SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of Global IT Experience Confidential India and USA with rich experience in Project Management and Business System Analysis in Development and Maintenance Projects
• Strong background and experience in managing Application Development projects with supporting methodologies like Waterfall & Agile
• Extensive experience in leading & managing a team of 15+ resources, in an onsite - offshore model
• Proficient in all the Knowledge areas and Processes of Project Management Methodology.
• Effective Interpersonal and Communication skills in extracting business requirements internally and on the field throughout project life cycle.
• Experience in setting, adapting, and implementing CMMi Level 5 and Six Sigma quality processes in the project.
• Expert in tracing requirements throughout the development process and verifying adherence through Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Working Knowledge of project management tools leading to approaches, methodologies and processes that help implements the Change Management, Content Management and Configuration Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Scrum, Waterfall

Supporting Languages: SQL, IBM iSeries, COGNOS reporting

RDBMS: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server

Modeling Tools: MS Visio

PM/Process Tools: Rally, MS Project 2010, CA Clarity, Sharepoint

Testing Tools: Quality Center 9.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• End to end delivery of project as per agile SCRUM framework.
• Work with Product Owner and team to prioritize the product backlog and sprint backlog
• Facilitate Scrum for both onsite and offshore Scrum teams
• Facilitate sprint planning/grooming, sprint review and retrospective
• Performs hands-on reviews of product backlog, test plans, and results as needed in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues.
• Publicize the team’s progress and success by making presentations to the stakeholders, to make sure they are visible to product owner/stakeholders.
• Keep the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Environment: Service Now, Rally, Clarity, MS Visio

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the entire project cycle
• Primary customer contact during project implementation
• Strong ability to manage cross-functional teams across various phases of project lifecyle
• Responsible for development and execution of project plan and related tasks
• Responsible for
• Issue and escalation management
• Project resource procurement and management
• Formal risk assessments and mitigations
• Change Management
• Responsible to deliver project on time, within scope and high quality
• Work directly with the business partners to understand the project concept, objectives and approach, project scope and the business needs
• Review and analyze the product backlogs and work with the business partners to get the sign-off for the product backlog
• Provide and explain the requirements to the technical team and coordinates the development of all approved versions of business and functional specifications for specified applications.
• Conduct project meetings
• Daily standup meeting with project team(s) regularly to review the sprint progress and impediments
• Sprint review meeting with business partners for reviewing the and final products
• Responsible for developing and reporting metrics for development, test execution, bugs, issues and risks.

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Environment: Java/J2EE, JBoss, SEAM, JSF, Struts, PL/SQL, SQR, Oracle 11g

Responsibilities:

• End to end delivery of project as per agile SCRUM framework.
• Work with Product Owner and team to prioritize the product backlog and sprint backlog
• Facilitate Scrum for offshore Scrum teams
• Facilitate sprint planning/grooming, sprint review and retrospective
• Performs hands-on reviews of product backlog, designs, code, test scripts, and results as needed in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues.
• Publicize the team’s progress and success by making presentations to the stakeholders, to make sure they are visible to product owner/stakeholders.
• Keep the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.
• Coordinate with different user groups to get the requirement and train them before the release.
• Review Business Requirements, Design documents and test plans for all assigned releases.
• Monitor and Maintain quality and compliance targets for the deliverable. Ensure that the project scope and approach are fully understood by project team members and all other stakeholders.
• Track and manage project activities/effort/cost actuals against baselines
• Estimate project effort with SME, developing detailed project plans and author SOWs
• Provide day to day direction to the project team and interact regularly with customer for project status reporting
• Identify, track and manage intra project & external dependencies
• Process management and periodical health check-ups of project as a part of internal audit
• Manage project financials, billing, invoicing and resource/capacity planning, reporting, tracking and delivery
• Artifact Reviews - Project Charter, Requirements Report, Test Plans, Test Scripts & Implementation plan
• Ensure all project documentation is complete, properly signed-off and uploaded on SDLC Project SharePoint for central access and audit
• Proactively anticipate project risks and issue and ensure adequate mitigation plan is put in place to ensure delivery is not compromised.
• Managed the team size of 15+ resources, mix of onshore and offshore and responsible for establishing an effective communication plan with the project team and the customer.

Confidential

Environment: Rational Rose, Java/ J2EE, Webservices, Oracle9i, WAS5.X

Responsibilities:

• Author the annual contract and SOW for the projects and getting the final signoff from customer.
• Provide day to day direction to the project team and interact regularly with the project managers, delivery manager and customer for project status reporting.
• Manage application development of multiple medium size projects simultaneously assuming accountability for purchasing, tracking finances and interacting with internal teams and external vendors for successful completion of projects.
• Process and Metrics management, cost and budget financials, and periodical health check-ups of project as a part of internal audit.
• Perform financial tracking and business analysis reports for management by building dashboards.
• Manage change by tracking projects effectively and engaging Stake holders in the change process.
• Supervise project managers, obtain status updates and take appropriate actions to influence project execution and ensure timely delivery.
• Expertise in managing teams and Stakeholders and partnering with resources for successful and timely delivery of projects.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills. Handled presentations to stakeholders Confidential all levels in the hierarchy from VP, Director to clients and staff, covering all ends of the spectrum.
• Manage client relationship w.r.t engagement, feedback, resourcing and point of escalation.

Confidential

Project /Technical Lead

Environment: IBM iSeries, MPP, Microsoft Visio

Responsibilities:

• Allocate tasks/assignments to the team members in a methodical & systematic manner, thus enabling balanced work-load distribution & completion without any impacts to timelines.
• Coordinate with the onsite team to gather accurate requirements, work with development team to analyze the requirement, create design deliverables, and align the design with development activities.
• Ensuring the quality processes as per CMMI and Quality Management System
• Participate in critical project meetings to provide status updates & also get updates from other teams.
• Design solution by re-using components, thus saving cost & time.
• Review the project artifacts and deliverables.
• Participate in Rollout activities like creation of Implementation plan which team can follow during rollout, helping team plan an appropriate date for rollout etc.
• Other responsibilities include keeping track of estimates, tasks/schedule/timelines & sending weekly status to Team.
• Responsible for building team, for ex. in case of attrition - built new teams twice with fresh graduates.
• Guiding, Motivating and assisting team members.

Confidential

Quality Analyst/COGNOS Programmer Analyst

Environment: Sterling Commerce Yantra, COGNOS Reports

Responsibilities:

• Worked as QA for testing enhancements on YANTRA application.
• Responsible for developing reports in COGNOS tool.
• Complete ownership of the deliverables which are shared with Customer.