SUMMARY:

IT professional with expertise in leadership, project management, business analysis, and training. Proven history of being able to solve business problems and add value to an organization. PMP certified project manager with a strong background in application development. Experienced with various development methodologies including Agile/Scrum, RUP, and Waterfall. Certified Scrum Practioner with Agile coaching experience and has helped organizations transition from waterfall based process to Agile/Scrum. Excellent communication and organizational skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Project
• Primavera
• Visio
• SharePoint
• MS Dynamic CRM
• Team Foundation Server
• Object Oriented Analysis and Design
• Rational Rose
• UML
• XML
• SQL
• .NET
• Java
• C++
• Cobol
• C
• TIBCO
• SOA
• MySQL
• PHP
• HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed technology projects of various sizes.
• Managed large geographically distributed team including offshore teams.
• Managed projects that converted legacy systems to modern technology.
• Managed projects on a day - to-day basis and providing direction to the team.
• Assessed resource requirements and managed resources with project needs.
• Communicated status of the project to stake holders and senior management.
• Managed scope, schedule, risks, and, issues of the project.
• Worked with the Business Partners and Sponsors to negotiate scope, cost, and schedule.
• Motivated the project team to continue making progress and complete the project.
• Worked with development team to quickly resolve issues to help stay on the schedule.

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully introduced Agile/Scrum to IT organizations.
• Sold Agile/Scrum framework as a viable option to the Management team.
• Customized PMO practices for Agile projects.
• Helped PMO team to map existing process to Agile/Scrum.
• Helped IT teams to learn and practice Agile/Scrum to become an effective Agile team.
• Successfully completed software development projects using Agile/Scrum.
• Facilitated inception meetings to document, prioritize, and estimate product backlog.
• Developed and conducted training program for Agile/Scrum.
• Invited speaker at local IASA conference on Agile/Scrum.

Confidential, Bloomington, Illinois

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Help train project teams in Agile process.
• Work with the Sponsor & Business Liaisons to identify the objectives of the Inception sessions.
• Lead and facilitate the meetings to stay focused to meet the objectives.
• Help the participants to articulate and document the scope of the effort.
• Identify the impacted areas that the new/changed system/project will affect.
• Help resolve disputes and conflicts during the sessions.
• Help estimate the Project and create high-level schedule and Release Plan.
• Help identify a project approach for the project.

Confidential, Peoria, Illinois

Project Manager/Sr. Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a Project team of 10 to implement a Policy Issuance System for Transportation Division.
• Project team included Business Analyst, Developers, System Testers, & User Acceptance Testers.
• Coordinated activities of offsite and offshore team members .
• Documented project charter by working with the business partners and other stakeholders.
• Facilitated planning sessions for Project planning and sprint/iteration planning
• Created Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the project.
• Created and Managed Project Plan and Release Plan using Microsoft Project.
• Managed scope, schedule, risks, and issues of the project.
• Communicated with Management and Sponsors the progress of the project.
• Created a Training Materials and Trained Users on the new product.
• Prepared training materials to educate underwriting staff on the operations of the IT department.
• Trained Underwriting staff on the operations of IT department.
• Prepared Training materials for introducing Agile/Scrum to the IT organization.
• Successfully introduced Agile/Scrum to the organization by training IT/Management staff.
• Tools Used: MS Project, VISIO, SharePoint, Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a Project team of 8 including Business Analyst, Developers, Testers, & Architects.
• Documented project charter by working with the business partners and other stakeholders.
• Participated in Initiation, plan, execute, control, close project activities.
• Managed the scope, schedule, risks, and, issues of the project.
• Created project plan using a combination of RUP and Scrum
• Created and Managed Project Schedule using Primavera.
• Worked with the Program management to create a Release plan for the program.
• Managed projects on a day-to-day basis and provided direction to the team.
• Worked with the Onshore coordinator/Team lead to manage offshore work.
• Motivated the project team to move forward with the project and make progress.
• Drive the development team to quickly resolve issues to help stay on the schedule.
• Worked with Business Partners and Sponsors to negotiate scope, cost, & schedule.
• Communicated the status of the project to the Sponsors and Business Partners
• Tools Used: Primavera, VISIO

