SUMMARY:

• Senior Program Manager with record of successfully delivering complex operational/strategic technology solutions.
• Experience in operations and project management with diverse financial services organizations.
• Recognized for leadership and ability to build strong client relationships. Hand - picked by executive team to turn around underperforming programs; accomplished leader known and respected for leading successful change in projects and building credibility with executive teams and staff.
• Over 18 years’ Technical & Functional experience spanning across Product Management & Strategy, Business planning and development, Project management, Consulting, Business Development, Program Management, Client Relationship, Account Management, Proposal planning and preparation, Budget Formulation for diverse Industries, including E-commerce and high-tech Environments.
• Demonstrates an understanding of customer’s tactical goals and effectively participates in the development and implementation of business solutions.
• Lead development groups of to 50 personnel with project values of 3-5 Million.
• Solid in project management essentials of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing as well as processes, methodologies, tools, scope of management, budgeting, financial tracking, scheduling, resource management, solution identification and assessment, vendor selection, procurement, contract negotiations, and business case creation. Proficient in Waterfall, Agile, PMBOK, Test-Driven Design, and Lean Six Sigma project management methodologies.
• Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work. Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Designed., developed and maintained JAVA / J2EE Enterprise applications. Experienced in Core JAVA, JSP, Servlets, EJB (Session and Message Driven Beans), JMS, JDBC, JAVA Mail, XML and XSLT technologies, Frameworks like STRUT, Hibernate and using JAVA Design Patterns.
• Engage and handle critical cross functional groups in projects with a singular focus on meeting deliverables and timelines. Maintained excellent working relationships across all levels of management
• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented software engineering methodologies, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, UML, Use-Case-driven development, the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGES: ASP.NET, J2EE, Java, Struts, spring, iBatis, Hibernate, JBPM5.0, BPM, PEGA, JSP, XML, JDBC, JavaScript, Vignette 6.0, Tcl/TK, VISUAL C++ 5.0, Visual Basic

DATA BASE: Dataware house, etl, axiom, PeopleSoft, Oracle 11 G, Sybase, MS SQL Server6.0, Sybase

O/S: Mac OSX, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Sun Solaris, HP-UX

SOFTWARE: MS Project, MS Word, SharePoint, SOA, Web Services, Java Message Server (JMS), TIBCO, COM, RAS, SAAS, MS Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Visual Source Safe.

Analysis & Design: OO Analysis & Design (OOPS, OOAD ), Database Design, UML

MOBILE: Apple IPhone Web Apps, Windows Mobile, Sony MyLo, Nokia.

TOOLS: Eclipse, SVN, CVS, Clearcase, Clarity, HP Tools, Sitecatelyst, InSight, ER Diagram.

AGILE Tool: JIRA, MS Team Foundation server(TFS)

OTHERS: VISUAL STUDIO 2012, MVC, SCRUM, KANBAN, WINDOWS SERVER 2012, WEBLOGIC 10.X SERVER, JBOSS, SALESFORCE.COM, WEBSPHERE, TOMCAT, ETL, VIGNETTE, IPLANET SERVER, APACHE WEB.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Delaware

Sr manager

Responsibilities:

• Manages multiple Credit Cards projects with a high level of complexity such as cross-department stakeholders, cross-division division stakeholders, or more than one geographic location.
• Ensures that the Enterprise BI Solution and Data Warehouse project is delivered on time, within budget, and to customer specifications.
• Meets with stakeholders to establish goals, priorities, major work schedules.
• Tracks and reports status of projects, including timelines, schedules, risks and resources.
• Facilitates the resolution of complex problems, by meeting with stakeholders, vendors, and technical staff to identify problems and potential solutions; revises project plans to reflect changes
• Coached and mentored teams on Scrum methodologies and XP engineering practices like TDD, CI.
• Managed quality objectives, regulatory requirements, schedules, and program risks and made decisions based on business objectives also involved in Develops cost and budget analysis.
• Cross-functional project execution leadership including (but not limited to) concept discussion, program execution, pilot trials, and product field delivery.

program manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing the multiple financial digital applications from inception through to implementation.
• Managed "Cash Processing" program with broad responsibilities of such as: maintaining budget providing exceptional team leadership; establishing infrastructure and project processes; status reporting and SDLC compliance; monthly reviews with Senior Management and communications with other stakeholders.
• Organized and facilitated Sprint planning, daily Scrum meeting, Retrospective, release planning a, demos and other related meeting and also help team in fulfilling their appropriate commitment through story selects, task definition. Implemented Agile development methodology using Scrum and Kanban/Continuous Flow.
• Worked with business resources to identify detailed business requirements to support M&T Salesforce.com implementation within the scope of prioritized initiatives on budget, on time with high quality deliverables.
• Lead team of analysts to manage credit risk of balance build programs for existing credit card customers such as balance transfer and payment deferral/skip.
• Directed all services, resources, and project plans for major scalable enterprise solutions supporting $2-million with unique ability to drive transformational change in both business and technology leadership roles.
• Technically manage and co-ordinate with a large size team (20+ resources) with multiple applications across technologies like Java, J2EE, Dot Net, Oracle, PL/SQL, Pega.
• Managed iCloud based projects on agile and scrum for esteemed clients around US. SAAS, PAAS & IAAS based cloud models, Virtualization of Servers and compute storage. Using enterprise architecture for various clients.

