SUMMARY:

Financial and Retail Project Management experience with full SDLC responsibilities, making the most of IT and Business relationships, supported by outstanding people skills and strong verbal and written communication abilities. Managed onshore and offshore support teams for a financial, mortgage, retail sales and marketing involved in supply chain, data analytics teams, marketing, and operations.

• Responsible for Project Managing an upgrade of an Business Intelligence Inventory Reports and Integration with SAP Enterprise system; built new processes and brought change management improvements for release definitions at Confidential which resulted in increased sales of $5M/year/retailer.
• Responsible for the upgrade of Confidential ’s Warehouse Management System and installation of a warehouse using the Manhattan WMS application, which resulted in cost savings of around $2.5M/year on warehouse operations on streamlined warehouse management systems.
• Responsible for project management and technical leadership on Oracle Retail Implementation and Integration with existing BI tools as part of business transformation initiatives at JC Penney which resulted in resulted in streamlined supply chain systems in removing dependency on legacy software, Improved inventory visibility across enterprise and cost savings around $10M/year
• Successful implemented Macy's Foresight BI program with targeted cost savings of around $100M/Year at enterprise level.
• Responsible for Confidential Teradata BI DCM systems and integration with WMS and SAP. Successfully implemented SAS Retail (pack optimization and Size optimization) which resulted in decreased warehouse operations cost by $3M/Year.
• Functioned as an Agile Leader, Trainer, Practitioner, Agile Change& Transformational Strategist and supported organizations in adopting Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Continuous Improvement practices in various program & projects
• Extensive experience supporting successful agile transformations, introducing agile and scrum concepts to teams, and mentoring early adopters and Implemented successful organizational change through the introduction and adoption of agile values, principles and practices

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Project scope, SDLC and Agile/Scrum
• Business Analysis and Planning
• Testing strategy and implementation
• PMO and Global IT Services team coordination
• Portfolio and Resources Optimization
• Risk Management and Cost reduction
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
• Client Relationship Management

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Primarily efficient in analysis, design, and development of Business applications & Business Intelligence reports by utilizing BI Tools like Tableau, Crystal Reports, Design Studio, Power BI, and MS Excel.
• Expertise in BI application version upgrade, migration, Multidimensional Cubes projects implementation and execution using project management tools using MS Project and JIRA
• Extensive knowledge in various reporting objects like Facts, Attributes, Hierarchies, Transformations, filters, prompts, Calculated fields, Sets, Groups, and Parameters
• Extensive experience using various data sources such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, MS Access and Flat Files Data. 
• Working knowledge in architecture design of Extract, Transform, Load environment using Informatica Power Mart and Power Center. 
• Proficiency on Cognos architecture, report development, and integration with IBM DB2 data architecture.
• Experience in designing and implementing enterprise wide Reporting strategies utilizing Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehouse, Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Mining techniques and extensive skills in OLTP/OLAP. 
• Experience in implementing the complex business rules by creating transformation, re - usable transformations and developing complex Data Mappings, SQL Stored Procedure, and Triggers 
• Extensive experience in creating Excel Dashboards. Considerable Reporting and Dash Boarding (UI/UX Design) experience. 

• Project Lifecycle Management(PLM)
• Teradata, Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server 
• Supply Chain (RSi, DCM, Oracle Retail, Manhattan WMS, SAS, and SAP) 
• Merchandising, Order Management, Purchasing, Inventory
• HPQC, ALM, QTP, Bugzilla, JIRA, Selenium, Documentum
• SOAP, UI, API, Web-Services, REST
• Micro Strategy, Oracle Forms, Tableau, SSRS, SAP BO, Cognos, Clarity, SAP PPM, SAP PS
• Windows, UNIX, LINUX, OS 400, z/OS
• Java, .NET, C, C++, C#, XML, HTML, XHTML
• CI, CD, Jenkins, Puppet, TFS, Bamboo
• MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Project Server
• BIG Data, No SQL, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
• Waterfall, Agile, RUP, Dev-Ops

