SUMMARY:

• Project Management Professional who consistently exceeds project goals and customer expectations by clear communications, excellent project planning and coordination, executing projects on schedule and within budget. Expertise in integrating multiple systems and managing diverse disciplines. Skilled in both vendor and client relations.
• An efficient, committed and detail oriented Project Manager with many years of diverse experience in designing, developing, implementing innovative business processes and solutions in the area of the State Government, Healthcare, Printing and food processing as well as Pharma industries.
• More than 12 years of experience in the State Government, Networking, Manufacturing and Information Technology industry
• Motivated self - starter with exceptional team building, leadership, and interpersonal skills, ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well in a team, adept at staying on-task and on-time despite shifting priorities and tight deadlines
• Creative problem solver with adaptability to learn new systems and processes, and proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and a team member
• Excellent client facing skills combined with hands on technical expertise; perfect fit as a bridge/ liaison between Technical Architects/ IT teams/ SME’s and Project Stakeholders to ensure understanding of business processes/requirements, meeting projects milestones and delivery dates, and improving business processes through the product lifecycle
• Identifying and documenting critical requirements through analysis of the client’s workflow and information flow
• Possess extensive experience and knowledge in gathering business requirements, analyzing and optimizing the processes while converting user requirements into business requirements
• Excellent knowledge of business analysis methodologies and iterative Agile Methodology and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Roselle, NJ

Sr. Project Manager

• Manufacturing and Distribution of Protec (Therapeutic Device) in USA market
• Project Charter and Feasibility analysis
• Project Initiation and Charter
• Project Management Plan- Scope, Communication, Quality, Risk management . planning
• Formulate Plans for staffing, cost control, procurement, contracting. . Warehousing, marketing and funding for growth.
• Project closure and transition to Operation.

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Project Manager (PMO)

• Project Discovery/Analysis and creating Project Charter- Following Agile process for a rapid development as well as SDLC water fall phases (Initiation, planning, Execution/Control & closure)
• Using formal project management methodology, including project planning, scheduling
• (WBS), tracking, issue management, risk management, change management, and status reporting.
• Project planning and execution using JAD, RAD and resource planning (DRP).
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Lead multiple project teams and manage cost, schedule, and quality  and deliver business value. Provide management dashboard reports using change-point software.

Confidential, Chicago

Project Manager/Coordinator (PMO)- Blue Cross Blue Shield

• Project scope, Project Budgeting, Project Planning, Project Risk, Change and Quality management.
• Development of software to facilitate the new Health Exchange requirements and interfaces.
• Applied Agile Project Management process for a rapid development and testing for Exchange readiness. Also applied waterfall methodology for Medicare Prescription drug expansion project.
• Scrum master responsibilities including assisting product owner in backlog grooming, pre iteration planning, iteration facilitating and controls, help team identify the roadblocks and facilitate the team in coming up with a creative way to remove the obstacles by making the team self-organizing.
• Organize and manage iteration show casing and iteration retrospective meetings.
• Planned and Participated in daily Scrum and management meetings to identify impediments and mitigation.
• Monitor and test the application for compliance with PCI DSS standards for data security.
• Project tracking and reporting through burn up and burn down charts using Mingle tool. RAID (Risks, Issues, Actions & Decisions) logging/tracking, Dependencies Tracking and mitigations, Project communication and coordination planning.
• Facilitated/Managed several JAD sessions for requirements gathering, risk identification/resolution, Technical planning and logistics.
• Create/manage Project artifacts for SDM (Software Development Methodology) requirements.

Confidential, Glenview, IL

Project Manager- RYO Machine development

• Project Initiation/planning, Project Requirements, Functional Design, System Design, Construction, Testing and Implementation. SDLC water fall methodology. Also Project Cost, Project Risk, Change and Quality management,
• Project tracking and reporting. Project communication and coordination planning.
• Responsible for managing hardware and software deployment in a .Net environment.
• Managed the design, development and prototype using agile methodology.
• Provided the key leadership project control using Microsoft Project 2007.

Confidential, IL

Project Manager

• Worked closely with corporate strategy department on remote process monitoring. Led the IT project, developed technical architecture and data model.
• Project management methodology- SDLC water fall- Project Initiation/planning, Project Requirements, Functional Design, System Design, Construction, Testing and Implementation
• Hired and managed eight-person team of contractors that carried out a $450,000 project to increase by 40% additional process monitoring points.
• Led team to build a central call center reporting system for eight sites.

Confidential, Bolingbrook, IL 

Business Analyst

• Project initiation/scope, Project Planning, Project Execution/Control and Project closure. SDLC water fall methodology.
• Wrote all functional specifications and created data model for logistic for four distribution centers.
• Elicited requirements in Planning phase using requirements gathering and detailed requirements sessions with business analysts and stakeholders.
• Conferred with architects and developers to establish the technical vision, and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Worked with testing team for UAT and SIT testing.
• Guided outside vendors to set expectations, duties and financials.

Account Manager-DataMerge Project 

Confidential, Chicago

• Manage account and relationship with this Fortune 500 Company on a $10 million MES project that spanned over four years.
• SDLC water fall methodology- Project Initiation/planning, Project Requirements, Functional Design, System Design, Construction, Testing and Implementation.
• Project managed the development and implementation of the process re-engineering (BPR) project using JAD sessions, RAD methodology and resource planning (DRP).
• Provide Project leadership, Risk management plan, Communication Plan, Quality Plan etc.
• Awarded employee of the year for two consecutive years.
• Increased company revenues by 30% by getting additional $3 million in project work from current customers, due to optimal customer satisfaction and project quality.

Confidential, Lancaster, Pa

Project Manager

• SDLC water fall methodology- Project Initiation/planning, Project Requirements, Functional Design, System Design, Construction, Testing and Implementation.
• $1 million/year reduction in costs; Nationwide implementation (30 plants); accelerated ROI (less than one year for most plants).
• Recognized by customer as best ROI project within total BPR program.
• Gained significant credibility with customer through this implementation, resulting in additional $400K project development work in process variable monitoring and material consumption reporting.
• Achieved 100% customer satisfaction through excellent relationship management and system quality/performance.