SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of professional experience in areas of Project Management and Business analysis. Industries exposed to include: Construction, Energy sector, Wi Fi Technology and electric utilities.
• A result oriented professional with 10 years of experience in project management and Business analysis of various applications (Order Management, Vendor Management and Inventory Management) within Construction, Energy and electric utilities industry
• Knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment
• Expert at grasping the business operations and acting as a liaison between business and technical teams, Stakeholders, Designers, Marketing team, Subject matter Experts, and End users
• Proficient in all phases of SDLC with extensive knowledge in Waterfall, RUP, Agile, scrum methodologies of project development
• Proficient in authoring Project plan, Project scope document detailed Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD) and maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Competent in analyzing and creating activity diagrams, Process flow diagram, using MS Visio
• Well versed in Gap Analysis, Risk Analysis and Change management
• Hands on experience in MS Project and JIRA
• Excellent in organizing Joint Application Developments (JAD), interviews, workshops and requirement elicitation sessions with end user/clients/stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts and technology group
• Experience in conducting small and large group presentation and review meetings. Have proven to be highly effective in interacting across business and technical groups

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: JIRA, MS Excel, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS OfficeMS Word and PowerPoint, Pencil Project, Simple DiagramsRational Requisite Pro, SAP FICO, Open Proj

Methodology: Scrum, Agile, RUP, Waterfall, Business Modeling

Database: UX Design, SQL

Design Tools: AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Mentored the team on Agile processes and demonstrated the value
• Created actions items that area flexible in the tasks the team performed in an Agile environment.
• Understood and articulated business requirements from stakeholders using interviews, JAD sessions, brainstorming sessions and focus groups
• Authored Business Requirement Document and Functional Specification Document
• Coordinated with Project manager in providing full life cycle project schedule by identifying tasks, assigning roles and responsibilities, managing dependencies and maintaining Project schedule.
• Conducted weekly review meetings and presented the project dashboard to all stakeholders.
• Performed GAP analysis of existing system and presented product strategy
• Attended change request meetings to document changes and implement procedures to changes upon completion

Environment: MS Visio, MS Office, MS Project, MS SharePoint, Impact Matrix, Pencil project

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Implementation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Helped the team develop practices that support Agile principles and documented the same.
• Responsible for holding the project kickoff meetings and also for scheduling and facilitating other project meetings as needed.
• Monitored the team to ensure Agile process is being followed on the client side, and not only within the development team
• Developed project charters, change requests, work breakdown structure (WBS) and lessons learned reports
• Involved in Project scope management activities, planning, scheduling and risk analysis of projects
• Gathered requirements from SME’s using structured interview, facilitated group discussion and workshops and led the design and development teams
• Understood and articulated business requirements from user interviews and then converted requirements into technical specifications in the form of technical specifications document
• Conducted walkthroughs, project reviews meetings and daily scrums
• Involved in all phases of Project Development Life Cycle like user requirement analysis, design, development, implementation, conversion and upgrade and support of an application in SDLC methodologies
• Created various data flow diagram through MS Visio to represent multiple types of current analysis
• Worked in all sprints of the projects in SCRUM
• Organized and facilitated workshops and review meetings with Vendors and internal teams
• Delivered the artifacts within the stipulated time lines and excelled in quality of deliverables
• Present new functionality changes to management and team

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, MS SharePoint, JIRA, SAP FICO, Simple Diagram, Rational Requisite Pro

Confidential, Berkeley, CA

Research Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with SME’s and Stakeholders to get better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements
• Prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD) along with Impact analysis
• Individual contributor for hard data collection for various designs and details
• Prepared project organization and communication charts
• Gathered Business requirements and analyzed data/workflows and presented the same to management
• Prepared Project plan, Project Scope, Project Schedule, Project Time lines, Status reporting, Change Management and Resource Allocation
• Used a matrix structure to administer projects
• Worked extensively on checklists, risk registers and impact analysis to ensure smooth operations

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, Pencil Project

Confidential

Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for receiving sign - off’s and managing the scope, requirements and requested changes
• Presenting deliverables to sponsors and senior management while providing training to use the new systems and tools
• Develop new portfolio management strategies to maximize investments.
• Played a central role in operations/business change readiness for the aligned initiative
• Provided direction and leadership and served as resource to staff on all project tasks
• Reported to Director the data on project performance - proactive issue/risk management and report status dashboards - on time and budget
• Adhered to project lifecycle - process, tools and guidance
• Participated in team building to establish a PMO culture of excellence with industry best practices
• Actively contributed to PMO Roadmap discussions, took ownership of deliverables towards the overall PMO objectives
• Discussion with clients about present reporting system and understand thei current reporting issues to meet their needs

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, MS Share point, JIRA, Pencil Project

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted weekly/monthly reviews with Project Managers for project performance within portfolio (schedule, budget, resource)
• Lead onsite and off shore teams in UAE, Muscat, Germany and Canada
• Conducted regular meetings to review project activities, consultant performance and management strategies.
• Helped resolve issues and managed Change Requests, tracks action items, managed budget, schedule, scope, risks and quality
• Coordinated with higher management and stakeholders on project activities and project status
• Track and monitor the execution of whole project and generate status report
• Responsible for planning, scheduling and preparing SOW and documents for bidding purpose
• Developed Project Charter which defined the scope and responsibilities in a project
• Led the offshore design and development teams and provided constant updates to Business stakeholders.
• Functioned as Scrum master for daily scrum meetings.

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, Powerpoint

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated requirement-elicitation sessions (JAD sessions) with Subject Matter Experts and other Key Users and documented the requirements
• Elicited functional specifications, system requirements, conducted feasibility analysis and performed current state and future state analysis.
• Created UML Activity Diagrams to depict business processes (AS-IS and TO-BE) and analyzed them for their efficiency and productivity.
• Elicited Business Rules and other Non-functional specifications for the new system.
• Kept track of all wireless installation service work performed by field engineers.

Environment: MS Office, MS Project, Powerpoint

Confidential

Project Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Project Manager in preparing Project Scope documents, budget and project schedule.
• Gathered requirements from SMEs using structured interview, facilitated group discussions, workshops.
• Understood and articulated business requirements from user interviews and then converted requirements into technical specifications in the form of a Functional Specifications Document.
• Assisted stakeholders in evaluation of building design that adapts to the needs of occupants to make necessary improvements
• Attend Progress Meetings and record meeting minutes
• Obtain and review sub-contractor estimates and material submittals
• Prepared project organization and communication charts

Environment: MS Office, Powerpoint, OpenProj

Confidential

Intern

Responsibilities:

• Review field inspection reports from Consultants throughout the lifecycle of the project
• Assisted senior architects in preparation of desig and detailed construction drawings, 2D and 3D drawings
• Developed specifications from master specifications
• Prepared presentation drawings using powerpoint
• Preparation of the quality checklists for the inspectors who are working in the field according to quality standards approved for acceptance of products from vendors

Environment: MS Office, Open Proj, PowerPoint