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MO

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Project owner and Project development team in establishing the product road map, project plan and execution.
• Worked with project team, product manager to prioritize and validate requirements. Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations. 
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline. Worked closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features. 
• Responsible for Sprint Planning and Backlog grooming sessions and helping the team to make decisions 
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings 
• Update the estimations done by the team in JIRA 
• Facilitate the Demo sessions and Retrospective meetings after every sprint 
• Foster the Developer team's self-organization. 
• Support the Product Owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverable 
• Encouraging the use of Agile Engineering practices 
• Assist the Product Owner with the product backlogs to ensure the team is consistently groomed and maintained well in advance of upcoming sprints 
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery 
• Responsible for BI Reporting architecture design reviews and Conduct BI Reporting unit testing and code reviews in building the ETL architecture and Source to Target mapping to load data into Data warehouse
• Responsible for design and development of Standard Templates, interactive Dashboards using in-report prompts, custom portal pages and portal communication techniques, Standard Reports, Charts, and Drill through Reports, Master-detail & conditional formatting reports.
• Responsible for end-end business development processes identification and execution of plan and processes. Including development of Project Charter, A Project Management Plan, Requirements documents, Design documents, Architecture documents, Test Plan, Implementation, and Resource plans.
• Maintained all digital assets of projects using Google Suite.

Confidential, MO

Sr. Project Manager

• Worked closely with Managing Directors, Business Process Leads and Business in building the strategies and Projects execution in upgrade of RSi7 to RSi8.
• Worked with customers and product manager to prioritize and validate requirements. Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations. 
• Work closely with product owner and data analyst to understand business needs and help define requirements for reporting solutions. Responsible for technical design documents to describe and support justification of the chosen reporting architecture and proposed implementation. Responsible for detail design documents, data structure diagrams and code assets supporting the Reporting implementation 
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline. Worked closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features. 
• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders. 
• Directed and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product. Consistently met deadlines and exceeded expectations achieving recognition and increase in responsibilities. 
• Conducted Scrum Review meeting and demonstrating the newly developed features in current Sprint to product owner and key Stockholders. Implemented industry best practice and process methodology and Created, and maintained project plan alongside client counterparts.
• Responsible for staging, testing, and processing of daily data files generated by 8 retailers.
• Responsible for timely delivery of downstream reports and extracts with accuracy under tight deadlines. 
• Coordinated input feeds from different data sources by managing files working with internal and external vendors Track and schedule tasks by maintaining complex calendar and Identify and track production issues and perform root cause analysis to make appropriated recommendation and propose resolutions 
• Conduct BI Reporting architecture design reviews and Conduct BI Reporting unit testing and code reviews 
• Involve in building the ETL architecture and Source to Target mapping to load data into Data warehouse and Worked on Informatica Power Center tools- Designer, Repository Manager, Workflow Manager, and Workflow Monitor. 
• Design and develop new interface elements and objects as required, set estimations to provide custom functionality using excel, Cognos, power BI. 
• Delivered programs and projects on schedule and on budget using MS project and presented projects at the Quality Gates for reviews across portfolio’s. Conducted business impact and cost/benefit analysis and recommend the appropriate course of action for assigned projects.
• Planned resources ensuring we have the right hours forecast, along with the correct resource. Coordinated travel of resources based on project plan deliverables across each project location.
• Coordinated, created agenda's, and ran Global virtual team meetings for progress updates and daily triage calls to provide updates using MS project and project server.
• Responsible and has ownership in creation and maintenance SharePoint project site for each project within the EPM system
• Maintained all digital assets of projects using Documentum, Sharepoint and Team sites.
• Delegate and coordinate development and testing in an onsite - offshore delivery model and leading a geographically dispersed team of 18 resources 

