SUMMARY:

• Insightful Project Manager offering expertise in release management, deployment management, client relations, systems engineering, requirements analysis and custom software development.
• Deliver management for a wide range of global projects and initiatives, ensuring timely delivery.
• Manage all aspects of project life cycle to facilitate successful delivery and reporting.
• Deliver proactive leadership and provide team feedback. Build high - quality, collaborative working relationships with stakeholders at all levels. Manage multiple efforts concurrently.
• Quickly learn processes and apply new knowledge. Succeed in fast-paced, changing and ambiguous environments.
• Resolve issues, roadblocks, and changes, serving as point of escalation for all teams.
• Develop program roadmaps with stakeholders. Ensure communication and alignment between teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools: MPP, Gantt Project, CA Clarity PPM, Project Center, Fast Track, Omni Plan, IQN, Rally, Service Now for TADEs and engagement requests, Jira, Rational ClearQuest, HPQC, Estimation Workbooks (Function Points / Use Case Point Estimations), MS Office

Technology/Tools: Java, Servlets 2.5, JSP 2.1, RMI, JNDI, JDBC, JAXB 20, Common Annotations 1.0, XML, DOM, SAX, XSLF, X-PATH, XSl-FO, XML programming, MVC-2, spring Core, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Ibatis, JSF, JBoss 4.2.2, WebSphere 5.x, WebLogic 9X, Junit, Maven2, AJAX, JavaScript, Win CVS, JIRA, SOAP, REST, Apache Axis 2, modPageSpeed, varraCode Scan, Gomez Scripting, IBM UCM, Rational Clear Case Tool, Tivoli Alert Mechanism, Sumo Logic, Tealeaf Tools, CA Release Automation Took, Sonar Reports, Jenkins, Hudson, DevOps, POI, Install Shield, GIT, CVS, SVN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PROJECT MANAGER/RELEASE PROGRAM MANAGER

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Direct team in release and sprint planning, coaching in use of Agile/Scrum practices and filling gaps in framework in addition to assisting product owner in writing or splitting user stories, adopting product vision, ordering product backlog items and assisting in release planning.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremony, coaching team members, meditating through conflicts, assisting in decision-making, forecasting self-organization and mentoring to get rid of impediments while maintaining scrum tools such as storyboards, action boards, charts and backlogs in addition to communicating with stakeholders and updating status.
• Served as Development Manager to develop project charter, define scope statement and perform cost/benefit analysis for technology initiatives while working with stakeholders, including IT and business sponsors.
• Provided input on SOW and worked with vendor management team in addition to directing and managing project and cross-commit team members in all project phases, and developed an integrated project schedule.
• Accountable for directing and managing project and cross-commit team members in all the phases from concept to implementation and working with SMEs, enterprise architects and business partners to identify solution options, perform cost benefit analysis and drive decisions.
• Accountable for project communications, milestone tracking, resource planning, financials, risk assessment and contingency planning and escalation and conflict management. Develop a comprehensive project plan (Define critical path) incorporating deliverables, and Develop WBS, risk breakdown (RAID Log), resource plans (RACI Matrix) and base milestones.
• Drove project management disciplines into NFT onsite and offshore team, managed program to migrate IMES infrastructure to Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012, and deployment of updated Gold Code for 26 3M product sites while driving engineering saves initiatives and cost effective solutions, and providing insight for release and change management while facilitating joint application design sessions between client and end users.
• Improved effectiveness of weekly project status meeting by 50% by implementing best practices like taking meeting minutes, tracking action items and working from detailed project plan.

Project Manager/Release Manager

Confidential, MN

• Delivered high profile technology projects for private website giving clients ability to view account values for all Ameriprise accounts, utilizing budget management, scheduling, work scope, quality and risk-management skills.
• Managed communications, milestone tracking, resource planning, financials, risk assessment and contingency planning/escalation in addition to conflict management, and provided a proactive relationship with business and technology stakeholders.
• Initiated and managed AWM services virtualization project for optimizing dependencies on a Cross commits team in a multi-vendor/large enterprise environment.
• Managed and directed a large-scale Confidential infrastructure migration program, improved effectiveness of status reports by 30%, reduced customer overhead of $100K per release cycle by automating deployment processes, initiated and directed an organizational engineering initiatives program, and contributed to continuous improvement of project management best practices.
• Served as a Program Release Manager in MyFA to designed a new release process around ITIL methodology that met the needs of the business, and created Key Performance Indicators and metrics to drive continuous service improvement.
• Directed and led AWM services versioning program in MyFA as Release Program Manager.
• Developed processes, procedures and Implemented new artifacts to ensure change management and communication across impacted areas was successfully identified and managed
• Managed Release Automation project, Release Management plan and ensured 99.99% uptime in production.

