PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A seasoned professional able to interact with senior leaders as well as peers and possessing the ability to identify and negotiate solutions to address project challenges.
• An excellent manager able to reliably deliver systems on time, on budget and to specification.
• A resourceful organizer and expediter who have demonstrated strengths in different project management methodologies including Agile (Scrum) & Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for enterprise projects.
• Proven and substantial experience leading complex IT projects with a thorough knowledge of the IT development life cycle (SDLC) as well as infrastructure driven projects.
• Proven experience assisting enterprise IT development groups and in charge of reviewing and approving the completion of all project milestones and confirming their phase transition.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: PMI (PMBOK), Agile - SCRUM, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista, Linux, UNIX, MS Server 2000/2003 Management

Backend Development: Sybase, SQL Server, SQL*Plus, ORACLE8i, PowerBuilder Powerscript.

MS Applications: MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, VBA / VB6 / VB2005, Business

Development: Development Life Cycle (SDLC), DW Management, SAP App. Testing

Application Tools: RTC, JIRA, RALLY, HP ALM, Sharepoint 2010, MS SQL Server 2000, MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Visio, FoxPro, PowerBuilder.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Wayne PA

Senior Enterprise Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master PM responsible for facilitating and tracking the implementation software enterprise projects at the EPMO level which purpose was to implement yearly merchant pricing adjustments to Debit Cards.
• Was responsible to lead the project using SAFe /SCRUM methodology making sure to follow the Agile principles while coordinating activities such as gathering requirements through product backlog grooming sessions, release planning, iteration (sprint) planning, daily standup meetings and finally an iteration demo and retrospective.
• Responsible for managing cross-functional teams and driving team accountability for all project deliverables using RALLY to manage and track progress on all respective project user stories.
• Provided weekly status reports highlighting major accomplishments and potential risk and providing contingency plans where needed.
• Coached the development teams to make sure that they clearly understood Agile principles and made sure that they would follow the SCRUM methodology on all project deliverables.

Confidential - Irving, Texas

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the tracking of all domain (Fraud Data Mart / Sales Station) activities related to enterprise projects including data warehousing, design, development, testing and release of software requirements (user stories) as well as maintaining the product and iterative project backlogs up to date using RTC.
• Responsible for managing cross-functional teams located in Singapore and in India and driving team accountability for all project deliverables.
• Led the project teams on their daily activities while fostering the Agile/SCRUM methodology
• I led, designed and implemented several RTC/Agile lab training sessions for developers and business associates and for creating comprehensive guidelines and user documentation on how to manage project backlogs and project work-items within a SCRUM environment.
• Coordinated the implementation of an RTC clocking process and provided the training and instruction material needed by the resources that were to engage in such a process.
• As a leading expert on IBM-Rational Team Concert and all things related to AGILE/SCRUM, provided several presentations to business senior managers to show the benefits of doing things the AGILE way and the outlined RTC features that would be most useful in tracking and managing project work items.

Confidential, San Antonio

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead several LAB (Agile) projects for Credit Cards services acting in the role of a Scrum Master and helped direct and coach the development team in all aspects of SCRUM.
• In charge of procuring all aspects of project management including scope management, time and cost management, communications management, risk management, human resource management, monitoring and controlling management and procurement management.
• PM responsible for leading several large and medium size Credit Card and Consumer Lending projects and in charge of facilitating communications between offshore and onshore teams. These assigned projects commonly included tasks such as, enterprise software development, internal software upgrades & mobile customer service implementations.
• Leading and assisting LAB SCRUM activities and facilitating all pertaining project ceremonies and follow ups and being in charge of updating and maintaining the product and iteration backlogs using RTC.
• Assisting the business stakeholders and Tech Leads in updating the project tasks within RTC and keeping all relevant information up to date.

Confidential, Fortworth, Texas

Agile / Scrum - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• PM responsible for driving all the requested infrastructure projects to a complete and satisfactory conclusion within the prescribed time frames. These assigned projects commonly include tasks such as, enterprise software development, hardware installations & decommissioning, P2V migrations, DB consolidation, software upgrades & installations, server OS patching.
• Responsible for providing critical time estimates and bill of materials of all requested projects and in charge of determining the resources needed for the completion of such tasks.
• SPOC for all issues being referred to the infrastructure team and procuring all communication between various corporate and enterprise teams for the purpose of planning and forecasting infrastructure project activities.
• Principal administrator of the “Infrastructure Change Enhancement” application ensuring that all requests for infrastructure activity have been properly defined and documented.
• Responsible for providing status and activity reports of all the work impacting the infrastructure team and presenting overall statistical information to help management quantify all efforts.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Agile PM in charge of coordinating and facilitating the data-warehousing, design, development, testing and implementation of a web based marketing analysis and production operations database application under the overall supervision of the creative director (PO).
• Managed the entire software development life cycle, of an in-house client database to help designers analyze international architectural design trends and markets that would help the company save about 15% of their marketing cost. RALLY and JIRA were tools used to track the work on the project user stories,
• Ensured that goals and objectives were accomplished within prescribed time frames and within the allocated and approved budget thus helping the company achieve a 30% savings in overall software development cost.

Confidential, New Jersey

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• In charge of managing 10 high and medium complexity projects with a combined budget $4 Million dollars.
• Responsible for monitoring project progress, reviewing and identifying solutions to potential risks, issues and deliverables and managing 3rd party vendor relationships.
• Collected, validated and documented all of the stakeholder’s technical and business requirements and translated these requirements to the software development teams.
• Responsible for tracking the progress of all GBC IT projects ranging from the development of custom software to the implementation of network elements for the telecommunications industry, this was one of the company’s major areas of development at their site.
• Was the designated “Single Point of Contact” for all "Risk Management Issues" that were relevant to several major clients. This helped the company to keep an adequate check on client satisfaction for all related projects.

Confidential, Confidential, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed project plans to meet with client’s projections and goals and delivered components as needed within the required timeframes and within the specified budgets for each of the projects.
• In charged of a data consolidation project using databases from several commercial applications (MS Access, VB6, MS Excel and SQL Server 2005) into a single custom software application, this helped the company save over 25% on software royalty fees.
• Managed 4 developers and 2 systems analysts with a budget of $400,000 for the designated project.
• Implemented a data security and user files organization in MS Active Directory that helped all of the networks users to organize and access their personal and work data files.

Confidential, NY

Software Technical Director

Responsibilities:

• In charged of IT group responsible for the development of a “Student Tracking Database System” developed in Power Builder 7.0 (Data Base Tables & Indexes, MDI Frame / Data Windows) / Sybase SQL (store procedures & triggers for data validation and processing).
• Planned and directed the development and implementation of custom application software (MS Access/VBA) intended for the mathematics curriculum, this application helped students to evaluate and measure their math skills through a series of computer interactive labs and tutorials.
• Managed 7 Programmers and 1 Systems Analyst and 2 application testers with a budget of $2.5 Million for the SDLC project.