Confidential, AR

Sr. Project Manager

• Worked with IT strategy team on development of 3-year IT roadmap and played a key role in acquiring additional funding for projects identified in roadmap as part of IT strategy project.
• Implementation Manager for IT capabilities to service Any-and-All delivery model with $150M budget. Confidential and Sam’s Club Warehouse’s competences are integrated as part of Omni-Channel Implementation program. Worked closely with SVP, VP, and Business leaders in strategies and Projects execution at Enterprise level with budget $100K to $5M ranges.
• Coached and mentored teams on Agile/Scrum best practices. Facilitated various Agile/Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospective Meetings. Removed impediments, facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution for a smooth sprint execution. 
• Helped team and the product owner to find a suitable Definition of Done and Definition of Ready. Tracked and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress using burn down chart.
• Instruct and model core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility. Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables.
• Fostered development team's self-organization and help the team excel in Agile Environment. Involved in the kickoffs and collaborated with Business Analysts and End Users during all requirements gathering phases to define and clarify the business scope.
• Facilitated Backlog Grooming, Scrum Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings. 
• Participated in Scrum of Scrum to provide updates on progress, impediments and collaboration with other teams. 
• Facilitated two teams simultaneously while empowering teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality. 
• Helped the Product Owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development. 
• Tracked team's velocity to analyze productivity trend. 
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Agile manager. 
• Created and maintained Artifacts and Information Radiators such as Sprint Burn-down, and Release Burn-down. 
• Proficient with agile engineering practices such as TDD, BDD and continues integration. 
• Collaborated with team members to identify problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitate quick resolution.
• Strong technical command of management tools; Jira, Rally and TFS 
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals. 
• Tracked and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis 
• Represented the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it. 
• Managed report development team working on performance reports build Cognos 10 architecture based on the number of users logging into the application and the amount of traffic at any given point of time Coordinate with the IT computer and network support team to ensure continued hardware and networking availability of the Cognos system 
• Responsible for implementation of Cognos BI 10.2 Suite in multi-server environment on Windows for Production, QA, Training, and Development.
• Responsible for development of schedule for regular system maintenance and user’s notifications
• Responsible for development of Cognos Event Studio to manage scripts, cubes refreshes, report runs and notifications
• Responsible for COGNOS upgrade from 8.4 to 10.2.1 in windows environment and managed UAT after upgrade and business signoff. Involved and supported SharePoint and Cognos integration 
• Oversaw the Cognos tool administration, Performance tuning and query optimization, security/access control, internationalization, scalability, high availability, online diagnostics, production support and other enterprise software assignments. 

Confidential, TX

Project Manager

• Internal Systems and Retail Process Leader for RMS, SIM, RPM, v13 implementation and integration
• Lead the work effort for Oracle retail integration project through SDLC and created project plan for ORMS implementation and integration with Cognos reporting solution
• Responsible for administration of users, reports, and data lakes in the data ware house architecture
• Oversaw the development Complex reports from technical specifications like Dynamic Grouping, Dynamic Sorting, and Conditional Formatting. 
• Responsible for providing production support for existing Reports, Packages, and Cubes in a timely manner. 
• Organize and Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Retrospective and Scrum of scrum meetings with the team and product owners. 
• Proposed and documented agile process to facilitate iterative evolution of features while engaging customers during conceptualization. Set up demos and solicited feedback from the customer and incorporated their comments into the next iteration/sprint planning sessions 
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders 
• Assisted team in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time. 
• Brought visibility into progress by maintaining burn-down charts, velocity analysis, defect prevention and other reports as needed.
• Helped team in understanding various database design complexities by reducing redundancy and improving performance. 
• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization. 
• Responsible for testing plan development and execution by comparing the Cognos reports against the database using SQL and documentation approval with business and IT
• Lead UAT and work closely with the implementation team and PM for on time delivery.
• Designed & led training of user group and provided go live support to user group, defect triage, testing and delivery.
• Engaged in Oracle RMS and DCM Integration and Implementation sessions for gap analysis.
• Provided guidance on internal allocation tool development prior to true system selection and implementation. Participated in tool development to support process improvement for P&A

Confidential, TX

Project Manager

• Upgraded Manhattan WMOS to 2014 with $5M budget. Implemented 2014 WMOS across three warehouses and concluded support for older WMS.
• Managed project planned rollout, products releases and worked with cross-functional implementation teams situated across different geographical locations with ease
• Monitored key project activities such as business requirements, process documentation, and testing; necessary recommendations are made to align with project scope on QA activities
• Responsibly Coordinated project team, assigned individual responsibilities, procured necessary resources and developed schedules for timely completion of project
• Participated, Created and developed Project proposals, Estimations, Planning, Strategy, Execution and post-implementation documents and reports
• Acted as a single point of contact for the program's business, IT sponsors and updated PMO with project efforts and strategy plans
• Provided support on SharePoint designer, SharePoint architecture, Collaboration portals, Document Libraries, workflows, administration, configuration, Permissions, Debugging and Fixing Issues related to SharePoint Configurations and overall server health
• Participated in project governance meetings, analyzed project metrics, provided engineering support, evaluated risks, architected solutions, strategized profitable models and improved ROI for ongoing and future dated projects
• Trained and mentored Development, QA, Support teams and approved software documentation, project guides, release notes, and other technical documentation

