SUMMARY:

Big picture oriented, PMP, highly motivated, with strength in project management, great presentation skills, supervisory experience (hiring, performance evaluation, mentoring, coaching) project sizing, estimation, requirement analysis, risk management plan, process engineering and a good grasp that business goals drive IT projects. I have great experience in applying agile best practices (daily scrum, retrospective, and solution overviews) and waterfall approach in the SDLC based on what works best to the specific project and the corporate culture in question. The fact that I started my career as a programmer comes in handy in finding ways to bridge the gap between IT and business.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Project Sizing and Estimation
• Risk Management
• Leading and managing transitions from Waterfall to Agile
• Project Resource management
• Performance Evaluation
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Process Re - engineering
• Training staff on project management/software development processes & methodologies
• Enhancing communication by having periodic brown bag presentations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hamilton

Associate

Responsibilities:

• Enhancing eMRP (electronically managed review process):- Web based application used to manage licensing applications.
• Manage software developers, analysts, software quality assurance.
• Put together agenda for the weekly meeting to discuss project related issues.
• Manage three weeks based iterative/agile software development process.
• Manage budget, personnel and overall success of projects.
• Produced monthly budget report to PMO
• Picked up JIRA (software development tool) to manage user stories, action items and defects.
• Picked up the complex eMRP (workflow based review management process) relatively quickly.
• Reviewed requirements for completion (which includes but not limited to: - alignment of requirements to business rules, testability and traceability (using requirements traceability matrix).

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Enhancing Graduate Fellowship Program application to where it serves the ever growing need prospective scientists all over US
• Manage software developers, analysts, software quality assurance.
• Participate in weekly management meeting to talk about ways of improving process to better run projects agency wide.
• Quarterly high level executive summary type of presentation to senior management and PMO
• Expand on my experience of applying agile methodology from small organization to being part of its’ application in a governmental agency.
• Manage budget, personnel and overall success of projects.
• Produced monthly budget report to senior management
• Produced weekly status report to senior management

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Delivered working software that is used for tracking of continuing education of physical therapist in all 53 states.
• Improved project efficiency through implementation of best EPPM practices (choose prioritizing projects, better management of resources, make informed business decision, extend best practices across the organization, plan for future opportunities while tending to current needs)
• Work well in a matrix environment where project resources are acquired through negotiation with all stake holders.
• Put together project management and software development processes and artifacts for the organization.
• Picked up FSBPT’s business model and vision quickly which in turn allowed me to align software development projects objectives to line up with the organizations vision.
• Picked up Online Processing Systems (very complex core application for the organization) in order to led the modernization project to convert the application from cold fusion to .NET.
• Picked up Microsoft’s team foundation server to use for requirements, defect, and software repository for all projects.
• Periodically conducted project sponsor training to streamline project execution at the Federation and make sure that there is a shared understanding between business and technical personnel.
• Put together monthly report that highlights important progress and challenges of all projects run by information systems for the organization.
• Did power point and other ways of communication on a lunch and learn session to which everyone in the organization was invited.
• Have great understanding of health care industry (in 2005 I acquired certificate that allows me to sell health care in the state of Virginia.
• Managed the development of “aPTitude” online continuing education web based tracking system from conception to the final implementation of the application over a period of five years (5+ million-dollar project)
• Provided preliminary project estimate using different permutation of programmers, analyst, QA using Monte Carlo simulation
• Have oversight over multiple vendors and in house programmers over a period of five years working on different aspects of the project
• Closely managed both scope and timeline set by the organization
• Performed risk management plan periodically with the respective project sponsors for every project that I managed (Online Processing Systems modernization project, aPTitude (web based application that allows licensees to track their progress towards fulfilling the requirements for the renewal of their licensee) just to mention few projects)
• Managed the conversion of our main application (Online Processing Systems) from cold fusion to .NET technology.
• Managed the development of software that help FSBPT transition from on demand testing of NPTE (national physical therapy exam) to fixed date testing with an aggressive timeline to meet legal stipulation.
• Managed development of web based application that is used by states to evaluate mastery of appropriate jurisprudence as it applies to practicing physical therapy in the respective state.
• Provided training for project sponsors, analyst and software quality assurance
• Introduced both software development and project management processes at the Confidential .

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects to develop the following web based applications (internet job manager, studio manager, job manager, image manager etc.)
• Managed the following applications (continuing medical education, online Omni conference, customization of content management using Ektron).
• Did requirements and gap analysis to help make buy/build decisions for National Certification Council for acupuncture and oriental medicine.
• Run queries to generate detail description of the tasks that we did for our clients and the corresponding duration of tasks in preparation for my weekly report both to our clients and to the principal of the company.

Confidential

Senior Systems Applications Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a systems analyst on a project with a goal to convert IBM mainframe based First Notice of Loss application to a web-based First Notice of Loss application.

Confidential

Systems Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as systems analyst on projects to convert IBM mainframe based Confidential Dealer Reimbursement Program to a web-based application. The tasks performed include:
• Initiating a preliminary requirement gathering session with the business sponsor spearheading the particular project.
• Putting together requirement gleaned from the statement of work, preliminary requirement gathering session and subsequent exchanges via email, phone etc.

Confidential

Systems Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as systems analyst on projects to convert IBM mainframe based Confidential Dealer Reimbursement Program to a web-based application. The tasks performed include:
• Initiating a preliminary requirement gathering session with the business sponsor spearheading the particular project.
• Putting together requirement gleaned from the statement of work, preliminary requirement gathering session and subsequent exchanges via email, phone etc.