SUMMAR

• PMP® certified Project Manager
• 10+ years of successful Project Management experience in PMO environment.
• Strong expertise in full software development lifecycle, Agile, Waterfall approaches.
• Implemented Quality Assurance, Configuration Management processes following formal QA and PM methodologies.
• Effectively coordinated cross - functional/ off-shore teams.
• Excellent ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and tasks.
• Hand on experience in the area of Data Warehouse/Data Mart, ETL, RDBMS, OLAP, Client/Server environment applications on Windows and UNIX platforms.
• Proficient at utilizing project management methods (PMI and Agile methodology) and tools (MS Project, MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS SharePoint, Primavera).
• Managed large enterprise business Intelligence applications.
• Experienced using process improvement techniques (Six Sigma)
• Multilingual with fluency in English, Spanish & Hindi

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools/Methodology experience: Agile, Primavera, MS Office, MS Project, MS SharePoint, PMO integration, Managing Budgets. PMI framework such as preparing scope documents, maintaining schedules, managing and mitigating risks, implementing change management processes.

Operating Systems, Software Languages/ Technologies, Tools: Windows NT/ 2000/ XP, SQL, MS Enterprise Manager 8, SQL Navigator, Kalido, MS Access, MS Office, .Net, C/C++, JAVA, MS Project, Visio, Visual Source Safe, Webex, OVSD, Softbench, Data warehouse concepts, Data mart ETL, Metadata, Star and Snowflake Schema, Slowly Changing Dimensions, Business Process Reengineering, Dimensional Data modeling, FACT & Dimensions tables, Physical & logical data modeling, Data Mining, Oracle, DB2 UDB, SQL Server, Informatica, Data Integrator.

Domain Experience: Financial, Retail, Utilities, International development with diversified Clients.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Richmond, VA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included the development of new processes and performing configuration for availability checking, order processing, complaint tracking, text, export order handling, and sales & marketing reporting for full-cycle SAP implementation.
• Ensured on time and within budget project execution in a complex environment where major landscape changes and software upgrade was undertaken in parallel with implementation.
• Coached and displayed core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Actively reviewed and refined client’s NP&SI (New Product & Service Introduction) methodology with a sharp focus on value added activities.
• Ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Facilitated the daily scrum meetings, daily stand ups, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective.
• Worked with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Led the development off-site technical development process. Participated in identifying and mitigating project risks and issues.
• Specifically managed impact of parallel initiatives such as splitting from corporate landscape and upgrade to SAP on the project. Effectively collaborated with team executing these parallel efforts.
• Developed specialty chemical industry practice brief to help strategic discussion within the client company on definition of complex configured product and options.
• Provided overall management and guidance to the project teams. Maintained high morale on the consulting project team in spite of some logistical difficulties.
• Encouraged the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency &coordination.

Environment: Agile, SAP R/3 (Sales, Manufacturing), CRM, MS Office, MS Project, MS SharePoint

Confidential - Berlin, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implementing mission-critical technology program across different business units as part of SOX compliant norms from North American Reliability Corporation (NERC). This initiative increased the quarterly capital budget by 10%.
• Formulating effective PM strategies such as Agile/PMI methodology that helped in increasing the efficiency of Project Management Office (PMO).With same resources, the number of projects handled by PMO increased by 20%.
• Drove organizational agility through agile values, principles, and practices by working with the executive, mid-senior management, and development teams.
• Lead an enterprise objective to implement Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards with cross-functional teams. This $18 million project spanning 90 resources and 5 functional areas required that Electric Systems in North America to identify and protect Critical Cyber Assets.
• Negotiated with NERC on time/scope constraints that led to successful implementation of the project and saved $2 million for the company.
• Use of change management/process improvement techniques (Six Sigma)

Environment: PMO, Implementing NERC standard program for Critical Infrastructure projects, enterprise wide, MS Office, MS Project, MS SharePoint

Confidential - Austin, TX

Project Manager/ Operation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing, establishing, and enforcing operational process standards and measures across the DCC Data Management organization.
• Identify project risks and implement ways to mitigate those risks.
• Responsible for managing horizontal processes across GBI-DCC, and partner IT team to ensure alignment with the overall IT and Confidential Business objectives.
• Responsible for managing offshore team that helped in architecting and implementing a reliable, scalable, maintainable, modular, extensible and secure ETL software suite.
• To manage all data architecture and data sourcing strategies and engagements.
• Responsible for managing all operational processes for BI assets. Including 24x7x365 incident management, change management, escalation management and monitoring.
• Responsible for building a business intelligence platform that will empower decision makers to answer "any question, any time" without needing strong technical skills. This enterprise system will replace all legacy business intelligence applications over time and will be considered the single, global business intelligence platform for Confidential moving forward.
• Responsible for the Global Finance Portfolio which includes the delivery of global integrated business intelligence (BI) solutions and the data center consolidation for Finance. Additional responsibilities include enterprise data reference design and standards as well as SOX Compliance.
• Responsible for managing Legacy - L3 expert support to the Help desk and Delivery of FY06 “Must Do” legacy POR items are key responsibilities in the Keep the Plane Flying (KPF) and sustenance to ensure business continuity is not impacted as business capabilities are being delivered through DCC.
• Business Engagement/Program Management - Communication of BI Strategy and initiatives, BI Consulting, EDW Deployment Management of releases related to the portfolio, working closely with the Global Operations - Asset Management/Retirement teams to plan for legacy BI Asset retirement, partner with business on parallel interlocked business programs, End to end strategy development for Global Services and Supply Chain BI Portfolio, Collection of business requirements and drive BI Governance for Global Services and Supply Chain.

Environment: Agile, Global - BI delivery process in Confidential including foundational architecture mapping of all the servers/applications in DCC.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in negotiations of project definition and scope with internal and external stakeholders. Coordinate and negotiate resources and product deliverables according to business needs within the organization in order to complete project on time.
• Managing the report deliverables, project timeline and resources.
• Monitor and maintain project progress and resolve issues where necessary. Track performance of multiple projects and distributed status reports to internal and external stakeholders on regular basis.
• Supervise team of business analysts, software engineers and QA Analysts to make sure that the staff performs tasks effectively to achieve business goals and on time. Facilitate and coordinate proactive communications with project team and senior management. Lead all project team meetings and keep all team members informed regarding project status.
• Develop high level and detailed Statements of Work, Project Plans, Project Schedules, Gap Analysis Documents, Business Requirement Documents, System Requirement Documents, Project Performance & Status Reports and User Acceptance Test Documents.
• Manage the software release and implementation as well as follow through the maintenance and support phase.
• Work together with Project Managers to build the company’s PMO standards and processes.

Environment: BusinessObjects 6.x and XIR2, Crystal Reports, Informatica, Oracle 9i, Kalido.