Confidential, GA

Project Manager Consultant

• Developed in-depth knowledge for organizations service offerings, capabilities, and processes; developed scope and reviewed requirements with SME's and Stake holders; closed requirement gaps and cleared requirements ambiguity
• Planned, Prepared, distributed, coordinated, and monitored project associated quotes and budgets and provided project status report all stakeholders with project performance and activities
• Organized client/vendor/PMO meetings for Policy & Procedures design, configuration, and group policies
• Responsible for implementation of Cognos 8 server environment to include portal security, performance monitoring and tuning, upgrades, troubleshooting of reported issues, testing and application of hot fixes, patches, and maintenance packs.
• Developed risk mitigation plans for disaster recovery of client reporting packages. Analyze and recommend infrastructure requirements for future reporting needs.
• Responsible for Design and implement elevated level dashboards for executive management. Develop custom reports as needed to support operations using Cognos metadata models that support the reporting environment
• Mentored and trained project team members for use of DCM, WMS for improved employee experience, event handlers and user's controls in DCM 4.x and WMS 2010 as per business requirements in migration of environment to Oracle 12c
• Responsible for implementation of data Security - Column Level, Row Level Security using Security tables to secure sensitive data with Security Filter, Macros, Session Parameters, and Parameter Maps. 
• Oversaw development hierarchies and measures to support Ad-hoc Reporting, Multi-Dimensional Reporting. 
• Responsible for Design and development ETL mappings and Fine-tuned existing Informatica maps for performance optimization. Analyzed the business requirements and framing the Business Logic for the ETL Process
• Responsible for development ETL Informatica mapping to load data into staging area. The source file was flat file and target table Oracle 
• Created multiple workflows for various approvals and change request processes within the company using forms and MS Visio and provided non-technical support to supply chain end users acting as crucial point of contact to regular supply chain IT management issues.
• Involved in gathering requirements from various verticals within the organization and creating replenishment solutions accordingly.
• Identified vendor delays and tracked information for trending to assist in process development and functional and technical documents on different system functionalities for ensuring business continuity
• Coordinated the Change Management process, which involved driving the QA and production deployments

Confidential, NY

Lead Consultant

• Implemented SAS Retail Pack Optimization and Size Optimization modules and Manhattan WMOS 2011.Upgraded of Hardware and Software DCM 3.x box with a budget of $1.5M. Integrated Supply Chain Applications for new Store and DC Replenishments with SAP Sales and Distribution modules
• Managed small to medium size projects, while effectively maintaining large project workloads
• Oversaw process management and coordination with assigned projects including design builds with architects, and vendor relationships, job allocation/completion
• Provided timely response and exceptional customer service for all inquiries, requests for customer complaints and maintained a measurable level of positive customer satisfaction receiving positive comments from leadership team and stakeholder groups.
• Worked closely with the client, Architects, and Design Firm during the programming phase of the project to ensure client expectations on timelines and budget are fulfilled.
• Coordinated activities and project deliverables ensuring that all functional members are on target.

Confidential, TX

Lead Consultant

• Integration and Upgrade of BI DCM (Demand Chain Management) solution with existing In-house applications and verification of new allocations and forecasting methodologies
• Planned, coordinated, and monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure project completion on time.
• Worked with Business users in UI Specifications and framework design for Supply Chain Applications.
• Lead the team of deep understanding and hands on experience resources in architecting and building highly scalable supply chain systems.
• Improved team agility through coaching and implementing best practices for development, automated testing, and support.
• Worked with Product Owners in planning and executing projects, ensured teams have appropriate requirements, direction, and resources to deliver effectively.
• Ensure extensibility, supportability, performance & scalability of the supply Chain platform.
• Directed and participate in cross-functional delivery of large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external teams.
• Planned and managed scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality.
• Managed project financial forecasts and provide ongoing reconciliation of resources and project costs.
• Oversaw software development efforts, engaged in code review and architectural choices as necessary.
• Lead others to work effectively in a strong customer service/team oriented environment Core Competencies & Accomplishments.

Confidential, GA

Lead Consultant

• Confidential: Implementation of Teradata BI application DCM 4.x. Integration of SOQ’s into purchase order systems and integration into warehouse management systems
• Created Project Management Plan and Project Registry for project documentation.
• Planned, coordinated, and monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure project completion on time.
• Worked with Sr. Project Managers to obtain and assigned appropriate resources on LL basis.