CAREER PROFILE:

• Certified Six Sigma & PMP professional with 13 Years+ of experience in Program & Project Management, Business Analysis, Quality Management, Change & Release Management, Resource Deployment, Transitioning and Business Development.
• Focus on ERP, TQM, Business Intelligence, Digital Marketing, Marketing Communication and IT Infrastructure domains with a budget range of $10 to $50 million for global fortune 500 companies.
• Proficient in end - to-end planning and implementation in Global Delivery Model from scope management, activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, system development & testing quality management in adherence to guidelines.
• Rich experience with Microsoft Project in building project schedules, Gantt Charts, performing cost analysis, spend analysis and generating reports.
• Applying LEAN and Six Sigma Methodology to enhance delivery and provide quality products as the end result.
• Ability to collaborate with global professionals and stakeholders located globally including the United States.
• Expertise in understanding in the following:
• Software development life cycle (SDLC) & Project life cycle
• Additional expertise in Waterfall, Agile & Scrum Software Development methodologies
• Resource planning, estimating & budgeting
• Develop project SOW’s and schedules
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
• Optimizing Cost to Ownership (CTO) and defining performance business metrics
• Expertise in Client Management, Stakeholder Management and People Management.
• Strong Leadership skills, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to think strategically and plan for growth and development of team and self.
• Excellent Research, Analytical and Logic building abilities.
• Brings fresh insights to the team: Encourages the team to generate newer approaches.

SKILLS:Tools:   MS Project, MS Office, Access, Visio, Primavera, HP PPM, IBM Rational, Omni Plan, Xmind

Domain Knowledge:   PMO, Marketing, Finance, Advertising, Retail, BI and IT Security & Infrastructure

Platforms (functional):   Oracle - CRM Module, SAP -APO, PeopleSoft - HR Module, Informatica, JAVA, HTML, HTML5, .Net, MySQL, Custom Java and Custom CMS, Adobe CMS, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Flash

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

• Developed detailed project plans, budgets and schedules, including goals, risks, and resource allocation and Project Dashboards.
• Coordinated with PMOs and Business owners at various stage of the project to ensure quality of the product & service is never compromised due to constraints of time and cost.
• Coordinated with Solution Architects and Developers at various stage of the project to have seamless delivery of the product and application to Business users.
• Coordinated with Creative and Marketing teams during designing, discovery and Roll out phase
• Overall Responsible and accountable for Project delivery, on time, on quality, on budget.
• Responsible and accountable of managing onshore and offshore resources of Business analysts, Development and Quality team for Functional, conversion and Integration testing.
• Manage Daily huddles and Sprint meetings
• Understand critical business problem and propose effective solution, in terms of cost and feasibility
• Unit representative on core committee, executing projects related to strategic planning, product development and other marketing infrastructure issues. Worked on timely escalation of issues related to delivery of services.
• Supervised along with documenting various technical aspects like project documentation, system design & integration, monitoring critical paths & taking appropriate actions.
• Implementation of LEAN and Six Sigma Methodology to help reduce waste in the cycle time of implementation Builds and Releases for all new projects.
• Produced multiple reports (Exec dashboard, project/program status reports with Remedy, Clarity data etc.) depending on the specific needs of different audiences/consumers with actionable recommendations.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager 

• Served as Business Analyst understanding customer's requirements and documented them as SRS, E-R Diagrams, flowcharts, project plans using Microsoft Project.
• Served as the single point of contact for project scheduling and changes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to draft project schedules and plans.
• Monitored costs, timescales and resources used to achieve on-time deliverables within budget.
• Delivered status reports to stakeholders for budgeting and planning purposes.
• Drafted action plans and led meetings with department executives to review project status and proposed changes.
• Analyzed risks involved with the projects in real-time and provide mitigation plans to overcome risks.
• Strategic Planning, evaluation and integration with third party application
• Testing security leakage
• Responsible and accountable for testing release cycles and log issues
• Responsible and accountable for project deliveries, and stake holder management

Confidential

Lead/Project Lead

• Responsible for overall project management, defining goals, assessing risk, contingency, resource management, training and technology integration
• Responsible and accountable of managing onshore and offshore resources of Business analysts, Development and Quality team for Functional and Integration testing.
• Manage Daily huddles and Sprint meetings
• Understand critical business problem and propose effective solution, in terms of cost and feasibility
• Supervised along with documenting various technical aspects like project documentation, system design & integration, monitoring critical paths & taking appropriate actions.
• Responsible for resource management, training management and effectiveness of training
• Responsible for overall knowledge transfer and performance management through agreed KPIs with the offshore team
• Developed budget plan for 2010 and 2011 in consultation with various stakeholders from Operation and finance.
• Managed centralized reporting and capacity vertical (team size of 80 resources ) set up for offshore team
• Managed & Lead Disaster Recovery Plans Assessment Risk Assessments for BCP’s done before any concurrence shared from competency.
• Responsible and accountable for seamless transition to the new digital workflow management tool

Lead/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Plan, execute, and finalize projects within triple constraints of delivering on time, within budget and scope objectives, including acquiring resources and coordinating efforts of team members in order to deliver projects according to plan.
• Managing feasibility study, report finalisation, monitoring and coordination of the project with different agencies related to domestic capital projects
• Analysing business potential, implementing plans to drive sales and achieving desired targets
• Identify, effectively communicate, and resolve project issues and risks.
• Develop risk mitigation plans.
• Effectively communicate project status to project stakeholders.
• Coach, mentor, and motivate team members, influencing them to take positive action and accountability for assigned work.
• Gathered requirements from customers as well as internal stakeholders and documented them in the form of SRS (Software Requirement Specifications) document, flowcharts, CRS (Change Request Specifications) document, ERD (Entity-Relationship Diagrams).
• Conducted Sprint planning meetings with the team explaining them the tasks to be accomplished, i.e. followed agile methodology in software development life cycle.
• Collaborated cross-functional teams for daily scrum meetings and took MoM (Minutes of meeting).
• Worked with Product Owners to keep the backlog well groomed for upcoming sprints.
• Responsible for ensuring successful pre/post deployment of software product that caters to 2500 users with terabytes of production data.