SUMMARY:

• A self - motivated, decisive and energetic professional with fifteen plus years of IT experience, complimented with proven track record of successfully delivered information technology projects/programs.
• Successfully led high-quality Project Life Cycle (PLC) and Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) deliverables to exploit business opportunity, process improvements and bottom-line gains.
• Delivered complex information technology applications, product development and deployments
• Led all aspects of cost and people management - estimating, funding, budgeting, forecasting, controlling, and reporting and mentoring.
• Managed all phases of diverse software development projects/programs following industry recognized project management methodologies - including agile (scrum), PMI and Rapid Application development.
• Diverse client experience, led multisite, cross geographical teams to deliver concurrent Projects for top industry sector leaders in Banking, Retail, Pharmaceuticals and Health Insurance and Telecomm.
• Experience in enterprise IT project management of including - application development and deployment of n-tier applications architecture including B2B, ecommerce, cloud / web based and mobile applications.
• Extensive Java/J2EE experience and also well versed with Microsoft .NET technologies with emphasis on performance, scalability, security and cloud computing with “can-do-attitude” as a solution finder.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Mgmt. Software: Rally, Clarity PPM, Planisware 5, MS Office (excellent in Project, Excel, PowerPoint and VISIO), Open Workbench, MS - Project and SharePoint servers. JIRA, Asana, WBSTool8

Enterprise IT Architecture skills: Process and information analysis, Dependency analysis, Application Impact Analysis, Application Portfolio Analysis

Enterprise Technology skills: Programming Languages J2EE, C, PL/SQL, VBasic, HTML, XML, and COBOL

Databases and ERPs: Oracle/MS - SQL/Server, IBM DB, PeopleSoft and SAP

Applications (n-tier): Cloud based, Enterprise, Distributed, Mobile

IT Security: Logical and Physical - Identity and Access management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fremont City

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Multiple end-to-end projects management for new features, POCs, technology / vendor partnership and deliverables are with National Security Agency and State Governments.
• Inception to now in-flight projects with two International Governments, started with RFI and wining RFP.
• New processes - setting up agile methodology process and culture to follow it.
• Unearthed “must and to be met customer needs” by evaluating vendors and value/risk/fit assessments for in-fight projects to help teams make smarter and faster decisions.

Confidential, Foster City

Project / Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned, published and executed integrated schedules including internal cross functional (Architecture, Development, QA, Delivery and Ops) teams, external stakeholders and third party vendor teams, and worked out deliverables accordingly.
• Delivered multi-year User Access Management compliance execution roadmap planning, new functionality development, testing and production implementations using agile (JIRA).
• Accountable for conceiving and building data-pipeline development for compliance systems data routed to OIM and UAR (User Access Revalidation) portal for better user experience and compliance risk mitigation.

Confidential, Santa Clara

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects / IT solutions implementations at multiple clients using agile.
• Created enterprise level information systems business cases to mobilize projects and resources, along with managing and mentoring clients’ managers, IT DevOps and third party vendor resources .
• Designed and managed information systems compliance program for a $5B Company CISO with 20 plus projects in multi-quarters / year roadmap with scrums and weekly executive reporting meetings.
• Worked with largest financial broker and two of largest national e/ retailers to implement information systems projects from assessments to strategies to roadmaps to solutions and to implementation
• Responsible for end-to-end deliverables, P&L and risks associated in all phases of solutions.
• Build and initialized projects for execution of multi-year transformation strategy with “target operating model” programs on top of assessments conducted.

Confidential, Pleasanton

Technical Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Mobile Apps digital strategy applications for a user base of 9 million plus.
• Managed multiple development teams using agile / scrum to deliver (kp.org - iOS and Android) mobile applications for accelerating customer engagement.
• Complete responsibility for setting up Agile/SCRUM methodology right from hiring / onboarding team members to planning / managing scrum ceremonies to release management and in-between.
• Document and present weekly stakeholders reports, develop functional and system specifications with product managers, drive design decisions, and manage execution of testing plans.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed mobile applications development projects with approx. cost of $8M, using agile (scrum) / JIRA / confluence wiki - methodology for mobile platform, Android Phone / Tablet and iPhone applications development.
• Delivered integrated schedules including internal cross functional (Architecture, Development, Delivery, and QA) teams, external stakeholders and their cross functional and third party vendor teams.
• Created and implemented a simple yet impactful tool to track inter projects and inter sprints dependencies.
• Working with primary stakeholders from almost 15 plus teams - including internal business, Product Managers, IT DevOps, infrastructure, security, compliance (PCI-DSS and PII), marketing, openAPI, IT service delivery etc. and external teams like Akamai, IBM, Global Logic, Splunk.
• Delivering program level reporting, weekly status, issues, risk assessment and mitigation reports, tracking and closure of artifacts of at least 10 plus (including 4 Mobile Applications Software Development ) tracks.
• Managing non-functional requirements like managed services, code security and compliance, infrastructure set up, platform architecture technology artifacts like caching, logging, frameworks docs and implementation.

Confidential, San Jose

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established a Scrum project management process and coached DevOps to Agile S/W development techniques.
• Prioritized product feature set backlogs with product managers - plan estimates and acceptance criteria as well as task identification and estimation for bi-weekly sprints and progress reports to clients executives.
• Worked as Technical Project Manager, product planner and Business systems analyst for projects assigned.
• Prepared and implemented risk response planning and mitigation strategies for PMO projects.
• Effectively filled technology know-how gaps between customers, stakeholders, technology groups and vendors.
• Responsible for people management - involved in hiring decisions, finalizing appraisals and development plans for two Project Managers and four Technical leads.

Confidential, South San Francisco

Business Solutions Manager (Project Manager)

Responsibilities:

• Successfully coordinated with cross functional and cross geographical teams of business managers, technical architects, partnering technology groups like operations to deliver business aligned, better, smarter and faster technical solutions.
• As a member of IT Security Architecture Board, delivered technical strategy and roadmap paper’s on Identity governance and compliance topics.
• Change management - delivered and executed - plans for integration of Confidential IT Security applications into Roche program mgmt.
• Independently led, drafted and created Software Processes Improvement (SPI) guidelines for IT security team improving program budget utilization by 8-10% and time management by 13-15% of following projects.
• Hired, created goals, development plans and mentoring schedules for reporting team - 3 FTE’s and 6 consultants.
• Evaluated existing projects against new projects and managed IT ESA projects dynamic pipeline in which projects are constantly added, closed out, and rescoped, from a magnitude of 0.5 to 3.0 million USD.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered from cross functional teams near precise estimates, analyzed accurately measured team-interdependent progress, and presented overall project(s) health to investors and portfolio steering committee.
• Developed performance plans and tactical (design, build, test, deploy, support and close) strategies.
• Coordinated with offsite five members GE executive team and managed more than fifteen members offshore team comprising of software and QA engineers, and led them to deliver two SaaS based products .

Confidential

Software engineer / technical lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed technical requirement analysis, architecting, designing, coding, and testing of Java/J2EE applications.
• Formulated standards for conducting architecture, code and quality reviews and Led software dev teams.