SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in leading and managing teams in Agile, Waterfall, and RAD methodologies.
• 13+ years of experience in client facing role and leading teams in a functional and business process changing environments
• Worked as integral part of PMO office for manufacturing giants from Midwest like Confidential & Confidential . Also have played major role of a Project Manager/Product Owner(PM/PO) transition at Confidential, help to plan and manage integrated projects, manage cross - functional teams and implement custom software solutions
• Experience working closely with SME, manage product backlog item(PBI’s), interact with SCRUM Team, work closely with SCRUM team on Sprints, assist the team with Sprint Retro, Sprint Planning and Sprint Review meetings
• Compiled reports on daily, bi-weekly or monthly metrics and performance reports, publish to management team.
• Reported performance trends and presented the management with reports on findings bi-weekly meetings. Defined KPI’s utilizing statistical analysis report.
• Based on report findings identified process performance and process adherence. Utilized supporting data in making recommendations for continuous process improvement.
• Worked closely with stakeholders to identify additional metrics for enhanced organizational performance.
• Experience working closely with SME, manage requirement flow to identify the create a plan, technical specifications and trace-ability documents
• Managed programs, external vendors, owned product design and development teams
• Built integrated teams in .NET, IOS Apple, Android app, SQL Server, Oracle, JAVA, Adobe and testing domain.
• Gathering requirements by using techniques such as Grooming sessions, Pre-Grooming sessions, Interviews, surveys, workshops sessions with clients and developers and modeling the requirements by using design modeling tools such as Microsoft Visio and Microsoft TFS; Developing User Stories, PBI’s, developing Use Case Documents, Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD); System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment of applications.
• Extensive experience in working with customers to define requirements and design needs. Proficient in MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, MS Office Suite, Open Project, Kanban, Trello.
• Extensive experience in Requirements Management, Use Cases, User Stories, UML, SDLC, JAD Sessions
• Proficiency in Workflow Management, Defect/Issue Tracking, Problem Management, Risk Management and Change Tracking across the application life cycle working with change requests, playing a key role in driving the meetings.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Smart Draw, Balsamiq, Gliffy & Axure

Document/Requirement Management System: MS - Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 AGILE Projects, MS-SharePoint 2010, Rational Jazz (Agile & Waterfall Projects).

Project Management : Microsoft Project 2010, SharePoint (Waterfall projects).

Testing/Defect Management Tools: MS Microsoft Test Manager, HP Quality Center (Test Director), Red Mine, UAT Testing. Create and Track Test Project deliverable documentation artifacts on TFS and SharePoint.

Documentation Business Requirements: Document-User Stories, Product Backlog, Business Rules, BRD, Functional Requirements Document, Non-functional Requirements/ Supplementary Specification, Use Cases, Glossary, Data Elements, Test Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Business Process Maps/Flows- AS-IS (current) and TO-BE (future), Defect logging. Validate, document and communicate detailed business requirements. Review and provide critical feedback for project documentation prepared by peers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Carmel, IN

Project Manager 

Responsibilities:

• Strategies, planned & executed new IT projects and saved GREEN Dollars for business.
• Worked closely with BRM (Business Relationship Manager) & provided a detailed project roadmap for the next 3 years to the business leadership.
• As a part of BAT team, worked closely with the Enterprise Architecture team to access the risk of existing legacy system and planned on replacing them, for future business continuity.
• Created cost-benefit analyses and ROI assessments that were used as the basis for decision-making on proposed IT implementation projects.
• Reported performance trends and presented the management with reports on findings bi-weekly meetings. Defined KPI’s utilizing statistical analysis report.
• Based on report findings identified process performance and process adherence. Utilized supporting data in making recommendations for continuous process improvement.
• Worked closely with stakeholders to identify additional metrics for enhanced organizational performance.
• Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs.
• As an Agile Product Owner for one of the projects, have assisted in design, development, testing and deployment in a business process changing environment
• Coached, motivated, monitored performance and mentored team members in career development.
• Worked in a mixed environment as both Project Manager and Agile Product Owner. As was handling two different business groups and process. 
• Responsible for the delivery and support of applications. Ensures delivered services meet cost, quality, and delivery targets. Provide technical support and direction to teams responsible for providing end customer applications support
• Provide consistent and timely communication
• Provide input and oversight for Reports Interfaces, Conversions Extensions,
• Work with IT Leadership to get approval of projects using DRB, BNR (Delivery Review board & Business Need Request) documents.
• Engage Application Experts for review/validation of Solution Design.

Technical Environment: SAP, IOS, Android, MS Project Server, Visio 2012, SiteCore CMS

Confidential,Columbus,IN

Project Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the delivery and support of applications. Ensures delivered services meet cost, quality, and delivery targets. Provide technical support and direction to teams responsible for providing end customer applications support
• Provide consistent and timely communication
• Provide input and oversight for Reports Interfaces, Conversions Extensions,
• Work with functional excellent groups to follow standards (Implementation & Training) and contribute towards building excellence and zero defects.
• Engage Application Experts for review/validation of Solution Design.
• Work with cross functional teams to provide for consistency in approach and process across the groups.

Technical Environment: Oracle, JAVA, MS Project Server, MsVisio 2010.

Confidential

SR.BA/Agile Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• As a Product Owner/Sr. BA worked closely with Judges and clerks to define the user stories
• Analyzed the stories and worked with the business users to manage product backlog
• Worked with the development and support team to define the work priorities and the team assignments
• Worked with the scrum master to ensure the development teams have detailed technical specifications and direction to work thru the sprint
• Ensured the team maintained the velocity and provided the project metrics to the management

Technical Environment: JAVA, SQL, Team Foundation Server (TFS), MSVisio 2010

Confidential

Sr. BA/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• As an Agile Product Owner/Sr.BA, have assisted in design, development, testing and deployment in a business process changing environment
• Coached, motivated, monitored performance and mentored team members in career development.
• Worked with stakeholders to manage product expectations and product delivery timeline. Coordinated key functional delivery to coincide with the stakeholders marketing calendar. Planned, designed and scheduled new application functions for development while managing scope creep. Worked with the stakeholders UI consultants to meet strict user interface guidelines and integrate user's daily workflow, embedding the application in the user's daily workflow thereby increasing the depth of the value adoption map
• Analyzed the stories and worked with the business users to manage product backlog
• Worked with the development and support team to define the work priorities and the team assignments
• Worked with the scrum master to ensure the development teams have detailed technical specifications and direction to work through the sprint
• Ensured the team maintained the velocity and provided the project metrics to the management

Technical Environment: JAVA, Oracle 11g, Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS Visio 2010, Balsamiq

Confidential 

 Responsibilities:

• Lead member at client site and managed a 17+ member team
• Designed a new consumer facing application
• Managed three Agile development teams, two 3 person team in Atlanta, GA, 1 person in St. Louis and one offshore team of 25+ people. Local teams developed the application's core functions while the offshore team developed the advertising engine for the application. Managed a QA team of one lead and three technicians
• Worked with the scrum master to ensure the development teams have detailed technical specifications and direction to work thru the sprint
• Ensured the team maintained the velocity and provided the project metrics to the management
• Review QA Test cases/scripts for accuracy and completeness and provide sign off. Prepare UAT Cases/Scripts and lead the assigned stakeholders though the execution of UAT
• Developed training materials for stakeholders. So they maintain documentation after implementation.
• This is a migration project, so smooth transition from Waterfall method to Agile Method of development.

Technical Environment: Cold Fusion, ROR (Ruby on Rails), RedMine, SharePoint, Axure, Balsamiq