SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a multi - skilled IT professional with 15+ years of experience in directing cross functional teams of large/small scale projects/products in various environments as a (Project Manager, Scrum Master, Release/QA Manager, Programmer Analyst, Consultant).
• Proven record on developing solutions that improve efficiency of IT and Business operations.
• Strong management skills with planning, scheduling, communication, organizational and decision making ability to successfully direct concurrent projects.
• Expert of handling projects with more than $25M with 20+ wide-ranging skilled team.
• Now looking for an opportunity to work on more challenging projects where he can enhance the skills and help organizational success.

AREAS OF EXCELLENCE:

• Project/Program Management/PMO Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Client Relation Management Business/Stakeholders Engagement
• Budget Planning /Administration Full Cycle of SDLC/STLC
• Risks(Qualitative/Quantitative) Analysis QA Planning & Execution
• Metrics Collection & Reporting Resource recruiting/mentoring/training
• Multi-Vendor/Offshore coordination Agile/Scrum Project Management
• Communication/Conflict Management Strategic Analysis/ Process Improvement
• Human Resources/Team Building Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• MDM/REST Services/Webservices ITSM-Process Improvement
• DevOps/ SAFe Continuous Delivery

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, OneNote and Project), Primavera, Quality Center, Test Link, Trac, MS SharePoint, Lotus Notes, HP Service Manager, BMC Ticket Tracking, QTP, Load Runner, SoupUI, Selenium, Java, .Net, Oracle DBMS, Oracle Applications (R12, PO, CDM), DB2, PL SQL, COBOL, Service Virtualization, SFDC, SAP-CRM, IceSrum, Pointing Poker, Jenkins, Maven, GitHub

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Dallas, TX

• Oversee multiple projects across all phases of development
• Negotiated and maintained vendor agreements to achieve project goals
• Assisted RTE on creating product road map and release planning
• Collaborate with PO, SM and Development team to plan PI backlog items
• Following Agile/Safe methodologies for continuous delivery
• Acted as liaison between Business, IT systems, Finance and Operations/Support teams
• Identified and documented risks/issues proactively to avoid delays in project delivery
• Coaching/Mentoring the team to transform from waterfall to agile environments
• Performed qualitative/quantitative analysis to measure the impact from identified risks
• Monitors/Maintains project budget against baselines and prepared forecasts
• Implemented Jenkins Pipeline for integration of E2E application
• Developed status reports, forecasts, project trends and resource plans
• Implemented and maintained best practices for each phase of the project life cycle
• Participated in Release planning/Sprint planning/Reviews/Retrospectives
• Developed automation frameworks to fulfil devops pipeline
• Guided/Planned selenium/SoapUI scripting for E2E acceptance testing
• GitLab and Jenkins are the main tools for devops automation
• Conduct scrum of scrums to oversee the progress of individual teams
• Manage and Control of stakeholders to keep up to date on project progress

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, Java, Test Link, Trac, Lotus Notes, Selenium, Version One, SoupUI, Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, Primavera P6

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Bloomington, IL

• Interface with PMO, Business Teams, Stakeholders to define the processes
• Prepare for and facilitate daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint planning, review, retrospective, backlog grooming meetings, and planning sessions for release/deployments
• Provide input to release planning using team capacity and skill set information
• Compile, analyze, and present statistics about time estimation accuracy, team velocity, and burndown rate to development team and management for each sprint
• Create and maintain statistics on story lifetime to assess efficiency of requirements throughput
• Meet with product owners and operational business managers for selected modules to introduce scrum and program processes and outline expectations
• Planning and work allocations based on task priorities
• Review and provide feedback on drafted user stories and epics to ensure alignment with general Agile user story standards
• Managing dependencies and tracking risks/issues to maintain the WBS items
• Resource allocation, conflict management and team building
• Provided training to all on the Agile and Scrum methodology
• Documenting lessons learned and knowledge sharing
• Liaison between Leadership, Business, Developers, Testers and Deployment team

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, Java, Test Link, Trac, Lotus Notes, Selenium, Ice Scrum, Pointing Poker

Project Manager

Norristown, PA

• Followed traditional(waterfall) project management methodologies
• Involved from creating project charter to close the project
• Coordinated with customer to gather requirements and manage expectations
• Performed estimations using functional point techniques(PERT)
• Identified risks and issues and track them till end of the project
• Trained team members on development and change management process
• Drive the team to follow organizational standards to achieve quality goals
• Established communication channels to engage stakeholders
• Supported design, development and quality assurance to ensure meeting business needs
• Monitored performance of the project and adjusted milestones/baselines
• Involved in creating business decision/ architectural decision diagrams
• Documented transition/support documents and updated knowledge items
• Collaborated with diversified team from various time zones

Environment: Oracle Apps, R12, Java, Quality Center, BMC Remedy, Load Runner, QTP, MS Project

Onsite/Offsite Coordinator

Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Led the team(onsite/offshore) to understand requirements and expectations
• Developed automation framework for functional automation using QTP
• Mentored team on load/performance testing and load balancing
• Prepared test plans/ strategies for both manual and automation testing
• Provided optimize solutions on resource management and process improvements
• Maintained defects and conducted triage meetings to get consensus from team
• Collected and reported all test metrics to director level on weekly basis
• Created test coverage/traceability to again customer acceptance on test deliverables

Environment: Oracle Apps, R12, Quality Center, BMC Remedy, Lotus Notes, Load Runner, QTP