SUMMARY:

• Self - driven and motivated Agile Project Manager with expertise in leading diverse Agile based projects and cross-functional teams for Fortune 500 companies & clients. Experienced in product/customized application development with strong technology background and core competency in managing end to end project delivery lifecycle.
• Experienced in managing projects end to end from inception to site handover, encompassing planning, design, estimation, scoping, goals
• Delivery Management experience with clients like Oracle, Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Safe-Guard, Citibank, JPMC, UPS, Gilead, Confidential, Target, Sears, Medco
• Skilled in Agile/Scrum and expert in JIRA, Kanban board, HP Quality Center & MAESTRO tools
• Involved in Setting up of Operational & Quality Processes, Quantitative (Metrics) & Qualitative Management, Scope & Risk Management, Cost Control and Internal/External Audits
• Domain - Automobile, Insurance, Finance, eLearning, eCommerce, Sales and Marketing, Publishing, Life Sciences, Healthcare and Absence management
• Very result-oriented, strong “till it’s done” work ethic, taking ownership of all duties and responsibilities
• Extensive Onsite/Offsite experience; significant exposure of working with Customers, Project Managers and Technical Teams for securing & executing concurrent projects
• Strong leadership and team building skills; able to build, train, mentor, guide & motivate the next line
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, facilitating persuasive presentations and productive relationships with clients, analysts, employees, and vendors

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the development team & oversee project delivery process with key contributors
• Created project plans including tasks, deliverables, milestones, resources and estimated costs
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies including grooming sessions, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Supported teams in terms of Project Management, Delivery Strategy, Scope/Risk Management, Cost Control, Infrastructure Management and meeting client defined Metrics and Acceptance Criteria
• Facilitated sessions for requirements gathering, effort estimation for user stories and discussing sprint velocity for each teams
• Managed, assigned and tracked defects in collaboration with support, development and QA teams
• Identified project risks, issues and implemented mitigation strategies

Delivery Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Safe-Guard Account end to end and led the development & Support teams in terms of Delivery Management, Delivery Strategy, Scope/Risk Management, Cost Control, Infrastructure Management and meeting client defined Metrics & Acceptance Criteria
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
• Identified and mitigated project risks, issues and implemented mitigation strategies
• Conducted Daily, weekly & monthly meetings with the Client Stakeholders & senior management of Safe-Guard
• Developed a reporting mechanism from scratch for Safe-Guard’s top management executives to show the visibility regarding projects status, projects health and resource efficiency with the use of dashboards, reports and matrices

Project Manager/Group Lead- Technology

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw project delivery process with key contributors to help manage scope. Created project plans and change requests including tasks, deliverables, milestones, resources and estimated costs and handled Infrastructure Management
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos
• Assisted the onsite teams in project planning, prioritization and support build and release cycles
• Managed all phases of the SDLC with particular emphasis and focus on project requirements, tracking requirements through to completion and implementation and coordinating QA and UAT programs
• Created and communicated project statuses with the use of dashboards, reports and matrices

Project Manager/Delivery Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led the product development, customization and release across four business-critical teams: Large/Small Requests, Client Configuration, Reporting/Data Analytics and Emergency Response and played a key role in Infrastructure Management
• Managed multiple projects/sub-projects on product platform and also supervised the vendor team (iGATE) for daily/weekly/monthly releases
• Coordinated Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
• Developed project plans, created milestones and timelines to ensure on track project delivery
• Identified and mitigated project risks, issues and implemented mitigation strategies
• Drove post implementation reviews and post project analyses

Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as the single point of contact for the team to project stakeholders and collaborated with the client in ensuring the product launch within an aggressive timeline
• Managed scope through client change orders, phased delivery to ensure project delivers on timeline, scope, budget and strategy expectations and handled Infrastructure Management
• Defined and documented the user and system requirements in consultation with managers, end users and subject matter experts (SMEs)

Team Lead/ Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the offshore team with their execution of tasks and handled technical issues
• Created sophisticated functional and technical designs based on the user requirements
• Responsible for defining the Testing Strategy, Test Plans, Testing environments for Unit Testing, Functional & Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, & Staging

Senior Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and implemented the new version of RMDB.
• Requirement Analysis & Design, Development & Functional/Unit Testing
• Integrated RMDB with Sales Dashboard in NCR portal
• Implemented a knowledge transfer plan for the offshore development team

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Database & Application Design, providing alternative technical solutions, Performing Functional / Integration / Regression Testing & Performance Tuning
• Created the User Registration module and termination of Registered Users process. Designed a module that notifies and tracks a user’s performance related to Regulatory Element
• Developed a comprehensive suite of reports designed to simplify the tracking of learners and their course progress and completion

Software Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Part of the team that developed Client/Server and stand alone applications using Visual basic 6.0, Visual Foxpro6.0, MS Access 2000, Sql Server 7.0/2000 and Finereader Forms 4.0. Also worked on Imaging related R&D projects.