SUMMARY:

• MBA professional with extensive experience in IT Software Development and Agile Project/Program Management
• Cross - functional leadership for end to end development of highly scalable software applications for wide range of industries including Healthcare, Finance, e-Commerce & Retail, achieving leadership excellence awards
• PMP certified with excellent skills in Project Management, PMO, Operations, customer relations and cross-group collaboration
• MBA with Honors - Product Strategy, Leadership, Finance and Operations using simulations, case studies and live projects with leading global corporations
• Agile Leader, SCRUM Master with experience in sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, writing functional specifications, user stories and managing product backlog
• Strong technical background with years of hands on experience in programming. Utilized technical skills and business acumen to manage teams of data analysts, data scientists, and solution architects to deliver outstanding analytics-driven solutions.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to interface between technical and non-technical teams

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Project/Program Management Big Data Agile/SCRUM
• Customer Relationships Software Design/Architecture Scheduling & Budgeting

• MS Office, MS Project, Rally, JIRA, Salesforce, MS Visio, .Net, C#, C++, HTML/XML/JSON, Javascript, SQL Server, Reporting/Analysis Services, Sharepoint, VMware, Oracle, SOA, Web Services
• Big Data Ecosystem: Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, AWS, etc
• Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Waterfall, Hybrid, SDLC, TDD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Confidential

• Manage projects within Entitlements Base Foundation program with business objective to develop a "golden thread" to connect entitlements data in order to provide customers, partners and Cisco a complete view of entitlements.
• Work closely with business team on quarterly planning of features and develop project plans for driving development in an agile model to support the monthly releases.
• Lead technical teams in solutioning and implementing complex use cases and coach using examples
• Manage production issues and enhancement requests after each product release.
• Identify best practices and recommend process improvements across the Software Development Lifecycle
• Organize and facilitate planning, review, demo and other SCRUM meetings as needed

Sr. Program/Project Manager

Confidential

• Manage multi million dollar Big Data & Data Analysis programs and ensure successful executionof projects and services for large organizations.
• Successfully implemented fast paced Big Data initiatives using open source tools and big data technologies such as Hadoop, HBase, Spark, Storm, etc
• Facilitate Sprint planning, Scrum meetings, product demos and sprint retrospectives. Build high performing teams for implementing Data Lake projects with security framework and cloud services.
• Onsite Project delivery ownership involving project scheduling, budgeting, stakeholder management, resource management, issue resolution, status reporting and project billing for the projects undertaken
• Led the ISO 27001 certification process for the organization.
• Establish PMO and act as Agile coach to PMs and Scrum Masters improving Agile processes.
• Solve complex problems by data driven approach, exploring new technologies and creating proof of concepts

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

• Managed software development including ICD9 to ICD10 upgrade for multiple tracks within large enhancement program for Confidential
• Managed team of 25+ globally spread resources and accomplished the annual defects reduction target of 50%
• Performed release planning, work estimation, work tracking and reported program level status/metrics to stakeholders
• Implemented Agile/Scrum in the program and led multiple scrum teams for product releases
• Provided consulting for adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

SrTechnical Consultant

Confidential, Redmond, WA

• Led the test automation in Confidential Exchange High Availability team catering to multiple datacenters, proposed innovative business and technical solutions
• Developed stealth mode cloud computing application involving virtualization, SAN and VM Storage administration.
• Gained extensive experience on key Confidential technologies including Powershell, WCF, .Net, and architectural design patterns, Active Directory and leveraged the technology to enable the design of user-friendly tools
• Managed QA engineers and created overall test strategy implementing best practices to continually improve test effectiveness
• Collaborated with multiple geographically distributed Confidential groups (Canada, US, India, Dubai)

Sr. Technical Lead/Manager

Confidential, WA

• Managed the development of healthcare Cypress.Net Smart Client Application for Accumed leading 20+ engineers, reducing the time to market by 50% using Agile methodology and dual shore delivery approach
• Managedthe rebranding and product development for Mitchell1- an Auto Repair ecommerce site, and increased revenue by 30% by successfully enhancing the quality
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams and vendors as part of managing multiple projects and built strong commitments

Sr. Systems Specialist

Confidential

• Led several development teams and successfully drove projects through completion
• Designed & developed Screening Information web-based System for Confidential to improve the health of Californians setting the standards in delivering high-quality and providing cost-effective genetic services
• Led the development of complex web based examination system (multi-layered architecture using .Net, Java, C++) for UK Government agency targeting 4000 schools, achieving customer appreciation for meeting all milestones
• Developed taxation system with complex accounting rules for Department of Revenue, state of Montana
• Reengineered several organization and quality processes to steer the organization getting SEI-CMM Level 5 certified
• Developed an intranet web portal for the “Oracle COE” group using Oracle 9iAS. Developed Linux shell scripts for large scale databases, optimizing administration time by 20%