managing ‘end to end’ Software Development Life cycle (SDLC), as Project Manager.
• Proven ability to work successfully with offshore teams at company locations in Asia.
• Extensive experience in Management Reporting for Senior Executives including IT Director and PMO.
• Worked in prestigious institution - Confidential (International Finance Corporation) and Confidential .
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Proven experience in handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Extremely proficient in the Project Management (PMBOK)
• Well versed with Agile and SCRUM methodologies.
• Proficient in Business Analyst Skills.
• Extensive experience in handling Fixed Price and Production Support engagements.
• Experienced working within a CMM Level 5 environments.
• Excellent understanding of QA methodologies and Release Management
• Sound Knowledge in J2EE Technologies, SOA Architecture & Object Oriented design, MVC Architecture, Spring & Struts Framework
• Sound knowledge of ORACLE, PL/SQL and SQL Server, T-SQL experience
• Sound Knowledge of Web, Client/Server and n-tier architectures
• Knowledge of XML technologies including schemas, XSLT, SOAP, REST
• Extensive experience in managing and delivering J2EE and Web based projects.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Business Modeling Tools: UML, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Microsoft Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint, Erwin

Methodologies: Full SDLC,PMI, ITIL, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, SCRUM

Cloud Technologies: AWS - S3,AWS-ELB,AWS-RDS,AWS-VPC,AWS-Snowball, AWS-Kinesis.

Database: Oracle, DB2, Sybase

Application Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss

Web Related: JSP, Servlets, EJB, J2EE, Java Script, DHTML, AJAX,.NET, MVC, AJAX,, SOA, Web Svc Services, Struts, Spring

Language: Java, ASP, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL

Req Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro

Version Control Systems: Rational Clear Case, VSS

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Remedy, HP-ALM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Project Manager/Portfolio Manager/SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Sound knowledge of the Earned Value Management (EVM). Leading the effort for EVM across the projects.
• Create project plans and teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs.
• Facilitate SCRUM ceremonies: Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress via Sprint Burn Down charts
• Facilitated writing of User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stake holders.
• Facilitated the User Stories Estimation ad Sizing.
• Prepare the status reports and conduct the meetings with the stakeholders
• Maintain Issue Logs, Action Items, Risk Logs and Decision Logs for the project in the SharePoint
• Maintain the SharePoint Sites for project documentation, and SharePoint administrator for the SharePoint Sites for the project
• Facilitate and conducted Business, Requirements analysis meetings with Business and Technical Teams
• Liaison with the Architecture Office for guidance and adherences to Technical Standards of the agency
• Facilitate and participate in the project Architecture and Design meetings.
• Participate in the Design and Modelling of the Databases
• Participate in the Defect Resolution process, created a Dashboard in JIRA for Defects Tracking, Defects Summary and Defects Reports by Severity, Open Closed and other parameters for Integration Testing.
• Work with the Govt team for the Releases (Release Management) for WDFs.
• Track and Manage Defects using ALM for User Acceptance Testing
• Facilitate the creation of the Test Plan, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases with Testing Team

Environment: Java/J2EEx, Web Sphere Application Server, JBoss, Oracle, SQL Server UML and HP-ALM

Confidential, Weldon Spring, MO

Project Manager for Data Architecture

• Single Point of Contact for the Data Architecture team in the Enterprise Architecture division
• Forecast the Budget, Track budget against the actuals for Data Architecture and Liaison with the Accounting Department
• Worked with the teams to prepare the Metrics for the Data Architecture, conducted the review meeting with senior management
• Managed the Vendor for the Data Architecture team
• Managed, Liaison with the Master Card procurement team for Software Acquisitions/licenses required for the Data Architecture team
• Monitor the SOW adherence by the services provider
• Maintained Project Roadmap and Blueprint for Data Architecture
• Work with finance department on the Supply Demand Metrics for Enterprise Architecture
• IT Governance for Data Architecture with Change Point tool
• Allocated the resources to the projects based on the forecast and work priority
• Tracked key project milestones and adjusted project plans

Confidential

PMO/Business Analyst

• Designed, developed and implemented a Scanning and Imaging solution, an Enhanced Forms (e-Forms) solution and a Document Management solution.
• Overall responsibility for the Policy and Procedure Module
• Overall responsibility and ownership of the Project Plan.
• Prepare status reports for the project and review with client management team.
• Prepare and manage the projects logs: Action Item Log, Risk Log, Issue and Decision Log
• Conduct Joint Application Design (JADs) sessions with the project stakeholders to elicit business Requirements
• Collaborate with the Technical Architecture team for technical solutions for the SharePoint workflows for the project requirements
• Prepared General Design Document (GDD), Functional Specification Document (FSD) and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Created the Use Cases for the Policy and Procedure module for the Policy and Project Module
• Prepared Test plan for the P&P module
• Prepared Test Scenarios and Test Scripts for the Policy and Procedure Module and liaison with the Client for review and approval
• Managed the offshore team for the development of the development of the Policy and Procedure Module.

Environment: Windows Server 2008, SharePoint 2010, ECM Tools, Knowledge Lake, BizTalk, Silverlight.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility and ownership for all the projects deliverables.
• Projects score card monitoring including Earned Value Management.
• Prepared status reports for the projects and review with client executive management team (IT Director and Senior management executives)
• Managed and deliver multiple projects simultaneously.
• Managed projects ‘end to end’ using Software Development Life cycle (SDLC).
• Budgeting, estimation, forecasting, staffing and quality management.
• Tracked project plans and budget.
• Administered change management for the projects
• Prepared Risk Management Plans and Issue resolution logs.
• Conducted weekly/ Bi-weekly meeting with the stakeholders.
• Liaison between the IT team and business users.
• Collaborated with the Technical Architecture team for technical solutions.
• Focal point of contact for all managers for the engagement, resourcing, project and non-project related issues and escalations.
• Facilitated requirements workshops to elicit user requirements and set expectations.
• Evaluated and manage team members.
• Led the team in scope, requirement analysis, estimation and project sizing
• Monitoring the internal quality procedures of the organization.
• Prepared Test Plans and coordinate testing phases of the project.
• Co-ordinated with the end business users for the User Acceptance Testing.
• Planning and Monitoring of Defect Prevention Activities.
• Maintain the documents for the quality process.

Environment: Java/J2EE, RAD 6/7, Java Script, Web sphere Application Server 6.0, DB2 V8.1, DB2, Mainframes, Rational Performance Monitor, XML, and UML.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager

• Overall delivery, leadership and project management for the multiple streams.
• Preparation of Master Plan for the multiple projects encompassing the overall program.
• Manage project using the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Planning and execution of the integration testing for the Loan Accounting.
• Provide Weekly Status Report to PMO
• Preparation of Weekly Status Report for the project sponsors showing the resource Status, Milestones defined and completed, Activities completed for the present week and planned for next week.
• Responsible for setting-up regular meetings with the business users and teams.
• Conduct weekly review meetings with the project sponsors
• Identify/Document key issues with issue log, risks, or issues.
• Lead the team in scope, requirement analysis, estimation and project sizing

Environment: Java/ J2EE, Oracle 9.x. WSAD, Java Script, Struts, XML, WSAD. .NET, VB Script, COTS Product.