SUMMARY:

• Around 17 years of assorted expertise in Software Project Mgmt., Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Configuration Management, Software QA and Process Improvement Mgmt. with respect to ISO9001, CMM Level 5 and PCMM Level 5 concepts
• IT Project Manager with 7 years in Configuration, Price & Quote (CPQ),Sales Force, E - commerce, Healthcare, Medical Transcription industry, managing concurrent multiple small to large sized projects
• Managed budgets up to $75M and cross-functional teams - NA, China, EMEA, India for CPQ domain
• Built and managed the new development team of size 17 within 30 days of project approval
• Certified Agile Professional - PMI - ACP; Certified Scum Master - Scrum Alliance
• Introduced several project management processes such as, task management, Issue Management, time sheet management, project life cycle management and change management based on PMI guidelines
• Set up an exhaustive risk management system for to be used by all implementation projects
• Delivering new capability (projects) to time, cost and quality, ensuring that the business is fully engaged, and verifying that the benefits have been realized. Accelerating retirement of legacy capability and reducing complexity and risk
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile, waterfall, hybrid approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures
• Work closely with business & cross-functional teams and vendors to define project priorities, scope, approach, resource requirements, timing deliverables, and funding
• Develop project schedules, work plans, and roadmaps
• Implemented Continuous integration, test automation, build to deployment for program level
• Implemented Team foundation server for program level
• Negotiate, analyze, and prepare purchase order agreements for vendor - Wipro
• Experience managing and passing SOX audits, and experience working with auditors 
• Involved in effective requirement management, estimation, risk management, Design, Testing, proposals and client management
• Well versed in Management and leadership skill, demonstrated Team/People Management aptitude, motivating, training, mentoring large teams for excellence in performance and delivery with quality.
• Handled projects of Microsoft .NET technology and Java Technology.
• Experienced in streamlining communication process across different Geo’s & internal software programs
• Experienced in conducting Internal & external Audits and quality checks
• Experience managing and passing SOX audits, and experience working with auditors 
• Conducted Project management review in presenting slides/reports/status review with team, management, stakeholders and customers.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite of apps
• Expert level work with MS PowerPoint

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• IT Strategy & Planning
• Offshore/Onshore Development
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Vendor Management
• IT Governance
• Executive Presentations
• Risk Management
• Resource Management
• Quality Management
• Customer focus & relationship

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

CPQ Project Manager, PaloAlto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Hold dual accountability for (a) managing complex large scale corporate IT projects and (b) leading the organization’s IT process improvement practice, overseeing a team of 45 to deliver IT transformation, process management, IT governance application development and service managed projects

Confidential

Project Manager

Tool: Microsoft Project Plan, TFS, Visio, Excel, ALM, SharePoint

Responsibilities:

• Managed 3 diverse geographical teams- 17 members, $ 25 Million budgets
• Target user base for HP customers to 3000 plus world wide
• Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Compile plans and work assignments; facilitate and monitor work efforts; identify resource trends and needs; and escalate functional, quality, or timeline issues appropriately
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Manage all aspects of the project including: analysis, budgeting, planning, designing, build out, testing, and training
• Conduct Risk Analysis and Mitigation for plans and projects
• Communicate effectively to management and sponsors in a timely manner
• Plan and facilitate effective project team meetings
• Assist in the prioritization of projects by providing reliable work schedules and time estimates
• Identify and acquire resources and assign responsibilities 
• Involved in all phases sign off - Design, UAT and MTP
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, maintain SharePoint & used TFS
• Provide thought leadership and architectural expertise to a cross-functional team
• Determine and provide processes/tools to be used during the releases
• Meetings with Cross domain for weekly status review, Bi-weekly status discussion
• Involved in escalation calls during any production issues; Work as escalation manager to conduct application is up and running fine.

Confidential

Program Manager/Project Manager, PaloAlto, CA

Tool: Microsoft Project Plan, TFS, Visio, Excel, ALM, SharePoint

Responsibilities:

• Authored and persuasively presented proposal to executive team, and directed initiative for a major migration program projected to save $1 Billion per year
• Consolidated around 45 non-integrated tools - Technology, infrastructure, people- into a centralized cloud environment.
• Provide thought leadership expertise to a cross-functional team charged with deploying a host of customer-related applications and data to the cloud.
• Determine and provide processes/tools to be used during the releases.
• Convinced management to sponsor training for resources.
• Create, update, manage and tracking of Project Plan.
• Meetings with Cross domain for weekly status review, Bi-weekly status discussion
• Involved in all phases sign off - Design, UAT and MTP

Confidential

Tool: Jira, TFS, SharePoint, ALM

Responsibilities:

• Traveled to US for project kick-off
• Successfully migrated waterfall approach to Scrum within 6 months
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.).
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverable by 22%
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize backlog
• Manage the life cycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Efficient tool used – Jira

Confidential

Program Manager

Tool: Microsoft Project Plan, Excel, SharePoint

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with WIPRO to support HP tools
• Develop overall Portfolio Strategies and Governance
• Define service level agreements (SLAs) related to services and that escalation flows are in place, advice technically on escalations.
• To build service relationships with internal teams and external partners.
• Ensure quality of services are performed to the agreed SLA.
• Define & implement transition methodology to Confidential (MSP).
• Facilitate end customer & ensure that all SOW compliance & SLA has been met.
• ITPR approval & submission convinced management to sponsor training for resources.
• Prepare and implement best practice to transition knowledge to client- Wipro.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Project Manager, NA

Tool: Microsoft Project Plan, Source Control, Visio, Excel, ALM, SharePoint

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated more than 5 projects from Waterfall to Scrum within 7 months
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%

Technical Lead, Allscripts, NA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development and management responsibilities
• Involved in staffing of resources to the right tasks
• Monitoring the progress of the team daily
• Reporting to the management team of the progress made by the team
• Involved in writing N-units for the enhancements developed
• Involved in Demo and presentation of the enhancement developed to the clients.
• Involved in code review.