Confidential, Bloomington, Illinois

Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the completion of projects within budget and schedule.
• Effectively Managed Multiple Projects for the system organization.
• Participate in Initiation, plan, execute, control, close project activities.
• Created project plan using SDM
• Manage the scope, schedule, risks, and, issues of the project.
• Motivate the project team to move forward with the project and make progress.
• Managed projects on a day-to-day basis and provided direction to the team.
• Managed large teams by working with the Team Leads.
• Managed Offshore resources to effectively use their time.
• Drive the development team to quickly resolve issues to help project stay on the schedule.
• Helped the planner with creating a baseline schedule and provide general direction in maintaining the schedule.
• Created and Managed Project Schedule using Primavera when Planner is not assigned/available .
• Worked with Business Partners and Sponsors to negotiate scope, performance, cost, and schedule.
• Documented and Managed Change Requests when changes occurred.
• Communicated the status of the project to the Sponsors and Business Partners.
• Worked with team members to resolve disputes and engaged management as necessary to take disciplinary actions.
• Planned and executed a 6 month long product roll-out working thru all the issues.
• Tools Used: Primavera

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Created Estimates of cost and schedule for the project by working with the team.
• Identified development and other tasks that impact the cost and schedule of the project.
• Worked with the various groups in the organization to create the master plan for the project.
• Created project schedule using Unified Methodology (RUP).
• Worked with the Project Management office in using Standard methodology and documents.
• Developed Project Plan and monitor the progress.
• Assess resource requirements and work with managers to allocate resources to tasks.
• Tools Used: MS Project, Primavera.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Project Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead/Manage Projects in the Software Development Group.
• Created Estimates for the project.
• Developed Project Plan and monitor the progress.
• Worked with the offshore team to coordinate the development effort.
• Reported Progress of the project to the management.
• Assess resource requirements and work with managers to allocate resources to tasks.
• Worked with Project Management Office for scheduling projects and resolving resource conflicts.
• Prepared regular status reports and other communications to internal and external stakeholders.
• Conducted Research and Feasibility study for project involving new technology.
• Lead development team on technical aspect of the project.
• Conducted requirements analysis and impact analysis by actively working with the users and reviewing the existing system.

Tools: Used: Project Workbench (PWW) Method/1, Design/1, COBOL, VMS, DCL

Confidential, Springs, Colorado

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Multiple Teams/Multiple Project in the Software Development Group.
• Managed a project to convert legacy mainframe system to EAI based system, using TIBCO.
• Managed several monthly maintenance projects.
• Developed Project Plan including WBS, Schedule, resource and cost estimation, Risk Management Plan, Change Management Plan, and implementation plan.
• Implemented RUP best practices (such as iterative development, prototyping high risk items) in projects.
• Trained project team in best practices in modern methodologies such as RUP and XP.
• Assessed resource requirements and worked with managers to allocate resources to tasks.
• Managed Risks and Issues.
• Handled Change Management and Scope Management.
• Worked with Project Management Office for scheduling projects and resolving resource conflicts.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing and systems testing with external organizations.
• Coordinated interface testing with organizations outside the company.
• Served as liaison between MCI Organizations and External telecom Companies.
• Prepared regular status reports and other communications to internal and external stakeholders.
• Reported progress of the projects to the senior Management.
• Mange virtual team (geographically distributed team).
• Gathered requirements and documented requirements by actively working with users.
• Conducted Use-Case Analysis and documented Use-Case model using my domain expertise and working with the users.
• Created Design Model using Activity Diagrams using UML on Rational Rose.
• Conducted requirements analysis and impact analysis.
• Tools Used: MS Project, Rplan, DB2, Oracle, Visio, Power Point, Rational Rose, UML.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Project Lead / Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead Multiple Teams in the Software Development Group in the technical aspects.
• Worked on gathering, documenting, and Analysis of requirements by working with the Users.
• Documented Use Cases using Rational Rose and UML.
• Conducted Impact Analysis to identify modules to be changed.
• Designed and implemented Database changes on DB2 database.
• Designed and Implemented Screen changes on CICS screens.
• Designed and Implemented Online process changes using COBOL, CICS, DB2 and SQL.
• Designed and Implemented Batch process changes using COBOL, DB2, SQL, VSAM, and JCL.
• Lead the change management activities using ENDAVOR.
• Reviewed the work of the team members for correctness, completeness, and standards.
• Supported System testing and User Acceptance testing by researching and fixing issues.
• Planned Implementation activities and supported implementation.
• Supported daily operations of the software products by researching abends and user tickets.
• Supported daily activities of the users by researching issues and fixing “bad” data.
• Supported daily activities by monitoring and scheduling batch jobs using CA-7.
• Conducted Use-Case Analysis and documented Use-Case model using my domain expertise and working with the users.
• Created Design Model using Activity Diagrams using UML on Rational Rose.

Tools: Used: COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, Oracle, VSAM, CA-7, UML, Rational Rose, SQL