Technical/Agile Project Manager

Confidential

• Served as Agile Project Manager on the GODS project, establishing a new self-organizing scrum team through training on agile fundamentals, and coaching for sustainability of introduced changes to achieve 100% with proper planning and execution of Sprint.
• Provided daily communications, scrum notes, sprint reviews report, project retrospectives and snapshots for International Stock Record (IGSR), a strategic portfolio of projects designed to enable straight through processing, align middle office and operations to maximize use of resources, and put efficiency and effective control around business processes associated with clearance and settlement.
• Reported progress to stakeholders through Sprint burn-down reports, iteration burn-down reports and velocity target updates, engaged in rapid bootstrapping of the distributed team, coordinated with product owner to finalize designs and formalize requirements, practiced backlog grooming/release and sprint planning and facilitated scrum ceremonies while collaborating with team, architect and product owner.
• Served as Project Manager to manage and direct global stock records and the GODs project, remaining involved in all phases of project life cycle such as initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control/closing.
• Managed and prepared scope, engaged in risk/cost management, resolved conflict and financial management issues and managed asset allocation enhancement/operations services.
• Directed the enterprise money movement module enhancement and delivered to client with zero defects.
• Prepared work breakdown structure, ensured existing change management process requirements were met, managed and directed planning/deliverables for various critical models like matrix end-of-day position rebalancing, new legal entities onboarding and release automation implementation, and reduced customer overhead by $10K per release cycle by initiating the engineering save program and leading the UI suit automation.
• Prepared and managed task orders per strategic resourcing, and secured alignment and approvals from business/tech stakeholders, and initiated/managed upstream systems processing performance improvements and as a result of this initiative data load response time to two seconds.
• Increased efficiency, removed emotions, reduced chaos, increased communication and improved moral by 50% with training the team on resource allocation, time tracking and time management.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, NJ

• Managed requirements and design phase toward identifying mutual solutions with technical teams and business partners in addition to engaging in design and implementation phase of critical modules of concentration themes and rule administration of a Holding Cross Reference (HCR) application.
• Managed end-to-end deliverables of client mutual fund and securities single page view application development, worked as technical project lead for DTP Window migration program for all WMA KST application clusters in UBS, served as a technical project lead for PW security migration and its implementation/testing approach, and implement KYC changes for relationship, client, account and prospect.
• Managed and delivered successful migration of Blue Stone data center migration and solutions, and successful design and enhancement of critical modules of the Book Query application, helping financial advisors with functionality like quick client searches and management of preferred portfolios.
• Worked in managing maintenance and support of the application which Managed L2 production support, production infrastructure setup, creation of build and deployment plans, production checkout, signoff and rollover plans.
• Performed scrum master role for interactive development of the Book query enhancement program, led impact analysis of DB2 migration program for KST applications, and played a key role in setup of Disaster Recovery Servers (DR) in production for KST servers.

Technical Project Lead

Confidential, California

• Streamlined underwriting processes through creation of a Casualty Underwriting User Interface, integrating major AOG unconnected applications and superseding bespoke spreadsheets.
• Leveraged WebSphere Portal Server technology in co-presenting information from systems and technology to automate existing system, managed defined business processes and integrated with back-end key systems like SSO Sign on, RPC and Data Power, and managed/coordinated with various work streams for end-to-end integration and solutioning while working with technology and architecture teams to provide solution design input.

Project Lead

Confidential

• Managed planning, design, and implementation of project, for enterprise-wide, multi-country, multi-language, multi-currency solution to allow banks to provide single-window access to corporate customers for cash management, trade finance, FX services, reporting and data exchange.
• Led design of project architectures, infrastructure/environment setup, and project execution planning.
• Worked as application lead in Confidential on various modules like payments and statements.
• Worked on web service implementation for account statement and inward remittance statement, design a module for banking statement reports in HTML, and managed production release cycles while remaining involved in analyzing, fixing and testing of bugs in respective releases.