SUMMARY

• Agile Program Manager (PMP, SA, SSM, CSM, ITIL - V3)Ph.: 7724
• Over 14 years of experience in various program management methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile-Scrum, Kanban, Hybrid and Scaled agile framework.
• Expertise in managing programs from initiation through business adoption and creating Product Roadmaps/Vision, Scoping, crafting Project plans, driving process adoption & driving execution.
• Experience in Stakeholder management, Release management, Vendor Management
• Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously, on-time and on-budget
• Experience in adapting Agile & Scaled agile framework across the programs and managing release trains
• Experience in Onsite-Offshore model of managing large IT projects
• Experience in product release planning, project budgeting and change control management
• Experience in coaching the scrum teams and mentoring the new scrum masters of the scrum practices
• Experience in defining & applying PMO Processes, methodologies, and Governance practices in the delivery of complex cross-functional technology projects.
• Skilled in Object Oriented Technologies and Relational database.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Quality Assurance
• JIRA
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Project Planning
• Requirements gathering
• Collaborative Teamwork
• RALLY
• Milestone creation
• Budgeting
• Resource planning
• Process optimization
• MSP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Billerica, MA

Agile Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple diversified projects and teams for successful delivery of value streams
• Establishing program cadence, standards and facilitating program ceremonies such as PI Planning, SOS, System demos & Inspect and Adapt sessions.
• Responsible for developing project plans and schedules to set achievable goals and expectations with all stakeholders, both internal and external
• Drive the governance & process optimization sessions across the Organization to ensure consensus on process, scope, and execution of the programs
• Working closely with Product owners and business analysts on the Product Road-map while supporting organizational goals and getting budget approvals
• Acting as “front of product” to ensure milestones and status are clearly relayed and communicated to clients and internal teams
• Responsible for managing project financials and preparing monthly financial forecasts and reconciliations against budget and responsible for all project deliverables.
• Analyzing & tracking the Critical path and mitigating the risks associated with tasks with slack
• Mentoring and coaching product owners and Scrum teams to ensure that everyone adhere to the Scaled agile framework
• Revitalizing Engineering with standardized tools and processes, and strengthening teams and raise capability
• Facilitating sprint ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, planning, grooming, reviews and retrospectives effectively & efficiently
• Providing leadership and direction to the project teams so that tasks and activities are coordinated to integrate with each other and are in congruence with the project plan and schedule
• Liaising with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis & ensuring cross-department and cross-functional group engagement and alignment.
• Coordinating project scheduling activities including identifying project task dependencies and resource requirements through Scrum of Scrums with cross teams
• Managing Scope Creep efficiently by implementing effective Change Control Process
• Tracking the program & sprint status using metrics & addressing the issue blockers
• Performing resource-leveling and schedule crashing to expedite project deliverables
• Documenting Lessons Learned and facilitating their translation into Best Practices through Inspect & Adapt sessions
• Ensuring that the project teams follow best practices which contributes to improvements in the quality of deliverables
• Maintaining project artifacts such as WBS/Project Schedule, Project/Product backlog, release backlog, Budget plan & Qualitative Risk register
• Maintaining the Project view reports & budget reports for the projects and communicating the status to the relevant stakeholders on a timely basis
• Communicating the risks identified in the project & mitigation strategies to the higher management all the time
• Facilitating Release management meetings with project stakeholders & PMO to apprise them with the project status
• Responsible for Vendor management - working with procurement, creating SOWs and approving invoices
• Coordinating with different IT departments such as GDM & GHS to make sure that projects go smoothly across different production & pre-production environments.
• Defining the post-production Support model at L1, L2 & L3 levels by following ITIL standards
• Participating in all software release and system life cycle activities in accordance with applicable policies & procedures

Confidential

Sr.Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared & maintained Release train / Product Road Map by participating in steering committee meetings
• Applied PMO Processes, Methodologies, and Governance practices in the delivery of complex cross-functional technology projects.
• Provided process leadership as the organization transitions from Waterfall to Agile
• Implemented Agile transformation & harmonization across onsite-offshore teams
• Lead the SCRUM meetings, providing guidance, direction, mentoring and guiding the onshore and offshore team members and providing statuses
• Lead and influence multiple stakeholders in order to drive execution of Product roadmap/Vision
• Defined DOD, Team principles, Agile estimation process & Defect workflow for the teams
• Maintained project artifacts such as WBS/Project Schedule, Project/Product backlog, release backlog, Budget plan & Qualitative Risk register.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to collect the appropriate business requirements in line with the organizational goals
• Participating in Business Process Reengineering, planning the Release schedule, milestones & resources
• Participated in defining and validating project scope by conducting needs analysis and by identifying project priorities
• Worked with management to remove identified impediments and minimize distractions to support the development team’s sprint goals

Confidential, CA

Project Associate

Responsibilities:

• Involved in system analysis, design and development of web applications using Java/J2EE technologies
• Helped the team in prioritizing the latest set of technical issues
• Assisted the team in identifying the root cause of several technical issues
• Coordinated with different departments in IT to make sure that projects ran smoothly across the Software Development Life Cycle
• Coordinated project scheduling activities including identifying project task dependencies and resource requirements
• Created design documents in Microsoft Visio for the whole project and for each and individual process involved in it
• Used stored procedures, triggers and created prepared statements for business layer to manipulate application data store in Oracle server.
• Single point of contact for all counties in California for maintaining the web applications

Confidential

Database developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Developed Data model using Oracle for the system which supports all the inventory transactions for all branches throughout India.
• Involved in creating and testing a database that allow administrators to query their inventory records using Toad.
• Gathered requirements from the clients and involved in system analysis, design and development and testing.
• Written functional and design specifications including UML diagrams (Use Case, Sequence, and Class diagrams)
• Created Databases, tables, table spaces, indexes, FKs, sequences and triggers.
• Developed and maintained oracle procedures using PL/SQL .
• Worked on oracle packages, procedures, triggers and functions that utilize web focus reports and meet BI requirements
• Performed query tuning, index building and gather statistics.