SUMMARY:

• Managed multiple complex projects aggregating to around 1 million yearly budget with the total head count of 25+ and was responsible for the overall delivery of the projects.
• Experienced at Waterfall and SCRUM/Agile project methodologies.
• 5 years of experience working as a Scrum Master
• Managed projects in various domains and have expertise in Retail, Publishing, eLearning, eCommerce and Social media/networking domains.
• Experience working on Retail B2B products and processing electronic data (PO, Shipment, Invoice, etc…) in EDI, RosettaNet and EDIFACT document standards.
• Have experience integrating web application with CMS (Content Management System) - Alfresco.
• Worked with distributed and offshore teams.
• Experience in mobility (mobile, smart phones and tablet) friendly web sites.
• DAM (Digital Asset Management) through a third party service- Cloudinary.
• Experience with projects on SaaS and API management.
• Implemented UI and usability (UX) concepts in the project websites.
• Effectively used project management process groups- Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring /Controlling and Closing.
• Effective usage of best practices from PMI on project management processes in requirement gathering/understanding, WBS, estimations, planning processes, resourcing, milestone reviews, quality metrics and others.
• Effective risk identification, management, mitigation planning and controlling.
• Monitored change control and effectively managed change requests in the project life cycle and communicating its impact to executive management and key stakeholders.
• Sharing up to date project plans and project status reporting with quantitative data to key project stakeholders.
• Demo/presentations to clients and end customers.
• Mentored the project leads in their business communication and leadership skills so that they achieve their best and live up to their potential professionally.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools: MS-Project, Jira, Version One, Rally

Project Management Methodologies: Waterfall, SCRUM methodologies.

Domain: Retail, e-commerce, Media & Entertainment, SCM,, B2B (EDI, EDIFACT, RosettaNet)

Java Technologies: J2SDK 1.5, Core Java

J2EE Technologies: JSP, Servlets

XML Technologies: XML, XSL, XSLT, Xpath, XML-DTD

Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript

Web Servers: Tomcat

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, Mongo

OS: Unix/Linux 7.1, Windows-9x/NT/2000/2003, MS Dos

Shell Scripting: Under Linux 7.1 / Unix.

XML tools: XML Spy

Source Control: SVN, VSS, GIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Currently working as a Project Manager and managing the team size of 25+
• Requirements gathering, understanding, requirements tracking, change management, monitoring, risk identification, risk management, business opportunities.
• Understood requirements and helped customers with usability and finalizing product features.
• Managed digital projects, websites compatible on web, tablet and mobiles.
• Worked on the enhancements for World Books eCommerce project with setting up the site on Joomla platform and major enhancement being integration with a new payment gateway- Authorize.Net.
• Used Google Analytics to generate a statistical report and helped client fine tune the requirements based on this quantitative data.
• Part of UAT testing and acceptance phase for desktop and tablet friendly sites for all new products.
• Working with distributed teams. Coordinating with onsite and offshore teams.
• Used Jira tool effectively to plan, execute, monitor and close the iterations
• Using SCRUM methodology
• Daily interactions with offshore team and syncing up with onsite development and product management teams.
• Setting the expectations on product backlog and controlling change requests
• Monitoring and alerting all client stakeholders with risks and open dependencies which could potentially impact schedule and cost of the project.
• Product demos to executive and product management teams
• Risk analysis and management. Monitoring risks periodically and updating the Risk log.

Confidential - Austin, TX

Development, Design and later to Management

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Developer, Lead and then Business Analyst/Project Manager over the span of 8 year engagement with client.
• Performed the role of a SCRUM master
• Business analysis of the requirements, EDI/EDIFACT mapping, translation, maps and validation of business documents.
• Have performed the role of an SME for B2B, retail domain. Guided the leads and the team in clarifying the business and domain related queries
• Support to customers to help gauge their business data, suggest data corrections and metrics/reports of their business data.
• Project planning, execution and tracking s to end customers (clients) for this product- IBM and Dell
• Risk analysis and management. Monitoring risks periodically and updating the Risk log.
• Maintaining/monitoring SLA defined by client for customer services team
• Demo to clients
• Mentored the leads in leading and customer facing activities

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Currently working as a Project Manager and managing the team size of 10
• Project planning, execution and monitoring. This is in SCRUM methodology
• Helped the team in understanding SCRUM activities monitored the processes
• Used Version One tool effectively to plan, execute, monitor and close the iterations
• Daily interactions (scrum call) with client on behalf of Cybage team to discuss on daily updates and impediments
• Resource management- Staffing and risk mitigations towards attrition
• Risk analysis and management. Monitoring risks periodically and updating the Risk log.

Confidential - MN

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Currently working as a Project Manager and managing the team size of 5
• Project tracking and monitoring. This team is part of a SCRUM team at client’s place
• Used Version One tool effectively to monitor and control the iteration tasks
• Resource management- Staffing and risk mitigations towards attrition
• Risk analysis and management. Monitoring risks periodically and updating the Risk log.
• Mentored the leads in leading and customer facing activities

Confidential- MN

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Currently working as a Project Manager and managing the team size of 5
• Project tracking and monitoring. This team is part of a SCRUM team at client’s place
• Helped the team in understanding SCRUM activities monitored the processes
• Resource management- Staffing and risk mitigations towards attrition
• Risk analysis and management. Monitoring risks periodically and updating the Risk log.
• Mentored the leads in leading and customer facing activities

Confidential - SFO

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Project Manager and managing the team size of 6
• Requirements gathering/understanding, Project tracking and monitoring
• Risk analysis and management. Monitoring risks periodically and updating the Risk log.
• Mentored the leads in leading and customer facing activities

Confidential - NY

Management

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Project Manager and managed the team with the team size of 5
• Have been part of all phases of SDLC- Project initiation, planning, execution, tracking/monitoring and project closure.
• Requirement gathering and understanding along with the project lead. Sign off process with client on requirement understanding and scope documents.
• Mentored the leads in leading and customer facing activities. Had also communicated with Indonesia telecom service providers during development and UAT.
• Risk analysis and management. Monitoring risks periodically and updating the Risk log.