Technical Program Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Participated design and management team with proficiency in latest .Net technology including J2EE, AJAX, Java Script, JSON, XML, SQL server, MS BI etc. for the Court applications.
• Managed the Application on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 (TFS) using agile development practices, multiple IDEs and platforms locally or in the iCloud to effectively manage projects.
• Manage Scrum related activities, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospective, and client demos. Ensure all scrum activities are tracked, and kept up-to-date, and reported daily.
• Determine project scope, budget, contingency plan, timeframe, expectations and in corporate responsibilities, goals and organizational objectives into cohesive project plans to best document milestones and monitor overall progress toward deadlines and goal attainment.
• Managed projects to ensure that deliverables are met within schedule, budget, & quality. Demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between IT, Business Users, & Senior Management.
• Assisted in deployment of Lean Six Sigma program including kaizen events, employee training etc.

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed applications in different digital platform - Web Apps, Mobile web-m.com, Tablet web - T.com, IOS and Android Native APPs, In store Windows APPs.
• Managed the Development e-commerce web site, where users can search and buy historical condominium sales information as ASP.NET (C#, VB.NET) web application with SQL Server 2000 back-end.
• Work with program management and product owners to ensure product backlogs are well-groomed, prioritized and visible to all stakeholders
• Manage project risks, dependencies and issues and drive to resolutions
• Managed mobile projects - Digital Display, Greetings, Campaigns, Offers, Loyalty using Scrum and Kanban.
• Coordinated Agile board, scrums, technical meetings between customer and internal technical teams resulted in controlled scope, and on-time deliverable with high quality.
• Manage the Implementation of Salesforce.com CRM solutions for Kohls.com.
• Working closely with other customer touch points - Web, Kiosk and POS. Collaborates well with Business Analyst and Product Managers to define the requirements for new development projects.
• Partnered with customer to streamline processes improved requirements review, testing and deployments.

agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintain System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documents to effectively communicate and delegate responsibilities and expectations to maintain cohesion and sustained organizational performance throughout duration of digital projects.
• Managing projects within a credit risk portfolio and ensuring a focus on delivering and credit risk enhanced strategic objectives and benefit to the business.
• Played a key role in formulating the Smart Card EMV strategy, and in vendor evaluation and due diligence.
• As a Project Manager activity included issues tracking & resolution, defining scope of enhancements, budget, and managing risks; authoring detailed business/system requirements, functional and technical specifications.
• Created custom reports and management dashboards to display pipeline and sales milestone data.
• Actively participate in the Business Requirement Review meetings, Design and Test Review meetings.
• Ensure deadline attainment, cost commitment, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and budget adherence by managing vendors and external entities. Overseeing resource allocation, completion of deliverables, and billing throughout execution and completion of tasks.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project Planning, check lists, integration plans, Daily Stand up meeting / schedules and provide technical leadership in scoping, designing and solutions delivery for 2-million-dollar budgeted project.
• Managed development of new functionalities such as Anti-Money Laundering / Fraud Detection system for Mutual Fund Complexes.
• Involved Design RTS Architecture Blue Print, MQ Process, ORACLE RAC cluster based environment, design for High Availability events by having multiple Data Centers and clusters environment, setup of Firewall for RTS Application & design discussion for DR environment setup. Used lean and six sigma principles and strong customer focus, designed the manufacturing operation, capturing possible error and quality assurance lab.
• Involved in the implement discussion for Firco Suite application for the Scanning file and alert generation.

Technical Lead/PM

Responsibilities:

• Initiated and directed cross-functional communications to coordinate and manage multifaceted project activities among project management teams, business analysts, developers, QA testers, and business partners in various regions within the US and India.
• Assist an organization in learning the agile process and implementing agile within their corporate software environment. Used Agile scrum methodologies for managing multiple iterations.
• Works closely with Program Sponsor and Change Mgmt. leads to ensure program objectives, milestones and deliverables are documented and followed Managed up to five concurrent HR Intranet projects and a total of 40 global, virtual Web Developers, including coders, content producers, programmers, usability experts.
• Created budgets and project plans, including Work Breakdown Structures, executed resource allocation and risk analysis and developed functional and technical specifications and business requirements for multi-year, multimillion dollar projects.
• Led initiatives for business cases of more than 50 projects within 25 programs ranging from manufacturing, IT services, to wireless strategy.
• Managed Project for HCM 8.0 to 9.0 MP7 upgrade for several applications for HR, Payroll, and Time & Labor.